ToastedRavioli

@ToastedRavioli@midwest.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok’s “white genocide” obsession came from “unauthorized” prompt edit, xAI says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Its incredible how things can just slip through, especially when they start at the very top

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Alpha predator' sharks and humans clash on an Israeli beach⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I live in a tourist town with a ton of bears, moose, elk, etc, and its the same story. People are stupid as hell and have no respect for nature.

  They think they can chase after a bear with cubs, or let their dog go be friends with a moose. No matter how much you try to tell people to respect the animals or they might literally get killed, they still do the same dumb stuff

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are people who are still using toilet paper purchased during the pandemic.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No joke, I once spent an entire day feeling like I was straight up gonna die. I thought I had appendicitis or something but the pain was nowhere near my appendix. Either way it kept me laying prone waiting for death for like 8-12 hours before I finally went to the hospital.

  So I go the hospital, they run all these tests, Im pretty sure they gave me some kind of drugs without fully telling me because I remember feeling a lot better and having to try hard not to giggle when they wheeled me around to get scanned.

  So they do all this stuff, and then finally the doctor comes in and tells me Im just full of shit. Like, literally, I was massively constipated and that was the entire issue.

  I got back home and was in a ton of pain again, so I drank an entire bottle of Miralax and then pooped my soul and most of my organs out the next morning

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Student Demands Tuition Refund After Catching Professor Using ChatGPT - Slashdot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who was a TA a bit, I think that is 99% because if schools tried to hold students accountable to the standards of even ten years ago they would have to fail 2/3rds of their students.

  Highschool becoming a joke means none of the kids have strong enough core skills to be tackling real college work by the time they get there, but schools cant afford to enforce actual quality standards for work. The graded model has completely fallen apart at this point given how steep the curve is. The quality of work that gets an A today would have been a B or high C from 10-15 years ago

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic apologizes after one of its expert witnesses cited a fake article hallucinated by Claude in the company's legal battle with music publishers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The word hallucination has zero implication of intent whatsoever. Last time I checked hallucination is an entirely involuntary experience, regardless of the context the word is used in.

  They are called hallucination in computer science not “to romanticize” it. It is called that because the output is totally random from the perspective of the input. If there is no logical path from input to the output, it is similar to a human hallucinating. Human sees no actual weird visual stimuli that results in them hallucinating a dragon, therefore the input info from their eyes has no bearing on what they imagine is actually there.

  This is different from “fabrication” in that the AI intentionally creating fake info based on your input request would not be a hallucination, because there would be a relationship between input and output.

  While you say you prefer “fabrication”, the word fabrication actually implies some intent that is absent from what we are referring to as AI hallucinations

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Bedouin tent is more futuristic than a skyscraper.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Its not really more futuristic, considering its a tried and true design.

  I think you mean its just better designed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No evidence of genocide in Gaza, UK lawyers say in arms export case⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No signs of trouble in the henhouse, reports fox

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have $800M worth of lint in my belly button, apparently

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Internet Searching and Start Asking on Fediverse?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if Lemmy grows to a point of being on the radar, theres still no hope for any real IP to lock down for anybody. The whole design is fairly antithetical to being taken over and turned into a cash cow of some kind, despite feeling very much like something centralized in terms of how we interact with it.

  I agree with OP, and I think this can even become an even better repository for information than something like Reddit, because it’s more democratized and deters astroturfing or many types of malfeasance by design. Especially as it stands now, early on. Thats why I started a community for billiards. The reddit community for billiards, as well as old forum sites, are great wealths of information that is hard to otherwise find. It would be great to build something like that here over time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No machine (or person) can replace the exercise of thinking for yourself.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The borg are just low key nihilists frl frl

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Urban temps turning cities into 'ovens,' UN Chief Heat Officer warns⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You know why futuristic cities in the movies are always bright white or reflective somehow?

  Thats because of the part of history were about to live through

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Market Structure Rules for Crypto Could End Up Governing Core of U.S. Finance: Le⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Im all for making the traditional market more efficient and transparent, if blockchain can accommodate that, so long as we can also make crypto more like the traditional market. At least in terms of criminalizing shit that would obviously be illegal to do with securities

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elk could return to UK after 3,000 years in new rewilding plan⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Did they edit it since you made this comment? The photo on this post is definitely of a moose, not an elk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It would be fire if Anonymous hacked ICE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hacking the US government is like the Chinese finger traps of hacking. Its easy enough to get in, but probably quite a mess when you go to get out. At least if they catch you anyways

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UN experts urge international intervention to end violence in Gaza⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Youd think if they were really experts they could have thought that up a year ago

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2 men convicted of cutting down beloved Sycamore Gap tree in 'mindless' destruction⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Both men denied having anything to do with the tree. But data from their phones and Graham’s car placed them at the scene of the crime. No motive was presented at trial; prosecutors have called the act “moronic.”

  Gotta love British prosecutors for keeping it real

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hot sauce is for Dad to protect his food from scavenging by lesser beings⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You should look into flatiron pepper company pepper flakes. They make a ton of different blends at different levels of heat that are also really flavorful. It lets you bring the heat to your own food without having to use some kind of sauce.

  I like hot sauce too, but more situationally than every time I eat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump's US to resettle white South Africans 'within days'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The entire immigration system, as in the modern apparatus that accepts or rejects people from coming here, of the US goes back to the Chinese Exclusion Act. If you read that act it basically outlines that we would only accept lots of immigrants from white countries, excluding Italians or Jewish people from anywhere. As well as that we would only accept white immigrants from any primarily non-white countries. That was the design of the entire system until the civil rights era threw that kind of garbage out.

  This is one of those moments where “make america great again” clearly and explicitly means “go back to when we were a eugenicist white supremacist nation”. But you have to know the history they dont want you to know to see that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chicken wings, trucks: the surprising Saudi obsession with America⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Brb, gonna tell a Texan that Texas is the Saudi Arabia of America and see what happens

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla bait-and-switch: Cybertruck owners won't get Autosteer feature they paid for⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Its because Elon Musk is an oxy moron

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Second US Navy jet is lost at sea from Truman aircraft carrier⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It must sound amazing if it was worth hearing a second time. Maybe some of the boys missed the first one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mennonite communities raise hackles in Peruvian Amazon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Forest termites” is pretty hilarious and poignant

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Makes no sense': Hollywood shocked by Trump's film tariffs announcement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but by and large you have everyone taking the same position as SAG-AFTRA in this article is: “We know this is a bad idea, but we will wait and see if it benefits us in some way before we complain about it”. That idiotic opinion is how a large portion of people see these economic policies

  Its like adopting a “lets wait and see what happens” policy about touching a hot stove. Not every idea, especially ones with obvious bad outcomes, is worth giving a run-through

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down. I just didn’t expect them to be such losers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  bojo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Plans Split iPhone Launch Strategy: Pro and Foldable in Fall 2026, Standard in Spring 2027⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Im imagining holding it and trying to use it right now, and all I can imagine is that it sucks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should the subset of the Fediverse that is Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed be called?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Welcome to the cross-faggregatorverse

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone knows what first aid is, but what is second aid?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They would do a way better job than me, they should probably go first

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eurozone economy grows more than expected despite US tariff turmoil⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Europe gets a dead cat bounce, we just get the dead cat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women often take initiative on the food finding⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the wild every woman is a hunter

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top 19 'Truly Superwealthy' US Families Grew $1 Trillion Richer Last Year: Analysis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it werent for our oligarch overlords, how would Katy Perry get to space?