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They figure no one person will have the means to sue or the ability to prove that their data was scraped.

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Whatever happened to those "nightshade" images that poison the model?

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If it's real, someone's getting reassigned to the SMO

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as long as the French get offended by the pronunciation, then it's pronounced correctly in American

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Is it too much to ask for people to not get their political opinions from cartoons?

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Someone's going to sell your phone on the black market

is my favorite

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Add Verification Man punching a scientist holding a stack of peer-reviewed studies and that'd describe my weekend trying to get some actual facts onto the Reiki wikipedia page.

Check it out, it's embarrassingly poorly written and there's 16 pages of people getting insulted for trying to propose changes

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"I implemented this model at Yahoo!"

"So you're the reason why Yahoo! is a useless search engine and its market share crashed?"

"Yes"

"You're hired!"


This sort of shit makes me want to go into business myself to show everyone how easy it would be to make long-term stable growth by just not squeezing employees and customers for every cent

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and a kid who got pressured into going by his father, but you didn't bring him up, did you?

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My theory for #1 is that it's an unlisted video targeted at extremists or maybe a "How to make an illegal item" guide

Which I also think can be reasonable

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Why monetize Lemmy when you can just argue and collect Sorosbux?

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Mine are currently at about two hours' labor per month.

Well worth the cost

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As Kirkpatrick described in his own words, the extent of his investigation of whistleblower claims amounted to asking the government’s secret-keepers if a certain illegal program existed. Kirkpatrick’s approach, as astute observers have noted, is roughly akin to asking a mob boss if he is engaging in illegal activity, and subsequently being satisfied with a “no.”

https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/4432225-what-has-happened-to-the-pentagons-former-ufo-hunter/

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Nobody simply thinks "kill rich" and stops thinking there.

That's news to me, I always got the impression that "????" Was the next step after "kill rich"

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Except for the last several years it’s becoming harder to file for free with TurboTax

https://apps.irs.gov/app/freeFile/browse-all-offers/

These just don't advertise as much

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The important message of the article for me was "Crowdfunding is a poor replacement for charity"

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Weakening copyright is a win

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Here's your works cited for any generative AI:

Humanity. “The Entire Publicly Accessible Internet .” The World Wide Web, , 1 Jan. 1983, WWW.org.

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They didn't invent the concept of punctureless wheels, but they certainly invented a set a wheels that are punctureless

Poisoned AI went rogue during training and couldn't be taught to behave again in 'legitimately scary' study (www.livescience.com)

Poisoned AI went rogue during training and couldn't be taught to behave again in 'legitimately scary' study::AI researchers found that widely used safety training techniques failed to remove malicious behavior from large language models — and one technique even backfired, teaching the AI to recognize its triggers and better...

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one technique even backfired, teaching the AI to recognize its triggers and better hide its bad behavior from the researchers.

They get more human by the day

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Liberal, but you'd have to give up on guns or find some pro-gun liberals to hang out with.

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Good, the kids could use the tech experience

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You're referencing well planned and executed protests. They picked their targets and actors to garner sympathy from the public.

The difference is that the original post is claiming that any protest anywhere is just as valid. It isn't. Blocking random roads does nothing but turn people who just want to get to work against you. They aren't agents of Capitalism moving to oppress us, they're your neighbors and the people you want to be turning to your cause.

By all means, if you're agitated about an issue to protest, please do. Block a road, maybe. But be damn sure you pick the right road to block.

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The important person you're blocking is your future ally.

You want an alternative? Find a fossil fuel executive's car and block that in. Block the entrance to an oil refinery, or a trash incinerator. Sit in the lobby of the corporate office of Exxon-Mobil. Find an unimpeachable member of your movement, like Rosa Parks was, and use her to garner sympathy for your cause when she gets persecuted for something everyone agrees is wrong.

Blocking random roads and calling it protest is like calling a knocked over paint can "Modern Art". You're just pretending you know what artists do and everyone can tell.

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Where to learn how to protest? I'd look into the great ones of the modern age: The Indian Independence, US Civil Rights, and Gay Rights movements are all good examples of effective protest movements.

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It's France, that's a very safe bet

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Can't wait for public opinion?

The entire point of protesting is changing public opinion to your side!

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Direct action may include activities, often nonviolent but possibly violent, targeting people, groups, institutions, actions, or property that its participants deem objectionable.

Nonviolent direct action may include civil disobedience, sit-ins, strikes, and counter-economics. Violent direct action may include political violence, assault, arson, sabotage, and property destruction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_action

Well I guess we're both right

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Public Service Announcement:

Part of the current Republican strategy is to accuse Democrats of being fascists in an attempt to make the word meaningless.

Sublinks Aims to Be a Drop-In Replacement for Lemmy (wedistribute.org)

Seems like an interesting effort. A developer is building an alternative Java-based backend to Lemmy's Rust-based one, with the goal of building in a handful of different features. The dev is looking at using this compatibility to migrate their instance over to the new platform, while allowing the community to use their apps of...

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Let them fight, I'll gladly move to a superior version

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Someone's clearly never been hit with a handful of overdraft fees at once

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All it costs is power, one of the easiest things to make sustainable until we can make a computer that runs on beans.

AI is already too useful to give up, it's not "ridiculous"

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If your plan requires good actors to put in extra effort, it's a bad plan

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It's even better when they give it a name that isn't related to the bill, like the Inflation Reduction Act, which will not reduce inflation at all

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Peak spaceflight and exploration in human history? Better roll it back, we wouldn't want to make too much scientific progress

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Step 1: Don't send a "Some of you Lords are alright, don't come to Parliament tomorrow" letter

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