I didn’t know the US was going to med school. That thing was expensive!

It will also have a quota to fill. flag 5000 turists a day or we’ll remove 10% of your RAM

meat eating motorists.

Hey hey now, calm down, there’s no need to get personal here :-) We both dislike AI, can’t we just agree to hate AI and leave it at that? Like Legolas and Gimli in LotR? I’ll even let you toss me…

My main concern about AI is that it’s rotting our cognitive abilities, yours seem to be founded in an environmental stance. I can respect that, and I think it’s a valid argument.

The personal risk isn’t in talking to AI, it’s in listening to AI.

I think both are bad, but can we agree to “AI bad. Don’t use AI”?

This! People who don’t spend 5min to figure out their lights and just leave them on auto.

I’m not going to fabricate stories, but if the explanation for something is “AI was used irresponsibly” then I would tend to not dismiss the idea. And I’d be prone to propagate the idea far more. It’s not a conscious choice mind you, that statement is a result of self-reflection.

The way people unquestionably, irresponsibly, and without the slighest contemplation of the ramifications, are using AI for the most mundane tasks, worries me. Why do you need to make a photo of someone, who haven’t accepted the use case, into a drawing? Why do you need to have an AI transcribe our meeting and summarize the points? Nobody’s going to read the summary anyway, and now some unknown entity knows what other people said with an otherwise ordinary expectation of privacy.

One thing is that tech overlords have already scraped every image, sound bite, video clip, and written word publicly, and semi-publicly, available. Don’t give them more material.

Sorry I managed to read your comment before you deleted it. I’ve updated my original comment as a result.

She hired a homeless guy to play her dad (for some reason) and used a fake birth certificate.

She hired the guy? Nobody exploited her?

I kinda want to look into this, but at the same time I don’t want this in my search history.

Update: According to her Wikipedia page she definitely did not have a harmonious childhood. Getting raped by her mom’s alcoholic boyfriend, after they move across country from her alcoholic father. Then getting raped by her own boyfriend.

I don’t know what growing up as a gen x woman was like, different generation and gender, but I suspect that Traci Lords’ experience was even worse than average.

Of course, I mean to Trump a 17yo is at best a MILF. Besides she’d be used goods. Well maybe Epstein could have used the girl for less discerning perverts like Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, but it would seem that both Einstein’s and Andrew’s days of raping kids is over…

Although one could hope that Andrew’s involvement in rapes aren’t over. Now that he’s in jail he has plenty of opportunities to experience spontaneous unwanted violent love making.

You’re saying that Musk training his AI on doge data, and then using that training for Grok is unbelievable? Or do you want concrete evidence?

I mean Musk’s complete disregard for rules and regulations, combined with his own and his cronies’ incompetence, makes me think that, while no evidence exists, the scenario would definitely not be out of the realm of possibilities.

I’m not saying that your argument isn’t plausible. But I have another route for this info.

Grok is training on tweets. Some person tweets “I just found out that my neighbor, Jane, is actually the pornstar Siri Dahl”. That tweet never gets traction, so only 5 followers reads it, but so does grok. Then in another tweet same person combines the firstname “Jane” with lastname “Doe”.

If your explanation is correct, as to where the info got leaked, I’d guess we’d see way more pornstars doxed.

But honey, our relationship is based on trust, and you’re destroying that trust when you are deliberately catching me cheating on you

wtf?!?

No, this is Patrick!

Like me hitting the pissoir first thing at work after drinking coffee and monster during the commute.

I don’t really know what Pretti showed us. That compassion getting in the way of fascists gets you killed?

I think on a tactical level the Panthers may be doing it right, but on the other hand, if you’re demonstrably armed, then you’re a target. If you knew that in a certain area there’s black panthers armed with small arms, then you’d either stay away or “dress for the part” by rolling in an APC, or identify the black panthers and pick them up when they’re not standing on a street corner with a ready semiauto 12ga.

Something we may take away from Alex Pretti is that you need to go for the oppressors first, and help the oppressed second. But what we can take away from both panthers and Pretti is, don’t do it alone, there’s strength in numbers.

Yes, I once bought a vehicle from a little old lady who never used it. What’s the point in buying something for then to never use it?

Pretti had the background to expect lawful and reasonable behavior from the authorities. What Pretti then experienced was all but that. Now people should know better.

Most lynching victims were have been (apparently people in the US are still lynching) accused of either murder or rape. So have a look at this NSFL Wikipedia article and look at the accusations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lynching_victims_in_the_United_States

In some cases, especially closer to the present, lynchers have been prosecuted and sentenced, but it a lot of situations this wasn’t the case.

Well, if somebody threatens you, you should probably do something about that. As Megan and Kelly of The Devil Said Jump sings in “make me buy a gun” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VEVk4I_htWE

[Chorus]
These motherfuckers are gonna make me buy a gun
I’m done with stressin’
Get my Smith and Wesson, on God

[Verse 1]
They come for my rights
‘Cause they can’t take my light
And they hate me for shining so bright
They come with their anger
But darlin’, they ain’t never met mine

[Verse 2]
They’re sorely mistaken if they thought
I’d lay down and die
Damn cowards had better come right for
The fight of their lives

[Chorus]
‘Cause these motherfuckers are gonna make me buy a gun
Sore losers restarted a fight
That we’ve already won

Which just underlines my point even further. A phone with an acceptable level of hardware can be had for 90€, but if you want a phone that you can coerce into running some acceptable software, then you’ll need to spend 3.5 times as much (the cheapest pixel 6 I’ve been able to find is 320€)

Reasonable hardware, running reasonable software, at a reasonable price. Pick two from the list because apparently we can’t have all three.

I want a platform with as little single entity control as possible. If that is to succeed, there needs to be relevant apps available. That effectively means Android, because the only other platform with enough app support is ios and I don’t think apple would be too keen on anybody attempting to fork that.

So Android it is, just kick out google and their services.

Sorry, didn’t mean to become that aggressive. It’s just the Graphene situation is bizarre. I mean get away from Google, by buying Google products.