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1. the courts have indeed said there's no law that says the president can't just do crimes whenever he wants

2. ah well, nevertheless.

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4. Chuck Schumer is quoted as saying "well look, nobody said the president isn't allowed to do crimes, but with your donation we can suggest someone do something civil in a nonbinding and respectful fashion, at some point, if we get around to talking about it over brunch someday."

I think the "Hitler was a Marxist" and "Marx was a Stalinist" bits of it at least were distilled from some chud's actual ramblings.

I think that specific version was someone here mocking someone who got posted in the dunk tank for saying at least part of it. The stilted phrasing and the way it includes its own refutation gives it away.

The most reasonable explanation I've seen for at least part of that is that you get authors writing stories about adult characters and drawing them that way, except they're targeting the series at a teen demographic so they age them down and depending on setting maybe have them going to school instead of a job or something, leading to a weird compression that's oddly reminiscent of Hollywood casting aging actors in much younger roles. You get 14 year old characters drawn as 18 year olds, 18 year olds drawn as 20 somethings, 20 year olds drawn as 30 somethings, and 30 somethings drawn as ~60 year old Sean Bean playing a 35 year old in Game of Thrones.

And Grok's quality, from what I've seen, is pretty sub-par.

It's just using the default Flux checkpoint AFAIK.

I also assume that under the hood "grok" is just some open source LLM model they did a finetune on or something. It came out of a gutted company with absolutely no lead up and no research papers, on the demands of the dumbest and most easily grifted man alive. He obviously just told someone to make it happen and they grabbed claude or something, did a couple of weeks of training, then presented it to him so he could bark and clap like a trained seal.

The absolute best way to use AI, imo, is like an enhanced version of Google. Breaking the problem down to the smallest parts to ask about. But even then I still hate using it.

The main use a friend of mine has gotten out of it is as a way to figure out what part of the language or library documentation to even look at to learn how to do a given task, instead of just trying to articulate the problem in a way that returns the right stackoverflow questions where someone mentions the language feature or class.

This is a Seinfeld bit. This is the b plot of a fucking sitcom from 30 years ago. Deeply unserious country.

Trotsky's work as a reactionary particle physicist exposed him to dangerous forms of novel radiation that ultimately lead to his death following a crippling mutant brainworm infestation and a failed attempt to combat them with an icepick.

Tfw when the gritty post apocalyptic sci-fantasy has someone wearing cloth pants instead of a denim patterned neoprene wetsuit.

I've said it before, but the whole property angle of this is a red herring to frame all the discussion around AI on an issue that benefits large property holders and any corporation that claims ownership over its users content, and away from its effects on labor and the harm that generative AI enables in both volume and nature of material.

That is, it focuses all the ethics on "first of all, property is sacred and ideas can be owned and made exclusive to companies that can buy them, and second the gravest sin is infringing upon property by daring to look at an idea in a manner you have not expressly paid for" which is all 100% bullshit in every way and is a distraction from the fact that owning tons of property doesn't make generative AI ok.

The correct angle should be forcing all generative AI and its products to be public domain, as well as anything incorporating them. Completely kill its commercial and industrial value to corporations when they can no longer own it exclusively nor use it to eliminate labor because they cannot own anything it produces.

The Prince is basically the same. It's basically just "please just fuck with other nobles, and when you lock them up and steal their shit go and give it to the public or something, and don't fuck with the common people" and "it's ok that you're a huge dumbass, just please hire someone who's not and then let them do all the real work while you go camping and play soldier in the woods, also pack a lunch."

Brigading is when leftists are the most active posters and the more terminally online they are the more brigading it is.