The phrenology and physiognomy come along with the "race science" as a package.

I'd actually be willing to entertain the idea of plant and fungal consciousness (of a kind unlike animal consciousness) before I'd believe LLMs to be conscious. Plants, at least, interact with the world around them.

Someone who has never heard of fanfic and just had their mind blown by the worst example of fanfic ever.

some effort is also needed to become more Chromium compatible, perhaps even on a site by site basis

They actually do put quite a bit of effort into making sites behave the same as Chrome, and this does actually include site-specific workarounds. My mind boggled when I learned this.

I use Zen, too. You can get 90% of the things it offers with user.js and userChrome.css tweaks, many of which are pre-packaged by volunteers, but Zen gets rid of the annoyances out of the box and adds some quality of life features.

There's a virtue ethics argument to be made for not doing this. It's not bad for the LLM (because it's not sentient, nothing can be bad-for-it), but it's perhaps bad for the experimenter. The main argument for doing it is out of spite for the promptfondlers.

The main thing I take away from this is that KDE does not consider their users part of the community.

Yeah, his clarification means he may be a liberal or anarkiddy rather than, as was my first reaction, a fascist.

Oh, gods damn it. I'm only going to have a couple of servers to move, but it's going to be a huge pain in the ass. What VM provider is recommended these days for USAian customers?

When I was 17, I thought it would be great to live forever, even though my life at the time was not especially happy. But now that I'm over 50, I have trouble understanding how people can make it to my age or older without at least becoming somewhat comfortable with the prospect of death.

I always assumed it was a package deal with the California Ideology.

they argued that the TESCREAL thesis is little more than a leftist conspiracy theory

The thing about leftist conspiracy theories... right wing conspiracy theories tend to be things like "the (((lizard people))) are kidnapping and harvesting the adrenochrome from white children", whereas leftist conspiracy theories tend to be things like "the CIA illegally funded right-wing Latin American militias by illegally selling arms to a country that had in recent memory held US diplomats hostage but was, at least, anticommunist". Leftist conspiracy theories tend to get validated in substance if not in details a few years after it's too late for the knowledge to be useful.