James Wallbank

I am having a hard time thinking of a worse way that the Bluesky leadership could have responded to this situation.

Absolutely! Many creative endeavours, like sculpture, involve actions that are additive (gluing a bit on) and sutractive (gouging a bit off). Just one of these processes can produce a result, but the most flexible, accessible methods tend to involve both. LLMs, I sense, are just half of the toolkit.

Absolute worst part, imo, is the pressure from school administrators to "welcome our new overlords" by adopting AI. It's also happening in elite universities, to my utter bafflement & horror. Anyone who calls bullshit on AI is treated as if only ignorance could explain their perspective.

True! But it's interesting how, in terms of LLMs, the focus is always on a feasible-sounding answer—not on an accurate answer. There's certainly a demand for accuracy, but LLMs are currently non-starters at veracity. They seem to have the capacity to consider, but lack the capacity to discount.

It is extraordinary to me how LLMs seem to have developed the knack of "Yes, and…" without developing any kind of facility with "No, but…".

There aren't, for example, AI content filters which detect and suppress AI-generated content. AI can always give you more, but never less.

Quick question—

With a quick software upgrade, could humanoid robots working in factories be equipped with weapons to defend billionaires' infrastructures from the unemployed masses? Could they be repurposed for policing?

Thought so.

THAT'S NOT THE PLAN, SO RELAX, CITIZEN. NOTHING TO SEE HERE.

The women who have been trafficked by Epstein deserve justice.

Stop protecting billionaire pedophiles.

Okay, so Britain has some social and economic problems. A lot of Brits are really struggling.

Do we think this is caused by poor black people, or rich white people?

(Nigel Farage is a rich white person—and he blames poor black people. Coincidence?)

Video shows Department of Justice official urging Jan. 6 rioters to 'kill' cops The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

Isn’t this pretty much the same as “find me 11,000 votes?”

Republican Victory and the Ambience of Information For years, Democrats have sought to win elections by micro-targeting communities with detailed facts. What if the secret is big, sloppy notions seeded nationwide?

"Studies confirm that people spend less and less time with their neighbors. Instead, many of us scroll through social networks, stream information into our eyes and ears, and struggle to recall where we picked up this or that data point" www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Absolutely correct. But remember that it's in a context in which corporations themselves are being hollowed out. More and more of the profits they make are going to the senior executives, not to the bulk of their workers. This is the amplification of extreme wealth at everyone else's expense.

No cheating? I do not have any saved celebrity photos. In fact, I don't think I've ever saved a picture of a celebrity. I do not need a therapist.

A man whose life is based on smearing others, smears himself.

They think they'll be magically protected by their hoarded capital...

I disagree. They're clever, but they're not trying to govern.

Their smartness is directed towards pillage, and lying to conceal that pillage. There is nothing else. I repeat, they're not even trying to provide effective governance.

If you don't think they're smart, then why is their plan working?

(Or rather, the cement that makes concrete.)

What needs to happen is that a business is designed from the ground up to combine more than one activity. This hasn't really been a consideration up to now—but it starts to make sense, if you understand concrete to be, effectively, a battery.

True, but there's more solar energy in the summer. When it's sunny, and it's windy, there's a space to get paid to use energy—literally burning it off to stabilise the grid. I suspect the cycle would need to be weekly or monthly, not daily.

This SHOULD herald the rise of "on again, off again" manufacturers, that make high energy products like concrete and steel when power is cheap, but produce other things when it's expensive. Businesses designed to do this, alternating high and low energy activities, could be very efficient.

The simple way Democrats should talk about Trump and Epstein | Peter Rothpletz The scandal has haunted the president in part because of a truth voters already feel: Republicans protect elites

"The Epstein scandal has captured our attention not just because it’s a lurid horror story, but because it confirms a truth people already believe: the rich view them as objects for exploitation."

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Dear BBC,

Each day that you report the number of migrants crossing the channel, please also report the value of tax that billionaires have avoided.

Currently, your reporting implies (but doesn't say) that powerless migrants are a problem, when the ultra-rich are a far bigger problem.

Thanks!

I'm sure he just forgot to remove him from the membership list.

Curses! Jackie and Dave are derailing the session with kink-talk between Bunko the Barbarian and Silvestra the Sorceress. It's making John and Simon really uncomfortable.

Let's roll Rules Layer… No, they're not breaking any rules—damn!

I'll introduce a Comedy Goblin and use my "Power of Improv"!

Epstein still had Mar-a-Lago membership 7 years after he 'stole' girl from Trump: author President Donald Trump's official story for when he cut off contact with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein isn't adding up, according to one journalist and author.Earlier on Tuesday, Trump told repo...

Trump still lying. Believe the women!
7 years is pretty long time. Trump is hiding

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This @today.yougov.com poll is why I'm going to become the Joker.

The US murder rate in 2024 was likely down nearly 30 percent relative to 2020 and down nearly 50 percent relative to 1990.

It's a bizarre and frankly alienating feeling realizing that if you know the basic fact that the murder rate has gone down significantly since 1990 you're in the ~90th+ percentile of fact-knowers

Thinking about a TTRPG in which the players play GMs in a local game store. The GM plays their players as NPCs, and the GMs must manage their challenging behaviour patterns and tricky relationships as their characters navigate poorly written scenarios, shonky game rules and duff genres.

Don't worry—farmers will shortly be able to get contracts to use prisoners in chain gangs for farm work—for nothing apart from the cost of food and guards.

What was this called a while back? Bravery? Savory? I'm sure it'll come to me.

That, my friend, is the plan.