Steinmeier: “Elon is a threat to European democracy”

Elon: “No, you are!”

Here’s the richest man in the world, but he still can’t buy better comebacks.

You just know this is going to give Trump some serious death penalty envy.

Some virus

Iirc the increase in pandemics has been an expected result of global warming.

For my money, there are three existential threats to the human species. You’ve already listed two: global warming and nuclear war. IMO the third is microplastics (although PFAS could be combined with microplastics to make a category I think we could reasonably call “forever chemicals”)

I would LOVE to see this prosecuted, not because I want people who are hurting from the loss of a pet to be hurt more, but because not enough people consider raw milk dangerous and they really should. Even if the punishment was super small (because these people obviously didn’t understand what they were doing) it would hopefully help prevent future incidents.

But the disturbing thread running through all these requests is how easy it’s become for copyright trolls to leverage the DMCA to intimidate providers

I remember this issue being pointed out by the more vocal critics of the dmca when the bill was working its way through Congress. They warned that “remove first, ask questions later” would be abused by corporations in this exact manner with effectively no recourse for people who can’t afford a lawyer for every single time there victimized by a wrongful takedown request.

And here we are, decades later, and it’s been a problem this whole time.

Allowing any treatment under any circumstances is an admission that the condition is real and needs treated.

The cruelty is the point.

Yeah but people who don’t actually care about saving lives in Gaza “sent a message” to the DNC that the DNC was never going to listen to in the first place. So, worth it. /s

Leftists: Elon is a fascist

Centrists: No he isn’t, it’s not ok for you to say that.

Elon’s Dad: Elon is finally the Nazi we wanted him to be.

Centrists: Uh…

same way an LLM is able to produce coherent and convincing sentences by statistically determining what word is likely to follow another

To me this implies that the navigation AI is going to hallucinate parts of its model of the world, because it’s basing that model on what’s statically the most likely to be there as opposed to what’s actually there. What could go wrong?

Fascists love the notion of a natural order, because it gives them license to hold power over people “lower in the hierarchy.” They’ll use anything and everything to establish whatever “natural order” serves their purpose at any given moment, and IQ works quite nicely in a lot of situations.

Ah yes, Hanlon’s razor. Genuinely a great one to keep in mind at all times, along with it’s corollary Clarke’s law: “Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.”

But in this particular case I think we need the much less frequently cited version by Douglas Hubbard: “Never attribute to malice or stupidity that which can be explained by moderately rational individuals following incentives in a complex system.”

Completely disagree, a person doesn’t have to understand what fascism is to be a fascist or indifferent to fascism, any more than they need to be an expert on dogs to not kick or oppose kicking one.