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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023

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  • But then, as now, it won’t understand what it’s supposed to do, and will merely attempt to apply stolen code - ahem - training data in random permutations until it roughly matches what it interprets the end goal to be.

    We’ve moved beyond a thousand monkeys with typewriters and a thousand years to write Shakespeare, and have moved into several million monkeys with copy and paste and only a few milliseconds to write “Hello, SEGFAULT”


  • Article is less bad than headline. Looks like DOE didn’t officially grant access, but someone gave the guy access anyway.
    DOE caught it, and wants to know what the fuck happened.

    DOE is big. They regulate all sorts of stuff and the likely target is not nukes, but personnel information. That gives them the power to fire climate researchers, replace regulators and decision makers with stooges, and ensure the DOE derails the shift to greener tech - as much as they can.
    There’s currently big DOE-funded projects ongoing that will allow for Texas to connect to the national grid, and will connect giant solar and wind farms in Oklahoma and Maine to long distance lines that connect all the way to the Hoover Dam — something that makes the drought in that area less impactful should they have to shut off the turbines due to falling water levels.





  • Addiction has a medical definition, not a connotation.
    As previously shown, SSRI’s do not cause addiction, even if they can cause withdrawal or physical dependence for some people.

    I guess I’m wondering if support of this policy has to be riddled with asterisks and accompanied by statements that express hopes of how the programs will be run, then why express any support at all for them?

    And finally: There are safe places available for people to go if they feel they are having mental health issues that require more intensive care. Mind you, these are really only available to people with health insurance - Regan largely killed off federal and community mental health care in the 80’s. Care that cannot be replaced with a labor camp.
    The only proper replacement for that care is rebuilding that/those system(s), and that is not what RFK is proposing. He’s proposing a labor camp to take advantage of and imprison away vulnerable populations.












  • It’s so shameful what greed and broken electoral finance laws in the U.S. have done to the country. Right now, an investment of a few million by a PAC can turn into billions of dollars from the government, via direct aid, passing laws, or simply looking the other way if a company isn’t being too obviously evil.

    The primaries this year were highly telling in that regard - politicians were being nakedly bought in plain sight, but, again, because “you don’t fuck with the money” it’s not a question in political circles of whether overhauling campaign finance should be undertaken.