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FlashMobOfOne

@ FlashMobOfOne @lemmy.world

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Artist, musical performer, and former derby skater from the Midwest.

I'm single, childless, and married to freedom and adventure.

ACAB, Anti-War, and I hate Democrats, Republicans, and billionaires. (Yes, even your favorite billionaire: the pop star, the philanthropost, the legendary athlete, or the soft-spoken investment guru who cosplays as middle class.) With each passing day I get a little closer to hating everyone.

Also, I refuse to use Donald's last name out of hatred for the man and his brand, FYI.

  • Most Americans don’t trust AI — or the people in charge of it

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  • AI does quality review too. Imperfectly, but the individual functions of AI acting within those systems have all improved dramatically in the past 12 months

    I suppose that depends on how we define improvement, because from where I'm sitting, it's reasonable to be apprehensive about LLM's and their output when we see spectacular failure after spectacular failure.

    Whether it's bombing a school in Iran because Claude fucked up the targeting, or an AI agent deleting your email inbox or your production database, or creating a court case out of thin air, or stats in a SCOTUS ruling that are fictitious, over and over and over again the extravagant promises they keep telling us are just around the corner appear to be decidedly half-baked.

    And if you use Teams or Windows and pieces of functionality that worked for two decades are no longer working as designed in a dependable way, I guess I just don't know what to tell you.

    It makes perfect sense not to trust this technology, and the speed it promises is often mitigated by the fact that you can't and shouldn't trust its output, because if you're the unlucky SOB that doesn't check a reference, you can literally become national news.

    Further, being that it's already been trained on the entirety of recorded human knowledge, I'm not sure how it gets better either. You can make it faster, but it's just going to spit out slop at a faster rate.

  • Three-Time Trump Voter Delivers Blistering Takedown of President in Stunning CSPAN Call: Now I See How Hitler ‘Was Able to Brainwash Millions’

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  • and then chose to ignore their fellow citizens telling them that for years.

    Factually incorrect. What you told them was to vote for Democrats who they'd just watched, for four years, ignoring their increasing impoverishment and running immigration policy that was not feasible long-term. And you were always rude, condescending assholes about it.

    The vast majority of these people voted for two things: Affordability and immigration enforcement. That's it. They, as evidenced by their own political activity and Donald's poll numbers, do not support a Gestapo-style crackdown of Democratic cities nor economic policy that super-charges the inflation and price gouging they endured under Joe Biden. Further, many of these former Trump voters were on the picket lines in Minneapolis too.

    And it's a good thing that they're speaking out against Donald now. So resist the urge to be a finger-wagging douche about it.

  • Most Americans don’t trust AI — or the people in charge of it

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  • Probably won't even be able to manage that in a month when gas is $5 nationwide.

  • What do you love about your job and what do you hate about your job.

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  • I'm lucky to have a good job that supports my life (mostly) and ethical leadership in the law firm I work for.

    The only things I don't like about it are the expectation to be in the office on weather alert days (and I live in a place that gets zero degree temperatures in the winter and 100-degree temperatures in the summer) and I have to go in physically one day a week. I'd rather be fully remote.

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  • that the technology is more or less sticking the landing

    Only in competent hands, because everything it generates has to be validated manually. My office uses Copilot, and every competent worker involved in complex projects hates it and only uses it for trivial things, like generating an email response, which you then have to read anyway so you might as well type it yourself in the first place. No one uses it for anything meaningful.

    Human validation is propping up the perception of LLM's.

    One cannot trust this technology to do anything overly consequential or precise. It's like how Theranos' Edison system could perform maybe four types of blood tests correctly, but the extravagant promises, lies, and outright fraud about the product were contrary to Elizabeth Holmes' grandiose claims.

    We're only a few years away from similar documentaries about Sam Altman, and if you read the recent Ronan Farrow article about him, maybe not even years.

  • Have you ever camped out or queued up for the launch of a game, console, or other media?

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  • Queued up?

    Not really. When Skyrim came out years and years ago, I was able to reserve a copy with the Alduin statue, and I put 300 hours into that game. One of the best values ever.

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  • I am looking at the most perfect, furry little baby in the whole wide world.

    That's what.

  • Three-Time Trump Voter Delivers Blistering Takedown of President in Stunning CSPAN Call: Now I See How Hitler ‘Was Able to Brainwash Millions’

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  • They already are. And they were.

    They were lied to.

    That's why Donald is polling lower than Jimmy Carter.

  • Three-Time Trump Voter Delivers Blistering Takedown of President in Stunning CSPAN Call: Now I See How Hitler ‘Was Able to Brainwash Millions’

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  • Yes, there will be.

    Your social media algorithm may be sensationalizing things to keep you engaged, but after Minnesota, any hope of a coup is gone, because Minnesota taught the authoritarians that they didn't have a mandate to go full Gestapo. It also taught them that trying would not only piss off Democrats, but also fracture their own power base and create resistance among Republicans, which is why they're speedrunning their grift on order to maximize the financial returns before the window closes and they have to pretend they care about ethics again.

    Hell, CBP killed two people in Minneapolis and all it did was motivate more people to get out into the streets, people wearing both colors of jerseys, not unlike how Nazis trying to batter Warsaw into submission created the most metal resistance movement of WWII.

    November is going to be a bloodbath. The only downer is that Democrats don't actually oppose anything, so the extent to which it will matter is debatable. That fact, more than anything, should be comforting to you if you're honestly afraid of canceled elections.

  • Three-Time Trump Voter Delivers Blistering Takedown of President in Stunning CSPAN Call: Now I See How Hitler ‘Was Able to Brainwash Millions’

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  • Not at all.

    The backlash against Minneapolis was bipartisan, at least among the people. The backlash to the war is even more mainstream. Donald's popularity is even worse than that of Jimmy Carter, so a significant percentage of people who voted Republican are likely to flip or simply not vote in the next election.

    The problem is that people who voted Republican, admit it, and then affirm publicly they're going to vote differently have the fingers of Democratic partisans (And hypocritically, at that, given their support of genocide) wagging in their face, and people are more likely to not vote at all than to vote for someone who outwardly and purposely hates them despite their change of heart.

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  • Sounds like a mostly reasonable person.

    Yes, the Democrats will win a majority somewhere in November. They're currently up 14% over Republicans nationally and that is rig-proof, blue wave territory. I don't see them making any major changes though, and they're probably salivating at the thought of the money they can make for themselves now that it's okay to insider trade AND insider-gamble on crypto and prediction markets.

    A few will give some memorable, impassioned speeches before pulling the lever to insider trade, though.

    Their strategy of lying down (and/or collaborating) and letting Donald jump off a cliff has worked, and sadly, to the detriment of all. I wish these bastards had actually opposed something.

  • The hooded avenger is dreaming

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  • Specifically, of dinnertime.

  • TIL that Missouri forced Kansas City to spend at least 25% of its budget on police. The measure passed, despite 66% of Kansas City residents opposing it

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  • Yup.

    All we get is one seat on the state commission that runs our police, which is filled by the mayor. We are effectively powerless to regulate the police in any meaningful way.

  • TIL that Missouri forced Kansas City to spend at least 25% of its budget on police. The measure passed, despite 66% of Kansas City residents opposing it

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  • Yup, I hate the KCPD.

    It wasn't that long ago that they were just letting break-ins happen because they wanted to make Jackson County Prosecutor look bad and try to kill her reelection hopes, all for having the temerity to criticize the shitty job that cops do here. I see them when I'm out walking the dogs a lot and they're always friendly to my face, but I keep in the back of my mind that these people are a piece-of-refuse gang and they'd happily shoot me and my animals in the head if it were convenient for them.

    Remember the cardinal rule, friends: Don't talk to cops. Ever.

  • What do you like to collect?

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  • I don't collect much these days. Most of my money goes into investments and savings now, as I've kind of turned from acrruing objects to wanting to buy back as much of my free time as possible.

    When I did collect, it was comic books, regular books, and toys, of which I still have many. During COVID, when I was stuck being at home at all times, it hit me that I had over-collected and I was stacking stuff all around me. I've since sold maybe a third of my collection and it's my hope that the people who bought those things are getting a lot more enjoyment out of them than I was.

    And, when I moved three years ago, I gave about half of my comic collection to neighbors, friends, and their kids, which the vast majority of these being books that were released in recent years and unlikely to ever be worth much. The gems of my collection, like Batman Adventures #12 and my X-Men #4 signed by Stan Lee, obviously aren't going anywhere.

    I still occasionally see things I want, but whenever I feel like I need to buy another plastic thing, I don't look at the price tag. I look at the price tag plus whatever the accrued interest might be if I stuck it in investments instead.

  • TIL that Missouri forced Kansas City to spend at least 25% of its budget on police. The measure passed, despite 66% of Kansas City residents opposing it

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  • Yep, the state loves to control the two largest metropolitan areas. They also own St. Louis' police. They want full control over the cities because we're the cash cows for the state, despite all the lip service paid to farmers and rural people, who all depend on the money we generate here for their welfare.

    It's a remnant of Civil War-era law and unlikely to ever change.

  • Val doesn't want to go to bed

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  • Well, I for one am going to follow my little, furry, diabolical general into the depths of Hell. Let's go friends!

  • TIL About Caesar, A 115 Year-Old American Slave And Also One Of The Earliest And Oldest People Ever Photographed, Who Was Forced To Work Until Age 80

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  • You're welcome. It's a sad bit of history. I've been down a rabbit hole recently about super-centenarians. (And kind of salty that the oldest verified who ever lived was a rich French lady who never had to work ever.)

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  • Agreed.

    Kinda insane that they were just trusted not to cheat.

  • TIL About Caesar, A 115 Year-Old American Slave And Also One Of The Earliest And Oldest People Ever Photographed, Who Was Forced To Work Until Age 80

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  • It means to be released from slavery, and sadly, Caesar was distinctive in that way too.