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antonim

@ antonim @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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  • Musk wants to leave politics because he’s tired of ‘attacks’ from the left: report

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  • Lots of people would like to "leave politics", as they find themselves under "vicious and unethical attacks" by politicians. However, those people's political existence was forced upon them, they didn't want to be a "political" object, especially not in the current landscape.

    Musk instead took up his political role consciously, and used it to further attack and harm many who would prefer to be left in peace. He had the luxury to activate himself, commit far worse violence upon the people than he has been subjected to by the people, and when he realises he doesn't really like it, even though the issues he's facing are probably comparatively trivial, he (believes he) has the luxury to return to a more secluded, safe position.

    It's really quite disgusting. And I fear he'll get away with it. But I am at least satisfied that his story (a supposed tech guru with his marketing bullshit and his comically immature behaviour) has damaged much of the aura of the modern technocapitalist elite.

  • Lets goooo

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  • If you find any on archive.org, they're likely to be only for "loaning", i.e. you need a profile and can only view them within your browser, because they're still under copyright so they limit their distribution.

    I'm not linking a workaround for that.

    P.S. The JPEGs are better than PDF, the latter have some compression that's really bad on images.

  • Elon Musk’s harem exposes the emptiness of Republican ‘family values’

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  • This is a great article, thank you

  • SHOCK POLL: AOC a Close Second Place Behind Kamala Harris in 2028 Democratic Primary

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  • Wow you're so cool and edgy

  • Suspected 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime, Anonymous Admins

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  • No. Qanon stuff mostly happened on 8chan, and even then there's no secret "historical" data to access. It was one or multiple obsessed and/or manipulative people spreading insane ideas anonymously, and idiots falling for it. There's no secret inside some system out there, it's essentially just organic stupidity. Some believe the guy who owned 8chan was "Q", it's not an unreasonable idea, but it changes nothing.

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  • They also have no blood or blood vessels, just a little heart and blood-like stuff splashing around.

  • Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey Call For Abolition Of All Intellectual Property Laws, Arguing There Are 'Much Greater Models To Pay Creators'

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  • In an ideal society, IP laws would definitely not exist. The idea by itself is inarguably desirable.

    But, more practically, IP laws should be abolished or reformed to accommodate the needs of the average creator and the average consumer. The two people who proposed this change are not average creators in the slightest, they're looking to benefit primarily their own class, the consequences for the other 99.99% are irrelevant.

    A reform of this type should start at the very least with small and realistic steps. Can we e.g. reduce the absurd duration of copyright protection (author's life + 70 years)? Reducing it by just 20-30 years would be an incredible boon to human culture, and it would have zero serious negative consequences.

    But they only talk about it in the most vague terms, no details or anything, and Dorsey doesn't seem to have actually described any of those other ways of compensation. They're just greedy megalomaniacs throwing ideas around.

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    Just a reminder to users here to pay attention to where your Lemmy instances are hosted, and who runs them

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  • No, Hexbear was literally blocked in China.

  • Another Wikipedia Admin Caught Making PR Edits

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  • The issue that the article raises is legitimate, but actually looking through their archives is baffling, they're really just hellbent on shitting on WP. One of their most read articles says Wikipedia should attract more female editors by reducing the anonymity on the site and making it more like a social media platform. What the hell? https://wikipediocracy.com/why-women-have-no-time-for-wikipedia/

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  • The iPhones must flow.

  • Circuit tracing LLMs reveal some bizarre reasoning processes

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  • The way it does math is mostly as people have already assumed - approximating instead of doing it "manually". It's 2025 and at this point absolutely nobody should be surprised that AI "confidently describe[s] the standard grade-school method, concealing its actual, bizarre reasoning process".

    As for poetry,

    Here, the model settled on the word "rabbit" as the word to rhyme with while it was processing "grab it." Then, it appeared to construct the next line with that ending already decided, eventually spitting out the line "His hunger was like a starving rabbit."

    this is exactly how many poets write rhymed poetry too, it's not even remotely bizarre.

    Still, it is interesting and good to see some concrete advancement in the study of AI reasoning. Hopefully it will contribute towards reducing the mystification of the whole thing.

  • Remembering alum David Mills, who brought the internet into perfect time

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  • In Croatian: palačinka (accentuated: palačínka, IPA: /palat͡ʃǐːŋka/, plural: palačínke). The origin is: Greek πλακοῦς (LS: "flat cake"), πλακόεντα > Latin placenta (OLD: "A kind of flat cake") > Romanian plăcintă > Hungarian palacsinta > Austrian German Palatschinke > Croatian palačinka. As Croatia has spent much of its history as a part of Austria-Hungary, its culture has left a strong mark especially on the northern dialects and the culinary practices there.

    Sources:

    • R. Matasović, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika
    • PGW Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary
    • Walde-Hofmann: Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch
    • Liddel-Scott: Greek-English Lexicon

    However, Croatian pancakes are very thin and bigger in surface than American ones. They're made of batter, we usually fill them with jam and roll them up and eat like that (some other fillings are in use too, ofc). My sister sometimes buys herself some American pancakes, way thicker and covered in chocolate cream, and the rest of the family is always mildly horrified by them, lol. It's pretty much two different dishes IMO. Palačinke would probably better correspond to crêpes, but we don't have different words to distinguish American pancakes from crêpes...

  • Moon Hoax Worshippers_

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  • "Observations by Pliny the Elder"... I love the fact that someone is still reading ancient ass proto-science, but it really really has to be taken with a grain of salt.

  • Bookwyrm, BookBrainz, OpenLibrary, etc.

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  • While I was looking for an alternative to Goodreads, which was widely known to be horrible long before the recent push against these big corpos, I tried BookWyrm (my first contact with the fediverse). I like their approach and wish them success, but what put me off is exactly what you say, the data they use is messy and lacks a lot of info. E.g. one of the things that makes (or at least made) GR satisfying is the visual aspect, you get these cool charts with the book covers, but Open Library doesn't have covers on so many books. So should I go to Google Images and add covers for 80% of my "library" of like 500 books? Lots of work.

    For comparison, TMDb, which is the source of data for Letterboxd, seems to have about as high-quality if not better data than IMDb that it is an alternative to (idk if it's FOSS though?).

    I've manually added many dozens books to Goodreads, so I'm not against assisting a site I use and enjoy. (Ofc at this point I regret improving that garbage site.) But the lack of data on BookWyrm was just too much even for me.

    So in the end I just switched to the simplest solution: LibreOffice Calc. But we do need an alternative to GR. I came across BookBrainz a few years ago, it was still early in development. Today it might be better, I should give it a shot and maybe add some data there...

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  • When You Block the Internet on Your Phone, Something Astonishing Happens Mentally

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  • How did you even do that, assuming you didn't prevent your usage of computers and smartphones altogether? Just sheer willpower?

  • Hate speech on X surged for at least 8 months after Elon Musk takeover – new research.

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  • Tbh that is an overall miniscule number and I'd say it's not representative (based on my own occasional visits to that shithole through xcancel.com). It's a question what they even counted as hate speech. Openly calling for the death of some minority probably counted, but did all those "just noticing things" barely-concealed dogwhistles count?

    Wait, maybe I should read the article before replying to you...

    The study measured overt hate speech, the meaning of which was clear to anyone who saw it – speech attacking identity groups or using toxic language. It did not measure covert types of hate speech, such as coded language used by some extremist groups to spread hate but plausibly deny doing so.

  • Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US

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  • Today, the court found (among other things), that a few thousand of the summaries that Ross’s AI produced are way too similar to Westlaw’s summaries for it to be a coincidence.

    This is probably just inevitable when your dataset is not large enough. I would be interested in seeing the LLM's output compared against the original texts; I do remember the early ChatGPT producing some borderline copies of sentences that you could find online (with one or two words changed).