Oh no!

I will continue not paying a dime for any media I see ever, unless I really support the creators, as I have been doing for … 20 years now?

The strategy to fuck with a class action lawsuit is to fuck with the lawyers leading the class action lawsuit.

… This is how you get another class action lawsuit, which is comprised entirely of lawyers.

Jesus Fucking Christ, these people are idiots.

When you live in a police/surveillance state, you’re a fool to fear criminals more than the government.

My comment got more updoots, but you deserve just as many.

My guess?

NSA is currently figuring out how to insert backdoors into all these things.

You see, the last backdoor they used all the time, well… people figured it out.

So, they had to ban uh, checks notes, apparently all routers, basically.

So, now they need a new backdoor into literally everything.

Hey there yah go haha, maybe for if he gets a new bro or sis at some point =P

I realize he/she probably already has a name, but I named them ‘Sqwoober’.

They are legitimate military targets, they are acting as comms relay servers for military strikes/operations against Iran, and are very likely also being used to do threat analysis / kill chain assignment tasks.

This is what you get for becoming part of the military industrial complex, tech bros.

distressed squidward noises

omfg, BlueSky continues to just knock it out of the park.

Incredible.

It was like less than a week or two ago I was trying to explain that BlueSky is just rainbow capitalism, that is centralized, and will censor you, just give it time.

A year ago some goober was extremely convinced that it was totally possible and not actually that difficult to set up your own Relay, so, it actually is federated and decentralized the same way Lemmy or Mastadon are!

Year later, nobody has gotten around to doing it.

And now it has a hallucinatory theft powered autocomplete machine… that… ostensibly exists… to… manage their feeds.

Because apparently that is so complex or difficult that it… needs an assistant?

And this was made by a former member of the board who apparently just left so that he could focus in his side project, which is totally different from BlueSky, but also only works with BlueSky.

Just chef’s kiss, mwah.

We need a ‘Fell for it Again’ meme variant for turbolibs.

There’s 0 difference between TwitterBrains and RedditMods.

Well ok, TwitterBrains are better at scamming people, at least they’re getting paid.

… I miss Tom.

Just bring back MySpace ‘Classic’.

I was talking about the ‘and then sue them’ part.

Sueing someone… is an ‘offensive’ legal action, its something you initiate, not ‘defend’ against.

Right, because everyone can afford those legal fees.

And its sure to be worth the time and money, netted out.

My entire point is that you are just overgeneralizing, in general, and saying rather silly things.

Completely agree with all of this.

Especially the last part.

We don’t even understand our brains, our own minds, we still can’t fully agree on what consciousness or sentience… even… are.

We’re certainly making progress on those fronts… but we are a very, very far distance from the finish line.

That finish line would be like… we solved Psychology, we solved Neuroscience, we have a Grand Unified Theory of Mind, etc.

Introverts exist, and are… very often fine with solitude, prefer it generally over socializing.

But they are generally fine at participating in society and living normal lives.

Healthy people… do need doctors … and therapists.

A person can outwardly appear to be healthy… and actually not be.

Preventative medicine, regular checkups, your body changes as you grow, and habits you develop in your youth may need significant reworking.

Therapy can give otherwise healthy people a method of exploring their inner selves more fully or more consistently… they can teach them frameworks for understanding and dealing with other kinds of people, for being better able to deal with kinds of trauma they have not yet experienced.

Also… same with physical health… people with some nascent mental problems or patterns forming… probably won’t be obvious to a non specialist, untill it gets more severe.

Here is a way of describing what I see as ‘the problem’:

An LLM cannot forget things in its base training data set.

Its permanent memory… is totally permanent.

And this memory has a bunch of wrong ideas, a bunch of nonsensical associations, a bunch of false facts, a bunch of meaningless gibberish.

It has no way of evaluating its own knowledge set for consistency, coherence, and stability.

It literally cannot learn and grow, because it cannot realize why it made mistakes, it cannot discard or ammend in a permanent way, concepts that are incoherent, faulty ways of reasoning (associating) things.

Seriously, ask an LLM a trick question, then tell it it was wrong, explain the correct answer, then ask it to determine why it was wrong.

Then give it another similar category of trick question, but that is specifically different, repeat.

The closer you try to get it toward reworking a fundamental axiom it holds to that is flawed, the closer it gets to responding in totally paradoxical, illogical gibberish, or just stuck in some kind of repetetive loop.

… Learning is as much building new ideas and experiences, as it is reevaluating your old ideas and experiences, and discarding concepts that are wrong or insufficient.

Biological brains have neuroplasticity.

So far, silicon ones do not.

… ‘Bansky goes to Space’ …

That would make for quite a story.

Well, at least we’ll always have Sinatra.

theoretically

Elon Musk is such a goddamned literal supervillain that he managed to make the theme of Firefly wrong.

Apparently, they can take the sky from you.

I mean, do those headcount numbers count contractors?

V dashes? A dashes? Etc?

The majority of MSFT’s workforce has been temp contractors for a very long time, and they do everything they can to have as few actual employees as possible.

If your source is saying the average tenure is 5.3 years, no, no it is not counting contractors.

Beyond that, unless you have an actual source for the culture shift beyond ‘you think so’, I’m going with no, everything I’ve described has gotten worse.

That’s why I’ve, for years, been able to predict moves that MSFT would likely make, that people at the time think are ludicrous or incredibly pessimistic, worst case scenarios… and then they happen.

As an example, I was saying MSFT probably just set Xbox with impossibly unrealistic profit targets for the Xbox/Gaming division, to more or less intentionally downsize it and then basically kill it off, over time, while acting like that’s not what they were doing… I said that a good deal of time before the news broke, that is exactly what happened.

They are a gormless faceless machine that is unimaginably high on their own supply.

Given the amount of outright caste based racism I saw amongst Indian actual employees vs Indian contractors when I was there, where HR told.me that actually ‘that’s just their culture’ and that I was being racist for pointing out abusive managers literally screaming at their lower caste underlings, whom they had by their H1-B balls…

…yeah, I’m willing to bet it is now even worse.

I’ve also worked at other large corps, a place or two in fairly high responsibilty positions.

I’ve met a fair deal of the Seattle/Bellevue/Redmond upper management of various texh and other firms, and the thing they all have in common is an unimaginably inflated ego, elitist attitude, that propogates downward via basically an essentially religious level of respect for people in higher positions… its just expected to be shown by anyone under them.

They really are like the corpos from Cyberpunk 77, they just don’t have the nakedly open bloodlust most of those corpos do.