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I guess Twitter is now banning people who post that Hans Kristian Graebener is Nazi cartoonist Stone Toss

How's about we address data privacy and not just get jealous of China's great firewall.

I miss when people got fired and kind of disappeared.  Now they all just start a patreon and a vlog.

Speaking of that, another CNN favorite pissed off the pedo guy

Elon Musk cancels X partnership with former CNN anchor Don Lemon after interview

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Don Lemon said he was informed of the decision to cancel the partnership hours after he taped an interview with Elon Musk for The Don Lemon Show.

I'm fine with it, the kook ticket pulls more from Trump than it does Biden.

So merging in fundraising, does this mean Trump's campaign hasn't been raising a ton of money and they really need the RNC to shore it up?

One way or another putting all your eggs in the basket of a crooked old shit who's not won the popular vote even once is certainly a strategy.

Which is why the US government cares very much about a Chinese owned site where people do stupid dances and very little about data privacy for Americans.

1 hour ago, outsida said:

“Are you better off than 3 years ago?”

 

WTF?! Isn’t it ‘four years ago’ Alabama can’t do math???

I never got why they ask this question, especially now.  I mean the last year of Trump's term hundreds of thousands were dying of COVID, you couldn't find toilet paper, and a good chunk of the country was out of work.

1 hour ago, TwinIon said:

Lol.

 

So Elon isn't so much against OpenAI going for profit as he against them going for profit without him in control of everything.

 

It also feels like a window into what Elon thought of OpenAI's business prospects. He was looking at what they had and thinking that they needed an existing profitable business as a crutch, but it turns out they didn't. They were able to monetize their product quite quickly. They're still burning through cash, but at this point it's clear they'll be able to get whatever cash they need for the foreseeable future.

 

I'll also point out that Elon has since decided to again open his own AI company separate from Tesla, so whatever reasons he had for insisting that OpenAI be part of Tesla obviously don't apply if you're a company under his control.

Last I saw he was trying to use his AI company to leverage the Tesla board to give him a shitload of stock to fill a Twitter shaped hole he ripped in his pocket.

On 2/28/2024 at 7:45 AM, Uaarkson said:

We had a tornado here in the Flint area. Sirens were going off for like an hour straight in the middle of the night.

Tuesday night/Wednesday morning Ohio had 8 tornadoes.  It was a rough storm, I slept through all of it.  If a tornado comes for me in the night I will be dead.

We had a storm tear ass across Ohio earlier this week that spawned I think 6 tornadoes in one night.  I slept through the whole thing.

11 hours ago, Firewithin said:

GOP candidate for governor outed as KKK member after cross burning photo emerges - Alternet.org

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In Missouri, far-right activist Darrell Leon McClanahan III has been seeking the GOP nomination in Missouri's 2024 gubernatorial race. But the Missouri Republican Party has announced that...

 

I mean, suing them and saying that throwing up a Hitler salute next to someone in full Klan regalia in front of a burning cross wasn't a Klan thing is... something.

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McClanahan has filed a lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which published the photo on their website in 2022 along with an article. McClanahan argued, in the lawsuit, that he was strictly an "honorary" KKK member — not a full member — and that the photo showed a "Christian Identity Cross lighting ceremony" instead of a full-fledged KKK cross burning ceremony.

On 2/28/2024 at 1:23 PM, GeneticBlueprint said:

 

 

 

Came in here to say that I cannot believe that I think it would be better if he stayed on in the current climate. The fact that Mitch fucking McConnell is one of the "good" (using that term extremely loosely) Republicans is just a fucking nightmare.

The good news is none of the rest of them are nearly as effective at getting an agenda pushed through as he is.  He didn't give a shit about scoring wins on some shitty right wing vlog or Fox News, he pushed his agenda at all costs, and was good at whipping the vote.  None of the rest of them I feel can replace him on that front, a lot of preening do nothings auditioning for Trump or an evening guest slot on Fox News.

31 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

Perhaps relatedly...

 

First-ever photos show humpback whales mating—and they’re males

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While humpback mating has long been a mystery, other marine mammals including dolphins and seals are known to engage in male-male sexual behavior.

 

I liked it when I played it.  I can't seem to get myself to revisit it in it's entirety though.

I am a sucker for the unexplainable alien sort of concept from the Southern Reach Trilogy(mostly the first one) and Roadside Picnic.

9 minutes ago, Amazatron said:

The Republican Party needs to be eradicated.

Maybe I'm naive, but I feel like their pivot to being in service of pretty much just Trump hasn't helped them in the long run.  They have been underperfoming in the midterms ever since they attached themselves to Trump.  They don't really have anyone else that anyone gives a shit about after the KFC chicken buckets finally send him to hell.

It would be odd for something like that to be spearheaded by what is probably the least Christian President.

Anyway, Under His Eye, or whatever.

Cool, an underpaid and underappreciated profession is now even harder.

1 hour ago, best3444 said:

 

I don't know how any of that works. I'd laugh my ass off if they could pocket the money and they actually do it.  😆 

I mean, how much did Bannon and co make on that private border wall scam Trump pardoned him for?

1 hour ago, Signifyin(g)Monkey said:

The most interesting aspect of the situation to me is that there’s a paradox nested in the automation AI provides that was not present in prior technologies that caused large waves of disemployment via the automation of labor.

 

Namely, that AIs require the labor they are built to automate.  To take a simple example, an image generator AI can automate the creation of images, but it also can’t work without lots of people providing it lots of source images.  An image generator, in a sense, can’t completely automate image generation without killing itself.

 

Cars, by contrast, did not need horse-buggy drivers to work.

 

So the dynamics of the coming labor disputes and legal battles over AI are going to be unlike anything we’ve really ever seen.

 

We live in interesting times.

There will always be a need for human driven art, no matter what AI evangelists say.  I think the real one is AI coming for a lot of entry level up to sort of middle level white collar work, support, basic analyst jobs, a lot of it will be able to be done with AI.  I feel like the entry level in a lot of fields is going to be tough, that includes art, no one is going to use it to make a feature film that anyone will want to see, but they will use them for commercials, brochures, presentation graphics.  The kind of stuff someone gets into to try and get in the door on certain career paths.  Like I kind of wonder if gen alpha is going to get fucked by a bunch of AI built by millennials.

On 2/15/2024 at 9:59 PM, Xbob42 said:

That dude's not greasy at all! I can get ten times greasier than this!

Microsoft Copilot is here for you, same prompt

19 hours ago, GeneticBlueprint said:

 

Thanks I hate it

This reminds me of those crypto bros that tried to sell NFTs in games as "Imagine you don't have to find a gun in the game, you could buy it, and then sell it when you're done with it to another player".  Those were people who don't play games and I'm pretty sure these people don't read a whole lot of books.  This does answer the burning question I've always had:  Who the fuck reads those terrible AI generated Kindle books people shit onto Amazon?

2 hours ago, ort said:

I wonder if Tucker Carlson will have anything to say about this while he's on his Russia Good / America Bad international tour...

He said on one of his little talks when asked why he didn't press Putin on the assassinations that "Leaders kill people".

1 hour ago, Ricofoley said:

I think it's also a window into the mindset of Elon and his biggest fans that they advertised this as an apocalypse car, and seemingly the definition of an apocalypse for them starts and ends with "angry mobs will throw things at your car, and possibly shoot arrows at it"

For an apocalypse car it seems to really need roads to drive or do anything.

15 hours ago, Jason said:

 

Twitter was a thing by the time OBL was offed. 

It wasn't what it is now though.  If he was around now he could have had a Twitter Spaces hosted by David Sacks.

41 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

Jefferson Davis was never convicted of treason, and argued that the fact that he'd already been barred from ever holding office again under the 14th Amendment was punishment enough and that he thus shouldn't be tried.

Alexander Stephens won a Senate election in Georgia, he wasn't allowed to serve in the Senate.