A federated web is a better one than a monopolized web, so I switched on principle.

Yes.

ICE makes everyone less safe; immigrants in the US, whether or not documented, commit crimes at the lowest rate of virtually any demographic category.

There’s a concept in law enforcement whereby arresting one person dissuades others from doing similar things.

I wonder if the Trump admin doesn’t want reporters in Minneapolis. /s

Its almost like ICE wants to scare off media organizations from reporting on Minneapolis (1) to keep the wider public in the dark and (2) to protect its officers.

More reporters in Minneapolis keeping this front and center for the public would be good imo.

This just makes me think even more media coverage of Minneapolis would be good. Fuck the Trump administration.

Folks from rural areas prioritize cultural signaling for conservativism over economic growth. I’d hazard that Mr. Zink would probably vote Trump again, given the opportunity, if the opposite candidate publicly supported trans rights or was just a Democratic black woman.

Edit:

Goosechase.jpg “You won’t meet anyone more conservative than me, and I didn’t vote for this”

“WHAT DID YOU VOTE FOR THEN”

Not to be a downer if you’re anti-AI, but you should know a functional, small, 1B parameter model only needs ~85GB of data if the training data set is high quality (the four-year old chinchilla paper set out the 20 to 1 optimization rule for ai training, so it may require even less today).

That’s basically nothing. If a language has over ~130,000 books or an equivalent amount of writing (1,500 books is about a gig in plain ascii), a functional text-based ai model could be built that uses it.

My understanding is there are next to zero languages in existence today that do not have this amount of quality text. Certainly, spoken languages that have no written word are not accessible like this, but most endangered languages with few speakers that have a historical written word could in theory have ai models built that effectively communicate in those languages.

To give you an idea of what this means for less-written languages and a website revolving around them, look at worldcat (which does NOT have anywhere near most of the written text available entirely online for each language listed, it’s JUST a resource for libraries): https://www.oclc.org/en/worldcat/inside-worldcat.html

But this gets even harder for a theoretical website used to avoid an LLM that can read it, because this is all assuming creating an ai model for language from scratch. That is not necessary today because of transfer learning.

Major LLM models with over 100 diverse major languages can be fined-tuned on an insignificant amount of data (even 1GB could work in theory) and produce results like those of a 1B parameter model trained solely on one language. This is because the multi-lingual models developed cross-cultural vector-based understandings of Grammer.

In truth, the only remaining major barriers for any language not understood by fine-tuning an ai model today are both (1) digitization and (2) character recognition. Digitization will vanish as an issue for basically every written language that has a unique script within the next ten years. Character recognition (and more specifically, the economic viability of building the character recognition) will be the only remaining issue.

Ironically, in creating such a website, you will be creating more data for a future potential ai model to use in training. Especially if whatever you write makes the language of greater economic importance.

Something something “the ambiguity of language, curses” 😭

It’s all good my friend

It’s a shower thought, ain’t that deep.

Yeah that’s a very fair analysis.

Also, being a selfish prick is nothing to be proud of.

Tell me you didn’t read past the title without telling me 😭😭😭

Tell me you didn’t read past the title without telling me 😭😭😭

Terrible headline, it’s honestly kind of impressive that the chronological order of just two events could be screwed up in a single sentence fragment meant to convey information in an entertaining way.

Just wait until you discover I can have multiple and even contradictory reasons for doing any single action. It’s really gonna blow you away

Yeah but France is my favorite South American country

Now there’s a guy who missed his nominative determinism calling, he would have been much better at that job too.

I see through this charade! He just wants to have closer relations with the French!

Doubly crazy when you consider that (1) none of the other mainstream AI services make it so easy to create and distribute CSAM content - all it takes on X is an @ symbol while every other ai service requires an actual prompt injection attack, and (2) a ton of well-meaning people still use X, despite the simultaneous Nazi (and apparently Pedophile) bar problem.

Calling it an “immigration operation” is a fascinating example of doublespeak? DHS wants deportations not immigrations.

Although, the world would be a lot happier and sillier place if the DHS underlings took that language at face value and brought in an extra 2000 immigrants.

It can make sense in other ways too imo.