No no. It’s the perfectly round unblemished skin and hair that’s so full-bodied it practically defies gravity.

I guess I’m a highly sophosticated Palantir bot account trying to trick you into interacting with me.

if you don’t stop upvoting memes and stupid subs

Who says “we’re” up voting it? Nobody questions where the upvotes for “PuppyOfTheDay” come from? Once you concede the algorithm is rigged, it’s silly to blame the humans for what’s on your feed.

The wholesale takeover of the site by /r/The_Donald posters gaming the algorithm back in 2016 is entirely down the memory hole.

Nobody who still uses the site wants to believe they’re being hoodwinked again.

Petrodollar has value because its used to purchase petroleum from the Saudis.

If you’re not using dollars to buy Saudi petroleum, you need a lot less of them.

Human posting of AI-generated content is definitely a problem

It isn’t clear whether this content is posted by humans or by AI fueled bot accounts. All they’re sifting for is text with patterns common to AI text generation tools.

There wasn’t necessarily anything stopping people from doing the same thing pre-GPT

The big inhibiting factor was effort. ChatGPT produces long form text far faster than humans and in a form less easy to identify than prior Markov Chains.

The fear is that Wikipedia will be swamped with slop content. Humans won’t be able to keep up with the work of cleaning it out.

Too late.

With thresholds calibrated to achieve a 1% false positive rate on pre-GPT-3.5 articles, detectors flag over 5% of newly created English Wikipedia articles as AI-generated, with lower percentages for German, French, and Italian articles. Flagged Wikipedia articles are typically of lower quality and are often self-promotional or partial towards a specific viewpoint on controversial topics.

One of the biggest changes for a nonprofit like Wikipedia is to find cheap/free labor that administration trusts.

AI “solves” this problem by lowering your standard of quality and dramatically increasing your capacity for throughput.

It is a seductive trade. Especially for a techno-libertarian like Jimmy Wales.

More broadly, the private media industry exists to sell ad space. That means mainlining their Silicon Valley and Wall Street paymasters, not middle management at the CDC.

Even then, elections aren’t for another year and a half, and there’s no reason to believe the 2027 Congress will be more of a check on Trump than the 2019 Congress was.

Biden never bothered to get rid of DeJoy at the Post Office ffs. Why would anyone believe Chuck Schumer can stop RFK Jr from the Senate Minority after a few Page 6 Op-Eds?

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Never ask a man his wage.

Never ask a woman her age.

Never ask Allen Dulles what Operation Sunrise was doing for Karl Wolff in 1945.

Private media panders to the source of its revenue, which is private industry.

Silicon Valley is tilted hard right. Wall Street is hard right. US Heavy industry is hard right. Consumer manufacturing/shipping is economically right wing, even when its occasionally got social liberal pastiche.

Trump’s made himself the singular conduit through which private industry lands the trillions in public spending. So private industry bows to him.

If we were in a country with a heavily socialist economic system, the game would be different. Cubans aren’t getting an earful about how cool Steven Miller is. Nicaraguan bureaucrats have no need to appease Elon’s DOGE teams. Nobody in South Africa is producing hagiographies for Pete Hegseth.

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I never signed up to begin with.

If I had a dollar for every conservative who threatened to boycott Walmart, I’d have twenty or thirty grand, easy.

Don’t lose too much sleep over it.

This is likely going to be “Oops, all placebos!” in our future.

if we don’t look at the bigger picture

Every day another neighborhood resident is successfully kidnapped is a day closer to Trump having a stranglehold on your city.

The bigger picture is one of attrition. First they come for the migrant workers, and if you don’t stand by them it’s only a matter of time before they come for you.

Trump is trying to incite violence in LA

Trump is trying to kidnap residents for unlawful imprisonment and exile to blacksites and torture centers.

Protecting those residents must be the community’s top priority.

glances at LA

Way ahead of you.

it was not long ago

I mean, it was 40 years ago.

I would more point to the police violence during BLM protests and the terror tactics employed by ICE against Columbia student protesters just in the last six months.

Fox News Host: “We found a real live LA resident to tell us how they feel”

Real Live LA Guy: “Yo, hey, hello from Miami, I’m here to say Go Trump! Love MAGA! Based! Chad! Bitcoin $1M, you gotta buy my book The DJ Entrepreneur! Also, yeah, love my Cuban homies. Word up to everyone who came over here in a raft with no money, no documentation, no nothin! America land of the free home of the fat bags of change, amirite! Hey Ainsley, you fine as hell, want to bounce on my thang after this?”

Fox News Host: “As you can see, the residents of LA are terrified and cry out for a stronger police presence.”

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