I should save this comments section for when I need examples of why social media should be banned. A ton of people being dicks to each other over whether they use a honey dripper or a teaspoon.

The phrase “is linked to” should be a massive red flag.

If it was smuggling Iranian oil it would say, “is smuggling Iranian oil”, not “is linked to smuggling Iranian oil”.

until this administration is long gone

Based on past performance, the next Democrat administration will repeal maybe 50% of these changes at most.

I’d be down with banning everyone from social media

A lot of races in Star Wars are dodgy stereotypes. Watto was so bad I think people just blanked it out.

For a moment I thought he was having a rare moment of clarity, but no, he was having a common moment of corruption

They spend over £50,000,000/year on care, research, and conservation.

A significant portion of what we know about the ancient world is a direct result of their research sharing and activities; for example when the Rosetta Stone was in French hands they kept it to themselves, when it was in Egypt they did nothing with it, but when it came to Britain it was shared with research departments across Europe as well as in Britain, resulting in our ability today to read hieroglyphics and demotic script.

Think about that for a second: if the Rosetta Stone had been left in Egypt, there’s every possibility that Egyptians today would still have no idea about most of their own history or how to read their own ancient texts. You might dismiss this as paternalistic or white-savioury, but it’s true nonetheless.

Even as recently as last year we had researchers finding things like https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/babylonian-map-world-0021631 that simply wouldn’t have happened without the British Museum’s work. So, I’m inclined to cut them some slack.

People give the British Museum a lot of shit, but it’s free all year round for everyone.

If you can’t get your LLM to not deny the holocaust, then your LLM is not ready to get platformed on a major internet site.

Don’t be "both sides"ing this, one of those sides was bigger than the other by an extremely large margin.

Memes are weird, like, you contributed nothing to its creation, yet you’re acting all defensive like it was yours

LOL

Hard disagree, because it’s like with all the other forms of AI-created slop - with the real thing there’s layers of meaning, and you spend time and mental energy digging into that and getting something from it. But as with AI art and AI prose, you try looking closer at it and it just makes you feel hollow and frustrated at having wasted your time.

There was no meaning, there was no symbolism, there were no clever literary allusions, there was no interplay between the melody and the lyrics, it’s just superficial garbage that tricks you into giving it attention by sounding good on its first listen.

(Edit: lol touched a nerve with some shit talentless musicians)

What was their central thesis?

It’s easy to see why there was so much resistance to getting these released. It’s not just Trump in there, it’s every fucker, all chatting away pleasantly even when he’d already done one jail sentence for sex trafficking. Even Noam fucking Chomsky is cosying up to him.

Yup, suddenly now they’re interested in nuance

Also this story is very old but gets reposted all the time always explicitly stirring anti-vegan snark with captions like “Least annoying vegan”.

The meat industry is one of the worst polluters on the planet and they spend a lot of money pushing anti-vegan sentiment.

Anyone remember when Wikipedia was the default byword for Unreliable Internet Source? The internet used to be good.

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Your phrasing implies that the issue was that farmers all sat about at home not working because they weren’t getting paid. There were plenty of problems, but I’ve seen scant evidence that that the threat of getting fired for not doing your job was even in the top three.