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I have to second that, yeah, YouTube’s Algo is insidious and drives my binge-watching, but I’ve been able to curate a subscription list of solid content creators.

In related news there is a rising industry of services to detect, fix and remove generative code and slop and substitute tested human-made products, for when your vibe-coded project turns out to be completely buggy.

A quick reminder: LLMs can’t logic or do math. They can only pathway through their autocomplete hyperminds for previous instances of parts of the solution.

This may be the pipeline we need towards an effective movement to defund and ultimately abolish police forces and committees with unchecked power. We now have a long running data set of incidents in which they erect and abuse systems of control.

They can’t help themselves but immediately engage in corruption and abuse of power. You’d have better luck getting a dog to guard a steak.

We need to start treating corruption as treason, giving aid and comfort to enemies of the people.

It’s not unique to Americans. Many countries have an unhealthy relationship with FIFA, although gridiron football is only slightly short of gladiatorial blood sports. (It doesn’t kill participants, only reduces them to a shell of their former selves.) German football hooliganism is notorious.

I can’t speak for rugby or hockey, which also look dangerous but don’t have leagues as powerful as NFL.

Also the US has boxing and mixed-martial-arts cage matches. I don’t know if those have near-equivalents outside America.

Oh that raid! I remember the event of the raid, specifically but didn’t know it was a Kushner building. Wow!

I learned pretty much this from a Kurzgesagt and maybe some comments from Hank Green. This is not deep cancer lore that only cancer experts know.

Pelosi has always been a centrist Democrat, in politics for the money and captured by lobbyists. Just a slightly different set than Republicans.

But yeah, it means she’s self-dealing when she betrays her own constituency for the buildout.

The problem is no one cares when your daughter gets dunked on by someone else’s cis-daughter. CIS-on-cis injuries in women’s sports are ubiquitous. If youre XX and still built like a brick wall, (the same mold as our women firefighters) then you’re just a ringer.

No, they’re worried about trans athletes and their potential for harm, even though there’s about ten such athletes throughout the US, and the instances involving injuries are about a handful.

And similarly no one cares about the severe (life-changing) TBI machine that is full-contact gridiron football, varsity, college and professional. Then we revel in the blood and profits.

The trans issue is pure right wing propaganda, and essentially just a means for MAGAs to signal their presence to their fellow cultists.

Actually, they serve two purposes.

One is visibility. They let the public and the state know there is a strong public objection to what is going on. It lets quieter objectors know they are not alone.

And two is provocation. All the state needs to do is work around the protest, and manage it as gently as possible, but too often they give into temptation to send in riot control and bust heads. Fascists are totally into the power trip.

When they do put down protests brutally, it rallies onlookers to the cause. Bystanders become sympathists. Sympathists become activists. Activists become militants. This is standard COIN theory and has been for a very long time.

The US should have learned this lesson during the International War on Terror, during the 2014 Ferguson unrest, during the 2020 George Floyd protests. But this regime is not big on learning things.

I’d love a news article about it.

It affirms that ICE is just a paramilitary agency that is loyal to the regime, and has nothing to do with law enforcement or national security. The police and enforcement assertions are just color.

After the 9/11 attacks suspected terrorists were put on the no fly list and the Interpol Terrorism Watch List, and we said nothing because they were, well, terrorists.

Except they weren’t. Any agent of numerous departments could put anyone on these lists. Soon random Americans with Arabic names discovered they couldn’t board their plane. Journalists and protesters found themselves subject to extra search protocols and harassment by law enforcement.

Americans discovered they could be deprived of civil liberties by any officer of the law, who could add them to a list. No justifying reason. No due process. Just, fuck you, civilian.

Eventually existence of these lists became public. At first courts had to compell DHS to allow people to check if they were on the list, and then more suits were necessary to create a process for someone to petition to be taken off the list.

Before Trump 1.0, the process was still labyrinthine and a heavy administrative burden to submit such a petition. I don’t know what happened after Trump.

it’s entirely in the character of this SCOTUS to decide law enforcement and national security agencies can make lists of enemies of state as they see fit, and deny people on the list equal protection under law.

And now we have super database engines like Palantir, so of course, Ice has a little list / has a little list. It’ll be more interesting to see how the courts respond. Due process isn’t what it used to be.

I still fantasize that NGOs should create a database of ICE employees so they can be tracked and brought to justice. Dunno if that’s actually happening.

It was the recent estimation that hyperscale LLMs need to earn $6 trillion a year to break even. I don’t think governments can afford six trillion for their surveillance states and robot armies.

That is the recent news that harbingers a potential 2026 AI bubble burst.

Open AI has been hemorrhaging money and taking on vast debt for a while. That’s not really news.

Claude is not a person. It is a toaster. Claude does not have feelings.

Also Claude gets no credit when it does a thing. Credit goes to the one writing the prompt, and all the resources Claude used to create the output.

When a seamstress assembles a dress, Singer doesn’t get credit.

Moreover, people will be less willing to upload video of George Floyd dying, or of brutality and massacre in Gaza, or to stream from the streets during the 2014 Ferguson unrest.

Visceral video from the ground accelerates popular movements. They want us dependent on news agencies for our only window into the rest of the world.

If you’ve nothing to hide, you’ve nothing to fear, and other similar sentiments:

Actually, when they’re observing your behavior, anything you do is suspicious. Not suspicious of a specific crime, but suspicious generally, and they will use this to invoke probable cause and search you or investigate you.

And they will find crimes. Stupid, petty infractions that shouldn’t be crimes, but they’ll find them. Or if they don’t like your social media opinions, they’ll make some up.

And they will rob you of any liquid assets (or sufficiently liquefiable assets, or anything else on you they want. And they’ll justify it as asset forfeiture. And it will be very difficult to get it back.

So, every citizen has a terrible lot to fear just by being observed by law enforcement. And mass surveillance, such as ALPRs, keeps you in their view.

Of course, Open AI isn’t going to cite references for all the sources it spudered through to assemble the proof, and likely will be borrowing on a lot of work already done by mathematicians.

So, breaking the rules maintained by all institutions of academic research.

Incidently, LLMs can’t logic. We’ve discovered this when they screw up simple logic problems. They have to depend on human explanations of logical processes, usually when someone else reported on the solution to the logic puzzle.

If you can’t follow the logic of the steps of the proof, it’s not a proof.

Granted, you may not be skilled in logic, but some of us, mathematicians, specifically, are.

If no mathematician can follow the logic, it’s not a proof.

Infamously:

Breastfeeding videos? Out. Classic art with boobs? Out.

ISIS beheading videos? Actual animal mutilation videos? IN!

Or, old. I was saved because I chose a small Friendster clone to make my profile and then MySpace became popular and I was too lazy to build it anew. Also Facebook profiles are closed to non-members.

Also Facebook insists on real names and I was raised in the belief an online handle and a meatspace identity are kept separate, and never the twain shall meet.

It means I also dodged the social network game craze. I never clicked a cow or farmed a ville.

However, so many of my peers have Facebook accounts, and may have had to share their Facebook passwords with bosses who didn’t trust them.