'"It is not humanitarian at all because it only serves one segment of the population there. The hostages there do not receive any humanitarian aid.”

They mean the civilians in Gaza held hostage by the Israeli military, right?

Thanks for the link to Common Crawl; I didn’t know about that project but it looks interesting.

That’s also an interesting point about heavily curated data sets. Would something like that be able to overcome some of the bias in current models? For example, if you were training a facial recognition model, access a curated, open source dataset that has representative samples of all races and genders to try and reduce the racial bias. Anyone training a facial recognition model for any purpose could have a training set that can be peer reviewed for accuracy.

I mean, thats the way the capitalist, stock-return-driven economy works. The market expects a company to constantly grow to pump their stock price, so they have to find new revenue or cut costs somewhere. But they can’t do that forever…

The founders build a great product to pull in users, then they go public, then the MBAs turn to enshittification to drive more revenue and get rich while they can. The rest of us then move on to the next platform, if it even exists…

Yes, and they’ll use legislation to pull up the ladder behind them. It’s a form of Regulatory Capture, and it will absolutely lock out small players.

But there are open source AI training datasets, but the question is whether LLMs can be trained as accurately with them.

This is awesome, but now we need better battery tech that doesn’t rely on lithium and cobalt. Getting that up to this scale will be hard, though.

Check out the Silo series by Hugh Howey. AppleTV’s show did the first half of book 1 already, but the books are still better. Great writing and a pretty easy read.

His special is possibly the greatest piece of media to come out of the pandemic.

Always check your sources!

“Seedorf said he’d “take a bullet for” Trump and that Trump was the only politician he’d commit such an act of self-sacrifice for. Of the former president, Seedorf said: “He’d do it, too, for everyone else.””

These people are mentally ill. It would be sad if it weren’t so terrifying

I feel like this is part of a Republican long game - make their states so unpalatable to progressives that they move out, thus ensuring that the US Senate and House are never again under Democratic control. It’s like a for of self-imposed gerrymandering for Democrats, packing themselves into the few states with liberal legislaturea and policies.

Of course, those blue states will continue to subsidize the red states through tax dollars and federal programs, but that’s another issue entirely.

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"Right to Life of Michigan President Barbara Listing announced the litigation Wednesday as several thousand anti-abortion activist protested on the state Capitol grounds.

“The provisions asserted to be unconstitutional under federal law threaten legal protections for pregnant women seeking healthcare, the rights of physicians to care for patients, and the rights of parents already under attack on many fronts,” Listing said in a statement. “At issue is also the sweeping disenfranchisement both of Michigan voters and of the authority of the legislature in the days and years ahead.”"

What kind of bizarro world bullshit is that? Their own lawsuit is what threatens to disenfranchise voters!

Genocide Joe? 🙄

And who should voters replace him with, Mr Answers?

Ok, that’s true

Capitalism promises nothing, my friend.

Isn’t this standard enshitification?

Google started off like any new tech company years ago and they did have a superior product. Then they went public and Wall Street started expecting certain revenue numbers every quarter, growth slowed because they saturated the market, so the core product was pushed toward making money instead staying true to the original goals.

Typical stuff, really

So what? The biggest part of picking a President is the people they’re going to put in their cabinet and surround themselves with. That’s the problem with Trump. He’s going to fill the presidency with a bunch of maga ass hats, on top of doing his own damage.

Dude. Have you ever ridden the NY subway? It sucks.

And the bigger issue is the amount of time taken out of the day by a commute when it’s not needed for the vast majority of tech workers.

Article says the glass plates can only be written once, so don’t toss out your hdd just yet

I always thought DARE was right about weed being a “gateway drug”, but not for the reasons they said. When I started smoking it, and realized it just made me relaxed and mildly hallucinat instead of become a refer-madness psychotic murderer, I realized the must have been lying about the dangers of other drugs.

And I was right. When used responsibility, drugs are not so dangerous and are a ton of fun!