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  • ArsTechnica's response to the AI generated "quotations"

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  • For the most part, the comments I have removed on this thread have been removed for violating Beehaw's only rule: Be(e) Nice.

    I have zero problem with people criticizing this journalist. I do have a problem with users attacking one another or using misogynist language (it's possible in that case there's a cultural disconnect. I'm from the US, where "cunt" is a pretty serious gendered insult. I know it's not considered as big of a deal in other english speaking places, but frankly I've been getting enough reports on this thread that I'm getting a bit sick of dealing with it in general)

  • Sincere question: why play long video games?

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  • So the cost-benefit is that it costs time, but it pulls you out of end-stage capitalism and puts you in flow state, engaging in another world.

    You literally did, though?

  • Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs

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  • Hey, I appreciate your response. I totally get the anger, and I can see lots of possible ways that this wave of age verification policies could bite folks in the ass. Thanks for being reasonable, I hope you have a great day.

  • Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs

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  • I'm trying to be as charitable as possible, but I'd like you to provide a source for this assertion that Sakhnini has some connection to Israeli intelligence or the Israeli government besides being from Israel, otherwise your comments will be removed.

  • (Meta) What about technology satire or funny pieces?

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  • I'm not speaking for the whole Technology mod team here, just off the cuff. I think a satire piece (if clearly labeled preferably) would be completely fine. Personally I'd also be good with funny articles or other types of writing about tech, god knows this sub could use some levity. I don't think we would probably be okay with posting tech related memes, though. It's possible that if the community was really interested we could do a weekly sticky for memes or other lower-effort content, though.

    Again, I'm just spitballing here, I haven't checked it with any of the other mods.

  • First finished hand-embroidered patch

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  • Thank you!

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    Trump raped a minor

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  • Look, I think Trump probably did rape minors. I think he was probably involved in trafficking. But this isn't really evidence. It's hearsay, at best. It's an anonymous complaint filed via an open FBI telephone tipline in 2016. From what I've seen, all manner of wild stuff gets reported to those tip lines. There's absolutely no way of knowing if there's any truth to this other than the fact that we all have a gut feeling - and have seen lots of circumstantial evidence - that Trump was involved in this kind of stuff. It doesn't do any good to go around acting like it's proof of anything, though.

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    “The editorial class is the managerial class now, and has spent decades mentoring young reporters to not ask questions, to not push back, to believe that a big, strong, powerful company CEO would

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  • I think folks are struggling with the format of this post - I'm thinking it's probably at least partially in interop issue between Mastodon and Lemmy. Folks on Lemmy are usually expecting the post itself to be a link to the article or site, with commentary in the body or in a comment.

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    “The editorial class is the managerial class now, and has spent decades mentoring young reporters to not ask questions, to not push back, to believe that a big, strong, powerful company CEO would

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  • The link is in the text block under the post - this is due to the fairly hacky interoperability between Mastodon and Lemmy. You can post to Lemmy instances via Mastodon but they almost always wind up looking very spammy because of the formatting and all of the hashtags.

  • YouTube's long unskippable ads may have finally met their match

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  • Unless I'm mistaken, PiHole won't block Youtube ads because they're served from the same domain as the videos.

  • First finished hand-embroidered patch

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  • Thanks! I was pretty happy with how it turned out, which is nice because there were a few points during the process where I thought it was going to look awful.

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    First finished hand-embroidered patch

  • Axios reveals text of peace plan: Ukraine to relinquish its territories permanently, Russia to receive amnesty

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  • Thanks, I wasn't aware of them, and didn't find an entry on them when looking up on mediabiasfactcheck.com. I wonder if the naming is intentional or just a coincidence around the word "Truth".

  • Axios reveals text of peace plan: Ukraine to relinquish its territories permanently, Russia to receive amnesty

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  • Sorry, isn't Pravda a literal Kremlin disinfo op? I'm not sure we should be posting anything about the Ukraine war (or, frankly, anything at all) from a Russian state-owned propaganda outlet...

  • Why most polls overstate support for political violence

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  • Fantastic article. I've had similar thoughts when reading articles on that Marist poll in particular, it seemed like a much weaker statement than most of the coverage was implying.

  • An AI Just Attempted Murder... Allegedly... by SomeOrdinaryGamers [21:15 min] Video

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  • I think the problem with anthropomorphizing LLMs this way is that they don't have intent, so they can't have responsiblity. If this piece of software had been given the tools to actually kill someone, I think we all understand that it wouldn't be appropriate to put the LLM on trial. Instead, we need to be looking at the people who are trying to give more power to these systems and dodge responsibility for their failures. If this LLM had caused someone to be killed, then the person who tied critical systems into a black box piece of software that is poorly understood and not fit for the purpose is the one who should be on trial. That's my problem with anthropomorphizing LLMs, it shifts the blame and responsibility away from the people who are responsible for attempting to use them for their own gain, at the expense of others.

  • Tech CEOs Praise Donald Trump at White House Dinner

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  • I thought the song was called "Head Like a Hole"?

  • New controversial housing in Arkansas requires proofs that applicants are white [MSNBC, reported by New York Times]

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  • This is one of those stories that probably isn't actually all that noteworthy - the reporter doesn't have any actual idea how many people are living in the community, but estimates around 40 - but the details are all just waaaaay too good not to run with it. The original article starts out wild and only gets wilder as it goes. There's even a guest appearance from Shen Yun at one point. Just check out the first three paragraphs and you can see exactly why this story got written:

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  • Lol, you can tell which commenters have never moderated anything in this thread, IMO. If it weren't for the high likelihood that these summaries will be wrong an appreciable percentage of the time, this would be a huge help for anyone moderating medium traffic subs. Those types of subs, especially if they have relatively hands-on moderation to keep them from being complete cesspools, often involve seeing a comments or post that is borderline, and feeling like you need to go look through the poster's history to figure out if they're a bot or a troll. Something like this that actually worked, especially if it linked back to a sampling of the posts/comments that it is referencing, would be a big help in that. Also something like this that summarized a user's moderation history would be pretty useful.

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  • i can watch out for myself

    The evidence of you posting all over another Lemmy instance encouraging people to go kill cops makes me think you didn't learn your fucking lesson.

  • TRUMP v. UNITED STATES | April 25, 2024

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  • Sorry if it seems like you're being scolded - that's not my intention. I think it's fine to post something like this, but maybe I'm the future a brief explanation of why you found it worth posting would be helpful to get the discussion started - either in the post body or a comment.

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    The Internet Is Worse Than a Brainwashing Machine | The Atlantic

    www.theatlantic.com /technology/archive/2025/01/january-6-justification-machine/681215/
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