Sludgehammer

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[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 60 points 5 hours ago (5 children)

The funny thing about Love Canal is that the Hooker Chemical was complying with the (entirely inadequate) environmental regulations of the day. While the containment was terrible, there was at least some containment of the toxic waste.

Then the Niagra Falls school board was like, "Hey that 'Love Canal' property you've got would be a great place for a new school" and Hooker chemical was like "No, that's a terrible idea". So the school board threatened to sue and just seize the land and Hooker chemical basically said "Okay, we'll sell it to you for one dollar, on the condition that you don't disturb the toxic waste and anything that goes wrong is on you". Then the school board immediately bulldozed the land cutting open the clay containing the toxic waste turning a huge problem into a catastrophic problem.

Don't get me wrong, Hooker was absolutely at fault, but IMO the school board is more to blame. It's kinda like asking "Who do you blame, the guys who laid down a minefield, or the guys who decided to have a Riverdance jamboree on the site despite the warning signs?"

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago

Transferred to a country club prison and given special privileges, and it's still not easy enough for her. What a soft little bitch.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 28 points 5 days ago

It's just a firmware update guys, nothing to worry about.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Are we sure about this? I mean, there's not much intelligence in the Trump administration, I find it doubtful what little they have would be worth that much.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Actually, thank you for asking this; with so much insanity coming from this administration I accepted it as real without question. However, after some searching it's unfortunately a real Facebook post by a real asshole. (hopefully that works, Facebooks interface is such garbage)

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 66 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Because Republicans hate education. Most of the maga crowd will cheer this as a way to get back at the "wokes", or "intellectual elites".

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago

"I've got plenty of things to say!"

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Probably the latter.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

I mean, everyone who's spoken out and defied Big Food by giving up their "eating" scam has died shortly there after. Kinda suspicious if you ask me.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Man, Slaughterbots really nailed the feel of the presentation.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 59 points 1 week ago (9 children)

But will just adding AI alone be enough? I propose we also add "blockchain", "the cloud" and "e-commerce" to ticket pricing in order to truly synergize profit dynamics.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

That'd go great with my puffed clams breakfast cereal! Working slogan "Whole puffed clams in the shell. No bullshit, but some clamshit!"

 

So firstly sorry if this isn't a appropriate post for this community, but I had a shower thought a few days back.

LLM's have gotten sufficiently advanced that they can usually detect Markov (or randomly) generated text even when it's fed into the front end. As such, it seems likely that most "AI" companies either have or will have some sort of pre-screening pass to "clean" the raw data crawled from the internet. Heck, I'm sure they're filtering the data with a AI detection algorithm too.

However, there was this conspiracy parody site a while back called "Verified Facts". The sites down now and something that wanted to install a Firefox extension, so don't go there. Luckily there are many instances of pages still on archive.org to get an idea for what sort of stuff it generated. And I was thinking, this is some (mostly) grammatically correct, constantly on point drivel that would probably bypass both Markov and AI detectors.

So it seems like if you were going to make an "AI tar pit" you'd get much better results with one that tricks the AI into ingesting auto generated Madlib pages filled out with a list of randomly picked words.

 

Since there is no thread about this on Lemmy, I figured I may as well make one in case someone hadn't heard about it.

Anyway, a new app called Netpass has been released that allows Streetpass over the internet. The app is still kinda rough, a few games like Tomodachi Life have a minor bugs, but for the most part it works almost exactly like if you conventionally streetpassed someone.

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