kescusay

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[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 69 points 22 hours ago (17 children)

When you have no power to enact change, you speak truth to the ones who do.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It makes sense once you understand the conservative mindset: "Anyone who disagrees with me in even the most tepid of ways is a flaming liberal and doesn't deserve to exist, because I'm so fragile I must be validated in my beliefs at all times."

Once you recognize that we're dealing with an entire political party that has actively driven itself insane and become a cult, this sort of thing becomes perfectly expected.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 114 points 3 days ago (10 children)

Sadly, there are some who don't even know it, because they're buying services from someone else that buys them from someone else that buys them from Amazon. So they're currently wondering what the fuck is even going on, since they thought they weren't using AWS.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

I'm a software developer and my company is piloting the use of LLMs via Copilot right now. All of them suck to varying degrees, but everyone's consensus is that GPT5 is the worst of them. (To be fair, no one has tested Grok, but that's because no one in the company wants to.)

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

On top of that, there's so much AI slop all over the internet now that the training for their models is going to get worse, not better.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago (3 children)

They'll ask their parents, or look up cooking instructions on actual websites.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Venture capital drying up.

Here's the thing... No LLM provider's business is making a profit. None of them. Not OpenAI. Not Anthropic. Not even Google (they're profitable in other areas, obviously). OpenAI optimistically believes it might start being profitable in 2029.

What's keeping them afloat? Venture capital. And what happens when those investors decide to stop throwing good money after bad?

BOOM.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago

I... write code. It does stuff. Usually the wrong stuff, until I've iterated over it a few times and gotten it to do the right stuff. I don't "click around in a GUI." If a tutorial is making you do that, it's a bad tutorial.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh, you can fuck right off with that nonsense. I'm not both-sidesing anything. Israel committed (and is going to commit, almost certainly) more genocide. They are absolutely the bad guys here. Acknowledging that Hamas hasn't been good for Palestine either isn't at all the same thing as pretending they're as bad as a country committing genocide.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't expect elections before the end of occupation. I am 100% in favor of Israel getting the fuck out of Palestine, and fully support a Palestinian state.

It's just important to be realistic about Hamas.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (6 children)

It's Hamas. They existed as a terrorist organization long before now, and they've ruled Gaza without elections since the mid-2000's. Israel is 1000 times worse - like I said, they've got a taste for genocide. But that doesn't mean it's pleasant to be a Palestinian caught between the two.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world -5 points 1 week ago (12 children)

Yeah, this "peace" isn't going to last a week, sadly. The Israeli government has a taste for genocide now and likes it, while Hamas doesn't know how to stop being murderous terrorists. Mix the two together, you get... a lot of dead innocents who made the mistake of existing in Gaza.

Goddamn it.

 

Hi there,

I'm the mod for !nottheonion, and I'd like to unban someone. Unfortunately, the user I want to unban doesn't have any content in the community anymore, and I can't find a way to do it.

Help?

 

Look, I get it. The gargantuan shit-show that is U.S. politics and the American descent into fascism is on everyone's minds. It's certainly on mine.

But the point of this community is to highlight weird news stories that make you go, "By golly, I thought I was reading a headline from The Onion. You know, America's finest news source." A lot of stories being posted lately don't even remotely fit that.

That doesn't mean political stories aren't allowed here, but they must have headlines that would make people pause and wonder if it's a story from The Onion. Straight up regular, non Onion-y headlines don't fit.

 

Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) proposed an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would allow President Trump to serve a third term in the White House so that the country “can sustain the bold leadership our nation so desperately needs.”

For the record, Trump is 78 years old. Assuming he survives and manages to stay in office, he would be 86 when we're finally rid of him.

 

I can't find any content from this user from which to access the famous three-dots menu to unban them, and the post that resulted in their ban is already long gone, so I can't do it from there.

Could an administrator please unban the user?

 

The end of an era in Eugene. :'(

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case made public Friday a heavily redacted trove of documents that provide a small glimpse into the evidence prosecutors will present if the case ever goes to trial.

The nearly 1,900 pages of documents collected by special counsel Jack Smith’s team were initially filed under seal to help U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan decide what allegations can proceed to trial following the Supreme Court opinion in July that conferred broad immunity on former presidents for official acts they take in office.

That's gonna be some serious reading over the weekend.

 

Hey everyone, just a quick PSA: Oregon ballots are in the mail as of today. (Oct. 16th, 2024).

Go to https://oregonvotes.gov/MyVote to find out when yours will be in the mail!

Go to https://oregonvotes.gov/Counties if you have any issues or concerns to bring up with your county elections office!

VOTE!

 

Just spotted that we made this list on Forbes last week. We're famous!

 

I hate the fact that it's almost fall now, and we're seeing temperatures around 100 degrees fahrenheit and smoke from first fires. In September.

 

The Biden administration on Wednesday plans to accuse Russia of a sustained effort to influence the 2024 US elections by using Kremlin-run media and other online platforms to target US voters with disinformation, six sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

It’s expected the US will make a series of moves on Wednesday aimed at addressing the Kremlin’s efforts including the White House publicly condemning the actions and the Justice Department announcing law enforcement action targeting the covert Russian campaign, the sources said.

 

Just a heads up, there's a severe thunderstorm alert right now:

https://g.co/kgs/7NQdqAJ

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