The American dream says all men are created equal.
But this idea is not the human default. Most countries in the world, in fact most societies that have ever existed, have kept wide gaps between the poor and the wealthy. Those countries function in large part because not all men are equal: some are told they exist to serve others. A few have wealth because they are standing on the backs of the less fortunate majority. A lot of people have assumed there's no other way.
But the American dream is just an experiment. Can we hold it? Can we continue to educate ourselves and vote in such a way, as a whole, that allows us to keep a very very strong middle class, shun any king, and truly allow equal opportunity for all?
Even SynthID, Openai's latest watermarking technique can be somewhat reliably bypassed with a comfyui workflow that is just designed to repaint the picture.
In short, detection and watermarking are not currently winning. The quality bypassed human capabilities sometime early last year at least.
If we could function like ants... Sacrifice 10% to save the 90%, that would be a net gain for the species. But nobody is voluntarily signing up to be in that 10% 😅
Perhaps that's both a feature and a bug of humanity
I think he had as much impact as anyone in his position could possibly have, if not way above average for a whistleblower.
The problem is that the public quickly turned on him, in no small part due to the PR strategy of those who DO have the power to change this. And most of the public shrugged and said what are we gonna do?
His contribution was proof that suspected domestic spying under the guise of homeland security was being widely misused. Which is a violation of YOUR constitutional rights. Of course anyone paying attention suspected it before, but he brought receipts. Many people think he should be in jail or worse because of this.
Unless he's lying, and I don't think he has been shown to lie, he did attempt to use proper channels. The media has historically been called the 4th branch of government for a reason - and ultimately that's where he turned.
The man effectively lost much of his freedom and the people he did it for were unable to take it any further.
Facebook probably isn't the one to do it. But paid social media, if it worked like social media from 1999, would probably be worth a few bucks a month.
Glad they seem to be owning this and transparent about their plans to fix it. Mullvad seems to be outstanding and I'm not aware of any cases where they have been caught storing logs or revealing useful information for any subpoena.
Agentic really moved the needle on this. I mean, if your LLM is suffering from a limit, why not let another LLM watch it. While that's going on, why not let yet another orchestrating LLM watch all the LLMs and tell them what to do. It starts to get confusing fast so better use yaLLM (yet another LLM) to watch the whole circus.
We're deep into a "move fast and break things cycle" which absolutely means a lot of testing is happening in prod because ev
I get it... If the competition has features you don't have you'll lose business now. Telling your customers to submit a ticket so the team can quickly fix it or ignore you is kinda the normal now.
What are you gonna do, vibe code your own solution?
The American dream says all men are created equal.
But this idea is not the human default. Most countries in the world, in fact most societies that have ever existed, have kept wide gaps between the poor and the wealthy. Those countries function in large part because not all men are equal: some are told they exist to serve others. A few have wealth because they are standing on the backs of the less fortunate majority. A lot of people have assumed there's no other way.
But the American dream is just an experiment. Can we hold it? Can we continue to educate ourselves and vote in such a way, as a whole, that allows us to keep a very very strong middle class, shun any king, and truly allow equal opportunity for all?
My friends, my hope is at a low point.
Couldn't have happened to a shittier company, ebay
In other news, the Steiner's have made more off their ebay account than pretty much every other seller I reckon.
Fun fact: The timer app doesn't even need to run in the background. When you started it, it recorded the start time. Now it's showing you now - then.
You could turn off your phone for 10 years, let the battery die, come back, reset the clock, and the timer will still be running!
Even SynthID, Openai's latest watermarking technique can be somewhat reliably bypassed with a comfyui workflow that is just designed to repaint the picture.
In short, detection and watermarking are not currently winning. The quality bypassed human capabilities sometime early last year at least.
The concept that all humans are created equal took a while to sort out. Then, moving the goalpost, what exactly defines a human is still in debate
The homeless have problems, but I'm not sure they represent the highest and greatest need for humanity to focus on.
If we could function like ants... Sacrifice 10% to save the 90%, that would be a net gain for the species. But nobody is voluntarily signing up to be in that 10% 😅
Perhaps that's both a feature and a bug of humanity
I think he had as much impact as anyone in his position could possibly have, if not way above average for a whistleblower.
The problem is that the public quickly turned on him, in no small part due to the PR strategy of those who DO have the power to change this. And most of the public shrugged and said what are we gonna do?
His contribution was proof that suspected domestic spying under the guise of homeland security was being widely misused. Which is a violation of YOUR constitutional rights. Of course anyone paying attention suspected it before, but he brought receipts. Many people think he should be in jail or worse because of this.
Unless he's lying, and I don't think he has been shown to lie, he did attempt to use proper channels. The media has historically been called the 4th branch of government for a reason - and ultimately that's where he turned.
The man effectively lost much of his freedom and the people he did it for were unable to take it any further.
I think there are recommendations for the HPV vaccine being extended to men in certain groups now as well. Seems like a highly successful prevention
The unchallenged winner of capitalism. Wow. Now let's restart the game.
This is um... Very CCP-like
Maybe. Sometimes different rules apply to government (public) property vs private.
Still just a couple bucks if newsgroups float your boat!
Facebook probably isn't the one to do it. But paid social media, if it worked like social media from 1999, would probably be worth a few bucks a month.
Yeah, what the heck. Is there anyone at the wheel up there?
Glad they seem to be owning this and transparent about their plans to fix it. Mullvad seems to be outstanding and I'm not aware of any cases where they have been caught storing logs or revealing useful information for any subpoena.
Unadulterated crabs-in-a bucket thinking
Agentic really moved the needle on this. I mean, if your LLM is suffering from a limit, why not let another LLM watch it. While that's going on, why not let yet another orchestrating LLM watch all the LLMs and tell them what to do. It starts to get confusing fast so better use yaLLM (yet another LLM) to watch the whole circus.
We're deep into a "move fast and break things cycle" which absolutely means a lot of testing is happening in prod because ev
I get it... If the competition has features you don't have you'll lose business now. Telling your customers to submit a ticket so the team can quickly fix it or ignore you is kinda the normal now.
What are you gonna do, vibe code your own solution?
Somehow that guy can make a call and raise a billion dollars or 10.