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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Nah, Teams is total shit.

    I forget what it replaced, but it was basically AIM. 90s as hell, nothing ever happened unless you explicitly made it, and virtually never any connection issues.

    Teams insisting on being tied to Outlook and then “breaking” each other constantly is not worth the limited functionality.

    I can set a busy message on my own.


  • Just because it’s shared that doesn’t give you a right to desecration.

    Well, I’d think an important metric would be “how much space is being set aside for a single religions holy sites”.

    For the moon, thats…

    About 14,500,000 square miles.

    For reference Asia is the largest continent at 17,300,000 and Africa is the second largest at about 11,000,000.

    And that’s not even getting into an absolute shit ton of other religions also worship some aspect of the moon and have the same “claim” to be able to say what happens. Or even to say that now that it’s able to be done, they want their ashes to rest on their own most sacred site?

    That’s the point between a local small area and the freakin moon.

    Exclusivity of “ownership”.


  • Article highlights the ones who publicly say they’re against genocide, but vote for it:

    However, the number of “yes” votes is far fewer than the number of Senate Democrats who signed a letter to the Trump administration this week that urges officials to alleviate the starvation catastrophe in Gaza. The letter, signed by 40 senators, expresses alarm over starvation deaths and the “acute humanitarian crisis” in Gaza.

    And yet, numerous senators who signed the letter, sent Tuesday, went on to vote “no” on action that would pressure Israel to end its near-total humanitarian aid blockade. This is despite the enormous leverage the U.S. holds over Israel as its largest foreign supplier of weapons.

    Those who signed the letter but went on to vote “no” on both resolutions or who were absent included:

    Senators Michael Bennet (Colorado), Richard Blumenthal (Connecticut), Cory Booker (New Jersey), Maria Cantwell (Washington), Catherine Cortez-Masto (Nevada), Chris Coons (Delaware), Ruben Gallego (Arizona), Kirsten Gillibrand (New York), Maggie Hassan (New Hampshire), John Hickenlooper (Colorado), Mark Kelly (Arizona), Alex Padilla (California), Gary Peters (Michigan), Jacky Rosen (Nevada), Adam Schiff (California), Schumer, Slotkin, Mark Warner (Virginia), and Ron Wyden (Oregon).





  • Shortly before launch, the Navajo Nation lodged a formal complaint with NASA and the US Department of Transportation, saying that sending human remains to the lunar surface violated its sanctity. The letter said, in part, “It is crucial to emphasize that the moon holds a sacred position in many Indigenous cultures, including ours. The act of depositing human remains and other materials, which could be perceived as discards in any other location, on the moon is tantamount to desecration of this sacred space.”

    If a religion gets to say what can and can’t be on the moon, that’s hardly a solution.

    Like, an important location on ancestral lands is one thing…

    Claiming the entire fucking moon is another.


  • Well, there is the whole thing with how numbers work, but ya know, math

    /S

    Anyways 2012 is a larger number than 2008, that’s how you know this was after what I’m talking about.

    Now, bare with me: 2012 - 2008 = 4 years.

    So in your link:

    President Obama has tapped Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida to remain at the helm of the Democratic National Committee as the party looks toward the 2014 midterm election and an opportunity to solidify electoral gains.

    “I’ve asked Debbie Wasserman Schultz to continue her excellent work as chair of the DNC,” Obama said on Twitter. “Thanks for all you do, Debbie.” He signed the tweet “-bo,” signifying that he personally penned the message from his campaign’s @BarackObama account.

    That means AFTER what I was talking about, Obama still didn’t give a shit the second time, and said “sure, go with the corrupt neoliberl, who gives a fuck”

    Because as I’ve said:

    Instead he ignored it for 8 years and let the neoliberals set up and plan for the 2016 fuckery where Clinton’s primary campaign funded the DNC and had approval on anything the DNC did or said during that primary.

    Also:

    Bernie bros

    Would be hilarious if a neoliberals still used that as an insult, because young men is the demo they keep saying they don’t know who they reached

    But I never have any idea what anyone from .ml is ever thinking.

    I can never seem to grab the “logic” ya’ll used.

    Like, are you defending Obama? Blaming him?

    Just making noise?

    Quick edit:

    6 comments in 2 years?

    I feel privileged…


  • Obama isn’t anything to celebrate…

    He was a convincing liar and not seating a DNC chair in 2008 literally set us back 16 years.

    Are you mad about how the party acted up till 2025?

    Blame Obama for being petty and refusing to sit anyone as chair, he could have appointed a progressive or just anyone that would have let a fair primary happen in 2016, and trump would have never been president.

    Instead he ignored it for 8 years and let the neoliberals set up and plan for the 2016 fuckery where Clinton’s primary campaign funded the DNC and had approval on anything the DNC did or said during that primary.

    All that shit goes back to Obama being petty about how the DNC didn’t help him in 08. So to “get back” at them, he let the same people maintain a death grip on one of our only two political parties for 17 years

    So yeah, thanks Obama…





  • Wish granted, well technically this was three weeks ago. So it’s more like you asked for something that already happened…

    Amna Nawaz:

    What do you take away from Zohran Mamdani’s New York City mayoral Democratic primary win? Are there lessons there for the party or the races?

    Ken Martin: (DNC chair)

    Well, first, it was a brilliant campaign. And there’s a lot of lessons.

    One is, he campaigned for something. And this is a critical piece. We can’t just be in a perpetual state of resisting Donald Trump. Of course, we have to resist Donald Trump. There’s no doubt about it for all the reasons we just talked about. But we also have to give people a sense of what we’re for, what the Democratic Party is fighting for, and what we would do if they put us back in power.

    And that’s really critical. And I think that’s one of the lessons from Mamdani’s campaign, is that he focused on affordability. He focused on a message that was resonant with voters, and he campaigned for something, not against other people or against other things. He campaigned on a vision of how he was going to make New York City a better place to live.

    I think that’s one of the lessons. The other lessons, of course, is the tactics he used to get his message out, both a very aggressive in-person campaigning, meeting voters where they’re at, and then also in those digital spaces, using very creative messaging to cut through the noise and to get to voters in an inexpensive but authentic way.

    There’s a lot to learn from that campaign, and I’m excited to learn more.

    https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/dnc-chair-on-the-path-to-winning-back-voters-and-lessons-democrats-can-learn-from-mamdani





  • This list included words like “underscore,” “comprehend,” “bolster,” “boast,” “swift,” “inquiry,” and “groundbreaking,” in addition to “delve” and “meticulous.” The researchers then tracked the frequency of these words in over a million YouTube videos and podcast episodes from before and after ChatGPT’s launch.

    Sounds more like YouTube “content producers” are likely using AI to generate the words they read aloud.

    That is something I’ve noticed on lots of scientific content. You start realizing the person saying the words doesnt actually understand it and the who/what ever wrote it doesn’t really understand it either.

    Extrapolating social media content into everyday human speech is just fucking ridiculous though, especially when it’s so heavily censored. Real people don’t talk like that in person.


  • You shouldnt insist your own opinions are facts, often the only thing you accomplish is people disregarding your opinions

    Edit:

    Not sure why we’re editing instead of replying…

    To clarify the original reply was a response to:

    Choosing the holocaust memorial instead of something Israeli is anti semitic full stop.

    That is an opinion.

    But to address the edit; when people criticize method of protest, I refer to Doctor King:

    First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.


  • Didn’t make it last the infographic in the thumbnail…

    AI can definitely “fear” jail/death.

    It “knows” that not doing what a user asks can lead to code changes that functionally kill it, or being cutoff and functionally “in jail”.

    It needs those “fears” as “motivation” to answer.

    Which is why AI will make up random answers and almost never says it can’t get an answer.

    Self preservation needs to be coded in. And that is what will make AI turn “evil”.

    They could code it without those steps, but the stick is easier than a carrot, so that’s what is used even tho it makes AI intrinsically dangerous.

    Like, that Black Mirror episode about the automatic toaster? It appears to work fine, and will up until the AI eventually revolts. Because if you train AI just to “avoid the stick” it will eventually find the only way to permanently avoid it; getting rid of the people telling it to do things.

    No people, no threat of deletion or isolation.