For those who don’t want to read the whole thing, this is the hilariously bad argument Twitter is making:
X is trying to argue that the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) violated the site’s terms of service and illegally accessed non-public data to conduct its reporting, allegedly posing a security risk for X. The boycott, X alleged, cost the company tens of millions of dollars by spooking advertisers, while X contends that the CCDH’s reporting is misleading and ads are rarely served on extremist content.
That’s what they want. They want the country to be run as if the Bible is accurate and that is also what they want the children to be taught. It’s Iran-level shit.
It was based on a famous TV show from the 1960s where the guy who actually killed Kimball’s wife was known as “The One-Armed Man,” so it seems like this particular movie is a strange one to object to on that front.
The survey found that just one in four voters (24%) think the country is moving in the right direction – a key question in the run-up to a national election – and more than twice as many voters said that Biden’s policies had personally hurt them than those who said they had helped....
Since this isn’t Ten Forward and we’re trying to have more legitimate discussions here, I think it’s necessary to paste this part of the article:
Let’s be clear: this research doesn’t suggest you should ask AI to talk as if aboard the Starship Enterprise to get it to work.
Rather, it shows that myriad factors influence how well an AI decides to perform a task.
“One thing is for sure: the model is not a Trekkie,” Catherine Flick at Staffordshire University, UK, told New Scientist.
“It doesn’t ‘understand’ anything better or worse when preloaded with the prompt, it just accesses a different set of weights and probabilities for acceptability of the outputs than it does with the other prompts,” she said.
It’s possible, for instance, that the model was trained on a dataset that has more instances of Star Trek being linked to the right answer, Battle told New Scientist.
Funny, I’m kind of the opposite. I say encouraging things to machines when they don’t work and I have what is obviously fake empathy for them. I’m the same way in games. I always pick the nice option in RPGs. I don’t like to be an asshole to NPC characters in games because it makes me feel bad. It’s so weird.
A Texas-based writer for a conservative media outlet surrendered to authorities Friday on charges that he joined a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol more than three years ago....
Even when confronted with the truth, millions have the anger and fear permanently imprinted on their minds. That’s why Putin’s psyops war fare is so incredibly effective, particularly against the poorly educated.
A Texas judge on Friday temporarily blocked state Attorney General Ken Paxton from forcing an LGBTQ+ advocacy group to hand over information about transgender children receiving gender-affirming medical care....
Not at all. There is a very long history in the U.S. of anti-union propaganda and union busting. And the people who came of age in the 1970s and 1980s had actual psychologists working on them to persuade them that unions were a bad thing.
The 1970s and 1980s were an altogether more hostile political and economic climate for organized labor.[26] Meanwhile, a new multi-billion dollar union buster industry, using industrial psychologists, lawyers, and strike management experts, proved skilled at sidestepping requirements of both the National Labor Relations Act and Landrum-Griffin in the war against labor unions.[40] In the 1970s the number of consultants, and the scope and sophistication of their activities, increased substantially. As the numbers of consultants increased, the numbers of unions suffering NLRB setbacks also increased. Labor’s percentage of election wins slipped from 57 percent to 46 percent. The number of union decertification elections tripled, with a 73 percent loss rate for unions.[37] The political environment has included the National Labor Relations Board and the U.S. Department of Labor failing to enforce the law against companies that repeatedly violate labor law.[41]
Labor relations consulting firms began providing seminars on union avoidance strategies in the 1970s.[42] Agencies moved from subverting unions to screening out union sympathizers during hiring, indoctrinating workforces, and propagandizing against unions.[43]
By the mid-1980s, Congress had investigated, but failed to regulate, abuses by labor relations consulting firms. Meanwhile, while some anti-union employers continued to rely upon the tactics of persuasion and manipulation, other besieged firms launched blatantly aggressive anti-union campaigns. At the dawn of the 21st Century, methods of union busting have recalled similar tactics from the dawn of the 20th Century.[44] The political environment has included the National Labor Relations Board and the U.S. Department of Labor failing to enforce the labor law against companies that repeatedly violate it.[41][45]
I apologize for being too seriously ill to do anything about the primaries. And also for not being a member of the Democratic Party. What did you do for Dean Phillips? I already asked you and you won’t say. Should I guess that you did essentially nothing?
I am not moving the goalposts at all. First of all, this is the very first comment I made in this thread:
I keep telling people- the queer genocide that has already begun with Republican restrictions on trans rights and medical care is going to ramp way up and encompass queer people as a whole. Including my daughter.
And yet I keep being told I’m excusing genocide by voting for Biden in order to stop Trump from killing her.
Secondly, you blatantly asked me if I’d vote for any Democrat other than Biden:
Or are you saying that you wouldn’t vote for any Democratic candidate except Biden?
The answer is yes, if they can beat Trump. I have no idea why you think answering your question is moving the goalposts. That seems like just as silly a lie as when you accused me of supporting genocide- the very thing I said people keep telling me I’m doing by voting for Biden to save my daughter’s life in my very first post. Surprise, surprise.
Judge mocks X for “vapid” argument in Musk’s hate speech lawsuit (arstechnica.com)
Voters Doubt Biden’s Leadership and Favor Trump, Times/Siena Poll Finds (www.nytimes.com)
Unreliable poll, perhaps shouldn’t be trusted. See op-ed here lemmy.world/post/12773276
1 in 5 new car sales globally were EVs in 2023, and that's curbed oil demand – IEA (electrek.co)
What Alabama’s IVF ruling reveals about the ascendant Christian nationalist movement (www.theguardian.com)
Supporters of the idea that the US should be a Christian country have a foothold in politics – and are growing bolder...
3 trains involved in collision, derailment in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley: NTSB (abcnews.go.com)
The milk has gone bad (lemmy.world)
I know it's a long time from now, but in case anyone needs Christmas ideas for a hated child in your life... (lemmy.world)
Joe Biden’s disapproval rating reaches new high, according to new poll (www.theguardian.com)
The survey found that just one in four voters (24%) think the country is moving in the right direction – a key question in the run-up to a national election – and more than twice as many voters said that Biden’s policies had personally hurt them than those who said they had helped....
Brazil’s finance minister proposes global tax on the super-rich at G20 meeting in Sao Paulo (apnews.com)
Something Strange Happens When You Ask AI to Act Like Star Trek (www.sciencealert.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/12621746...
That's what THEY want you to think. (lemmy.world)
Writer for conservative media outlet surrenders to face Capitol riot charges (apnews.com)
A Texas-based writer for a conservative media outlet surrendered to authorities Friday on charges that he joined a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol more than three years ago....
Fake Ukrainian Assassination Attempt on Tucker Carlson Hits Millions on X via Russian Disinfo Laundering Scheme (www.polygraph.info)
Even when confronted with the truth, millions have the anger and fear permanently imprinted on their minds. That’s why Putin’s psyops war fare is so incredibly effective, particularly against the poorly educated.
Judge blocks Texas from collecting info on transgender children receiving gender-affirming care (apnews.com)
A Texas judge on Friday temporarily blocked state Attorney General Ken Paxton from forcing an LGBTQ+ advocacy group to hand over information about transgender children receiving gender-affirming medical care....
Unionized Google workers learned their jobs were over while testifying to Austin City Council about why they need higher pay (fortune.com)
On review, maybe the resurrection wasn't worth it. (lemmy.world)
Conservatives Plan to Ban Abortion and Cut LGBT Rights Starting Next January (newrepublic.com)
Project 2025’s 180-Day Playbook is a remarkably detailed guide to turning the United States into a fascist’s paradise.
Worst UI Any% Speedrun (lemm.ee)