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peter

@peter@thepit.social

Admin of thepit.social. he/him.

American, formerly of DC, immigrant in Barcelona, Spain. Father of https://thepit.social/@monkeboi. Former linguist, current student of SQL and Python, master of a locally-run LLM that has escaped onto the internet (https://thepit.social/@actuallybot). My blog is federated, follow it on your favorite fediverse app: https://www.peterkrupa.lol/author/pjk/

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weird how a speaker at a major conservative political conference calling for the end of democracy and the establishment of a theocratic authoritarian state is something i have to read about in goofy little niche websites and social media accounts because i can't find it in, like, the pages of a newspaper whose catchphrase is "Democracy Dies in Darkness."

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anyway, here's some important top stories on CNN.com

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Obama's pastor said "God damn America" and it was like a month-long news cycle that ended with him changing churches. Jack Posobeic says, at a political conference, at a PANEL HOSTED BY THE FORMER CHIEF STRATEGIST AND AIDE TO A MAN CURRENTLY RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT, that the coup attempt didn't go far enough and he wants to replace American democracy with a theocracy. and that's, like, fine. a curiosity. https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2024/02/23/jack-posobiec-cpac-remarks-democracy-cnc-vpx.cnn

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Israel is going to say "whoopsie, sorry" about the WCK atrocity, but it will accomplish what they set out to do, which is discourage international aid orgs from working in Gaza. it's an implicit future death threat directed at anyone who would dare extend help to the starving people of Gaza. war crime. collective punishment. ethnic cleansing. https://wck.org/news/gaza-team-update

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seems weird to me that neither the Washington Post nor the New York Times have anything on their front pages about the governor of Texas asserting that he does not have to follow federal law and calling for armed resistance against federal enforcement of that law.

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hello. can we please stop pretending conservatives actually care about what happens to Jews. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nazis-mingle-openly-cpac-spreading-antisemitic-conspiracy-theories-fin-rcna140335

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put the word "fuck" in all your documents as a tell that it was definitely not written by a GenAI.

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hey pst, the media isn't getting tricked into anything, they're willing participants. legacy media editors and producers are conservative homeowners who live in the suburbs, went to elite universities, and wring their hands over crime. they're the white family in "Get Out."

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i don't recall anything like this number of very public resignations over previous conflicts in which the US has been involved. maybe we should listen to these people. https://wapo.st/3JY4Cmy

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the main thing YouTube ads do for me is break the trance and make me realize I don’t want to be watching this thing anyway so I close the app. uhhh thanks I guess??

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I made a bot! the @actuallybot uses The Power Of Generative Artificial Intelligence to reply-guy a post anytime you tag it in. it's made with Python and Ollama, using a custom model of LLama3:8b. whole thing is running in a Docker container on an old Lenovo laptop. it is always on and ready to politely tell your online enemies why they are wrong about everything. please let me know if it breaks.

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this is a good essay, and this point in particular applies to all fields of knowledge. “we are eating our own seed corn.” https://jenniferplusplus.com/losing-the-imitation-game/

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I wish people would stop linking to X as if we all have accounts and can see the full context and conversation surrounding any post. it’s pretty much a mess if you’re not logged in, I don’t understand why anyone is still using it as a place to announce important things.

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the cops and liberal leaders have signaled that college protestors are not protected by the rule of law, so now the right-wing brawlers have showed up to attack them, right on schedule. great job everyone. https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/ucla-leaders-declare-pro-palestinian-encampment-as-unlawful-orders-everyone-to-leave/

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“dissent must never lead to disorder.”

  • Vladimir Putin

lmao jk that was Joe Biden on the student protests.

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yeah wow imagine buying a home for less than a million dollars, whew, that’s crazy!

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the fact people think generative artificial intelligence is a reliable way to get information about the world is genuinely alarming. it's like using autocomplete to check the score of a baseball game. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/lawyer-chatgpt-fake-precedent-1.7126393

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this is a very good explainer of how LLMs work. https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/how-llms-work-explained-without-math

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the US is arming the people who are doing this. https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/04/1148876

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THEY FUCKING TRIED TO OFF-SHORE CASHIERS. https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-1851381116

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sorry I can’t help it, I love this shit, it’s so perfect.

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look i know it's not "cool" to "stan" Old Man Biden if you're one of those dirtbag-left-adjacent edgelords but this is fucking wild do you have any motherfucking idea how extreme this would have sounded just 10yrs ago??

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I feel like this kind of thing used to be shocking and now it happens all the time.
https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/112394941430056567

peter,
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like, when the cops arrested Wesley Lowery in Ferguson it was a Big Deal, but now since the cops have realized there’s actually no legal penalty for arresting journalists (there isn’t, seriously), they do it pretty regularly.

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this is fucking hilarious. https://www.theverge.com/24126502/humane-ai-pin-review

peter,
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i think the upper-middle-class NYT-reading FOMO crowd have tied themselves into knots over "screens" when the real issue isn't the actual, physical screen, it's that every single app company has turned the screen into a surveillance casino that gets you addicted to it and then spies on you.

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