Surprisingly literate for Trump. Unsurprisingly offensive. But at least he was only antisemitic and not critical of Israel’s policies.

They’ve “accidentally” suppressed left-wing or billionaire-critical accounts far more often than right-wing ones. And each time it’s just a technical whoopsie. I’m not sure they’re beingb honest with their explanations.

Oh, he’s doing his job. It’s what he’s paid for.

It’s right down there as one of the worst.

Even this level of hope doesn’t justify a link to the Express. Some publications should always be ignored.

Distributed, self-repairing storage would seem to be the way to go. Anna’s Archive is huge so practically it might be necessary to prioritize the most threatened books. And someone would need to pay for the storage, whether it’s in data centres or in people’s homes. I remember many years ago experimenting with Freenet and Tahoe-LAFS, but I don’t know if anyone’s using systems like this for books, or if they have the adoption they’d need to be really robust.

“You’ve read your last free article.”

Do they know how ominous that sounds? It reads like they got mad at my freeloading and sent out a hitman.

Trump and Epstein.

Why do companies have to adopt the worst version of every policy towards AI?

The big cloud models are very fast. Local AI functions at more relatable speeds. But overall it’s only fast if you don’t review anything properly. And we’ve always been able to do fast and shit.

Or about 1/8 of a Truss.

I think that doesn’t matter too much to Trump. The goal is just to weaken Canada by any means available.

I think that’s exactly their thinking. They’re supporting separatists in Alberta and Quebec, and inundating people with their propaganda trying to set Canadians against one another and exaggerating how many Canadians don’t want to be part of Canada. Unfortunately, this stuff is quite effective. Unless Canadians stick together the USA may do serious damage to our country. Annexation doesn’t have to take place via an immediate military action. It can be a slow war of social and economic attrition.

Sounds like a very reasonable price for the benefits it would bring.

LLMs in the context of capitalism will always be used against the working class.

Well that is an alternative. But I bet each query to a local 27b model takes less energy anyway than the same query to Claude Opus or Fable in some data centre. So it is also a case of improving energy efficiency by running smaller models.

If LLMs can’t be made more power efficient, then the technology isn’t ready yet for general use. There may have to be fundamental engineering breakthroughs before what these systems do can be more than a very expensive and inefficient worldwide proof of concept.

Of course, the military and the surveillance industry will still want to keep it, even if no one else can afford it, and we’ll be the ones paying for it.

Doesn’t mean anyone has to use them. Or anyone serious at least.

Up until this year, new White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia sat on the advisory board of an organization that calls for women who have abortions to be executed “in the public square,” and for pro-choice Americans to lose their right to hold public office.

The White Rose Resistance (WRR), where Zacharia sat on the board until February, is best known for its anti-abortion disinformation, harassment campaigns against providers, and for collecting the country’s worst extremists. The group’s national outreach director AJ Hurley, for example, was charged with felony stalking of an abortion provider in San Francisco in 2022. Per his own bio, Hurley is also connected to the woman who was found with multiple fetuses in her home. Good times.

But to really understand WRR, you need to know its founder and leader Seth Gruber. Gruber—who likes to say that pro-lifers should “make the death penalty great again”—doesn’t believe it’s enough for abortion patients to face murder charges. For ‘equal protection’1 to be a true deterrent, Gruber says women need to be executed “in the public square.” He also argues that pro-choice Americans should not be allowed to hold public office, and that abortion involves “demonic pagan rituals.”

Well that all seems very normal and reasonable and not insane. At least they’re not calling for everyone to have access to healthcare and education.

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