violence as a means to an end, pragmatically, has enormous costs,

The people I’m talking about (the worst ones) don’t even have an “end.” No plan at all. The violence is the end. It’s pure stupidity. I see it as the lust for violence, coming up with some politics to justify itself.

I honestly think self-righteousness pushes people away. It’s why I can barely stand bluesky. During the big exodus from reddit, all these so-called far-lefties (who I think were just reddit goons doing infiltration) were all screaming for everybody to defederate. Even now, I keep arguing against idiots posting “kill a cop” or “kill fascists” memes, like this is literally an “advocate violence” platform. I don’t expect to pull big numbers with that kind of shit.

Social media is kinda washed up. A lot of people are on substack, too. The internet as a place is just less popular, I think. We’re all getting sick of it.

In theory the fediverse is not a monolith. We actually want for this to not work.

So what privacy will I have to give up?

Actually I’m in Canada so I’m probably safe anyway.

I mean… I don’t watch porn so this doesn’t affect my anyway…

I hope it still appears in theaters first. I don’t want a small-screen-first Bond film.

libraries letting people borrow books

This is so far from analogous that it’s almost a nonsequitur.

are you just a luddite?

No, and you don’t even believe such nonsense. You’re grasping, ineffectively.

I see they have a SFW requirement. And while my site is currently SFW, I won’t guarantee that it will remain so.

Still, it’s at least making me consider cutting out all the zurb-foundation stuff, since that’s the only JS I have, and the site is simple enough that it doesn’t really need it.

I love this.

I thought I was being “bare-bones” when I remade my website with PHP & XML (no framework or database). What would they think about a python app that delivers plaintext or html? Is that still kosher for the no-js gang? Or does it have to be static files?

used to train both commercial

commercial training is, in this case, stealing people’s work for commercial gain

and open source language models

so, uh, let us train open-source models on open-source text. There’s so much of it that there’s no need to steal.

?

I’m not sure why you added a question mark at the end of your statement.

How exactly does this benefit “us” ?

I’ve never heard of webP. Looked it up. Not impressed. Sticking with png.

I didn’t realize it had gone anywhere. It’s always my first choice.

adding missing information

From where?

I will 100% watch it and review it for you. Mel Brooks can have my money.

What’s next for Mel Brooks? Death!

Sorry sir, this is Brian Wilson’s deathday. (RIP to both)

Is there a way for us to complain to wikipedia about this? I contribute money every year, and I will 100% stop if they’re stomping more LLM-slop down my throat.

Edit: You can contribute to the discussion in the link, and you can email them at addresses found here: https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/contact/

If we need summaries, let’s let a human being write the summaries. We are already experts at writing. We love doing it.

I want to read his “Meaning of the City” because I just like City theory, but I keep postponing in case it’s just Christian morality lessons. The anarchist Christian angle makes this sound more interesting.