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Captainant

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  1. We were locked into this track the moment we failed to prosecute the fascist insurrection attempt. History is a pretty clear guide on that, despite how upset it makes most people to hear
  2. https://gizmodo.com/the-white-house-is-going-to-put-government-statistics-on-the-blockchain-yeah-we-dont-know-why-either-2000648428 “The Department of Commerce is going to start issuing its statistics on the blockchain because you are the crypto president, and we are going to put out GDP on the blockchain so people can use the blockchain for data distribution,” Lutnick said. “And then we’re going to make that available to the entire government so all of you can do it. We’re just ironing out all the details so we can do it.” Lutnick then quickly moved on to another topic, but it was an odd thing to suggest. Why blockchain? Apparently, because Lutnick associates it with crypto. But it’s hard to imagine what problem putting statistics on the blockchain will solve. The idea behind blockchain is that it’s a decentralized ledger. And it’s a neat idea, but it doesn’t actually solve very many problems beyond maintaining the existence of cryptocurrency like Bitcoin. A normal spreadsheet or database typically works just fine for distributing information of the kind Lutnick wants to put out. Trump infamously had a dispute with some of the government’s top officials who produce government statistics, firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Erika McEntarfer, earlier this month. Trump falsely claimed that McEntarfer had produced “rigged” data that had been “manipulated for political purposes” when numbers were revised to show less job growth than had been previously reported.
  3. It's becoming easier and easier to switch to desktop Linux. It's crazy how fast an OS can be when it's just operating your system, and not collecting user data and displaying ads constantly That's what's so maddening to me - it's an incredible tool for sifting through petabyte and exabyte scale datasets, but they're all chasing the dumb buzzwords. AGI is bullshit being sold to fools, and being used to generate enthusiasm to fuel market growth. But yeah man, just look at revenue numbers. Companies that use LLMs as the core of their product, like Cursor or CharacterAI, spend more to generate revenue than they actually pull in money. The companies that provide LLMs to those downstream companies, like OpenAI and Anthropic, make less than they spend on delivering services. It's all paper tigers and hype cycles. And it's going to poison the drinking well for future investment is what is an extremely powerful information processing mechanism. But holy shit apparently the only way to sell it is to lie and say AGI this and AGI that
  4. So funny thing... https://www.newsweek.com/greenland-trump-denmark-us-infiltration-2119938 The Danish foreign minister has summoned the top U.S. diplomat in Copenhagen to explain a media report alleging that American nationals linked to President Donald Trump are attempting to infiltrate Greenland and run covert influencing operations there ... DR had reported that at least three Americans with close connections to Trump were involved in the influencing operations, citing eight anonymous sources in both Denmark and the U.S., including government officials. DR said it could not ascertain if the three men were working on their own initiative or given an official order, adding that they were being closely monitored by Danish authorities. Trump told reporters in March that America will "go as far as we have to go" to gain control of Greenland. He also called U.S. ownership of the territory "an absolute necessity." ... President Donald Trump, asked on March 29 if he would authorize the use of military force to take control of Greenland, told NBC News: "I don't take anything off the table." One of DR's sources, who declined to be identified, said: "What we are seeing is the use of soft power, influence and attempts to create internal discord."
  5. that lawsuit is horrifying.... They have the text receipts that his last conversation with chatGPT was it telling him how to raid his parents liquor before guiding him through how to set up his noose. This will be a case study in engineering ethics
  6. To that point... it's math that's sufficiently advanced and so to a certain class of person, completely indistinguishable from magic.
  7. That hospital they bombed and killed a bunch of doctors and journalists with multiple air strikes? https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-gaza-war-08-26-2025-0f1be1b4e3231e0cbec54ce837cc6af9 They just HAD to blow up a hamas-controlled camera! DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military said Tuesday that its double strike on a Gaza hospital that killed 20 people targeted what it believed was a Hamas surveillance camera. But the first strike killed a cameraman from the Reuters news agency doing a live television shot, according to witnesses and health officials. The military released its initial findings into the strike, offering no immediate explanation for striking twice and no evidence for an assertion that six of the dead were militants, including two who were identified by their employers as a health care worker at the hospital and an emergency services driver. The dead also included five journalists. The military said the back-to-back strikes on southern Gaza’s largest hospital were ordered because soldiers believed militants were using the camera to observe Israeli forces. But its account appeared to contradict the sequence of events in Monday’s attack on Nasser Hospital.
  8. Well, it's not a debate if it's legal or not - it isn't. You're excusing his dictatorial actions and insisting that anyone who takes issue with them is deranged with a mental condition. So yeah, you're gonna keep getting that bucket of cold water that "maybe we shouldn't let a pedophile unilaterally declare what is and isn't legal"
  9. hat tip to c-man for linking this in another thread, as for why everything has been turning into a gray-beige box. It's not wokeness, and """trolling""" over it is just another smoke screen to distract from the president's child rape. Say, didn't Babayaga give a WHOLE LOTTA shits about pedos a while ago?
  10. this is especially funny from someone who has literally linked to neonazi propaganda as a serious source in a discussion on Surly
  11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistocracy
  12. Masked feds snatching first graders from elemetary schools, do we feel great yet?
  13. > post about Lisa Cook being illegally fired by the president > chickensandwich repeats the political attack on Lisa Cook > political attack is refuted with datapoints, and a counter-example to demonstrate his bad-faith argument > posters are incredulous and declare "trump derangement syndrome" and "see are!" when rhetoric is met with reality Never change, you beautiful bastards. I know you couldn't if you tried
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  15. literally to feed it into an LLM, I would imagine. Considering he's spent tens of billions of dollars on hardware to do just that sort of thing
  16. btw, our own attorney general did this with three houses. Glass houses and all that https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/ken-angela-paxton-mortgage-primary-residence-homestead-exemption/
  17. man if we don't have a good showing against the buckeyes this weekend it's gonna be apocalyptic
  18. Both times I've bought my house I make sure to print out a physical hard copy of my wiring instructions, verify the hard copy with my bank and escrow over the phone, and kept it in a folder to make sure I didn't make that fuckup. My downpayment was only a quarter of theirs but JFC what a nightmare
  19. Those were all actions backed by acts of Congress and signed into law by the president - not unilateral dictations of action from the unitary executive.
  20. Wild how much the free markets are into the State becoming a major player I have been assured on this board that moves like this would engender the opposite reaction
  21. DC is a special case in that it has no governor and is not a state - their license plates say "taxation without representation" for goodness sake! A president can request a governor release their state NG resources to the feds, but they still technically answer to their governor first - not president. The thing is, the person charged with enforcing the law is the person who's breaking it left right and center. When you put a clown in charge of law enforcement as the chief of the executive branch..... It's no surprise it's circuses only and vanishingly little bread even
  22. It's very literally an infringement of the 2A in that if the president can force a state's militia to act against the wishes of that state - then it is not their militia.
  23. Speaking of wish casting, that weird nationalist jobs report you were spiking the football about is a bit of a red herring https://jedkolko.substack.com/p/no-native-born-employment-has-not
  24. That's a terribly narrow way to interpet music and art in general. It isn't just the mere mechanism of production that makes art so impactful to people - it's the dialogue and conversation back and forth in a medium that isn't always explicit in its intent. I mean yeah sometimes in rap, it's pretty clear what their message is. Kendrick out front shoulda told ya. But with that example, what made Kendrick's music so interesting was its context and delivery and collaboration with other artists. Hell, even just as a musician, you can take the same notes and rhythm on the page and produce a wildly different communicated emotion. Music and art is far more than just an idea, it's the execution and context its delivered that brings so much more meaning. When the thing you're in conversation with is just a set of seven hundred billion parameters in a very very very very large parametric equation...... That's sort of missing the partner in the discussion that imbues art with its metaphysical meaning and value. Not to mention, LLM's definitionally produce an "average" of all the information they've been trained on. They definitionally cannot take in and internalize new information like a conversational partner can. It's very literally talking at a wall and you will never convince it of anything, until you spend another ten million bucks on a new training run for your large language model to give it a new set of ~700,000,000,000 parameters. That's just my opinion at least, both as a life long musician and as a professional technical specialist in machine learning and large language models in particular (and a few other discliplines as well, dm me if you want to nerd out).
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