Nah bro the AI is totally trustworthy. Just trust me bro all the rich people are saying its reliable the US president is even saying it’s the greatest thing ever bro what you don’t trust the government now? You said ‘trust the experts’ bro i’m trusting the experts and they say eat the bromide trust me bromide!

meanwhile you still haven’t given a single example of something you are doing to prevent fascism in your own country. i don’t need your useless, negative energy. peace, loser.

You know that fascism is rising in Canada too, right? So if you want to go fight it, you could step out your front door and start today.

Unless you reside in Russia. Not fully convinced you aren’t a Russian troll.

What are you doing to fight fascism in your country?

More assumptions about me and mine. The history is not so simple. My grandparents stormed beaches because that was what the president told them to do, and because the country itself was literally under attack by an outside enemy. It wasn’t a noble personal sacrifice in the same way - soldiers risked their lives and went through hell, but they also did so with a guarantee that they would get something in return if we won the war. I’m not going to get paid to protest, and I will be demonized by my employer and the federal government. And I don’t know my great grandparents’ exact views on racial politics, but I would estimate most of those same soldiers took no issue with the whites-only bathrooms they used on a daily basis before and after the war. Why didn’t they do anything about that? Was that “brave” of them to turn the other cheek to all the problems the country was facing at that time?

I’m pretending to be brave or courageous. I try to be disruptive in my job and compassionate to my neighbors, and that in itself is already difficult and risky. It’s very easy to tell people to do more when you have no similar obligation to act.

What makes you think that that is the only way to protest? And what makes you think we aren’t already doing that to our maximum ability? You are making a lot of assumptions about Americans (assuming you are Canadian from your choice of server). We all have careers to maintain, families and friends to support, homes to clean, debts to repay, meals to cook, laundry to fold, mental illnesses to manage, etc etc. We can’t just drop all that to go follow around ICE cars 24/7 and rotate in and out of jail, life doesn’t work like that. I’m not going to sit here and pretend i am doing the most that I can do, but there’s a reason I haven’t been maximally-engaged. Fighting fascism is exhausting, but so is daily life. There’s a reason more concerned people don’t go to protests - the billionaires have deliberately destroyed our social safety nets to make daily life so exhausting that protesting is a high hurdle to climb.

the fat fuck

plz try to criticize our fascist leaders without body-shaming. it’s not a good look on you.

nobody did a fucking thing, so this is a bridge too far now or what ?

I mean, nobody in this community was happy about the Trumpcoin or any of the other previous self-promotion attempts, either. What were we supposed to do?

nothing to see here, just a sitting US president launching new companies and using the power of the office to promote his new companies.

I got in! This site is awesome, it’s a bit older than a lot of PTs, which means more uploads of hard-to-find stuff. Seems like they have more uploads with 0 seeds, though, so maybe there is a tradeoff there.

If you want to build ratio, someone on reddit pointed out that you can get a lot of mileage out of downloading one of the large freeleech “movie packs” with lots of snatches.

To run a chain with stores across the country and millions in merchandise, you must have gotten used to the taste of boot leather. What’s another little lick?

Love your prose

I think the how is the most interesting part here.

The solution Wikipedians came up with is to allow the speedy deletion of clearly AI-generated articles that broadly meet two conditions. The first is if the article includes “communication intended for the user.” This refers to language in the article that is clearly an LLM responding to a user prompt, like "Here is your Wikipedia article on…,” “Up to my last training update …,” and "as a large language model.” This is a clear tell that the article was generated by an LLM, and a method we’ve previously used to identify AI-generated social media posts and scientific papers.

The other condition that would make an AI-generated article eligible for speedy deletion is if its citations are clearly wrong, another type of error LLMs are prone to. This can include both the inclusion of external links for books, articles, or scientific papers that don’t exist and don’t resolve, or links that lead to completely unrelated content. Wikipedia’s new policy gives the example of “a paper on a beetle species being cited for a computer science article.”

I feel like we just straight up cannot trust corporate apps with our data. Time to go back to signal groups like the rest of us, ig.

Half-assed Google search suggests he’s worth somewhere between 20 and 70 million.

Sounds believeable, but I will point out that a google search alone is not a reliable source, so we still truly do not know and we shouldn’t be making statements like this without reliable sources. Page one of a google search is just all the publications that paid google the most money to be on page one. IME, most of those are trash-tier AI-gen articles.

You’re absolutely right, there are consequences for people other than the cheating couple, and that is something to consider. It just sucks that you can’t even go to a concert anymore without thinking deeply about how you might be observed.

That he is a billionaire and doing something deeply unethical is what makes the story go viral all over social media.

Is there a reliable source that he is a billionaire? I haven’t seen that in any reporting. “Billionaire” is a four letter word around these parts, I would be careful about throwing the label around without solid evidence.

Perhaps the problems this exposes are not just our grim and omnipresent surveillance apparatus, but the attached system of gig-economy content creators all racing to the lowest common denominator for scraps of engagement and ad revenue

This I think is the real story. This isn’t necessarily about our surveillance state, but more that we are constantly observed by the world and it is a specific type of hell that we cannot escape. The fact that this makes adultery more difficult is a bittersweet benefit, I guess, but there are no guardrails on this sort of thing. If this was in any other context besides a cheating CEO this would all be supremely fucked up, and that’s why I think this is an article worth talking about.

It is worth briefly considering the dystopia of this situation and its aftermath. It is not clear exactly how the Astronomer CEO was initially identified, but we have seen numerous cases where TikTok commenters and creators use Pimeyes and other readily available, often free facial recognition and social media research tools to identify a person. The Astronomer CEO’s name, his wife’s name, the head of HR’s name, and the third company executive’s name and social media profiles are all over the TikTok comments and Reddit comments. His latest LinkedIn post was full of comments about the incident, left before he disabled comments and ultimately deleted the post. Commenters have pointed out that his wife has removed his last name from several of her social media profiles.

Today Polymarket opened two new Byron-related bets. The first asks the question: “Andy Byron out as Astronomer CEO by next Friday?” As of this writing, the site is giving him a 40 percent chance of leaving. Polymarket doesn’t care if he resigns or gets fired, the bet pays out to its “yes” voters so long as he leaves.

The crueler bet, and the one with more activity, is the “Astronomer Divorce Parlay.” A parlay is a series or combination of bets, and this Polymarket listing requires both Byron and Cabot to get divorced. An announcement will satisfy the bet, it doesn’t have to be an official filing. But it can come from Byron and Cabot themselves or their spouses. The image attached to the bet is a screenshot from the moment the Jumbotron filmed the couple embracing.

Brands are using Byron and Cabot’s face to build hype. The NEON film studio posted a picture of the couple on X to promote its upcoming horror movie Together. Chipotle commented on the story with a picture of its billboard that reads “It’s OK to Cheat.” Most chilling, the NYC Department of Sanitation used the viral moment to remind everyone that it has cameras everywhere.

But one does not have to have sympathy or empathy for a CEO to see how this sort of thing could and often does go off the rails. This example is emblematic of the problem specifically because it’s easy to laugh at these people and because they’re doing something distasteful, but not illegal. The same technologies used to dox and research this CEO are routinely deployed against the partners of random people who have had messy breakups, attractive security guards, people who look “suspicious” and are caught on Ring cameras by people on Nextdoor, people who dance funny in public, and so on. There has been endless debate about the ethics of doxing cops and ICE agents and Nazis, and there are many times where it makes sense to research people doing harm on behalf of the state or who are doing violent, scary things in to innocent people. It is another to deploy these technologies against random people you saw on an airplane or who had a messy breakup with an influencer. And of course, these same technologies are regularly deployed by police and the feds against undocumented immigrants, regular people, and people wanting to visit the United States on tourist visas.

key excerpt:

Most 3D printers work by heating up a filament—often, but not always, plastic—and extruding it through a metal nozzle. The nozzle puts down hundreds, or even thousands, of layers of the heated plastic to form a solid object. Each individual level of the print is called the print line. “So on the firearm, I’m seeing from the trigger guard—maybe print line 200—and the top of the magazine well—print line 400—the marks are staying consistent,” Garrison said.

It was an exciting discovery but it also wouldn’t be admissible as evidence in a criminal trial. Despite the promise that we may one day be able to match a printer to the object that made it, Garrison stressed that the work was in its very early days and that it would take years, perhaps even a decade, of science to work out the truth of toolmarks and 3D printers.

The saga continues. Fame always came with the curse of knowing there were weirdos out there that fantasize about committing sexual violence against you. This new reality is just…something else, man. Pervs cooking the ocean to see counterfeit nudes of famous actors, when there are 10s of thousands of models on the internet that will show you their tits consensually. What is wrong with people.

finally, the line went up enough! they have achieved the golden number! Now they will chill and stop hoarding all that money! Or stop laying off thousands of people a month! . . . Right?

well, who@feddit.org already covered it, but i added an archive link to the body.