If you’ve nothing to hide, you’ve nothing to fear, and other similar sentiments:

Actually, when they’re observing your behavior, anything you do is suspicious. Not suspicious of a specific crime, but suspicious generally, and they will use this to invoke probable cause and search you or investigate you.

And they will find crimes. Stupid, petty infractions that shouldn’t be crimes, but they’ll find them. Or if they don’t like your social media opinions, they’ll make some up.

And they will rob you of any liquid assets (or sufficiently liquefiable assets, or anything else on you they want. And they’ll justify it as asset forfeiture. And it will be very difficult to get it back.

So, every citizen has a terrible lot to fear just by being observed by law enforcement. And mass surveillance, such as ALPRs, keeps you in their view.

Of course, Open AI isn’t going to cite references for all the sources it spudered through to assemble the proof, and likely will be borrowing on a lot of work already done by mathematicians.

So, breaking the rules maintained by all institutions of academic research.

Incidently, LLMs can’t logic. We’ve discovered this when they screw up simple logic problems. They have to depend on human explanations of logical processes, usually when someone else reported on the solution to the logic puzzle.

If you can’t follow the logic of the steps of the proof, it’s not a proof.

Granted, you may not be skilled in logic, but some of us, mathematicians, specifically, are.

If no mathematician can follow the logic, it’s not a proof.

Infamously:

Breastfeeding videos? Out. Classic art with boobs? Out.

ISIS beheading videos? Actual animal mutilation videos? IN!

Or, old. I was saved because I chose a small Friendster clone to make my profile and then MySpace became popular and I was too lazy to build it anew. Also Facebook profiles are closed to non-members.

Also Facebook insists on real names and I was raised in the belief an online handle and a meatspace identity are kept separate, and never the twain shall meet.

It means I also dodged the social network game craze. I never clicked a cow or farmed a ville.

However, so many of my peers have Facebook accounts, and may have had to share their Facebook passwords with bosses who didn’t trust them.

Fascist ideology is specifically about dehumanizing others. Its premise is that some humans are persons while others are not.

Its actual premise is that no humans are persons but property is, specifically huge amounts of capital.

But they don’t say it that way, lest their alt-right warboys realize how expendable they are.

I’ve always been a total wierdo, but even at sixteen, when I was a desperate, frustrated incel, if a girl (in this case, a peer) had to get sloshed to be into me, it’d freak me out.

Pretty much through my entire romantic career, meeting at a bar instead of a café was a red flag. Sex always seemed like a sober activity. Or more exactly, sex supplies its own drugs. Morover, once someone was not coherent enough to do crosswords, it was clear they weren’t clear headed enough to consent to fluid exchange.

Granted, there are two factors that inform this attitude: One is my parents were sloppy drunks and went to sloppy-drunk parties. And I never wanted to be like that. The other is I made my way into the kink community in my twenties, and mixing drugs or booze with kink was geberallt generally known to be dangerous like mixing drugs and booze with motor vehicles or guns. (At least in my corner of the kink community. Also breath-control was a no-no and kids seem to be choking each other all over the place, nowadays.)

But then, I’ve never been a frat dude, or even the kind of guy who’d ever be sponsored to join a Greek house.

Trump is doing to the US what every abusive spouse does to their partner, isolate them entirely so they have no friends, no recourse.

Soon Trump and his billionaire cronies will have plundered the US treasury, its credit and will leave it a wasteland in shambles with not a soul outside willing to help us.

And then those same plutocrats will do the same thing to the rest of the developed world.

I’m pretty good at not buying from Safeway when they have an item I want on app-coupon sale.

But since tje new Trump order I’ve gone completely anti-consumerist, only getting stuff I immediately need.

I’ve been wondering this very question since the release of Muse. LLMs can’t keep information hazard secrets. How can we expect them to keep private information from personal accounts separate?

I assumed they released a product the way Tesla released Autopilot, seeing liability suits as a cost of doing business.

'6ft but as tall as eternity’ and a ‘Mustang full of testosterone’

We routinely get tales of NDEs and the ones that reflect (modern interpretations of) Christian Heaven get a lot of sponsorship, so this is not a novel news story.

But the above hagiographic and Hegsethian description drives the hypothesis that only imagination and personal bias inform NDE experiences.

According to the order, the judges found Aarons to be in direct contempt of court, referred him to the Disciplinary Board for further consideration, and barred from appearing before the court pending the outcome of the board’s investigation. They also threw him off the case in question and assigned a public defender to his former client.

If they don’t feel the consequences themselves, lawyers will just continue to use LLMs to do their research.

This is another example why we need LLMs to be required to cite sources.

One tactic on social media is to delete as much as you can, change all your profile data so it’s bogus, and retroactively revise as much of your comment history so that it’s meaningless, such as NSA haikus.

That way the account may not be closed, but it’s toxic. It will poison algorithm analyis, your consumer profile and AI scraping.

The Escapist refused to let me close my account in the early 2010s. So I did this.

Another trick is to change your state to California, which has a click to cancel law.

The FTC made C2C a requirement nationwide for the US but Trump undid that in 2025.

If you think Lemmy is bad, check out 4chan/b and /pol. We’ve had a few active shooters forecast there first, but it’s ignored in a sea of statements of intent and calls to violence.

An awful lot of people have suicidal or homicidal thoughts cross their mind. Doubly so in an era in which entire demographics have no plausible hope for their future. I, for one, want to see the lifetime appointments of Federalist Society jurists become a liability. Especially, Justice Kavanaugh.

So this incident raises a question of what specific clause of text convinced a human agent to escalate the matter to escalate to authorities who are very fond of using deadly force. Or if this is just a matter of a corporate CYA response.

It’s defending US interests from hostile foreign parties, specifically, liberating natural resources from the people who live above them.

Also the US defends its interests when a state’s government wants to regulate US factories, there, say by requiring them to pay workers a minimum wage, make the work environment safe, don’t pay women and children less, allow them a weekend and so on.

So I saw a few relevant newspieces:

~ Companies are now ceasing their mandate to workers to use AI to do things that used to be done without AI. They’re now saying don’t use AI just to use AI. They’re trying to reduce their token purchases.

~ The estimation now for AI use cases is to reconsider if tokens cost ten times their current price. If the use case is still worth it, then that use case will likely survive the bubble. If it’s not worth it, it’s time to hire back employees.

~ The hyperscale AI industry will have to make $6 trillion annually to break even. Amazon makes $2 trillion by selling people material stuff. Walmart is similar. There may not be a market for $6 trillion in tokens every year, even from government projects. Also, it’s a bad sign if government projects are propping up the whole stock market.

~ China is mostly turning to a software AI model which does home and small business AI tasks fairly well without buying compute from a hyperscaler. You get a gaming machine, get open source AI software and a dozen terabytes of training data, and you should be able to create slop, vibe code or fix the grammar and style of your report. Also, hyperscale models are opinionated and don’t like certain topics. Home-grown AI doesn’t have those objections.

No yotta-? How do you describe the number of joulles it takes to blow up a planet?

In the current typhoon of men behaving badly in the US and the ongoing response and safety movements often advocating romantic abstinence, sometimes the observation is made that not every woman — even those pledged to the movement — is on the same page.

And then there’s the abstinence-until-marriage doctrine of white Christian nationalists, in which young women pledge to preserve their virginity until their one-and-only trad-minded husband puts a ring on it. (Young men might take a similar pledge, but they’re not held to it and in fact are pressured to get some early experience. Double standards and inconsistent value systems and all that.) Yet, a conspicuous fraction of these (sometimes underage) young women overestimate their willpower, frequently contributing to the disproportionate rate of teen pregnancy in school districts that have committed to abstinence-only sex-ed.

Then there’s the women’s magazine I remember reading during the COVID-19 lockdown, that asked readers to write in their stories when they needed the d so badly they risked infection by a stranger to get it. There were a lot of confessional replies.

And all this is to say, sometimes a girl has needs.

I think I’m going to pretend it’s a Girl From Ipanema reference.