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Begging for your tolerance was our first mistake.
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The mistakes actually were charging it to start with, so the original mistakes were hers. But then the AG didn't drop it so shares the mistakes.
November 28, 2025 at 1:54 AM
The mistakes actually were charging it to start with, so the original mistakes were hers. But then the AG didn't drop it so shares the mistakes.
That case was never going to succeed, it wasn't a good case. The failure there wasn't how they did it, the failure was trying to do it at all.
November 28, 2025 at 1:52 AM
That case was never going to succeed, it wasn't a good case. The failure there wasn't how they did it, the failure was trying to do it at all.
"cars are indistinguishable from tractor trailers because they both occupy three dimensions in space"
November 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
"cars are indistinguishable from tractor trailers because they both occupy three dimensions in space"
What you have described is literally how all computers work, which means saying that LLM are the same as machine learning because they all use that process is nonsense.
Fucking Excel uses that process.
Fucking Excel uses that process.
November 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
What you have described is literally how all computers work, which means saying that LLM are the same as machine learning because they all use that process is nonsense.
Fucking Excel uses that process.
Fucking Excel uses that process.
As is audio.
So that's not even a GOOD vaguely generalized description of how computers function.
So that's not even a GOOD vaguely generalized description of how computers function.
November 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
As is audio.
So that's not even a GOOD vaguely generalized description of how computers function.
So that's not even a GOOD vaguely generalized description of how computers function.
That is not even slightly how a training process works, and it is in fact basically a description of literally anything a computer does.
... Well, except for the fact that computers don't actually turn text into stream of numbers or stream of numbers back into text, text is a stream of numbers.
... Well, except for the fact that computers don't actually turn text into stream of numbers or stream of numbers back into text, text is a stream of numbers.
November 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
That is not even slightly how a training process works, and it is in fact basically a description of literally anything a computer does.
... Well, except for the fact that computers don't actually turn text into stream of numbers or stream of numbers back into text, text is a stream of numbers.
... Well, except for the fact that computers don't actually turn text into stream of numbers or stream of numbers back into text, text is a stream of numbers.
I have a huge list in my head of things that machine learning could actually improve, like GPS navigation that actually takes all the data we've collected over the decades about driving paths, and figures out how people actually drive and what roads they want to use.
But no, we use AI for slop.
But no, we use AI for slop.
November 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I have a huge list in my head of things that machine learning could actually improve, like GPS navigation that actually takes all the data we've collected over the decades about driving paths, and figures out how people actually drive and what roads they want to use.
But no, we use AI for slop.
But no, we use AI for slop.
Whereas obviously landlords don't willingly pay slightly below the listed price to if someone comes in with a property for them, to get the property for a month, and then rent it out for a month at slightly above the listed price.
That's just not how the industry works.
That's just not how the industry works.
November 27, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Whereas obviously landlords don't willingly pay slightly below the listed price to if someone comes in with a property for them, to get the property for a month, and then rent it out for a month at slightly above the listed price.
That's just not how the industry works.
That's just not how the industry works.
Also, perhaps just as importantly, these price guides tend to generally work in both directions, the retailers will buy a little under the price and sell at, or buy at and sell a little above... It's pretty clear the listed price is 'correct' from their POV, not inflated.
November 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Also, perhaps just as importantly, these price guides tend to generally work in both directions, the retailers will buy a little under the price and sell at, or buy at and sell a little above... It's pretty clear the listed price is 'correct' from their POV, not inflated.
Also, a resellers market is not really the same thing as rental property. Resellers are middlemen.
If resellers were selling things at too high a price, people would just buy directly from the original seller and remove the middleman. The problem sort of fixes itself.
If resellers were selling things at too high a price, people would just buy directly from the original seller and remove the middleman. The problem sort of fixes itself.
November 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Also, a resellers market is not really the same thing as rental property. Resellers are middlemen.
If resellers were selling things at too high a price, people would just buy directly from the original seller and remove the middleman. The problem sort of fixes itself.
If resellers were selling things at too high a price, people would just buy directly from the original seller and remove the middleman. The problem sort of fixes itself.
On top of the other stuff that people pointed out about private information, landlords are incredibly consolidated to the point that if just a small number of them are doing this, it's functionally a monopoly.
Which isn't true of how a list of going rates work.
Which isn't true of how a list of going rates work.
November 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
On top of the other stuff that people pointed out about private information, landlords are incredibly consolidated to the point that if just a small number of them are doing this, it's functionally a monopoly.
Which isn't true of how a list of going rates work.
Which isn't true of how a list of going rates work.
Sorry, this is just annoying as fuck to me, how the media is acting like this is a giant scandal, while the giant scandal is actually how the media acted over the last decade and a half with regard towards Trump and not only hasn't reckoned with that but hasn't even stopped doing it!
November 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Sorry, this is just annoying as fuck to me, how the media is acting like this is a giant scandal, while the giant scandal is actually how the media acted over the last decade and a half with regard towards Trump and not only hasn't reckoned with that but hasn't even stopped doing it!
Instead, systemically, all of you would get duped into letting them talk about things from absurd political positions, and then you would talk about them talking about those things, making those things into legitimate news.
Over and over again.
Over and over again.
November 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Instead, systemically, all of you would get duped into letting them talk about things from absurd political positions, and then you would talk about them talking about those things, making those things into legitimate news.
Over and over again.
Over and over again.
At some point, the very small amount of legitimate political media that existed in this country should have turned into near wall to wall coverage of how other media outlets were trying to normalize Trump
Like literally, that should have been all they talked about, how insane this situation was.
Like literally, that should have been all they talked about, how insane this situation was.
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
At some point, the very small amount of legitimate political media that existed in this country should have turned into near wall to wall coverage of how other media outlets were trying to normalize Trump
Like literally, that should have been all they talked about, how insane this situation was.
Like literally, that should have been all they talked about, how insane this situation was.
(Sorry, by Olivia above, I mean Messar, not the other Olivia in this entire thing, that was confusing.)
November 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
(Sorry, by Olivia above, I mean Messar, not the other Olivia in this entire thing, that was confusing.)
Like I said, it's All Cops Are Bastards. I don't have anywhere near as pithy a phrase for this, but:
All political journalists are fine with a system that the wealthy used to promote fascism within the US, and are easily led to talk about what those pro-fascist people want to talk about.
All political journalists are fine with a system that the wealthy used to promote fascism within the US, and are easily led to talk about what those pro-fascist people want to talk about.
November 27, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Like I said, it's All Cops Are Bastards. I don't have anywhere near as pithy a phrase for this, but:
All political journalists are fine with a system that the wealthy used to promote fascism within the US, and are easily led to talk about what those pro-fascist people want to talk about.
All political journalists are fine with a system that the wealthy used to promote fascism within the US, and are easily led to talk about what those pro-fascist people want to talk about.
Or, even worse, act like it's meaningful to vaguely be not happy about fascism while working for the companies, or with people who work for companies, that actively work to mislead the American people into being fine with fascism.
November 27, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Or, even worse, act like it's meaningful to vaguely be not happy about fascism while working for the companies, or with people who work for companies, that actively work to mislead the American people into being fine with fascism.
I'm not really talking about Olivia here. Rolling Stones really is one of the few publications that actually does things, and Slate is...eh, whatever.
The problem is the entire community is very interconnected, and work with each other, and act like it's normal to work for pro-fascist companies.
The problem is the entire community is very interconnected, and work with each other, and act like it's normal to work for pro-fascist companies.
November 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I'm not really talking about Olivia here. Rolling Stones really is one of the few publications that actually does things, and Slate is...eh, whatever.
The problem is the entire community is very interconnected, and work with each other, and act like it's normal to work for pro-fascist companies.
The problem is the entire community is very interconnected, and work with each other, and act like it's normal to work for pro-fascist companies.
Stop. Pretending. Your. Bosses. Are. Not. Explicitly. Extremely. Pro. Fascism.
November 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Stop. Pretending. Your. Bosses. Are. Not. Explicitly. Extremely. Pro. Fascism.
Literally the only ethical thing 99% of political journalists can do is resign fucking immediately from almost every single media entity, and then burn the thing to the ground with a tell-all as best you can from somewhere else.
You fuckers won't even get off Twitter!
You fuckers won't even get off Twitter!
November 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Literally the only ethical thing 99% of political journalists can do is resign fucking immediately from almost every single media entity, and then burn the thing to the ground with a tell-all as best you can from somewhere else.
You fuckers won't even get off Twitter!
You fuckers won't even get off Twitter!
That doesn't fucking matter. You can't work for these people, these people very deliberately and obviously who have brought us to fascism, and then pretend that you are some neutral entity cuz the stuff you are doing is 'neutral' or even trying to oppose fascism
You are in the fascist making system
You are in the fascist making system
November 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
That doesn't fucking matter. You can't work for these people, these people very deliberately and obviously who have brought us to fascism, and then pretend that you are some neutral entity cuz the stuff you are doing is 'neutral' or even trying to oppose fascism
You are in the fascist making system
You are in the fascist making system
This reminds me of the whole headline thing, I'm too lazy to search my bluesky right now, but how you guys get misleading headlines by the people who pay you, misleading in ways that lead to fascism
And you attempt to justify that cause you didn't write the headline.
And you attempt to justify that cause you didn't write the headline.
November 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
This reminds me of the whole headline thing, I'm too lazy to search my bluesky right now, but how you guys get misleading headlines by the people who pay you, misleading in ways that lead to fascism
And you attempt to justify that cause you didn't write the headline.
And you attempt to justify that cause you didn't write the headline.
It's sort of like how all cops are bastards, basically all political journalists, at least the ones within the system, are enablers of fascism.
Even if they aren't doing the thing, they're helping the system do the thing.
Even if they aren't doing the thing, they're helping the system do the thing.
November 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
It's sort of like how all cops are bastards, basically all political journalists, at least the ones within the system, are enablers of fascism.
Even if they aren't doing the thing, they're helping the system do the thing.
Even if they aren't doing the thing, they're helping the system do the thing.
Yeah, that was what was playing in the back of my mind the entire time I was reading that piece.
Just a straight up: 'this is the most rational and well laid out argument for never having children I have ever heard, it's literally an airtight case, no one should ever have children'
Just a straight up: 'this is the most rational and well laid out argument for never having children I have ever heard, it's literally an airtight case, no one should ever have children'
November 26, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Yeah, that was what was playing in the back of my mind the entire time I was reading that piece.
Just a straight up: 'this is the most rational and well laid out argument for never having children I have ever heard, it's literally an airtight case, no one should ever have children'
Just a straight up: 'this is the most rational and well laid out argument for never having children I have ever heard, it's literally an airtight case, no one should ever have children'