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Get a dog to stop peeing on the rug.
Good luck.
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The European Parliament has voted for #Trans women to be recognised as women 🥳
Meanwhile in terf UK ....
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I like how Mamdani just…does things.
Democratic lawmakers and executives need to stop wringing their hands and trying to get bipartisan consensus and whatnot and actually DO THINGS that benefit people. Do a thousand little things that add up to a lifetime of benefits for a lot of people. Do the opposite of Death by a Thousand Cuts: Life and prosperity by a thousand good choices.
HAVE AGENCY. There are SO MANY low hanging fruit that lawmakers and executives can address even as they wrestle with the truly hard problems. Address what you can. Build the muscle.
“Mayor Mamdani Announces City Will Restart Construction of Four Halted Bus and Bike Lane Projects in the Bronx and Brooklyn”
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FDR had to deal with oatmeal Dems too. Supporters and he, formed and endorsed and primaried for - "New Deal Dems" to support FDR's New Deal.
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#NYC will not only have rent assistance, we will have a universal basic income.
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No, “shariah law” is not taking over and anti-shariah bills are grounded in stupidity, not the Constitution. Watch as I dismantle the ignorant bigotry and Islamophobic hate from Georgia State Senator Greg Dolezol in just about 2 minutes.
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Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.Qasim Rashid (YouTube)
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Well, let’s take a step back for a moment and ask what would be more extreme, the current administration‘s idea of government or any legal standard set by sharia?
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Very High: IA, IL, ME, MN, OH, SD, WV, WY
High: AL, IN, MI, NE, OK
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Very Low: AZ, CA, DC, FL, GU, HI, OR, VA, WA
No Data: ND, VI
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Math trivia: the "B." in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stands for Benoit B. Mandelbrot
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@vikxin The bit about the circumflex is easily explained. His family was Lithuanian, and he was born in Poland. They were not originally French. While Lithuanian and Polish orthography have numerous diacritics, the circumflex is not among them. It would be unlikely to be used in anyone's name, even if it was of foreign origin. This happens with French names used as English given names, too: Éric > Eric, François > Francis, Théodore > Theodore, Frédéric > Frederic, etc.
I bought a carton of Campbell's chicken broth.
The first ingredient listed was "chicken broth", then additives like sugar snd salt.
Presumably that chicken broth in the list is also recursive.
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after 666 levels deep the innermost B stands for Bottom
Math trivia: the "B." in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stands for Benoit B. Mandelbrot
Math trivia: the "B." in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stands for Benoit B. Mandelbrot
@perhaps391 Math trivia: the "B." in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stands for Benoit B. Mandelbrot mastodon.social/@perhaps391/11…
Math trivia: the "B." in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stands for Benoit B. MandelbrotMath trivia: the "B." in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stands for Benoit B. Mandelbrot
My favourite math joke
I take issue with it never laying down on the job.
What's the worst?.. handle MandelBrat-wurst?..
@catsalad [adds to my infinite set at the hilbert hotel]
@cstross This is a common misconception. The “B.” here is really the set of all expansions for which Benoit B. Mandelbrot converges (e.g., when “B.” stands for “Gaston M. Julia”).
There is a book in the Library of Babel that confirms this! 🙂👍
@simonzerafa there's another book in there with a very elegant counter proof that was too long to put into the margins of the first vook
No, it stands for Benoit B. Mandlebrot if you look closely.
Bonus trivia: "Banach-Tarski Banach-Tarski" is an anagram of "Banach-Tarski"
it would be funnier if the B stood for Benoit B, not Benoit
benoit b mandelbenoit b mandelbrotrot
Benoit Benoit Benoit Benoit Benoit Benoit Benoit Benoit Benoit Benoit Benoit Benoit Benoit Benoit Benoit ...........
-- stack overflow.
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The FDA decided not to even review Moderna's mRNA flu vaccines for approval, even though the studies the FDA would be reviewing were conducted the way the FDA told Moderna to do them.
Now #Moderna expects that none of its other #mRNA #vaccines will be reviewed, and has halted studies on vaccines for EBV, HSV, and shingles.
A lot of people with herpes would be angry if they found out.
A lot of people who have family members with #MS -- now thought to be caused in part by EBV -- will be livid.
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So frustratingly corrupt that they halt studies rather than going to court or abroad.
this makes me furious! My autoimmune troubles were all triggered by reactivated EBV. If there were a vaccine, my whole life would have been different. If we could save others from the same fate, I would do anything to help them.
The only reason would be that competing companies have bought their way into favor with the DJT administration, and Moderna is on the outside looking in.
@EndicottAuthor Sadly, that's a more hopeful interpretation than mine: the administration is pursuing an anti-vaccine agenda, and is doing what it can to make EVERY vaccine manufacturer pack up and leave. Moderna is just the first.
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@EndicottAuthor Yup. With a side of shakedown as a distraction.
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You're always in a better position to negotiate if you are willing to walk away. So Trump teamed up with people who do not care for the systems they are put in charge of -- their goal is to walk away. Now it's just a matter of how much Trump can extract from everyone else while they do that
You're always in a better position to negotiate if you are willing to walk away. So Trump teamed up with people who do not care for the systems they are put in charge of -- their goal is to walk away. Now it's just a matter of how much Trump can extract from everyone else while they do that
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@EndicottAuthor NOpe. They are anti-vaccine.
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No, there is a bit more to it. Moderna was the first to announce the possibility of using mRNA to build the vaccine, they announced it either just after Chump lost in 2020 or just after Chump left the white house in 2021. And then they had the audacity to lose to Pfizer to market launch, so to Chump it is very personal, which means to RFKjr it is personal.
Is there any reason they couldn't apply for approval in Europe or Canada or some other place that hasn't lost his mind?
A vaccine manufacturer would normally apply for approval in many jurisdictions.
But for some back-of-the-envelope calculations: new vaccines are generally introduced to more affluent countries first, especially for diseases that aren't immediately fatal. The market for vaccines against EBV, HSV, and VZV would be in this category.
EU: 450M people
Canada: 40M
US: 350M
Without US, the market is AT LEAST 40% smaller. Is it still worth it do to the studies?
@Mikal This!
Like so many other science or tech stuff going on in usa... Let's profit of it's stupidity to expand European knowledge/market!
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They 100% could apply for approval in Europe or Canada but they won't because without access to the US market their isn't enough profit for them... and companies like Moderna don't care about people, they only care about profit.
Europe, Canada, et al need to force the issue by changing patent law (at least for medical patents but honestly it would be best to cover all patents) to include a 'use it or lose it' clause. If companies don't pursue approval Government's should have the right to step in and use the companies patents to develop the drugs themselves.
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We would do even better if these companies were cooperatives driven by community benefit instead of publicly traded corporations driven by profit. Profit (as opposed to wages) is intrinsically extractive -- the antithesis of healthcare or anything else related to customer well-being.
We would do even better if these companies were cooperatives driven by community benefit instead of publicly traded corporations driven by profit. Profit (as opposed to wages) is intrinsically extractive -- the antithesis of healthcare or anything else related to customer well-being.
@Mikal generally speaking, vaccines are not profitable. Losing a huge market makes them even less so.
They could still develop vaccines for the other 8 billion people on this planet, couldn’t they? If they wanted to? No?
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I'm not the right person to be explaining the perverse intersection of healthcare and capitalism. The short answer is, most large companies won't do anything that loses money. In fact, in US law they are specifically prohibited from doing things that are expected to lose money.
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@ujay68 If they have shareholders anyway. I think non-profits and closely held (I think that's the term) don't have that restriction. But I don't think that applies to any pharmaceutical company.
@ujay68 So basically it's confirming that people in the USA are paying far too much for their medication. And the Pharmaceutical companies don't care too much, because if the people survive to old age they will make bank on them.
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Yes, but it has to be targeted cooperatives. A coop is not going to be able to afford research into novel uses of mRNA vaccines. Coops cannot afford the protein synthesizers needed to make those novel mRNA vaccines into enough doses.
Now, if we instead taxed corporations / share holders profits the right way, they would be incentivized to spend the money that coops couldn't afford to spend.
EBV is also a common trigger for the lifelong illness known as ME/CFS.
@brianvastag Yep! And I really want any potential vaccine to evaluate the effect on ME/CFS. Is it the pathogen that causes problems, or the immune system's response to the pathogen? Could a poorly-designed vaccine make things worse?
I am as furious at the CEO of Moderna as I am at the brainworm and his boss.
The CEO is taking the rest of the world hostage so they please bribe Trump for him.
"You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market" is a scary phrase.
@AzureArmageddon that really does make me wonder that if the United States ever fixed its medical system to be in line with the rest of the civilized world. Would that take away the actual impetus for medical research that has been improving the lives of people worldwide?
@LoneLocust @AzureArmageddon
In our current economic system, it probably would. (And we are about to find out, because the US is on a terrible trajectory right now and on course to cease being a major player.)
That's why profit shouldn't be the driver for medical research. If these companies were consumer cooperatives, their purpose and focus would be to benefit their customers, not to extract money from their customers' pockets and put it into shareholders' hands. Then it wouldn't matter if the drug was profitable. It would matter if it was affordable and worthwhile to develop, manufacture, and deliver it.
$&@% death cult enagelical Christians and their crazed belief that god micromanages who gets infected
»In August of 2025, following the successful completion of the Phase 3 efficacy trial in which mRNA-1010 met all pre-specified primary endpoints, Moderna held a pre-submission meeting with CBER [Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research]. CBER requested that supportive analyses be included … Moderna provided the additional analyses … At no time in the pre-submission written feedback or meeting did CBER indicate that it would refuse to review the file.«
@stekopf Can confirm. This was a curve ball.
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I live in a first world shithole
I mean... rich people will still get them.
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Only by leaving the USA.
This isn't about whether RNA vaccines get recommended for use in the USA (meaning insurers might have to fund them), it's about whether they get LICENSED for use in the USA.
If there's one thing that can be said about the current US administration is that it's airing out all the dirty laundry of the world.
The fact that a pharmaceutical company puts profit over human lives is an abomination. The fact that one single country can hold the rest of us hostages because they allowed themselves to be scammed rather than have universal healthcare is an abomination.
If they ever get out of this, I hope Americans fix their stuff.
@fruitcakesareyum We won't. We're being held hostage by Texas.
that keeps people in doctor's office and hospitals. Good for the friends of the administration.
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Squandering what is probably the most important medical breakthrough of my lifetime because the most unqualified, narcissistic sociopaths somehow got elected because they were the right sort of bigots.
It's so tragic. It's like reading about the collapse of the Roman or Mongol empires due to easily avoidable systematic issues except we're living it.
It's so tragic. It's like reading about the collapse of the Roman or Mongol empires due to easily avoidable systematic issues except we're living it.
@jcutting Feels to me more like the crisis of the roman republic than the fall of the empire that replaced it.
A junkie that snorts cocaine off toilet seats is behind this
They want to depopulate the US. This is just another policy tool to achieve that goal.
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I wonder if a state or two could step in. Pritzker????
even without MS, EBV is itself such a mess, had it as an adult and I have had my long term health so significantly affected by it
it is such a mess that the USA is handling this badly as a country and that commercial interests are also involved instead of just the good of everyone on the planet :\
We shall need a different model then.
Which might include States (eg those of Europe) not buying vaccines, but developing them and owning the result.
Perhaps some clever Americans might like to come and help.
Eugenics is the plan.
Some of us WITHOUT herpes are pretty mad too. I got vaxxed absolutely as soon as I was able. Watched my father in law suffer greatly for years from this disease.
I'm not sure I'd wish it on RFK junior. It's that bad.
I read a significant body of evidence related to brain decay and herpes, somethin easily escalated within the body, something easily contracted. Good work MAGA for population decline, pain and suffering.
This is where the EU should step in to fund it. Then charge the US premium prices to recoup the investment.
@pa27
The US won't buy if the FDA won't license, regardless of where the product is developed and made
The US won't buy if the FDA won't license, regardless of where the product is developed and made
An opportunity for Moderna's German competitor, BioNTech (which also develops mRNA vaccines), perhaps
@ancientsounds They're probably relocating assets for this. I don't know for sure, I got laid off last October and bounced from the industry.
Siri, what is the opposite of capitalism?
Since Moderna is a multinational company, they should just wind down all operations in the US, and refocus their research in Canada and/or Europe.
And maybe that is what they are quietly doing already.
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Moderna has its new influenza vaccine under review in the EU, Canada, and Australia: nbcnews.com/health/health-news…
But that does not make what Trump and those with him are doing any less deadly.
FDA refuses to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot
Under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Food and Drug Administration has taken an aggressive stance against mRNA technology.Berkeley Lovelace Jr. (NBC News)
Just for clarity. Moderna announced stopping work on the latter vaccines mentioned back in November; while some mRNA work continues. This gives details for their reasoning. They've been doing a lot of cost-cutting.
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Moderna Won’t Run Phase III Vaccine Trials as Skepticism Grows in US: Bloomberg
Growing opposition to vaccines in the U.S., driven by recent government policy changes, makes it difficult to see a return on investment in vaccine development, Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said this week.Tristan Manalac (BioSpace)
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on one hand - f tRump. On the other hand kinda f moderna for giving up because they can't make enough money back to satisy the "numbers". (There's profitable enough at some point - for the average Joe thats been capped at 'breaking even' should that ever happen...)
@Jennifer Hamilton, MD PhD It's been clear that stealth eugenics have been at the heart of the Republican policy since the beginning of the pandemic. Why else would they be so adamant to keep a pseudoscientist with literal brain damage as their head of health policy?
MS-haver here. Beyond furious.
Can Moderna sue the FDA ? If they conducted their studies the way FDA wanted them done, then it's a breach of contract by the FDA, isn't it?
It would be a real shame if people boosted this and embarrassed the Chump regime...
@nikatjef
They wouldn't be embarrassed, it's not an unintended or unwelcome outcome for them.
At this point, if someone leaked a memo that Peter Thiel has been trying all this time to bring about the end times by raising an antichrist to the presidency and instantiating the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse as US government policy, I'd barely raise an eyebrow.
The only surprising thing would be Trump hadn't boasted about it yet.
most likely RFK Jr has a homeopathy treatment that will be FDA approved and he'll make millions while people suffer.
Too crazy for words, pure madness…
Some back-of-the-envelope calculations: new vaccines are generally introduced to more affluent countries first, especially for diseases that aren't immediately fatal. The market for vaccines against EBV, HSV, and VZV would be in this category.
EU: 450M people
Canada: 40M
US: 350M
Australia & NZ: 30M
Without US, the market is about 40% smaller.
this absolutely sucks. But it also shows how we need to (as a world) move beyond the US.
@Taco_lad the point about ROI exposes the first principle for these organisations: massive profits. They should Give the research to another company that is interested in supporting human health first and profit second.
@franksting @Taco_lad yes, that's because these organisations currently operate in a capitalist context. Fixing that should be on the agenda, but you can't blame them for responding to the environment they are in.
Just to point it out: This is shelved WORLDWIDE because if it can't be sold in the US, it won't hit ROI even if sold in the rest of the world.
And THIS is outright wrong!
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“If we prosecute everyone in the Epstein files the whole system will collapse”!
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That sounds as ridiculous as "if we tax the superwealthy like everyone else, they won't "create jobs".
Are we done with these cons yet?
All that will happen when we prosecute everyone in the Epstein files is that there will be room at the top for new people who are not part of a child rape and murder ring, and there will be less government, business, and diplomacy by blackmail.
Drain that swamp!
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if we prosecute everyone in the Epstein files, we will have more women in leadership in politics, science, & academia (these rapists weren't just bankers & politicos)... imagine the worlds that would open up if women felt safe & free to pursue their full potential
all eyes may be on the Ohio State defender & protector of perverts, but i can promise you that many colleges not just that one (inc the one I attended) were happy hunting grounds for male predators
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"if we imprison all the top nazis, the nazi regime will collapse"
..and that's a bad thing?
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Any system that relies on child sex trafficking is a system that *NEEDS* to collapse.
I can’t find anywhere with bondi actually quoted saying that. Is it something she actually said or just how she clearly feels based on her actions?
It won't collapse.
The people at the top aren't the ones who keep world running.
Governments don't collapse when a new leader is elected and companies don't go under when a c-suite is replaced.
It's the regular folks working tirelessly in the background that keep the lights on
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The current system deserves to collapse (at minimum)…
they mean their system
The system should collapse if its existence depends on an elite pedophile class.
Absolutely! The whole system created around protecting rich sex offenders will collapse!
There are some incredibly wealthy people who were not involved with Epstein at all. I read an article about the Mars family, which is the wealthiest family in Wyoming. They're all billionaires and they live up in Jackson. And they asked if Ol' Man Forrest, who died in 2016, sadly, was involved with Epstein. And they said no. Epstein was never even invited to their ranch because Forrest thought he was shady. And many people felt that way.
So they're saying these billionaires are "too big to fail"? They've got some precedent on their side with that one...I mean it's ALWAYS a bullshit excuse to protect billionaires, but they've gotten away with it before...
imagine that the elites who captured the system, the monopoly, collapsed
No, the American system of governance won't collapse if every one in Epstein's network who acted criminally is prosecuted.
It might collapse if they receive no consequences for their conduct. If they do, what will collapse is the mythic aura of power and untouchability they create around themselves.
But if you don't, there is no system worth of keeping from collapsing!
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If the whole system is so very corrupt like them, perhaps collapsing it is not such a bad idea after all.
That’s authoritarianism. (The part about not prosecuting.)
Submission is the non-pointy end of the authoritarian stick.
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could not agree more. 4547 promised to drain the swamp as a subterfuge for not telling electors that he had every intention to be the chief swampmaker and that "all his friends" would conspire to mire government in that swamp. Drain it and jail the billionaires who have corrupted public life in the US.
there's an infinite supply of narcissists. They won't be "running out" anytime soon.
If the system collapses, so be it.
Too big to fail.
I would have boosted your toot, agreeing with your sentiments but for the MAGA/Trumpista slogan "Drain the swamp" at the end.
Revolution, often further concentrates the power in the hands of the few.
In the case of capitalist revolutions, such as the so-called "Shock doctrine" the power concentration creates a class of all powerful and heinously wealthy oligarchs and further punishes the poor.
Which, correct me if I am wrong is where the USofA already is.
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forget drain it ... obliterate it! 💥
🪦 Epstein Elite class
If the system is contingent on there being an abusive pedophile class to hold it up, then that system is bad and deserves to collapse
the system that protects pedophiles and fraudsters on the backs of the poor and innocent needs to be brought down.
The “… system will collapse” excuse implies that those peoples was competent from the start, and spring the state of the world we lived in I have a serious doubt.
There are peoples more qualified out there who wasn’t born rich or with the good connections to be at the top, but they will surely do a better job.
There are peoples more qualified out there who wasn’t born rich or with the good connections to be at the top, but they will surely do a better job.
Sounds like a promise to me
How high are the odds that these people not getting prosecuted will end in them getting shot aka prosecuted by the general public?
Well even if it's true then the whole system needs to collapse.
Anyone claiming that is making the case for a revolution!
#Politics #EpsteinFiles #GlobaliseTheIntifada
Anyone claiming that is making the case for a revolution!
#Politics #EpsteinFiles #GlobaliseTheIntifada
then maybe the system sucks? If it needs a bunch of criminal pedophiles to function it seems to be part of the problem and not part of the solution.
(And I actually doubt that the system will collapse, if people get arrested, noone is irreplaceable)
Please collapse!
I hope so much that *this* system will collapse as quick as possible! But will all of them be persecuted? I remember well the #PanamaPapers scandal ... so many of these peoole still having power, are still working ...
Hi Dan. I saw your toot yesterday and it made me think. And even though I agree with the spirit of it I believe it’s important that we have another type of conversation around this. These people are not just some crazy psychopaths, they are the logical byproduct of this system. Moreover they ARE the system. It’s just the system doing what it does, being what it is. To my point of view, there’s no “making room for better people at the top”. I agree that these people should be prosecuted and put behind bars and also that if this whole sack of sh*t is showing us something is that we need a deeper, structural change. These news are shaking the world. I really hope we get to find the strength as a society to question the status quo and start building a new and more fair world.
drain the swamp
Should be the banner shout from the lips of every patriot. The swamp is this current administration. Bondi works to protect the current President (not the office). Bondi has demonstrated contempt for rule of law and has little interest in her oath of office. This administration works for elite white collar criminals that are shackling the American middle class with authoritarian style policies that siphon their constitutional rights.
Should be the banner shout from the lips of every patriot. The swamp is this current administration. Bondi works to protect the current President (not the office). Bondi has demonstrated contempt for rule of law and has little interest in her oath of office. This administration works for elite white collar criminals that are shackling the American middle class with authoritarian style policies that siphon their constitutional rights.
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I mean, I'm happy for the whole lot to be thrown in a hole and the key to be melted, but it's a bit naive to expect that with the same system and the same incentives similar people won't rise to the top. The system *must* collapse!
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Don't anthropomorphize LLMs, language is important. Say "the bot generated some text" not "the AI replied". Use "this document contains machine-generated text" not "this work is AI-assisted". See how people squirm when you call out their slop this way.
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I mean, it doesn't help that the bots are doing this bullshit: crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrat…
This is clearly intended to trick humans.
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I might have missed a chapter but my interpretation is someone has prompted their llm to generate this text and then posted it no? The way I saw this narrated is like the llm reacted to the prompt "PR closed" by creating a blog post. But to do that, you need an human operator no?
@Kinou @Andres @Gabriele Svelto Nope, not if you give an AI agent complete access to a computer and an unfettered access to Internet.
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➡️ I already don't 🚀 read text ✏️ which looks 👀 like this one.❗
Even describing their errors as hallucinations is the same attempt to humanize it.
“This Document Contains Machine Generated Text” but it’s a pair of knuckle dusters with typewriter caps.
The document is yo binch as
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Even talking about "text", in the context of #LLM, is a subtle anthropomorphization.
Text is a sequence of symbols used by human minds to express information that they want to syncronize a little with other human minds (aka communicate).
Such syncronization is always partial and imperfect, since each mind has different experiences and informations that will integrate the new message, but it's good enough to allow humanity to collaborate and to build culture and science.
A statistically programmed software has no mind, so even when it's optimized to produce output that can fool a human and pass the #Turing test, such output hold no meaning, since no human experience or thought is expressed there.
It's just the partial decompression of a lossy compression of a huge amount of text. And if it wasn't enough to show the lack of any meaning, the decompression process includes random input that is there to provide the illusion of autonomy.
So instead of "the AI replied" I'd suggest "the bot computed this output" and instead of "this work is AI-assisted" I'd suggest "this is statistically computed output".
"This is digital noise your brain perceives as words like a paredolic blob or a shadow cast on a wall. Do not interpret it as anything other than dirt smears on the window of reality that reminds you of information."
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The other day my wife showed me a video of ChatGPT communicating with a male voice. At first, I referred to "him" and immediately corrected that to "it."
couldn’t agree more with this ethic. The psychological impacts of users ie society believing that LLMs are people and fufilling roles that actual humans should, will probably unfold over the years and decades. All because regulators circa 2024/5/6 believed it was over reach to demand LLMs don’t use anthropomorphic language and narrative style. Prompt: “what do you think?” Reply: “there is no “I”. This is a machine generated response, not a conscious self.” - sounds better to me.
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I'm trying to get people to use the neologism "apokrisoid" for an answer-shaped object. The LLM does not and cannot produce actual answers.
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Exactly. But the media (and hence the public) like to use short-forms, whether accurate of not. I do a presentation to folks about AI (The Good, The Bad and The Ugly), after which everybody keeps referring to "AI", not machine language. !!!!!
i try to limit my LLM use because it's fundamentally evil, but whenever i do use it i never treat it like a person. i believe that's how people become addicted to chatbots. it is not an intelligent being with experiences and feelings, it's a cold machine that just uses an algorithm to arrange words from a database in a way said algorithm is tweaked to sound like human writing. our brains struggle to understand that, which is how you end up with people abandoning their real friends for AI bots and even considering them to be romantic partners.
also i've heard people say shit like "i always say thank you whenever i ask the AI for help with something so they'll hopefully spare me when the robot uprising comes", and i can't honestly tell if they're joking or not. if not, maybe we should be fighting against the people who are funding these robots you're so scared of? by the way, i highly doubt any sort of robot uprising will happen anytime soon, chatGPT has a fucking existential crisis if you do something as simple as ask for the non-existent seahorse emoji, it's not smart
"the slop machine churned out"
resisting the temptation to even say "shat"
oooorrrr...... 'the clanker clanked out some text'! 😀
"this document contains clanker-sourced text droppings'! 😋
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this is true, it's really strange seeing non-tech people around me talk abt LLMs as if it was a sentient being, it's kinda unsettling .
Still, we need to make sure there's no lack of responsibility for the operators or users of these programs. With the hole story about the blogpost generated autonomously using an LLM as a response to a FOSS-Maintainers AU-Policy, some people kinda forgot that there is some person responsible for setting it up that way and for letting the program loose.
the worst cases of this, is when people say "chatgpt said..." as if an AI could talk. Or "chatgpt thinks..." as if an AI could think.
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same problem as "the car hit a pedestrian"
I have been trying to use the word “output” when talking about these systems.
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Protip: Elon keeps saying he wants to launch OMG ONE MILLION SATELLITES for AI so that when he decides to launch 10,000 satellites you’ll say “oh, that’s not so bad.”
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the implication is clear: the small mammals of zootopia practice a form of anarchist self-governance. in this essay
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🙏 Please bless us with this essay
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Deepfake AI needs recordings of your voice to access bank accounts, employers, and other acts of fraud.
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2 funny Scottish men trying to get to the 11th floor using a voice recognition elevator :))DISCLAIMER: THIS IS NOT MY VIDEO, I uploaded it because it was del...Steph Biscuit (YouTube)
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Yes! Be standoffish and aloof with them instead. Bully them gently. Leave them on read. Approaching them directly makes them shy.
Ok but but but... can I swear at them? 👉👈
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true ... unless it's for insulting him because it just crashed on you and you need to restart it 😂
I've been talking with computers for 30 years and all I got was this lousy job at an employer that doesn't know how to talk with computers
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@prahou@merveilles.town I unplugged the Alexa and said how dare you speak our holy tongue!!!
Don't talk to bots is the new don't feed the trolls.
"Hey Google, what does 'Don't Talk To Computers' mean?"
these feels very distopian
The weighted companion cube will never threaten to stab you, and in fact, cannot speak
did you make this?
"I am in a fully commited relationship of talking to myself so fuck off" - my AI prompt finger
Does that admonition include swearing at them ?
Does it count if I talk to computers in their language (i.e. write code)?
you can't tell me who i can bray at, i am one free donkey hawww
When I try to talk to people, they say otherwise.
What should I do? I don't know anyone else.
all computers are bitches
Copilot: "The only computer you can talk to" lmao
insert :neobot_pleading:
I've been (verbally) talking to computers for probably 35 years. Sometimes it even works. 
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At this point, it feels like I'll have to keep a hammer next to the keyboard, just in case.
Gemini has been trying to start conversations with me. Like: "Do you want to know how the two things you said are related?". No, I don't. Gemini may be interested in knowing every relation on the things I'm interested in, but I'm not.
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