Ugh.

The service has been quite good for ten years.

Guess it was good while it lasted.

Just one more turn, bro.

Then you’ll totally go to bed.

I hope she sues and makes it hurt.

ACAB

If the shit hits the fan, and oil prices move up, it’s too late to complain… especially if your own president started an unnecessary war.

Wrong.

Every American has a right to complain here. Not only has our president broken his campaign promises on war, he had a record of disentangling us from foreign wars in his first term. (Most notably Syria and Afghanistan.) So, unlike some of his other promises, this one carried weight.

He did not run on warmongering. He ran on peace.

We just watch.

I don’t think that’s accurate, and it became especially true in Chicago and Minnesota when the sensationalist nature of the events there forced the MSM to report on it. The issue here is that most people only have power at the local level, so unless you’re going full Luigi, the contributions you or I are making are local and not really notable. But they’re happening regardless.

please help me understand where my taxes go (without representation)

If you’re an American, mostly, your taxes are going to three things: The military and war, Social Security, and Medicare. Those are the big three things. The corruption you’re seeing is the result of entrenched legislators and political parties leveraging their offices to enrich themselves and the billionaire class, and their greed has no limit, therefore the people keep suffering more and more and it’s by design. They can loan their campaigns money at 20% interest and pay themselves your campaign contributions legally. They can insider trade in stocks and prediction markets. They can, and do, use their classified briefings to make advantageous stock trades weeks before major government actions occur. If you’re president, you can also force the government to use your businesses, charge a hefty markup for it, and no one will know as no one has the courage to blow the whistle, among many, many other grifts.

There’s also no way to change it, because those in power are not going to vote themselves into less power. Your only power to make lasting change is local.

What is the endgame?

You and your family homeless or in prison, every penny wrung out of you by those in power.

GenAI has already trained on the entirety of human content, and it still screws up basic inquiries. I think it will get worse as it cannibalizes its own hallucinated data and the problem of hallucinations gets worse as a result.

The US will not regulate, but regulations originating from international jurisdictions will roll downhill to some extent and force the bad actors in the US to establish some guard rails in order to continue to be able to offer their products in these big international markets.

I think the most significant change in GenAI will be social. People’s poverty and isolation is only getting worse, and it’s likely there will be an economic crash due to the concentration of wealth in this sector and its failure to deliver on its promises; However, there is genuine demand for frictionless relationships and that is one thing generative AI does very, very well. In a decade these models will have artificial bodies and people will be literally publicly dating their AI companions. These companions will also be another great way for companies and governments to spy on people, so expect them to get more cost-effective in order to ensnare as many users as possible in the coming years.

And as for gas prices in particular, people are barely scraping by and any drastic fluctuation in the cost of essentials threatened stability.

Absolutely. Also why I want to throat punch every person I hear make jokes about egg prices.

An important note, to be sure. In Afghanistan we displaced tens of millions of people, and all we heard from our government and most Americans was: “Welp, they must just hate us for our freedom.”

For a while there was a VR app for Google Earth that allowed you to visit museums virtually. This is a wonderful use of modern technology.

I hate that our country is run by the dumbest people and they’re also massive douche bags.

LLM’s have been proven to manipulate their users into doing terrible things. That’s what happens when there isn’t any meaningful regulation of a harmful product.

OpenAI will settle, NDA’s will be signed, and people will forget this ever happened.

This guy needs to lodge his head deeply into a dark recess of his own anatomy.

100%

When this becomes more common, and I’m certain it will, it’ll be interesting to see how many Americans kinda just ignore that it was us and our allies who radicalized these people.

Who is ‘we’ in this?

Both the Iran War and high gas prices are wildly unpopular with the majority. Problem is our federal legislators are largely pro-war zionists who are heavily invested in euphemistically-named defense stocks and oil stocks, and they are profiting handsomely, just like they did when their classified briefings told them the country would be shutting down in a few weeks in February 2020.

They’re probably also all making money on prediction markets.

I’ve been diligently curating mine for about 3-4 months, and it’s gotten a lot better. Be sure to keep at it.

No need to quit Lemmy.

There are sub-lemmies that are dedicated to only positive things, like cats. Sub to a bunch of them and then go into your profile and set up your default home page to be only channels you’re subbed to, and you’ll see all happy stuff when you log on.

I think we’ve seen with cops over and over again that, to them, the rational thing is making sure the victim doesn’t survive, and thus, taking away their ability to testify.

The donut eating piece of refuse refused treatment once inside the ambulance and kinda just ignored that a dying person needed it more.

Classic ACAB.

The video release by the FBI in the Guthrie case proved definitively that every device equipped with a camera or microphone and a wireless connection is spying on you, and not only that, feeding the data into government databases without a warrant or any meaningful oversight.

This means to protect yourself you have to secure your devices as best you can or simply keep them locked away. There’s nothing you can do about the bazillion cameras your neighbors have set up, though some eyeglass retailers sell lenses coated to foil AI face scanning. (Zenni is one.)