[-] charonn0@startrek.website 61 points 7 months ago

Not only is it normalized, but it's being weaponized. See, for example, the recent XZ backdoor which was equal parts hacking and a psi-op against the maintainer.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 53 points 9 months ago

The bill lists specific actions that fall under the proposed definition: abuse against children that includes animal torture, bestiality or cannibalism, or forcing a child to ingest urine or feces, enter a coffin or grave containing a corpse, or take drugs as part of the ritual.

Wouldn't this include celebrating communion?

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 56 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

In making the announcement on the Tony Kinnett show, livestreamed on YouTube, Rokita stated that investigators would pore over submissions and post any they believed to be credible onto a publicly viewable database.

In other words, they're not going to act on the ones that don't align with their own political ideology.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 57 points 10 months ago

I think we should have a rule that says if a LLM company invokes fair use on the training inputs then the outputs are public domain.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 59 points 10 months ago

That's an interesting euphemism for tax fraud.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 63 points 10 months ago

Why is he not sitting in a cell for contempt of court?

The judge is setting a bad precedent that is going to be used every single time he tries to hold anyone else in contempt ever again.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 58 points 11 months ago

“I think the cause of the Civil War was basically how government was going to run — the freedoms and what people could and couldn’t do,” Haley said at the beginning of her response.

She went on to say: “I think it always comes down to the role of government and what the rights of the people are. And I will always stand by the fact that I think government was intended to secure the rights and freedoms of the people. It was never meant to be all things to all people.

Darned guv'ment trampling the rights of slaveholders.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 63 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The month before, the justice had borrowed $267,000 from a friend to buy a high-end RV.

Just cut back on the avocado toast.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 63 points 1 year ago

Each additional decade of age seems half as long as the previous one was.

0-10 took forever

10-20 took 20 years

20-30 took 10 years

30-40 took 5 years

I'm 40 and it feels like 50 is next year already.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 54 points 1 year ago

The FBI recommends using an ad blocker for precisely this reason.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 54 points 1 year ago

"Jarring" would have also been acceptable.

Most people are so desensitized to ads that they barely register. So the advertisers ramp up the attention-grabbing. Repeat. So when I actually see an advertisement it nearly knocks me out of my chair because I'm not desensitized anymore.

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 55 points 1 year ago

This article is frustratingly vague on what the judge actually did. Probably because it's not nearly as clickbaity. The judge has blocked enforcement of the new law until the lawsuit has been resolved. Given the 1st amendment implications that's the right call for the judge to make even if the law is ultimately upheld.

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