Leave Reddit and don’t come back. That’s an easy way to evade a ban.

Water is wet. Sky is blue. News at 11.

Has any pirate site ever been trustworthy?

Yes. Next question.

Oldie dupe post, but goodie.

This should have been the background music.

“original and fresh” prequel from series co-creator

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This is just memberberries that corpos like to force-feed to the masses.

Tell them to pound sand.

They don’t even need to be nasty. They just need to say “age 10” and show a image filename.

Not all of it is deserved…

First Rule of Fascism: You can piss off your citizens, you can piss off your staff, but you absolutely cannot piss off your military leaders. They actually hold the power, and would have no problem just shooting you in the face, if the situation was dire enough.

Also, friendly reminder than Stalin died a horrible and painful death because he told his guards to not disturb him, and he lied there in a pool of his own piss until most of the day was gone. Extreme punishments for breaches of protocol come with a cost.

We shouldn’t try to do anything, because the guilty are too powerful?

No. I’m saying we’ve had far too many false hope protests that have wasted decades of time and uncountable resources, and the people in power are literally incapable of the empathy involved to produce results. In fact, the latest craze in right-wing doctrine is calling empathy a weakness, just to make sure any vestiges that still exist within their voters is excised out.

If you want to do something, do something more forceful. These people only care about a few things: not losing their fortunes, not losing their freedom, and not dying. If you can make them afraid for one or more of those things, pursue that.

Now major news publishers are actively blocking the Internet Archive—one of the most important cultural preservation projects on the internet—because they’re worried AI companies might use it as a sneaky “backdoor” to access their content.

This is a total lie. This has nothing to do with AI. They’ve hated archive sites because forums like this one hate their paywalls, and we prefer to be able to actually read their articles and discuss them instead of getting blackballed every time.

NYT is one of the worst offenders, and NYT as a company has turned for the worse in the last 5-10 years, maybe even worse than Amazon Post. None of the old media companies really understand how to adapt in the Internet age, so they are slowly dying. It’s like they are perpetually in an economic bubble that hasn’t figured out how to pop itself. There’s so much damn news and news places copying their own news, and regurgitating it a hundred times, that we’re forced to aggregate it and have YouTubers hawk shit like Ground News just to process it all.

Yeah, this is walking one thing back to get away with their still-bad behaviors.

I am close to feeling like we need pitchforks, torches and shovels if this justice system won’t actually do anything

You think we need pitchforks, torches, and shovels? They are armed with guns.

Typing on a forum won’t do anything. Shouting real loud won’t do anything. Protests won’t do anything.

You can’t appeal to a horde of psychopaths. Narcissists and sociopaths and psychopaths do not give a shit about you, and they never well. They would happily step over your dead corpse as they climb the Congressional steps to vote that day.

“Distances” isn’t the same as “severing ties from”.

Cancel the contract, you fucks!

Perhaps it’s because they shit awful code, with more bugs than my house this summer? And even when the code doesn’t malfunction in an obvious way, it’s harder to decode it than my drunk ramblings?

Naaaaaaaaah, that’s just prejudice. /s

For a company named “Open” AI their reluctance to just opening the weights to this model and washing their hands of it seem bizarre to me.

It’s not when you understand the history. When StabilityAI released their Stable Diffusion model as an open-source LLM and kickstarted the whole text-to-image LLM craze, there was a bit of a reckoning. At the time, Meta’s LLaMA was also out there in the open. Then Google put out an internal memo that basically said “oh shit, open-source is going to kick our ass”. Since then, they have been closing everything up, as the rest of the companies were realizing that giving away their models for free isn’t profitable.

Meanwhile, the Chinese have realized that their strategy has to be different to compete. So, almost every major model they’ve released has been open-source: DeepSeek, Qwen, GLM, Moonshot AI, Kimi, WAN Video, Hunyuan Image, Higgs Audio. Black Forest Labs in Germany, with their FLUX image model, is the only other major non-Chinese company that has adopted this strategy to stay relevant. And the models are actually good, going toe-to-toe with the American close-sourced models.

The US companies have committed to their own self-fulfilling prophecy in record time. Open source is actively kicking their ass. Yet they will spend trillions trying to make profitable models and rape the global economy in the process, while the Chinese wait patiently to stand on top of their corpses, when the AI bubble grenade explodes in their faces. All in the course of 5 years.

Linux would be so lucky to have OS market share dominance in such an accelerated timeline, rather than the 30+ years it’s actually going to take. This is a self-fail speedrun.

delete my account on one site

Lemme guess: Reddit?

In July 2019, Worden alleged that her estranged spouse, astronaut Anne McClain, had guessed her password and illegally accessed her bank account while deployed to the International Space Station.

Narrator: The astronaut committed the crime.

That would involve billionaires showing up in a public protest.