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  • Every protest I've ever been to has had at least one group of communists yelling about the inadequacy of US politics and I've seen pro-Palestinian protesters at these protests going back decades at this point. I've only ever seen one mainstream politician dirty their hands in a situation like that, and it was at a union rally, and she confessed to being a socialist there to thunderous applause.

  • Study of 8k Posts Suggests 40+% of Facebook Posts are AI-Generated
  • Yeah. This is a way bigger problem with this article than anything else. The entier thing hinges on their AI-detecting AI working. I have looked into how effective these kinds of tools are because it has come up at my work, and independent review of them suggests they're, like, 3-5 times worse than the (already pretty bad) accuracy rates they claim, and disproportionatly flag non-native English speakers as AI generated. So, I'm highly skeptical of this claim as well.

  • Norway on track to be first to go all-electric
  • I mean, this is good, but isn't it the case that they basically pay for this by selling Oil and Gas? That's not replicable for most nations, and is kinda... like, damaging. I'm glad they did it, but unless their next goal is like, paying India to phase out their fossil fuel industry it kinda feels like pulling the ladder up in a way to me.

  • Tuberville: Californians ‘don’t deserve’ money for wildfires unless they ‘change their ways’
  • I really would hope it wouldn't need to be said, but uhh everybody deserves disaster relief... California, Alabama, whatever state, or country it happens to be. I really don't think it's constructive to engage in angry shit flinging on this topic.

  • With a TikTok Ban Looming, Users Flee to Chinese App ‘Red Note’
  • I'm not really one for Tik Tok, but I went on REDNote to see what it was about and it was incredibly wholesome seeing American and Chinese people getting to interact as normal human beings and understand each other without it being filtered through our governments. Even if they don't shut down Tik Tok, they're gonna have to shut that shit down. Can't have future soldiers seeing their "enemies" as humans.

  • Broccoli, cheese, and MILFs
  • My theory on this is that some of the hate for a lot of vegetables comes from either eating canned ones or poorly cooked ones. My girlfriend didn't know she liked green beans until she started living with my family and my father made her some. My dad sautéed the in butter with garlic, and she only had ever had those extremely mushy canned ones and had concluded on that basis she hated green beans.

  • When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords?
  • An aside, but the "parasite" thing is not really a leftist talking point. We stole it from Adam fucking Smith, and his point about it is that extracting value from something on the basis of just, like, owning something that exists with or without you is inherently shitty personally, and economically.

    "As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed and demand a rent even for its natural produce" - Adam Smith

    Just look it up. He crashes out on rentiers all the time.

    Also, corporate land lords are a much smaller part of the problem than most people suggest. Like, yes corporate land lords suck, but most land lords are not corporate landlords. It's more complex than that. Source. So, Yes. Small "Mom and Pop" landlords are bad, and there is a moral dimension to even the people you personally know who own more than one home, and there will continue to be as long as there are others who do not have a house.

  • The GPT Era Is Already Ending
  • I mean after reading the article, I'm still unsure how this makes ChatGPT any better at the things I've found it to be useful for. Proofreading, generating high level overview of well-understood topics, and asking it goofy questions, for instance. If it is ever gonna be a long-term thing, "AI" needs to have useful features at a cost people are willing to pay, or be able to replace large numbers of workers without significant degredation in quality of work. This new model appears to be more expensive without being either of those other things and is therefore a less competitive product.

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