Stahp, I’m not even 40 yet.

So one potentially viable way to destroy AI would be to repeatedly train LLMs and image generators on their own (or rather previous generations’) output to get garbage/junk/bad training data and then publish the text/images in places where bots trawling for training data are likely to find them.

Probably bonus points if the images still look “sensical” to the human eye, so that humans eyeballing the data don’t realize it’s the digital equivalent of a sabot. (Apparently the story about sabots being thrown into machinery is not true, but you know what I mean.)

Ew.

Not a doctor. Really don’t do/consume anything on the basis of what you hear on Lemmy.

But maybe the bacillus thuringiensis toxin? Bacillus thuringiensis is a bacterium that produces a natural pesticide that I’ve heard (again, not a doctor, don’t take anything I say as medical advice) doesn’t affect vertibrates. But mosquitos aren’t vertibrates. So, (again, not an expert and this may be bullshit) maybe that means it’s safe for humans to use.

But what do I mean by “use”? I’m guessing it might (not a doctor) be safe to use on the skin (if it could be obtained in medical-grade quality – but I’m not an expert).

But I kindof doubt (though I could be wrong) that eating bacillus thurengiensis or the actual toxin would work. The toxin is (I believe, just from reading the bacillus thuringiensis Wikipedia page) a protein, and I don’t think (ɹoʇɔop ɐ ʇou ɯɐ I) consumed proteins are likely to get into the bloodstream. (And if they did, I suspect (though I am not a doctor) that would cause you some problems, or at least an immune response and some inflamation or some such.)

Archive.org!

I do wonder how frequent it is that an individual developer will raise an important issue and be told by management it’s not an issue.

I know of at least one time when that’s happened to me. And other times where it’s just common knowledge that the central bureaucracy is so viscous that there’s no chance of getting such-and-such important thing addressed within the next 15 years is unlikely. And so no one even bothers to raise the issue.

Simple. Trump’s basically a cult leader.

(Edit: Looks like… my Firefox is blocking this image from just loading (it thinks it’s a “tracker”, I guess… which maybe it is) even though it’s a valid image tag. Not sure how many viewers are affected. I’ll just link to the image instead.)

All of 'em are better than Trump and I think Kamala probably has the best chance of winning the general.

Rookie numbers.

Same for me. I can watch YouTube (except for the “mature” content that they’ve required login for for forever) without logging in just fine.

Maybe YouTube is A/B testing.

Maybe Histrionic Personality Disorder?

I assumed they were accidental double-posts rather than being a glitch on the client end. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen some of those right next to each other with different numbers of comments or a different total score.

So did we (almost) all. Maybe not as recently as you, but I think most of us (including me) are former Redditors. I personally left Reddit when they pulled that bullshit with the API prices.

We do have an upvote/downvote system, though. Do you mean running user karma scores? Or something else?

Right. Same as me. But if it’s a link to a website and you click the thumbnail, it ought to take you to the link. Unless it works differently for you than for me.

I’m using Firefox on Arch Linux on a Raspberry Pi. So it should work just like on any Windows or Mac desktop or laptop.

On Lemmy-UI (though maybe this differs depending what theme you’re using? Not sure), I can click the thumbnail to go to the article or the title to go to the comments section.

Thanks for that. Getting messages like this from outside the U.S. means a lot. For real.

Dark times, here. They were dark yesterday, but today proves things can always be worse.

SCOTUS fucked up super-sized

SCOTUS (or at least 6 of 'em) knew exactly what they were doing and did it anyway. On purpose.

Never have I acquired a bit of head canon so quickly and permanently.

Nope. But that’s also not as big a deal as a lot of folks make it.

Also, he’s far from the only important(?) historical(?) figure we can’t prove ever existed.