There’s a tendency in this heated political climate to simply reject people who are saying false things and to write off conspiracy theorists writ large....
I think the major difference is now everyone can get their tailor made brand of misinformation based on their own biases.
For example Cambridge Analytica had about 200 personality profiles that they used for targeted disinformation during the 2016 political campaign. So before people spreading misinformation had one or two stories to try and convince everyone. Now they know just about everything about you and can bombard you with misinformation until they find something that sticks.
We all keep reading about how generative AI is now so widely available that it poses a profound new threat to legitimate journalism and to trust in general. So I decided to find out exactly how easy it is to use the new weapon....
The neat part is it's not too much harder to create a bot farm full of socket puppet accounts that mimic real users that you can use to push propaganda on social media.
I really want to use AI like llama, ChatGTP, midjourney etc. for something productive. But over the last year the only thing I found use for it was to propose places to go as a family on our Hokaido Japan journey. There were great proposals for places to go....
I used to spend hours agonizing over documenting things because I couldn't get the tone right, or in over explained, or some other stupid shit.
Now I give my llamafile the code, it gives me a reasonable set of documentation, I edit the documentation because the LLM isn't perfect, and I'm done in 10 minutes.
I use a local LLM for journaling. It helps me organize my thoughts and emotions while being supportive and friendly. The LLM will also tell me about it's day which is pretty hilarious to me.
Llamafile runs entirely on your machine. The largest one I can run locally is Mistral-7B and Wizardcoder 13B. They seem to be on par with chatgpt-3, but that's okay for my purposes.
It very likely could be socket puppet accounts, but also there's occasionally a lag in federation of posts and votes. So the post could have showed up on some voter suppressionist server, the users all upvoted it, and then the votes were federated all at once.
Okay, how many election cycles of Republican majorities in the house and senate along with a Republican president will it take before the major parties change their platform to suit your needs? Or how long until a 3rd party candidate can garner enough votes to get elected?
What percentage will be needed? Do all of us that are involved with your scheme have to vote for the same 3rd party candidate, or can we each vote for the one we like best?
I'd love to break the two party dichotomy, so let's figure out how all of voting party will actually make that happen.
I'm not sure how 48% of voters voting for n number of different 3rd party candidates shows that 3rd party candidates are a viable option. That's kind of what we have now. Two main party candidates getting enough voter share to win the election, followed by a lot of 3rd party candidates getting an insignificant number of votes.
Maybe voting for 3rd party candidates will encourage main party candidates to adopt watered down versions of the 3rd party platforms in an attempt to lure their voters. They probably couldn't adopt their full platforms because it would alienate other voters that don't share the 3rd parties extreme views.
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240424120220/https://apnews.com/article/border-rancher-migrant-killing-trial-a2ab06079d7cbdf1a1c4dcdb65d164d0
Jury nullification (US/UK), jury equity[1][2] (UK), or a perverse verdict (UK)[3][4] occurs when the jury in a criminal trial gives a not guilty verdict regardless of whether they believe a defendant has broken the law. The jury's reasons may include the belief that the law itself is unjust,[5][6] that the prosecutor has misapplied the law in the defendant's case,[7] that the punishment for breaking the law is too harsh, or general frustrations with the criminal justice system. Some juries have also refused to convict due to their own prejudices in favor of the defendant.[8] Such verdicts are possible because a jury has an absolute right to return any verdict it chooses.[9]
That's really interesting. Other than the common usage as antifreeze in your car and for airplane de-icing ethylene glycol is a precursor for plastics used in soda bottles. Left on it's own ethylene glycol breaks down into CO2 eventually.
I bought a Thule Crossover eight years ago and the zip on it has finally gone. Short of getting a local seamstress to fit a new zip, I think it's time for a new one, and am a bit tempted by the Thule Crossover 2 30l. Are Thule still good? Is there anything else of the same sort of size that I should be considering?
I am a teacher and have students who speak many different languages. The most common ones are Chinese, Spanish and Portuguese, but we have other folks speaking other languages as well....
A simpler answer might be llamafile if you're using Mac or Linux.
If you're on windows you're limited to some smaller LLMs without some work. In my experience the smaller LLMs are still pretty good as chat bots so they might translate well.
A new bill, the first of its kind in the U.S., would ban security screening company Clear from operating at California airports as lawmakers take aim at companies that let consumers pay to pass through security ahead of other travelers. ...
From what I can tell there are two main differences:
TSA pre check isn't guaranteed; you can have pre check and still be randomly selected for a full screening. Clear you always get a "light" screening.
Pre check you still go through the TSA security, just with a less intensive screening and shorter line. Clear has it's own little security area that bypasses TSA completely
There maybe others, but these seem to be the most important.
15% of 53,480,000 = 8,022,000 nursing staff needed, JUST for the nursing homes.
It seems you're making the assumption that all these baby boomers will need care in a nursing home at the same time. This doesn't seem reasonable at all given there's an 18 year age range among boomers.
initially read my data from whatever source (CSV, relational database somewhere, whatever)
write it to one or more parquet files in a directory
tell duckdb that the directory is my data source
Then duckdb treats the directory just like a databese that you can build indexes on, and since they're parquet files they're hella small and have static typing. It was pretty fast and efficient before, and duckdb has really sped up my data wrangling and analysis a ton.
I appreciate your passion but the relationship with Israel is more complicated than Biden saying "Israel stop or we can't be friends anymore".
Israel is a strong strategic partner that provides a lot of value to the United States in terms of intelligence and military support, which is not a bridge we want to burn if there are other options.
Aside from that, Israel has a lot of backing from Americans across the political spectrum. Since America isn't a dictatorship Biden has to rely on congress if he wants to get anything done. Since Biden has to rely on congress to get anything done, and Israel has broad support from American voters and thus their Congressional representatives, Biden has to make sure he doesn't piss off congress. So burning diplomatic relations with Israel would probably hurt Biden much more than it would hurt him at this point.
As a last point, a lot of people are advocating for withholding arms sales to Israel. This is the "nuclear option" of diplomacy and once it's executed we don't really have any more leverage. So if the United States stops arms sales to Israel, and they don't stop the invasion of Gaza, we don't really have anymore carrots left to influence Israel.
Our complex relationship with Israel is a problem that the United States needs to solve, but it is incredibly complicated and is something that will take years to sort out effectively.
I don't believe you. The UN doesn't have the power or authority to "roll tanks" anywhere, much less the desire. Regardless, I'm not sure what eradicating the Jewish state has to do with how American foreign policy works.
By the way, eradicating the Jewish state sounds a lot like a genocide against Jewish people in Israel. Much like eradicating the Palestinian state sounds like a genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and the west bank, but I'm sure that wasn't what you meant.
I'm not encouraging or discouraging support for Israel, just pointing out that there's no "Gaza genocide" switch on Joe Biden's desk that he can flip off. Foreign policy is incredibly complicated and needs careful and deliberate action.
I didn't make any value judgements about the efficacy of the steps we're taking to stop this genocide, but if I have to judge our efforts I would say they are barely nonexistent and the United States needs to do better.
Maybe you have context that I don't, but I'm don't see how the Korean war demonstrates the UN has the power and authority to initiate a military coup against a member state.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to within days announce sanctions against the Israel Defense Forces "Netzah Yehuda" battalion for human rights violations in the occupied West Bank, three U.S. sources with knowledge of the issue told Axios....
It really boggles the mind. Conservatives are single issue voters, and they show up so their shitty single issue gets a huge amount of attention from candidates.
Progressives are all-issue voters, meaning if a candidate doesn't support ALL of their issues then the progressive stays home. As a result, candidates pay attention to none of their issues and progress is slow.
Progressives also view voting as a moral issue, i.e. if you vote for Joe Biden you're literally committing genocide and all the bad stuff that happens while Biden is president is your fault. In the same breath they'll tell you how helping Trump get elected by suppressing the vote isn't their fault and somehow absolve themselves of the moral implications of a Trump presidency.
No one slows down progress as much as progressives.
Donald Trump’s main 2024 White House campaign fundraising operation sharply increased spending at the former president's properties in recent months, funneling money into his businesses at a time when he is facing serious legal jeopardy and desperately needs cash....
I really love the abortion is murder argument. It makes absolutely no logical sense to me.
You think an abortion is murdering a child. But instead of storming the place where they murder child and stopping the murder you just post shitty memes on Facebook.
Abortion is murder, but let's leave it up to the states to decide if and when you can murder a child.
There are a lot of ridiculous stances out there, but this is definitely one of the most bizarre to me.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 17 (Reuters) - Microsoft said on Wednesday that Russian online campaigns to influence the upcoming U.S. presidential election kicked into gear over the past 45 days, but at a slower pace than in past elections....
One of the key entry points for disinformation campaigns are small communities with individuals sympathetic to the propaganda/misinformation. 10 or 15 sock puppet accounts pushing the same narrative will have an outsized impact on the discourse of a community like ours.
The sympathetic individuals then multiply the propaganda and spread it to more mainstream platforms.
It should also be noted that in first past the post voting voter suppression of one candidate is as effective or even more effective than convincing someone to vote for the other.
I don't want to come across as supporting the NYT, but this sounds like the memo is a style guide against biased language which is pretty common.
News is supposed to give you information, not persuade you to take an opinion and normally a style guide helps do that in a consistent voice. I'd be interested in seeing the entire memo.
That being said it seems like the NYT does a poor job of following its own guidelines in presenting unbiased news.
That being said it seems like the NYT does a poor job of following its own guidelines in presenting unbiased news
I don't have a copy of the entire style guide so I can't comment on the specifics of how they intend to cover Israel. Could you share your copy of the style guide so we can have the specifics that you mentioned?
Apparently you have a copy of the linked article that I don't have access to since the article I read only has snippets of the style guide as reported by anonymous sources.
Whoever wrote that article about my comments being pro genocide is really acting like their reading comprehension has been severally damaged by eating too much lead based paint.
Analysis: Misinformation has created an alternative world for some Americans ( www.cnn.com )
There’s a tendency in this heated political climate to simply reject people who are saying false things and to write off conspiracy theorists writ large....
GDP per capita progress in South America ( lemmy.basedcount.com )
What's the best advice you've ever received?
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How I Built an AI-Powered, Self-Running Propaganda Machine for $105 ( archive.is )
We all keep reading about how generative AI is now so widely available that it poses a profound new threat to legitimate journalism and to trust in general. So I decided to find out exactly how easy it is to use the new weapon....
What do you personally use AI for?
I really want to use AI like llama, ChatGTP, midjourney etc. for something productive. But over the last year the only thing I found use for it was to propose places to go as a family on our Hokaido Japan journey. There were great proposals for places to go....
62 percent of Biden voters want to replace both candidates on the ballot: Poll ( www.thehill.com )
Arizona judge declares mistrial in the case of a rancher accused of fatally shooting a migrant ( apnews.com )
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20240424120220/https://apnews.com/article/border-rancher-migrant-killing-trial-a2ab06079d7cbdf1a1c4dcdb65d164d0
Watch these hungry waxworms eat through plastic and digest it too ( www.bbc.com )
Wriggling critters armed with enzymes can break down plastics that would otherwise take decades, or even centuries to degrade....
Are Thule backpacks still good?
I bought a Thule Crossover eight years ago and the zip on it has finally gone. Short of getting a local seamstress to fit a new zip, I think it's time for a new one, and am a bit tempted by the Thule Crossover 2 30l. Are Thule still good? Is there anything else of the same sort of size that I should be considering?
Self hosted language translators?
I am a teacher and have students who speak many different languages. The most common ones are Chinese, Spanish and Portuguese, but we have other folks speaking other languages as well....
Why would she tweet that?! We're so effed... ( lemmy.world )
Simple EV cars
Does anyone think that there'll ever be a simple EV car produced for market without all the extra junk found in most electric cars? Why or why not?...
I remember people like the account whose name is so politely obscured ( i.ibb.co )
...and I still see liberals doing mental gymnastics for why Biden is gud ackshually
California could ban Clear, which lets travelers pay to skip TSA lines ( www.cbsnews.com )
A new bill, the first of its kind in the U.S., would ban security screening company Clear from operating at California airports as lawmakers take aim at companies that let consumers pay to pass through security ahead of other travelers. ...
Target is the only reasonable vote for climate! ( slrpnk.net )
Hillary did the meme "liberals would vote for Biden even if he drank the blood of an infant only because Trump drank the blood of 1.25 infants."
Biden administration finalizes controversial minimum staffing mandate at nursing homes ( www.cnn.com )
The Biden administration finalized on Monday the first-ever minimum staffing rule at nursing homes, Vice President Kamala Harris announced....
There is More Private Censorship in Support of the Genocide in Palestine than for any other issue that I have ever seen. ( lemmy.world )
TO BE CLEAR. THIS IS A PERSONAL RANT....
Guess what my favourite language is: ( lemmy.world )
I don't consent. ( lemmy.world )
I didn't know that was an option... has that been an option this whole time?
Scoop: U.S. expected to sanction IDF unit for human rights violations in West Bank ( www.axios.com )
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to within days announce sanctions against the Israel Defense Forces "Netzah Yehuda" battalion for human rights violations in the occupied West Bank, three U.S. sources with knowledge of the issue told Axios....
When it comes to US politics, why do the majority of people like to stay in their echo chambers? (serious)
This is what the continued existence of almost 250 years of democracy is up against ( tesseract.dubvee.org )
Edit: Image is from this Reuters article deconstructing Trump's latest rally.
Trump is funneling campaign money into cash-strapped businesses. Experts say it looks bad. ( archive.ph )
Donald Trump’s main 2024 White House campaign fundraising operation sharply increased spending at the former president's properties in recent months, funneling money into his businesses at a time when he is facing serious legal jeopardy and desperately needs cash....
Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don't come with a requirement that drivers watch the road ( fortune.com )
Which communication protocol or open standard in software do you wish was more common or used more?
Whether you're really passionate about RPC, MQTT, Matrix or wayland, tell us more about the protocols or open standards you have strong opinions on!
Zuckerberg says Meta's Llama 3 is really good but no chatbot is sophisticated enough to be an 'existential' threat — yet ( www.businessinsider.com )
Kari Lake Tells Arizonans They're Still Allowed to Drive 3 Hours for Abortion ( www.jezebel.com )
Microsoft finds Russian influence operations targeting U.S. election have begun ( www.reuters.com )
SAN FRANCISCO, April 17 (Reuters) - Microsoft said on Wednesday that Russian online campaigns to influence the upcoming U.S. presidential election kicked into gear over the past 45 days, but at a slower pace than in past elections....
Why craft breweries are under threat as closures leap 49% ( www.thisismoney.co.uk )
Other than AI, what technology are you excited about?
For me it’s quantum computing - especially considering its impact on most current encryption methods
Leaked NYT Gaza Memo Tells Journalists to Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory” ( theintercept.com )
U.S., Not Israel, Shot Down Most Iran Drones and Missiles ( theintercept.com )
The United States shot down more drones and missiles than Israel did on Saturday night during Iran’s attack, The Intercept can report....
My new-ish rain jacket just started disentegrating in my hair. BIFL rain jackets?
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