I mean, aren’t they? In a moral, ethical, and social stance, don’t they share in the blame?

I like baszite. I’m not in love with it, but it does most things I want it to do right out of the box, and it comes with steam installed which is convenient

You can literally train them on animal languages. They’re language models, their primary attribute is modeling a language

And they are very good at it

Yes. Everything is monitored, and it sucks. We’ve internalized it even, you can’t so much as have a hobby without dumping money into it to signal you take it seriously

Okay, let’s say you have a fuel injected car, but instead of using the 02 sensor to decide the fuel air mixture, it just squirts the same amount of gas every time.

The hardware might be able to achieve 400 hp, but the software means it only ever achieves 50 hp

It’s like that. The software drives the hardware. It doesn’t matter how good the hardware is, the software is the brain of the operation - if the software doesn’t know how to utilize the hardware properly, you’re going to have piss poor performance

Driver’s? They literally drive the hardware your computer is using

Probably at least some of us… There’s a lot of us, and given a year and a few acres anyone with an almanac would have a shot

It’s likely it’ll be a lot more, and we just have a dark age

What does that mean through? We already had an insane amount of soft power over Maduro. He was desperate to stay in power… So now what?

We basically just hit Venezuela with a stick and told them to behave

They’re scared. Of course they are.

Whether they hated Maduro or not, they’ve been forced into limbo

What happens next? No one fucking knows, no one has a plan, because Trump might come back for round 2 and decapitate the chain of succession or make an ultimatum

It must be terrifying. For all my brother’s and sister’s in Venezuela, stay strong, stay safe, and be ready to take advantage of opportunities

Well they didn’t establish a new government there… That would take competence

Trump just stole the leader and his wife and declared the oil is “ours now”. No one knows what the fuck they means, but their VP took over control for now

You forgot about his many failures along the way. Do you know how many kids slipped through his tiny fingers?

And anything the officer has previously reported should be put under review

Then stop spewing slop everywhere, AI or not

I tell myself that the grief is me feeling bad for myself.

How did they go? Was it mercifully fast or drawn out? Was it painful? Were they ready?

And so I try to channel my grief though empathy for their pain rather then focusing on my own feelings of mood

I’m trying to move to a better area, one where things can get better locally

Even if the country ends, we’re not all going to die. We’re going to have to organize locally, and I’d rather be somewhere where I can do that

Don’t treat them all the same! What? That’s so ineffective!

Are they morally on the hook for what they’ve helped bring into existence? Yes.

Should we treat them all the same? Fuck no, that’s crazy. You have adjust your approach. An actual fascist and an idiot who got taken for a fascist ride are worlds apart.

Fascists should be attacked when they reveal themselves, they’re just disgusting all the way through. Idiots can be convinced to be part of the solution, you just have to correct their behavior

Someone I know at FEMA was talking about they have an old system for disaster claims that IBM wrote for them many years back, and how FEMA just signed a deal with sales force to replace it

I was like… Oh, buddy, you have a very custom fit solution and very complicated workflows…

I agree with all of that, that’s true. I’m not against calling a Nazi a Nazi

But most of the people who went along with the Nazis weren’t Nazis. I’m not defending them when I’m saying that, I’m being accurate

And I’m not being accurate to be pedantic, I’m being accurate because these categories of people need to be handled very differently, and to do that we have to do a little categorizing

No, I already think I understood it very well

But this is a nice snapshot, it highlights what I’ve come to understand in a nice clear way. Apparently it’s a Russia based account too, so it’s probably not real anyways

But it so perfectly captures the narrative MAGA people bite into

I don’t think that’s really true or helpful.

These people aren’t Nazis, they’re just stupid. What they actually want is what we want… To be squeezed less by billionaires

Not to be confused with the actual Nazis, there are definitely actual Nazis too. But not that many of them