You can push back.

Just not on their turf.

If you were in Nazi Germany, would you push back in a forum personally set up by Hilter to make you look like provocateur then cut you off? No. That would be stupid, and even worse, validates the platform with your presence.

You go somewhere else. And bring people with you.

I think some are less explicitly optimized for political rage-bait though. Facebook is pretty bad, but things like say, Discord or Telegram (popular destinations) are awful in different ways.

Truth Social will always be niche. I know it’s very ‘year of linux’ but I’m convinced Reddit is near its immolation stage. Lemmy and federated social media won’t be ‘influential’ for a long time, they’re in for the long run.

I mean, I think Twitter is more fragile than you think.

It doesn’t have THAT many participants; statistically, normal people don’t really use it. It’s not that far from losing the public eye and being a self-indulgent (but not publicly influential) zoo kind of like 4chan is.

create better narratives

THIS is the fallacy!

Twitter is not a fair forum, it’s an engagement -> profit engine. It does not show posts fairly. The entire premise of it being a tug of war between narratives like some free speech dream is a fat lie.

Even if ‘this generation’ were Mensa narrative makers, that’d feed the troll engine all the better, like how I’ve seen people say they stay on Reddit to ‘fight back.’ The only game to play is to the bottom. The only way out is not to play.

I dunno how to communicate that en masse, but we did it with cigarettes, so it’s not impossible.

“Worse” only being “less engagement in the next quarter.”

AI mods are probably pretty good in that respect. Random bans don’t really matter, they can stick to the party line, and letting a bit more controversial or ragebait disinformation through is a plus. In the short term.

I mean, no one educated should be on Twitter.

Seriously. Do people not understand ‘don’t feed the trolls’?

This is so on point and perfect. Like, ‘shamelessly abuse my mod privledges and pin if I was a mod’ perfect.

Backed, not owned though, and not alone:

https://slaterides.com/slate-auto-investors/

I view it as a net positive if Amazon wants them for EV delivery. A substantial guaranteed commercial customer is huge, and Slate isn’t exactly into dystopian tracking electronics or anything.

His trail’s probably a long way away, isn’t it?

My sentiment is the same.

To be blunt, Lemmy is a terrible place to ask.

Is it this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rncUo1Pnqio

Close enough to double take, but I don’t think its the person they caught.

Kirk’s job was literally to argue like this though, so it might be somewhere else.

It’s a loyalty test, yes.

If you want to look at it another way, if you assume every single square inch of silicon from TSMC is Nvidia server accelerators/AMD EPYCs, every single one running AI at full tilt 24/7/365…

Added up, it’s not that much power, or water.

That’s unrealistic, of course, but that’s literally the physical cap of what humanity can produce at the moment.

I’m not sure what you’re referencing. Imagegen models are not much different, especially now that they’re going transformers/MoE. Video gen models are chunky indeed, but more rarely used, and they’re usually much smaller parameter counts.

Basically anything else machine learning is an order of magnitude less energy, at least.

Yeah, that is so perfect.

Imagine a sedan or hatchback. It would be light as a feather (in terms of curb weight) and still feel spacious being so ‘clean’ inside.

The sad thing is ‘smartphone on wheels’ is a slur.

Smartphones don’t have to be soulless and uniform and enshittified and subscription based and completely inaccessible and straight up anti-consumer/designed to fail, but here we are.

I really hope Slate takes off though (and they make a nimble hatchback for their next chassis). It feels like the antithesis of all this.

The idea is to “poison” LLM training data, though I would strongly argue it does precisely nothing but strain human brains.

Even with zero data preprocessing, the LLM is going to ‘interpret’ the meaning anyway, just like they can translate training on Chinese characters to English meaning.

I had to look it up. The full context is:

So the new communications strategy for Democrats, now that their polling advantage is collapsing in every single state… collapsing in Ohio. It’s collapsing even in Arizona. It is now a race where Blake Masters is in striking distance. Kari Lake is doing very, very well. The new communications strategy is not to do what Bill Clinton used to do, where he would say, “I feel your pain.” Instead, it is to say, “You’re actually not in pain.” So let’s just, little, very short clip. Bill Clinton in the 1990s. It was all about empathy and sympathy. I can’t stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that — it does a lot of damage. But, it is very effective when it comes to politics. Sympathy, I prefer more than empathy. That’s a separate topic for a different time.

Later on Twitter:

The same people who lecture you about ‘empathy’ have none for the soldiers discharged for the jab, the children mutilated by Big Medicine, or the lives devastated by fentanyl pouring over the border. Spare me your fake outrage, your fake science, and your fake moral superiority.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/charlie-kirk-empathy-quote/

It’s not as bad as the out-of-context quote, but I’m having trouble even wrapping my head around it. I guess the argument is something like:

How can you claim to have empathy when you actively ignore or dismiss the pain of these specific groups? Your empathy is not real; it’s a political weapon. Fake outrage, fake science, and fake moral superiority used to win arguments and elections.

He’s not wrong about (many) Democrats. But even setting vaccine denialism aside, the core of favoring ‘sympathy over empathy’ is kind of unavoidable. It feels like tankie whataboutism: ‘Democrat’s empathy is fake, therefore, more distanced sympathy is our justified approach’

Run a giant LLM in RAM, heh:

https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-4.5

Seriously though, I had 32GB, and was having problems with all sorts of media work, complilation, stuff that would grind my system to a crawl constantly from the paging. So I wanted to replace them with 64GB sticks, but the 128GB modules were low voltage, low latency and not that expensive in terms if $/GB… and I realized it was enough space to basically host a reasonable quantization of Deepseek at home, at (as it turns out) close to reading speeds.

I like having a RAM drive to put certain games on, too. Not that I game a ton these days… Hence dangrous’s meme.

Agreed.

I think cars should be more individualistic, which is part of Slate’s pitch. So should men’s fashion expectations.

That being said, a lot of truck lifting is very similar and more “I’m signicaling I’m part of this culture,” than doing it for the sake of being cool. Some people do it as a form of expression, but that’s the exception in my experience.