It really feels like people high up in political organizations are just uncontrollably gossipy and simply can’t restrain themselves even if it’s dangerously counterproductive. It’s all just a fun game.

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That’s kind of a circular hypothesis. People perceiving their side having more support could lead to them showing up and their side actually winning, or their side could have already had more support and been on the way to victory and people were simply able to observe reality.

You don’t want to say “we’re fucked”, but you also don’t want to portray that everything’s going great so let’s focus on how we’re going to decorate the victory party. There’s a reason donation emails don’t highlight the polls where they’re up by 5 and instead find news that looks like effort is needed. Complacent people stop donating, stop volunteering, and may possibly think they don’t need to go through the hassle of standing in a long line to vote. People need to think it’s winnable, not that it’s won and ‘offficials within the Harris campaign … believe she remains in a solid position in the Northern “blue wall” states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin’ sounds concerningly safe for states that absolutely shouldn’t have any smidgen of complacency.

ProPublica has been doing great work.

And these aids shouldn’t be putting this message out a week before the election. You’re perpetually in a game of inches where every vote could make the difference until the votes are counted and you’ve won. People can deal with being anxious for another week if it gets them to the polls.

In response to questions on the comments, and whether Trump was planning to publicly denounce them, Trump campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement, “Due to President Trump’s plans to cut taxes, end inflation, and stop the surge of illegal immigrants at the southern border, he has more support from the Hispanic American community than any Republican in recent history.”

News outlets need to stop giving non-responses space in their stories. The PR people don’t answer questions because they can just say whatever pro-candidate message they want and the journalists will print it. Say they gave a response that didn’t address the subject and move on, don’t promote their alternate messaging.

It would be a fitting bout of karma after he didn’t give two shits about the response to Hurricane Maria.

I have not personally explored AI porn, but as someone with experience in machine learning and accidental biases that’s not very surprising to me.

On top the of the general societal bias towards youth for “beauty” related roles, smoother and less-featured faces (that in general look younger) are closer to an average face so defaulting to that gets a bit of training boost (when in doubt, target the mean). It’s probably also not helped by youth-related porn keywords (teen, daughter, young) that further associate other porn prompts (even ones not about youth) with non-porn images of underage women that also have those keywords.

I assume any CSEM ingested into these models is absolutely swamped by the massive amount of adult porn that’s much more easily available. A handful of images aren’t going to drive model output in datasets of the scale of the image generation models. Maybe there are keywords that could drill down to be more associated with the child porn, but a lot of “young” type keywords are already plentifully applied to adults, and I imagine accidental child porn ingests are much less likely to be as conveniently labeled.

So maybe you can figure out how to get it to produce child porn, but it probably won’t just randomly produce it for an innocent porn prompt.

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I think that already exists, but the ACLU is asking for the state to either register them now or reach out to help them get registered. There’s no one to really order to just let them do what everyone can do.

The idea that either of the former things would invite voting chaos is just completely bullshit and while I expect the Republican defendants to just put out the most nonsensical bullshit ever, I assume this judge (who was appointed by Republicans) must fully in on the political project to actually accept them. They’re claiming that calling up some people who they’ve already identified and have the contact information for to help fix an error is “chaos”.

The people I know who are most stridently against the genocide are Jews. Don’t play into antisemetic tropes that Jewish people are automatically supportive of Israel no matter what sins it commits.

I don’t think Harris was included in anything. Nothing they’ve done indicates Biden respects her at all. The problem is that if this is not true, she refuses to refute it.

For the amount of money that flows in for elections, the party organizations are shockingly incompetent. Somehow those massively overpaid consultants are too busy to think about implementing free-advertising options to support on the ground outreach.

Or since she can’t make that happen currently, at least say that’s something she’s considering. Or even just that she disagrees with Biden at all on the war.

They’re effectively saying let’s give Trump a chance because Harris, despite having no power, is already doing a bad job. Trump being worse is “hyperbole”. It’s completely braindead. And I say this as someone who thinks criticizing her lack of opposition to genocide is a good thing.

The direct Hitler praise hadn’t come out before 2016. There were certainly many other serious red flags though.

I doubt many people make anywhere close to minimum, but no excuse not to raise it!

That’s in fact one of the best reasons to raise it as it’s a clear indicator it’s failing to perform its purpose. We know there are exploitative employers who will pay as low as they possibly can and nothing has changed in our economy or country to suggest that the market now naturally provides a baseline living wage, so it rarely being in effect is a big flashing red sign that it’s woefully out of date.

The number needs to be set to a good value, but this is the most frustrating aspect of this whole song and dance, because there shouldn’t even be a question about whether it should track inflation. Just setting another flat value so we can watch it atrophy away is maddening. The whole concept is directly related to the cost of goods, and the people needing this wage are the most impacted by price changes. And since it’s supposed to be a floor, you know minimum wage employers aren’t going to voluntarily raise wages to track inflation. They’d be paying even less if they were allowed.

Even if the businesses-first majority of politicians try to low-ball the target, there’s no legitimate argument for not making it auto-update. Businesses just like to reap the extra exploitation between updates.

Oh please. This started as a simple false statement and now you’re moving the goalposts for them. The Democrats didn’t just propose $15 and “the day after the election it [was] never brought up again”. They tried, maybe they could have tried more, but that they weren’t even close to 50 suggests any path was a failure. They did have 40-something Democrats though, aka the vast majority of the party. That there are shitty Democrats isn’t a revelation.

And this idea that Sanders isn’t a Democrat in any meaningful way is fun trivia, not something a person who is attempting to engage in meaningful conversation about politics takes seriously. He caucuses with them, wins the Democratic primary in his state, competes to lead the party, and supports Democratic nominees even when they’re from the other end of the party. The centrists are disingenuous idiots but so are the leftists who do the exact same thing. Sanders likes the aesthetic of “independent”, good for him, he’s still on team (D) and not remotely the only good senator on it.