I get this vibe that no one knows what’s going on anymore and everything is just running on the fumes of the zeitgeist and conspiracy theories.

I find the fact that the whole world “knows” that China will invade Taiwan in 2027 to be really strange. And this has been the case for years. It feels like certain groups are taking it as a foregone conclusion.

Exactly.

Thanks for the reply. With this administration, its easy to assume the truth about anything is being bent.

I heard someone suggest they are claiming friendly fire on the first ones to lessen the embarrassment of being taken out by the enemy. So that’s just conjecture.

Anyone think that is plausible? They said back during recent conflicts the US would do similar things to save face.

The colors do not match.

And when you are talking about colors like this, when they are fashion choices, etc, the precise colors matter.

So yes, they knew “yellow” but got the “yellow” wrong. The person I replied to was responding to the visual sensation of a particular yellow. Not the word “yellow.”

The “pink” is even more incorrect.

Even the original quoted article said no images leaked.

I suspect that the current US administration is excited for AI for two reasons:

• they are bumbling idiots.
• they will have something to blame when they fuck up.

We have long had a culture of those who only know the basics of how technologies work blaming the tech when things go wrong, or as a scapegoat for user error or intentional user decisions. These schemes and lies rely on assuming other people involved don’t understand the tech well enough to mount a rebuttal.

Those are just something Mac rumors made up. Only text with the name leaked.

“You’ll come crawling back when we turn on AI generated porn and virtual girlfriends.” -Sama

If it’s less than 16gb, then they will have totally changed direction on AI.

Why leave WebKit out?

People don’t like to look at this dimension. They just like to talk about how seeking out porn is natural and normal for teens. I’ve seen a few people around Lemmy make this claim as an argument against doing anything about how we handle pornography in the modern world.

They don’t want to consider the fact that unfettered access to porn from puberty impacts how a whole class of people engage with the world, and with others. Impacts how they socialize, how hard they try in seeking out partners. Etc. It’s a deep subject that just gets dismissed for a variety of shallow reasons.

Men too :smart:

They keep trying to make Linux more appealing.

I don’t mean to imply any sort of assessment of your intelligence or care in thinking. I’m mostly calling out over broad generalizations.

And I understand where you are coming from on moderating speech. But I also feel that until better solutions are devised, and the ramifications of unchecked noise are well understood, that moderation on digital platforms is needed. And that digital spaces can’t just be treated as if they are not “real spaces” with boundaries circumscribed. I feel people have the right to build and maintain spaces for specific styles and structures of discourse.

And this comes into conflict with ideas of censorship.

Analogy: But I’m not censoring you if I exclude you from my book club meetings that you attempted to participate in at the public library. I am curating the space I have built, and the way you attempted to participate was disruptive, or incongruous with the intent of the group.

In any case. I’m not trying to tell you you are wrong. But I do think that mega-scale platforms like Reddit and Twitter and others of that scale intrinsically have to function at a different level.

What was once a space that people like yourself could be free to be provocative, and shit post, and push difficult ideas has become a space where there are innumerable people like you who build up what ends up being noise. Your style of discourse is probally better suited to smaller spaces. IMO.

It’s a difficult problem. And I think you know that. And you are just arguing your side. I’d just suggest not being too overly broad, and uncharitable.

I’m guessing based on the downvotes, he does.

I don’t like to be that broad about things. This is because I know how difficult it is to do moderation. There are so many shitheads in the world who will disrupt curated spaces. They ruin it for everyone, and that leads to needing strict policies that otherwise wouldn’t be needed in a more civil space.

But with the r/ufos, I’m down with calling out their over moderation and terrible justification for removing many things. And in their case, it’s because they are trying to insulate themselves from the flood of attention they are getting post pandemic era from people who poke their head in, realize how much bullshit is going on in the scene, and then point it out.

Over the past six years the sub has seen a steady increase in people who are not just there to listen to story time. And these new people are fed up with the nonsense, and they call it out. And this isn’t being a team player. People want their story time. The people in control of the sub don’t want critical opinions to outnumber those of the belivers.

So yeah. I’m not on the side of broadly talking shit about moderators across the platform, or any platform. That’s stupid.

You know who sounds like you do here? r/ufos people who try to post UFO grifter slop on r/politics or r/science. They sound just like you, even though they are posting trash in subs that must have strict moderation lest they become overrun with nonsense and noise. Those subs get sooo much traffic. Etc. etc. etc.

The UFO community has been wanting Trump to and suggesting Trump would do this for years. And at least on Reddit, they can’t stand anyone pointing out that it’s all just to garner attention and support from a fringe base. And to sow distrust in government institutions. (they won’t tell you the truth, but I will etc)

I was banned for pointing this out because it was “off topic”.

I hope this at least brings real proper reporting and debunking to the subject. Fringe online media, and conservative mainstream media already cover this just to placate their base. And they can’t call it bullshit, or offer balanced reporting on it because they will offend the people they are trying to rope in.

And hey, if it turns out the US really does know stuff they have tried to keep from the public, that would be cool. But after following this during the pandemic era, like many people did, I came to the conclusion that most of it is rehashed bullshit and circular reporting and grifters telling stories for attention. It’s also clear that the topic is exploited for ulterior motives by governments. Someone elsewhere in this thread listed a few concrete examples. And this looks like this will be the largest such exploitation of the topic ever.

Also, I love how the slug for this story is just “trump” with a long string of numbers. It really represents the news cycles of our time.

Does he say the same word over and over in a run on sentence to be purposefully confusing for effect? It’s his favorite bit to do. Bubble bubble bubble.

There’s another patent suit with Disney+ over HDR, or maybe the same thing, in Germany right now, too.