HELLGORITHM

HELLGORITHM

@hellgorithm.website

self-published author of a Zelda fansite. best viewed in Netscape Navigator 3.0

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Some Lula supporters apparently shouted his name out their window when it was announced he won and a cop pointed his gun at him and they took what is possibly the greatest image of a cop ever taken, like genuinely this would go hard as a cover for a Rage album its so poetic.

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Kamala Harris: I just fell out of a coconut tree.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Kamala Harris: I think that going in the direction of impeachment is not a good idea. I was in the Senate for the last go-round, and the votes aren’t there. I think after the election, we all have to just also agree that our attitude has to be to get stuff done…

Gotta get rid of these people

Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social

Will Chamberlain of the Thiel-backed Edmund Burke Foundation (which organizes NatCon) says that “The Brazilian regime should look carefully at what has happened to Venezuela and Cuba, and remember that this hemisphere belongs to the United States of America.” 1/

For weed! In San Francisco! When San Francisco was still cool!

SKELLYTON@pizzalawyer420.bsky.social

Kamala prosecuted people in San Francisco for WEED but prosecuting Donald Trump now that's too far

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lawsuits good. lawfare better. the left has got to learn to pick the weaklings of the liberal-fascist alliance and start turning them into piggy banks for better lawsuits

A game streamer I’ve gotten into recently is Rhadamant. Found him while learning Ostranauts. Dug into his channel and turns out he’s into exactly my type of shit. If you like management, automation, simulation type games, he’s a good one.

In iOS, if you’ve got a video playing in the background and then try to start another video in another app (e.g. Bluesky), you might expect that the background video pauses and the new video begins playing. And that is what happens, except you no longer have audio until you dis/reconnect Bluetooth.

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Another reason to not use AI is of course that it's a vector for not only corporate censorship but outright manipulation. You are prompting a system built by and designed to serve corporations' version of reality. And open models won't save you; they're distilled from the corporate models.

Anat Shenker-Osorio@anatosaurus.bsky.social

Among things Meta did in Brazil was have their AI bot within WhatsApp allow users to generate election poster for Flavio but deny requests to do so for Lula. When folks asked for posters for invented candidates, AI tagged them with #22 - Flavio's # - in a country where folks vote by #.

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They call it cloud computing because they run it on big shitty methane generators that create a “cloud” of smoke in poor neighborhoods.

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Defender PSA: 1. Today’s macOS update from Apple does NOT appear to remove the compromised eMudhra intermediates from /etc/ssl/cert.pem, as far as I can tell 2. Today’s macOS update from Apples DOES clobber manual changes to /etc/ssl/cert.pem and so you will need to reapply them

support.apple.comAbout the compromised eMudhra intermediate CAs - Apple SupportApple is blocking the compromised certificates automatically. Mac administrators can take optional steps for some command-line tools.

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A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

helenwebberley.comAre transgender sports bans really about protecting women? | Dr Helen WebberleyThe data says no. Those most hostile to women are most in favour of banning trans athletes.

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its very funny that there is now a claim that code is cheap because like.. you're still paying devs and now you're paying Anthropic too if you were a solo dev, code used to be free, you weren't paying yourself, but now you pay Anthropic code is actually more expensive now lol

My thoughts have been, maybe don't campaign on an online gambling ban, but definitely enact it at the first opportunity. But if this post is true, I mean... That's like smokers being in favor of further restrictions on public smoking. That doesn't typically happen, so when it does maybe run with it.

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That said, smoking did introduce and bond me to some of the most interesting people I've ever met. So, you know. Who's to say. But also, dropping the habit was ultimately a massive quality of life win. Don't smoke, and if you do, quit, that is my truest advice. There are better ways to make friends

One last caveat though, if for some reason you feel you must choose between online gambling vs smoking as your vice...smoke lol. It is very bad for you so don't do it, but at least there is _some_ potential upside to it beyond a dopamine button and a thrill that obscures your ruin.

My thoughts have been, maybe don't campaign on an online gambling ban, but definitely enact it at the first opportunity. But if this post is true, I mean... That's like smokers being in favor of further restrictions on public smoking. That doesn't typically happen, so when it does maybe run with it.

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Tangentially, as a former smoker, it's hard to overstate how much that vice can shape you in subtle ways. You choose your bar based on smoker-friendliness. Cigs become your foremost way to introduce yourself to new people. It tints your perception of winter, because smoking in the windy cold sucks.

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No, fuck that. Just ban it. I’m so sick of mealy mouthed Democrats refusing to take a clear position on anything. Online gambling has been an abject disaster. It’s the next opioid epidemic. Ban it.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net

i don't think anyone should run explicitly on banning online gambling but i do think that a democratic-led government should just quietly take steps to undermine the industry and create an inhospitable regulatory environment

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for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it. I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance: recordsofenemysurveillance.com

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this is probably true and also points to a failure of our culture to properly constrain digital tech. no one goes around saying they’re a hammer-person bc we have witty aphorisms warning against that, eg: when your only tool is a hammer everything looks like a nail. where’s our anticomputer slogan

Colin@colin-fraser.net

I think there’s a thing where people who have understood themselves for the last 20 years or so to not be “computer people” feel that AI is the first new technology that basically makes sense and is intuitive, and it makes them feel like they are finally good at using computers

I hope Lula is able to use his popular mandate to show us how you deal with a party that is explicitly hostile to democracy. Cut them out, root and stem, then salt the earth where they came from.

I am not familiar with what he can actually do under the Brazilian constitution, and without a majority legislature. But sounds like he's off to a good start cutting Flávio out from fleeing.

We in the US could use an example to point to. I have little hope that the Dems would follow such an example following their near-certain electoral resurgence coming up, but at least it would give us something concrete to point to, like, "See? That's how it's done. So why aren't you doing it?"

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It can’t be underemphasized that, all else aside, LLM products, even the very newest most “advanced” paid models, as a rule, output baseless claims and present them as well-researched facts. You won’t be able to tell the difference unless you’re already a hypervigilant expert in the subject matter.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

In every practical sense, their output is information-free. And the cost of generating that output is tremendous, even before factoring in the externalized, socialized costs.

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Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

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Replying to @brunodias.dev

It is in a lot of ways just an abdication of responsibility, of taking a role in forming the political environment. It's the fundamental problem of shallow popularism; you assume you're just a powerless actor reacting to the "preferences" of the "median voter", which is a loser's way of thinking.

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There's a constant low-level discussion on English-language bluesky about the electoral consequences of transphobic rhetoric from left-liberals but I think it's honestly worse than "they might not vote for you", it's more like, you're cutting yourself off from political labor and talent.

If we want to see the Democrats do this we will need them not merely to start combatting GOP messaging but to stop fucking _amplifying_ it. Enough is enough of Democrats embracing racism, transphobia, Islamophobia, anti-abortion, etc.

Bruno Dies@brunodias.dev

What's striking to me are the rules of engagement and the methodology of action here, which more or less is predicated on burying liberal delusions about "debate" or the "marketplace of ideas". The rules were ultimately very simple: amplify your own message and suppress your opponent's.

An important lesson for the US here specifically is that Lula defeated Bolsonaro in part by actually, importantly, _not being Bolsonaro_

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What's striking to me are the rules of engagement and the methodology of action here, which more or less is predicated on burying liberal delusions about "debate" or the "marketplace of ideas". The rules were ultimately very simple: amplify your own message and suppress your opponent's.

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I spent all day writing the thread in my head about how Bolsonaro's win was the culmination of a 20-year project to end Brazilian democracy, with the participation of both domestic elites and foreign actors like the US state department and Meta. This is all true, of course, except he didn't win.