It’s a neat mashup of genres.

They did a good job of making each of the heroes promote a unique kind of playstyle even though you’re using the same cards.

I did, at least, convince him to go to the doctor about the sores (so he would have a paper trail when he sues them).

Smartphones brought way too many people into the worst parts of the Internet without any preparation. Social media’s recommendation system and targeted advertisement made a whole section of our population crazy but LLM chatbots are a whole other level of personalized mental poison.

Right now the ‘evil’ uses of LLMs are just to run online influence campaigns more efficiently. They’re basically taking the old model that required humans to post on social media and providing a force multiplier.

We’re not ready for when these buddy chatbots start pushing political opinions directly. Grok is probably the first example of someone trying that exact thing, but they won’t be the last and they’re only going to get more effective.

People are just not mentally prepared for the level of sycophancy that these models display.

That kind of large scale gas lighting was previously only available to rich dictators but now OpenAI will rent it to you for $20/mo.

I have a relative that was convinced (by ChatGPT) that his neighbor was beaming radiowaves at him through their window because he had developed pressure sores on the back of his legs (likely from talking to ChatGPT). I brought a Software Defined Radio to his house and left it logging for a week to show him that there was no strong transmissions anywhere in the frequency range that ChatGPT had said.

He told me my equipment was broken. 😑

e: fixed pronouns

We did just fine before TSA

The SecDef position must be taking applications.

“some would call a legal lay up.”

The trick here is that you can literally use ‘some would say’ to say literally anything.

Some would say that leprechauns hide in ATMs on the east side of NYC.

Some would say that geese have 3 wings.

Some would say that the Earth is flat.

It’s a non-statement that is used everywhere. It sounds like they’re saying something, but they’re really not.

They seem confident enough to sell merch with the brand’s name:

I am far more worried about whatever the administration is planning on as far as the DHS is concerned. The PATRIOT act has granted them extraordinary powers in relation to fighting ‘terrorism’ without bothering to strictly define what ‘terrorism’ is… this administration has shown a gleeful willingness to apply that label to their political opposition.

At least National Guard members actually live in the communities that they would be asked to attack (however the administration may phrase it).

Everything is a game.

They’ve just turned this one into cat-and-mouse.

Pareto in shambles

The way they’re trying to get around this is:

1. Bribe the current administration (Already done) and;

2. Structure all of the bets so they are ‘Yes/No’ options and then pretend they are selling swaps and thus regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)

3. Have the Federal Government intervene in these cases claiming that the Supremacy Clause means that only they, via the CFTC, can regulate swaps and these places are not gambling they are selling financial instruments. So any state regulation is invalid because the CFTC is already regulating these swaps which are totally not gambling.

4. Let administration official use insider knowledge to take advantage of all of the suckers so that #3. keeps going.

Blockade the entrance to an abortion clinic and you’re a “peaceful pro-life protesters” exercising your First Amendment rights.

Blockade the entrance to an ICE facility and you’re a “violent antifa terrorist” committing insurrection.

“This Department will not tolerate a two-tiered system of justice,” Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, said in a statement. “No Department should conduct selective prosecution based on beliefs.

Governments are discovering the United Healthcare way of saving money: stop paying for medical treatments

It won’t hurt them, their insurance is paid for by the state regardless.

I always wait until it’s at least 300%, 400%, 800% off. Just like my prescription drug prices.

Felon disenfranchisement should be unconstitutional/prevented with an amendment. The government should not have the capability of removing people’s ability to vote at all for any reason.

That is correct, the fix targets the AMDGPU kernel driver so nvidia users will have to wait/implement it ourselves.

It’s on the AUR but you need a patched kernel which you can grab from catchyOS

Instructions are in the developer’s blog post: https://pixelcluster.github.io/VRAM-Mgmt-fixed/

Q: I use another Arch-based distro! What now?

The dmemcg-booster and plasma-foreground-booster utilities are available in the AUR as well (plasma-foreground-booster carries the package name plasma-foreground-booster-dmemcg), so you can install them from there.

For the kernel side, you can either use the CachyOS kernel package on a non-CachyOS system by retrieving the package from their repository, or you can compile your own kernel. Installing linux-dmemcg from the AUR will compile the development branch I used to develop this. Being a development branch, this carries the risk of some stuff being broken, so install at your own risk!

If you want to apply the kernel patches yourself, you need these six .patch files: [links in blog]

I’m not sure how easily they apply on specific kernel versions, but feel free to leave a comment if you run into issues and I’ll try to help out.

Lots of for-profit commercial entities contribute to open source projects.

The code they’re contributing is covered by the same license as the code contributed by volunteer developers.

I understand why we should be cautious about these things, but the current situation is that Valve is contributing a lot and their contributions are open source. Yeah, they’re doing it for a profit motive, but not to the point where they’re trying to kill open source projects or hide the updates behind proprietary binaries.

Valve is, currently, not being evil. GabeN has plenty of yacht money.

Exactly, if you want the world the way you want it, you have to stay engaged in the political process at every level.

It’s not a spectator sport.

Vote.

Just to be clear, because I’ve seen it in a lot of these threads.

She can’t hide behind the executive from contempt of congress. She may be able to dodge a criminal charge, but congress has the power of inherent contempt.

Under inherent contempt, either chamber can direct its Sergeant-at-Arms to arrest and detain a person without relying on the courts or executive branch. The individual is brought before the chamber for proceedings and can be held until they comply or the congressional session ends.

Congress can literally physically force a person to be held in custody until they comply. It hasn’t been used since the 1930s but it is very much a thing that can be done.

Just like the Judicial branch doesn’t require the executive branch in order to enforce a court order or contempt. It can deputize people to see that its will is done.

The executive doesn’t have exclusive rights to use force to compel obedience, all branches can but have rarely needed to.