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Qasim Rashid, Esq.<p>Guy worth $340B spending $25M in WI is like the median American worker who makes $39,982 a year spending $2.94.</p><p>Meaning, a $5 cup of coffee has a greater financial impact on a working American than $25M did on a maniac billionaire.</p><p>This is how democracies collapse.</p><p>TAX BILLIONAIRES OUT OF EXISTENCE.</p>
George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽<p>Sen. Cory Booker has the floor.</p>
Julia Evans<p>every core unix command I use</p>
Gerry McGovern<p>Bitcoin is pure evil</p><p>“From mid-2022 to mid-2023, the 34 mines consumed 32.3 terawatt-hours of electricity—33% more than Los Angeles—85% of which came from fossil fuels. We estimated that 1.9 million Americans were exposed to ≥0.1 μg/m3 of additional PM2.5 pollution from Bitcoin mines, often hundreds of miles away from the communities they affected.”</p><p><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-58287-3" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/s41467-025</span><span class="invisible">-58287-3</span></a></p>
Prof. Sam Lawler<p>Ok, time for a thread on what I&#39;ve been getting lots of interviews about. I&#39;ve dropped some hints and shared some info, but here&#39;s the story!</p><p>Remember this document I posted a while ago? <a href="https://www.starlink.com/public-files/Starlink_Approach_to_Satellite_Demisability.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">starlink.com/public-files/Star</span><span class="invisible">link_Approach_to_Satellite_Demisability.pdf</span></a></p><p>It casually mentions that a piece of a Starlink satellite was found in Saskatchewan in August 2024.</p>
Law Geek<p>Perfect</p>
D Lavoie<p>A shockingly straightforward headline from CNN: <a href="https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/tariffs-trump-news-04-02-25#cm8xamo3600lo2cqf5bit2p6p" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">www.cnn.com/business/liv...</a></p>
Michael Lucas :flan_set_fire:<p>using <a href="https://io.mwl.io/tags/firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>firefox</span></a> or a derivative? Setting browser.ml.chat.enabled=false turns off the brand-new AI features.</p><p>You're welcome.</p><p>(RIP my mentions, muting this)</p>
Matt Blaze<p>I have to say, eagerness to bend at the first sign of pressure is exactly the opposite of what I'd look for when hiring a law firm.</p>
Hippy Steve<p>Tragic Girls <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> comic</p>
A Light Shining in Darkness<p>It's true</p>
Alfie Kohn<p>Fox News stumbles onto something important by referring to anti-fascist graffiti as "anti-Trump"</p>
JP<p>the primary function of state violence is to protect capital</p>

"LLM did something bad, then I asked it to clarify/explain itself" is not critical analysis but just an illustration of magic thinking.

Those systems generate tokens. That is all. They don't "know" or "understand" or can "explain" anything. There is no cognitive system at work that could respond meaningfully.

That's the same dumb shit as what was found in Apple Intelligence's system prompt: "Do not hallucinate" does nothing. All the tokens you give it as input just change the part of the word space that was stored in the network. "Explain your work" just leads the network to lean towards training data that has those kinds of phrases in it (like tests and solutions). It points the system at a different part but the system does not understand the command. It can't.