Sorry but no. As profoundly unfair and undemocratic the US system is, it’s still more democratic than Russia where any serious opposition is literally murdered in broad daylight.

“The votes are for show” – do you mean to say that Trump’s victory in 2016, Biden’s in 2020 and Trump’s again in 2024 were prearranged by the central “powers that be”?

This is an important point in general. The old story of “voting with your wallet” is now more and more obviously mathematically absurd.

This might be a bit of a “I recognise that bulge” moment, but: that’s actually the Greek Chad nose, not Jewish Chad nose.

Restricting innovation? This is literally communism!

Fighting over Simple Article Summaries is just the latest fumble by the leadership, a sizable commitment of resources that’s tossed in the dump almost as soon as its off the press.

It wasn’t off the press, it was announced and in the works but still not close to shipping. Maybe Wikimedia could’ve talked about this great innovative project with the actual Wikipedia community before investing so much money into it.

International language support is… meh (one area where AI would be a huge benefit, as LLMs really shine in this field).

What would international language support entail? Translating articles into other languages?

To all the people downvoting the above comment, when was the last time you’ve read a WP article with 10k+ characters from top to bottom?

Article is not available without registering. As for the title, “destructive” book scanning means you cut off the binding and put the pages in a scanner which easily flips through them and takes the pictures. If you’re not scanning rare old books, this is a perfectly reasonable way to do it, because setting up a scanner for a normal book and manually turning each page to scan it takes a long time (Internet Archive has videos on how they do it, very nice and impressive, and logical since their original mission was scanning old public domain stuff, i.e. published before 1930 or so). If Anthropic will actually legally buy all those thousands upon thousands of books, that will be a pleasant precedent for an AI company.

Although I very much doubt that random uncritically gathered textual material can “teach their AI tool how to write well”. They’re still pushing for more and more training data, even though it’s clear actual advancement will have to happen (if it can happen) through more refined usage of / training on the data.

Apparently it’s legal and acceptable to demand, through a court, enough money to destroy the world economy.

Seriously, if I were the judge I’d throw out the lawsuit until they come up with a remotely realistic number. As it is, it makes the whole lawsuit look like a joke.

Perhaps Anna can pay them off with theoretical potential money too? Like, a big collection of monkey NFTs.

Dotcom is now effectively Musk’s hanger-on of a somewhat insane type. He posts a lot of megalomaniac and incoherent right-wing stuff (and I mean incoherent even by right-wing standards), as seen here. He hasn’t had anything to do with MEGA for many years, he’s been in a sort of exile in New Zealand, and frankly he seems as if he’s isolated and mentally deteriorating.

For now what I’m usually seeing is people talking about Russian influence without hard proof or just plainly contradicted by reality, as in this case. I’ve seen speculation that Dessalines (Lemmy developer) is Russian due to his tankie takes, again easily contradicted by his digital footprint.

As for me being a tankie, I’m literally banned on Hexbear for being subscribed to some anti-tankie communities.

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Allow me to weigh in here as a Russian.

Moscow lost power due to Ukrainian drone attacks

I am sorry, /u/Ok-Stand-2128, but this premise from the post looks wrong. Could you please share your sources on this? I could find no info about an outage in the city of Moscow on that night. There was only an outage in Moscow region: more specifically, in Zhukovsky, a city with a population of about 100,000 people. (An analogy would be an outage in Albany in the state of New York, while New York City had no outage.) I’ll share my sources in a reply because Reddit sometimes deletes links to Russian websites.

I can imagine no reason for this outage to influence any Russian bots. Zhukovsky is not an IT hub.

Also, the fifth image shows that the two users in question usually start posting at 2 a.m. Moscow time, the middle of the night, not a typical workday start.

The increasing tendency of US leftists to assume Russian influence behind the conservatives seems like a rehash/mirror of the Cold War anti-communist paranoia. The profiles themselves clearly behave bot-like:

It’s definitely Ask4MD, but I figured the other one was According-Activity87. If you go on conserv sub right now half the first page is both of them posting. Both have extremely easy MOs to follow. Ask4MD will post something and never engage with it. According-Activity will post something then post a GIF response almost instantly. It’s so tuned and they’re never called out about it.

GIF responses are indeed a frequent thing for reddit bots to use, from what I’ve seen.

Now it’s updated, you’re human again :)

Hmm, you’re still marked as a bot on my end. Maybe it takes a while to update.

My impression is that for ordinary non-power users it was supported from the start (i.e. the commonplace image viewers and editors could open it), it just felt annoying at first because it seemed forced upon the user.

That’s some pretty nice moiré you got on the pillow

Changed it, a bit long now but I guess it’s ok?

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Well, I didn’t say it would lead to anything good. I’m not an accelerationist and wouldn’t like to be one.

Just stop trying to make everything be about the US, for god’s sake.