Fish.

My apartment building turns 100 this year.

One of the crime scene cleanup photos shows a prominent pride flag in the window of the establishment, and the venue’s website says “Proudly Black-, Brown-, Queer-, and Women-owned.”

Could that have been the motivation for the attack?

There are three factors that might prevent you from using an online platform to share your opinion:

• The government might impose content restrictions on the platform

• The owners (or delegated moderators) of the platform might impose restrictions on its users

• The users of the platform might use its tools to police the opinions of other users.

“Freedom of speech” normally just applies to the first. Is that what you mean when you say you’re not “allowed” to speak freely?

the single largest federal law enforcement agency in the history of the nation

Are all those qualifiers even needed?

Are there any state or local agencies larger than the federal government’s? Are there any other countries with larger agencies? (China or India, maybe?)

Or can we just call it “the largest law enforcement agency in (western) history”?

They do say the rate of change was greater than the pre-COVID trend, but I don’t know if that means the level is now below where it would be if the pre-COVID trend had continued without interruption.

It’s interesting that the same stimulus (COVID) could cause crime to spike in the short term, then decline to below the original level.

I wonder if that could be a general pattern with societal trauma or social change in general—there’s an initial period of disruption, then a re-adaptation that creates an opportunity to resolve long-standing issues with the previous status quo.

It always seemed to me that the obvious conclusion to draw from the idea that some teens are under so much social pressure to align their mental and biological genders that they see suicide as the only alternative is that that aspect of society is in urgent need of fixing, not the bodies of the teens in question.

AI models aren’t willing to do anything—they’re just generating hypothetical behaviors based on the predictions they’ve learned to make about the behavior of others.

It’s like asking a child to describe the behavior of their imaginary friend.

Part of the ideology of the major AI companies is that AI is actually profoundly dangerous, and only the companies who recognize the danger should be allowed to develop it.

IMO the focus should have always been on the potential for AI to produce copyright-violating output, not on the method of training.

Why would the article’s credited authors pass up the chance to improve their own health status and health satisfaction?

Critical paragraph:

Our research highlights the importance of Germany’s unique institutional context, characterized by strong labor protections, extensive union representation, and comprehensive employment legislation. These factors, combined with Germany’s gradual adoption of AI technologies, create an environment where AI is more likely to complement rather than displace worker skills, mitigating some of the negative labor market effects observed in countries like the US.

That makes sense—being raised by ChatGPT might be marginally better than being raised by Sam Altman.

Thanks! I hate it.

If life is an experiment, and there is a measuring tool

So that’s what keeps causing our wave function to collapse!

How does that compare to the growth in size of the overall code base?

How would they enforce this, if they can’t identify the people violating it?

That’s one of the main exceptions mentioned in the article:

Under the proposal, law enforcement officials would be exempted from the mask ban if they serve on a SWAT team or if a mask is necessary for medical or health reasons, including to prevent smoke inhalation.

But I can see the claim of “health reasons” being abused.

I grew up in California near the bay area calling them weed whackers.

Same.