WesternInfidels

Can you explain what it is about these sentences that makes you think they were machine generated?

I’ve seen less suspicious versions of this concept which turned out to be composites.

Did this cursed language have a name?

Custom searches are awesome! There might be an even easier way:

With Firefox, most of the time, you can right-click a web page’s search box and choose “Add Search Engine,” and you’ll get a box allowing you to give the search a name and a search bar keyword. Which you can edit later with Settings -> Search if needed.

it is very poor logic to assume that simply because a company is selling a piece of commercial or industrial equipment means that equipment is unprofitable to own.

The article is not making this generalization, it’s specifically about Tesla’s situation and offer.

Your ASML analogy would work, if 1) ASML already ran their own chip foundries, 2) ASML was offering you the chance to buy a lithography machine that would not work except inside an ASML foundry, 3) ASML promised they would lease “your” lithography machine back from you, on terms they set, at some unspecified future date.

…once videos of the moment started circulating online, conservative political commentators were quick to unleash their wrath…

It’s important to remember that some pretty significant fraction of these “commentators” are really shills, robots, and/or other cyber-turfing actors. They’re propagandists, they sow culture war outrage on purpose, they don’t really believe in anything.

A generation after the Civil War, the Daughters of the Confederacy blanketed the country, and especially the South, with monuments to the traitors who fought and died for slavery.

Yes, I expect we’ll find both the money and the will to build monuments to this abrasive corrupt man, this shrill soulless void of ego and need, this vile abuser of women and children, this screeching embodiment of our worst qualities.

All you Negative Nellies are so eager to dunk on the VP that you can’t even hear his point. Sure, there’s a “conflict,” sure, our militaries are “shooting and bombing and trying to kill each other,” but you’ve missed the important thing, which is all the peace that’s happening. See, there was a moment of peace just then. And here’s another moment when no one is shooting now. And here – uh wait, wait just a moment – here’s another moment of peace now.

I was certain you meant “fetal position” but I looked it up and today I learned.

People say “30F,” too.

But how do we decide when someone’s memorial name should be shortened?

Why not “cels?”

If we simplified “Baudot” to “baud” why the heck couldn’t we simplify “Fahrenheit?” Sheesh.

They’re using domain-specific LLMs to compress narrow-domain data. Their text compression LLM was trained on, and then tested on, legal text and medical text.

There’s no reason one couldn’t apply the domain-specific-compressor idea to a conventional lossless text compressor, essentially moving much of the dictionary from the compressed file to the program itself. I don’t know if anyone’s tried that. I’d like to know how that compares.

…the U.S. sells the oil on the open market, which in theory should bring oil prices down by increasing supply.

They’re leaving it as subtext for some reason, but:

Gasoline is only as cheap as it is because we’re draining this reserve. Which we cannot do forever.

“Ontario” is an indigenous word that was adopted by European colonists before either Canada or the US existed. Historical erasure from the “but muh statues” crowd.

Son it’s time we talked about fractional reserve banking

If you’ve got a favorite replacement for the Google Maps mobile app, this would be a great place to tell people about it. I believe the world of Open Street Map (OSM) is likely to be a little intimidating, a little daunting, for the masses, so an easy starting point might be especially helpful.

[X] I’m in this picture and MY LIFE IS RUINED

I KNEW it.

I think the cyclical, self-destrctive nature of the grifts he discusses really is different from any trends I saw on the internet in the 90s. He’s not suggesting that the online world of the 90s was all rainbows and unicorns, but that much internet “culture” today works on the basis of hurting the very people perpetuating it, trapping them within it. That may not be entirely new in human experience, but it’s more visible, more spread-able, more mainstream, more large-scale than ever.