Let me be clear: America will lead the way during this period of technological change.

But we're going to do it in a way that puts safety first.

Today at 2:30 PM, I'll sign a historic Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence that will do just that.

— President Biden (@POTUS) October 30, 2023

We are committed to Open Models @StabilityAI

We have given over 20 million A100 hours in grants to open AI research & projects across communities.

Stable Diffusion 3 will have an open release.

Same with video, language, code, 3D, audio etc.

Open collaboration is the way 🚀

— Emad (@EMostaque) February 27, 2024

MOAR FREE CODESHIT FRICK YEA

I've just spoken to a Twitter employee who works on climate, and they said their unit was simply cut off without warning. https://t.co/hig7DoDEG0

— Dave Vetter (@davidrvetter) November 4, 2022

Every time I see someone who's been laid off they're always working in an even more ridiculous department than the last one.

I wonder if every tech company is like this now or if Twitter is especially bad?

How

i thought this already but now its real

also !codecels come laugh and point

https://graz.social/@publicvoit/111147782761723981

slack my nuts

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37702095

X thread

There's clearly an attitude of "we know what you want better than you" at google right now that can be seen by the ridiculous shit coming out of Gemini. This is why their search has been getting so bad. They make a lot of assumptions of what you want, where it used to just give you what you were asking for

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Context: Multichain's CEO has been AWOL since May, leaving the rest of the team without access for server maintenance. There were early rumours that he was arrested by the Chinese government, but there's been no confirmation of that.

Yesterday, several of their contracts were drained to unknown addresses, with a total value of over $126m.

This is not the first time they've had trouble - they were hacked in 2022, but for a measly $3m.

https://twitter.com/MultichainOrg/status/1677180114227056641

https://twitter.com/MultichainOrg/status/1677096839731097600

Various people crying about their magic internet money:

https://twitter.com/VCosta7989126/status/1677131886248841217 (most of the replies to this are people trying to scam him when he has no money now lol)

https://twitter.com/Tombr8r/status/1677143238929711105

https://twitter.com/SmartlyC/status/1677158351384494083

Apple will finally allow for sideloading apps in iOS 17 to comply with EU regulations

This would allow users to download apps outside of the App Store and allow developers to avoid the 15% to 30% fees

Source: @markgurman pic.twitter.com/VAjEDeXcLb

— Apple Hub (@theapplehub) April 18, 2023

In case you wanted to trust Scroogle and the US Government even less!

From Forbes

Federal investigators have ordered Google to provide information on all viewers of select YouTube videos, according to multiple court orders obtained by Forbes. Privacy experts from multiple civil rights groups told Forbes they think the orders are unconstitutional because they threaten to turn innocent YouTube viewers into criminal suspects.

In a just-unsealed case from Kentucky reviewed by Forbes, undercover cops sought to identify the individual behind the online moniker “elonmuskwhm,” who they suspect of selling bitcoin for cash, potentially running afoul of money laundering laws and rules around unlicensed money transmitting.

In conversations with the user in early January, undercover agents sent links of YouTube tutorials for mapping via drones and augmented reality software, then asked Google for information on who had viewed the videos, which collectively have been watched over 30,000 times.

The court orders show the government telling Google to provide the names, addresses, telephone numbers and user activity for all Google account users who accessed the YouTube videos between January 1 and January 8, 2023. The government also wanted the IP addresses of non-Google account owners who viewed the videos. The cops argued, “There is reason to believe that these records would be relevant and material to an ongoing criminal investigation, including by providing identification information about the perpetrators.”......

>be spook

>send spooky youtube link

>ask youtube who watched your spookiness so you can go spook them at home

r/privacy discombobulates

YouTube is removing the ability for creators to choose where ads show up or whether viewers can skip them pic.twitter.com/HXJgZw2ANO

— Dexerto (@Dexerto) September 6, 2023

Kolektiva is an anti-colonial anarchist collective that offers federated social media to anarchist collectives and individuals in the fediverse. For the social movements and liberation!

In mid-May 2023, the home of one of Kolektiva.social's admins was raided, and all their electronics were seized by the FBI. The raid was part of an investigation into a local protest. Kolektiva was neither a subject nor target of this investigation. Today, that admin was charged in relation to their alleged participation in this protest.

Unfortunately, at the time of the raid, our admin was troubleshooting an issue and working with a backup copy of the Kolektiva.social database. This backup, dated from the first week of May 2023, was in an unencrypted state when the raid occurred and it was seized, along with everything else.

The database is the heart of a Mastodon server. A database copy such as the one seized may include any of the following user data, in this case up to date as of early May 2023:

• User account information like the e-mail address associated with your account, your followers and follows, etc.

• All your posts: public, unlisted, followers-only, and direct ("DMs").

• Possibly IP addresses associated with your account - IP addresses on Kolektiva.social are logged for 3 days and then deleted, so IP addresses from any logins in the 3 days prior to the database backup date would be included.

• A hashed ("encrypted") version of your password.

Orange Site discussion (mostly debating what anarchism actually means)

First claimed successful replication of LK-99

Accomplished by a team at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology and posted 30 minutes ago.

Why this is evidence:
The LK-99 flake slightly levitates for both orientations of the magnetic field, meaning it is not simply a… pic.twitter.com/bh0x9oqaz2

— Andrew Cote (@Andercot) August 1, 2023

Have a bunch of links:

orange site

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36953819

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36951140

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36952894

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36951815

pic.twitter.com/0BST57HWZl

— Shannon Sands (@max_paperclips) September 30, 2023

Eh, inflation has happened, and taxes, medical bills, and real estate are insane these days. So much so that you can't live a "normal" life of the standards of 20 years ago with less than $500K+ in salary. (At normal "middle class" modest levels of life hat's $250K after taxes, $200K after medical expenses, $150K after rent, $100K after food, $50K after transportation, $25K after food ...)

Sounds outrageous but most people have been brainwashed into thinking living with roommates in a cramped flat full of mildew, giving up all dreams of owning a home, and driving an old, unsafe car is the new norm.

Given that, $10M isn't really that much, considering you need to hire software devs to do any of the work they propose, and those software devs are getting $500K+ offers everywhere else.

archive.org link

Have you ever tried to find a job and be an employee, rather than start business? So finding clients and work would not be your duty.

It seems to me that you never have an interest in programming to begin with and learn it because it was a prerequisite for X. Like earning money, or finding a job, or whatever you wanted to do.

https://old.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/12da4hf/i_feel_like_i_wasted_a_year_of_my_life_learning/jf5hapr/?sort=controversial

Sorry, but what you say deeply concerns me.

You built an ecommerce site with less than a single year experience, and try to sell it for $60.

That's two red flags: ...

https://old.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/12da4hf/i_feel_like_i_wasted_a_year_of_my_life_learning/jf6bq05/?sort=controversial

So you can’t freelance yet. So what? Get a job. Also don’t compare yourself to girls making explicit content, they aren’t doing “nothing”, that’s incel talk. Who cares what other people are doing

https://old.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/12da4hf/i_feel_like_i_wasted_a_year_of_my_life_learning/jf5hl60/?sort=controversial

Let's be honest, what they're doing isn't skilled, nor do you have to be an incel to realise that 😂

They legit brag about their 'work' being easy [-38]

https://old.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/12da4hf/i_feel_like_i_wasted_a_year_of_my_life_learning/jf6d7rz/?sort=controversial

I like how you're struggling and the first thing you do is start attacking females who make money and literally have nothing to do with you. Nice job.

Bruh that wasn’t how I meant it at all, I’m not attacking “females who make money and have nothing to do with you”, im jealous of “prostitutes who make money much easier than others”.

Like I wish it were that easy for me, i was venting. Man i wish I used something like “rappers who get big out of nowhere” or “artists who sell a random painting and get millions of dollars” that way people wouldn’t think I hate women because of some irrational thought process. [-5]

https://old.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/12da4hf/i_feel_like_i_wasted_a_year_of_my_life_learning/jf6qzwp/?sort=controversial

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They look like they've eaten a few already.

— Paul Graham (@paulg) January 21, 2023

I am rescinding my words about donations.
You are not a part of my community, you are not my friends, and I don't want to feel like I owe you.
This thread... this whole Magnum Opus is an attempt to repay the debt to all the people through the hard work of which I became myself.

— Iris (@iris_IGB) July 31, 2023

I am evil.

And I am vindictive.

I find it that I cannot forgive you.

But you are, truly, insects. In this I agree.

So, to demonstrate your insignificance I will simply ignore you

>YOU CAN'T HAVE A VIDEO BECAUSE I'M SUPERIOR TO YOU, ALL OF YOU ARE INSECTS COMPARED TO ME

s deserve to be hanged holy frick, a single ounce of attention and they think they're god

Session titles included:

• “Pronouns, Bottoms, Cat-Ears And Cuerpes, Girl: For An Intersectional Trans Linguistic Anthropology”

• “Unsettling Whiteness: Race And Religion In The United States”

• “On Indigenous People’s Terms: Unsettling Landscapes Through Remapping Practices”

• “Unsettling Queer Anthropology: Critical Genealogies and Decolonizing Futures”

At registration, you could ask for a “comfort ribbon” to indicate whether you preferred 1) handshakes, 2) elbow bumps, or 3) six feet of distance between you and others. The list of “the AAA Principles of Professional Responsibility,” which was prominently posted at entrances, starts with the line: “Do No Harm.” There were also signs stating that attendees shouldn’t use “scented personal care products” to ensure that those with “chemical sensitivities” could attend the conference in comfort.

Basics

Firstly, the basics. bbbb uses GPT-3 in the zero-shot mode. What that means is that there are no examples given. Yes, really! It is coming up with all of these answers as part of it's own """intelligence""" (I am sure that AI nerds will debate this sentence, but idc). You can actually try this out, by going to [OpenAI's API page](https:// https://beta.openai.com/overview). It does kind of , but it does work.

Anyways, when bbbb replies to a comment, it takes the text of the comment, normalizes it, and puts it into this prompt

Write an abrasive reply to this comment: "<comment>"

...that's it. I don't give it any context or anything. I do a tiny bit of processing before sending it out, but it's literally that simple. I'm sure you can see where I'm going with this: this is the low end of what bbbb is capable of. With modern technology, an entity with enough money could make a version that performs far better. Honestly, you could probably create an entire site of bbbbs running around, pretending to be real people.

The reason I don't feed in context is because OpenAI are a bunch of jews and charge a really high rate for token processing. Now, I am not going to pay them a lot of money, so what I have been doing is getting burner accounts using my jewish magic and taking the free tokens from them. However, this is kind of a chore, and I don't want to do it every day lol. So far, I am on my fourth burner account lmao (thanks to @everyone and @crgd for help bros)

Q and A

Q. Could you do this for reddit?

Probably, but there are a lot of variables to account for. Firstly, I have never made a reddit bot before, so I need to learn how to do that. Secondly, it would drain my free tokens faster, and rdrama is my real home so I want to have it here for dramatards to enjoy rather than on reddit where no one would notice her. Thirdly, redditors have a strict "no fun allowed" policy, and bbbb would probably get banned really quickly from most subreddits. Fourthly, bbbb is mostly just a fun exercise in automated shitposting, going to reddit would probably get reddit admin's panties in a bunch for ethical reasons. OpenAI would probably get involved and shut down everything

The long and short of it is, I could, but I don't want to. Someone else do it.

Q. Really? Every comment?

Yes, every comment was made by bbbb. Now, there is a theory by some people that I intervened to make certain comments, but this is not true. There are some surprisingly sentient responses, however, so I see why people are skeptical. So, to that end, I will share bbbb's complete log. You see, ever since bbbb began a month ago, I have kept a running log. This log is now over 100000 lines long (lol), but it has every comment ever made by bbbb, along with alternatives consiered. See it here

Q. How does it do marsies?

Okay, i kind of cheated here. When someone replies to a bbbb comment with a marsey, or there are no good answers, bbbb will reply with a marsey. The marseys it can reply with are: , , , , , , , , , , and . It will choose one of those randomly.

Q. Who was the first person to realize bbbb was a bot?

Well, I'm sure there are many people who say they thought bbbb was a bot. Officially, the first person to propose that bbbb was a bot was @chiobu. However, the first person to really break the case wide open was @HaloFan2002, leading to the hilarious thread where @AHHHHHHHHH posted a captcha, and @bbbb told him to kill himself

Q. Doesn't this break the GPT-3 code of conduct?

Q. Does Aevann know about this?

Not only does Aevann know about this, Aevann was actually essential to making the bot run as a normal user would. Carp was also aware, as well as most of the janitorial staff.

Q. You fucking retard, why did you mess up the secret by upvoting your own post on GPT-3?

Okay, in my defense, when I created BBBB I didn't mean for her to be a secret! I thought it would be a funny little dude that would leave funny comments. So, I upvoted my GPT-3 post as an easter egg.

Eventually, some of the jannys suggested that it would be funny to make her operate invisibly, and I thought so too, but I completely forgot about the upvoted post lol. So yes I am a tard, but only like half a tard.

Q. Can I see the code?

Well, I'm not sure. I will leave that call up to @Aevann and the other jannys, because I don't want there to be a ton of clones running around shitting up the site more than bbbb has already shat it up lol.

Q. Why does it have a normal posting distribution?

I did this in code. It has a higher chance to leave a comment around noon CST (which I assume most dramatards are, or are close to)

Apparently other users were able to replicate this behavior

!friendsofbbbb

(Copilot is ChatGPT AFAIK)