Was this written by AI? Or is there some local sit-down restaurant with waitstaff that just happens to share a name with a famous fast food chain?

Calculation is a fundamental part of mathematics. You can’t get to caring about game theory or infinities without understanding calculation, and calculation itself has iterative components of counting, addition, multiplication, and formulas.

Children are trained by rote how to calculate so they can function in a society with strangers. The same skills that are of benefit to the current capitalist oligarchy would also be of benefit to a socialist republic, communist democracy, anarchist market, or technologist dictatorship.

The idea that basic skills are somehow tainted by their utility for the status quo is the dumbest idea in revolutionary thought, and is essentially the main culprit for the sort of atrocities that reinforce the anti-revolutionary impulse which props up the status quo.

That’s… Something.

Conflating mathematics with mathematic education after blaming numbers for both war and capitalism is a hell of a way to make an argument for student-led education.

Denying any one of a prisoner’s rights is the first step to denying all of a prisoner’s rights.

If not the right to his religious text, then why the right to be visited by a priest? If not a priest, then why his family? And if not family, then why a lawyer – and if not a lawyer, then why even bother with a trial?

Humans are better in bad situations because humans drive like humans, and they expect all the other cars on the road to also drive like a human.

The worst thing on the road is to be unpredictable, and an AI encountering a situation not in its training set is unpredictably unpredictable.

LLMs are less human than monkeys, and so are not granted any copyright at all for any near-art created through them just as a human can’t claim copyright over what apes do with a camera.

The question isn’t whether or not the overgrown reddit-comment-simulator is original or not The question is if its output counts as writing and acting. And the answer to that is a strong no.

Why oh why can’t people use the right names for things?

Open Source didn’t die. NPM just proved its controls insufficiently trustworthy.

This is kin to red hat including a subscription check in their branded Linux distros and then screaming that “Linux is no longer free” just because one vendor wants to get paid.

Except, of course, that it’s even dumber that that because it’s about “enterprise IT”, where everything is either a billion dollar project or a hack put together by some salaryfolk in their spare time. (Or both, simultaneously.)

The progressive and conservative “movements” in the USA were named the same way Greenland was. By picking a word that would help appeal to low information folk.

Neither has any actual adherence to either change or tradition for the sake of such.

As I understand it, litigators have pretty wide latitude to call whomever they want to provide factual testimony in support of their case. At worst, in some jurisdictions the opposing council has a right to be prepared and can ask for a recess while they do so.

And AFAIK states that grant spousal privilege limit that to private conservations, not overt acts or utterances made to a third party.

The Democrats introduced as their HR 1 a bill that would outlaw gerrymandering nationwide the last two cogresses where they picked the Speaker. They’ll almost certainly do so in January next year and two years later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_the_People_Act

All Republicans have to do to end the gerrymandering in VA and CA and who knows where next year is get on board. They could even get a national voter ID rule if they really wanted.

Sadly, like Trump, the whole GOP is really bad at the jobs our tax dollars pay them for.

Nothing in the constitution demands that we segregate prisoners by sex or gender.

Doing so is just a fair shortcut to avoiding the cruel punishment of denying prisoners safety from assault in prison, but these RWNJs think prison is supposed to be inhumane.

This coming from one of the jerks who wrote the tenth amendment out of the constitution is the rankest hypocrisy ever.

they think it should be revelatory, like the ten commandments…

Since you brought it up, it’s worthwhile that most Abrahamic churches include common folk arguing about the nitty gritty of what scripture means, what are the consequences of those meanings, and how to account for those consequences in their daily life.

Which is kinda exactly how we should treat scientific studies.

Literally anyone who reduces the USA federal budget down to household size should be derisively ignored unless they also replace “dollars” with “chore coupons” and place said household in a post apoctalyptic wasteland where there’s no government.

If a household cannot pay its bills their only choices are to earn more, spend less, or declare bankruptcy. The fed, in contrast, is constitutionally forbidden from declaring bankruptcy and instead can (and does) just create money from nothing on demand.

(Not to mention that most households can’t unilaterally say “pay me 10% of the coupon value when you bring lunch home.”.)

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“I vibe-engineered a new car and it accelerates at what would be 0-60 in four hours if it’s top speed wasn’t 0.05 mph. (1 mile per 20 hours.)”

Wage theft as only “not paid what was owed according to current law” is already the biggest form of theft and the least prosecuted.

Please don’t help perpetuate capitalist exploitation by blurring it with the “value theft” inherent to capitalism

That’s why bsky’s pseudo-federation isn’t as big a deal as some ActivityPub boosters claim.

As I understand it, if lemmy.world shuts down or starts demanding cash my only resource would be the same as if Facebook decides I’m too critical of billionaires – start all over elsewhere with a new account. Sure, I could get close to the same experience with a different node, but I’d be a brand new account with no history. I might as well go someplace else entirely.

Bsky’s “portable user” idea fixes that. There are accounts my bsky account follows who switched to blacksky, and if they hadn’t said they’d changed I wouldn’t have noticed. The essential identity of their account shifted almost seamlessly, and they “federate” with everyone else, aside that their appview shows accounts that bsky’s ordinary moderation hides.

I don’t have any illusions about how altruistic the cryptobro VC’s are. But the entirely of their value proposition is that “leaving bsky” should be about as painless as porting your number from Verizon to AT&T.

The claimed reason for that is to highlight “referrer” links for the sites people go to from bsky.

My understanding is that if you click like https://www.themarysue.com/ the website operators would see a “feddit.org” or “lemmy.world” referer if you’re using a web browser and don’t have a defeating option enabled, but not if your browser is locked down or you use an app. The immediate redirects, however, do consistently show in the web site’s access logs.

It’s possible bsky could fuck around with this in the future, but doing so risks just sending users to a pseudo-fork like blacksky.

You’re right about the effect (lawsuits and the threat of the same are more common in America than Canada or the UK) but not at all about the cause.

The USA has had a decades-long choice to have our industry regulated primarily not through government bureaucracy but instead judicial liability. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_through_litigation

“Actual coverage is less than what’s theoretically possible” is a hell of a way of saying "these things aren’t good enough (yet) to actually replace real people ".