Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

Not that the recent subject is backed up by any actual study published anywhere, mind, but still, it'd be 'funny' if they did sit down and produce one but then had to determine if the subjects studied are considered to be affected by something else, like mass misinformation and/or stressors.

You know how the person who authored the wolf-pack-behavioral study wanted to backtrack their findings when they discovered that it was flawed due to the animals he studied having all been in captivity, where in the wild the results were different?

Just thinking about that due to a recent subject.

Dave Cullen @Dave Cullen. 5/24/23 X He was so right. I remember reading that at the time, and thinking, "Hmmmm. Highly persuasive. But practical?" I guess I was trapped a bit by current "reality." But I also think he goes a shade to far. We also can't ignore these--or effectively hide them from most readers. 1/x Jack M Silverstein @rea... 5/23/23 Ebert was right.

Dave Cullen @Dave Cullen. 5/24/23 It took me about 15 years--too long!--to see a middle ground I think is better: Report the incident, but a) Diminishing the killer (little/no use of name/face), b) Modest coverage, not wall-to-wall. Big thing: STOP making them Star of the Week. 2/3 Jack M Silverstein @read.... 5/24/23 "STOP making them Star of the Week." To me, that's it exactly, and that's what he was saying. Obviously news orgs have to cover these events. It's just a matter of how. To me, part of it is not playing up the body count. I tweeted this after Parkland: x.com/readjack/statu... Jack M Silverstein @read.... 2/14/18 Dear journalists, Don't lead with the death toll Don't lead with the death toll Don't lead with the death toll...

The reporter looked disappointed, so I offered her my theory. "Events like this," I said, "if they are influenced by anything, are influenced by news programs like your own. When an unbalanced kid walks into a school and starts shooting, it becomes a major media event. Cable news drops ordinary programming and goes around the clock with it. The story is assigned a logo and a theme song; these two kids were packaged as the Trench Coat Mafia. The message is clear to other disturbed kids around the country: If I shoot up my school, I can be famous. The TV will talk about nothing else but me. Experts will try to figure out what I was thinking. The kids and teachers at school will see they shouldn't have messed with me. I'll go out in a blaze of glory."

In short, I said, events like Columbine are influenced far less by violent movies than by CNN, the NBC Nightly News and all the other news media, who glorify the killers in the guise of "explaining" them. I commended the policy at the Sun-Times, where our editor said the paper would no longer feature school killings on Page 1. The reporter thanked me and turned off the camera. Of course the interview was never used. They found plenty of talking heads to condemn violent movies, and everybody was happy.

book cover: The New York Times Bestseller DAVE CULLEN COLUMBINE

Late in 1997, Eric took notice of school shooters. "Every day news broad-casts stories of students shooting students, or going on killing sprees," he wrote. He researched the possibilities for an English paper. Guns were cheap and readily available, he discovered. Gun Digest said you could get a Saturday night special for $69. And schools were easy targets. "It is just as easy to bring a loaded handgun to school as it is to bring a calculator," Eric wrote. "Ouch!" his teacher responded in the margin. Overall, he rated it "thorough & logical. Nice job."

I haven't said any new bug is definitely being caused by genAI code, though. Can't even know for sure what code in which commits on the public repos is such, even, unless they've been properly labeled as such.

I'm sure the text field for the genAI prompt can be sanctioned for spitting out bad code from its plagiarised data set

someday, somehow, somewhere,

but until then, I think it'd be good to have someone that can learn from their mistake instead

(not coding oneself is already a known human mistake).

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That helps diagnoses when the code that's been deployed and the public source match, sure, so long as none of the non-public bits are to blame.

The argument wasn't for or about a clear-cut culprit, though, but I get that you've decided that's what my post must've been about.

Good luck!

I think we could address all the flaws (comparatively minor though they might seem compared to the alternative's) of a thing without implying the thing must be taken down forever,

but I can see that you disagree want to imply the only reason to point out the flaws must be 'for fun.'

There are definitely amphibious electronic devices out there, but I assume they forego advertising themselves as 'proof'ed against the thing they're expected to be exposed to (and often instead label the exact conditions of their limits, like pressure/depth/temperature).

As I said earlier, a lot of things labeled damage-type-proof are still not things you're supposed to be deliberately testing the limits of said damage-type for.

At least, last I checked, 'proof'ing was for things that might risk receiving that kind of damage, as opposed to being designed around it.

Or, I guess, in your terms:

"hurr durr we wont listen to genAI enthusiasts no more."

I get the feeling that the important thing is you want to feel the site owners are very smart and any detractors must, inversely, not be very smart at all.

The question was "what could they even say that would make you not think 'they don't want to give more info because they know it was their shitty vibe coding that caused it, not a external attack'?," and stating they're distancing themselves from one known 'vibe coding' endorsing advisor would help.

Mind you, nobody's ever actually shown the guy collects pay for their advisor position, and I'm pretty sure they've only called themselves that? I've yet to see any post of anyone else saying "yep, that's our guy, on our payroll" at least.

So,

we could all be posting about nothing that matters.

I'm seeing a trend in a lot of people's replies to this thread that imply anyone arguing against someone unfit being in a position must be arguing the person must not be smart.

I think you must be very smart, actually

in order to trick everyone into letting you keep a job you're proven unfit for.

I thought you were arguing against the inaccuracy of whether or not they were actually the sort of person that would seriously dip a phone in water to cool it off or not by showing it was a joke, but I guess that wasn't it?

Good luck with your future endeavors.

They didn't appear to be joking about the 'I endorsed generative AI in coding when advising for the site exhibiting problems that are likely caused by them taking the advice,'

so not really?

Is there a thread with context that implies he was joking about that, instead?

It's a bit alarming that you imply products that have been 'proof'ed against types of damage might be inviting or even endorsing testing the limits thereof. Pretty sure many of the ones that still bother offering warranties even warn against doing so if you want the warranty to be considered valid.

"We've let go and will never listen to the advisor that dipped their phone in water to cool it" would be a good start.

It's worth being specific here. Rather than just "fascism," we ought to understand this pitch for what it really it:

It's technocratic-fascism, as led by an evil wizard with his Paniopticon suveillance state, pitching for the acceptance of his white-hand-branded Uruks to guard the Riddemark.

Today, there are no good detectors of AI-generated music, except one from Deezer. To fix this, we are releasing Quicksilver, a detector for AI-generated music inspired by research @ Deezer. Quicksilver is available as standalone MacOS app, or as browser plug-in for Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge.

I Just called Gillibrand about the unlawful detainment of Salah Sarsour by ICE, and a real human answered. I don't think that's ever happened to me before when calling her lol. Script to read here if you wanna call your reps and demand they call for Sarsour's release: palestine.salsalabs.org

It's the 26th anniversary of Mega Man Legends 2! If you weren't aware, we released an English patch for Mega Man Legends 2: Episode 1, a prequel demo with a unique story that never released outside of Japan!

how is this literally happening in real life

Oh wow, hers is gorgeous and it's no contest

People sharing what's new on Twitter here is somewhat strange to me, in the same way that I can't understand why anyone would peek into a paper bag labeled 'dead dove, do not eat' even once.

Especially when it's shared somewhere people migrated to to avoid said figurative paper bag and its like.

> The controversy associated with the statement “Ada Lovelace was the first computer programmer” reveals more about modern attitudes towards women [than her] achievements. [Her 1843 algorithm] was so advanced, that it was still utilised in record-breaking computation of Bernoulli numbers in 2008.

A key component of worldbuilding that amateur media critics don't understand is that just because something is patently ridiculous or full of obvious problems does NOT mean it's impossible, or even unlikely to happen.

Our world had Juicero; there is no reason a fictional one would be any different.

Exactly one year ago today: