Yup, the entire culture of Google has nearly changed. It used to be coder- and innovation-driven, and open-source was a natural thing to support. Make more money by growing the pie, creating markets with new tech.

Now it seems it’s middle managers and MBAs calling the shots, and their strategy is generic business zero-sum mindset - lock down, restrict, extract. They still see the PR value in open-source, but that’s it.

Just becoming 1990s Microsoft or 1980s IBM.

The reason I found the article interesting is because there were multiple quotes - anecdotes, not statistic, sure, but first-hand - of kids using LLMs and lacking critical thinking to even understand how to check it. You need to have a model in your mind of how things should be to check it - this seems like it may be replacing the model in kids’ minds.

So I really do wonder if there will be a generational divide, with analytical and compositional skills dropping precipitously. I don’t know, but thought it interesting enough to post.

I think you’re onto something important there. COVID broke all daily routine habits, good and bad. I could imagine that resetting these kids’ ideas of what it means to learn, at exactly the wrong time.

That’s weird. I specifically did NOT check NSFW. It must toggle it because my username is from lemmynsfw? I unchecked it, maybe it does that on the initial post assuming it’s NSFW and you have to edit it out.

The actions come as President Trump and his top aides seek to bend academic institutions to their ideological beliefs. The State Department’s public diplomacy office is run by Darren Beattie, a political appointee who was fired from a job during the first Trump administration after he gave a talk at a conference attended by white nationalists. He has made social media posts on white grievances, including one saying “competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work,” and ones ridiculing Mr. Rubio.

God, every imbecile in this administration is somehow worse than the last. It’s dizzying sometimes, like imagining a paradoxical Ouroboros of incompetence that somehow has eaten itself to completion and is still going.

I took it more as implying his reaction is to relish hatred, not his physical appearance per se.

The guy is shown repeatedly on video reveling in the pain and suffering he causes. Laughing at the liberals who reveal their weakness by showing empathy, leaning into and enjoying his bad-guy persona.

That’s what I thought he meant.

The tweet read: … Miller is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred. He’s a world-class hater.

You can see this just by looking at him because you can see that his hatreds are his spiritual nourishment. He eats his hate.

I’m having some trouble here, what’s the controversial statement?

Karoline Leavitt is offended - offended! - you would even think to reject that correlation, implying it is worth considering.

Therefore you will receive a complimentary visit from the Ministry of Truth to help you re-learn what is worth thinking about.

How can we be in such a stupid timeline?

It is perfectly obvious that Trump and his fascist brain trust are methodically testing every limit to democracy, they are already arresting citizens who have broken no laws, they are using physical violence and military control over civilians, and this is obviously leading up to a militarized authoritarian state. And at the same time our Congress - including many GOP opportunists who don’t actually believe in Trump but think there’s no real danger - are utterly incapable of seeing the big picture.

You spineless windbags in Congress, it’s happening right now, Trump is dismantling democracy right now. Do something. Introduce articles of impeachment and shut down Congress until they’re voted on, put pressure at every possible point.

Yes, congresspeople, you didn’t have the votes, that’s why you influence public opinion in service of what’s right - you know, politics. Have you heard of it?

Their learned helplessness is just giving Trump unitary lawless control on a silver platter.

The White House reportedly asked Graham to insert waivers into the bill allowing Trump to choose which entities get sanctioned and changing the word “shall” to “may.” Removing the mandatory language from the text would essentially defang the bill, staffers said.

This isn’t a request to change the bill, it’s a request to completely make the bill irrelevant.

I guess we know what they were waiting for to bring him back - looking for some reason they could claim he broke a law so they could retroactively be right.

Well, I’m sure their new AI editors will protect them against defamation lawsuits going forward…

Every individual word is true, that is the dystopian reality we live in, but even when true they’re depending on it sounding too conspiratorial and therefore not credible. The nerve of these people.

That’s actually very surprising - it starts with “DA says” which is presumably their defamation defense, but usually the lawyers wouldn’t let that pass.

Sure, why not? I hear Russia is extremely drug-use-positive and cultivates oligarchs who don’t submit to authority.

Ah, the grand circle of enshittification.

Just letting you know, I appreciate the subtle ways this comment combines Trump’s characteristic dementia-addled “weave,” and our utter and complete exhaustion from it. You’ve made one art.

You’ve fallen for one of the classic blunders!

The attorneys in it for the money dropped off at the time of his impeachments. Those that are left? They are gambling for access to power.

Pam Bondi and Alina Habba were Trump’s personal lawyers. Stupefyingly incompetent conspiracy theorists and utterly uninterested in a payday (along with justice or truth). Their only qualifications were that they drank Trump’s Kool-aid and were pushing it on the public. They are now the Attorney General and US Attorney for the District of New Jersey, respectively.