I am brave enough to support public flogging of landlords.

Sure. Make 'em even higher. Plus all the other suggestions.

Make it less economically attractive to own multiple houses (ban Air B&B, high tax rate on ownership beyond primary residence, ban corporate ownership of certain types of home, etc) and maybe we’ll see some shift.

Is the collective noun for trans men a “hunch”?

Especially given how much the media and news organizations work to* avoid showing how much people are upset. There are small protests and community aid actions and folks yelling at their representatives constantly.

Fascism needs to seem cool and popular to work and the media companies are supporting the regime in their efforts.

*Typo correction

It was probably intended to serve, at some level, as proof they’d read the article and to get students to organize their thoughts and opinions before a followup discussion.

I hope.

(If you just mean do you get graded on this crap referencing her actual essay… then, yes. You do get graded on it. And she got the proper grade.)

These specifically or just Flock cams?

Here’s a start: DeFlock Me

Definitely check out Wizard People, Dear Reader and his biography of Ulysses S Grant if you liked Washington.

There’s a reason that particular caricature exists and you react the way you do. Your response is a defense mechanism to keep your community safe. The dude is in the pedo-uncanny valley.

I appreciate how this newsletter/article does a solid job of highlighting some of the weird dealings we may be seeing that make these companies look more viable than they are (very much including these companies essentially subsidizing each other).

The big thing I keep coming back to is that there doesn’t seem to be a path to profitability for the LLMs. Chapo Trap House had an interview with Ed Zitron and he highlighted that some of the power users are pulling down over $50k in generation/prompt costs while spending $20 a month (or whatever, I’m spitballing the numbers).

Some may be closer to break even, but openAI is tens of billions in the hole (something like 13.5 billion net loss in the first half of the year alone).

Sure, they could triple prices but then you lose a percentage of customers etc etc.

Got a solid antivirus setup then?

The game won’t play and let me recapture the joys of youth. Oh god, I’m stuck being big.

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“Cavern of the Evil Wizard” from the movie Big. It looked so cool to me as a child.

Cheating to get around parts that aren’t fun for you is just valuing your time. I’ll cheat any way that improves the fun of the game. Sometimes, that’s extra ammo or money or materials I don’t want to grind for.

That said, my favorite games are still Souls games and the only “cheats” I like there are ones that make the game harder.

Sure. We already do that some. But we do the same basic thing around not believing rumors and that doesn’t obliviate the harm they do.

Putting aside the issue of how many people want the rumor to be true or the deep fakes to be real, people expending effort to say/produce something harmful or uncomfortable is hurtful to the subject/victim. The idea that people could believe it is hurtful.

This is all exacerbated with young people because their brains are wired to care more about peer socialization and perception than adult brains.

Even things we know aren’t true damage our reputations and perceptions. I know JD Vance didn’t fuck a couch, but it’s one of the first things that comes to mind when he’s mentioned.

Education about the reality of AI generated nudes isn’t a bad thing (and, like, every teen already knows this is a thing, anyway), but that doesn’t stop the harm for the subject due to the association with the material.

Plus, they may be able to come in slightly cheaper on volume discounts on components.

I’ve always built my on PCs, but there are times when the whims of the market have made pre-builts cheaper.

Read it? Imagine writing it.

Yep! And steering wheel.