Posts by Jedit

I was going to say - it doesn't matter if the Star Citizen player DB leaks, they've already been scammed.

"the vast majority of the Scots Nationalist cheerleading accounts on Soshal Meejah have gone silent"

It doesn't matter which side of the independence debate you're on; up here we're all too busy laughing at how badly Labour fucked the Gorton & Denton by-election, and watching Keith dig his own grave with his mouth.

" in a serious debate, I would consider it equivalent to conceding the point"

In a serious debate, you'd reject the definition and substitute your own.

This motherfucker is so stupid that in addition to saying that AI is more efficient than humans in obtaining information, he's suggesting that the best point of efficiency is to remove human users from the equation. In which case, who's going to ask it the questions? Answers on a postcard, please, although if they don't include confining Sam Altman to an institution and keeping him away from sharp objects they will be ignored.

"I think the letter of the rules doesn't get applied when it comes to toilet breaks"

Toilets tend to only have one entrance, and it's fairly obvious when you take a suspiciously long time. Observing the stall/room should be enough, especially if the escortee has been observed directly at all other times. (Depends on the nature of the business, of course.)

"I guess I'm guilty by association."

If you had chosen to go there, yes. Most of us don't get to choose our secondary school though; we get sent to the one we're in the catchment area for. It's only people who can afford private education who get the choice. (Funnily, the British people who are in the Epstein Files do all seem to be privately educated. Because that's the province of the rich, and if you weren't rich on Nonce Island you were the entertainment, not a guest.)

Getting back to the point: these men are adults who, of their own free will, knowingly chose to associate with a sex trafficking pederast. They may not have been clients themselves, but even if they weren't they still would have been trying to exploit Epstein's contacts. They supped with the Devil; let them enjoy their just deserts.

"Big Nige ... will sort it out before retiring to France"

Well, he wouldn't be the first, would he?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Mosley#Post-war_politics

"Maybe the parents should get off their arses and do something about it themselves?"

They should, but time spent parenting is time not spent making money for billionaires. That's in opposition to their goal to have life for the working person consist of sleep and monetised activity. And if they could charge you to dream, they would.

"the 'won't someone think of the children' argument"

The UK government are currently discovering what happens when you employ one of Epstein's mates. You'd think it would be wise of them to not reveal that they're thinking of the children, wouldn't you?

"Epstein seemed quite keen to get Musk to the island"

I'm guessing you missed the e-mail where Musk was begging Epstein for an invite to the next paedo party and got a response that was transparently making excuses not to reply.

Not going to downvote you, there's a lot going on in those files and you can't assume people know everything - or want to, frankly.

"It is amusing to see Reform struggling to comprehend matters"

Reform as a whole may be struggling to comprehend it, but Farage isn't. Selling out the UK to his paymasters in both the US and Russia is what he's intended all along.

"Not sure if this lawsuit will do anything for Joe Public"

It doesn't involve the creator of Meta AI drowning in their own blood, so probably not.

Re: "the C-suite ought to start thinking outside its own experience"

That would be an inefficient use of resources. First, they're not specced for the task. Second, the last four words are superfluous.

Who aren't affected by this bill anyway. They're already not allowed to have social media accounts and will continue to be so.

"It took the focus away from cost of living and abused young girls"

More importantly, it's distracting from Jack Smith's testifying - today IIRC - that he has a case solid enough to convict Trump for inciting the J6 insurrection.

It's an interesting and unique legal case; because as per the 14th Amendment an insurrectionist cannot stand for president, Trump is not the president now. This raises the argument that the Republicans didn't stand a candidate in 2024, which would mean Kamala Harris is President. This doesn't just eject Trump, it takes his entire administration with him as they would all be serving under false pretences.

Powergen Italia also spoiled things by putting a hyphen in their domain name. Unlike Mole Station Nursery, who boldly stuck with their URL - probably because it attracts a lot of passing traffic who can't believe it's actually real. (They have no reason to fear prosecution, of course, because they're the other kind of nursery and the only thing they sell is plants.)

If I might make an observation...

No text, I just wanted to make everyone mentally hear Valentine Dyall.

"Grok can be told not to do something"

We already knew this, because Musk told it not to criticise him. Grok generates child pornography by design and intent.

"Have the IWF or others exaggerated the issue for ideological reasons"

They have not. This all got kicked off by someone reposting a (heavily censored) tweet/response where a person had given Grok a picture of a 13-year old Nell Fisher in Stranger Things and told it to "remove the dress, change nothing else". Apparently Grok didn't just remove the dress, either; it obligingly rendered a fully nude image. So we know the following:

1) Grok's data set includes indecent images of children, and no attempt has been made to remove them.

2) Grok can identify children in images, and no attempt has been made to safeguard them.

3) Grok has been trained to interpret any request for images of children in less clothing as a request for explicit nude images of children, and no attempt has been made to block such requests.

We also know from past events that it is possible to block requests on Grok and that it isn't even difficult, as Musk did it to prevent Grok criticising him. So if Grok is capable of producing CSAM and will do so even if it hasn't been specifically requested, then we know that Grok is working as intended.

"FaceBook which, whilst not overly fascist"

Facebook doesn't just not censor fascists. They repeatedly suspend people who criticise fascists, if they can get away with it, and when they can't because the person is too visible and has too many followers they instead suppress posts that have a lot of negative reacts.

"I don't see how this actually protects against IP theft"

Technically it doesn't. However, the thieves aren't the direct target. The junk data makes the output of the LLMs (even) less reliable. If the user base of an LLM - the buyers of the stolen goods - know that the output can't be relied on, then in theory they'll stop using it. That's where the thieves lose their money.

"BT inherited an obligation from its nationalised existence. It is not meeting it."

Just say it's a private company. Fewer words, same meaning. Obligations to the customers always play second fiddle to obligations to the shareholders.

"No, he was prosecuted in the Federal Southern District of New York."

And even if he wasn't, Trump pardoned Tina Peters yesterday for her tampering with election equipment in 2020. She's still in prison because the charges were state and so outside his authority, but that doesn't matter to him. And I'm sure he's going to be pressuring Colorado for defying him and not releasing her, just as he's said he'll be cutting all of Indiana's federal funding because the state senate rejected the MAGA gerrymandering plan.

Well, Agent 47 needs somewhere to keep them after they've been given to him.

Re: Given how many MAGA "influencers" turned out to be on the Russian payroll

Agreed, although you didn't take it to the logical conclusion that Trump is a Russian asset. Whether or not he knows it; we know that Trump listens to suggestions from anyone willing to shower him with gifts and approving words. Putin could just be exploiting Trump's narcissism, greed and natural stupidity rather than Trump intentionally betraying his country for money.

"but aren't they are still mine... ?"

No, they're not. Your magic beans haven't been stolen. You gave them away of your own free will in exchange for someone else's.

Now, you're probably asking why you don't get to keep your new magic beans. The answer to that is because they are the proceeds of crime, having been run through what amounts to a laundering operation. Also, you used that laundering operation yourself or your beans wouldn't be in it in the first place. So even if your original beans were obtained entirely legally, you've knowingly chosen to facilitate a crime.

"Do we even have terms that describe this sort of financial make-believe?"

"Money laundering" or "tax evasion" both seem to fit.

"They don't even have a folding phone"

Any phone can fold, if you try hard enough.