I dunno but 37 showers a year is pretty nasty. Find yourself someone that at least showers between guys.
suy
1yr ago
Many new users have flocked to a couple large flagship servers running Mastodon because having content curated for them by ideologically similar moderators is more important to them than principles of decentralization or being burdened with having to choose what content they wish to see. The rest of the fediverse is completely unaffected by all this since they've been defederated by mastodon.social long ago in the gamer wars of 2014.
Do you have absolutely no empathy for someone in west Africa dying of malaria?
In all honesty, no. I can't say I do without severely watering down the meaning of the word empathy. If I felt a non zero unit of empathy for every dying child in this world I'd be emotionally crippled by the weight of the world's suffering.
EA is trying to save lives in the most cost effective way possible, and last I checked the most effective way to save lives was buying bed nets to prevent malaria.
EA stopped being about malaria nets a long time ago when they started putting funding into political campaign donations into "their" candidates into the Democratic Party primaries in Oregon (he lost anyways lmao). Scott Alexander and Big Yud shilling for this loser is a big jumping the shark moment for EA. Shoveling money into the black hole that is politics is the exact opposite of effective or altruism.
suy
1yr ago
While strictly speaking 'legal' they encouraged and enabled illegal acts.
Neither the administration or users encouraged illegal acts. The admins of the site were quicker to react to rule breaking posts faster than the Facebook team could take down mass shooting livestreams. Null has cooperated with US law enforcement on every occasion and replied to takedown requests.
Also, again while not a matter of US law, doxing is the closest thing the anglophone internet has to a prohibition by law.
Doxxing is not illegal. Law enforcement has never pressed charges agaisnt KF. KF has won every single lawsuit it has been involved in.
I doubt we have anything to worry about.
The two incidents that cloudflare cites as a reason to take KF down were:
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Obvious low effort false flag bomb threat email against US representative Marjorie Taylor Greene
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A screencap of a post threatening violence from a user that has never posted before (taken down in 20 minutes)
It would be trivially easy for anyone to do the same to themotte or any independent forum. How can you have faith that people will critically examine the evidence if themotte is accused when nobody bothered to do so for KF? This community already gets smeared as a nazi website.
Maxine Waters and Patrick McHenry will be in charge of the house committee for FTX.
He's going to get away with all of it. Fuuuuck dude. This is hard to stomach.
People who write a lot on the internet for strangers have way too much time on their hands. I used to write longer comments and even some that made it into the contributions thread but now I don't feel like I have to do that anymore.
People smarter than us hang out with their friends and might pop in once in a while to write a comment about a topic that personally interests them. Successful people should confide with those that they trust and those that are useful to them, not strangers who happen to be on the same intellectual level.
suy
1yr ago
they have the old soviet stockpiles that means even as the average equipment regresses decades, they can feed the war machine, whereas the European and even American stockpiles are getting hazardously low.
Russia will never outproduce the West.
The dossier on Zoosadists led to at least a couple convictions. A lot of original research from the individual threads trickled down into mainstream coverage. It was a good place to get the news before it was reported on. Even "enemies" of KF would use the site to spread awareness on scam artists and actual serial abusers. The autistic commitment to 'not being factually wrong' and OSINT principles put them above most of the web in trustworthiness, at least when it comes to investigating very evil people† on the internet.
You were probably on the "wrong part" of the site. A&H (the "news" board) is basically /pol/ and was cloistered for being a shithole full of angry 2020 wignat users. IMO Null should have shut down A&H years ago because it didn't contribute much to the main site. There was a clear divide in moderation between the off topic boards and the on-topic boards. The userbase is a lot more diverse than it seems.
† evil is subjective but trust me, these were some bad guys.
suy
1yr ago
Read his and caroline's twitter history. They talk just like themotte posters. HBD, IQ maximization, nootropics, alternative lifestyles, AI risk, game theory, all the trendy topics.
They're fucking nerds dude.
suy
1yr ago
Reading Scott's post about feeling anxious and betrayed made me think back to Zero HP Lovecraft's tweet about the quokka, the Australian mammal. I don't have much else to say besides how frustrating it is to see a full grown adult act so naively. Don't have much charity left for someone so easily manipulated.
suy
1yr ago
I don't think other minorities see black people the way you claim. From my experience they don't seem to mind black pandering because "they clearly have bigger problems" and they don't see themselves as particularily disadvantaged. There is nothing American black people have that would elicit feelings of jealosy or unfairness from non-black minorities. Asians and Hispanics might have an undersized representation in media, but there's plenty of media coming from their origin countries that they can consume so it's not that big of a deal.
The race most critical of black Americans I've encountered were Africans from Africa.
suy
1yr ago
This is a nature reserve for neurodivergent folx who can’t suppress their urge to notice patterns Reddit doesn’t want them to talk about. Please be kind and do not tap the glass. 🥺
suy
1yr ago
To which tribe shall the gift of AI fall?
The Chinese will do what Ameridon't. Overpaid AI ethicists scolding can't stop this. I don't mean the government, but just lots of independent actors outside the reach of IP law are going to find a way to turn a profit from new technology.
DeSantis should ignore Trump and continue to quietly court the Powers That Be within the Red Team to come to his side while Trump takes the heat from the Blue Team for another year.
In a perfect DeSantis scenario, a couple months before the 2024 RNC primaries start, all the remnants of (R) QAnon type guys still in office are brought into a smoky room meeting with their sponsors and told to knock it off because there's an election to win and Trump is quietly blackballed from the party during the primaries like Sanders was in 2020.
Somehow I doubt it will end this cleanly for him.
suy
1yr ago
Josh could just be put in jail!
But then he would have committed a crime. That's my point. There's nothing in the US Law that says you can't use the internet to laugh at the things weird people do.
The main person behind the FTX situation is Sam Bankman Fried, a very influential donor and prominent figure within the Effective Altruism movement. His exchange blew open due to his financial crimes and the movement he is tied to is taking heat. He allocated millions into Effective Altruism while embezzling from his exchange. What is currently happening is a Bernie Madoff level collapse. A company that had ads with Larry Davis on the Super Bowl this year is imploding overnight and all it's customers are turbo fucked.
suy
1yr ago
People actually cashing in three years worth of frequent flyer miles all at once is gonna be really painful for the airlines that used them to borrow money against themselves during Covid.
suy
1yr ago
Downvotes don't matter in the slightest here. They don't even reduce visibility. Caring too much about score is more of a problem than people just arbitrarily downvoting stuff and not following "reddiquette" (which has been a joke since the very start).
Think about, try to feel, how much pain they're experiencing, how scared they are, how scared and sad their family is, etc.
...why tho
Getting emotional over people I don't know is irrational and makes you easy to manipulate. Not opening my wallet for a charity just because they will ostensibly reduce suffering somewhere I have never seen that I will never go to. People should look out for the ones they have direct responsibility for first. How about helping a friend out first? Everyone has a friend that's struggling these days.
One can improve the lives of those around them with great precision and far greater cost efficiency than unknown strangers.
Real Effective Altruism is giving a beer to the bum in front of Walmart. I don't expect him to get any better and he will almost certainly die in a ditch in ten years, but at least I know my money is being converted directly into utility (beer == smiles) and not wasted on high overhead charity making political or economic changes with uncertain second order consequences.
Anyway, I don't think we're looking at anything more or less than a polycule of stim-abusing rationalists with a gambling problem, good PR, and access to several billion dollars with which to gamble.
There's a LOT more to it than that. His extensive anti DeFi lobbying and his donation history (donating money he didn't have) point to a much deeper rabbit hole than a Bernie Madoff situation. Between this and the possibly related murder of Nikolai Mushegian, it's a very strange time to be in the DeFi sphere. This is like our Epstein.
I know this sounds like a "just trust me bro" post but there isn't a lot written about it that's up to date that I can reference and it's unlikely the media will ever dig deeper.
suy
1yr ago
Intent is too ambiguous. Simply make attempting to stab people a crime and harshly prosecute people stabbers so the police don't need to use their mind reading powers to pre-emptively jail people who could potentially commit a crime.
Also, a serrated knife is a bad weapon to use on a person.
suy
1yr ago
...pretty much every example of AI generated text and images I've encountered has struck me as painfully obvious.
Am I really an outlier in my ability to notice that randomly strung together words, even if they are grammatically correct, aren't conveying any meaning?
Yes. You are an outlier. A majority of people are consistently failing the reverse turing test for text and images. Literally everyone will at least have some of their time wasted reading the first couple sentences of AI generated text before realizing something is off. Nobody is immune to info-chaff.
Kiwifarms is probably done for. Null is unable to get legal representation because his lawyers dropped him after five years of business for "ties to russia" and his mailing address has been terminated for unspecified reasons. Tor is inaccessible because of DDOS attacks. The site has had a security breach and user data has possibly been leaked. This is probably the most complete deplatforming anyone who hasn't actually committed a crime yet has ever experienced.
I believe that KF has significant value in the culture war for the red team and it seems strange to me that not a single person with any financial power has stepped in to help. For most people, KF is seen as a evil nazi website and at best a shitty gossip forum, but it did contain a lot of useful information and opposition research on highly prominent people that will be memoryholed forever if the site goes down (Even internet archives are being purged). Keeping it alive on the clearnet would require a substantial investment, but it wouldn't be impossible to do.
Where is the red/grey team version of George Soros? Peter Thiel?
Are there any options for a completely legal (in the United States) site like KF to stay online? What will themotte do if they ever make an enemy that understands how easy it is to wipe them off the net?
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