Remember that former Guantanamo inmates have accused DeSantis of aiding in and enjoying torture. Cruelty is the point. DeSantis and others like him simply take pleasure in making as many immigrants as possible suffer, whether they are legal or not.

I remember when scientists were more focused on making AI models smaller and more efficient, and research on generative models was focused on making GANs as robust as possible with very little compute and data.

Now that big companies and rich investors saw the potential for profit in AI the paradigm has shifted to "throw more compute at the wall until something sticks", so it's not surprising it's affecting carbon emissions.

Besides that it's also annoying that most of the time they keep their AIs behind closed doors, and even in the few cases where the weights are released publicly these models are so big that they aren't usable for the vast majority of people, as sometimes even Kaggle can't handle them.

Kinda ironic I saw this post right after this other one lol: Three Democrats Re-Introduce Bill That Would Bring Ranked Choice Voting to Congressional Elections Across America

All those ads an pop-ups are really annoying. Printfriendly isn't perfect but does make the website a bit more readable: https://www.printfriendly.com/p/g/DYjpGu

Kinda funny that they inadvertently admitted that she did really well in the debate by calling her a "relentless debate machine".

*laughs in LibreOffice*

I don't like that it insists on resetting to that Liberation font half the time I make a new line though

I'm just that humble 😎

I've heard about him being autistic, first time I hear about him being bi

He's been doing that ever since his media career started in the 90s.

But I couldn’t find a credible source for the “showing children pornography” portion you mentioned

It's from one of the kid's testimony in the first link (it starts with "Now, when you first saw the suitcase, where was it in that room."), where he talks about how Michael showed him and his brother some porn mags. The first time he was hanging out with MJ while he was putting on makeup, and MJ picked up a suitcase with the porn mags and showed the kid one of the pictures. In the second occasion the kid can't recall if he or his brother brought up the suitcase or if MJ did, but he says that they were all looking at the magazines together for "30 minutes to an hour".

Regarding the books specifically, it's one of those elements that on their own could be interpreted as just MJ being kinda weird. We know the first book was a gift given the fan's inscription, and it's fairly reasonable to assume that the second one was a gift too. As the blog post points out the third book wasn't brought up in court and wasn't with the other two books, but it's still reasonable to assume that it belonged to MJ. To me the way the blog author tries to "soften" the book definitely points to some bias in their part:

The third book, that was confiscated in 1993 In Search of Young Beauty: A Venture Into Photographic Art (Charles Du Bois Hodges, 1964) which contains both boys and girls, mostly dressed, but some nude or semi-nude.

If we squint a bit we could just chalk these up to MJ possibly being a nudist or being a bit weird. I certainly think it's odd that he had books with pictures of nude children in them, and even liked one of them enough to inscribe his own message in it, but if only the books were brought up in court I certainly wouldn't think that's enough evidence to convict someone. But given the whole context and other elements of the accusations I'm not willing to give MJ that much benefit of the doubt.

Definitely not the impression I got from everything I've read. The whole sleeping in the same bed with kids, keeping books with naked pictures of children, showing porn to kids (perhaps the most common method predators use to try to groom children), and the whole thing with setting up an alarm around his bedroom.

Keep in mind that a lot of the information I've seen was from a Wordpress blog bent on defending Jackson in any and every way possible, and yet I still think the case they make is not really convincing. The author speculates about what "true grooming" looks like, and why MJ's actions supposedly don't fit their personal expectations of grooming. They also try to justify him keeping those books with pictures of naked kids as if that was a normal thing to do.

Maybe if it was just one of these things it could still be justified as MJ just being weird. But it's all off these things, a clear pattern of behavior and accusations for which the simplest explanation is that MJ was indeed a predator. What I can say is that if these accusations were directed at some random dude down the road I definitely wouldn't want my kids going near him.

Imagine caring about more than one issue at a time. I only care about how inflation is going to affect the price of my chicken nuggets.

society

I guess if you're a hostage cops can just kill you and blame the criminal then

As someone who's never read/watched the Hobbit & LOTR universes I frankly have no clue wtf this is supposed to mean

But godspeed to you, little rat

Don't forget to add a bit of lead for seasoning

Consider:

I remember seeing a tweet of hers where she doubled down on this by linking to some right-wing blog that claimed Khelif has XY chromosomes. Not sure if she's changed course ever since the lawsuit or if she decided to triple down.

Edit: Looks like she was still tweeting about Khelif 6 days ago, but hasn't tweeted since.

Looked up her name on Twitter to see what people were saying about this, that was a mistake 🙄

A lot of people seem to hate her for whatever reason, she was far from perfect, but all things considered I think she did fine as CEO and I never got the hate. It can't be easy to manage a company as big and complex as YouTube.

This guy also has a whole post on Substack complaining that the left is too wary of age gaps in relationships and that this is an "attack on heterosexuality" or whatever. It's kind of funny how these "anti woke" types will decry that queer people are all groomers and yet proclaim that age gaps and adults dating teenagers is part of heterosexual culture under the same breath.

A year ago or so I would have said Clash Royale. But now... nah.

You'll find plenty of videos that explain this better than I can, but at this point the devs clearly hate the community, the game is more pay to win than ever, evolutions are completely broken and the devs barely care to balance the game anymore.

It's pretty obvious that right now they just want to squeeze as much money as possible from the game before it completely dies out.

What’s the Y axis for the middle graph?

That's the percentage of kids who've reported some kind of sexual violence.

Also only having 3 data points in such a brief window doesn’t really say much.

I disagree because it's not really just about these YRBS surveys, it's the whole pattern. When we consider how conservatives are the only ones voting in favor of child marriage, and how pundits and randos on the internet will defend teen pregnancy, even if it was just one survey that showed a difference between red and blue states that would just be confirmation of a pattern that's already pretty obvious, and we should seriously ask why their ideology leads to this kind of stuff, and how to remedy it. Even if it's just a 2% point increase, this means that hundreds of thousands of children could be saved from abuse if conservatism was less prevalent.

Finally the grouping metric of “won majority of presidential elections from 2000 to 2020” isn’t clear and isn’t necessarily reflexive of policy. A more appropriate metric might be the party of the governor or the majority parties of their chambers.

There's really no definitive metric for "red" vs. "blue" states, so while presidential election results will obviously reflect the politics of the people in that state, I do agree that it's not a thorough measure - but this same pattern holds even when using other measures of political affiliation.

I say this because I have some additional context here, as these graphs are part of an article I'm writing about the "pedocon" theory, and I can tell you that this same pattern shows up regardless of how we measure politics or CSA. Whether it's polling on how many people identify as Republicans vs. Democrats, or liberals vs. conservatives, or left-wing vs. right-wing, this correlation is still there. Looking at governor or chambers specifically could be an interesting addition, but I fully expect the same pattern to hold.

Ages ago I posted a meme to r/PoliticalCompassMemes about how Lauren Boebert was happy to become a grandma at 36 when her 17 year old son had a kid, which is obviously very weird and unhealthy. Like clockwork, a lot of 'AuthRight' flairs came to the comments to defend teen pregnancy. You can see the post here if you really want to have a look at the hellhole that is PCM: https://redd.it/11n2z00

So yeah, it pretty much is a feature for them.

First graph is all reported child sexual abuse cases that were substantiated. You can see the full tables in the ACF website, and in 2021 specifically there were 59,328 CSA cases in the U.S. that were substantiated.

The percentage of kids who've officially reported sexual abuse actually seems to be decreasing considering not only the decrease you see in the graph (and it decreased further in 2022 to 59,044 cases), but also because in the Youth Risk Behavior Survey the percentage of teens who said they've experienced some kind of sexual violence increased from 9.7% in 2017 to 11% in 2021, and for rape specifically it went from 7.4% to 8.5%.

And another important reminder:

::: spoiler Answer

That's because after the best move (Qxf5) black can't recapture the queen. If they do (as was the case for my opponent) there's simply Bxb5, which is a double check and mate.

After white takes the queen the best move for black is Bd6 according to the engine, and black is just down a queen, with white having an advantage of +5.46.

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I've seen some people on Twitter complain that their coworkers use ChatGPT to write emails or summarize text. To me this just echoes the complaints made by previous generations against phones and calculators. There's a lot of vitriol directed at anyone who isn't staunchly anti AI and dares to use a convenient tool that's avaliable to them.

Republicans want more teen pregnancy? I'm so (un)surprised!

The Haruspex is at it again!

IT'S JOEVER

And social media websites that allow porn (Twitter, Reddit, Lemmy, Tumblr)

Or just messaging apps where people send each other porn anyways (Whatsapp, Discord, Telegram)

Horny teens have always found ways to get their hands on porn, even before the internet. Studies from the 80s and 90s found that the same percentage of boys had accessed porn as more recent studies where the internet has already become widespread:

A study by Bryant [13] indicated that by the age of 15 years, 92% of boys had looked at or read Playboy, with average age of first exposure reported to be 11 years. Similarly, in regard to X-rated films, 92% of 13- to 15-years-olds reported that they had seen such a film. Most undergraduate men, when asked whether they have used sexual media in the past year, answer in the affirmative, although results vary between studies [14,15]. Studies in other cultures have found similar exposure patterns as in America. A recent study of 517 young men aged 18 to 27 years in Hong Kong indicated that 15.8 years was the average age of the first purchase of sexual media; just over half reported having used sexual media in the past 6 months [16]. The overall prevalence of having read, watched, or listened to sexual media in this sample was 91% (see Pan [17] for a lower prevalence estimate among Chinese young adults).

As someone who's played Minecraft and briefly encountered logic gates while studying CS at uni I can confidently assure you that I almost understand what's going on in those images.

Programming Pokemon Red using Assembly sounds like less of a nightmare than doing it in Minecraft TBH (Even though both would still be nightmares).

Slay, queen!

... I guess?

I still hate liberal politicians though

Edit: HELL YEAH PELOSI LET'S GO QUEENNNNN

One of the community notes on the post said it was posted the day before by another account, and an AI image detector flagged it as AI with 90% confidence.

Musk using an AI image to fantasize about being some badass cowboy is both pathetic and absolutely expected lol

It does not, and in fact they didn't even include all Jan. 6 rioters in the dataset, instead focusing only on those who had ties to extremist groups.

I actually make this same argument towards the end of my video, pointing out how right-wing violence is often institutionalized and so isn't included in extremism databases (e.g. police brutality, the Israeli genocide), and yet despite all of these datasets being flawed and arguably incomplete, they still consistently find that violence is far more common on the right than on the left.

I call it the leftist uncanny valley.

Worth keeping in mind that polls measuring support for violence come with several caveats. For example a 2021 study assessed how question wording, respondent disengagement and illegitimate answers affected the results, finding that accounting for these factors lowered estimates of support for violence from 18.5% to 2.9%, or at most 6.9%. Even then there are arguments to be made about how social desirability bias and the specific scenarios presented can actually lead to underestimations.

https://youtu.be/B2MB2re24oA?t=328

"My science-based, 100% dragon MMO is already under development."