Years ago, an ex-partner and I showed Close Encounters of the Third Kind (original theatrical release, which even Spielberg says is superior) on a giant inflatable screen on a clear night during the Perseids meteor shower. Slightly less than 200 turned up, and the local astronomical society had a stall there and brought giant telescopes. Using a Samsung smartphone aimed into a telescope lens, I got a pic of Saturn. A dogshit pic but clear enough to see the planet's rings.
Our best of 90+ shows.
Are they now having the LLMs "vibe code" themselves? This industry. 🙄
"OpenAI just released its first open-weight models since 2019—GPT-OSS-120b and GPT-OSS-20b—touting them as fast, efficient, and fortified against jailbreaks through rigorous adversarial training. That claim lasted about as long as a snowball in hell...Pliny the Liberator, the notorious LLM jailbreaker...posted...instructions for making methamphetamine, Molotov cocktails, VX nerve agent, and malware."
https://decrypt.co/333858/openai-jailbreak-proof-new-models-hacked
That these tech bros openly love fascism is the best reason not to use any knowledge systems they control. Why would you allow these megalomaniacs to control what information you can access? Elon has already admitted on X that he intends to change human history to suit his own agenda. Since then, Grok has been caught literally praising Hitler! Use traditional search or read books.
Now Perplexity AI is partnering with Trump's own propaganda echo chamber, Truth Social.
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/08/06/3128331/0/en/Trump-Media-Begins-Public-Beta-Testing-AI-Search-Engine.html
@blogdiva@mastodon.social just referred to fascist women as "uberwenches" and if you don't think that means she wins today's internets, I'm not sure we can be friends.
For context, we have this guy here in Britain named Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, otherwise known as Tommy Robinson, who founded a nationwide quasi-paramilitary racist group known as the English Defense League (EDL). They were obsessed with exposing Muslim child sex offenders...until so many EDL members were 👉
convicted👈
for being predatory paedophiles, Tommy now never mentions the EDL. All far-right groups are magnets for abusers of every kind, and they always use the crimes of others as a smokescreen.
PSA: See the question mark in this link? That and everything after it can be removed; it's just useless tracking data that's an eyesore for others.
Because the Masto web app automatically truncates links in users' feeds, some of you may not have realised that your 200-character trail of alphanumeric gibberish is visible to many of us! 🧐
Trump's declaration of national emergency has precedent. On the advice of Chancellor Adolf Hitler, German President Paul von Hindenburg did the same in 1933, in response an arson attack on the German parliament building. His emergency decree helped the Nazis turn Germany into a one-party state, and became the basis for mass imprisonment of dissenters.
Officially blamed on communists, the Reichstag fire was more likely the work of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the Nazi party's own paramilitary wing.
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