Then don't pretend you're about "free speech" when all you're doing is changing who you ban to match your political views.

Because it's literally Twitter's policy? And yes, it is enforced, there are tons of examples of people having posts taken down for it - just not by an automated keyword filter.

That was a lovely game of "change the topic" you have there.

So to be clear, you're perfectly fine with people being being censored, for talking about issues related to their very existence, so long as, say, nazis can spout nazi crap without punishment.

Musk has banned his critics left and right, but you're fine with that so longer as you can make mean-spirited racist, sexist, and homophobic jokes and make as toxic of an environment as possible.

People get harassed left and right and Twitter does othing, but when it comes to Elon, suddenly it's a ban version of 10 Degrees of Kevin Bacon. For example, first ElonJet was banned. Then journalists who mentioned ElonJet getting banned were themselves banned. Then journalists who asked about the situation were banned. Then a journalist who didn't write anything on X but just reported on the ban in the news had his account on Twitter banned. Does this standard apply to literally anyone but Elon? Of course not.

Want to protest anything about Twitter or promote alternative platforms? Well, let's look at history. The leaders of the BlockTheBlue campaign, encouraging people to block blue checks to protest the new subscription policy, were suspended for "platform manipulation". Twitter has variously blocked or likewise reduced visibility of posts linking to competitors such as Substack, Mastodon, and Bluesky.

When Dorsey posted a defense of himself re: the Twitter files on Revue? Musk shut Revue down.

Musk complied with censorship requests from India and Turkey with zero pushback. Got the requests, immediately complied. The old Twitter - while not always succeeding - repeatedly pushed back against such requests. Pushback only ever happens when he feels it's the *right* being censored. In his first six months, Musk complied with 83% of requests from authoritarian regimes.

Musk is the king of censorship - unless he particularly likes what you have to say. He's also an egotistical manchild who boosted the visibility of his own posts in the algorithm and then at first tried to pretend he wasn't doing it.

open platform where people can actually speak more freely.

Try saying the word "cisgender" on Twitter.

We should if we don't want Putler to eventually rampage across Europe

Ace is short for asexual .

They're not keeping the four teams, either. They bought at least 1 of those companies solely to destroy the competition.

Too bad we don't enforce antitrust in this country.

For people who want to exist in the future, also known as humanity.

If you spend your mod points on me you can't spend them on someone who gets less karma than I do.

I've been working with Linux for many years and Windows even longer ofc, and Windows is a massive PITA all day every day.

Yeah, it's honestly annoying how pervasive porn models are. I think like 90% of people using SD are using it to make porn or waifus.

As I was driving home last night... you know how when Szilard was walking home after hearing Rutherford be dismissive of nuclear chain reactions, stopped at a stop light, and suddenly the idea of neutron chain reactions hit him like a ton of bricks and it was like the world peeled away around him? I had one of those moments when I realized that all of the components are now out there:

Story Diffusion (e.g. "Open Sora")** Generate realistic videos of anything, from input commands.
MotionCtrl (ability to direct objects and camera positions in AI vids)
Open LLMs (countless), trained to roleplay multiple characters, control scenes, and to issue external commands
VR headsets (with a mic + voice recognition and/or hand controls; or alternatively, LMMs can accept voice natively)
Optional: FPV cameras on the headset, plus depth map model (Midas, etc) background stripping, plus vid2vid to integrate the user's body into the scene

And... remote-control sex toys that accept external commands.

You can see what someone is surely going to put together from these pieces over subsequent years: a porn holodeck. Where an open LLM or LMM takes user inputs (such as speech or motion) once every 1-2 seconds, determines character reactions, directs the next 1-2 seconds of video generation, generates audio, and when appropriate, issues commands to control... peripherals. It'll take quite a bit of compute power to handle the video generation all in realtime, but you can fan it out to multiple cards, so it's doable if you keep the resolution and steps down & just AI upscale the outputs and motion-interpolate between frames. The LLM/LMM wouldn't need a huge number of parameters for such a role - even something like LLaMA 8B as a base model should suffice well; there's no issues with running that in realtime on any semi-modern GPU.

I'm like 80% ACE so the whole thing sounds rather gross to me, but knowing how people are using SD already, you know this is... sigh, I walked right into the pun, didn't I?.... "you know this is coming." :P I guess it's good that the perpetually horny will have such an outlet.

** - Story Diffusion is "out". but they haven't released the video-generation half of the model yet, only the keyframe-generation "comic book mode", but they reportedly plan to release the whole thing; there's also less advanced models like Stable Video Diffusion and the like (which MotionCtrl was designed for).

You're confusing foundational models and finetunes. You can make a finetune in a day or so for any specific task. Including porn.

I have an apple nike watch series 3, the watch itself no longer gets OS updates but the nike app apparently has because the watch app itself no longer runs on the watch since it depends on a newer version of the watch os. Just incredible how stuff like this can break w/ basically no user recourse. Out of spite now I really do not want to buy a newer apple watch even though the nike run club app was super motivating to track runs, runs per week, per month, per year, total milage, etc. And having this on the watch instead of your phone makes running so much more convenient than carrying your phone in some way. Anyways, yelling at clouds.

Same question for you, but about Windows.

People are always whining about how you have to tweak stuff to make Linux work. I have never ever had a Windows system where I didn't have to tweak registry values, manually edit config files, etc. So it's a valid complaint, but not about Linux, only about computers in general. The only place I didn't do a ton of that was the classic MacOS, and that only because there was less tweaking available and you just lived with it being terribly limited.

Those young people need income as much as anyone else, so what happened there was that your employment was so terrible that they were able to find something better and it was worth doing it even though they were already hired by you.

They also don't owe you notice by any reasonable measurement, since you don't have to give them any. That's what at will employment means. Employers have set the standard amount of notice at or near 0 days by terminating people with that little notice as their SOP, and buying laws that permit them to do that. You got what you wanted, now you don't want it? Bummer for you, but you created this.

Frankly, it is both. Blackstone notably bought up the starter homes, but a lot of the bigger ones have been purchased by boomers to run as unlicensed hotels through airbnb. I know one woman who lives in Eureka who owns four or five homes which are exclusively used in this manner. With the vulture capitalists buying up the starter homes, and boomers buying up the bigger ones, there's only apartments and mobile homes left...