remember that 10c goes toward funding a fascist regime.

Mostly the ACK and concurrence, though I noticed and regret my typo of "there" where I meant "their".

Mod parent Funny but actually too true to be funny.

However I have a new theory about moderation on Slashdot. First you have to pass a reverse CAPTCHA test. The mod points are then only given to accounts that can prove they are not human.

On the story itself, I think we are all so fscked that it doesn't even make sense to think about solution approaches. The giant corporate cancers can always find a suitable jurisdiction where they they fsck you if'n they want to.

However it would reach a new level of Funny if she has never even visited jolly ol' England.

All the moderators missed the joke and failed to give you a Funny?

Or perhaps all the moderators are AI? Slashdot's new (and secret) moderation policy is to only give mod points to accounts that can pass a reverse CATPCHA to prove they are NOT human?

Just asking questions? Of course not?!?

Mod parent funny, but what I was looking for in the discussion was some deeper considerations of the corruption of copyright law... So far it seems to be a rather shallow discussion.

I could check again tomorrow, except that Slashdot discussions always effectively expire by tomorrow...

Mod parent Funny, but I think the humor is at a level that will sail over the moderators' heads. Assuming they have heads and Slashdot hasn't adopted a policy of giving all the mod points to AI accounts. Slashdot could use a reverse CAPTCHA where you have to prove you're not human before you can have any mod points to bestow.

For my next failure to be funny, consider the threat of learning not to think like a machine by learning not to think about any question the machine won't answer. Combination of "Nothing to see there" and "How dare you even think of such a question?" And I predict most people won't even notice the "guidance" of their "thinking".

Would have been a better FP, and I can even see a derivative joke:

"But first they use the AI to decide which stuff is "confidential and important" and that stuff is not shown to the contractors, but only moderated by "politically reliable" insiders. (Yes, the double entendre is deliberate. But I bet some folks around here won't even see it.)

While I want Funny, I don't get the joke. Care to clarify?

(Charitable assumption is that you were going for FP but the time pressure got to you.)

Two counts of nothing. First the AC count. FP was just another AC brain fart. NOT a case where anonymity is justified. That would be if someone on the inside wanted to provide some interesting information on the terminations. In this case that would be someone inside cancerous google or Hitachi.

Other count of "nothing to see here" is the Japanese news. At least if it had been a featured story on NHK then I would have noticed it. Possible it will break today, and if that happens I should thank Slashdot for calling it to my attention. (Long time ago Slashdot was often a significant source of early news. Pretty sure the first I heard of one major divestiture by my employer was via Slashdot.)

So now I'm not only standing by, I may even peek at some of the news magazines searching for more... Right now I'm going with the hypothesis is that this story is sort of bad news for Japan but they (specifically NHK) haven't figured out what angle they want to use in reporting on it. Mustn't offend the YOB, you know.

I've heard of those famed supernovae that were visible with the naked eye in the middle ages, and I've always wished I could see one too in my lifetime.

I might just be lucky before I go nova myself.

Like your presentation but not your Subject--even though I had a couple of negative encounters with rule-based librarians recently.

Unfortunately I think libraries are losing there relevance and it's related to the AI reference in your FP. However I just started thinking about a more insidious version of the problem. You can say that it's a big problem that generative AIs will fabricate BS, but even when we realize an answer is BS, we may learn the wrong lesson from it. After all, many of the AI answers are pretty good (on the theory you can make sufficient allowance for your own tendency to believe what you want to believe), so there's a kind of reinforcement in favor of those questions and prompts. Most people like oracles and want to get "authoritative" answers to their questions.

Yet it's not so much that we may learn to think like machines (which is still a big problem), but rather that we may learn not to ask certain kinds of questions. We won't even be able to ask why those questions are so problematic because we already "know" the oracular AI can't handle them. (Even if the government or some greedy megalomaniac intervened to make sure the question was unanswerable.) Hallucinated books may the smallest of our future worries.

(Also a concern that reading is being crushed by cute cat videos, but out of time just now...)

*sigh*

s/flash-bank/flash-bang/

However the mistake could be interpreted as a reference to the YOB's cryptocurrency scams.

You must be American and can't even spell "pizza". And what does it matter how well the students can eat pizzas?

Just joking and lamenting the lack of humor, even though the topic is so serious. Anyway, on Slashdot time it's time for the discussion to die. Also a bit of a complaint about your propagation of the sock puppet's almost vacuous Subject, even though you didn't feed the troll and talked about other aspects of education... (Also funny that the troll sort of raised an interesting aspect of the problem--if anyone wants to talk to a coward.)

Anyway, I did websearch the PISA test and found out it exists. Didn't bother to research why that test matters because I also have a fundamental take. Sort of a cross between "It's too late" and "We can't get there from here", both as regards solution approaches.

So let me put on my official historian's hat and go even farther away from attempted humor. I think the destruction of America's education system is a leading candidate for the Rubicon Award that will commemorate the end of Franklin's republic. If so, then it might be post dated to the early 1980s or a little after 2000... Unfortunately REAL historians only do posthumous awards so none of us will get to see the final results. (From the perspective of Fermi's Paradox, I also consider it plausible there won't be any of us around to worry about it. The oscillations are becoming too dangerous.)

Or just that the moderators couldn't find one? Story sure struck me as ripe for Funny.

Also a story that deserved a slower and more thoughtful discussion beyond the one-day limit of Slashdot...

Here's a chart from 2010 to 2021 (a bit down the page) which will suit this argument well. You can find others going back to the seventies if you like and it will not help your assertion a bit. I'm using the short table for ease. Surely we can all agree (for the current purposes) with the left that Trump, the Bad Orange Man(TM) is the WORST PRESIDENT EVER and thus his era would have the most draconian cuts those evil Republican scum ever implemented, right? Well LOOK AT THE TABLE. Gaze upon the massive reduction in education spending during his 1st term (2017-2020)!!!

Oh, goodness gracious, (or Golly!, or WTF?) pick your expression to align with your politics....

Yep. That's right. Education spending goes up and up and up every year no matter who is in the White House and no matter which party has the Presidency, or the Congress, or the state Governorship, etc. (well, technically, it dipped a bit during one presidency of the post 1970s... Barack Obama's, but it was not by much and probably did not matter at all) Education spending is the single most-popular normal government spending, other than social security and medicare, in the country and BOTH parties just keep increasing it. The constant chorus that Republicans "gut education spending" (like, presumably, some sort of fish...the imagery is probably useful) is just a huge political lie that works really well for the left when it energizes the teachers to get out there and support Democrat political candidates.

I'm not pointing this out because I think the Republicans are any better on education (I do not believe they are). I'm pointing it out because I believe that Objective reality matters and we CANNOT have honest debates and CANNOT get to any good solutions if we cannot all at least start from a common set of FACTS. I also think we've had enough extreme rhetoric lately, and we all ought to tap the breaks on it - it leads to incredibly dark places. No matter how much we each might like it, we DO NOT each get our own truths.