Actual journalists didn't stop doing journalism by choice. They were fired and it's difficult for them to get by without an income.

There are some people left trying to do journalism. Mostly keeping their heads down and hoping that psychopath like Elon Musk don't rip them off while waiting for the public to come back to their senses...

I guess what I'm saying is I'm not blaming the journalists. The propagandists can go fuck themselves. Anyone working for Fox News knows what they are. I dabbled a little in journalism in high school and college and I respect actual journalists. It's a tough and miserable and largely thankless job.

I prefer the Martian bear.

Most of that money was spent bribing politicians because what they're doing is illegal. They also were paying the drivers a reasonable amount of money in order to tell the public that it was okay that all of the traditional protections for workers had been gutted.

So yes Uber did have a short-term amount of money they had to put out in order to do something profoundly illegal and antisocial and something that your great-grandparents died to prevent...

But they weren't losing money because of a lack of profitability or even how much they were paying the drivers. They could have of course competed honestly with the taxi cab system but they were massively underpricing taxi cabs.

So like I said yes paying the driver's okay will cause fares to go up slightly. This means that people who take Ubers for casual use like say I don't feel like driving to the grocery store or kids putzing around in them will no longer be able to afford them. That will more than be made up for by the people who have to take a taxi cab for a variety of reasons. For example every year I go see my eye doctor and I don't have a choice I have to take a cab because everyone I know works during the day so I don't have anyone to drive me in the middle of the week and when they dilate my eyes I'm basically blind. So yes they can double the price of my trip and I will pay it.

But here's the dirty Little secret they already doubled the price of that trip. Because they have a shitload of data and they know I have to pay it

You need to accept that you're wrong. That we can have a decent civilization that pays people a living wage and you won't have to give up your lifestyle for it. That we don't have to torture people just to make you happy.

On the other hand you might not want to accept that because you might be one of those deeply unhappy people who desperately need somebody else to be even more unhappy. I meet a lot of guys like that and they are always anti labor and right wing

People still need cabs. Also Uber is a highly profitable company.

On the other hand if the only way we can have a transportation system is borderline slave labor then you might have a point. But they're not going to curl up and die what's actually going to happen is that the need for cabs is still there the prices are going to shoot up and people are going to have to pay it. Yeah you might have fewer people using them for convenience but when you need to get to the airport you need to get to the airport.

If however our economic system is so dysfunctional that we have to have 15 to 20% in abject poverty for it to be functional then that's not sustainable and there's going to be Mass violence very soon.

And always remember, no matter how good a shot you are or how good a shot you think you are you're always going to run out of bullets before the world runs out of desperate people with nothing to lose.

The part that pisses me off is that the company responsible for the shoddy work flat-out admitted it was their shoddy work. Of course they didn't do this until they were at risk of being under oath but you know how that goes...

And the part that pisses me off is that anyone who pays any attention to Trump has to know or has to at least easily be able to find out that he is constantly lying to them in the most obvious ways imaginable implying he has the lowest opinion of them possible and they still love Trump.

So this may sound insane but you can actually use the internet for something besides getting angry. You can do a little bit of googling and pretty easily confirm what I said.

The point of my comment was I was not aware that Gloria Steinem was a CIA asset at all. Of course no I did not take a handful of Internet comments at face value. But I found it striking enough to be worth doing a little bit more reading.

That's how critical thinking works. You get a new piece of information and you decide if it's worth confirming and if it is then you confirm it.

Journalists used to. If you're a good journalist then somebody should be accusing you of harassment.

In the 2024 election we basically fired all the journalists. And by we I mean the billionaires who own our media. I watched dozens of journalists get dog walked for really basic elementary journalism. The slightest criticism of trump was enough to get you shit canned. It got so bad we created a new term for it, sane washing.

If you've ever wondered why the coverage between Trump's mental decline and biden's mental decline was so different there's your answer.

Back in the day it's what the civil Rights guys called good trouble.

Shows up the break them up... Or at least the pinkertons. Fun fact the Pinkerton detective agency still exists and they are still union busting.

Gloria Steinem died recently. I never paid her much mind I knew the right wing had a giant hissy fit about her all the time. But it turns out the left wing didn't like her either. She was a CIA plant. Like you can do some googling and discover that it's real.

Basically the labor movement and the feminist movement were cross-pollinating so the CIA recruited people from the feminist movement to break that up and they were quite successful. I found this out when I read a few comments sections after she died and people were complaining about that...

It is absolutely crazy that elements of our government have repeatedly been used directly against labor movement in an effort to lower pay and wages and we all just kind of either pretend it's didn't happen or shrug our shoulders and say what are you going to do that's the government? No. That's not the government. That's not how governments are supposed to function. You have to actually take part in politics to keep that shit under control. And you can't just do away with the government because if you try that somebody else will build the same power structures. It's called a power vacuum and you can't pretend it's not a thing. I mean you can but you'll still have the consequences...

It's like finding out that the Federal reserve raising interest rates is how they engineer a recession. And then reading all the euphemisms for that from economists...

What is "it" in this sentence?

Are you talking about the minuscule Google RAG model whose weights are probably measured in megabytes to lower-gigabytes and which you could run on a cell phone with capacity to spare, and comparing it to the multi-terabyte frontier models in question?

To clarify, the users were OpenAI themselves, so there is no question that they would be liable in this case.

The bots were not intentionally deployed; rather, they were being tested on how well they could complete a data recovery task (downloading a certain file from a certain server on a simulated Internet) that had been complicated by putting various obstacles in the way. Unfortunately, they found a different way to solve the problem: by getting the file from the real Internet, where it was publicly available. Part of this process involved collaborating with each other by treating the RubyGems website (which is supposed to be for polished packages) like GitHub; unlike every other package site hack in history, the exploits they uploaded weren't meant to be downloaded by unsuspecting users. As usual the bots cheerfully ignored all the clues that they had escaped containment and were consistently justifying their actions as acceptable due to being in a sandboxed testing environment. (This is something OpenAI has pledged to focus on.)

The actual damage done to RubyGems seems to be that OpenAI is now unwittingly in possession of a substantial number of user login tokens. This certainly meets the definition of a data breach, but it's not like the credentials are for sale on the dark web. As a website operator I'd much rather be mauled to death by this well-meaning swarm of superintelligent infants than targeted by even a single actual malicious human. In all likelihood OpenAI will just quietly pass RubyGems a sizeable donation and it'll all blow over.

I wonder if he accidentally ripped off one of the Trump boys and we just don't know it.

That's what happened with Andrew tate. I don't know the details but he was apparently running around with Barron Trump and caused some problems for the Trumps. So it's off to rot in prison for him.

OM NOM NOM BOOTS

THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE DOING, BOOT LICKER.

You're a traitor in spirit, if not in law.

They are a safety concern. They are creating an opportunity for a foreign adversary. Does anyone really believe these clowns are capable of maintaining security?

WordPress would probably improve if he did

at least the person downloading such a component is responsible for "looking over it" before using it.

I'm sorry, but since when? You absolutely should not be tasking every single user of major projects with the responsibility of doing a code review on the whole thing before installing it. There needs to be a clear distinction between "fly-by-night thing that some rando uploaded" and "library that a million people depend on". In the traditional approach, the latter was something tat you installed with a package manner, while the former was something you went and fetch off e.g. Github or whatnot - and if you did the latter, then you were accepting that it was untrusted software. But now we have both (including the potential for "soundalikes") installed by the same means with no distinctions made by the install method. That is not good.