Well yeah, the astromech droids are all snitches.

... or do the orbital Flock cameras have some other kind of tracking technology? Imperial government contractors are highly sus since their systems accept older codes--especially when starships are being "flown casual".

Mr. Vader is right: the Empire needs better tracking technology to ensure order. It's for our own good!

Completely agree, this is a bullshit gotcha from people with deficient math and reasoning skills.

My Zoomer kids loathe their contemporaries for a reason.

That's really terrible history, and judging by your UID you ought to be old enough to know better.

It amazes me that people forget Donald Trump was elected in 2016 with a huge assist from his Twitter following. Twitter was always a shitshow, and having personally dealt with one of the executives responsible back then, I am not surprised.

That climate existed long before Elon. The main difference now is that they have 85% fewer employees to schedule endless meetings with. The site runs as badly as it ever has, but not worse, contrary to the predictions here on Slashdot.

Online balkanization and extremism also goes back to forums like Facebook groups in the early 2010s. We once celebrated it: remember press coverage of the "Arab Spring"?

Occupy, BLM 1.0, Unite the Right, Standing Rock, and many others took shape in echo chamber internet groups. What they had in common is the loss of hope by many different groups of people in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and the Obama administration's failure to hold anyone accountable. The electorate has been in rebellion ever since.

Show me the "force" in a forum posting.

You're one of the "words are violence" idiots, I take it?

Go smell your own farts somewhere else.

I guarantee that whichever chickenshit little country you live in, it's full of political nonsense just like everywhere else--unless you're in an even more fucked up place where real political talk will get you thrown in jail. By this I mean Myanmar, Russia ... and apparently Germany and the UK.

So ... according to the data ... the circle jerk intensified?

It's a fucking forum designed for people to post things, not your kitchen table.

Have you ever gone to a corner bar? Same freewheeling mix of opposing ideas happens there. Even the drunks mostly remain civil even so. I saw this five nights a week when I was a bartender.

Wait, you never leave you mom's basement so I picked a bad example.

Better than your aunt, who pretends to agree with you over the turkey and then goes home and tells everyone you're full of shit.

The fact that she's right doesn't make it any better.

Amen. I learn a lot when I have to defend my beliefs.

Just like Truth Social and all the other politico-social monocultures, Bluesky's hardcore user base is chasing off anyone who steps out of line.

You are correct: mens rea doesn't apply to bots.

But negligence and similar concepts could easily apply to agents running on your computer or at your request, leading to civil liability.

The notion that these tools can be both useful and censored is absurd.

It's even more ridiculous to think that the djinn can be put back in the bottle. I'm running a more powerful model than GPT-5 right here on my laptop, and it doesn't take much imagination to foresee people running Fable class LLMs on their phones in the not-distant future--black market or otherwise.

Training will likewise be democratized, and not a moment too soon. I'm sick of these elitist shits telling us what we can and can't be trusted with.

Well, if you're just a partisan hack denialist there's no point to this discussion. You're not entitled to your own facts.

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Dyslexic p-funk, straight from the mothership!