Come on, we need a joke of some sort. For the funeral.

At least that's how the troll scores it. Around 20 comments with the BS Subject is the closest the troll has ever come to winning.

Please don't propagate sock puppet Subjects.

Anyway:

Ma Nature is strong. We humans are rather like the stupid butterflies whose little wings sometimes accidentally trigger tornadoes or hurricanes.

Give the comment a Funny mod because crying doesn't help?

I'm having real troubled understanding how this particular dictator cult continues to function. Now if it was a dick-tator cult, then that might make a bit of linguistic humor sense...

Organized religion tends to be problematic, but these modern dictator cults are going too far when the dictators are not only crazy but crazy with nuclear bombs.

The joke I was looking for was a link to a deep fake porn video featuring this judge.

Oh wait. Make that an election campaign-related deep fake video featuring this judge. With a side order of kiddie porn?

The First Amendment needs a page-one rewrite. We are stupid animals. We act and speak without thinking. Many ways of fast thinking that are stupid, and now we have the technology to "flood the zone" with BS and basically eliminate any slow thinking (based on true stuff) that works better.

And there she goes. The story is now officially dead by Slashdot time.

If you have to feed the Russian sock puppet can't you at least find a nonvacuous Subject?

So now I feel I have to requote you against the censor trolls with mod points even though I disagree more than I agree? Well, I do agree the YOB is getting played, but the Yuge Orange Buffoon will never figure that out. (And even let the vacuous Subject stand?)

But I'll focus a partial response on the Epstein part because I think it's so funny. First, the Dems are caught in a paradox involving "nonpartisan justice" while the fake Republicans have it much simpler: "If it gives us more power, then JUST DO IT!"

And now for the conspiracy fun: I'm buying into the theory that the YOB's problem is right at the beginning of the Epstein files. One thing we are all sure of is that the cops don't bother rich people. Exception is when they have proof, which in Epstein's case means someone had to drop a SOLID dime on him--and the YOB had the motive due to that squabble about the mansion money he was laundering for that friend of Putin. First rat wins? But whoops! That means the YOB knew about the child abuse.

But that also explains the interest in Maxwell. She can claim she dropped the dime, not the YOB. Or maybe she can try to fudge the timeline that the YOB was only finking with proof she had given him just before he went to the feds?

Whatever is going to happen next, I should invest in Orville Redenbacher. Gonna be a lot of popcorn runs coming up...

Close to the joke I was looking for, but I was thinking more along the lines of "suitability to be a Bond movie villain".

Perhaps "How much do you like feeding sharks?"

That was Clarke, not Asimov?

NAK

Actually a real concern, though the analysis fell into The Shallows of Slashdot again. Yes, the GenAI is an easy choke point to monitor, but it's hard to lock it down in advance while maintaining relevance in the changing world. To encourage usage the Chinese government will have to leave it open to some degree so it can respond to reality, even when they don't like the reality and plan to change it. (In contrast to the YOB approach of reality manipulation via gibberish and lies?)

However what a GenAI does can be recorded and then used against the "loose thinkers" who are trying to do something an authoritarian dislikes. The Chinese are particularly good at playing this game. They don't go after everyone who steps on a toe. They pick and choose their targets to take out the bravest troublemakers and intimidate the wannabe troublemakers. Self-censorship works best and many of the victims wind up brainwashing themselves... (More like Putin's approach?)

But I bet the story doesn't generate any Funny. I don't see much potential for humor in this one.

Point should be that most "people believe what they want to believe", but I can't find any sign of that oldie in the discussion. (Nor Funny.) On the basis of that folk saying, of course most people don't like any science that conflicts with one of the things they prefer to believe. Take the Bible, for example. Bad history and worse literature, but a LOT of people want to believe it.

I think a "real" scientist is capable of believing whatever the evidence shows, but most scientists are rather like most people.

Interesting that the privacy-related topic induced no reaction on Slashdot... We're just too jaded now?

No, I think the funniest part is hearing from all the suckers who still can't admit they made any mistake supporting the YOB.

All of us tend to do (and say) a lot of stuff without thinking. When asked, most of us can say why, even if those me-side explanations sometimes include confabulations. But the YOB has always thought less than average and now his brain is so broken that his attempts at explanations are just strings of gibberish and lies--and yet the fools continue to believe. He is only creating new problems and not even solving any of the fake problems he's been screaming about for over 10 years now.

The story did get some Funny comments. But who's laughing?

s/Someone/Somehow/