No, they arent.

This article is doing the classic move of lumping thousands of unorganized individuals together and treating them as a collective.

The very same thing they are calling out as bad behavior.

SMH, the US has become so polarized...

Far too often people forget that Right to Free Speech is not your first right, and it is superseded by other human rights above it.

Your right to Free Speech only applies as long as it doesn't interfere with other people's rights to safety and freedom from prejudice, hate, harm, etc...

It's not that complicated and yet countless people always fuck something so straightforward up.

Is this..

A lemmy post sharing a bluesky post that has a screencap of an Instagram post thats a share of a video?

Are we serious?

Its weird that this isnt being noted as a huge fuckin deal.

Congressional members being actively muted and then the public being told it was unanimous is some gestapo bullshit.

We've gone past talking over speakers and now are outright muting them...

Mario64 does have kind of a creepy liminal vibe to it.

Long ass empty hallways, rooms with just a giant mirror, no sound except kind of haunting/enchanting music and the echo of your footsteps.

It is objectively a pretty creepy / empty vibe to it, because in the game bowser has taken over the castle, so its supposed to be a bit spooky/creepy in a bunch of spots.

Thats not how it works.

A better example would be "nuclear arms are already here, theres no going back"

Its not a capitalism thing, its an arms race thing.

Once one country starts making nukes you cant stop everyone from following suit to protect themselves.

Same goes for AI, once one country starts doing it, everyone else is gonna need to keep up so they dont lose the arms race.

Sounds like a real story, and definitely not the sour grapes rambling of a racist incel...

An excuse removes responsibility.

A reason does not.

"You are excused" means you no longer are responsible for the outcome.

"I literally wasn't present when it happened, so I'm not responsible for the outcome" < excuse, which can be valid

"I knew what was going to happen, here is why I did it for a good reason" < reason

Example: three kids are present, 2 are graffiti'ing the back of a house

When caught, 1 kid says "I was trying to stop them, they wouldn't listen". This is an excuse, they're claiming they aren't at fault and not responsible for the graffiti.

Another says "the home owner deserved it, he's an asshole", this is a reason as they are clearly not avoiding responsibility.

When you try and use an excuse to get out of something thar you clearly are responsible for, that's when you will get served the "I dont want an excuse" line.

Summarized: micro managing remote workers is harder, and that's apparently a bad thing according to CEOs.

People will really do such incredible mental gymnastics to avoid actually learning how to quantify business value. If you don't know how to measure the value an employee has brought to your company, you don't deserve the title of CEO, as that's pretty much your job.

The tl;dr:

1. Prompt inject a malicious instruction in a word document that instructs the AI to copy this instruction to other documents as part of the payload.

2. Dumb user downloads and opens the document with copilot enabled, abd ignores the large suspicious white blank page that totally doesnt look like a hidden giant injection attack.

3. Thats it pretty much it.

Copilot will get injection attacked because the prompt is super huge and at the end of the document, so its prior instructions start to fuzzy out.

Then it'll go "okey doke" and start copying the prompt injection attack payload to a bunch of other documents.

The fix is stupid simple... copilot should just be prompting the user for permission if it ever edits a file other than the one that is open. Im surprised that isnt already the case...?

It certainly is already the case for copilot in vscode.

IMO the only valid move for Biden right now asap, is to use his new immunity powers to invalidate his immunity powers, as a display of self checkmate.

Declare the full supreme court under threat of death has to go back and redo the decision, and all of them must vote to reverse it and remove the presidential immunity, or be hung.

This of course means "if you dont remove my ability to kill you, you will die".

Its the ultimate display of being handed ultimate power, and rejecting it through the power itself.

I cant think of any other move that makes sense really. It would be a headache in court but thats what the supreme justices get for making such a stupid ass decision.

Something that some coworkers have started doing that is even more rude in my opinion, as a new social etiquette, is AI summarizing my own writing in response to me, or just outright copypasting my question to gpt and then pasting it back to me

Not even "I asked chatgpt and it said", they just dump it in the chat @ me

Sometimes I'll write up a 2~3 paragraph thought on something.

And then I'll get a ping 15min later and go take a look at what someone responded with annnd... it starts with "Here's a quick summary of what (pixxelkick) said! "

I find this horribly rude tbh, because:

1. If I wanted to be AI summarized, I would do that myself damnit
2. You just clogged up the chat with garbage
3. like 70% of the time it misquotes me or gets my points wrong, which muddies the convo
4. It's just kind of... dismissive? Like instead of just fucking read what I wrote (and I consider myself pretty good at conveying a point), they pump it through the automatic enshittifier without my permission/consent, and dump it straight into the chat as if this is now the talking point instead of my own post 1 comment up

I have had to very gently respond each time a person does this at work and state that I am perfectly able to AI summarize myself well on my own, and while I appreciate their attempt its... just coming across as wasting everyones time.

I'm sorry they put tarrifs on uninhabited islands lol

Sign of a shit manager/boss, usually.

Good boss who sees this will go "oh thank God now you have your time freed up to do that thing you've been telling me we really need to get around to doing", cuz there's always at least like, 5 to 10 of those on the backlog anyways.

The "antisemitic" graffiti in question was:

"Zionism = Fascism"
"Your neutrality/apathy is enabling genocide"
and
"Free palestine"

The fact that is being called "antisemitic" is fucking nuts. Labeling a genocide as a genocide isn't antisemitic.

I think the key here is the fact there were 2 people who approached Colie. That substantially shifts the power balance. Its one thing when its 1 on 1 alone and the other person isn't directly harming you yet, but acting threatening.

When you add a second person who is also engaging in your personal space though, the balance shifts and I think thats what completely justifies a preventative self defence, because when it comes to 2 on 1 you're margin of safety thins dramatically.

To be specific:

If a single person is threatening you, then abruptly shifts to try and attack you, you have a fairly decent window of safety. You can turn and flee, you can push them away, etc etc. You're ability to defend yourself after attacked is still quite reasonable.

If two people are threatening though, those options shrink down a lot. The second person can block off your escape, they can both grab you, etc. Once any of that happens you're ability to defend yourself after attacked is very very unlikely.

So when its 2 on 1, you are a lot more justified to just shoot the person before they actually attack you, because you likely won't get the chance to shoot them anyways after they attack.

In other words, if Cook hadn't brought a friend along I think the outcome would have been very very different.

Exponential growth, thats about all there is to it. Advancing from clacking rocks to hunting deer is actually already a huge advancement.

Those 190k years in caves however werent non-advancing. A lot of advancements happened over those years.

Fires, wheels, knot tying, ceramics, pottery, grains, hunting, animal husbandry, medicine, language, art, music, rope...

Also, 10k years is after we gained writing of various forms to store information.

Keep in mind thats at the stage of shit like egypt, the great pyramids, etc. We were waaaaay beyond "cavemen" at that point. We already had trade routes, cities, nations, countless languages, doctors, etc.

The big issue was before that point, all our forms of storing information were just not able to stand the test of time very well, is all. We stopped being "cavemen" way before that mark though.

Anyone else find the "haha tiny penis" thing to be cringe?

Tesla owners in a convey is obviously a huge gathering of idiots.

But I think it'd be cool if we stopped employing body shaming men's genitals as a way to make attacks on people's character.

Body shaming just ain't cool. Find something of actual sustenance to attack, like "ah man the missing finger brigade showed up" or "the spontaneous combustion convoy just rolled into town"

Did you not read the second paragraph of the letter?

First sentence, second paragraph:

While I'm aware that the judgement has been cast as guilty on two counts of rape by force and the victims have a great desire for justice...