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  @dr2chase @mattblaze legality aside, aren't you worried that these informers may simply BE white supremacists, not merely pretending to be? I can see plenty of problems with civil society groups practicing covert infiltration, let alone paying for it.

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  @j2bryson the economist must face stiff competition from AI sycophancy these days, but they clearly aren't giving up.

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  Why is YouTube pushing AI-sloppy mobile games? I guess I know when I think about it, but still.

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  Watching the "thoughts" of DeepSeek scroll by as I'm trying it out for a small coding project, I'm amazed it can second-guess itself so much and still manage to make something reasonably good.

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  @hallvors avisa de eide hadde kanskje et godt omdømme, men Schibsted selv? Jeg synes ikke noen av de store mediehusene har særlig godt omdømme

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  @TimWardCam @theintercept they have maybe heard of Nuremberg defense 2.0, by John Yoo: "My lawyer said it was OK".

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  @j2bryson I think it's mildly ridiculous to write an AI agent to "maximize your experience", but unless you hate association with mildly ridiculous people I don't think that's a reason to withdraw? Unless I misunderstand something, trying to impress someone isn't usually something you needs consent for, even if you botch it

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  @KimSJ "otherwise share and trade" is going to be hard, and iffy when you look at it, but buy and sell? Definitively. A lot more things should be illegal to make money from.

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  @BGOllie more H0ffman Ollie collaborations are always welcome!

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  I know some of you hate AI, but I wish I could explain how good it feels to send deepseek off on a yak-shaving mission rather than going myself.

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  @955_36 @nickfarr At the risk of ruining a good joke (and a good point), the "recursive self-improvement" usually involves interacting with the world of some sort. So new information *does* get into the system. Whether new meat into the sausage mixed with the old meat is enough to make it more eatable is another question.

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  Good writeup on Anthropic and the messed up online cultlike communities it's associated with: https://www.iankduncan.com/personal/2026-09-16-sex-ai-and-the-apocalypse

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  @j2bryson well, first four notes maybe. I'd heard that song before (Max Raabe & Palast's version) and didn't think it sounded that much like the Muppet show theme, it goes off in another direction very quickly.

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  @j2bryson If you hear it that way, fair enough I guess, but I really doubt they plagiarized it. Weimar-era "light music" composers were extremely prolific, it's going to be hard to not sound a bit like something they wrote, especially if you aim for showy, vaudeville-y, cabaret-y music.

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  Ni spill #My9Games https://my9games.net/en/share/9c19f39c-27fa-4d47-be7e-40e029cb111f

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  @lisyarus I love them. Always loved them (Pirates!, Elite 2, Sim City, Dwarf Fortress). Modded Minecraft fills that niche for me today. All games have goals, but a great game is one where you can ignore them, make up your own, take it in your own tempo and still have fun.

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  Hvor mange offentlige hus er det i Norge som kaller seg "Kuben"? * Kuben vgs, Oslo * KUBEN, kultur og vitensenter i Arendal * Kuben, kulturhus i Grong * Kuben, ungdomsklubb i Harstad * KUBE, kunstmuseum i Ålesund * KUBEN, kjøpesenter i Hønefoss * Kuben, coworking og møterom i Orkanger * Kuben, boligblokk i Bergen * Kuben, en annen boligblokk i Bergen Noen flere?

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  @kibcol1049 I'm pretty sure I read about that on hacker news, and also that it was a lot longer than a week ago? Checked and yes, it was 20 days ago and it was immediately vandalized with hate-bait.

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  Det er bra at de er kritiske, men har NRK / Marit Balsvik Winge virkelig aldri hørt om vanity publishing-svindel? https://www.nrk.no/kultur/meiner-forlag-brukar-ki-til-a-vurdere-manus-1.17837751

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  It's not enough to be rich and privileged, the goal is apparently to be able to gloat in your impunity. Little Epsteins.

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  "Hedersprisen Årets Peer Gynt går til en person eller institusjon som har markert seg på en positiv måte og gjort Norge mer kjent i utlandet". Har de LEST Peer Gynt?? "Stortinget avgjør hvem som blir årets Peer Gynt". Send meg til et galehus i Kairo...

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  AI-generert barnebok observert på Ark :/

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  @aral It doesn't happen of itself. The public broadcaster in Norway crammed us with celebrity Eurovision news despite knowing that a majority wanted them to call off the whole thing.

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  Why did I wait 44 years to taste pomelo?

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  Where does the monetary monster live? In debasement. (old joke stolen from @interfluidity )

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  @contrasocial @_elena @aral Just read that @EUCommission vice chair and notable Russia hawk Kaja Kallas was on Peter Thiel's invitees to his "Dialog" society.

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  @reverend @_elena @EUCommission @aral I'm pretty sure many in the Commission don't want Mistral to compete. They expect Trump to go away and things to go back to "normal" and then they want to be in the US admin's good graces.

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  @hallvors jeg har jobbet med en liten liste svenske ord som høres ut som dødelige fornærmelser, deriblant rakhyvel

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  Det er så mange ting folk forventer av deg når du er seriøs moderne norsk forfatter. Som for eksempel? Vel, altså. Å skrive dialoger uten tilstrekkelig tegnsetting? Ja, akkurat, sa han.

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  @j2bryson I should finish that book.