Anthropic bans ‘abusive or cruel behavior’ toward Claude

Continues abuse and cruelty for its human employees.

Amazon, that company Jeff Bezos started?

The Jeff Bezos that was good friends with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell and that even invited the couple to his private, invitation online, weekend retreat at a private resort he rented out?

That Amazon?

Surprised that a company founded by a chap like Jeff Bezos becomes so shitty and evil?

I hope everyone has added this to their file about Jeff Bezos

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos had Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell attend his private, invitation-only, weekend at a resort he rented out. Bezos also has numerous private dinners with Epstein. They were good friends.

Jeff Bezos hosted Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell to his private, invitation-only, weekend at a resort he rented out. Bezos had many close ties to Epstein. Bezos also had numerous private dinners with Epstein.

The photo is from a party where Ghislaine Maxwell hobnobbed with him but make no mistake they were close friends.

Make sure to add this note to your files about Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.

people are completely feared out these days.

And thats what seems to be motivating voters to turn out this cycle.

Theres a reason we deter people from smoking cigarettes using the fear of cancer and not the hope that you’ll live a longer life if you don’t smoke a pack a day. Incidentally, you can have both fear and hope. In the cigarette example we use fear of cancer to convince someone that by not smoking a pack a day we hope it prevents them from ever developing lung cancer or other lung aliments and they’ll live longer.

My original point is this: in 2016 we were told Hillary was going to win with a 98% certainty so lots of people didn’t go vote or voted for a 3rd party (there was lots of animosity towards the DNC that year but funny thing is after Trump lost a bunch of those people really regretted their decision that was motivated by apathy or spite.)

In 2024 we were again told with a high certainty that Kamala would win. We even had famous pollsters claiming she’d win Iowa by a landslide. Again, lots of people didn’t turn out to vote. The day after Trump won we saw the google search term “how do I vote after election day” skyrocket. Obviously some people had regrets about their decision to not vote.

I’m not convinced the “they go low, we go high” is really a sound strategy. Sure, it’s a lovely soundbite but we’re literally at war with faction trying to overthrow our government. You want hope? Let’s address the fear by talking about incessantly (right not) since we’re approaching a brief time period where we can actually do something constructive about it (voting.)

All these “blue wave forecast” articles are just fueling the apathy. We should be talking about how close every race is (most races are usually within 5-10% which most people would consider close.) You need to ensure people who can vote do vote and history proves that fear of consequences motivates better than hope of consequences, thought as I pointed out the two can be interlinked. I’d much rather be seeing articles about how Senator GOP is planning to kill your grandma if reelected or how Congressman GOP is going to draft your kids for a war with Israel. That’ll get people to turn out, but the DNC is kind of inept at messaging as a whole.

No worries. I don’t expect everyone to know American history. But the founding fathers did originally merge the 13 colonies together as a confederacy. The biggest problem with that was it was difficult to raise taxes to pay for the Revolutionary War. Part of the reason France lost money and eventually had its own revolution.

I’d also hazard anyone from copying the Balkans. Aren’t most of those countries pretty shitty to live in?

They tried that. The nation was originally a confederacy. It failed. After adopting a federal government things worked better, even when a Civil War challenged that Union. You may nit like it but this is the best system found so far. We’re allowed to change the things we don’t like but it’s not easy to do precisely because such changes need to be difficult. Rally your communities. The largest voting block is “didn’t vote” and you may not like this but it’s mostly younger people and a big chunk of minorities that don’t actually vote.

Stop complaining if you aren’t willing to work towards fixing things.

No such thing as a normal election. No such thing as a reliable poll. Go vote.

Let’s not have a repeat of “how to vote after election day” trend on Google search this year like back in 2024.

Everyone should be spreading absolute terror among their communities because thats the only reason Biden won in 2020, there was an absolutely terrifying event taking place. People pay bills because they fear the consequences of not paying them, no one loves to pay their bills even if they understand they are necessary. Therefor, fear is the more powerful motivator.

Don’t forget how useless polls are: Hillary was going to win it was 98% certain, Kamala was going to win Iowa by as much as 14 points. Neither of these things happened.

Polls were always shitty because of small sample size but nowadays they’re probably being gamed by bad actors as well. And we’ve known that some people lie to save face: there was some legislation in California (think it was anti-immigration or something) and when they surveyed voters these people over-whelming said they were voting against it. Come election day the measure passes.

What happened? Well turns out the populace actually liked the law but they also didn’t want people to know they supported something that could be viewed as bigoted. So when some stranger called then and asked what they thought about it they lied to save face, while deep down they knew they were going to vote for it because it served their self interest.

And Reddit was small for years and years when it started. I don’t even think I really started using it till around 2013-2014. Didn’t have a username or anything just came across it through Google searches. All websites take a while to build a userbase.

I’ll be honest I miss old Reddit

Everyone does. Just like we all miss og Myspace or geocities sites. Old Reddit at its prime was a different time period. Can’t recapture that just like you can’t recapture the geocities era of the internet.

We’re being enshittified. Lemmy is the least enshittified (thus far.)

Yeah but thats better than most niche message boards back in their heyday. Probably better than y incubators message board to.

A big chunk of reddit traffic and users are bots. Another large segment are more recent arrivals from India (check out how many Indian topics make the front pages on the weekends when USA/UK traffic is low.) While I can’t prove it I have a hunch that Spez hired a bunch of Indian clickfarms to pump the numbers before the IPO. Maybe he just promoted in India more to get an influx of users for the IPO or maybe they are mostly “social media marketers” hired to sell health/peptide supplements (seriously there are services that do that on Reddit so be careful ever taking any such advice from them.)

But my point is that the quality of users is pretty weak and I’m certain American advertisers have noticed by now. 300ish real, quality users is a better engagement metric than 6000 bots.

I did, even posted the link in the right spot but I forget that if I add a gif it nulls out the article link. Its been fixed. Sorry for the mistake.

Yeah Vivek is pure cringe. Remember when he went on a Christmas day rant about how entitled American workers are for wanting fair pay? Then he and Elon bashed American workers as inferior. Can’t believe anyone in Ohio would vote for him.

Nothing about producing nuclear weapons, let alone miniaturized thermo-nuclear devices optimized to get the most efficient reaction during detonation is cheap. And the knowledge wasn’t necessarily lost, that is impossible to determine since we’re dealing with highly classified secrets regarding the construction of a nuclear weapon.

It’s possible that while making fogbank they merely got a contaminated batch of boron. Let’s say, for example, you find your grandma’s recipe for apple pie. But when your mother tastes it she says it’s a little off. You then eventually realize that you used apples that weren’t ripe yet, or that grandma used apples that were beginning to get soft. Thats not really the same as “lost knowledge” it’s more an experience gap.

Clickbait always makes these things sound like we’ve lost this information and now we’re screwed because it can never be relearned and no one knows anything oh no doom and gloom. Truth is lots of knowledge, through-out history, has been “lost” and then “rediscovered” primarily because this info becomes less valued/important and eventually someone needs it again so they rediscover it. Happened alot with mathematical theories and concepts, like calculus.

No one wants to lose knowledge but no one wants to pay to keep it alive the proper way (master/apprentice system that ensures these tricks of the trade are continually passed on) so we favor a system where specialized experts (scientists) are called in to solve these issues and rediscover the tricks of the trade using the scientific process. Either way you pay for the knowledge but we wanted to save money and shutter a bunch of cold-war era defense companies when the cold-war ended. The consequences of that are when you want to resume making nuclear weapons of the quality America demands you have to hire those scientists to figure out all the pesky details like fogbank.

A year after his explosive tenure at Doge, the SpaceX CEO is back in the Trump administration’s good graces

Elon is the one with power and Trump is conceding to this fact.

Thing is DOGE was successful at destroying many government agencies. That was always its intended goal, chaos.

Thats exactly what the Bay Area furries community said every time Elon Musk tried to join in back around 2008. True story.

Ketamine powers

There are no rules!

That isn’t great when it cuts both ways. I’ll stick with fixed pricing and enforceable tenant protection laws. Rules are there for a reason.