The joy of niche music taste: cheap live tickets to small venues, and cool merch. Multiple times I could have touched their instruments from the floor section.

The pain of niche music taste: Depending upon their genre and your city’s size, they may never come nearby you. New York and LA get everything, Kansas City folk better like country and speed-rap.

Might be irrelevant given the latest on Biden dropping maybe, but this is still the official line:_

“no voting will begin before August 1.” They add that the vote is set to happen before the in-person Democratic National Convention that starts Aug. 19

They’ve now explained the nuance and reasoning, which does change things a fair bit

In June, Ohio passed a bill to move its deadline from Aug. 7 to Sept. 1. But because that law technically does not take effect until Sept. 1, the DNC said they are keeping their timeline of a pre-convention virtual roll call in place due to concern of litigation. Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose suggested earlier this month that Sept. 1 deadline to certify a candidate would stand.

Edit: There’s some legalese that the DNC is shook about, so fair enough to be worried about Republicans and election shenanigans.

If his plans aren’t enough for your tastes, organize and do better. Inspire others around you.

This would be a valid point, if the DNC wasn’t trying to force a primary confirmation vote early, in order to ‘lock in’ Biden. Despite Biden welcoming challengers to make a play to delegates at the convention.

I.e. “actively prevented from doing so”

Correct. Dress it up however you like, but LLM and ML programs are probability gamblers all the way down. We’re building a conversation tool, that doesn’t truly comprehend the language because it’s a calculator at its core - it’s like asking your eyeballs to see in UHF frequencies.

They’re called “computers” for a reason, and we are deep in the myopic tech tree of further and further complexity. The current wave of AI has solid potential, but not globally for all applications. It is a great at ‘digital assistant’ roles and is already killing it in CCTV monitoring software. Mindjourney can make incredible images, but it can’t make art. ChatGPT can write, but it’s a terrible author or speechwriter.

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Good bot

A sudden wall of text is jarring while reading comments, thank you to whoever made this change 👍

Lawful neutral cuz in 6mo when some “controller” punches three buttons to run a report and asks “Hey why’d you do that?” THEN I’ll have documentation. And a job.

Make ticket, receive assistance. Fight me on that and I’ll add you to my email inbox’s ruleset - I am now an LLM, and will gentle-tone you to death via faux misunderstandings

Palestine <> Hamas

If you actually take a deeper look into the situation, it’s a lot more complicated than “good guy, bad guy” - and there’s millions of civilians on both sides who don’t deserve death, apartheid, or to live in fear of attacks from the sky.

What’s missing is a willingness of the leadership on both sides to step aside, and do what’s right for their country and people, not just themselves and their clients/patrons.

Oh fuck that’s dark

AI for the heavy lifting, some poor overworked freelancer overseas fixes issues and refines, and then maybe, mayyyybe a domestic review team of senior coders for pen/security testing.

!remindme 2030

While it may have begun that way (and may still be the overwhelming use case, idk the breakdown) devs are using it for FOSS releases, and that’s where the ‘less literate’ crowd enters. Sourceforge was very simple to use, and had a consistent layout. GitHub wasn’t meat to be a SF replacement, but here we are having this discussion

Man these comments are fun. The patricians defending the (admittedly) bad UI/UX as the skill-hurdle it is, while the rest are finding inventive ways to rephrase “gib button plz”

In seeking to decouple from state propaganda, it is important to critically examine alternative sources, lest you be duped into becoming a state mouthpiece.

Thanks for linking, but while there’s smoke and circumstance, it’s not a fire imo. Anonymous source, not sources.

And Hersh seems to have fallen from the tightrope of critical analysis and skepticism, into acceptance of conspiratorial narratives from shaky actors.

Not disputing you but very interested in reading more and sources - I always was very skeptical the volunteer Ukrainian saboteurs angle

Basically this.

I know several people who were… uneasy with the destitution and humanitarian issues they saw in Gaza, but supported Israel overall because before Oct7 the news was only “Hamas fires 16 rockets against Haifa” and Israel wasn’t going wild carpet bombing

That ambiguous support is gone now that Likud & the coalition have gone full mask off. They’re not pushing BDS, but their view has fundamentally shifted on this conflict over a matter of days and weeks

He cheated on his wife, very publicly for years. Idk about your views but maintaining a mistress immediately excludes you from being a good person. Charles was a prick for a long time before he started committing to charity, conservation, social outreach programs, etc

Arafat wasn’t a part of the Camp David Accords in 1978, you’re confused with the 2000 Camp David summit.

That 2000 summit fell apart because of a loggerhead over what is fundamental to both sides, and an Israeli negotiation redline hypocrisy - right of return. Arafat may well have been an Arab nationalist who wanted the three no’s forever and wouldn’t sign anything - but then why engage and negotiate at all? Concessions were offered from on both sides but Israel refused to permit those in the diaspora to return to their land, all while funding birthright trips for foreign Jews.

Egypt has a viable country and government, and got the canal back and A SHITLOAD of land Israel had taken. Palestinians were being offered what the US and Canada gave the First Nations after we broke treaty after treaty.

Oslo II was signed by the PLO on behalf of the Palestinian people. It’s the most recent document that both sides agreed to, dealing with partition of land. Israel has failed to do what it agreed to and slowly cede back the West Bank entirely - they have done the opposite and taken more land.

Camp David accords was between Israel and Egypt, decided without the Palestinians, and condemned by the UN and rejected as illegitimate by;

• Resolution 33/28
• Resolution 34/70
• Resolution 34/65 B

And yes the rapprochement with the Saudis is a big development towards normalization and stability for Israel, and cements alliances between the region - but Israeli realpolitik is fucking up the juggling act US diplomats are doing.

Firstly, positive to see more criticism and friction between Israel and US officials, and that resulting in unilateral action against extreme elements of Israeli society. I recognize that international and domestic politics are hard to balance, and its campaign season.

But holy shit this solves nothing. “It’s a start” certainly, but there shouldn’t even be settlers. Oslo II very clearly, with lines on the map agreed to by both sides, set out that the West Bank and Gaza is Palestinian, for Palestinians.

At what point does the US alliance with Israel cost us more than it’s worth, especially when this unlimited support is directly harmful to other regional allies like Jordan or Egypt?

• Gaza pre-war was a pretty densely packed urban area of 2.2 million people with limited open spaces outside the seafront. Gaza has to import basically everything it uses
• They’ve been living under embargo for years where dual use military-civilian items are banned, which is a big list if you think about parallel uses
• In ‘normal’ times life in Gaza for Palestinians was acceptable living standards, if impoverished and heavily dependent upon UN/NGO/charitable aid as a community

There was the Oct 7 surprise attack by Hamas and the following Israeli reaction since, leading us to right now and the ongoing war. The true number is unknown, but at present there have been over 26,000 civilians killed, and varying from 1 million to 500,000 were forced out of their homes by the war.

• The northern half of Gaza is an active war zone, as are areas in the south & south east, resulting in large no-go zones for civilians
• Many have gone to the refugee camps near the remaining border crossings, in the south, where the aid does still come in
• Some choose to remain in the remaining undamaged and ruins of buildings, owing to massive overcrowding in refugee camps among the usual issues
• To add to all this, there has been a reduction of aid coming into Gaza since the war started, ranging from completely being shut off from even water, reduced number of trucks carrying core basics, and currently it’s nowhere near enough.

No land for growing food to feed almost 2 million people, people who are largely displaced from their homes and supply, who at present are entirely reliant on outside assistance for survival. Severely insufficient supplies coming in from outside aid, poor medical availability for both war and normal injuries, illnesses and diseases - diseases that spread rapidly in dense areas like refugee camps.

If nothing changes, it’s going to be an incredible humanitarian crisis. How we, the global community act decides what happens to the Palestinians in Gaza. I hope we don’t repeat history.