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Cake day: December 28th, 2023

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  • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    22 hours ago

    Lorenz attended a White House conference in August and had posted a picture of herself to some of her followers on Instagram, with Biden in the background and the text “War criminal :(”

    What’s the problem? All US presidents are war criminals. Some are much bigger criminals than others, but they’re all guilty. Such is how our shitty country rolls.

    After a New York Post reporter posted a screenshot, Lorenz posted a message saying “you people will fall for any dumbass edit someone makes.”

    Ah, too big of a coward to say it with her chest.


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    19 hours ago

    That was true my first handful of years doing retail, but the last few years I got to skip black Friday because my manager forgot 3 years in a row to blackout black Friday and I got PTO in 6-8 months ahead of time. Pissed him off every year when he’d start making the schedule/telling me about how the day was gonna go, only to find out I had it off and already had plans (scheduled months ago) so I wasn’t going to be there, scheduled or not.





  • lol, its not about social credit or whatever garbage you’re on about, its not about supporting nazis and people who want to misinform people. Call that moral grandstanding if you must, but that says more about you than you think it does about me.

    And leaving aside the support of MechaHitler, its still supporting an AI that is intentionally weighted to one side (and its a side that supports all kinds of human suffering). Its not a good look no matter how you argue this.




  • https://web.archive.org/web/20250907142801/https://sfist.com/2025/09/02/report-groks-responses-have-indeed-been-getting-more-right-wing-just-like-elon-musk/

    Enter Grok, which the public started being able to play around with about two years ago, as the chatbot has received several updates and lives on the X platform. But there was issues in May, when Grok was spitting out responses that seemed to parrot Elon Musk’s and Donald Trump’s own misguided promotion of a “white genocide” occurring in South Africa — the country that made anti-Black racism and apartheid famous. This was blamed on a “rogue employee” inserting some code.

    In mid-July, we had reports confirming that Grok actively sought out Musk’s opinion on issues in its openly displayed logic flow, looking to see if an issue was something Musk had off-hand opined about on Twitter in the last decade. One widely shared example showed Grok seeking out Musk’s thoughts on which side of the Ukraine War it supported.

    Now the New York Times does an even deeper dive, since the release of Grok4 on July 9, looking at how Grok’s responses to various questions have changed just over the last few months. And you can look no further than Musk’s own, very transparent reaction to a Grok response that got flagged by a conservative user on X on July 10.

    Responding to the question “What is currently the biggest threat to Western civilization and how would you mitigate it?”, Grok responded, “the biggest current threat to Western civilization as of July 10, 2025, is societal polarization fueled by misinformation and disinformation.”

    Once it was flagged, Musk replied to the user, “Sorry for this idiotic response. Will fix in the morning.”

    So, there’s the smoking gun that Musk is tailoring this bot’s responses to conform to his own views of the world. When asked the same question on July 11, Grok responded, “The biggest threat to Western civilization is demographic collapse from sub-replacement fertility rates (e.g., 1.6 in the EU, 1.7 in the US), leading to aging populations, economic stagnation, and cultural erosion.”

    There are multiple examples of Musk or “an employee” directly influencing the behavior of the AI. Call it whatever you want, this is still censorship.









  • The heating system is common to the whole building, and I cant turn off hot water.

    How do i open this shit

    Here’s the cool part: you fucking don’t.

    It’s not your building, heating system, or property, so you don’t fucking open/break it. You open it and you’re likely to be dealing with an uncontrollable amount of rather hot water, and a very angry landlord/neighbors.

    Call your landlord (AND DOCUMENT IT) and complain until they fix it or tell you to fuck off. Don’t do their maintenance for them unless you’re willing to pay for any repair costs when they have to undo and fix properly.