Wonder what people think of:

“We have no ideological agenda,” reads the document shared with WIRED by a past participant. “Dialog is nonpartisan and nonpolitical. We want all participants to come away with a better understanding of the truth—but we don’t presume to know what the truth is. We simply believe that when we bring together open-minded people who are at the top of their fields, with diverse backgrounds and perspectives, they will learn new things.”

I have definitely been to events with people who have a variety of political opinions, but I’m not sure I want to be in any Thiel backed group. I certainly wouldn’t pay to attend a social gathering where prominent people that I think are basically evil will be.

Eric Taylor, the city manager, refused to turn the water on to this location. Yes, there was community involvement, but one person was able to stand up and make the right decision. Once that decision was made, others were able to support it. Local officials really matter and can make a huge impact.

They never said “the best we can do is offer you stuff targeted at girls because, you know, you’re essentially a girl anyway”, you did. If you think there should be more stuff for certain men, you’re free to make it. If not all men relate to that content, I hope they are more capable of nuance than you seem to be. The idea that relating to the experience of another group somehow takes away from your actual identity is not how someone who has a normal relationship with their identity would work.

I date women as a woman and sometimes men will be talking specifically to other men about dating women and I will find what they say relatable. It does not make me question my gender or sexuality. I just think “wow! So true!” and move on with my day.

It’s ok to have a similar experience or understanding of the world as someone else, even if they are not talking directly to or about your personal experience.

They are not drawing a line. You’re welcome to comment what you like, but this is straight “so you hate waffles?” level of reasoning.

I wouldn’t recommend the read.

The writer seems to want to come across as hesitantly drawn in, but ultimately seeking more. What it actually comes across as is a bit of a glaze tempered by a writer who knows what they’re doing. It feels like a testament to their ability and makes it clear how/why they profile celebrities for a living.

She mentions the AI had a visual glitch of an inflating head which makes her seem like an impartial reporter, only to bring attention to how that was fixed within a day. Maybe I’m not accustomed to someone being so forgiving with AI, and I’m not familiar with celeb profiles in general, but this gives “apolitical” vibes. She ends it with a little tribute to art from real people, but the interview basically skirts around this even though the creator is there the whole time also involved in the interview.

I can’t copy/paste off the site, but there are occasions where the AI provides a response that doesn’t really make sense but the writer refers to like it does. I’m struggling to identify if this is a covert dig at the AIs ability to understand context, if I am not understanding, or the writer is not communicating well.

All in all it’s a well written piece with nothing to say and likely only serves to get the name circulating. Not quite a fluff piece, but it’s what I imagine a smart writer would suggest as a fluff piece.

You not understanding the sentence makes sense if you are not familiar with the way people speak about it day-to-day. It would be like asking what the point of a no kings protest is, considering America doesn’t actually have a king. It’s OK to not understand or ask the question, but people locally understand what they are saying. It’s not a failing of the original commenter that an international audience doesn’t follow their complaint about local politics.

I’m not asking or expecting you to keep up with all the acronyms, but accusing someone of lying about being American because you don’t understand what they are talking about as a non American is just a weird thing to do.

When they are talking about the electoral college in that sense, they are likely talking about the fact that in Trump’s first run if we did not have the electoral college he would have lost. He lost the popular vote, and the distribution of those votes via the electoral college is what actually caused the win. Again, this is a pretty common talking point in the United States.

I think when they mean “the land” they are referring to a pretty common argument about how not all votes count equally because of the way states are populated and congresspeople are appointed. Someone living in a city in California has diluted voting power compared to someone in Alaska because of population density. This is often reduced to a pithy refrain about “the land” getting votes.

I do agree that being upset that stupid people get to vote is not pro democracy.

“Convicted felon” is something Trump is. That term has nothing to do with serving time, despite the word “convict” sometimes meaning that. People would often type out “convicted felon Donald Trump” and this was shortened. Clearly you were able to deduce from context clues what they were talking about.

EC is a pretty common abbreviation for “electoral college” when already talking about politics.

The fact you’re unfamiliar with the landmass argument and EC and they are casually using them seems to indicate that they are more familiar with US political culture and contributes to the idea they are not lying about their location.

I don’t know where you’re from, but if you’re keen on protecting trumps image I’d do some introspection.

Despite her mother’s deportation, Sarah said she’s still considering enlisting in the U.S. military after high school, and she remains active in her JROTC’s honor guard and drill team.

She’s still a child, but that’s certainly not sending the best message. They now have no parents or parental income, so of course the military looks extra appealing.

Sarah isn’t mad at the country, she said. She’s “more mad at the president.”

I’m glad she’s not holding a grudge against the entire country because I’m sure that’s terrible for your mental health, but unfortunately the country is why he is president. I feel truly terrible for these kids and the parents.

I appreciate your response, but I was just curious as to what the original commenter thinks she needed redemption for. Apparently they think that being “vapid and vacuous” requires a redemption arc, despite likely not knowing her personally and having no actual knowledge of her real personality. There are only so many ways for someone to bounce back from a leaked sex tape and she chose hers and I just don’t think it requires an apology (as Carl alludes to elsewhere in this thread).

I think the article strengthens the idea that we have no idea who she is and what her life has been like, so unless she’s actually wronged someone, I don’t see a need for a redemption. For what it’s worth, I was aware of the content of the article you shared, but I didn’t think it was relevant to why she should be seeking redemption. Though I do appreciate you attempting to add context.

Hussein said he was in disbelief that he was told to convert or leave — for the first time in his life — at a Republican convention with the tagline, “Unity drives victory.”

Their idea of unity is not coming together despite differences, it’s an eradication of differences. They aren’t even hiding it. I have no idea why they are surprised.

Redemption from what? My understanding of her public life is that someone nonconsensually released a sex tape of her and then she started in some shows in an attempt to capitalize on a shitty situation.

No comments from kids. Mixed reactions from parents.

Based solely on parent feedback from the article it seems like this will most positively affect kids who enter preteen years after the ban and who never had access to social media before. Kids who got used to it and now lost access seem to be a mixed bag. Obviously no one actually knows effects on long term outcomes yet. I would have really liked to see what the kids themselves are saying.

I would be totally down for a movie à la Lego movie where there a gritty drama about a slumlord running alongside the actual monopoly game and it ends with a revolution/board flip and then the people looking to get involved irl.

For the most part I have little sympathy for people who married Trump supporters. The Trump supporter likely had a lot of terrible behavior towards people in her day to day life and her husband just didn’t care about that because it didn’t directly affect him and their relationship. Now it has.

I don’t think this proposed a false dichotomy at all. AI can be capable of just enough to still be a problem. If AI can rip off your game an infinite number of times before yours even gets out there, then your game looks like the rip off of those games and those games may have already soured an interested audience by being buggy or having weird assets etc.

I don’t think people are claiming AI is incapable of anything. Obviously, it will generally generate an output. The question tends to be around the quality of the output and the issues with the generation itself (dataset and energy concerns).

I don’t know your kid or your relationship with them or anything, so I’m just speaking in generalities, but most trans people I know really appreciate being called by their preferred name and pronouns. If your kid is using certain pronouns with new people or with their friends that they are out to, it might be nice to give them a try. Maybe not, again I don’t know you both, but just because someone is willing to joke about pronouns doesn’t necessarily mean they don’t actually care about them. Seems like you really care for your kid and I’m sure that if they wanted to be referred to with new pronouns that you’d be able to figure it out. Wishing you both the best.

It probably also depends a bit on how you use your account. I have a more professional account and one that I use for personal projects that I might not want an employer seeing. I might not want to taint my personal one with an association to AI, but the professional one would really depend on how good the project was in the first place since most employers nowadays don’t really care. If it was really unclean and buggy I might not want my professional account associated, but if it was a project I thought a lot of people could benefit from and the code itself was passable I would probably make a pull request.

He talks about increasing benefits for people in the military and increasing recruitment. That doesn’t sound like someone who is reflecting on the military in any way that aligns with my ideals.

I’d love to see people talk about reforming the military and ensuring better channels of reporting. He states he personally saw people target civilians, but I don’t see him campaigning about better whistleblower protections. Maybe I missed it because I’m not following it that closely, but he seems to wholly support the military and just be upset about fraud and waste and not about the raping and Geneva convention violations.

That’s fair.

I also think it’s a fair assessment to say that younger gens are doing it more. I think in part it’s because there’s been a big cultural shift in such a small time period and a larger portion of the younger population has moved with it. It’s hard to act lovingly towards people who are in your view unrepentantly supporting backsliding on centuries of progress.

I obviously have no details about your relationship with your kids, and I know you didn’t ask, but it’s possible he’d be interested in explaining his thought process if he felt you’d be receptive to hearing him out. At least you’ll know why he blamed you for something you were powerless to stop. I’m always sad to hear about people going no contact because I have and I know how hard it is. The people were such big parts of my life and though I have gotten to a place where I don’t long to repair the relationship, if they reached out and I felt like they came with an open mind and an open heart I’d be glad for the chance. Sometimes it just takes someone reaching out. Maybe your son doesn’t feel the same way, but good luck to you both.

I didn’t see a direct link in the article, so here you go (seems to be Japanese only, which is understandable): https://gokilove.jp/

This persons comment history indicates this is likely a lie/bait: https://lemmy.world/comment/24226662

I don’t know the full situation with your kid, but that seems unusual if there is no context being left out. Acting like it’s an issue with an age group going no contact over “everything” is really disingenuous though.