It's a place

[great-tweets]

We just knew.

[awed-frog]

As a reminder, this is what she looks like:

[yougetsomekisses]

[larkiethings]

Also I hope everyone knows that Miette was fostered before she was adopted, and her foster mom loved that little kitten so much and always hoped she’d gone to a good home. this tweet got so popular that she recognized Miette and reached out to her current mom, and was able to share previously unseen baby pictures

[darthmelyanna]

You mean, she saw Miette was kicked like the football and did nothing to help put Mother in jail for a thousand years? I am appalled.

[tigerses]

her!!!

[madeofstarsandfairylights]

Baby Miette!!!

[ottermatopoeia]

Babe wake up new Miette lore just dropped

[devil-with-three-heads]

IT’S MIETTE!!!!

[kafkasapartment]

John Cleese in a broadcast from 1987. Cleese noted on social media that it is "hard to tell if I recorded this 30 years or 10 minutes ago."

[dryiffsrevitalizingtailholetonic]

but yeah I've gone full tinfoil hat as far as the datacenters are concerned: they're building out capacity for an unimaginable amount of storage and processing power, far beyond what grok or gemini or whatever would need to misread wikipedia and reddit to you.

No no, they want a surveillance system that isn't dependent on buildings full of analysts, who even with advanced tools have a limit to the number of targets they can keep tabs on.

They want something which can make connections between all the disparate datasets they've been building for decades, against the population at large--foreign and domestic. and do it in a way that is accessible to an imbecile (read: upper management).

At least, that's what it seems like to me. Admittedly, I am not an engineer or even a programmer. Maybe all this shit really is just so Grok can tell you if a tweet is real or not.

[fictionalauthorityii]

Surveillance and data sorting is 100% what these centers are for. The framework for such a system has been in the works for years, being tested all around the globe. Remember when we pointed out that AI like Palantir and Lavender are being used in Palestine and Gaza in order to track the movement of people and target them? It was just the tip of the iceberg.

People see this stuff happening in other countries and think that it will never happen in their country, but this shit always comes home.

There’s already a vast network of flock cameras, tracking your every move, there’s already going to be built-in surveillance systems in cars, and they can already figure out who your friends and family are just by studying whose phones your phone is near every day. They can map out your whole routine, they have absolute shit loads of data on everyone - the problem has always been that there is just so much data to get through that it is virtually useless.

Not with AI. AI does not get tired, doesn’t take breaks, doesn’t need vacations, doesn’t need to be paid. It will relentlessly parse every little bit of data the surveillance state takes in and spit it back out in neat rows, everything about you filed away.

[fictionalauthorityii]

Oh, and in case anybody still, for some reason, doubts that this might be the case - Trump is having the government invest tons of money into buying large stakes in AI companies

They are already integrating companies like flock and Palantir into the government, now they are gonna start buying up even more controlling interest in AI companies

All of it will be militarized, against you. 

And the conservatives who endlessly scream about communism in other countries won’t say a goddamn thing about the government buying controlling interest in private companies and expanding the surveillance state, because it is coming to fruition under a republican majority and Maga is a cult

[ralfmaximus]

Younger folk are getting really good at spotting AI slop, to the consternation of marketing execs.

Found on Mastodon.

[tvrded]

Tumblr simulator

[girlactionfigure]

A significant defeat for one of the most notorious

antisemitic groups operating in Britain.

jonnydaniels

[otakuvampyre]

And this infuriates the Hamasnik crowd to no end.

Especially when it results in actual consequences. The RAGE I have seen from them that the 4 who smashed up the weapons factory and fractured a police woman's spine got a slight extension to their sentences with a terrorism modifier is insane. I've seen so many trying to claim the trial was rigged, the judge was corrupt, of course the usual cries of Israel "capturing" the UK and it's court system, and of course them trying to portray it as them being charged as terrorists because they "oppose genocide" (usually while leaving out the fact they fractured a woman's spine).

The sentences they got, btw, were still absolutely nothing. 🤣 Literally the longest was, I think, 9 years? With the rest getting 6. In America, attacking a cop like they did, causing her grievous bodily harm, and destroying over a million in property would likely get them longer than that. With a fee tacked on top.

[hauntedcollectorapple]

Yeah, the UK still reserves its harshest punishments for the worst kind of crimes. Like posting something politically incorrect on Twitter.

[eretzyisrael]

[blackpyrefly]

today im thinking about the huge buff bread guy from kikis delivery service. highly underrated guy

[uzmashroom]

Genuinely just a good man. Wife adopts teenage witch that needs a place to stay in the city? Sure. Even though you got a kid on the way? That’s fine. Cat too? Love cats. 

[furrama]

My favorite moment with him is when he goes to get some prepped baking sheets and he does this fancy twirl with them in front of Jiji. Like, there’s no other people in the room, he does this to impress a cat.

I don’t think he ever says more than a whole word the entire movie, and I still love him more than most Disney princes based on this one moment alone.

[fujiwaradivebar]

And the part where he wanted to surprise Kiki by making that beautiful elaborate sign OUT OF BREAD to advertise her business and he was all anxious for her to get home and see it

But then when he sees her coming he gets all bashful and runs away 😭

[judas-jpg]

the most underrated thing about the ghibli movies is how deeply they are love stories to working people, to the small folk, to moments of love and kindness. its not just about magic, many movies are about magic and fairytales. Its not only about the people in the stories, but about stories in the people. And they are just loveable.

[cheshireinthemiddle]

"If I was alive back then, I would have housed every suffering black slave."

Sir, you cant even be bothered to house the homeless person on your block, much less look him in the eye. You couldnt be bothered to house a single immigrant. Add on the bacon bits of actual laws banning it and massive social backlash from your peers, you definitely would not have housed and protected black slaves back then.

[cheshireinthemiddle]

I recently saw this in action.

"I would welcome every immigrant fleeing ICE into my home and protect them."

and like a few posts down was "There's so many homeless people in my area now. They're ruining my favorite spots😟"

Like...You have people in need right there. Go ahead, invite them into your home. Invite them all.

[siryouarebeingmocked]

"Sorry, the homeless people don't have enough Victim Points™."

Reminds me of this stupid post a while back;

I love how their baffled silence at the stupidity is supposed to be a victory. The person might've meant something like a government training program.

The obvious difference is that the person in the story wasn't actually virtue signalling. Just saying that homeless people should meet the same standards as everyone else.

And they were actually doing the things they said everyone should do.

[vercengetorixadvisor]

If I've got spare cash, I give any homeless person I run into $20. I've had to reduce that recently due to my own needs for saving, but I also don't make outrageous claims like these fuckers.

[cheshireinthemiddle]

Virtue Signalling is tiring. But also calling it out is unpopular because people mistake it for not caring about the issue.

[saintofpride201]

Slightly off topic, but I'm reminded of when that director with Tourettes shouted the N word at the awards ceremony and got blasted on Twitter by virtue signaling shitbags. A few of which were like "If I had Tourettes, I would simply not have a racial slur loaded in the chamber when having a tick" and another which, I'm not exaggerating and I'm BARELY paraphrasing here, said "If I had Tourettes, my ticks would be 'Free Palestine', 'Trans Rights', 'Fuck ICE', and 'Vote Blue'!".

Virtue signalers tend to out themselves as rotten apples spraying perfume on their stank to look like good ones and STILL failing.

[cheshireinthemiddle]

Shouldve told em that's ableist.

"If *I* had that disability, I would be able to handle it in a way that wouldnt inconvenience others!"

[requiem-on-water]

by Christian Spencer

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

Antisemitic Cornell student turns down interview because he’s ‘not interested in working for a Jew’

Austin Franco, 19, put his antisemitism on full display when he passed up an interview with NYC-based company VryfID because its co-founders

By Sonya Gugliara

A Cornell University student who applied for a summer internship with a Jewish-owned NYC startup rejected the opportunity with a hateful message: ‘Not interested in working for a Jew,” the shocked CEO posted on X.

Austin Franco put his antisemitism on full display when he passed up an interview with VryfID because its co-founders Gabe and Aiden Einhorn are proudly Jewish. 

Franco, 19, delivered the message to both brothers via job board site Handshake after applying for a summer role at the company, which pairs renters with landlords and verifies their identities to prevent fraud. 

The Einhorns reviewed Franco’s application and he was being considered for an internship with VryfID’s growth team, which is tasked with attracting renters to the company.

“Sad world,” Gabe, 24, wrote on X Monday along with a screenshot of Franco’s jaw-dropping eight-word response to trying to schedule a Zoom call: “Not interested in working for a Jew. Thanks.” 

Gabe Einhorn told The Post he felt obligated to share the message to raise awareness of growing antisemitism. He blacked out Franco’s name out of graciousness, but commenters quickly revealed his identity. 

“I felt bad exposing him because I thought he could have made a mistake and he really doesn’t believe this wholeheartedly,” Gabe said. 

But the Ivy Leaguer soon made it clear that he meant every word of what he wrote. 

The student who hails from Virginia doubled down in an X post shared the next day.

[beardedmrbean]

This is the kind of guy that when he gets blacklisted for this by most outlets will blame the Jewish people instead of doing any sort of introspection.

[otakuvampyre]

Believe it or not, someone actually made a... Fuck what is that website called. Kinda like go fund me but not go fund me, for this guy.

And on top of that, this guy has both offered to go on talk shows to speak about his experience with this and has asked on Twitter if any lawyers think he could sue to get rich off this whole mess.

And of course he has an army of defenders from the "antizionist not antisemite" absolutely insisting he did nothing wrong. I've even seen a few insist he meant Zionists despite the fact he said "Jews."

And yes, blaming jews is exactly what he and every last one of his supporters did.

[puppygirllaika]

so. i just learned that my entirely me-written resume flags as being AI-written by automated HR systems for a few writing quirks and the fact that i followed all the rules of good resume writing, which is apparently a telltale sign of AI use in this fucking hellworld. i've been desperately applying to jobs that i am massively overqualified for for months with no response, not even an interview, and now i find out that at least part of the reason is because some fucking moron decided that following the rules every career advisor has given me for a decade means i cheated and should be disqualified. the ai bubble cannot pop soon enough. what the actual fuck.

[puppygirllaika]

"frequent use of action-result sentences. bullet points all start with action verbs. no career gaps." girl what the fuck are you talking about. that's just resume writing advice being followed. i just did what i was told. it's a fucking resume. you're supposed to do all that stuff. what the fuck do you mean it looks ai generated and wouldn't pass basic detection systems?????????? for following the resume writing rules????????????

[puppygirllaika]

wishing every AI bro and ceo a very [REDACTED]

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

Antisemitic Cornell student turns down interview because he’s ‘not interested in working for a Jew’

Austin Franco, 19, put his antisemitism on full display when he passed up an interview with NYC-based company VryfID because its co-founders

By Sonya Gugliara

A Cornell University student who applied for a summer internship with a Jewish-owned NYC startup rejected the opportunity with a hateful message: ‘Not interested in working for a Jew,” the shocked CEO posted on X.

Austin Franco put his antisemitism on full display when he passed up an interview with VryfID because its co-founders Gabe and Aiden Einhorn are proudly Jewish. 

Franco, 19, delivered the message to both brothers via job board site Handshake after applying for a summer role at the company, which pairs renters with landlords and verifies their identities to prevent fraud. 

The Einhorns reviewed Franco’s application and he was being considered for an internship with VryfID’s growth team, which is tasked with attracting renters to the company.

“Sad world,” Gabe, 24, wrote on X Monday along with a screenshot of Franco’s jaw-dropping eight-word response to trying to schedule a Zoom call: “Not interested in working for a Jew. Thanks.” 

Gabe Einhorn told The Post he felt obligated to share the message to raise awareness of growing antisemitism. He blacked out Franco’s name out of graciousness, but commenters quickly revealed his identity. 

“I felt bad exposing him because I thought he could have made a mistake and he really doesn’t believe this wholeheartedly,” Gabe said. 

But the Ivy Leaguer soon made it clear that he meant every word of what he wrote. 

The student who hails from Virginia doubled down in an X post shared the next day.

[beardedmrbean]

This is the kind of guy that when he gets blacklisted for this by most outlets will blame the Jewish people instead of doing any sort of introspection.

[hit-tab]

[springsgreenleaves]

Reblog to hit an elf very hard with a chair.

[wrenchinator-central]

Gimli wrote this description.

[dashaibo]

If you think USSR was in any way, shape or form a net good, you have just not read up enough on it. Or listened to those, that lived under the regime as adults.

[rametarin]

we really need a list of required reading about the horrors of the USSR that weren't curated and fluffed up by former KGB or USSR party members.

Books that aren't from some communist book nook's that deflect blame or handily say, "it wasn't REAL communism, it was state capitalism."

[nray999]

Ironically before 1990 our best source on the Stalinist purges was the Nazis. The Germans captured the Smolensk party archives and hauled them back to Berlin, where the US Army got hold of them. I wrote a paper on the purges in 1990 so that was may my main source. I have no illusions about the USSR or the PRC. A mandatory class on Communist atrocities including the purges, the Great Leap Forward and so on would be a double win as the teachers will freak over having to teach it.

[proship-froggo]

"Oh, no! This child doesn't believe in harassment! I sure hope they get beaten thoroughly by their parents!"

Insane shit to say, especially coming from the self-proclaimed "We care about victims!!" folks.

[proshipangel]

Anti shippers being actively pro abuse 💔🫣

[sztupy]

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previou

[ayeforscotland]

Let’s fucking go

[made-in-manetheren]

This is HUGE.

1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.

2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.

3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."

4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.

TL;DR Google reeeeeally stepped in it this time.

[delicatefury]

Makes perfect sense, actually, and is the result I expected. Search engines and social media have always hidden behind the protection of “the public square” and “notice board” classifications to deny liability for things.

They claimed they were just platforms and anyone could use them. They were not making “judgment calls.” There was no creation of content or filter of information or anything. The only value judgment they would make was how relevant the result was to your search terms. Which is the purpose of a search engine. They were just places where people could put up their flyers (like a notice board) or meet up freely and express their opinion (like the public square). They allowed you to filter things (through provided content filters or the use of Boolean search language), but they themselves would not make any determination regarding the value or morality or trustworthiness of the information provided.

And this used to be true. Google searches didn’t make judgment calls on the value of the opinions and data presented, it just returned relevant links. The more relevant, the higher on the list. This guaranteed multiple sources and points of view and you could decide for yourself which ones to trust.

For example, I had to look up Stormfront for a class way back when. Google didn’t give me a paragraph explaining why Stormfront was bad. It didn’t insist I must have meant something else and give me those results because no good person would look up neo-nazis. It didn’t give me a dozen articles and Reddit posts that mention Stormfront once or twice.

What it did do was give me Stormfront’s homepage. And the link below it was the Wikipedia page explaining what it was. And the links below that were news articles and blogs on Stormfront. Then at the bottom it gave me some weather sites because maybe I did just mistype “storm front”. Relevant information presented to me, actual decision on what to trust left up to me.

Then Google started exerting more control. It was bad enough when Google started automatically changing your search terms, to what it decided you actually meant, but it now it’s deciding what is allowed to be seen for the search terms you use. What’s a source Google trusts and which ones should be hidden. Judgment calls are being made.

And that’s the important part. Once you’re deciding who is and isn’t allowed to put their flyers up, you’re not an unbiased notice board. You’re not the public square. You’re a publisher. You are deciding what to show based on what you place value on. And if you are making judgment calls, you can be held liable for the result of those calls.

That’s why newspapers and magazines can be sued when they run a piece that states false information as fact. They made the judgment call to spread the libel even though it was someone else who wrote it.

Google has skirted this line for quite a while. It’s okay to block bad information, right? If you hide a website that says battery acid is safe to drink, that’s fine, right? No one is hurt if wrongthink is hidden and only trustworthy sources are presented, right? You can’t be sued if no direct injury was caused to your users, right? No harm no foul, right?

Except… with Google AI and its bad information being presented as the first result of your Google search…

Well. Now there’s provable harm.

An AI cannot make a true judgment call and it cannot be held liable. It’s a machine. It has no values, no morals, no personhood. But someone wrote the program that determines how the AI judges information and presents it and someone put it online and placed it automatically at the top of their search results and someone presented it as a reliable judge of trustworthy information (with a small disclaimer that maybe it could be wrong sometimes). So that someone is the one who should be held responsible for the judgment calls the AI makes.

And that someone is Google.

TL;DR: to be held liable for something you usually need control, cause, and damages (this is very simplified). Google used to avoid liability by not controlling search results. Judgment on what to trust was left to the users so even if relying on the information caused damage, it wasn’t Google’s fault. Google then started exerting control, but claimed it was to avoid damage to users. If users couldn’t prove Google’s search results caused harm to them, Google couldn’t be held responsible even if they had control.

But with Google AI generating bad info, people are being damaged by Google’s control over information. So now we have control, cause, and damage. Google can be now be sued for search results.