I don’t know how it relates to Vaishnava, but Tulsi herself has been involved with a group that has been called a cult.

This is the dodgy archive site, but no paywall:

https://archive.is/elyYe

They missed Canada? Canada has a bill C-34 in the works which bans social media for under-16s and just happens to require everyone to submit their ID to non-Canadian corporations.

Then I don’t. Can you explain? I thought since a casus belli is a pretext for war, that you must agree the USA is threatening Canada. And I thought that by “synthetic casus belli” you would mean that they’re cooking up pretexts for hostility.

The point is they’re building the synthetic casus belli.

Sounds like you agree that their threats to Canada are serious, even if the details are nonsense.

Maybe they’ll nuke Canada to put out the fires. Works for hurricanes, after all.

I hope you’re not saying you were aware of this. Stay where you are and the authorities will be with you shortly.

Another internet law for people’s “protection” that just happens to be implemented in the most surveillance-friendly way. There are ways to prove age that don’t let anyone know your identity, but governments never choose them. Combine this with Bill C-22 and its a huge assault on internet privacy for Canadians.

The amazing thing about responsibility for right-wingers is that they can preach about it endlessly because it’s always someone else’s.

I’ll give you three guesses.

It means if we want them to stay nice and keep letting us be our own country, we have to fix the effects of climate change without mentioning either its existence or the USA’s massive ongoing contributions to it, while the USA goes on trying to increase fossil fuel use and shut down renewables. Otherwise the USA will say “Look what you made me do!” and annex Canada. In other words, “We’re the USA and we are assholes in more ways than you could possibly imagine.”

You mean ordinary Americans will. It’s not like he’ll pay anything.

So they’ll only not invade us if we Canadians are suitably “responsible”? The same people who have done everything they can to promote fossil fuels, shut down climate science, defund and hinder climate action, spread misinformation, and persecute climate activists? Those insufferable world-destroying assholes are lecturing us about responsibility?

Never think the US fascists have given up on the idea of annexing Canada. Canadians need to keep up the boycotts of US goods, services and tourism. The Canadian government needs to keep planning to defend Canada from US invasion.

I suspect the thoroughness of the vetting is inversely proportional to the size of the kickback to Microsoft.

Indeed. I use Linux most of the time, and MacOS a bit of the time, but the old Windows desktop is still there for the infrequent times when I need it to work on old music projects. I have it too dual-booting into Linux, so even it spends most of its time in a more sane OS.

I’ve used an LG monitor for about 5 years, and never install the manufacturer’s software unless it looks genuinely useful. When I saw the Gamers Nexus video I went to check my installed apps, and sure enough there was LG’s monitor app, installed silently without my knowledge. I used Bulk Crap Uninstaller to get rid of it.

To prevent this kind of thing in future, run gpedit.msc and enable “Prevent automatic download of applications associated with device metadata” under Computer Configuration → Administrative Templates → System → Device Installation.

If they came out and honestly said “we will focus our antiterrorism efforts on suppressing workers’ attempts to organize” their cult rubes might smell something fishy (but probably wouldn’t).

As a programmer I’ve been doing this, but only because a friend lent me a very powerful computer that I could never afford myself. That’s the problem right now: local LLM use requires a huge upfront investment in equipment that most workers can’t afford. But it does feel a lot better (and cheaper, once you have the equipment) to run the LLM on a server at home than on a server owned by some nasty tech company. If everyone could run open models locally some of the main objections would fall away.

So I disagree with the poster who said anything you can run at home isn’t worth it, but the catch is you need an absurdly expensive computer. The one I’m using would cost about 6 times what I used to pay for a powerful development PC. The model and agent I’m using can do some complex things and get decent results. But right now no affordable computer can run them. On regular affordable computers the models you can run are indeed limited.

Yes, he is a bullshitter. I think that distinction comes from Harry Frankfurt:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit

Trump has said, without citing evidence, that vandals made a “350-foot gash” in the liner and caused other problems. No large slash marks were immediately visible Wednesday from the Washington Monument view. It was not possible to do a more up-close inspection of the entire pool due to a dark fence surrounding the perimeter.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, whose agency oversees the National Park Service, said that after the water is drained and debris is cleaned from Independence Day fireworks, the plan for the pool is straightforward: “Repair the vandalism that was done. Fill it back up again.” He was speaking with conservative podcaster Katie Miller.

They believe their own lies, don’t they? It would be easier if it were just straightforward dishonesty, but it has turned into a cult of shared delusion, and it’s in charge of the USA.

Economic damage, environmental damage, concentration of power with multi-billionaire fascists, cultural damage due to huge quantities of slop crowding out everything else, mass unemployment and the exploitation of remaining workers, disempowerment of everyone who doesn’t have the resources to control this technology, destruction of ordinary people’s access to suitably powerful computing machinery so that we’re all forced to either rent access to AI from its corporate gatekeepers or not use it, total surveillance by the state and its favoured corporations, profiling and predictive policing, marketing, etc. That’s quite a lot to object to, and I’m sure there’s more.