Update: legally it’s now a list that violates the privacy of various ordinary citizens who have done nothing wrong.

He’s just a symptom of the real problem, which is that he exposed himself as a nazi a long time ago and still got reelected.

Yes, the President can be impeached and removed by Congress. On the opposite side of the coin a President can veto laws passed by Congress, which Congress can override but it’s harder than passing a law. The problem is when Congress also goes nazi at the same time. In that case we’re fucked. In fact I think Article 97 sub-paragraph E13/W even says, “Such conditions and circumstances shall by Law constitute Fuckage.”

For friends and family I use my phone’s IM. For total strangers on lemmy I just use Reply.

You’re already here.

America is a big place, and how people will react to you depends entirely on where you go. Racial incidents increased after Trump took office in 2016 and they probably will again now, but in general you’re totally safe.

“All your ideas are ours and you owe us money for thinking them” is actually a good summary of anti-AI sentiment.

Software dev myself (retired) and I’ve been very skeptical about AI generated code, but a friend of mine uses it daily in his work. During one of our in-person D&D games he told it to create a SQL Lite app to keep track of some game info, and in seconds he was using the app. AI is currently a super-emotional issue riddled with misinformation and fantasy, but there’s no denying its usefulness.

Well, reading comprehension hasn’t changed. I said “most” not “everyone”. Amazingly the world isn’t binary.

It made a bold move, Cotton.

But a living human artist also learned to draw dancing cows and roombas on the moon that way. It just didn’t take thousands.

My question is why this logic doesn’t apply to anybody who learns anything and goes on to use that knowledge in their work without explicit permission. For example, authors generally learn to be good authors by reading the work of other good authors. Do they morally owe all past authors a share of whatever money they make?

IMO we’re here because of the 10 million Democrats who voted for Biden in 2000 and refused to show up in 2024. Bonespurs only won by a little over 2 million. Harris should have kicked his ass, but oh now, she “supports genocide”. Last week the long, difficult Gaza ceasefire negotiation process finally paid off. Funny how nobody’s talking much about it.

If you ask a question and you say, “but don’t say the answer,” you’re just asking for an echo chamber.

Uh-oh, this is the big one. I’m comin’ to join ya Elizabeth!

Car user manuals used to tell you how to refill the battery. Now they tell you not to drink what’s in the battery.

Also most student-age people today who would have become programmers 20 years ago probably won’t, because AI will be generating most code. The definition of “programming” will change to writing and tweaking effective specs for AI to generate code from. Back in the 80s and 90s I liked to say our ultimate goal as programmers was to eliminate our own jobs. Well I’ll be darned…

The Tandy (i.e. Radio Shack) TRS80 was affectionately known back then as the Trash 80. My first experience at programming was in high school in 1971 or 72 on a paper-roll teletype style terminal, that was connected to a PDP-11 at OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science and Industry). It wasn’t even a class, just an after-school activity run by our math teacher, Mr. Tuhy. My masterpiece was a tic-tac-toe program that could always win if it went first, and always at least tie if the human went first. I accidentally deleted it lol.

Somehow the myth that you can’t file a missing persons report until 24 hours is still going strong.