Well, a human being talking random shit won the last presidential election. So why not an AI at this point?

Fixed.

There has been so many of them, to be honest I picked the first one I found 🙂

You know you can say “Chinese troll” without hating anybody, yes?

As in “the person is a troll” and “the person is Chinese”. No hate anywhere: it’s just two facts that happen to go together quite well because China is kind of notorious for being the place where you can find internet trolls for hire for cheap.

You need to stop thinking everything in terms of how racist it sounds.

Thank you. That was informative. I didn’t know.

Instead of whining like a 5 year old, why doesn’t he use his obscene wealth to pay an army of Chinese internet trolls to rewrite Wikipedia to his liking? I bet Wikipedia and the regular contributors wouldn’t even have the resources to withstand the assault and correct the untruths faster than they’d be created.

A car without an internet connection.

Spank her when she does something stupid. If she wants to live old school, she’s gotta go all the way.

MAGA Attracts Gullible Asswipes

Yes, it’s a recursive acronym.

Ah right gotcha. So like if someone is on an instance where nobody follows a foreign community and browses All, they won’t see a new post from that community.

Makes sense.

Thanks!

Really useful. Thanks!

I’m a bit confused by what that tool says though:

By default, communities on Lemmy/Mbin are not federated due to the inherent limitations of ActivityPub.

When you create a new community, it will only be available to your instance. To make it accessible to other instances, at least one user from each remote instance must follow it.

This tool automates this process by following your community from all remote instances until it gains at least one real-user follower.

And yet when I go to any instance’s webpage and look for any community - even a brand new one - I find it. So is the tool referring to something else?

When then announced they’d be selling content for AI training, I went back to my old abandoned Reddit accounts and slightly altered all of my previous posts with actual content to be factually incorrect and misleading in subtle ways. It took me two months to rewrite everything, a few old posts at a time per day.

Now whatever technical or historical stuff I posted on Reddit is false and AI is training on that.

Aren’t you glad you did the work and gave Reddit the content it monetizes for free?

I do know that if no lemmy.ml users are currently joined in those groups then they won’t update

Oh wow that’s super weird. I didn’t know that.

Your joining seems to have triggered the update.

Good to know, this. Thanks!

I mean someone actually shot at drump so it can’t be that complicated.

• Firstly it wasn’t an RPG. I don’t think you realize how complicated it is to get your hands on a functional RPG. Not to mention, if you want to blow up Musk’s aircraft, you probably want a portable surface-to-air missile like a Stinger. Good luck getting one of those too.
• Secondly the dude missed Trump, so it is a bit complicated. You need some sniper skills he obviously didn’t have, and a lot of preparation - and probably a good dose of luck - to set yourself up for a shot and not get caught.
• Thirdly, the dude was wasted. So anybody thinking about fixing America’s problems that way should feel ready to lay down his life for the cause. People usually talk the talk but rarely walk that kind of walk.

The first thing you can do is not buy anything that makes the tech billionaires more money. All they care about is money: don’t give them any if you can help it.

I’ll tell you what makes me feel old:

When I was a kid in the 70s, everybody was talking about the year 2000, and I kept thinking “That like in 25 years, it’s like a quarter century. It’s like in forever!”

2000 was 25 years ago, and it feels like it half a century went by in the blink of an eye.

Well then err on whatever you read being written in a positive tone if the intent is ambiguous. If you’re wrong, the worst thing that can happen to you is that you look overly optimistic. But at least you won’t raise your blood pressure feeling aggression that may not be there.

I mean well incidentally. I don’t want to sound patronizing.

Here’s a little something I learned many decades ago:

When you read something someone has written, always remember that you didn’t hear the person’s voice what they wrote, and you didn’t see their body language. So you’re missing 67% of the information that person meant to convey.

Your brain naturally makes up the missing information: it might assign a male or female voice to the author of the text, and it might imagine them smiling or being angry, or in some other state of mind if the text can have several meaning, like in the case of irony of sarcasm (that isn’t explicitely marked as such with “/s”).

My advice is this: when you think someone is insulting you, re-read the sentence, but imagining the person smiling or laughing while writing it instead: does it work too? Does the sentence work better with the author smiling or being angry in your mind’s eye?

This has helped me immensely online. It might help you too.

It was a joke.

Once you’ve joined Lemmy, you don’t want to go back.

But if you must, here’s the address.