LLM companies may now freely commit corporate espionage because the news media is locked into reporting the claims that LLMs are capable of things like this as fact. This is like when the US bombed the girls school in Iran and blamed it on AI and the news reported it as fact until it was clear reasonable people weren’t willing to accept that excuse in that context. Corporate espionage is certainly not as bad as the mass murder of little girls, so people are willing to buy it since it doesn’t matter as much.

No running on the Promenade!

For practical purposes, this being illegal means the City of New York cannot unilaterally extradite the international fugitive Benjamin Netanyahu for processing at the ICC facility. The federal government and likely the state of New York would impede the extradition through force of arms. The NYPD can’t win a battle against the US military.

How?

I’m sure people who abuse their family members have plenty of good qualities as well. I’m not sure how that’s relevant to what I said.

I think a lot of world problems would be solved if these things were encouraged instead. If someone needs their romantic partner to be a mindless sycophant, I would rather them have that with a machine than try to abuse a human person into serving them as would be more traditional. More children being born in situations other than exploitation and manipulation could only be a good thing.

I think doors. Most people on Earth reside in a domicile, and many domiciles on Earth have doors. Far fewer people have vehicles and wheels for other purposes have limited use in environments with lots of inclines. I’m caught up in the proportion of housing which has doors versus other housing with doorways or otherwise no room separation.

Edit: Come to think of it, most vehicles on the road have four wheels and four doors. Two door sedans are generally luxury and semi-trucks with many wheels and only two doors are far less common proportionally than standard passenger vehicles.

I’ve been to plenty of library events where alcohol was served for free to adults in New Orleans. The library event attending crowd generally has a good amount of self-control.

This is extremely doable. You wouldn’t even have to build anything, just find a library willing to host something like this. Some public libraries are next to public parks with fire pits.

At some point having a hard drive will become illegal.

I can only hope this “coincidental” upswing of ethno-nationalism is an extinction burst as the old neo-liberal world order implodes upon itself. The European right wants to go back to the old ways, but I’m not sure the scale of production of state-of-the-art drone technology is in “Western” hands anymore or could possibly be. Hopefully sober voices prevail so we as a species on this planet don’t have to learn the hard way who is the best at mass killing nowadays.

The international order, which was based on rights and rules, no longer exists, and we have entered an era that is instead governed by the naked exercise of power. Germany must adapt and reenter the realm of hard power—undertaking large-scale military rearmament, overhauling its armed forces and intelligence services, and sustaining support for Ukraine for as long as necessary.

This is a chilling article. I’m hearing the Königgrätzer Marsch as I’m reading.

There are bootlickers among every demographic you can think of. Every oppressive regime has had collaborators from the groups they openly oppress or scapegoat.

I wonder how she feels being a grand marshal of an all-white march supporting a colonial genocide? It is an all-white march, by the way. The staffers are there because it’s their job. The Zionists marching in the parade, and all Zionists I’ve ever seen at any of these marches, have the same racial caste demographics as the unite the right rally. I can’t think of any other movement in the US other than white nationalism which has so exclusively white supporters.

If only there were a drummer on stage

No, it’s a lot worse than that . Your friend is into you at the same time as not being capable of being honest with himself. I’m not saying it’s necessarily the case here, but people get murdered in this situation even after being friends for years.

There is plenty of potential here for you to get hurt very badly if you pursue him, or worse out him, while he is trying to appear totally straight for his community. Once again, you did nothing wrong and the signals are pretty clear even to read, but this form of homophobia is very, very dangerous to both of you in every way.

Please don’t press him unless he comes out on his own, otherwise there is great potential for danger for both of you. It’s an awful situation and I hope you’re able to navigate it and go on to get everything you deserve from someone who’s available and safe.

This has everything to do with your friend and your status as a gay person, nothing to do with who you are. You can’t fix your friend no matter how much you may want to. Only he can come to terms with his own issues. It’s not fair that you are collatoral damage in his identity crisis, but it’s his crisis that you didn’t cause. You are only guilty of being a good enough friend to him that he felt comfortable exploring intimacy with you. Please believe me when I tell you the biggest issue you have now is the sunk cost fallacy. Again, it’s extremely unfair to you and it’s a shitty situation. Now that you know you can’t get what you need from him, you can either waste more effort on him or save your effort for someone who can reciprocate.

If anyone deserves to die, billionaires deserve to die more than anyone who has ever lived. Regardless, I personally don’t think anyone deserves to die. What I would prefer is that billionaires be put on trial for their crimes and sentenced to rehabilitation, and afterward live as equals with other humans. China made the last heir to the old empire a farmer who lived a happy life. That’s the happiest solution I can think of for everyone.

What would you be risking if you were honest? There’s a reason you believe you shouldn’t be authentic when you’re around others.

When you are dealing with people or institutions which hold power over you, it is an exhausting obligation to put on the performance that they want. No getting around it unless you find a different situation.

When you are with people who don’t hold power over you, masking is only a benefit if you are seeking to run confidence schemes. Unless you are seeking to deliberately defraud your peers, the best thing you can get from masking is that you will have to continue to perform the character they like and keep yourself suppressed to keep knowing them. If you are authentic around your peers, they will like or dislike you based on who you actually are, no acting required.

If you are suddenly authentic around the people who are exhausting you because they need you to play the character, they will not react well. You may be afraid of that. I promise you that losing your ability to connect to others because you believe you must always suppress yourself should scare you much more. It is a good thing to lose people who require you to not be yourself.

I looked up the event to see that it is indeed a literal white nationalist conference. I won’t link it out of principal but the tagline for the event is:

Shaping the future of Europe and the West through sovereignty, identity, and demographic renewal.