“Oh hey Jim, did you see that our LLM test filed fake tip in an open homicide?”

“Sure did, Jeanine. I was thinking of letting em know what happened, maybe some time next week?”

“Yeah, that seems reasonable. Maybe by then it will have gotten bad enough that we can get a good headline about rogue AI causing the apocalypse that’ll help the share price.”

Anthropic didn’t discover the incident until Sept. 28 and notified the department on Oct. 7. Officials from the company and police met the following day.

It is interesting to watch the reaction as Dems take a lap to celebrate their presumptive victory in November. It used to be that the reaction to these kinds of stories was positive from the party who is poised to take power – people would say that voters liked to cast votes for the “winning team” so they’d be more inclined to get out and vote or cast a vote across party lines to think of their team as winning in the election. Increasingly, the response I see is despondence – reports of a Democratic lead in the polls suppress voter turnout because “well, they’re going to win anyway so why do I have to vote.” I don’t think the mentality of voters trying to decide how to vote in the face of polling numbers has changed much, so I’m inclined to believe it has more to do with what kinds of comments get play on traditional and social media.

So… who’s making the list of fedi accounts that go dark during the Yandex outage?

This study out of Duke University discusses some effects on births of 9/11. As best I can tell, the effects are mostly a reduced number of men relative to the number of women, increased prematurity, and reduced weight at birth, mostly attributed to the stress the mothers experienced during pregnancy.

Alternatively: endless screaming

Roadside service one might call to repair a flat tire + an organization for recovering alcoholics + a popular battery size

Heaps is absolutely not the answer at the six for us

Hopefully, Sam Coffey is healthy and available for World Cup Qualifiers in November and next summer. However, relying on her as the only viable starting six is a recipe for disaster (and unfortunately, is not a new problem on the USWNT). Winning a World Cup will require rotation and keen fans will remember that Coffey had to sit out the 2024 Olympics quarterfinal against Japan due to yellow-card accumulation. With exceptional options like Claire Hutton and Jaelin Howell on the bench, it is puzzling why Emma Hayes chose to play essentially without a six against a very dangerous opponent.

For sure. If someone says “like d&d?” I take them to mean “is that a ttrpg like d&d is a ttrpg?” and not “is it a ttrpg that is similar to the ttrpg d&d?”

There is also !washington@lemmy.world

I blended a 7 day ferment in 2.5% brine of sweet red, habanero, red onion and garlic (the peppers were from our garden) with the juice of one lime today and then strained and bottled it, and it is excellent. I’ve done longer ferments in the past but I think I prefer them greener. The hab/scotch bonnet/ghost/reaper sauce sounds like its gonna be hot as hell. Scotch bonnets are my favorite peppers to work with, and while no-one round bout these parts sells starts, I successfully got peppers from seed this year for the first time so I think I’ll try to grow a batch next season. I’m also drying the lees – they go great on pizza.

Look, I’m all for whimsy but let’s be honest with ourselves, this is clearly a vending machine and not an ATM. It doesn’t even take cash, let alone allow salmon deposits.

Fake outrage aside, this whips and I dunno who’s out here buying 200 gram portions of frozen salmon after midnight, but they seem fun.

Which, notably, is how most people describe their music tastes as well.

Um… is everything going okay in Finland?

Folks are saying we should have a new LateStageCapitalism:

Nose goes 👉👃

It’s definitely the case the fediverse requires a lot of specific, technical knowledge to really grasp, and that the onboarding story for new users is pretty confusing, especially since the most significant decision you make (what instance to host your account on) is the first decision you make, before you even see any content. It’s a problem I’ve been thinking about for many years, and still haven’t found a good solution for. Other some bland reassurances that “you’ll get the hang of it eventually,” all I can say is that every time I talk about instances, it feels like the scene from Mean Girls where Lindsay Lohan’s new friends explain the various high school cliques.

I quite like quokk.au, especially their sports community; I don’t really recall why rimu is beefing with them, though I have a vague recollection that I thought it was somewhat overwrought. I don’t think you’re really missing out being defederated from lemmy.ml though. Most of all, though, I think you should avoid default instances whenever possible.

Some piefed instances turn it off – iirc piefed.blahaj.zone does as well. Piefed the software supports it, but maybe rimu turned it off for the default instance? I still can downvote from my instance.

As always, the best solution is to create a new LateStageCapitalism community on another instance with a moderation policy that better matches your expectations (not to discourage PSAs like this, just like, as a next step).

The chief problem with bots on the internet is that eventually the humans succumb to peer pressure and become bots as well. The chief problem with acting like a bot online is your online behavior seeps into your irl behavior. Et voila! we have bots in real life.

There’s a subset of fedi users who delete their comments after a while to save resources for their instance. It’s probably not the majority of what you encounter, but there’s enough that a lot of fedi software supports it as a feature.