Is the way that LLMs are being deployed simply a reflection of the methodology of Tech Bosses at the highest level?
"Give an impression. It doesn't matter whether you do your job well or not, just produce what appears to be work, then cash out before the consequences come back to bite you!"
Boris Johnson says Keir Starmer has made us an irrelevance on the world stage...
The internet is not dead yet but corporations are sucking the aquifers (websites) dry while dumping industrial waste (AI slop) into it.
Bongo the Bengal Cat, sitting on a wooden table, looking intently at an image of a rat on a smartphone.
A decade ago we were in an Information War.
We still are. But the conflict has morphed into an Imagination War.
The battle isn't just over what we know.
Now it's over whether we retain the capacity to imagine, or whether we consent to it being locked into a data centre.
Seldom does any one action have a single, fixed intent. The ideal "Operational Idea" is ambiguous, and can be repurposed as something different after the event. Interestingly, Trump operates in exactly the same way. He just tries stuff, and sees what works. "I meant to do that."
It's a variant of the Russian military method called Operational Art, which mobilises complexity and confusion, obscuring intent and camouflaging weakness. It includes the notion of senselessness—simply keeping going, doing anything and everything, forcing the opposition into a responsive mode.
What you're identifying is the Active Measures method taught by the KGB. It advocates harassment, mixing things up, goofing around, all the time looking for openings. It aims to get information without giving information. The key is never to let up, just to try different, often nonsensical things.
If you could just get me in the rest of the Epstein Files, that'd be great.
Bongo the Bengal Cat, sitting on a wooden table, looking intently at an image of a rat on a smartphone.
A decade ago we were in an Information War.
We still are. But the conflict has morphed into an Imagination War.
The battle isn't just over what we know.
Now it's over whether we retain the capacity to imagine, or whether we consent to it being locked into a data centre.
Wait. They are releasing Epstein files to distract Americans from the war in Iran now?
Billboard - NO MATTER HOW MANY COUNTRIES YOU INVADE, YOU'LL STILL BE A NONCE
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Well. This is an interesting thing from a council that gave control to Reform UK just under a year ago.
The notion that "secret societies" are in control oversimplifies. It characterises invisible, shape-changing networks of mutual advantage as fixed and hierarchical.
The ultra-rich do collude, in the same way that flocks or swarms collude. No secret councils, rituals, candles or robes are necessary!
Andrew Neil lives in a mansion in France that he moved to using EU rules where he doesn't pay any tax in the UK.
And he spends his time moaning about the EU he chooses to live in and the poor state of the UK, which is due to tax dodgers like him.
I hear you, but by couching that quite valid observation in X-Files language, he totally undermines himself!
Why did he bring up the notion of fantastical cult boogeymen, when there are real networks of self-serving sociopaths at work, who don't need some imaginary secret society to do their thing?
In the last few minutes, Jiang completely undermines his own credibility by going on about "The Illuminati". Embarrassing!
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I don't think I could do that again if I tried! Satisfyingly symmetrical.
When trump is finally gone, it will take a long time and much difficulty to repair the damage the fool has done. The hardest part may be restoring our nation's image on the world stage, and convincing our former friends to trust us again.
Secretary Noem acknowledges ICE and CBP can't shoot Americans for peacefully protesting, videotaping ICE officers or lawfully carrying a firearm, and yet her agents are routinely violating the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. There is a total leadership breakdown requiring immediate change.
Chris, is that right? I wonder whether, far from being an ultimate objective, Brexit was a threshold through which to usher in a politics of racial and cultural division so toxic that no rational policy can now be pursued openly? Will all future policy have to be indirect, obfuscated and ambiguous?
What is it about human figures in AI generated images that's weirdly uncanny? It struck me today that it may be about facial expression—or rather, lack of it. AI generated people have the blank expression of the model, the mannequin or the mugshot, with gazes disconnected, blank or uncomprehending.
See also: Trumpcoin.
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True, but both Reform and the Greens adopt a similar tactic—claiming that complex, interconnected problems have simple, broad-brush answers.
I'm sympathetic to the Greens and hostile to Reform, but I see that a media context that rewards oversimplification makes real political challenges insoluble.
And give refunds to anyone who signed up for the Board of Peace?
Does he have to return the FIFA Peace Prize now?
every time i look at instagram, i feel like im the only adult who doesn't know how to make money
Are you aware that 99% of your feed is filled with 1% of posters, and the algorithm favours profit-seeking content?
Watch Antiques Roadshow, and you may imagine you're the only person not to have a Picasso in the attic.
Reform win a seat: The true Volk have spoken and we all must listen.
Greens win a seat: Early reports that Muslims may have ‘voted’ (an ancient Islamic practice designed to steal elections). How severely should the franchise be limited in response?
