1800s?

Oh no you see I am the Dasher/Uber driver/whatever who actually makes money. You see…

I mean honestly this AI era is the time for these absurd anti-piracy penalties to be enforced. Meta downloads libgen? $250,000 per book plus jail time to the person who’s responsible.

Oh but laws aren’t for the rich and powerful you see!

Normal people pirate: one hundred bazillion dollars fine for download The Hangover.

One hundred bazillion dollars company pirate: special law to say it okay because poor company no can exist without pirate 😞

Kids were doing dumb shit like this before there was a TikYik to put it on.

WMDs were the pretext for Iraq, not Afghanistan.

Other than that…

Okay.

Man I’m trying to get through my cringe adult phase, I don’t have time to dwell on the past.

All ads suck, but ads based on user rather than content go too far.

At least Shane grows a little.

Ha, I forgot about Nostr. That might actually be a useful application for blockchain.

He’s not a famous figure, he’s a child being exploited by his dad, and even on the page itself there’s nothing actually notable about the kid himself. It’s mostly salacious “controversy” about his gross no-name dad.

And actually encyclopaedias generally and Wikipedia particularly engage in value judgement all the time. Who is or isn’t a notable public figure, what is or isn’t a reliable source, etc.

Nothing about this child merits a Wikipedia entry. Maybe Encyclopedia Dramatica or Kiwi Farms or something else for the bottom feeders, but not a site that’s supposed to be for general human knowledge. GTFO with that.

I mean, the joke is that AI doesn’t tell you things that are meaningfully true, but rather is a machine for guessing next words to a standard of utility. And yes, lying is a good way to arbitrarily persuade people, especially if you’re unmoored to any social relation with them.

Personally I love how they found the AI could be very persuasive by lying.

If this isn’t a sign of the decline in Wikipedia I don’t know what is. Like it’s not even his channel it’s his dad’s.

Precisely.

Right. They understand it puts them in a bad light, and people they hate in a sympathetic one, so they deny it happened.

“It never happened, but if it did it was a good thing and I hope we do it again!”

Diffusion and overall brightness do make a difference as well.

Shorter wavelengths hit different though. That’s why we have blue light filtering glasses, Redshift, etc.

What was the appeal of Plex anyway?

Like shouldn’t they just be suing the customers directly for a bazillion dollars at this point?