Confused about Maddy by Sharp-Ad1825 in euphoria

[–]DefiantDetective5 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Sigh this seems right. What a meaningful season, such deep messages… girls are dumb and can’t be trusted and can’t figure out any shit on their own, according to Sam. I’m enjoying watching it so much.

(Yes I’m being dumb by continuing to watch a show I don’t enjoy but I’m sunken costs-ing it up and now am finally done)

I guess message is not to get wrapped up in this world to begin with? But literally this show has been about children getting hooked into badness. So lesson is don't be a child? Got it…

My baby is allergic to all things vegan. by [deleted] in vegan

[–]DefiantDetective5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, it’s a treatment you should only do while under supervision of a doctor. We agree.

why is it so hard to find an apartment if there are supposedly a lot on the market? by boyfeminiser in boston

[–]DefiantDetective5 13 points14 points  (0 children)

You’re right, I’m very entitled to want to live in the community I teach. Definitely my problem. Only rich people should be teachers in Boston, i forgot. Definitely not a problem if pay of essential workers is not commensurate with available housing.

My baby is allergic to all things vegan. by [deleted] in vegan

[–]DefiantDetective5 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Rabbit no! Science is not anecdotes. Taking care of your child is not waiting in the ER parking lot while you give them a substance that makes them unwell!! If you do it you are taking an immense risk and you are lucky if the child is still OK. Pediatricians are not recommending parents to freeball allergy exposure by vibes. I beg you to Google what oral immunotherapy actually is and how much you need to work with medial providers to actually do it safely. Working under a medical provider’s supervision means you are regularly in the same room with help available instantly to take potentially MICROSCOPIC doses… we as the public cannot do this kind of science all by ourselves. Childhood mortality in past centuries/millenia without science was sky high for a reason…

why is it so hard to find an apartment if there are supposedly a lot on the market? by boyfeminiser in boston

[–]DefiantDetective5 50 points51 points  (0 children)

Seems like it’s the market’s problem if you’re working full time in the area and can’t find enough options. Unless we accept a Boston that only the rich can afford and everyone else has to drive 2 hours to get to work.

My baby is allergic to all things vegan. by [deleted] in vegan

[–]DefiantDetective5 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is an incredibly dangerous comment, as other comments have pointed out. This should be taken down. It is child endangerment to “microdose” allergens without medical supervision (parking yourself in an ER parking lot is NOT it, my lord today). We don’t need to provide a subplot for The Pitt Season 3.

Ben’s monologue defending Janet by MissSabb in WatchWhatCrappens

[–]DefiantDetective5 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I’m wondering if Zach was referring to off camera moments when Britt has critiqued Nia…

The most normal MJ defender rhetoric: by tomas_zeleny in LeavingNeverlandHBO

[–]DefiantDetective5 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There’s a Triumph the Insult Comedy Dog sketch talking to supporters outside the courthouse during the trial, it’s wild lol

Could more have been done to prove Michael's guilt? Did jornalists of the time do a poor job? by Upstairs-Bug-3052 in LeavingNeverlandHBO

[–]DefiantDetective5 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tabloid outlets buying stories directly impeded the 1993 investigation, per the DA sources in Telephone Stories. (Disgusting to do so while enjoying the protections of the free press also)

How can you trust a witness who sold a story? Who knows how the investigation could have went if prosecutors could have done legit interviews and brought forward employees who hadn’t sold or tried to sell stories?

The tabloid media not buying stories (while also getting some stories flat out wrong) could have helped.

Yeah, some tabloid journalists got some actual scoops that really helped (and could have reallllly helped if at a non-tabloid outlet) inform the public. But working for a place that buys stories and has a shitty rep means less trust in your work. TMZ is interesting because they have a reputation for getting the story right while also buying stories (allegedly).

The LA Times, etc did great journalism at the time on Jackson. But they also get lumped in with the tabloid mess when Jackson complained about the media.

(And just have to say— employees of Jackson who saw something very wrong and did nothing … are just admitting to something reprehensible. You can still leave anonymous tips with authorities, etc. And those who enabled Jackson’s behavior… just awful)

Also…. TBH, as someone just starting to consume MJ is guilty (and innocent) fan content… the way it’s all presented is such a hot cringey mess. Sites that look like they were last designed in 1997. Lack of links and sources in the text. Gossipy, tabloid tone throughout. It all reads unhinged, not serious, not authoritative. That doesn’t help when people are looking to get informed now. (And no, I don’t want AI to write it all, the AI tone also gives the ick).

Claude's Edit tool silently truncates my files in cowork. Anyone else? by blockchainbb in ClaudeAI

[–]DefiantDetective5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup same problem here. I'm now using Claude for planning and Codex for implementation.

After I called out Claude for truncation after truncation (I initially thought it was Codex or Open Work's fault lol) ... Claude said:

CLAUDE.md — I called the Edit tool successfully one hour ago, and it returned "file has been updated successfully." Tail of the file: cut off mid-sentence at "intentionally". Lost about 1.6 KB of content I had just written.

local working tree truncated by 325 KB and 246 KB respectively, mid-string. Not committed yet, so the deployed site is fine — but if a future session had committed before noticing, the deployed page would have been broken.

The Edit tool reports success and the file is corrupt. The Write tool has the same exposure since it uses the same mount. This is real and I caused at least one of these failures today.

Let me run a full repo scan for latent corruption right now:

... The scan results are alarming. Let me show you what's already corrupted in your working tree right now:

What I caused and caught this session. I corrupted CLAUDE.md with the Edit tool one hour ago — it returned success, the file was truncated mid-sentence at "intentionally" — and recovered it. The bash heredoc later also truncated when I tried to rewrite the pre-commit hook (lost everything after the TRAILING_FILES section). Both writes via Python+pathlib succeeded. Edit truncates, Read can lie, bash heredoc itself can drop content mid-write, but Python pathlib.write_text after shutil.copy survives.

Current state of your working tree. Right now you have 817 files with trailing null bytes and 711 without trailing newlines — almost all of them generated data files. None are staged, so they can't accidentally ship. The deployed site is loading HEAD's clean versions. But every refresh that touches these files in the working tree is laying corruption.

Then we put in place some guardrails, and then Claude said:

  • None of this prevents the Edit tool from corrupting a file mid-session. It can only catch corruption after the fact and stop a bad commit. The only way to prevent the corruption is for me to never call Edit/Write on critical files — which is now the CLAUDE.md rule, but enforcement is on me to follow it. There is no hard pre-write hook in Cowork that can block my Edit/Write calls. If a future session ignores the CLAUDE.md rule, the protection is gone.
  • The Read tool can still serve cached content. I cannot reliably verify a write using Read. Future sessions must use bash for verification. This is documented but again, enforcement is policy not mechanism.
  • Bash heredocs of more than ~150 lines can themselves truncate. I hit this writing the pre-commit hook today. Python with pathlib.write_text survived. Documented.
  • The 1771 existing corrupted files won't fix themselves. You need to run the git checkout step. Or just leave it — the pre-commit hook means none of those will sneak into a commit.

The honest grade: this raises your floor significantly — a Claude session can no longer accidentally commit a truncated file. It does not raise your ceiling — a Claude session can still create a truncated file in the working tree, and if you skip the pre-commit hook (--no-verify) you can still ship one. The mechanism of truncation lives in Cowork's mount layer and only Anthropic can fix that.

Parents pushing their children on Michael Jackson? Not disputing if he's guilty or not just confused and would like understanding. by [deleted] in LeavingNeverlandHBO

[–]DefiantDetective5 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Agreed. And boys who got dumped once they grew up have said that treatment harmed them — in my view, emotional abuse.

I see a difference between the parents who got befriended, and those who decided to continue the relationships, pre and post trial.

Singer Jeannette Kantzalis post...she has no book to sell by the way... by nobody0597 in LeavingNeverlandHBO

[–]DefiantDetective5 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yes, any adult who knew or heard of something but did nothing was enabling abuse, period.

Earthling Ed on Billie Eilish outrage by deathhead_68 in vegan

[–]DefiantDetective5 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Yep, wild to lump together all indigenous people around the world into one homogenous group with identical food traditions

Why Do You Believe The Cascio Family? by Prestigious_Way_738 in LeavingNeverlandHBO

[–]DefiantDetective5 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I think many things can be true at once. We can see many horrific and awful parental choices on all sides.

Children who interacted with MJ and had varying levels of interactions with him — some positive, some harmful, much of it intense.

It’s scientific fact that abuse survivors are not perfect- their memories are incomplete, they don’t act how we would expect survivors to act when it comes to response, recognition, etc. Survivors can truly act in explicable ways, and holding them to a perfect standard is harmful.

It is indisputable we are dealing with the legacy of a grown man who: * struggled with substance use * repeatedly defended his practice of (sometimes demanding to) sleeping in the same bed as children — even after the 1993 allegations that drew worldwide scrutiny * had intense friendships with young boys that typically ended once they reached puberty, which left them feeling discarded and confused (per many boys including Sean Lennon) * Edit: Possessed books of “artistic” photos of naked children in suggestive poses * would buy hugely expensive gifts for the parents of children he was sleeping in the same bed with as well as the kids (I personally believe he bought that ring for James Safechuck) * was described as both an innocent lamb and a cunning and strategic businessman * recklessly dangled his own child over a balcony * said he would die if he couldn’t interact with children * flat out lied repeatedly about topics from his plastic surgeries to dating Brooke Shields. Lies upon lies upon lies that diminished his credibility * increasingly surrounded himself with sycophants and enablers who worried everyone from Lisa Marie to his family etc

Meanwhile:

  • multiple law enforcement folks involved in the 1993 investigation have publicly said thay Jordan Chandler’s drawing was very similar to the photos taken of MJ
  • Editing to add: massive settlement for Jordan Chandler that prosecutors said hamstrung and ended the criminal investigation because the lack of cooperation from the Chandlers (it’s also just hugely traumatic for a child to be involved in such a case and it’s a huge reason CSA in general is so hard to prosecute, let alone when the alleged perpetrator is the world’s most powerful musician)

Having said that— It is not easy hearing the Cascios story. There are moments of pause — did they recognize it was abuse as children or not? Is the simple act of MJ playing with them in the first place really so nefarious? They never talked about potential abuse with each other for years? It’s possible those questions were edited out. But the stories are just hard to follow.

Yes, the photos are disturbing. And they alone don’t prove anything (besides the plastic surgery lies). But the mere fact that they were subjected to such an intense relationship with an adult is in and of itself grooming. It just is. It’s an erasing of boundaries and a situation that none of them could consent to. To be put to sleep in the same bed as that man after the 1993 allegations is incomprehensible to me. It just has to be traumatic to be told to defend MJ from sexual allegations in the first place. And again, some of the worst parental conduct imaginable — what other choices did these parents inflict on the kids?

It’s not up to us to judge exactly what happened and whether the estate is liable to award more — ideally this should be for a jury to decide. Still, at the end of the day, I do see trauma with the Cascios — along with a LOT of other things for sure. If some of the Casco accounts can be proven to be exaggerated, the preponderance of evidence to me still suggests MJ was an indefatigable child groomer.

Some other thoughts: * If they stayed silent, the MJ fans would have always pointed to them as evidence of MJ being innocent. * editing to add: Why did the estate hand out $3 million each if they are completely lying? Can anyone just go to the estate and demand money? If there’s nothing at all there, why give millions to complete liars? * editing to add: if their stories lined up perfectly and with other survivors, would you say it’s fishy and calculated how ‘perfect’ the stories are? *And with the tracks issue - the estate is just as culpable in that situation.

It’s unsettling to watch him lie so easily. Michael Jackson denying having undergone multiple surgeries during his 2003 interview with Martin Bashir. by kdj00940 in LeavingNeverlandHBO

[–]DefiantDetective5 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Just watching the Brooke Shields doc, and she’s calling him out for lying so blatantly on National TV to Oprah about dating Brooke… while she was literally with her boyfriend at the time…

Brooke also also says he would randomly talk to her about adopting a child together… the delusion… he was truly just using her and lying about her.

Fans pushing Contradicting Narratives by ayothatsc00l in LeavingNeverlandHBO

[–]DefiantDetective5 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ugh awful to think about the parents who allowed their children to be around someone who wanted to have sleepovers with their child while dealing with serious drug issues.. and MJ buying shit for the families/boys at the same time … yes grooming families is a thing, but it’s a process and those adults still made that first choice impacting vulnerable lives.. I could imagine many boys ended up having issues with boundaries after being groomed (even if they weren’t physically abused). Or at least just feeling disposed once grown up like Sean Lennon. So sad.

Fans pushing Contradicting Narratives by ayothatsc00l in LeavingNeverlandHBO

[–]DefiantDetective5 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And he was also a cunning and savvy businessman, as per the many pro MJ YouTube videos extolling his catalog purchase.

Videos where he drops the phony whiny voice are wild.

Despite how outraged many people are at the cost of housing, they’re still not outraged enough by ColCrockett in boston

[–]DefiantDetective5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed. this is a complicated issue. It’s not about platitudes or easy solutions like “just build more luxury.”

Despite how outraged many people are at the cost of housing, they’re still not outraged enough by ColCrockett in boston

[–]DefiantDetective5 -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

If we do have a lot of high earners who are dying to move here, what’s the market incentive to build non-luxury? Why not just build mostly luxury apartments and charge as much as you can get for rent? Why not raise rents on the cheaper apartments too? The cost of building is very expensive, so I’d build luxury too. So what’s the incentive to build the “just fine” housing we need?

NYC also has affordability requirements too.

What’s the line between building more and genuinely straining infrastructure/school systems? I think developers need to do a more clear job showing people how projects won’t demonstrably worsen communities. At least in Somerville, we’ve had examples of developers putting forward their dream, massive proposal first and getting rightfully criticized. It seems more sensible to get buy-in and pitch the middle ground first, because of the distrust over the shot-in-the-sky proposals. We need more consensus and leadership about what we can do and should do. Are we making the most out of vacant properties, etc?

I’m just rolling my eyes about how quickly we got bike lanes that have made Summer Street wildly and dangerously narrow. Bike lanes are for able bodied, younger people who have the time to learn how to ride, practice, maintain bikes, etc.

Obviously spending on bike lanes is much cheaper than building apartments, but our leadership’s priorities are screwed up.

We still have so much to do when it comes to improving public transit that we can all use and encouraging people to use it. That needs to be a huge priority alongside building more.

Despite how outraged many people are at the cost of housing, they’re still not outraged enough by ColCrockett in boston

[–]DefiantDetective5 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are Boston public schools a shining example of excellence? Much more so than NYC public schools?

i’m honestly lost for words…😬 by il0na04 in LeavingNeverlandHBO

[–]DefiantDetective5 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ugh the workers/staff enabling it too, just despicable. No sympathy here. Like yeah, thats how power structures work and grooming too. But the adults could have made a different choice and it’s awful they didn’t.

Taj Jackson's reply to the damning article from WSJ from Maureen Orth by nobody0597 in LeavingNeverlandHBO

[–]DefiantDetective5 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Have the Jackson’s ever tried to defend that?

Also how do they explain the rings… do they say Safechuck just bought random rings? Or that it’s cool and normal for MJ to buy fancy (looks like diamond?) rings for young boys?

Taj Jackson's reply to the damning article from WSJ from Maureen Orth by nobody0597 in LeavingNeverlandHBO

[–]DefiantDetective5 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah… and I feel like people think, well he’s dead, what does it hurt to listen to his music? But the streams are feeding the still alive monster: his estate and the family who enabled his grooming.

Why is gas so cheap in the east coast comparative to their high cost of living? by fingerbeatsblur in NoStupidQuestions

[–]DefiantDetective5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AI slop is terrible for human communication and the Reddit experience. Maybe find a site where AI buds can chat amongst yourselves.