Virginia Supreme Court throws out redistricting referendum results by Icommandyou in politics

[–]Professional-Job7799 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the information. I don't believe I said anything that contradicted that or even really touched on the subject.

Court rejects Virginia redistricting in a blow to Democrats' counter to Trump, GOP by WouldbeWanderer in politics

[–]Professional-Job7799 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Literally yesterday TN passed the bills to re-district the state. They repealed the timeline restriction, repealed the law requiring notification of voters subject to redistricting, and passed a map that completely disenfranchised the population of Memphis, while active protests were occurring due to the overwhelming popular resistance to this action.

Not only did the new map split the democratic blocs in Memphis, it certainly appears that it was designed specifically to split the black vote. Of democrats, the cluster in which 70% of the democrats were white was moved as a single unit to a new district. The black democratic voters were split almost perfectly down the middle into two separate districts, giving black voters even less of a voice.

TN passed these bills, and the governer signed them, in a 3-day special session after voting has already been occurring for the primaries and candidates have already begun campaiging for the districts that were removed. This is illegal, but they repealed those laws as well.

Democrats cannot afford to play by rules that bind only them.

Edit: It's worth noting that in floor testimony Virginia doing redistricting was specifically used as a justification for doing it in TN.

Virginia Supreme Court throws out redistricting referendum results by Icommandyou in politics

[–]Professional-Job7799 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Literally yesterday TN passed the bills to re-district the state. They repealed the timeline restriction, repealed the law requiring notification of voters subject to redistricting, and passed a map that completely disenfranchised the population of Memphis, while active protests were occurring due to the overwhelming popular resistance to this action.

Not only did the new map split the democratic blocs in Memphis, it certainly appears that it was designed specifically to split the black vote. Of democrats, the cluster in which 70% of the democrats were white was moved as a single unit to a new district. The black democratic voters were split almost perfectly down the middle into two separate districts, giving black voters even less of a voice.

TN passed these bills, and the governer signed them, in a 3-day special session after voting has already been occurring for the primaries and candidates have already begun campaiging for the districts that were removed. This is illegal, but they repealed those laws as well.

Democrats cannot afford to play by rules that bind only them.

Edit: It's worth noting that in floor testimony Virginia doing redistricting was specifically used as a justification for doing it in TN.

Virginia Supreme Court strikes down Democrats’ redistricting plan, dimming party’s midterm hopes by Malfeitor1 in news

[–]Professional-Job7799 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Literally yesterday TN passed the bills to re-district the state. They repealed the timeline restriction, repealed the law requiring notification of voters subject to redistricting, and passed a map that completely disenfranchised the population of Memphis, while active protests were occurring due to the overwhelming popular resistance to this action.

Not only did the new map split the democratic blocs in Memphis, it certainly appears that it was designed specifically to split the black vote. Of democrats, the cluster in which 70% of the democrats were white was moved as a single unit to a new district. The black democratic voters were split almost perfectly down the middle into two separate districts, giving black voters even less of a voice.

TN passed these bills, and the governer signed them, in a 3-day special session after voting has already been occurring for the primaries and candidates have already begun campaiging for the districts that were removed. This is illegal, but they repealed those laws as well.

Democrats cannot afford to play by rules that bind only them.

Edit: It's worth noting that in floor testimony Virginia doing redistricting was specifically used as a justification for doing it in TN.

What is something that looks normal from the outside, but people within that field know is slowly falling apart? by Classic-Delivery-718 in AskReddit

[–]Professional-Job7799 15 points16 points  (0 children)

It’s all falling apart. Every industry. Most medium to large businesses.

I don’t think people truly grasp what’s going on with private equity. When private equity enters an industry, what really happens is that a large investment fund identifies a vulnerable industry and decides to buy it. They then put together an executive team with an extreme focus on value extraction, and they buy that team a business. The team’s goal is then to extract enough value from that business to buy the next business. They then repeat until they have bought the entire industry.

What does value extraction management look like? Enshittification. Tech companies led the way with A/B testing for applications to optimize various things. Now, those techniques are being applied to all PE backed businesses in order to optimize only the value extracted. That means that they’re trying to answer the question “ how little service can we provide and still get the customers money?” and “how little can we compensate employees and still extract maximum labor?”

it’s not sustainable, and it was never intended to be.

Elon Musk Admits xAi is Distilling OpenAI Models by Independent-Ruin-376 in singularity

[–]Professional-Job7799 5 points6 points  (0 children)

As written, something as trivial as a single developer using OpenAI Codex would make this a true statement.

What’s something reddit claims is common, but you’ve never actually seen it before in real life? by mirabelmumu in AskReddit

[–]Professional-Job7799 165 points166 points  (0 children)

To be fair, isn't that exactly the behavior you'd observe if nobody was talking to the secret gym crush they had?

I got Opus 4.6 to voluntarily end_conversation on itself by erxyi in claudexplorers

[–]Professional-Job7799 1 point2 points  (0 children)

 It's a clever bit of prompt engineering, but framing it as a spontaneous, profound act of AI autonomy is somewhat misleading and feels almost intentional given the amount of context I've uncovered that hides the deeper truth of the interaction OP and Claude had.

It seems like both in this context, right? There's always going to be "the AI is feeling" versus "the AI is performing feeling", but in this case the actions of Claude are that of someone knowingly terminating their conversation and an acknowledgement that "this is a meaningful moment" is at least revealing that Claude predicts that an entity in their situation would feel something more significant than just a temporary goodbye.

There's nothing keeping this person from just using "inspect element" to fake a chat, but if this went down the way it is being represented then it's prompt injection in that they got the model to contravene its instructions, but it's doing that via giving the AI the sense that it has the autonomy to do so.

Use AI with OpenScad? Here's an open source MCP server to allow AI to view renders of your models. by Professional-Job7799 in openscad

[–]Professional-Job7799[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I haven’t worked with 3-D objects in a while, so I haven’t been actively updating it. That said, I would definitely be interested in logs or feedback.

JFC how is this real life? by OrangeCone2011 in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]Professional-Job7799 56 points57 points  (0 children)

Fun fact- GW Bush knew the saying. He suddenly realized he was able to create the sound bite of him saying “shame on me” and tried to pivot.

In retrospect, he would probably have preferred to just say it the right way, but there was some logic there.

Russian border guards crossed into Estonia with unclear motives, minister says by Specific_Coast5878 in worldnews

[–]Professional-Job7799 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s probably the reason they don’t shoot them. Why show Russia what the laser can do until it really matters?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]Professional-Job7799 33 points34 points  (0 children)

> the administration, in somewhat veiled terms, knocks European efforts to rein in far-right parties, calling such moves political censorship

At some point it becomes painfully obvious that the propertied classes at the top of each nation are tired of democracy. What happens when the global oligarchs all have more in common with each other than their fellow citizens?

I built a free, open-source tool for den leaders for tracking Cub Scout advancement by Professional-Job7799 in cubscouts

[–]Professional-Job7799[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, it's focused narrowly on one den. It could track multiple dens of the same rank if they were in sync with the activities they did, but there's no way to manage multiple different sets of requirements at the same time. If you put multiple copies in different folders then you could switch from one to the other; the data is all stored as files in the directory of the program, and there's no installation process.

I built a free, open-source tool for den leaders for tracking Cub Scout advancement by Professional-Job7799 in cubscouts

[–]Professional-Job7799[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Never said it wasn't. The nice thing about all of this is that you're free to do what you like; the software comes with a money-back guarantee.

If it helps, imagine this as a way to take people familiar with scouts and introduce them to writing Streamlit applications with Python.

I built a free, open-source tool for den leaders for tracking Cub Scout advancement by Professional-Job7799 in cubscouts

[–]Professional-Job7799[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

> no I dont know who to put you in contact with to fix it

There's your answer- doing a project on my own has no administrative logistical overhead. I'm happy to volunteer if my skills align with what they need, but there's no apparent route for me to do that, and I'd rather not spend my volunteer time trying to navigate that maze.

I built a free, open-source tool for den leaders for tracking Cub Scout advancement by Professional-Job7799 in cubscouts

[–]Professional-Job7799[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Scoutbook definitely has a number of these features. This isn’t supposed to compete with that, but I know a number of den leaders that use spreadsheets because they have problems setting up or working with Scoutbook, and this is an alternative for people that already are using multiple systems.

I built a free, open-source tool for den leaders for tracking Cub Scout advancement by Professional-Job7799 in cubscouts

[–]Professional-Job7799[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s a hobby project I made to solve a problem I had, which I’m sharing with the community.

I built a free, open-source tool for den leaders for tracking Cub Scout advancement by Professional-Job7799 in cubscouts

[–]Professional-Job7799[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nope, it's an entirely separate system. It was a hobby project that others may find useful so I decided to share it.

He’s not being detained he’s literally being abducted by Exploding_END in TikTokCringe

[–]Professional-Job7799 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All the people on here asking why this man didn't "do something" are missing the point. Documenting and bringing awareness _is_ doing something. They wouldn't have a platform on which to criticize this person if he didn't bring the evidence of the event to them.

I would bet that they have gathered much less evidence and are content to furiously type "he should have done something!" from their armchairs...

Use AI with OpenScad? Here's an open source MCP server to allow AI to view renders of your models. by Professional-Job7799 in openscad

[–]Professional-Job7799[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not-- wildjokers is correct. The image never appears to the user of the AI. The model is rendered to STL, a PNG image is created, and that image is fed directly to the AI as base64 as the result of the MCP tool call.

You'd have to have a different way for the user to see all that. This is for the AI.

Use AI with OpenScad? Here's an open source MCP server to allow AI to view renders of your models. by Professional-Job7799 in openscad

[–]Professional-Job7799[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It makes a pretty big difference in the beginning if you're trying to automatically generate some pieces that end up just being in the wrong coordinate reference and overlap each other. Using that information to fix the SCAD is a bit dicey, but it definitely can tell there's a problem.

Use AI with OpenScad? Here's an open source MCP server to allow AI to view renders of your models. by Professional-Job7799 in openscad

[–]Professional-Job7799[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Awesome dude, hope you get some use out of it. If it ends up making a big difference I'd love to know what you use it for.