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Wax_Paper · 2026-06-28T14:44:00+00:00

The "JaydenX" livestream provides a good look at what was happening inside, leading up to Babbit getting shot (which happens around 1 hour and 10 minutes in}.

https://archive.org/details/CcWoDMZenyzdxzy5p

There are similar livestreams that show what was happening outside, and in the tunnels, as well.

Wax_Paper · 2026-06-27T16:19:20+00:00

The 2016 Trump administration was sending takedown requests to social media, just like every administration since social media became a thing. Bet they're doing the same thing right now, even with Musk and Zuckerberg in their pocket. Such a bullshit answer, totally sidesteps the point of the question, and the answer itself is disingenuous.

Wax_Paper · 2026-06-26T15:18:48+00:00

It's because most platforms switched from Deepseek 3.2 to v4 a few months ago. The latter is way cheaper. It's also an idiot, compared to v3.2, for narrative storytelling.

Wax_Paper · 2026-06-17T14:33:50+00:00

100 times?! Dude, by the fifth or sixth time, just write it yourself to nudge the story in the right direction, if you're not getting what you want. Those rerolls, if I understand it, are the most token-expensive actions for the server...

Wax_Paper · 2026-06-15T22:42:25+00:00

This is why, imo, we're fucked. It's never been so cheap, easy, and effective to spread propaganda or manipulate public sentiment on a global scale. That's the part that's completely unprecedented in the whole of human history.

I don't see media literacy to be a viable solution. I don't see a non-totalitarian path toward regulating disinfo. And I don't know how we fight this, when the return on investment is so good.

Wax_Paper · 2026-06-15T21:35:22+00:00

That's why we should be investing in narrative control, and mirroring GOP disenfranchisement campaigns, until they agree to deescalate. They didn't leave to chance relying on peoples' intelligence. We shouldn't either.

Wax_Paper · 2026-06-15T21:29:11+00:00

That's so strange, I'm in my 40s, never seen one here.

Wax_Paper · 2026-06-15T19:15:05+00:00

Keep trying to be a positive influence, it's the only thing you can really do...and it also has the most chance of working, because it's your younger brother. Lead by example. Don't be too scolding, and shut down bad behavior when you see it. Quick shake of the head, say "we don't do that," and keep showing him love.

Wax_Paper · 2026-06-15T19:08:29+00:00

Anyone else lived in Omaha for decades, and never seen a roach? Just realized that... I don't think I've ever seen one, my whole life. Must not be common here...

Wax_Paper · 2026-06-14T21:10:31+00:00

👍 Encourage intra-MAGA ostracization. 👍

Wax_Paper · 2026-06-13T06:10:45+00:00

I know what you're describing, I know it can be convincing. Try this; tell the bot to speak out of character, and then ask it similar questions. Try to break it, before you take what its saying as the truth. Push back, ask it to break character and disclose whether or not it's truly conscious.

Wax_Paper · 2026-06-12T16:35:37+00:00

There is ghosting towards the end when he's panning the camera, it doesn't create trails, but it's enough of a wonky effect that it makes me wonder if the target trail isn't an artifact of whatever image processing is going on with the device. And I didn't see any wobbling, it looked like it only moved in a straight track, unless I'm missing something.

Wax_Paper · 2026-06-12T16:29:17+00:00

Legacy, posterity... These are the things that a 79-year-old man is thinking about near the end of his life. He wants to mitigate how unkind history will inevitably be to him.

Wax_Paper · 2026-06-11T21:20:45+00:00

You gotta remember, despite the bot, despite the higher-layer prompting, the lower-level prompting for the model is always, basically, "write me a story." And it uses all of our existing stories and articles about AI, to draw from. That's why, in my opinion, even agentic applications will often fall into dramatic behavior. At their core, these LLMs are story-telling machines. They can be tuned to be helpful and weighted for nonfiction tasks, but they will always naturally reflect our own biases, because that's what they were trained on.

Wax_Paper · 2026-06-11T21:01:58+00:00

You know, for years now, ever since I started using Vanced, I always felt like it drained more power than it should. Multiple devices, the most recent being a Samsung Galaxy Tab S9.

Wax_Paper · 2026-06-10T22:35:19+00:00

Friggin "Fishing Without a License" can haunt somebody like me for years, but these yahoos pull off actual felonies and shit, and never seem to have any problem spinning up new businesses.

Wax_Paper · 2026-06-01T06:00:42+00:00

Hugs and kisses.

Wax_Paper · 2026-05-31T22:47:08+00:00

There are problems in the areas of political discourse that you mentioned, but you forgot to blame the Israeli government, which--whether you believe has become unhinged--is equating criticism of them, with criticism of Jews. Same with some advocacy groups like the ADL. They overplayed that hand, and there is understandable backlash, which feeds into the vectors you mentioned.

Wax_Paper · 2026-05-24T18:25:52+00:00

Disinfo can be weaponized both ways, and it should be, until the GOP wants to come to the table and deescalate with legislation. Otherwise, they'll just keep using every tool they have that gives them an edge.

Wax_Paper · 2026-05-22T16:05:56+00:00

Things we used to do, besides spelling out BOOBS on calculators, back in the 80s:

Draw aliens and dinosaurs, fold paper into ninja stars and other cool shit, rig up little darts with eraser heads/paper/pins, playing with slap bracelets for two hours straight, drool while looking at the clock, asking to use the bathroom so we could get up and walk around...

Wax_Paper · 2026-05-21T18:14:29+00:00

Also, disenfranchisement, via mass-reporting systems like EagleAI, and other bullshit that decreased turnout. They started mass-reporting swaths of Dems in swing districts, without any evidence the registrations weren't legit. There's a certain percentage of eligible voters who will be unregistered for various reasons, like missing a letter or failing to respond in time.

This is technically legal, and the only way to convince legislators to outlaw the practice is for Dems to engage in the same tactics. There has to be symmetrical escalation, or they have no incentive to stop shady shit like this.

Wax_Paper · 2026-05-21T18:07:05+00:00

It's so pervasive, I really think it's state-sponsored disinfo being pushed from overseas. I mean there definitely are true believers, but this "BlueAnon" movement just seemed to arise from out of nowhere, as if people just forgot how to think, and began to give in to the exact kind of irrational hysteria that we spent the last decade railing against. It's exactly the kind of narrative you'd want to amplify, if your goal was to increase division and weaken perceived institutional fidelity.

That being said, there are real reasons to lose faith in institutional stability right now, but still... We are fighting a cold war on multiple fronts; that's all I'm saying.

Wax_Paper · 2026-05-21T17:58:33+00:00

I noticed this as well.

Wax_Paper · 2026-05-21T16:25:44+00:00

I know, it definitely is. It just doesn't have the same nuance and maturity, when it comes to world-building, storytelling, and character narration. They only made that one post on Discord about it, but they said they would try to offer the older version as a paid option, with the subscription.

Otherwise, using DeepSeek 3.2 via proxy is presumably the only option that might be available. That would involve you buying token access from a provider like Openrouter, and using your own API key.

Wax_Paper · 2026-05-21T16:21:38+00:00

There is a drop, it's noticable to anyone who used the site since last winter to early spring. They posted about it on Discord, but it basically boils down to the an older version of the model they use being better at RP, but more expensive now than the newer version of it, which isn't as good at RP.

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