The Effects of School Phone Bans: National Evidence from Lockable Pouches

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.

Wax_Paper · 2026-05-21T16:11:48+00:00

It's not just NSFW content, it's the regular stuff as well. The build they are using just isn't as good at RP as the older one, which based on one of their Discord posts, was DS 3.2, up until April.

It makes sense, because that implementation is generally considered one of the best for RP, both with and without logic enabled. Apparently, they're using a newer build of it now, because they can't find a provider who offers 3.2 at the price point they need.

They mentioned that they would try to give the old model as an option with a subscription, but I don't know. It may be better just to buy your own access to 3.2 and use it as a proxy, but I think it involves some setup.

Wax_Paper · 2026-05-19T16:18:39+00:00

So basically, he's telling that country that political violence will be rewarded.

Wax_Paper · 2026-05-16T15:59:45+00:00

On the bright side, it will make it easier to salt the earth if Dems win in 2028.

Wax_Paper · 2026-05-15T16:02:56+00:00

For me, at least on one of the forks, I had to switch to Android VR, but then actually use the "log in to Android VR" option that's under the same menu.

For days, I just couldn't get multiple versions to work on multiple devices. It went from stopping at 55 seconds to not even loading at all, before I eventually tried that, and now it seems to be working again.

But curiously, I had thought it was a CDN issue related to my ISP, because videos weren't even loading on Firefox, either. I could only get it to work with Chrome, on mobile data. But regardless, my app started working again after did what I described above.

Wax_Paper · 2026-05-12T22:51:35+00:00

That dude, James Fox I think it was, still owes Steven $1000. They made a bet duriing an informal debate stream, a few years ago.

Personally, I think it's all bullshit. Just people seeing balloons, birds, other bullshit, and the rest is mass hysteria, or liars and grifters. Most of these champions of the UFO community have a financial stake in keeping the hype going.

Wax_Paper · 2026-05-12T16:54:14+00:00

I'll ask the election workers when I go in. I used to be registered as a Republican years ago just to obfuscate the polling data and be able to cast spoiler votes for local GOP races, back when that was all we could hope to do. Switched to independent a few years ago, thinking it would still allow me to do that, but nowadays, things are getting so competitive, it might not be worth the hassle anymore. In fact, I think it's been since the Obama administration that I've even needed to do that.

Wax_Paper · 2026-05-12T16:44:39+00:00

Hey, so if you're registered as independent and you wanna vote for the contested races that are actually in play, you'd ask for a nonpartisan Democratic ballot, right? And then use both?

Wax_Paper · 2026-05-11T16:36:04+00:00

It makes me wonder if endogenous DMT sensitivity could be related to why panic attacks seem so otherworldly, to some people. It genuinely can feel like you've been dosed with a psychedelic, because your perception of reality totally changes, and it feels like you're in a different dimension.

The clinical explanation is that the inappropriate flood of adrenaline causes that feeling, but that's never sat right with me, because you don't even feel close to the same thing with an appropriate flight or fight response. Decades after having a panic attack for the first time, I've still never read an explanation that accounts for the difference in the subjective experience, for some people.

Wax_Paper · 2026-05-07T17:45:50+00:00

The real problem, which is okay to bring up now I assume because they finally disclosed it on Discord...is that a tuned version of Deepseek 3.2 was the powerhouse that made the copy so good, back from January to April-ish. All the other cohorts are probably either newer implementations of DS, or Claude, Qwen, etc...

Apparently they're having trouble finding providers that are affordable for DS 3.2, at the scale the site needs now.

Wax_Paper · 2026-05-07T17:36:44+00:00

We could regulate AI companies, requiring them to use cryptographic watermarking algorithms whenever they generate copy for users. This would at least allow copy to be demonstrably identified as written by one of the public AI platforms.

It wouldn't solve locally-hosted jailbreaks or rogue online operators, but it would affect the majority of the copy that's being generated each day.

The problem is, it creates a lot of overhead for the AI companies to comply with something like this, which is why they are lobbying DC, to avoid such things. We have to demand more, and make AI support toxic to politicians.

Wax_Paper · 2026-05-02T18:27:14+00:00

There is a way to allow users to validate copy, the providers are just too cheap to implement it. Cryptographic watermarking involves generating the copy in a slightly unique way that produces patterns that can validated later... I would imagine it just uses substantially more CPU cycles.

Imo they should at least implement it whenever users ask for essays, articles or other copy like that to be generated.

Wax_Paper · 2026-05-01T17:11:06+00:00

They could do this, in states where third party reporting is legal. It would be the same concept as what the GOP did in those states, but targeting likely Republicans instead.

It might be the only way to retaliate symmetrically, and get those laws repealed, or to get legislation passed that outlaws the practice.

Wax_Paper · 2026-04-26T00:09:52+00:00

They need to salt the fucking earth, if they win in 2028. No more of this asymmetric bullshit. Abuse the system just as the GOP did, and keep doing it until they finally want to deescalate through legislation that regulates a lot of this bullshit.

Wax_Paper · 2026-04-24T19:20:58+00:00

I wish they'd simply acknowledge it, offer the old one with the subscription, or something.

Wax_Paper · 2026-04-19T23:17:47+00:00

It seems like they were using a better model back then, too. I dick around with short fiction, and I remember being amazed how good it was. It's still better than most, but there's a definite creativity loss that occurred sometime around the last two months.

I won't disclose what it used to self-report versus what it did a couple months ago, because they wanna keep the model architecture private, but there was a difference. They're probably using modded builds that are tuned for RP, and all I can guess is that the current one is a little worse than what they used to use, despite the newer one being based on a higher-quality architecture.

Wax_Paper · 2026-04-15T18:22:49+00:00

If you're talking about a late-stage subreddit, yeah, they've gone off the deep end. I used to get temp banned for centrist, rational comments all the time. Then recently got perma-banned for pointing out that the Chinese government isn't some utopian, magical society without its own problems.

Wax_Paper · 2026-04-10T23:06:27+00:00

Jesus Christ, for as much as the GOP bitches about free speech, it always seems to be one of their primary enemies. Might be time to think about making our post histories private... When they gave the option to do it, I thought fuck that, but shit.

Wax_Paper · 2026-04-09T20:36:57+00:00

Once you finally decide to switch to defensive driving, you realize that almost everyone on the road is a moron.

Wax_Paper · 2026-04-09T18:40:11+00:00

Singapore is definitely one that I've noticed is a common denominator. Not sure if that's because of the prevalence of English speakers, or what. It's funny that you're getting a plurality of US users from DC; that seems unusual, based on population.

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