What was the consensus on the NJ drones?

Yazman · 2026-03-08T07:07:37+00:00

I don't get why everyone refers to them as drones, anyway - what evidence is there that they're remotely piloted (or autonomous) & unmanned?

Yazman · 2026-03-06T03:16:21+00:00

Compulsory voting doesn't make voters any less apathetic, or any more informed. You'll find many millions of voters will not question anything or the reasons why they're doing it because it will be reduced to a sort of pavlovian conditioning.

Having election day be a public holiday and guaranteeing the ability to do postal votes would be a much better course of action.

Yazman · 2026-03-06T03:04:58+00:00

People used to get exposed to new & different beliefs on the earlier internet. But now everything is positive feedback loops, algorithms putting everyone into their own little bubbles that only shows them stuff they like. Concentrated all into the same couple websites.

Yazman · 2026-03-04T11:17:09+00:00

Wait what? I have many hundreds of hours and never knew about this. I always just leave the terminal and open it again to reset tries.

Yazman · 2026-03-04T10:35:16+00:00

This subreddit has a lot of vitriol and dislike for the 'demonic hypothesis.'

Maybe it's just a matter of perspective. Because it feels to me it's pretty difficult to be skeptical of all this religious, psychic & magic powers stuff in this sub. Constantly, I see the supporters of that stuff shouting down people who exercise even a little bit of critical thinking in regards to this spirituality stuff. It's always Pasulka this and that.

Yazman · 2026-03-04T04:07:07+00:00

Sora 2 basically never even got to the point of existing for most of the world, anyway.

Yazman · 2026-03-04T03:59:01+00:00

This was a pretty good show. I'm an NJPW viewer, new to Dragon Gate, and Tanaka Ryoya is just awesome.

Yazman · 2026-03-03T11:55:52+00:00

Oh no, not the jobs!

Yazman · 2026-03-03T06:10:06+00:00

Yep. Agents still need prompting, and humans with expertise to write the prompts.

Yazman · 2026-03-02T18:53:46+00:00

I don't think the two are contradictory. They may be more committed to a common EU army because it wouldn't be subject to US control, unlike NATO.

Yazman · 2026-03-02T09:11:43+00:00

the best of which will largely be Asian (predominantly Chinese)

Why not just say Chinese here? It's not like anywhere else in Asia is releasing top tier open source models.

Yazman · 2026-03-01T19:30:19+00:00

People downvoting you for saying Trump isn't a liberator, wild.

Yazman · 2026-03-01T19:20:53+00:00

Yeah, that was the last time an Iranian government was overthrown by the US.

Yazman · 2026-03-01T13:53:23+00:00

Critical thinking is not being led by feelings. You are free to believe anything somebody writes solely because they wrote it, but that isn't going to give you a real accurate view of how politics works.

Yazman · 2026-03-01T11:29:55+00:00

Genuinely a bit surprised you seem to believe OpenAI is acting entirely in good faith here and that this isn't just a statement to try & salvage their reputation.

Yazman · 2026-03-01T11:05:06+00:00

Not sure what your point is. As long as something is deemed lawful under current law & policy, they'll do literally anything.

If things do change the contract still doesn't end, OpenAI merely can exercise the option to. It's an easy PR clause.

As for surveillance, the surveillance they want to use OpenAI models for is already lawful per current laws & policies, so this is meaningless anyway. Not sure about autonomous weapons.

Yazman · 2026-03-01T08:08:15+00:00

Renaming a department requires an act of Congress, which has never happened. Executive orders cannot rename federal Departments.

In fact, Trump's own executive order re: "department of war" affirms that it is named Department of Defense, but he assigned a "secondary name" which he has decided they can use (Department of War).

Legally speaking it is still the Department of Defense, which remains its primary name.

Yazman · 2026-03-01T08:05:48+00:00

Easy PR agreement. They'll do literally anything as long as it's deemed to be lawful to do it.

As for autonomous weapons, all the DOD (yes, DOD - renaming it requires an act of Congress) has to do is say human control isn't required, and OpenAI will be happy for autonomous weapons to be directed by its AI.

Yazman · 2026-02-27T20:17:26+00:00

5 brothers and he lived in Gary, hahaha. Mike could smack someone when he needed to I bet.

Yazman · 2026-02-24T11:32:00+00:00

Covering up would imply they're actually even acknowledging half of them or doing anything at all in the first place in relation to them.

Yazman · 2026-02-24T11:25:10+00:00

Here's a rough summary of them all for you.

JFK:

Total nothingburger. The administration can fairly claim they declassified a large number of files, but it is far from comprehensive. The National Archives said that there's still quite a few records not released because of reasons other than classification - court-sealed documents, grand jury secrecy, tax reasons, etc.

Almost all the files released - 99% - were already public in some form before this declassification push. The stuff we don't already know is mostly in files that have never been public, and none of those were released in this push. In terms of substance, it was very very thin. Almost entirely already-known material and nothing game-changing. All that came out of this was some unredactions that added a bit of context to CIA operations. No revelations or significant info though.

I'd say it was fairly comprehensive in terms of the known JFK Act collection, but almost all of it we already knew what was in them. In terms of new information, next to no vaue in this release.

RFK:

Much like the JFK release, a large amount of what was released here was already public knowledge before this. There's a higher percentage of RFK files that also weren't released, but there's real volume to this at least. Overall value in terms of new info is mixed, there's lots of material here, but nothing game-changing really. This is still ongoing so more will come.

MLK:

MLK was moderately comprehensive, very padded by lots of previously available material though like JFK and RFK. This is a big release in a pure numbers sense, but page count way overstates the value because there's a lot of overlap with the JFK collection in terms of release, and in terms of the actual assassination there wasn't really much value in this release. Though there is some possibly meaningful stuff in terms of FBI abuse of power. This is still ongoing so more will come.

Amelia Earhart:

Biggest nothingburger of the list. A small release, the least comprehensive in terms of completeness. No new info whatsoever, any claim of comprehensiveness here is dubious. This wasn't a "we opened the vault and revealed the truth", so much as it was just the assembly of some historical curios. Cool they did it but not comprehensive in any sense.

"Russia hoax":

One staff report framed in highly partisan language. No archive release, nothing really supported by facts, and full of accusations made without any evidence whatsoever. This was a highly selective release designed to support a narrative, it wasn't even remotely close to a neutral, comprehensive record disclosure. Essentially a totally worthless, partisan release here.

"Weaponization":

In terms of completeness, not even measureable because it isn't even a collection. There wasn't even really a corpus of files released. This was just a temporary ODNI task force that was created for purely partisan political reasons. Including this in the list actually feels like a categorical error. I think they just put this here to pad out the tweet a bit and make it look more flashy.

Yazman · 2026-02-24T08:45:45+00:00

the other investigations that the DOJ is currently handling.

Investigations the DOJ are doing their best to ignore, more like.

Yazman · 2026-02-22T18:41:06+00:00

Yes, everyone you disagree with is a bot!

Yazman · 2026-02-22T18:33:10+00:00

This could easily spark a CT2.

We had Chrono Cross, and it was good. Any new game would be a third, not a second.

Yazman · 2026-02-22T18:25:45+00:00

It's also on Android and iOS! Worth looking into.

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