A leg up on running for president.

Or alternately you vote for Trump, either directly or by wasting votes on third-party candidates because the Democrats were insufficiently compelling.

Yes, I know it's idiotic. But a lot of the American electorate are idiots, or more charitably are not familiar with the game theory behind all this stuff. The Democrats do need to learn how to get the support of those people.

Now taking bets on how long it will be before Cloudflare announces that they're selling AI training datasets based off of the content they're managing...

Especially since whoever's VP in Biden's next term would have a big leg up on running for president in 2028.

I suspect it's probably too late for the Democrats to switch horses now, but I hope that this finally pile-drives some smidgen of a lesson into them that they need to actually try to win elections rather than just assume that since they're not crazy or evil like the Republican candidates people will naturally prefer them. They need to pick candidates that the people like and put in the effort to run those candidates well.

There's still five months until the election, there's plenty that Biden can do between now and then to show people that he's a good choice. And then maybe this time once it's all over the Democratic Party can do a major rethink of what exactly they're doing with all this. Like they should have the last time they ran a candidate against Trump that they thought simply "deserved" to win.

Cloaks are actually quite historical, they're very easy to make and useful in a variety of conditions.

Would be nice if SCOTUS had defined what "official acts" actually were.

His wrist would break, but it might be worth it.

I suppose Biden could have him officially assassinated. That's legal now.

If one needs to modify corporate behaviour I did mention regulations as one way to do it.

Now the AI will see this comic and go "ah, better flare-proof myself then." Cycle broken.

The specific subject that Triton is telling Ariel about is where babies come from.

It's not meant to be a good thought or a bad one, just a description of how things work. If you want the customers of this company to change their mind then you'll need to direct your own arguments and/or "propaganda" (as it will likely be perceived by some) at those customers and outdo what they're being fed by opposing groups.

The problem isn't stuff going in, it's the baby coming out.

Wait until she finds out how she'll be doing it once she's human. I suspect she'll prefer this approach.

Did take companies long to stop pretending like they care.

Of course they care, they care about what their customers think because that's where their money comes from. This is just how corporations work, and it would have the opposite outcome if their customer base wanted those goals of theirs.

If you want corporations to change then convince them that they'll make more money that way, by whatever means. Through customer preferences, regulations, etc. Don't expect a corporation to "do what's right because it's right," any more than you should expect a shark to "do what's right." It's not designed that way.

Oh, neat. The first one blew up the door, and then the second one literally flew inside and went down the hallway to reach the cache.

And sometimes that's exactly what I want, too. I use LLMs like ChatGPT when brainstorming and fleshing out fictional scenarios for tabletop roleplaying games, for example, and in those situations coming up with plausible nonsense is specifically the job at hand. I wouldn't want to go "ChatGPT, I need a description of the interior of a wizard's tower is like" and get the response "I don't know what the interior of a wizard's tower is like."

Yup. Fortunately unsubscribing from politics subreddits is generally advisable whether one has been banned from them or not.

Being slightly wrong means more of an endorphin rush when people realize they can pounce on the flaw they've spotted, I guess.

Don't sweat downvotes, they're especially meaningless on the Fediverse. I happen to like a number of applications for AI technology and cryptocurrency, so I've certainly collected quite a few of those and I'm still doing okay. :)