• Snot Flickerman
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        312 months ago

        Who’d have guessed that Musk’s promise to “maximize free speech” was just a dogwhistle to allow the worst of society to say all the worst things with no pushback.

        Oh yeah I guess everyone guessed that. None of these fucks cares about “free speech” they want “free speech without consequences specifically for me, but definitely consequences for the speech of people I don’t like.”

    • @lars@lemmy.sdf.org
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      42 months ago

      So delighted (probably not the right word, feeling) that this was the top comment when I arrived.

    • @BoycottPro@lemm.eeOP
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      152 months ago

      100%! I’m sure you’re not using it but if you have friends/family still on there urge them to quit using Twitter.

        • @BoycottPro@lemm.eeOP
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          32 months ago

          That’s excellent! Hopefully there will be more and more people who don’t know anyone who uses Twitter.

      • GladiusB
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        02 months ago

        I don’t really hear many talk about social media. But that’s because I don’t go on anything but this. I definitely don’t talk about it in every day conversation either.

  • @BeNotAfraid@lemmy.world
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    272 months ago

    Then it’s not a spike, it’s a trend. Created by, mostly (hopefully) bots, there to move the overton window and normalise racism and hyper-regressive world views to divide the working class while the rich use us as Cannon fodder for their genocide against our fellow working class. Wankers.

    • @LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Its working, horrifyingly. In several communities lately ive seen moderators start to treat violent racism and antisemitism as personal beliefs that do not on their own necessitate banning. This in private progressive leaning communities too. Eugencist christian white nationalism is becoming a normal tolerated ideology to have.

      Instagram is especially bad too. I see a lot of people talking about Twitter, but not enough about Instagram.

  • TomMasz
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    172 months ago

    I wouldn’t say it’s a “spike”, Bob.

  • JohnnyFlapHoleSeed
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    172 months ago

    So if you do nothing to prevent a problem, and In fact, actively encourage the problem, it gets worse?

  • Sal
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    142 months ago

    Surprise surprise, when the CEO is a Nazi, Nazis think it’s free eats!

      • He keeps trying. He seems to think that can be done by just putting his thumb on the system prompt, and then we end up with obvious nonsense like that South African white genocide preoccupation. It’s fortunate the Musk isn’t smart enough to figure out how to do it subtly.

        • @barsoap@lemm.ee
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          22 months ago

          I’m nowhere close to being an LLM specialist but to actually skew the model itself I think you need a lot of consistent data. Ten thousand alt-right blogs peddling a hundred thousand internally inconsistent and mutually incompatible narratives won’t cut it, they’ll criss-cross over the gradient landscape and because they don’t coincide, won’t make a dent in the deep groves trodden by pirating libgen. And training only on the alt-right blogs won’t cut it either that’s just not enough data which on top of that doesn’t sound smart enough to woo anyone, or have any resemblance of a consistent stance. Sure you’ll get it to claim ridiculous shit and use lots of slurs but 4chan managed to do that back in 2016 and noone was fooled.

  • @Almacca@aussie.zone
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    92 months ago

    ‘Persistent spike’ is up there with ‘vehicle constantly stopping’ as a nonsense phrase. :) And this from an educational institution?

    • @jsomae@lemmy.ml
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      42 months ago

      Constantly means habitually. I can’t even begin to formulate an apology for persistent spike though.

      • @Almacca@aussie.zone
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        22 months ago

        I’m seeing the more accurate ‘vehicle frequently stopping’ a lot more these days, so someone twigged to it.

  • katy ✨
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    92 months ago

    considering the ceo, linda yaccarino, spends all day retweeting conspiracy theories and nazi propaganda i’m not surprised.

    • @BoycottPro@lemm.eeOP
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      72 months ago

      I wasn’t aware of this before. No wonder Musk felt comfortable stepping down as CEO, he just appointed a like-minded person.