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wkat4242 commented on Spending too much time at airports   thezvi.substack.com/p/spe... · Posted by u/nsoonhui
rafram · 3 hours ago
> As far as I can tell, the major booking portals for tickets are all basically the same. I’ve been using Orbitz for a long time

This is really bad advice. You should search using a flight search engine like Google Flights, not a single OTA, and book directly with the airline unless an OTA has a much, much better deal. The $10 that Orbitz might sometimes save you comes at the cost of having to talk to their customer service, not the airline’s, if you want to change your trip.

wkat4242 · 3 hours ago
100% this. Having a party in between is a real PITA that one time you need to change something in a hurry.
wkat4242 commented on Grok 2.5 is now open source. Grok 3 will be open source in about 6 months   twitter.com/elonmusk/stat... · Posted by u/tosh
actuallyalys · 5 hours ago
The main use of this I could see is transparency. I imagine you could test prompts and increase your confidence the released system prompts are actually the ones in use.

Also, assuming they continue to release their old models, I suppose this could be used to get more insight on what caused the MechaHitler incident.

Grok is bad for the world. xAI’s data center is producing a huge amount of pollution in Memphis [0]. Additionally, Elon Musk’s attempts to create an AI that is not “woke” have led to it spewing far-right conspiracy theories [1], although generally for short periods of time before fixes are released.

[0]: https://www.selc.org/news/resistance-against-elon-musks-xai-...

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/14/elon-musk...

wkat4242 · 4 hours ago
It might not be woke but it's just as censored as OpenAI.

OpenAI is "Don't say boobs, some conservative investor might take offence!" Grok is: "Don't say gay, but Hitler is okay"

Both are pretty crap in daily use. Sexuality is a part of life, if you use an AI personally you can't really do without. For work it's ok and that's probably why GPT-5 is so corporate. Useless for personal use.

Grok is useless for me as I'm very pro lgbt and anti nazi.

So yeah what do I use now? Llama3.1 abliterated.

Unfortunately a lot of newer models like phi are trained on synthetic data which is much harder to uncensor because they've never seen any data their makers consider questionable. And those things are very polarised as is American society.

What we need here in Europe is a different mix. Sexual topics (18+ obviously) yes, discrimination no, lgbt yes, fascism no. Maybe mistral can deliver that.

wkat4242 commented on Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi over Age Verification Law   wired.com/story/bluesky-g... · Posted by u/BallsInIt
gottorf · 2 days ago
> get them to stop actively voting against their own interests

Such a tired trope that I wish would stop. The whole point of a plural democracy is that people will have different interests, and there are few things that rub me the wrong way more than the idea that people are too stupid to recognize what their own interests are and vote accordingly.

wkat4242 · 9 hours ago
The current administration which benefits only billionaires which make up a tiny fraction of the population proves that yes people aren't capable of voting for their interests.
wkat4242 commented on Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi over Age Verification Law   wired.com/story/bluesky-g... · Posted by u/BallsInIt
est · a day ago
On a side note I have very credible source telling that China might want open up the Internet "in a matter of days"

idk how "open" would this mean but drastic changes are coming.

wkat4242 · 9 hours ago
That would be a big change considering things appear to be getting worse not better: https://securityboulevard.com/2025/08/great-firewall-china-w...

Would be great for the Chinese if true though.

wkat4242 commented on Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi over Age Verification Law   wired.com/story/bluesky-g... · Posted by u/BallsInIt
throwaway290 · 12 hours ago
> No we think flat earthers are crazy because it's trivial to prove wrong, whereas religious belief is a matter of faith that can't really be proven one way or the other, regardless of how silly the belief is.

that you even say this may show how you learned to live with it because majority around you believes it and your human brain considers it suicide to go against the tribe. (Or maybe you believe it yourself)

it's trivial to prove there's no heaven or hell. Maybe as trivial as disprove flat earth.

Flat earth is very similar to religion. It's a belief. It perpetuates because people around you believe in flat earth and if you tell them how they are crazy then you will be outcast and lose friends and family. And hey spoiler alert this is the same reason you don't call religion crazy, because anywhere in the world 99% you have religious friends or family (except maybe north korea or china, then replace religion with dictator cult). Flat earthers are just unlucky because they are very small minority

wkat4242 · 10 hours ago
Who cares about the tribe?

I have no issue saying I think religion is BS. I don't care if I lose friends over that tbh.

I just don't normally do so because a) it won't change their mind and b) I don't care what they believe. I still think it's crazy but that's fine. Everyone is a bit crazy anyway. And c) I prefer focusing on common ground than contradictions.

But tribes are overrated in this day and age. If you don't fit in you can just find another one that you do gel with. This changes over time too.

wkat4242 commented on Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi over Age Verification Law   wired.com/story/bluesky-g... · Posted by u/BallsInIt
immibis · a day ago
There is no way to prove that the earth isn't actually flat but every observation conspires to make it look round. For instance some flat earthers say that the atmosphere reflects light in the exact way that makes it look round.

Take any phenomena on a globe earth, describe the exact same thing in flat earth coordinates and then say that everything weird in the equations is a new physical effect you just discovered.

wkat4242 · 10 hours ago
Until you travel around the world? Try that on a flat disc.
wkat4242 commented on Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi over Age Verification Law   wired.com/story/bluesky-g... · Posted by u/BallsInIt
throwaway290 · a day ago
We don't think that people who think there's a bearded man in heaven are crazy, even if that's crazier than thinking earth is flat.

We don't think they are crazy because they are not 1%, they are majority.

Most people think flat earthers are crazy not because they proved them wrong. Just most people around them think flat earthers are crazy and that's enough.

wkat4242 · 10 hours ago
> We don't think that people who think there's a bearded man in heaven are crazy, even if that's crazier than thinking earth is flat.

Um speak for yourself.

I think most of us atheists do think that but we're too polite to not say it. Besides, it won't change anything so there's no point.

wkat4242 commented on Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi over Age Verification Law   wired.com/story/bluesky-g... · Posted by u/BallsInIt
mayneack · 16 hours ago
The reverse is true. There are other relays that are still functional as you'd expect in a decentralized network: https://zeppelin.social/
wkat4242 · 10 hours ago
It's not decentralised. They also blocked a bunch of trans people criticising JK Rowling. They couldn't do that if it were truly decentralised.

IMO it's got all the bad things about centralisation and the bad things about decentralisation. The worst of both worlds. I don't bother with it.

Mastodon/fediverse and nostr (the latter despite being from the same founder) are much better.

wkat4242 commented on Bluesky Goes Dark in Mississippi over Age Verification Law   wired.com/story/bluesky-g... · Posted by u/BallsInIt
like_any_other · a day ago
You mean the Tories. Given that they massively increased what was already record-high immigration (while promising the opposite) [1,2], calling them "conservative" is laughable.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-67506641

[2] https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/05/23/irony-labour-mea...

wkat4242 · 10 hours ago
Conservative is more about their outlook on society right? They appear to be trying to get back to the Victorian age of morality especially sexually.

Better put those hands above the blanket!

Ps: ok those Victorian chastity belts are pretty kinky though, I have to give them that

wkat4242 commented on How can AI ID a cat?   quantamagazine.org/how-ca... · Posted by u/sonabinu
wkat4242 · 11 hours ago
Well that's pretty easy. AI is trained on internet content and it's not like there's a lack of cat pictures there lol

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