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APRIL 2026: What an embarrassing website! It has just about run its course, hasn't it? It's like a divorce: the one getting left by the wayside is always the last to know.

https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=throwanem&comments=t

General use: me.hn@aaron-miller.me

Journalists: me.ontherecord@aaron-miller.me

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LATELY: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47858996 [flagged]

Grok is among online pedophiles' most favored image generators because it so freely produces CSAM.

Their own public discussions reflect this. You can see as much any day on 4chan. (If you look in on them, be smart like me and do it in a browser that has image loading turned off.)

Synthetic CSAM is and should be a serious felony - whether photographic or otherwise - and if you imagine yourself immune from prosecution because you can't see a theory of criminality here, remember that district attorneys may not be so limited, and that someone has to be the first prosecuted. For all I or the law know, you made it to groom one of the children in your life with. So why don't we start with you, short eyes? - no, no, I know. Everybody's so sure he'll get away with it, right up till he doesn't, but not you. You're special, right?

Some day, the public record will likewise reflect X PMs' (currently presumptive) efforts to suppress internal concerns about this, from line workers who would rather sleep at night than make money by enabling child molesters. (But not so much rather as to quit, of course. Who would ever walk away from Omelas? Why, that would be really unhinged behavior! Do you have any drooz? A xannie at least? Just thinking about...that...)

Tech sociopaths love writing everything down as much as Nazis did in the forties. (Also like the Nazis, they really really love speed! That stuff rots your brain [1], you know; enough of it would make a sociopath of Christ Himself on His Cross, whom you manifestly are not.) Also - still - just like the Nazis, it will be your own words that hang you. Notion can't even protect your PII! You think they can fight a subpoena? - that they would try, for you?

So that documentary evidence I just talked about will come out, and when it does, it will help establish both mens rea - that you know you are committing a crime - and premeditation. Please respond to this warning by attempting to scrub such records! That will further show you know at this time that what you are doing is both wrong and illegal. It will add years to your sentence!

But of course Elon - famously loyal to his people, and definitely never got beat up and punched in his fat stupid face by his ex-boss His Excellency - will place no limit on the resources he'll expend to protect you, and when that fails he'll make sure you never want for a thing in your commissary. Right? Right?

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/books/NBK470276/

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    True, but it's rude to call that out, not to mention rather more arrogant than wise. These are trepidatory times, and like many, his job is not at all secure. In his shoes I'd be f…

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    My comment on the other thread meanwhile wasn't nice at all, but it was also misdirected, and meant to refer to Hacker News rather than your own site. (I like the style, too. It's …

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    Not at all related, but I love your work! Your photographs betray a subtle, curious, particular, and respectful eye. Keep shooting!

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    You needn't; I just did. Mr. Gackle isn't really all that frightening, you know. There's no need to fear talking with him.

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    "What an embarrassing website! It has just about run its course, hasn't it?"

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    > Also, when did we stop liking to learn? When it got dangerous to spend that kind of time without a bullet-point deliverable.

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    Why assume people would not buy and sell Hacker News accounts?

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    The real HN discussion guidelines.

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    Much better than you, hon.

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    Sucks to suck.

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    To say the least. Great catch! 'O brave new world, that has such people in 't.'

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    > Doesn't have to be. You can train it on normal pictures of children and nude images of adults. You say this so casually, as though it were a normal thing to know, or as if a norm…

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    Oh, he knows what he said. That's why he made a sockpuppet account to say it.

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    > You should not switch medications based on the uninformed ramblings of [crazy] people.