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Post by OutOfHere »

zahlman wrote: post #271
OutOfHere wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It might in theory be great to have an AI bot do this for all links of known paywalled sites if a good quality free alternative is available and discoverable by the AI bot. The bot could use the web search tool of an LLM service for this purpose. If not available, it could keep rechecking every fibonacci hour for up to 21 hours.

That just gets us links from whichever SEO spam farm is best at prompt-injecting LLMs into believing they provide a "good quality free alternative".

It doesn't have to be that way. An allowlist of domains can be built over time. Also, the bot's suggestions can initially be vetted by a human. As for prompt injection, there are additional ways to mitigate the risk using domain exclusion, roles, and input validation, but I guess unimaginative AI haters will find any excuse to be haters.

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Post by barryfandango »

Many of us use site analytics software that can watch what our users are doing in our apps. Also, Truth Social has a feature where you can schedule a post (that feature is part of the upgraded "partriot package".) Either one of these features might have the truth social staff getting early access to the president's truuts.

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Post by password54321 »

pasquinelli wrote: post #291
password54321 wrote: post #201

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>a defeat for Israel False, Israel has used the whole war to take over Lebanon almost silently from mass media attention. They are about to annex a part of it.

> False, Israel has used the whole war to take over Lebanon almost silently from mass media attention. i wonder why you think mass media attention would matter.

If public opinion didn't matter on geopolitics we wouldn't see massive astroturfing campaigns across the internet.

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Post by ngruhn »

password54321 wrote: post #256
ngruhn wrote: post #247

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They are at war because Hezbollah attacked... again.

Let me repeat: They are about to annex a sovereign nation while reducing the capital city to rubble. May or may not remind you of another country further north.

> remind you of another country further north

It would remind me of that if Ukraine attacked first... over and over again throughout the last decades... together with it's allies in the region... occasionally abducting a few hundred Russia civilians... there is no parallel here.

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Post by ngruhn »

mmooss wrote: post #258
ngruhn wrote: post #247

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They are at war because Hezbollah attacked... again.

Israel has been bombing (and conducting raids in?) Lebanon for years. They attacked Hezbollah's ally, Iran. And Hezbollah has been attacking Israel for years. It's not true that the conflict began with Hezbollah's recent actions.

They had a ceasefire which was broken by Hezbollah. Just like last time (2023). And the time before that (2006). And the time before that (2000).

There is this one weird trick for lasting piece with Israel: stop being hostile.

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Post by megous »

ngruhn wrote: post #247
password54321 wrote: post #201

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>a defeat for Israel False, Israel has used the whole war to take over Lebanon almost silently from mass media attention. They are about to annex a part of it.

They are at war because Hezbollah attacked... again.

No proof of course.

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Post by [deleted] »

barryfandango wrote: post #302

Many of us use site analytics software that can watch what our users are doing in our apps. Also, Truth Social has a feature where you can schedule a post (that feature is part of the upgraded "partriot package".) Either one of these features might have the truth social staff getting early access to the president's truuts.

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Post by megous »

sph wrote: post #189
themafia wrote: post #184

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> that had an avowed goal of “death to America”. 31 million people just woke up and decided to hate America? Or.. was there a little more to that story?

The hatred has been there since the 70s, at the very least. Watched a great video on Iran from Rick Steves filmed in 2009, and when he visited a mosque there was a large sign calling for the death of America and Israel.

"death of America and Israel" These are states. A particular instance of cooperating individuals, with some overall vector of behavior that affects people elsewhere. Wishing for that to end is hate how exactly?

I would not mind, and I actually wish america and israel and russia and few other states end as they are today (not just a mild refactoring, end and split to 10s of smaller independent entities, that can cause a lot less harm individually) and end up with reduced externalities on the rest of the world, and lot less power to walk over rest of us.

I don't even mind calling it death to america or whatever, because it would be. So why not.

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Post by pasquinelli »

password54321 wrote: post #303
pasquinelli wrote: post #291

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> False, Israel has used the whole war to take over Lebanon almost silently from mass media attention. i wonder why you think mass media attention would matter.

If public opinion didn't matter on geopolitics we wouldn't see massive astroturfing campaigns across the internet.

maybe. that's a fair point. public opinion has moved away from israel so even the mass media in america might be a little less generous to israel, which would turn even more people away from israel.
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