Komodo Rodeo

May I have some sauce, please?

I mean, I’m not going to spend time trying to duplicate their results, but it wouldn’t even slightly surprise me. Cops have been using ChatGPT to streamline their bullshit cop-lingo incident reports, to the extent that it’s caught the notice of lawyers and judges… 100% I believe that the dolts who shit out Trump’s tariff rates used it too.

What the Hell was the name of the movie with Tom Cruise where the protagonist’s friend was dating a fucking hologram?

We’re a hair’s-breadth from that bullshit, and TBH I think that if falling in love with a computer program becomes the new defacto normal, I’m going to completely alienate myself by making fun of those wretched chodes non-stop.

The meat of the true issue right here. Journalism and investigative journalism aren’t just dead, their corpses has been feeding a palm tree like a pod of beached whales for decades. It’s a bizarre state of affairs to read news coverage and come out the other side less informed, without reading literal disinformation. It somehow seems so much worse that they’re not just off-target, but that they don’t even understand why or how they’re fucking it up.

The Mastadon link is a revelation, I haven’t seen any duplication of content, but TBH I haven’t invested a fraction of the time there as here. The Federation is a great idea, although it’s going to take a little while for me to wrap my head around all of the ins and outs of the patchwork framing.

Quick question for you. I signed up to Mastadon a while back, have been endeavouring to use it more regularly, and have been trying to sign on to as many local or often-subscribed orgs (on other media platforms). What I’m finding is that remarkably few of them are on Mastadon, and often those that are have been using them as a kind of alt-Twitter content splash with little engagement.

Are the actual active profiles/communities sort of walling themselves off from bots and bad actors in the way that you’re describing? Invite-only groups whose activity isn’t seen by non-members, or even accessible when searching for related tags/topics? Have I been casting about looking for content like someone looking for people in a neighbourhood where everyone is inside with the curtains drawn, or is there actually low engagement on Mastadon overall?

RIP D&D campaign’s chat service 😬