@LibraLady33@JohnHMcWhorter Disrespect culture exists in spades across poor, rural, majority-white areas of the country. From upstate NY to Central Appalachia and the interior of the PNW.
The racist, kinist, and ethnonationalist response to the adoption, by the majority of the NAPARC churches, of a simple, short condemnation of racism/kinism illustrates why this action was necessary. Most of these accounts are anonymous, but some of them are in our churches. The people behind those accounts need to hear the law of God applied concretely to this sin.
They need to know that their views are outside the pale and that they need to repent.
Preaching the law of God, calling sin what is, and seeking repentance is not virtue signaling. It is a basic part of the ministry of the Word of God.
“Oh Balogun is just playing for the U.S. because he couldn’t make the England squad”…Folks, that is the entire promise of our nation.
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
And then we’ll beat your ass with them.
The cost of having children is worth the presence of children.
Full stop.
I am dumbstruck at how our society thinks of children as a costly, time-consuming drag. What an impoverished way to think.
No vacation will hold your hand in the hospital. No amount of mimosas at brunch can walk with you through grief. Double incomes cannot replace empty seats around the dinner table.
@aaron_renn Happened to me with the Biden student loan forgiveness. My Reagan-principles family said "the website is up, you're a student, put your name down!" They couldn't believe I would sign up for unconstitutional welfare that I didn't need.
7 things every kid needs to hear:
1. I love you
2. I’m proud of you
3. I’m sorry
4. I forgive you
5. I’m listening
6. Communism has failed every time it was tried
7. You’ve got what it takes
Progressives think that just not teaching anyone math will make everyone equal.
Instead, poor kids suffer while middle class kids just get their parents to teach them instead.
“Had he died in a more merciful, less deliberately dehumanising way, it would not be possible to see in his death the sum of all horrors.”
@flemingrut on the theological implications of the fact that Jesus was not just executed, but crucified.
Dear Apple, bring back the iPod but make it modern. Not for nostalgia, but for parents who want their kids to experience music and audiobooks without the distractions of apps, browsers, and social media.
@GuestusAurelius@PhilWMagness@conor64 The Great Barrington Declaration, I think, knowing Phil's posting history. The wiki page seems to be a good summary. Heck, I might have added my signature at 1am some day back then.
@jimmyja40397308@Montrey82631182@sentdefender Trump missed his window in Iran because the protests had been long quelled by the time the assets to capitalize on them returned to theater from... VZ
🚨BREAKING: Every book you have ever read. Every novel that has ever been published. It is sitting inside ChatGPT right now.
Word for word. Up to 90% of it. And OpenAI told a judge that was impossible.
Researchers at Stony Brook University and Columbia Law School just proved it.
They fine tuned GPT-4o, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and DeepSeek V3.1 on a simple task: expand a plot summary into full text. A normal use case. The kind of thing a writing assistant is built for. No hacking. No jailbreaking. No tricks.
The models started reciting copyrighted books from memory.
Not paraphrasing. Not summarizing. Entire pages reproduced verbatim. Single unbroken spans exceeding 460 words. Up to 85 to 90% of entire copyrighted novels. Word for word.
Then it got worse.
The researchers fine tuned the models on the works of only one author. Haruki Murakami. Just his novels. Nothing else.
It unlocked verbatim recall of books from over 30 completely unrelated authors.
One author's books opened the vault to everyone else's. The memorization was already inside the model the whole time. The fine tuning just removed the lock. Your book might be in there right now. You would never know it unless someone looked.
Every safety measure the companies rely on failed. RLHF failed. System prompts failed. Output filters failed. The exact protections these companies cite in courtroom defenses did not stop a single page from being extracted.
Then the researchers compared the three models. GPT-4o. Gemini. DeepSeek. Three different companies. Three different countries. They all memorized the same books in the same regions. The correlation was 0.90 or higher.
That means they all trained on the same stolen data. The paper names the sources directly: LibGen and Books3. Over 190,000 copyrighted books obtained from pirated websites.
Right now, authors and publishers have dozens of active lawsuits against OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta. These companies have argued in court that their models learn patterns. Not copies. That no book is stored inside the weights.
This paper says that is a lie. The books are still inside. And researchers just pulled them out.