An internal Trump administration document reportedly shows that anti-fraud checks recently installed at the Social Security agency have found just two cases of potentially improper benefit claims out of more than 110,000—a rate of 0.0018%

Whoo boy, I would not want to be one of those two people right now. Also Im genuinely surprised they literally found only two people

As someone who was a TA a bit, I think that is 99% because if schools tried to hold students accountable to the standards of even ten years ago they would have to fail 2/3rds of their students.

Highschool becoming a joke means none of the kids have strong enough core skills to be tackling real college work by the time they get there, but schools cant afford to enforce actual quality standards for work. The graded model has completely fallen apart at this point given how steep the curve is. The quality of work that gets an A today would have been a B or high C from 10-15 years ago. Of course there is real A grade work being done too, but what defines an A grade has ballooned to a ridiculous degree such that most of it is not really A grade work

The problem isnt new, it was already bad 10 years ago to be honest. I had a professor in community college about 10 years ago who had been a professor at ASU, and she had quit teaching there specifically because the university wouldnt allow anyone to be graded below a C, regardless of if they did any work or not.

Most large public universities are just degree mills at this point, or bordering on it if not

The rich learned their lesson last time: the lesson being that they can buy shit on the cheap while everyone else gets screwed.

And they hold the levers of power, so…

The word hallucination has zero implication of intent whatsoever. Last time I checked hallucination is an entirely involuntary experience, regardless of the context the word is used in.

They are called hallucination in computer science not “to romanticize” it. It is called that because the output is totally random from the perspective of the input. If there is no logical path from input to the output, it is similar to a human hallucinating. Human sees no actual weird visual stimuli that results in them hallucinating a dragon, therefore the input info from their eyes has no bearing on what they imagine is actually there.

This is different from “fabrication” in that the AI intentionally creating fake info based on your input request would not be a hallucination, because there would be a relationship between input and output.

While you say you prefer “fabrication”, the word fabrication actually implies some intent that is absent from what we are referring to as AI hallucinations

I thought I was being blatantly sarcastic, but apparently not.

To be quite frank Im not aware of any gangs that dont have like 10 different distinct visual ways to identify themselves. Be it colors, tattoos, signs, etc.

Hiding gang affiliation is a bit of a “bitch move” I would think from a gangbanger perspective

W O O S H

Gang members dont want to give themselves away. So instead of throwing overt and specific signs, you have to look for covert gang signs such as the friendly wave, peace signs, or rock n roll 🤘

The number of extremely loaded people that fly first class public everywhere even though they could afford a private jet might surprise you.

I work for private jet type clientele, and only about 10-25% of our clients actually fly private jets everywhere they go. Which makes sense, considering it is about 1/10th the price to fly first class versus chartering.

Ive noticed actually just in the last year there has been a major drop off in terms of people chartering jets. It used to be that you had private jet owners, people who chartered jets, and then people who didnt fly private. Now you basically have people who either own a jet or are flying public with no inbetween. Even though these people could still afford to charter, its an easy place to tighten the belt. Just a <1 hr connection from our airport to the main airport in the state is a cool $10k

Whats a $400m military-grade jet between friends?

Its the DNC, not the IRA. What else do you expect from them?

I have $800M worth of lint in my belly button, apparently

Even if Lemmy grows to a point of being on the radar, theres still no hope for any real IP to lock down for anybody. The whole design is fairly antithetical to being taken over and turned into a cash cow of some kind, despite feeling very much like something centralized in terms of how we interact with it.

I agree with OP, and I think this can even become an even better repository for information than something like Reddit, because it’s more democratized and deters astroturfing or many types of malfeasance by design. Especially as it stands now, early on. Thats why I started a community for billiards. The reddit community for billiards, as well as old forum sites, are great wealths of information that is hard to otherwise find. It would be great to build something like that here over time

Trump: “when have the Saudi’s ever hurt us with an airplane? 🤷‍♂️

The reality is that the job is kind of irrelevant. We had a manufacturing economy then, and a service based economy now, but the real difference between today and back then were wage strength and social parity. Of course pensions existed too, but still.

Back in the day one man could make enough to support a family on a relatively entry level skill level income. Today one person can hardly afford rent by themselves anywhere in the US for the same skill level of work.

Instead of paying people any more than absolutely necessary, we pay shareholders. No pensions, let alone benefits for a lot of people.

We need taxes on the wealthy and higher wages, if not legally mandatory profit sharing schemes for all businesses

Im all for making the traditional market more efficient and transparent, if blockchain can accommodate that, so long as we can also make crypto more like the traditional market. At least in terms of criminalizing shit that would obviously be illegal to do with securities

How exactly does a non-physician prescribe anything? Will a pharmacy accept any note with illegible handwriting on it?

Sure are a lot of large books on the plane for a guy who cant even read

at the Social Security Administration, some employees are running out of paper, pens and printer toner because the U.S. DOGE Service has placed a $1 spending limit on government-issued credit cards

Fucking insane levels of stupidity

On the contrary, the military is very pro getting soldiers to have kids. They incentivize it pretty heavily because a lot of people who serve end up having kids who serve, so they get the generational recommitment out of it

The confederacy are the most widely celebrated giant losers of all time, and it isn’t even close.

There are more monuments commemorating their failure than there are commemorating most successes