Add one to the pile of words the mods over there don’t know the definition of, I guess. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It’s pretty funny they’re banning people for “brigading” even after their own instance admin told them there was no evidence of that happening.

But I was assured the memes were totally ironic?? 🤔

What a terrible day to be literate.

Honestly I don’t understand enough of the backend to tell what’s going on, but from what I understand some instances can have trouble with backlog from especially large instances (like lemmy.world) that can make federation slower, it might be related to that? I don’t think Blahaj is particularly large comparatively, but having to spend more time federating with huge instances might still affect how quickly things federate.

Doesn’t look like it under the instances section.

Honestly I’m not even sure if I ever posted there before this, I only saw it scrolling /c/all when it caught my eye for obvious reasons. If this is how the mods react to some polite but doubtful questions it doesn’t sound like I’m missing much!

Man, they are BIG fuckin mad about it too, they came back over 20 minutes after deleting my comments to reply to the deleted comment (is that something only mods can do?) to call me a troll and tell me to fuck off.

Context: https://sh.itjust.works/post/27423240

I would repost the comments here to show I didn’t say anything objectionable (I wrote a decently long comment about how I was checking mod logs and didn’t see removed posts and agreeing with the request for more details) but it looks like they got totally nuked ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Also, it looks like this meltdown is over some prolific shitposter getting banned from blahaj 6 months ago and I guess OP just now noticed. And also doesn’t understand that not federating posts from banned users is not “removing posts.”

I know a lot of Lemmy turns their nose up at it because it’s not FOSS, but Bluesky has been legitimately chill IME. The subscribable block/mute lists and the way blocks break quote posts are a game changer. People who are chronic assholes end up shouting into the void and people who aren’t chronic assholes get the picture real quick

Oh yeah, this dude without a question is guilty and a pedo. I meant more that ‘out of the box’ models may still produce material that looks really CSEM adjacent, and you have no way of telling whether or not it used CSEM to generate the image if the whole dataset is poisoned by actual CSEM being included.

Oh yeah, I was agreeing with you, sorry if I was unclear. It pisses me off this situation exists to begin with.

At least with a human being it’s a matter of factuality whether or not they’re over 18. But with AI it’s unverifiable, especially considering some models have already been trained on CSEM.

Once someone has that model locally, do they technically possess CSEM, even unknowingly? Do they only possess it if they try to make the AI make it? Seems like something someone in charge should have thought about in a legally binding way before dumping the internet into an image generator!

My comment was referring primarily to recent western history.

I mean, not the most severe judgement that’s been leveled at an LDP member in recent years.

Fun fact, the method they used to determine arousal isn’t admissible as evidence in court in the US because it’s not reliable enough. I’m guessing none of the “homophobia is the fault of the gays!” popsci articles mentioned that part, though.

Given that homophobia was very widely accepted until the past decade or two, it would be incredibly stupid to argue that almost all of society was gay until very recently.

Are the Pope and the Michelin man going into a voting center and filming people with their faces covered?

“The law against voter intimidation doesn’t specify specific conduct that is illegal. It specifies that intimidating voters is illegal,” Morales-Doyle [director the Voting Rights Program at the Brennan Center for Justice] said. “And so really, whatever form it might take, if the result is that a person feels uncomfortable exercising their right to vote, then it violates the law against voter intimidation.”

Even if this wasn’t obviously reminiscent of the KKK, just seeing someone hiding their identity while pretending to be a government official is unquestionably enough to make someone feel intimidated and that it’s an unsafe place to vote.

This seems like a violation of Georgia’s laws against wearing masks in public. If they were trying to speak with or otherwise interfere with voters I encourage you to report it: https://law.georgia.gov/resources/election-fraud-complaint-hotline

Unfortunately, that is also a decision.

I don’t know about all of it, but a heavy watermelon is well watered and more likely to be sweet since it’s had the resources to put tons of energy into growing all season. The same principle works for finding good citrus, you want something that feels heavy for its size.