Hey, we’ve got social media and all that now. The memes and all the valuable info from whoever will surely take care of it.

I’m afraid there is no business model that can finance quality journalism. We are currently seeing the consequences of this.

Man, I only watched that for thirty seconds and had to stop right away because the orange one is such a moron:

Many, many, many years ago - hundreds of millions of years ago - people were doing business and they traded in rocks and stones and other things…

Nope, I’m out…

Edit: If only I’d read the previous comment … I missed it.

As I said, something along these lines should be possible for consumers as well - AI sentiment analysis certainly exists (for example, for social media managers in companies).

However, to my knowledge, such a “content filtering” tool out of the box does not exist, which is likely due to the fact that it would consume a great deal of energy (or tokens in cloud models, which of course also equates to energy), since every single post and comment would have to be evaluated by an LLM - and this would likely apply to every user of such a tool, provided that each user can specify their own criteria for filtering.

A service like this, which could be easily deployed as a kind of SaaS solution without technical knowledge, would therefore have to be a paid service if it were to function effectively for the user.

I don’t think such services exist, though -perhaps for mainstream social media platforms or as browser extensions for some usecases, but likely not outside the mainstream.

You could build something like this yourself, though - using a locally operated model or by utilizing an API. But you’d have to develop it yourself, I’m afraid.

I doubt that this is (reliably) possible using LLMs, because the underlying logic essentially only calculates probabilities based on the sequence of words.

You would need a logic that strictly defines what you want to see. However, this would likely result in a whole series of “false positives” that would be filtered out, because it will hardly be possible to know in advance what users will post and in what form.

An example: It should be perfectly possible to set it up so that you don’t see any posts that express negative views on the topic of AI (sentiment analysis), but in doing so, comments or posts that are actually quite witty would almost certainly be filtered out as well.

This is the crux of the matter with LLMs: In and of themselves, they have numerous, very useful applications, yet simply because of the term “artificial intelligence,” there is often a misrepresentation of what these models are capable of. They don’t think like humans do; they are merely a tool.

Another perspective of presumably the same event by Josh Kirby…

I couldn’t agree more, especially since, for anyone not from the US, even the most moderate White House posts are so utterly absurd that these days it’s really hard to tell the difference between satire and real-life clown show.

I can assure you that everyone is trying their best to adjust somehow, but it’s really hard given this level of absurdity.

It’s kind of interesting that most people here seem to assume that attending college is synonymous with education or knowledge. It would be nice if that were the case.

However, there are also quite a few people who went to college but didn’t learn a thing there - especially in countries like the U.S. or England, where a college degree costs an absurd amount of money, this happens all the time. It’s especially common there to find children of wealthy people who are as dumb as a box of rocks, yet still manage to buy their way into high society with a college degree - they’re guaranteed to get it, regardless of whether they learn even the slightest thing at university.

The current U.S. president is a good example…

I recently attended the wedding of a friend who married into nobility. Most of the bride’s friends, who had all attended Eton or Cheltenham, worked in some capacity as estate or property managers.

Edit: The whole event had a pretty satirical feel to it - there was even the mentally unstable, rich daughter who, later in the evening, threw herself at you while drunk and went on and on about how awful her mother was, how boring her friends were, and all that. Oh, and there were quite a few rich old perverts as well who were constantly making lewd advances toward the much younger women in attendance. All in all, it was quite a strange wedding.

I’m sure they can read. The store is in Germany and the text is in English, but I’m sure they realized that this is complete nonsense. I think they just ordered some cheap wrap material from somewhere and didn’t pay much attention to what was written on it.

They probably just don’t want to throw it away - which is fine. I just found it somewhat amusing and maybe a little infuriating, which is why I posted it here.

Yes, that could be the case. My guess was that templates like this were collected by image-generation models, which then turn them into complete nonsense on demand. But OCR could also be a good explanation, of course.

Phew, good question - maybe in Ankh-Morpork?

Here’s a map:

That could certainly be the case, but it seems like a lot of effort to me to produce something like that.

Either way: Apparently, the people at the kebab shop didn’t notice what was written on it when they placed the order. They may have saved a little money on quality, but it doesn’t strike me as particularly flattering, especially since they actually pride themselves on freshly prepared food, which tastes great.

It’s probably because of the “bunec for spreading.”

That could very well be the case. I hope that I’ll never find out, though…

Yeah, that’s true: Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of SpongeBob, and his team certainly had some socially critical intent when they created the show and its characters - after all, there are often deliberately exaggerated everyday situations and the like which address social issues in a humorous way.

But also yeah, exactly: I added /s because, while the underlying message is at least somewhat recognizable, I presented it in such a pretentious way. I was just lazing around in bed and thought I’d have a little fun with some kind of pseudo-intellectual silliness.

So /s - mainly so no one here thinks I’m some completely out-of-touch political theorist or something who actually takes this exaggerated view all too seriously :)

Mr. Krabs’s relentless emphasis on profit -expressed through wage suppression, obsessive cost-cutting, and the conversion of social relations into transactions - renders him a concentrated embodiment of profit-driven logic. SpongeBob’s boundless cheerfulness and dutiful labor on the other hand present the idealized worker who performs emotional compliance as part of his job; his behavior makes visible the moral contradiction at the heart of an economy that prizes surplus extraction over workers’ wellbeing. The Krusty Krab’s daily rhythms - timed shifts, commodified leisure, scripted upselling, and constant attention to margins - show how extraction becomes normalized through routine rather than force.

The rivalry between Mr. Krabs and Sheldon J. Plankton further highlights the system’s subtly coercive nature: their ceaseless competition is less about innovation than about maintaining status atop the same extractive order, a ruthless free market theater in which two capitalists conserve and contest power while workers absorb the costs. The comedy works because it literalizes these dynamics - affection as account entry, friendship as transaction - so that the satirical clarity of the show forces viewers, even while amused, to recognize how profit as an organizing principle reshapes everyday life and renders cheerfulness itself a technique of compliance.

/s

It would be great if that were the case, but unfortunately, I’m afraid it won’t last long. Gun lobbyists are already scrambling to strike deals that will sooner or later sway corrupt politicians. The fact that Western countries have still not imposed any sanctions - neither against the U.S. for its blatant violation of international law, nor against Israel for the same offense and, additionally, genocide - shows that this is a thoroughly realistic assessment.

Thanks, that’s a shame to hear. I’d read about his case some time ago, but now that he’s so openly siding with those responsible for precisely this kind of ridiculous abuse of the legal system, I’ve immediately lost interest - it’s inexcusable to me, because I firmly reject everything this criminal regime stands for. Besides, as I said: calling Afroman a musician would really be an exaggeration - no matter what standard you apply.