Cult of personality. Once that personality is gone, so will be MAGA.

Soaking of definitions: “conservatism”, what is it? Do we have a definition that conservatives agree with?

“Ayres said Trump “clearly will remain the leader of the party for the next two years, but I also think the knee-jerk obeisance to whatever his whims are at the moment is likely over.””

Thanks for saying this out loud. How did that make you feel, by the way?

I did indeed mean gamete, and thank you for the correction.

I wonder if they’re required to satisfy the federal standard for sex identification. That would require more than a genital exam. It would require capturing a zygote.

Pretty invasive.

Look into cognitive behavioral therapy. You don’t necessarily need to see a therapist for this if you don’t need to be held accountable.

Ideally, the goal is finding a pleasurably and healthy replacement behavior. A sport or hobby that distracts you and becomes important in your life.

When the power goes out that happens. Candles and / or flashlights come out, the Internet is down, and we experience some discomfort.

Often times, though, we can “lean into” the current situation and learn new things and even have some fun.

The point of the article is to pay attention to your habits of reliance, not to eliminate them. It’s a confidence booster to know that you can exist without an LLM, the Internet, or electricity.

I just looked and they’ve blocked the whole IP range from the VPS provider (digital ocean in this case). I assume many vps’ have the same issue.

Sent a few messages to them so here’s hoping.

I’m sending through a vps and have properly set up all the things (dmarc, dkim, spf, et al).

It was years ago when I set up, but I spent some time trying to get the mail to go through (wife uses Hotmail). The rabbit hole led me to a service I could purchase that would allow the mail to go through. Many fora articles paralleled my own experiences.

I don’t send spam, and my “reputation” is good. I’ll look into it again.

This was my take, but it makes it feel creepier somehow.

Well, look to your left and there it is!

Postfix, Dovecot, MySQL (MariaDB), postgrey, spamassasin.

Tips:

• once you get it running, keep close control and be prepared to shut down when the spam hounds find you.
• Do set up dmarc, dkim, and spf
• Put your server on spamhaus.org
• Don’t start if you’re feeling lazy, this will take a lot of mental attention.

I did mine before LLM’s, so I can’t comment how useful this will be, but I worry one might not understand the decisions made.

As am I. i don’t forward through anyone. All working well, but the learning process did, as you alluded to, give me white hairs.

I’ve done that and learned a lot. Microsoft (Outlook, Hotmail) won’t accept your email without paying them, or forwarding through someone who does (proton?).

I really loved this sentence:

Slop is already a denial of service attack on our attention, our infrastructure and the signal-to-noise ratio of the information that we consume.

Thanks for this!

As to why you might help people:

LLM’s write in language styles based on articles and writing that came “before”. I’m somewhat older (61), and I recognize my style from many of the responses I get from LLM’s.

I’m just now starting to see the patterns that are generated, but I understand those are being corrected. Still, some humans are better at pattern matching than others, so a little help goes a long way.

Thanks again!