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[–] SillyGooseQuacked@lemmy.world 90 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (14 children)

Folks from rural areas prioritize cultural signaling for conservativism over economic growth. I'd hazard that Mr. Zink would probably vote Trump again, given the opportunity, if the opposite candidate publicly supported trans rights or was just a Democratic black woman.

Edit:

Goosechase.jpg "You won't meet anyone more conservative than me, and I didn't vote for this"

"WHAT DID YOU VOTE FOR THEN"

[–] SillyGooseQuacked@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not to be a downer if you're anti-AI, but you should know a functional, small, 1B parameter model only needs ~85GB of data if the training data set is high quality (the four-year old chinchilla paper set out the 20 to 1 optimization rule for ai training, so it may require even less today).

That's basically nothing. If a language has over ~130,000 books or an equivalent amount of writing (1,500 books is about a gig in plain ascii), a functional text-based ai model could be built that uses it.

My understanding is there are next to zero languages in existence today that do not have this amount of quality text. Certainly, spoken languages that have no written word are not accessible like this, but most endangered languages with few speakers that have a historical written word could in theory have ai models built that effectively communicate in those languages.

To give you an idea of what this means for less-written languages and a website revolving around them, look at worldcat (which does NOT have anywhere near most of the written text available entirely online for each language listed, it's JUST a resource for libraries): https://www.oclc.org/en/worldcat/inside-worldcat.html

But this gets even harder for a theoretical website used to avoid an LLM that can read it, because this is all assuming creating an ai model for language from scratch. That is not necessary today because of transfer learning.

Major LLM models with over 100 diverse major languages can be fined-tuned on an insignificant amount of data (even 1GB could work in theory) and produce results like those of a 1B parameter model trained solely on one language. This is because the multi-lingual models developed cross-cultural vector-based understandings of Grammer.

In truth, the only remaining major barriers for any language not understood by fine-tuning an ai model today are both (1) digitization and (2) character recognition. Digitization will vanish as an issue for basically every written language that has a unique script within the next ten years. Character recognition (and more specifically, the economic viability of building the character recognition) will be the only remaining issue.

Ironically, in creating such a website, you will be creating more data for a future potential ai model to use in training. Especially if whatever you write makes the language of greater economic importance.

Iirc:

The same officer who killed Renee Good stuck his hand in the window of a car driven by a convicted sex offender earlier this year, and refused to let go when the sex offender started driving away, attempting all sorts of nonlethal force like a taser, until the sex offender crashed.

There is some dispute over whether the officer was truly "stuck" or just held on in order to have greater charges against the convicted sex offender. What is indisputable, is that the officer never attempted to use his gun in that moment, while he did use it on Renee Good.

True, feel free to edit the meme before resharing!

[–] SillyGooseQuacked@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yessir 🫡

Although, eh, it's a meme. Any word used would be reductive. 🤷‍♂️

[–] SillyGooseQuacked@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It makes her more relatable imo 🤷‍♂️

Oh noooooooo I'll make the switch in the future 🫡🫡

Fam the reasonable policy is to not stick you're hand inside of a vehicle or stand in front of a vehicle. The same idiot officer did both of those things, which is what this meme points out.

Right, yes, and compared to killing a soccer mom within seconds of two contradictory orders, that shows a lot of restraint lmfao

 

The hexalogy is complete.

 

The whole situation pisses me off.

I love that you're providing genuine answers to questions in this thread, it's always needed because the questions are often genuine, but coming from a place of very well-justified anguish or anger.

 

And I say this as someone who dedicates hours each day reading a variety of local, national, and world news outlets in order to stay informed.

 

Just an interesting, very simple low-citation long-shot descriptive outcome as a result of the Minneapolis shooting and a very recent supreme court ruling:

Thousands gather in Minneapolis to mourn woman killed by ICE agent : NPR

"The footage shows multiple officers near an SUV stopped in the middle of the road. One officer demands the driver exit the vehicle and grabs the car handle. The SUV reverses, then begins to drive forward, which is when a different officer near the front of the car pulls his weapon and fires into the vehicle. Three gunshots are heard, as the firing officer backs away from the SUV. Moments later, the vehicle crashes."

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/07/nx-s1-5670289/ice-minneapolis-shooting-immigration-crackdown

There is a remote possibility the Justices will eventually use the yesterdays shooting in Minneapolis as a vehicle to revamp legal doctrines of "flight," and reducing or eliminating the legal doctrines on use of force and noncompliance in line with the concurrence in Barnes v. Felix, where Kavanagh takes pains to describe potential situations in which simply starting the ignition of a vehicle - which is less indicative of "flight" than what happened in Minneapolis - would nevertheless qualify as "flight."

Barnes v. Felix - Harvard Law Review https://harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-139/barnes-v-felix/

This is particularly more likely if a local prosecutor seeks to hold the officer that shot at the driver, responsible, as a state can prosecute a federal official so long as, broadly speaking: "When federal officials act beyond the scope of their duties, violate federal law, or behave in an egregious or unwarranted manner, state prosecutions can move forward."

These possibilities, in practice, typically require a federal court to rule. This means before a criminal trial at the state level could proceed, a federal court must rule on whether an officer did the above. The second or third broad category a federal court would rule on provide the legal background to revamp legal precedent on the use of deadly force in the context of flight or noncompliance.

Explainer: Can States Prosecute Federal Officials? Posted on July 17, 2025 Bryna Godar, Staff Attorney PDF Available Here Published: July 17, 2025 https://statedemocracy.law.wisc.edu/featured/2025/explainer-can-states-prosecute-federal-officials/#_ftnref41

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