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swordfish69

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swordfish69··on GPT‑5.3 Instant
With enough prompt skill, you could write a tense and passable 10000-word short story with o1. I just tried 5.3 and it gave me headings every 200 words. Absolutely infuriating.
swordfish69··on DeepSeek’s founder is threatening US dominance in AI race
Can we stop this drawn-out narrative that Deepseek is at the level of Gemini or o3? It’s brilliant in its own way but for some reason a lot of journalists think it’s still at par with American frontier models.
swordfish69··on ShotSpotter Keeps Listening After Contracts Expire
So many formerly thriving American cities suffer because of insane murder rates and neverending gang violence. Journalists who study Shotspotter and other methods of stopping gang violence will almost never approach the problem with the intent of mitigating what amounts to a major public health emergency (if you can even call it that). Instead, they work to frustrate underfunded police departments and encourage police budget cuts as warfare rages on.
swordfish69··on Alex Jones told to pay $965M damages to Sandy Hook victims' families
What if you performed simple public records requests and realized that this whole event stinks to high heaven and that it was immediately politicized by politicians and billionaire media elites to suppress the rights of American citizens?

There always has to be room to question events that dominate the news cycle.

swordfish69··on Facebook Indefinitely Suspends Trump
It's easy to start this with Trump because he's outrageous, makes a lot of people uncomfortable and makes spurious claims. But soon it will be every conservative politician (except of course the ones who want regime change in the right places), and then all "leftist extremists" who defy the whims of megacorporations. Those cheering this on are simply demanding a world run by technocratic oligarchs and homicidal communist dictatorships.