A PSA: When people from Canada, Europe, or anywhere else say:

"The #USA is our enemy!"

then they are referring to the relentless hostility of the current US government. We _know_ that plenty of US citizens did not vote for any of this and are against the current government, and some are actively fighting against them.

But plenty of US citizens _did_ vote for #Trump, and support him. And that means that we, in the rest of the world, cannot assume that individual US citizens are trustworthy until they can show that they have done the work.

I mean, take me - I am a German! My country started two World Wars and the Holocaust! When confronted by people from the nations Germany has attacked, or ethnic groups which Germany has tried to exterminate, and they say:

"I do not trust Germans!"

then this is _entirely_ reasonable, and it is _not_ my job to personalize this and demand that they trust me! Instead, it is my job to work hard to make myself trustworthy, and to turn my country into a better place that can be trusted by more people.

@randahl

They enjoy this. Their only value measurement is:

"What can WE get away with?"

To them, the hypocrisy is nothing bad, it's a flex of their power.

There is nothing like the warm and fuzzy feeling that you get when you log on to your work computer after a two week vacation and there _aren't_ any new crises in your inbox.

@WorldTravelerAll7

Huh, strange. Does anyone know of any other causes for the #Mastodon "Rate limited" error?

#FediHelp

@WorldTravelerAll7

I had that problem in the beginning.

Then I learned that I should have so many tabs open with my Mastodon instance, and the problem pretty much stopped.

Do you perhaps have multiple tabs with Mastodon open in your browsers?

I fortunately haven't been in this position, but I imagine that proofreading #LLM -generated texts must be a miserable experience.

With texts written by human authors, you can usually contact them and ask them: "What were your thought processes when using this sentence?" Since LLM do not "think", you cannot interrogate them on this, and thus it falls you to give meaning to their words.

Furthermore, with human-written texts, both the original author and the proofreader share responsibility for the quality of the text - with the author having the bulk of the responsibility, while the proofreader is responsible for polishing it.

But since LLM are intended as a tool for evading responsibility in its entirety, all the responsibility for the quality of the text lies with the proofreader! And who would want that for LLM-generated slop?