It might be even worse than that. Apparently the LLMs give the same answer when asked for an easy way to come up with tariffs: mastodon.social/@mattsheffieldβ¦
It's starting to look like Trump had Big Balls or some other intern use ChatGPT to come up with his tariff policy. It's not "reciprocal" at all. The numbers are totally made up.
Someone asked a stupid question to an LLM and then ignored the response saying it was stupid.
The biggest risk of GenAI has always been the human idiots behind it.
Because none of this is about the tariffs, it is creating mechanism for the Tr*mp admin to extort countries and force them to declare fealty/loyalty/pay bribes to get tariffs lifted.
Your audience doesn't have to be on PeerTube themselves. They can follow and interact with PeerTube from within Mastodon etc, and they can even follow PeerTube from podcasting apps such as Apple Podcasts.
π¬ 42Β Β π 21952Β Β β€οΈ 26423Β Β·Β βBeware of Artistsβ - Actual poster issued by Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1950s, at height of the red scare.
Now that I want to compile a book in #Scrivener, it keeps only exporting only in the first page of each chapter. Makes for a shorter book, sure does. Can't find an option to export the entire chapter. Help!
I guess I'm going to RTFM. I do dislike doing that, but π± π π .
Oh, yay me, I found a #scrivener bug in the newest version. I just wrote it up for Literature and Latte. I had a reputation as a programmer as able to discover bugs nobody else ever found, maybe because I'm neurodivergent?
Here is a few samples of misrendering that is preventing me from creating a manuscript of any sort.
Image 1: Scrivener screen shown. Note on the left that a header overwrites text. The two page view only shows the first page of at least two in the file. This result is mirrored in export when compiled in any format.
Image 2: This is a scrivener screen with Show Invisibles on. In this case, the next paragraph is shown on the second page, but it appears to be in some sort of layout box which is editable. Instead of being truncated like most of the chapters (and the other image), the text shows up on page three. This is also how export compile formats it.
Edit: Second image actually truncates the file on the third page and presents a blank page on the fourth. At least it is consistent!
Problem solved! Not a #Scrivener bug, but this happened because I do things differently.
Issue: Scrivener can't export more than a page of a file, it gets truncated or misrendered. Page view with Show Invisibles shows a red box surrounding the text.
Problem: Table formatting has be inadvertently applied. This can happen when you copy text from a web page into the file. In my case, I copied it to a template, then used the template on every single file.
Solution: Turn on View > Text Editing > Show Invisibles. Find the red box. Use > Format > Tables > Remove Table.
Everyone out here trying to figure out how the #Trump administration derived its insane methodology for calculating tariff rates and the likely answer is much simpler and much stupider than anyone imagined.
A gentle reminder to the Canadians in my feed. While the polls currently look well for the Conservatives to NOT form the next government, that means nothing if you don't get out and vote. And get out the vote. Complacency because of favourable polls can wreak havoc with the actual results.
And managing minimal level of functionality as yesterday took a lot out of me. Today's plan is grooming, cleaning, and not much else.
Yesterday was fun, was under a tornado watch all day. Knowing I wouldn't be up to working #today , I rejected today's shift with the message 'Need extra time to get home from Oz'. That might get me in trouble, but it's worth it.
fiber arts friends - I have another friend who's interested in getting back into spinning. she's shopping for fiber, and I want to direct her to cool folks to get fiber from! she's currently using a drop spindle, and looking at kick spindles, so is also interested in second-hand / cheaper ones.
Hey friends! First - we're not on the brink of a shutdown or anything, but we are currently scribbling a lot of numbers on the back of envelopes and oh boy there are a lot of numbers!
A lot of things need to change soon, because the USD conversion rate is not doing us any favours. It's now costing lots more to run pretty much the same stuff as we were last year.
There are some good options we're considering, but everything has tradeoffs in some way or another. Expect more on this soon!
If you can, financial support is always appreciated, but we're not in danger right now so please prioritise those who are. chinwag.au/support/
US has now exited the #WTO (World Trade Org.) #GPA (General #Procurement Agreement) which Reagan & Thatcher effectively wrote as a central pillar of neoliberalism & which monetarised all values. #US has consistently opposed consideration of other values #sustainability, #ecology, #human values, EDI etc. which globally others have sought. With US exiting into isolationism huge opportunity now arises for a global reset. US corporate capital has been looting & pillaging for too long.
I generally agree with this. So much emphasis is put on buying the largest sensor with the most MP in the most expensive and newest cameras. And largely, you don't need to. Start out with something smaller and more affordable, you'll still get great shots and be able to make great prints if you want to. Lenses, camera quality, and skill make a much bigger difference than sensor size.
@souldessin They're neat little cameras. One thing of note though is the little Nikon 1's use a lens mount specific to them, so there aren't as many lenses out there for them.
I noticed, but then I see that someone used an FZ1 lens adapter to take a standard Nikkor lens! EBay has some like new at $300 from Japan. Free shipping too.
Georgimus Prime
in reply to Nonya Bidniss :CIAverified: • • •It might be even worse than that. Apparently the LLMs give the same answer when asked for an easy way to come up with tariffs: mastodon.social/@mattsheffieldβ¦
Matthew Sheffield
2025-04-03 02:30:06
Nonya Bidniss :CIAverified:
in reply to Nonya Bidniss :CIAverified: • • •Prompt update to Wiki entry for Heard and McDonald Islands:
"Despite the islands having no imports, exports, or human inhabitants, the United States implemented a 10% tariff against them in April 2025."
If one of Elon's 20 year old galaxy brains shat out the list Trump was so proud of yesterday, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
lorask
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