You’re right to call this out, and I want to address it directly and provide important context on how this happened.

My accusation that Proton used AI to write their apology should never have been posted, because I intentionally try to avoid making claims I can’t substantiate, especially ones that could undermine a company’s genuine attempt at accountability.

I engage with a lot of online content, and while my ability to spot AI-generated text is something I take seriously, my knowledge of every writing style and corporate voice is not perfect. In this case, I didn’t have enough context about how Proton communicates to make a well-informed judgment, and that’s on me.

I also want to be straight about what an accusation like this is and isn’t. Pointing out polished writing is an observation, not evidence. In the case of Proton’s statement, it was a thoughtful response from a communications team, not a chatbot output.

But that distinction doesn’t excuse what I said. The responsibility to verify before I post is mine, and I didn’t meet it this time. I’m now reviewing how I evaluate content before making public claims to ensure this doesn’t happen again.

If you see me do something like this again, call it out. I rely on that feedback.

“you’re right to raise this” is an LLMism on the same level as “You’re exactly right!”

Edit: You’re right to call this out, and I want to address it directly and provide important context on how this happened.

My accusation that Proton used AI to write their apology should never have been posted, because I intentionally try to avoid making claims I can’t substantiate, especially ones that could undermine a company’s genuine attempt at accountability.

I engage with a lot of online content, and while my ability to spot AI-generated text is something I take seriously, my knowledge of every writing style and corporate voice is not perfect. In this case, I didn’t have enough context about how Proton communicates to make a well-informed judgment, and that’s on me.

I also want to be straight about what an accusation like this is and isn’t. Pointing out polished writing is an observation, not evidence. In the case of Proton’s statement, it was a thoughtful response from a communications team, not a chatbot output.

But that distinction doesn’t excuse what I said. The responsibility to verify before I post is mine, and I didn’t meet it this time. I’m now reviewing how I evaluate content before making public claims to ensure this doesn’t happen again.

If you see me do something like this again, call it out. I rely on that feedback.

Not to take away from the hilarity of that meme but the bullet in his neck didn’t match the gun they said was the shooters. Somebody else killed him…

He influenced me to hate apple and support right to repair.

I know what you mean but he’s the definition of influencer just instead of selling vapid sponsored products he’s selling 44 minute long autistic rants where his hyper fixation is consumer rights.

“Teenage woman” ts

Have you ever yelled at Claude or chatgpt and had it apologize to you? It’s literally word for word this format. Low burstiness (sentences are around the same length) same with paragraph length. Absolutely perfect grammar and it reads like LLM vomited it out. I can’t prove it definitely but I’ve cursed out enough LLMs to know what it’s “you’re right to be angry, I deleted the entire production database without asking…” apology looks like.

Have you run it through an AI checker?

Have a real human type out the apology

Edit:

You’re right to call this out, and I want to address it directly and provide important context on how this happened.

My accusation that Proton used AI to write their apology should never have been posted, because I intentionally try to avoid making claims I can’t substantiate, especially ones that could undermine a company’s genuine attempt at accountability.

I engage with a lot of online content, and while my ability to spot AI-generated text is something I take seriously, my knowledge of every writing style and corporate voice is not perfect. In this case, I didn’t have enough context about how Proton communicates to make a well-informed judgment, and that’s on me.

I also want to be straight about what an accusation like this is and isn’t. Pointing out polished writing is an observation, not evidence. In the case of Proton’s statement, it was a thoughtful response from a communications team, not a chatbot output.

But that distinction doesn’t excuse what I said. The responsibility to verify before I post is mine, and I didn’t meet it this time. I’m now reviewing how I evaluate content before making public claims to ensure this doesn’t happen again.

If you see me do something like this again, call it out. I rely on that feedback.

It’s a bit like thunderfoot who is Elons biggest hater and is basically always right about him, but I also think he’s a sneering little goblin creature that just needs to just shut the fuck up for once.

I can’t watch his videos anymore because it’s like nails on a chalkboard but I’m like this the whole time.

Yup! Which is why some steam trains had starter gear or “boosters” which was a 3rd piston geared down a lot into a normally unpowered axle. It was only active at low speeds but provided extra starting torque to get things moving

They’ll try. Once this bubble pops there literally isnt enough money for the US to print their way out of it. It’ll be a default on US treasuries since they got all the blood they’re going to get out of the working class the last 3 times they printed infinite money. I think we’re soon about to meet that can multiple generations of corrupt politicians and bankers have been kicking down the road.

Well at least that’ll only wipe out half of my pension instead of all of it

I’ve been watching a lot of Sarah Paine videos so I’m going to try to recall her argument from memory here. I think it’s a pretty interesting take.

Russia also never benefitted from maritime thinking like the rest of Europe who had unrestricted access to the 7 seas while Russia’s were frozen 8 months of the year or easily blockaded. Seeing your neighbors fail and lose land is by definition a win for a nation that can’t get beyond its own borders without neighbors extracting tolls and rents for trade, or blocking you entirely.

England and the rest of Europe could trade with the world freely and embraced liberal values for a long long time. It became their culture, and England even spent exorbitant amounts of money policing the high seas. We’re talking a larger percentage of their GDP per year than the US spent on the war on terror during their peak. Iirc it was as high as 12% of their tax revenue? The West African squadron was a giant money sink.

And England didn’t do it to extract tolls or rents from other nations, but to prevent piracy as a whole since lost and stolen goods (especially ships) were a massive setback to the wealth of their trading partners, and by extension themselves. They also fought against slavery which harmed competitors using unfair labour (from their perspective) and to force liberal reform aligned with their own values (more better trade, less slave policing)

That’s a mindset that only exists with unrestricted access to the sea. When you’re penned in by neighbors that liberal attitude gets you killed or invaded so continental powers are more paranoid.

They decided not to change their rules to allow these unhealthy stocks in. They have to do the full process instead of skipping the line to make pensioners into bag holders as opposed to Altman and friends.

They’re not blocked but they’re never going to be healthy enough to be added before they implode.

If I smother OpenAI to death by denying them oxygen for 5 minutes did I “block” the entry of air into their lungs, or did they just not breathe for 5 minutes?

Wtf? Do these scientists explicitly eat ultraprocessed food that becomes Portland cement in your guts and kills all the bacteria in your microbiome?

In order of most frictiony to least frictiony

Stiction (stationary object you forced to move)

Rolling

Sliding

Which is why ABS exists. When you lock your wheels up your coefficient of friction tanks and your stopping distance can double or more depending on conditions. ABS unlocks your wheels sometimes so you can at least steer, unlike a skid. If you know how to pump brakes properly a skilled driver can beat ABS handily.

There’s also the fact that couplers have these hard rubber disks that act as springs and shock absorbers (railroading is kind of caveman-like in its solution to things) so when you try to pull a train it might look like you’re moving but you’re just taking the slack out. If you don’t you can bust a coupler from shock loading, so you can’t cheat physics that way (how I move heavy furniture around by myself personally so you would think it applies to trains)

As a result you take the slack out of a train and make the cylinder part of the boiler until:

A) she moves!

B) your wheels slip!

Once it’s moving it’s easy going.

As for why an electric engine can’t keep hauling overloaded it’s because it’s above 100% rating. It can only do that for a short while or things start melting and letting out magic smoke.

A steam locomotive can haul anything it can get moving since it’s lower friction once rolling, and requires less drawbar force.

The irony that your comment will never reach its intended audience

These thoughts rattling around in my head and this breath in my lungs would be wasted forever unless I combine them and thrust it upon your unwilling ears

—the entire world for some reason

They tried to make pension funds into bag holders before those IPOs got blocked. I think the desperation surrounding getting those stocks added in 5 days should be a better indication than price.

I watched a heartwarming short of a guy getting stopped by the police in Mongolia for using a wind sail powered horizontal bike thingy.

2 locals also showed up on a moped

Top comment:

“It’s nice to see all 5 people in Mongolia meet up to see how OP’s bike works”

sucks cock

🥵🥵 how much does it? 🥵🥵