I’m not sure if this is still working or not. They also mention glaze. https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html

She’s saying that when you use social media, only like, read, etc., stuff that you want to learn from or you like listening to. Scroll past the flight or flight stuff, that’s the story they want for you. Your feed will quickly be a nice place to hang out and it will poison their data.

Data poisoning can go a lot further than this. There are fascinating (and hilarious) videos by people who poison their music with inaudible (to humans) noise which, when it’s stolen by an AI company and used to train a model, will cause the model to output unintelligible garbage. Images can also be manipulated this way so that the model sees a completely different image than the human. Then there are the Nepenthes traps for AI data trawlers which trap the trawlers in an inescapable web of nested webpages of nonsense. The future is bright.

There are public bathrooms at the park. It was packed with tourists and their litter when I went in 2024 though.

Soooo, the festivals are probably put on by the city or area. If the bathrooms at the park were packed, then the city and area should provide more porta potties. It’s kind of simple. The cities probably wanted the tourism, but are now realizing that it might not be worth it? That I get. The pooping thing though, that I don’t get.

Wouldn’t a bunch of porta potties solve this?

I agree. I don’t trust the AI at all, but the links are quick and easy to use.

Just walk there and go back home. You’re going to have to embrace the “feels too weird” part. Feeling weird is part of life.

There are like shopping malls within 20 minutes walking distance, but I don’t wanna like just walk around if I’m not buying anything… feels too weird.

Here is a more rounded out description. I think it’s from a company that sells a related product:

It is a high-production chemical commonly found in metalworking fluids, pesticides, antifreeze, pharmaceuticals, and various personal care products like lotions and shampoos. DEA is also used in the manufacturing of fatty acid derivatives such as cocamide DEA and lauramide DEA, which serve as emulsifiers and foaming agents.

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/health-and-medicine/diethanolamine-dea

jfc

DEA is used in industrial, agricultural, and consumer products.

“We knew that micropollutants can be incorporated into fatty molecules in the body, but we didn’t know how this occurs or what happens next,” Clardy said. “DEA’s metabolism into an immune signal was completely unexpected.”

The team proposes that DEA could be added to the growing list of biomarkers used to detect some cases of major depressive disorder.

The study also strengthens arguments that major depressive disorder, or a subset of cases, could be considered an autoinflammatory or autoimmune disease and be successfully treated with immune modulator drugs, Clardy said.

Oh they know how to get to the porn.

Several studies in mice had indicated that gut microbes can affect behavior, and small studies of people suggested this microbial repertoire is altered in depression. To test the link in a larger group, Jeroen Raes, a microbiologist at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium, and his colleagues took a closer look at 1054 Belgians they had recruited to assess a “normal” microbiome. Some in the group—173 in total—had been diagnosed with depression or had done poorly on a quality of life survey, and the team compared their microbiomes with those other participants. Two kinds of microbes, Coprococcus and Dialister, were missing from the microbiomes of the depressed subjects, but not from those with a high quality of life. The finding held up when the researchers allowed for factors such as age, sex, or antidepressant use, all of which influence the microbiome, the team reports today in Nature Microbiology. They also found the depressed people had an increase in bacteria implicated in Crohn disease, suggesting inflammation may be at fault.

The studies say differently.

I mean, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that if you live on doritos and diet coke, you’re going to have a depression and anxiety problem.

Please don’t get your news from Facebook.

I don’t want to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but could Meta actually bully/bribe Stanford to change the figures?

Asking questions about who’s paying for the study isn’t being a conspiracy theorist. Especially Meta, they’re evil af. They seem to be cautious as well.

This project is part of the U.S. 2020 Facebook and Instagram Election Study (Gonz´alez- Bail´on et al. 2023; Guess et al. 2023a,b; Nyhan et al. 2023; Allcott et al. 2024), a partnership between Meta researchers and unpaid independent academics. Under the terms of the collab- oration, the independent academic authors had final authority over the pre-analysis plan, data analysis, and manuscript text, and Meta could not block any results from being published. More details of this partnership are in Appendices E and F. We have posted answers to frequently asked questions online at this website.

I was just going to say that. I think in every country 36 or 37% will just believe random crazy shit and/or be fucking with the poll taker.

It sounds like a lot, but aren’t IQ scores based on averages or means? That’s about right then on stupid.

I’m confused, what? (like that I’m just so used to mean big internet??? or something else?)

Reddit keeps everyone engaged with hate and drama. They have bots that go after people to troll. Of course, there are the real trolls as well. So far, we’re a little lighter than that.

How are you liking it here?

My best advice is that if it seems inactive, that means you should subscribe to a bunch of stuff and switch to hot, top 6 hour and scaled. Active is the default and seems the least active.

The comments in this thread will give you a great idea on how most people act around here. Hate the idea and not the user and you should be fine.

Your “also plz be kind :D” comment tells me that you’re going to go through a bit of withdrawal on the hate and drama. It’s great here even even though we have a few trolls and bots.

Yup:

In the deposition, Giuffre alleges that she and Dershowitz were introduced while Jeffrey Epstein trafficked her as a teenager. She alleges she and Dershowitz had sex on “at least six” occasions, saying that she couldn’t count the number of times she’d met the then-Harvard law professor.

“Professor Dershowitz was around a lot and there was always young girls around a lot,” Giuffre says in the deposition.

She describes several instances of engaging in sexual contact with Dershowitz, who’s now 85, or when he was nearby, indicating “Dershowitz was so comfortable with the sex that was going on that on one occasion he observed me in sexual activity with Epstein.”

Giuffre details in the deposition being encouraged by Epstein to engage in oral sex with Dershowitz while in a limousine, to have intercourse in a plane while traveling with another young woman who was trafficked by the financier, and at Epstein’s home in his bedroom.

In addition to accusing Dershowitz of engaging in sex with her while she was between the ages of 17 and 18 years old, Giuffre also alleged in the deposition that she had seen him having sex with at least one more of Epstein’s victims she suspected of being underage, a girl she identified as “blond” and “young.”

https://www.businessinsider.com/epstein-accuser-detailed-sex-with-alan-dershowitz-in-unsealed-document-2024-1?op=1

I live in the PNW where the winters are brutal for sun. I was really deficient, so I noticed in an hour. I had more energy and could think clearer. I take the drops.

So, you’re a communist is what you’re saying. Name one communist country in the history of the world that has lasted longer than 10 years. You introduce greeds, it’s impossible.