[FRIAM] Pardons

2025-01-22 Thread Gary Schiltz
>From claude.ai Gary: Can the pardoned January sixth insurrectionists now be sued in civil court? Claude: Yes, the January 6th participants who received presidential pardons can still face civil lawsuits. A pardon only protects against federal criminal prosecution - it doesn't shield someone fro

Re: [FRIAM] May you live in interesting times

2025-01-22 Thread Pieter Steenekamp
There are multiple dimensions to the issue of free speech, especially when it comes to the transition from individual expression to distribution by platforms like X: Responsibility for Content Distribution: You raise a valid question regarding who is responsible when a platform distributes content

Re: [FRIAM] May you live in interesting times

2025-01-22 Thread glen
I'm confused by this promotion of "free speech" from the individual to a platform. When X (or this mailing list) *distributes* my text, who is ultimately responsible for that distribution? Me? Or X/redfish.com? The distribution of some content is not what I'd call "free speech". Maybe we could

Re: [FRIAM] May you live in interesting times

2025-01-22 Thread glen
I hope I'm wrong. But that text reads like it was generated by an LLM. My point was that artifacts like Section 230 are NOT about free speech in any way, fashion, or form. Free speech is an individual right that is meaningless in the context of platform moderation. Using "section 230" and "free

[FRIAM] Friam, gmail is being persnickety, any ideas how to fix it?

2025-01-22 Thread Gillian Densmore
Background: gmail yesterday worked fine. Windows 11 had it's regularly temper-tantrum about forced updates and rebooted itself. And now it's not. >From what I can tell the only way to get to my email on google accounts is using incognito mode. I have tried: public DNS's (quad 8, quad 1, etc), resta

Re: [FRIAM] Pelosi needs a cryptocoin

2025-01-22 Thread Barry MacKichan
What about the case of North Carolina’s Senator Burr, who dumped large amounts of stock after he attended a closed meeting on how bad the Covid epidemic was going to be? Can you expect someone who knows that he will lose several hundred thousand dollars if he doesn’t act on the information to g

Re: [FRIAM] metaphor

2025-01-22 Thread Barry MacKichan
Didn’t know. Google told me almost instantly. That is, if you had submitted this as a term paper, my plagiarism detector would be flashing red. So, sorry, I guess I cheated. — Barry On 22 Jan 2025, at 14:30, Nicholas Thompson wrote: I am curious how many of you on the list know or could guess

Re: [FRIAM] May you live in interesting times

2025-01-22 Thread glen
Renee' just tried to tell me about the latest stupid thing Trump said. I told her I don't want to hear it. FWIW, Vox has this: https://www.vox.com/pages/logoff-newsletter-trump-administration-updates "The Logoff is a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration w

[FRIAM] metaphor

2025-01-22 Thread Nicholas Thompson
I am curious how many of you on the list know or could guess at the author of the following quote: I am interested in your guesses; if you know it for SURE, please hold off guessing. *I would be willing to throw away everything else but that: enthusiasm tamed by metaphor. Let me rest the case th

Re: [FRIAM] Pardons

2025-01-22 Thread Jacqueline Kazil
Hi! DC Resident here. .. Jackie: What is the role of the federal government in the District of Columbia's law making? Claude: The federal government has unique and extensive oversight over Washington, D.C.'s laws and governance due to the District's special status under the Constitution. He

Re: [FRIAM] May you live in interesting times

2025-01-22 Thread Gillian Densmore
lol Lunatic comes to mind on Drumpf. We truly are in the wrong timeline when: no one with any political say was at Drumpfs inauguration, the photos were surreal: Elon: Looked like he had just had about 2000 redbulls, Bezzo's: who looked like a non-plussed dad, and some other bajillionairs...then th

Re: [FRIAM] May you live in interesting times

2025-01-22 Thread Prof David West
two things: 1) isn't it interesting that human beings, with only a short exposure to LLM generated text can instantly spot 'suspicious' and 'likely-LLM-sourced' writing. Not just glen, but all of my university professor friends can spot and know with certainty that LLM generated test answers or

Re: [FRIAM] Friam, gmail is being persnickety, any ideas how to fix it?

2025-01-22 Thread glen
I use IMAP to connect to google, then use Thunderbird on desktop and K-9 on the phone. You may give that a try until their web interface comes back ... or just abandon the web interface altogether ... because it sux. 8^D On 1/22/25 12:32 PM, Gillian Densmore wrote: Background: gmail yesterday

Re: [FRIAM] May you live in interesting times

2025-01-22 Thread Marcus Daniels
Easy to avoid this problem. -Original Message- From: Friam On Behalf Of Prof David West Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2025 1:04 PM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] May you live in interesting times two things: 1) isn't it interesting that human beings, with only a

Re: [FRIAM] May you live in interesting times

2025-01-22 Thread glen
I bet it can't simulate Marcus. Because most of Marcus' posts are one liners, often with some ironic twist that I'm sure is there, but evades me. I guess if you have enough one liners to provide examples, then restrict the response to only a few tokens, that might work. But you'd prolly also ha

Re: [FRIAM] May you live in interesting times

2025-01-22 Thread Marcus Daniels
I was addressing the mistaken claim that using a LLM create content is easy to detect. It would require some thoughtful setup work and testing, but that could be more fun and educational than writing the content directly. From: Friam on behalf of glen Date: Wednesday, January 22, 2025 at 5:0

Re: [FRIAM] metaphor

2025-01-22 Thread Eric Charles
I definitely did not read the whole thing... but it seemed pretty coherent... and I am glad you are having fun with the plagiarism bots. Best, Eric --- Eric P. Charles, Ph.D. Head, Data Analytics and Delivery Human Capital Data Modernization and Management (HCDMM) Office of Personnel Mana