I’m the Tesseract UI dev, and I just released version 4.1 today: https://dubvee.org/post/3069664

Just a regular statue, but it’s on a hinged platform so it can be a tourist attraction where you can line up to tear it down (and it resets for the next person).

It’s a free attraction, but there is a donation box with the proceeds going to help those whose lives were upended or destroyed by his regime.

If you step back and think about it, so much of human society revolves around people wearing the right costume for the occasion.

Sometimes it makes sense (protective gear, etc) other times it just seems like “that’s what we’ve always worn for X [occasion | profession | etc].”

How does removing your hat imply respect? What is the purpose for standing up when the judge enters the courtroom? Just a bunch of stupid rituals that may have made sense at one time that we keep doing for…reasons.

Nope. Just ZZ Top and “sharp” being easily replaced with “shark”.

We’re not a general purpose instance, we have a defined mission statement, and the site info clearly states the rules apply to local and federated accounts. 🤷‍♂️ And the ban syncs are no longer needed as later versions of Lemmy server do the same thing automatically (our automod just implemented something almost identical prior to Lemmy adding that natively).

If you are hosting a Lemmy instance, I suggest requiring new accounts to provide an email address and pass a captcha

Those are easy to bypass (or a human can spin up a bunch with throwaway emails and plug them into bots). I recommend enabling registration applications. While not foolproof, it gives the admins eyes on every new account. Also, consider denying any application that uses a throwaway email service.

All while the environment and electrical grid weeps.

I refuse to reward the “Create problem, sell solution” business model these tech companies are employing lol.

My instance has “Rule 3: No AI Slop. This is a platform for humans to interact” and it’s enforced pretty vigorously.

As far as “how”:

1. Sometimes it’s obvious. In those cases, the posts are removed and the account behind it investigated. If the account has a pattern of it, they get a one way ticket to Ban City

2. Sometimes they’re not obvious, but the account owner will slip up and admit to it in another post. Found a handful that way, and you guessed it, straight to Ban City.

3. Sometimes t’s difficult on an individual post level unless there are telltale signs. Typically have to look for patterns in different posts by the same account and account for writing styles. This is more difficult / time consuming, but I’ve caught a few this way (and let some slide that were likely AI generated but not close enough to the threshold to ban).

4. I hate the consumer AI crap (it has its place, but in every consumer product is not one of them), but sometimes if I’m desperate, I’ll try to get one of them to generate a similar post as one I’m evaluating. If it comes back very close, I’ll assume the post I’m evaluating was AI-generated and remove it while looking at other content by that user, changing their account status to Nina Ban Horn if appropriate.

5. If an account has a high frequency of posts that seems unorganic, the Eye of Sauron will be upon them.

6. User reports are extremely helpful as well

7. I’ve even banned accounts that post legit news articles but use AI to summarize the article in the post body; that violates rule 3 (no AI slop) and Rule 6 (misinformation) since AI has no place near the news.

If you haven’t noticed, this process is quite tedious and absolutely cannot scale under a small team. My suggestion: if something seems AI generated, do the legwork yourself (as described above) and report them; be as descriptive in the report as possible to save the mod/admin quite a bit of work.

Ah, makes sense. I live in a red state, so I have to hear the “good guy with a gun” fallacy pretty much on the daily.

Not sure if you’re being sarcastic (the internet has ruined my sarcasm detector), but the “good guy with a gun” is just a mythological figure invented by the gun lobby.

I’m not saying good people don’t pack heat, just that the “good guy with a gun” is about as real as the Easter Bunny.

It is! He played “Simon Leeds” in the last season of Just Shoot Me! and was Nina’s love interest / husband.

You probably dipped your score a bit since any “hard” credit checks will ding your score, especially a lot in a short period of time.

Print out the alphabet at the top and, below that, a list of how many A’s, B’s, C’s and so on. Include IKEA-style instructions for assembly.

It held that Congress improperly delegated legislative power to the FCC and that the FCC unlawfully transferred authority to a private company, the Universal Service Administrative Company.

So they’re gonna use that same logic to prevent privatization of the Postal Service, right?

I was gonna say. The past tense “provided” is a bit misleading when he’s still doing it.

That’s classier than what it reminded me of. My first thought was “What in the Scooby-Doo tarnation?”

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If the eyes seem to follow you, it’s just an optical illusion and NOT, I repeat NOT, a spy.

I sure hope Derek wears a cape.