Tootfinder

"What is a token"
Very nice article. You might like the popularization of how a LLM works, if you don't know already.
I personally appreciate the last third of it, about the meaning for coding tools, and about how single-purpose models could theoretically be so much more useful. (And - my addition - they could do so while being ethical and efficient too.)

What is a token
AI is meant to seem like magic. But there's no such thing as magic. It's all illusion. So, allow me to spoil that illusion for you.

Why this is all relevant to the OP is that there is actually nothing preventing us from exploiting these same vulnerabilities (and doing so far more effectively). The (illusion of The) Satanic Temple has already given us some vision of what that could look like. We can imagine a religious institution that actually challenges power in the way TST claims to do. We could imagine an institution that is more radical. We could imagine an institution so dangerous it actually forces the state to choose between it's own survival and alienating liberals by (more) visibly clamping down on freedom of religion.
One could imagine an anarchist or solar punk religion that intentionally builds an alternative society within the shell of the old, one that recognizes the validity of other religious sects (like, for example, Quakers) who are doing similar things.
While there is a very interesting spiritual element to #CultPunk. I think there's also a very interesting set of radical opportunities that we have long since ignored....

There is no such thing as ethically sourced (animal specie) in animal agri/aquaculture.
MSC’s ‘blue tick’ scheme creates illusion of ethically sourced fish, study claims https://www.theguardian.com/environment/20

Just pulled the @… card on #WikiGacha 🤣 #noxp

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #StreetSounds
Cypress Hill:
🎵 Illusions
#CypressHill
https://djsaywhaat.bandcamp.com/track/cypress-hill-illusions-8bars
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Bhqg1ONbtcFBTR96H7oQw

"MSC’s ‘blue tick’ scheme creates illusion of ethically sourced fish, study claims"
#Fish #Animals #Oceans

Strobe Illusion
Wow! Ich habe gerade halluziniert mit Strobe Illusion:
#neave

Strobe Illusion - Hallucinate with this amazing optical illusion!
You will hallucinate! This mind-melting optical illusion will warp and distort your vision. Hallucinations without drugs!

President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Feb. 14 that
territorial concessions by Ukraine
would not bring peace,
just as the 1938 Munich Agreement did not prevent World War II.
"It would be an illusion to believe that this war can now be reliably ended by dividing Ukraine
— just as it was an illusion to believe that sacrificing Czechoslovakia would save Europe from a greater war,"
Zelensky said at the Munich Security Conference.
The Munich Agr…

Territorial concessions by Ukraine won't bring peace, Zelensky says in Munich
"It would be an illusion to believe that this war can now be reliably ended by dividing Ukraine – just as it was an illusion to believe that sacrificing Czechoslovakia would save Europe from a greater war," Zelensky said at the Munich Security Conference.

Anthropic erklärt „Mythos“ zur Hochrisiko-KI – zugänglich nur für ausgewählte Firmen. Laut @… berichtet Martin Holland nun: Unbefugte waren offenbar vom ersten Tag an drin. Sicherheitsversprechen vs. Realität klaffen auseinander. Kontrolle über KI wird zur Illusion.

Anthropics „gefährliche“ KI Mythos: Unbefugte mit Zugriff seit dem ersten Tag
Anthropics leistungsfähigste KI soll so gefährlich sein, dass nur ausgewählte Firmen Zugriff haben. Unbekannte sollen das laut eines Berichts umgangen haben.

This becomes especially interesting when you understand the history of the church as a quasi-revolutionary organization. One could describe early church history as a mostly-successful attempt to overthrow the Roman empire. I say mostly successful because, in the end, the Roman state mutated the church for it's own ends and basically pulled a Lenin.
The early church was a religion of women and slaves that set up alternative institutions. See, the Roman economic system basically ran through the temples. Temples were basically the banks of their day (thus money changers in the temples and all that). So when the church set up their own institutions, they were actually attacking the economic system of the Roman empire. *That* is why the empire tried to destroy them. The Romans didn't really care about the gods. They would just mutate their beliefs to pull other pagans in. No, it wasn't about the gods. The Christian were fucking with the money.
The whole church as an institution was about dual power, and Paul (one of the early founders of the church) was central to organizing this into a political machine that could actually threaten the dominant order. One could argue that he saw the potential of the church, and used it to solidify his own power.
It all basically worked, right up until Constantine figured out how to flip the whole thing against the most radical elements. He had his people collect up different books of the Bible and modify them in such a way that it favored Rome. The trick here was to highlight the existing antisemitic threads of early church, and destroy the anti-Roman ones. Anti-authoritarian sects were killed as heretics, and centralized sects became aligned under the church.
This strategy of controlling internal dissent probably feels quite familiar. It's basically how the US works.
But this whole time, during the whole lead up to this, Christianity was illegal and it was continuing to grow as a system of dual power. When Romanism merged with Christianity, it created the most authoritarian institution in human history that brutally destroyed all opposition. Even still, several hundred years later it's power broke.
Today Liberalism has separated banking and the church, and has created the illusion of separation of church and state. But the same dual power strategy that allowed the first church to gain enough power to merge with the Roman power structure have now allowed Christian Nationalism to fully merge with Americanism into the Christian Fascism we see today...