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1751, in Oxford and Cambridge student slang, "a trick, jest, hoax, imposition, deception," a word of unknown origin; it also appeared simultaneously as a transitive verb, "deceive by false pretext." A vogue word of the early 1750s; its origin was a subject of much whimsical speculation even then. "[A]s with other and more recent words of similar introduction, the facts as to its origin appear to have been lost, even before the word became common enough to excite attention" [OED].

THERE is a word very much in vogue with the people of taste and fashion, which, though it has not even the penumbra of a meaning, yet makes up the sum total of the wit, sense, and judgment of the aforesaid people of taste and fashion. This word is HUMBUG. [The Student, vol. II no. 2, 1751]

https://www.etymonline.com/word/humbug

idk if you really get the problem with sapiens sapiens until you really dig into whaling

Friedrich Krupp AG Hoesch-Krupp is a great runner up though

as christian hegemony was most often portrayed in legacy American media, they really do have a bunch of nonsense sounding words that are technically blasphemy, it used to be a more common thing to portray before the 00s when they started letting commonly understood swearing on media

• bejeebus
• zounds
• ah geez

please shout more at my comment if you like

this is absolutely nVidia propaganda, holy shit @catty@lemmy.world

GENEVA, Switzerland — On Tuesday, United Nations’ flagship platform for artificial intelligence, The AI for Good Global Summit 2025, kicked off in Geneva. But the commencement of the summit wasn’t without controversy. Hours before the keynote speaker, Abeba Birhane—founder and lead of the TCD AI Accountability Lab (AIAL) and one of Time magazine’s 2023 100 Most Influential People in AI—was set to take the stage, she was asked by organizers to remove some of her slides.

Specifically, the organizers wanted Birhane to “remove anything that mentions ‘Palestine’ ‘Israel’ and replace ‘genocide’ with ‘war crimes‘” and “a slide that explains illegal data torrenting by Meta.”

“In the end, it was either remove everything that names names (big tech particularly) and remove logos or cancel my talk,” Birhane, whose research focuses on algorithmic bias and AI ethics and fairness, wrote in a Bluesky post.

Whelp I guess we now know you can't beat the TESCREAL cult by showing up to their propaganda summits and trying to do a TED Talk.

imagine being Nathan Fielder and doing all that work to try and improve airline safety just to be splattered into oblivion by a bombardment of 737s crashing into LA 😞

gang i found Mark Cuban, should i throw a net over him now or wait until he tries to sell me insulin

this is the funniest thing i've read this week, thank you OP

legit 3 part episode idea here

why do you have a bot promoting billionaire fascists? @Demigodrick@lemmy.zip

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/07/08/neuh-j08.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/30/disabled-amazon-workers-discrimination

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/amazon-prime-days-sweatshop-conditions/

the US is an active threat to life on earth so uh... yeah

believe that i've seen versions of this attack where the spammer makes a few innocuous non-spam (but not contribution either) posts before going full LLM bot

A more critical weakness is that these accounts only posted obvious spam; they made no effort to build up a plausible persona. Generating plausible human posts is more difficult, but broadly feasible with current LLM technology.

i will have to screenshot next time and see what people think

obviously they could be hijacked accounts and i might just be extremely judgey of your average twitter flight account

Leeks I have excellent news for you, this version actually predates TGP

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Exit

i don't want the feds to have money at all ever for any purpose because they use it to build concentration camps

🙄 "what do you mean defend from harmful content"

i'll be more clear, people who are not yet arrived at my premise on their own are not my audience with this post

sorry! the way you misunderstood my rough mechanics description there, yeah, that would be kinda of ridiculous

i was trying to describe two discreet methods i feel are imperfect, 1) blocking users and communities OR 2) get really good with content filters (far harder/ less viable at scale/ horse to water situation)

quite fond of this one by Craig Campbell

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/343626/low-stakes

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