Slow Horses The Rehearsal Patriot

Yeah, it’s not great that it isn’t visible by default. Would be nice if they had an “add/remove” option as well.

Glad you were able to get it set up!

You actually can set up the sidebar to use a local LLM. In about:config the key is something like “browser.ml.chat.hideLocalhost”

I have it setup to use my local Ollama instance and it works great.

Unfortunately, I don’t see a way to specify an alternate external server, which would be nice.

I can kind of see what you are trying to say, but I don’t really agree with your conclusion.

I’d make the distinction that free climbing, while dangerous, is a recreational activity. I can reasonably conceive of people watching that for entertainment. There also isn’t anything morally questionable about it.

On the face of it, I don’t think you could reasonably argue that torture is a pastime.

All of that aside, torture is against international law. It is illegal in all circumstances.

From the United Nation Convention Against Torture:

“No exceptional circumstances whatsoever may be invoked as a justification for torture.”

For that reason, I would say the platform did have an obligation to de-platform it.

Arguably, the police should probably have put a stop to it as well.

I’d argue the main difference is that it involves a crime.

I’m not completely sure that torture itself constitutes a crime (though I’d be surprised if it wasn’t), but manslaughter/murder is. With few exceptions for medically assisted death, killing someone is a major crime. Presumably, we don’t want to promote people profiting from extreme suffering and death.

I also think there is a time and place for censorship (ex CSAM).

“Objectionable” is a subjective term, but “illegal“ is not.

They could take action themselves and enact better climate policies. Could have done so decades ago and maybe we wouldn’t have record wildfires every year.

Feels a bit like a slap in the face to the moderators to boot.