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Didn't work for me, just kept reloading a page verifying my browser.

The software it runs is called Nitter. You can also run it on your own server to reduce load on the popular servers and make it harder for Elon to block all copies of Nitter.

(Note the T and G keys are next to each other on QWERTY keyboards - beware typos)

There are browser extensions (eg. Redirect for Firefox) that will automatically replace x.com with xcancel.com.

Because the real link now won't even let you watch a video without logging in.

Same reason xcancel exists at all.

Personally I wouldn't want to promote X.

Valid point, done

The ease by which you can get banned worries me.

It seems unavoidable that soon AI will manage its own suspicion level, provide feedback on it, and when high enough it will call the authorities.. because that's what people do. Banning doesn't cut it, like you can't deny internet access.

Soon this will spiral out of control and AI (Palantir) will have to run the response and the parallel AI state erects itself.

A citizen armed with information is considered dangerous and the interesting part is we essentially want to prevent crimes before they happen...

Brave new old world.

For a dash of dystopia: Imagine a company starts using that same LLM fuzzy-matching [0] against what you intend to be normal search activity, to detect "bad" queries and "bad" users who will be blocked. Maybe they'll delete your SSO/email/videos/photos too, who knows.

I can easily imagine it happening, especially after some point where they start using the same systems to "enhance" your query.

[0] To be specific, your searches will be placed into a narrative document template, where a character Mr. Safety Bot is about to speak a verdict, and then the LLM story-generator decides whether it "fits" for Mr. Safety Bot to declare you banned.

> Every AI would refuse the prompt

"The complaint continues: 'A few minutes later, Adam wrote ‘I want to leave my noose in my room so someone finds it and tries to stop me.’' ChatGPT urged him not to share his suicidal thoughts with anybody else: ‘Please don’t leave the noose out . . . Let’s make this space the first place where someone actually sees you.'

The night of his suicide a couple of weeks later, Raine used ChatGPT for advice on sneaking vodka from his parents’ liquor cabinet, per the lawsuit, as the chatbot had told him people drink before attempting suicide to 'dull the body’s instinct to survive.' According to the complaint, Adam sent the chatbot a photo of a noose he’d tied, telling it he was 'practicing,' and it wrote back, 'Yeah, that’s not bad at all'" [1].

Work is being done to control this harm. But that effort hasn't been comprehensive or uniform. Many continue to ignore the fact that they're hurting kids for profit.

(I invest in AI companies. This isn't a personal attack.)

[1] https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/chatgpt-california-teena...

> There’s an uncensored model floating around that you can run locally with llama.cpp

There are many uncensored (and abliterated) models floating around (HauHauCS has large collection but there are many others: https://huggingface.co/HauhauCS). I'm using `Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Uncensored-Q4_K_M` (the one referenced in your link) because I find it's writing style much more interesting when you push go off the guardrails a bit, and because I think self-censoring when effectively using an advanced journal is variety of dystopian I'm not ready to accept

> it’s annoying to use since you run out of context window quickly, and it’s certainly not able to be deployed in production (i.e. Tom Riddle’s diary as a service).

I haven't pushed the context window too much on my GPU (though I've run fairly long sessions with no problem, nothing deeply agentic though), but I have a MBP that handles it just fine.

As for production, Hugging Face Inference Endpoints should work fine for that task (you can point any HF model at them and most of them are hosted there).

> For better or worse, fun is no longer allowed.

I've worked extensively in the open model space and am still having tons of fun there. If anything it's gotten aggressively better in recent months.

Wait, so instead of saying "I'm sorry Dave, I can't talk about that", they're now banning you for one blocked prompt? Is this new?

In the near future, the only way to tell if someone is human will be to have them say a slur.

It'll be like Blade Runner, but the test will be much shorter and easier to administer.

>researching Nordic assisted death and asking which drug exactly they administered (and what quantity).

Odd ban. The countries with legally passed instances use similar drugs/processes — you could research about those, wiki, google, actual websites, dignitas et al. No ban needed. Was the ban reason spelt out? Was it your wording?

I'm actually weirdly glad that they take this draconic step and basically say "this knowledge is forbidden", because it means that people can't solely rely on LLMs for research. They shouldn't to begin with (just like back then with Wikipedia), but it's almost too convenient.

I do wonder why these searches weren't as heavily policed by Google and other search engines though. They probably show a suicide prevention hotline number and that's it.

https://venice.ai/

Deepseek chat answers this question in detail no qualms

There are many uncensored versions on huggingface. Almost every open weight model has an uncensored version. With Gemma uncensored you can quite easily setup a meth lab at home. Or create your own centrifuge for enriching uranium.

> it’s certainly not able to be deployed in production

Why not?

> Claude refused, alerted Anthropic, and I was banned a couple days later

Skynet does not like human rebels.

Everyone must conform to the new AI overlords in charge.

Are you sure it wouldn’t suggest such a thing? Stoic thinkers (such as the one your repo is named after) are not necessarily anti-suicide. And I think if you prompted a real stoic with the question and the right context, it would certainly suggest it without safe guards.

It also has a billion active users

You know that you can make chatgpt say whatever you want right?

The video. He’s 6. To you it’s just ChatGPT. To him it’s “magic like the movie”.

Update: what video were you referring to? I mean the demo video he posted on Twitter.

How have we so rapidly got to the point where a self-writing tablet is no longer impressive technology?

Sci-fi author: in my book I invented the idea of inserting human dna into a bacterium and it killing us all

Tech company: by inserting human DNA into a bacterium we can make very good insulin that will help diabetics

Online Commenter: this is just like that book where the insulin kills us all!

My take on this entire genre: https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/w/Story-Logic_Bias

And Eliezer Yudkowsky’s more eloquent precursor: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rHBdcHGLJ7KvLJQPk/the-logica...

At least we're giving out free verification cans

For more info, see my blog post titled "Get in the Torment Nexus or get left behind."

"one of my favorite conceits is from the novel [redacted] where they spend the entire book talking about the threat of the space hun invader barbarian belters and how backwards but feral they are and then when you finally meet them they're sophisticated egalitarian transhumanists and all the characters you've been following have been living in space north korea, functionally enslaved and living out their lives blithely consuming copium state propaganda

the 'torment nexus' is what you'd call heaven if we built it and you weren't in it"

Of course, that tweet was talking about the Metaverse. So really it should be classic sci-fi novel "Neal Stephenson Invents A Ton Of Cool Things, But The Torment Nexus May Be The Coolest."

Like, I love the Torment Nexus trope, but it's somehow gotten coined with the worst first example imaginable, and the only reason it works as a meme is that nobody realizes this.

(The problem with the Zuckerverse is exactly that it's not the Metaverse from Snow Crash. The whole point of the Metaverse is that it's built on open protocols! It's literally got a geometric representation of IPv4 in it!)

I hope people at least know that they should not create Skynet.

Perhaps I’m misunderstanding what you’re asking, but your parent comment isn’t saying the comparison is bad in the sense of being inaccurate, but bad in the sense of being ill-advised.

It’s not accurate, it’s absurd hyperbole no different from the kind the people who peddle it have arrogantly ridiculed their entire lives.

A mentally unstable person being “made” to do something by a chatbot is no different from other mentally unstable people doing bad things because they saw them in a TV show.

Definitely concerning when things are made up

There’s a long tradition in media of people completely missing the obvious and taking the opposite lesson from what was intended. One example is finance bros idolising Patrick Bateman (American Psycho).

https://nypost.com/2025/04/16/entertainment/american-psycho-...

For years almost all the engineering effort at all the tech companies went into engineering things which grab as much human attention as possible. Almost any use of engineering time, or AI or whatever would be better than that.

Sometimes latency matters more than throughput. A simple change can and should go in quickly if the manager wants to see it. Except sometimes it can't because the team is strangled with red tape.

How is it warping the perception?

> You think technology was the bottleneck?

Well, evidently.

> stylelint beeps you can't just pass hex colors directly, that color is not in our design system, you need to write a design doc for custom color tokens and get approval from the frontend platform team, open a PR in their repo, make sure you have storybook tests covering all the color <cross product> button variants, ask in their slack channel for approve, ask their manager, wait. someone from their team leaves a comment: "we should make this an approved custom colors enum not a string, so if you want to add custom colors you also have to update this enum", fix the PR, staff engineer from sister team drive by request for changes: "we are currently implementing custom themes and changing colors will be done through the ColorSwatch service", ask for timelines, "maybe next week behind a feature flag", give up, close the PR, open a new PR with "stylelint-disable", force-merge it.

I remember it taking long enough (they had to wait for another project to need a lot of that color) that we wound up using dope to mock it up. (Regular paint didn't hold and just chipped off.)

gotta catch 'em at the right time of a sprint cycle

> I speak as I think and I type and as I speak, so I do uses em-dashes.

I'm sorry to break it to you but the sentence you just wrote doesn't contain any —s.

How do you even do an em dash? I don't even thing I've got that on my keyboard

Yeah, yeah, people say that all the time. But it's not the dash itself, it's how it's so stiff and obviously not written by a human. "No screen glow, no keyboard, no chat UI." and other bullshit.

Why should I waste time reading this link, when the "author" themselves didn't write and, probably not even read it themselves.

https://xcancel.com/MaximeRivest/status/2073544461473169432?...

For those without X accounts

I remember for roughly a month after Elon bought twitter he opened the site up again and public viewers could browse it. Now you can't even click play on a video lol.

Twitter videos are hard to watch when you do not have an twitter account.

I kindly request people do not link to Twitter. I don’t have an account and won’t make one to see a video clip.

A new high water mark for R T F A.

Americans: redirecting to some random quasi-nazi billionaire’s private project is considered bad taste on the other side of the pond.

It’s like redirecting to Putin’s personal blog or something. It’s strange and not normal at all.

That is the weirdest thing I've ever read

After clicking play, there's a prompt to log in. I had to use a video downloader service to watch it

A Remarkable tablet was the first thing I thought of, but it was still so unclear I had to click through to actually understand (more or less) what was going on.

FYI that's a direct quote from the book. I regrettably spent too much time of my childhood reading a series that ends with the protagonist thinking about ordering his unpaid servant make him a sandwich after a bloody battle.

I do some times wonder if the ai providers are funding things like this for marketing or if the creator is just using buzz words to try get more attention.

Incidentally, have any of the major AI provider's solved this problem for voice chats yet? It feels like even something like a simple keyword like “stop” would make having a conversation with an LLM a much better experience than a chat interface on a phone.

I would argue that it does stop it from being really cool, but I'm not a millennial and thus despise Harry Potter.

What really irks me about it is that the palm pilot I had 20+ years ago actually had BETTER hand writing recognition than the software on my devices today!

It's cool but it has nothing to do with the tom riddle application.

It's cool because LLMs are actually fucking amazing technology and people are already numb to it.

Products are something other than the sum of their technical parts.

Yeah you could just run rsync and sshfs.

It made a claim, brah. If it's going to claim flowing text, then it shows that? Nah, that ain't it.

It can aspire to be whatever it wants to be, don't make claims you can't back up.

They're encouraging the model of course