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knowprose

@knowprose@mastodon.social

Author, Writer, Software Engineer. Eclectic Interests... centered around technology and humanity. A neo-generalist who has a depth of knowledge on many topics, but not enough. It's never enough.

I like being wrong because I learn something.

Privacy advocate, human rights advocate, sensible technology advocate.

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QasimRashid, to random
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Watching the bear vs man in forest stories & I remember when our 9-year-old son said some boys at recess offered to play with him if 'he hugged & kissed a girl.'

He replied, "No, that's inappropriate," & told us he didn't mind not being able to play with those boys after all. Later his teacher shared she was happy he stood up to peer pressure.

Y'all—it's never too early to teach boys about consent & boundaries. Have the convo. Then again. And again. Boys will be the boys we teach them to be.

knowprose,
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@QasimRashid I wish everyone would just leave the poor forest alone. It didn't do anything to anyone. 👀

Snowshadow, to news
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Ok those of you who defend AI please tell me how this will help humanity!!

Big Brother is here!! I have been telling people don't post selfies!!

"AI detects individual’s political orientation accurately, a threat?

Study showed new threat in the digital age–AI’s ability to predict political orientation from even naturalistic images of individuals."

https://interestingengineering.com/culture/ai-detects-individuals-political-orientation-accurately-a-threat

knowprose,
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@gimulnautti read your stuff... I can riff with some of your stuff.

Subscribed.

I did a stab at wisdom here.

https://knowprose.com/2024/04/25/introducing-sequacious-ai/

knowprose,
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@Snowshadow it's unfortunately already too late for most people. We can only warn the children now.

nixCraft, to windows
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You can rename OS. What would you name it? 🤔

knowprose,
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@nixCraft linux--

nixCraft, (edited ) to linux
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Poll: If you were designing a new distribution, which existing distro would you use as your foundation?

knowprose,
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@nixCraft Linux Mint.

knowprose, to random
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@stux thanks for the comment. 🙂

knowprose,
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@stux yeah. The WordPress connect took some getting used to. It presents a new potential problem in November, when I may be moving my sites from WordPress.com.

knowprose,
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@stux yup. I need to start playing with that in a month or so.

knowprose,
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@stux I'm looking into a potential change of cms too, though it seems less likely. WordPress does one thing well.

In playing with 10 on a local... Well, I have a tendency to make my life complicated without good reason sometimes. 😂

kellogh, to llm
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i low key don't want to see a big jump in or capabilities anytime soon. rn they're capable enough that my mom wants to use them, but bad enough that even she has an intuitive sense for when they're wrong

that's how you build "AIQ", the skill of using it. Lots of people toying with them, to feel out their capabilities and limitations

knowprose,
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@kellogh It also requires a grounding in knowing topics well enough to know when you're getting bullshitted.

The polite term in circles is 'hallucination', but really it's a 5 year old just making stuff up because it doesn't want to disappoint with an "I don't know".

(but 5 year olds deploy the same thing when they're in trouble. So wait for an AI to do that. LOL)

ai6yr, (edited ) to random
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Disappointed the real estate agent (is that Realtor(TM)?) at the door, who specifically drove over to my house to try to figure out if we were selling (noticed the pods out front for the last few months due to our disaster remodeling), LOL. Has been showing up regularly trying to find "the owners", based on all my security camera logs... (there is a shortage of inventory on the market here, for sure).

knowprose,
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@ai6yr Well, gotta give 'em credit for paying attention...

gimulnautti, (edited ) to Russia
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Article in Finnish, but very important in current conflict

Kreml uses ”traditional Russian heritage” as reasons to setup paramilitary training abroad. These ”cossacks” are not ethnic , but are paid by Russian state to conduct training with live weapons as ”heritage”

Of these Kremlin-funded cossacks around the world, 27000 have already fought in

Needless to say, Cossacks are not originally Russian either, but from south Ukraine 🇺🇦

https://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/art-2000010318814.html

knowprose,
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@gimulnautti Putin The Mediocre wants to be Peter The Great.

When the Russian Federation falls apart, it's going to be a mess for decades.

knowprose,
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@gimulnautti Many people never connect the 'Slavic' people to it.

knowprose,
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@gimulnautti yeah, I learned the history and present issues from a friend on Twitter who is from one of the federated nation states in the early days of the invasion. I was trying to navigate the because I've seen much of it in the and .

I was floored about how much I didn't know.

Putin is sending his opposition to the front lines. In that regard, he wins either way. Yet Ukraine has stepped up attacks on infrastructure, which is sound strategy.

cory, to tech
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📝: The tech industry doesn't deserve optimism it has earned skepticism https://coryd.dev/posts/2024/the-tech-industry-doesnt-deserve-optimism-it-has-earned-skepticism/

knowprose,
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@cory A good point, made more poignantly than I have in the past. I generally start off with the promise of paperless offices, which dates me.

Nicely done, I have it in a tab to link to. :)

dangillmor, to random
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Stack Overflow's deal with "Open"AI is prompting the site's contributors to remove their posts and close their accounts. Good for them.

The "AI" cartel is telling the people who created and populated the open web that they were suckers.

knowprose,
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@dangillmor someone who tried that today had their content Undeleted and their account suspended.

People voluntary gave them license of content, thinking nothing of it.

And all the developers should understand they have backups, especially major one before such a deal so they could quantify what they are selling to negotiate price.

Paying to whitewash with 'sweat equity' now being sold.

Look what web 2.0 has wrought.

https://knowprose.com/2024/04/20/paying-to-whitewash-the-fence-of-ai/

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    knowprose,
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    @AAKL @verge This is so much poetry in action that I actually have to thank in general for allowing a new recursion of entertainment follies.

    br00t4c, to journalism
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    The media focuses on emotive conflict --and so far, 2024 is presenting a blizzard of it

    https://www.alternet.org/emotional-conflict/

    knowprose,
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    @br00t4c great article. Trump does play to emotions (and not rationality), the mainstream media generally tells my generation and older what to think... Which is weird because my generation built the foundation of social media, citizen journalism, etc

    Trump shows the dangers of emotive, Biden faces the dangers of rationality. That was a very good piece.

    hankg, to fediverse

    Sorry, I had to procrastinate more by making a detailed sampling of the Facebook timeline shiteousness. I understated it. Scrolling through 102 postsafter a refresh the breakdown was: 3 from my follows, 79 "suggestions",19 ads, 1 reels item (this time just once but often that comes up multiple times). Worse, posts from my follows only occured in the first 10. The suggestions started off not bad but then got horrible. Ads were universally garbage. Thank god for the fediverse!

    knowprose,
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    @hankg wow. I knew it was shitty when I left but didn't know it was that shitty. 👀

    jeffjarvis, to random
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    Good.
    Biden Puts Arms Shipment to Israel on Hold Amid Dispute Over Rafah Attack https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/07/us/politics/israel-biden-arms.html?smid=tw-share

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    @jeffjarvis since it's pay walled for most, an excerpt.

    arstechnica, to random
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    US Department of Homeland Security names AI Safety and Security Board members

    CEO-heavy board to tackle elusive AI safety concept and apply it to US infrastructure.

    https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/us-department-of-homeland-security-names-ai-safety-and-security-board-members/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    knowprose,
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    @arstechnica Has anyone noticed how many on that board have taken shortcuts to get ahead? Is that what we want on a board related to safety?

    Yuck.

    br00t4c, to Palestine
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    Unity: Pro-Palestine and Pro-Israel Protestors Chant 'F*ck Joe Biden' in Unison

    https://www.mediaite.com/politics/unity-pro-palestine-and-pro-israel-protestors-chant-fck-joe-biden-in-unison/

    knowprose,
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    @br00t4c This is not going to help our planetary Yelp review.

    br00t4c, to abc
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    Jon Karl Opens ABC's This Week With Stunning Commentary on the Stakes of 2024: 'This REALLY IS The Most Important Election of Our Time'

    https://www.mediaite.com/news/jon-karl-opens-abcs-this-week-with-stunning-commentary-on-the-stakes-of-2024-this-really-is-the-most-important-election-of-our-time/

    knowprose,
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    @br00t4c wake me up when we have candidates.

    br00t4c, to TikTok
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    TikTok users claim freezing bread can make it healthier - here's what the science actually says

    https://www.salon.com/2024/04/29/tiktok-users-claim-freezing-bread-can-make-it-healthier--heres-what-the-science-actually-says_partner/

    knowprose,
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    @br00t4c I'd heard a doctor say similar things - Dr. Karan? - about resistant starch.

    I'm at an age where I look at these things.

    br00t4c, to random
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    Hopes of Gaza ceasefire rise as Hamas delegation arrives in Cairo

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/04/hopes-of-gaza-ceasefire-rise-as-hamas-delegation-arrives-in-cairo

    knowprose,
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    @br00t4c "... A senior Israeli official, speaking on Saturday on condition of anonymity to discuss ongoing negotiations, played down the prospects for a full end to the war. The official said Israel was committed to an offensive on Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city, and that it would not agree in any circumstance to end the war as part of a hostage-release deal... "

    civilians will still be at risk.

    knowprose, to ArtificialIntelligence
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    This was an interesting bit of research into this, from the origins of the word (forced labor) right after the Second Industrial revolution, to how we connect it with ... I had way too much fun reading up to write this. Robots started off as a metaphor in 1920 that doesn't seem as distant as it should be now.

    https://realityfragments.com/2024/05/07/robots-portraying-ai-and-the-lesser-known-history-of-economic-class/

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