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knowprose

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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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scott, (edited ) to random
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We need to stop making sci-fi until tech bros can learn the difference between a warning and an aspiration.

Edit: because this post is doing numbers it’s important to explicitly acknowledge that this is a bad take on a complex and big problem.

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@scott Not for nothing, but many people who are not tech bros. don't know who the real monster is in Frankenstein.

Or that, "I, Robot" demonstrated that the 3 rules of robotics failed.

Or...

skykiss, to random
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Since we now know Alito was flying his flag upside down at the time, let’s review one of the plans the coup plotters had involving him.

This interview by criminal defendant Powell is interesting. It suggests that the purpose of the insurrection was to DELAY the electoral college certification to give #Alito time to intervene on this legal challenge. But, Powell says they didn’t anticipate Pelosi reconvening Congress that day.

#scotus #insurrection #corruption #lawfedi #fedilaw #RemoveAlito #ScotusIsCorrupt

Crimal defendant Powell is interesting. It suggests that the purpose of the insurrection was to DELAY the electoral college certification to give #scotus #Alito time to intervene on this legal challenge. But, Powell says they didn’t anticipate Speaker Pelosi reconvening Congress.

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@skykiss So, I guess he's hiring?

👀 😂

That he can run for President is just lunacy.

ai6yr, to H5N1

PBS: Raw milk sales spike despite CDC’s warnings of risk associated with bird flu. Raw milk producer: "“Anything that the FDA tells our customers to do, they do the opposite.”
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/raw-milk-sales-spike-despite-cdcs-warnings-of-risk-associated-with-bird-flu
#hpai #h5n1 #darwin #darwinaward #birdflu #milk #rawmilk

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@ai6yr It's fine. Let them drink it. Nothing to do about it.

No sense stressing out over it.

KimPerales, to ai
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is being used in numerous, nefarious ways, that's resulting, in many cases, irreparable harm. Leg. is needed ASAP:

"Ex-athletic director framed principal with AI-generated voice, police say.

Baltimore County Police arrested Pikesville High School’s former athletic director Thursday, & charged him with using artificial intelligence to impersonate Principal Eric Eiswert, leading the public to believe Eiswert made racist & antisemitic comments behind closed doors."
https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-12-schools/eric-eiswert-ai-audio-baltimore-county-YBJNJAS6OZEE5OQVF5LFOFYN6M/

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@KimPerales What's most disturbing about this is how petty it was. We tend to think that such things are more grandiose (and they can be), but at this level... it speaks to an ubiquity sooner than I expected.

knowprose, to Ukraine
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At this point, I think is being a schmuk because it takes the eyes off .

We need to let be weapons free into to deal with . And Ukraine could certainly use weapons to fight an invader rather than support an occupation and .

But I'm barely n charge of my own coffee... 👀☕

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/26/ukraine-zelenskiy-calls-on-world-leaders-to-attend-peace-summit-deadly-kharkiv-strike

ai6yr, to Hawaii

Hawaii News Now: Flooding inundates Oahu roadways as torrential rains persist #hawaii #flooding #HIwx https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2024/05/13/several-vehicles-stalled-flash-flooding-h-3-freeway-kamehameha-highway/

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@ai6yr Yup. I was a Navy Corpsman. They gave me the choice of the hospital in Naples, Italy, or Kaneohe Bay Hawaii with the jarheads.

I went K-Bay. On a long hump, you learn to love the rain. If it stops, it's extra miserable. If it lasts too long, you get trenchfoot and you get to talk to the unhappy Corpsman who also has soggy feet. 😂

knowprose, to Israel
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Ahh, seems to have completely lost it at this point. All while stepping up operations in .

143 countries recognized .

https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/israel-palestine-united-nations-shredder-charter-b2543099.html

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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    @AAKL @Reuters Speculation on my part, but in the U.S. we have a veil between big tech and the government. They generally work hand in hand - increasingly so, maybe.

    In China, they ain't got no veil. It could be a national security thing for China. And the tech really isn't that grand, as the article points out.

    Honestly, I don't know why so many people are attached to a platform. Any platform. Platform policies change faster than politicians flip flop, so...

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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.

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    @AAKL @verge @tomwarren Microsoft doesn't need to win back trust. It needs to become worthy of trust.

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    @AAKL @verge @tomwarren but we have options, so Microsoft doesn't have to do any of this for us. It's for their interests.

    What they have now is legacy code inertia from the 'developers, developers, developers!' era of Microsoft.

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    @AAKL @theregister @thomasclaburn Wow. Quite the breech, that.

    Copy/paste error, seems like, which really has no place in such conversation.

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    @AAKL @futurism @TechDesk No pun intended, maybe

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    @AAKL @futurism @TechDesk It's weird how comedy writes itself.

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    @AAKL @futurism @TechDesk What's amusing and disturbing about this (at the same time!) is that there is an xvideos website already... and if you do look for it, you'll know why I didn't link it. 😂 👀

    AAKL, to TikTok
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    @AAKL @Reuters @AP I referenced a good in depth NY Times article about it on March 24th on Knowprose.com.

    It was 2 days after the NT article, which gave a pretty good look into how India has done better for it.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/business/tiktok-india-ban.html

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    @AAKL @Reuters I'm still sort of waking up, but this picture of a balloon being shot down in my head won't go away.

    It could be thought of as a BRIC thing, but India banned TikTok and grew it's own platforms... so... dunno.

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    @AAKL @Reuters It is in a national security context. Our FISA bill pretty much does the same thing, and with our servers hosting so much information from other countries.

    Consider Google's deal with Israel, that caused a tempest in the news... all that information is feeding our intelligence community as well.

    FISA allows us to peek, and also to see who people are talking to within the U.S.

    I look at all of this from a privacy standpoint. Governments can use the information in many ways.

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    @AAKL @Reuters Yup.

    They collect the data of other nations and keep their own. Sort of like we do. The mechanisms are different.

    There's fodder for some writing right there.

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    @AAKL @Reuters Yes, there are quite a few. And logically speaking, this should have more weight... but I guess emotional investment is a thing.

    The NAACP had a tweet on it I saw embedded somewhere, comparing banning it to... I think it was gun control?

    This is a crazy non-issue to me that everyone seems to have their underpants twisted on.

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    @AAKL @Reuters What's most interesting when considering China is that their government isn't forced into thinking in election cycles. Their idea of long term planning is centuries.

    that's the hardest thing for people to get their heads around when we talk about China. Understanding that and respecting that makes recent issues related to so many things... they're more visible than before, and their soft power is projected around the world.

    TikTok is only a blip for them.

    nixCraft, to random
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    The twitter block issue is caused by Firfox filters. Firefox is working on a fix. The announcement reads as: Hey folks, we are aware of the Twitter issue and our team is working on a fix at the moment.

    In the meantime, disabling Enhanced Tracking Protection or changing it from Strict should fix this issue temporarily. Here's how to do that: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-protection-firefox-desktop#w_what-to-do-if-a-site-seems-broken

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    @nixCraft or don't use Twitter. 😂😂😂👀

    randahl, to random
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    I just love the Swedes! ♥️

    Defence Minister of Sweden Pål Jonson says, Ukraine can use Swedish weapons on Russian territory.

    Your move Joe Biden!

    https://www.hallandsposten.se/asikter/ledare/landgrans-ska-inte-skydda-rysk-angripare.09212cc1-6c94-4389-8b1a-2956a1aa9f9e

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    @randahl it's a war we want to win and they've been dragged around too long, while we send munitions to Israel with no strings attached.

    If we want Ukraine to win, they must be able to attack where the missiles are coming from. .

    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/

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