Cory @pluralistic Doctorow: “Somewhere between replacing the system and using the system lies a pragmatic — if easily derailed — course.
“[Audre] Lorde is telling us that a rotten system can’t be redeemed by using its own chosen reform mechanisms. [Martin Luther King Jr. is] telling us that unless we live, we can’t fight — so anything within the system that makes it easier for your comrades to fight on can hasten the end of the system.”
> One old model of journalism funding involved wealthy newspaper families profiting handsomely by selling local appliance store owners the right to reach the townspeople who wanted to read sports-scores. These families expressed their patrician love of their town by peeling off some of those profits to pay reporters to sit through municipal council meetings or even travel overseas and get shot at.
Audre Lorde counsels us: "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House," MLK said "the law cannot make a man love me, but it can restrain him from lynching me." Somewhere between replacing the system and using the system lies a pragmatic - if easily derailed - course.
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Just drove by a church that I remembered having services all through covid. A number of their dip shit followers fucking died. They probably killed a number of other people not so foolish as to be a part of that.
The fact they did this is clear proof they value keeping people in the cult more than the lives of people in it. #Athiesm#covid#church #bullshit
Le toujours formidable Cory Doctorow aka @pluralistic sur l'usage des AI (et le fait que leur business modèle ne peut reposer que sur l'exploitation des humains, à la manière des entrepôts Amazon, au lieu de leur libération)
What's on the reading list this week. This book's on it every week of the year, I get a new one each Christmas. The cover shows the Callanish (Calanais) standing stones in the Outer Hebrides on the Isle of Lewis. I saw the northern lights from here 30 odd years ago, a great place. Of particular note today is the spring equinox, day and night are of equal length, the sun rises due east and sets due west. Today you can memorise the compass points relative to objects where you live. #astronomy
What was on the February reading list. The author is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Bayes Business School, City, University of London and puts his finger on the subject matter in this book. The tedious, meaningless bollocks that we all appear to have to endure on a daily basis, dissected. I wasn't prepared to pay £26 to pay for this readable work based on his research so I borrowed it from the Uni library, I'll take it back if anyone wishes to read it. #Business#Bullshit
“…researchers found that people who frequently engage in “persuasive bullshitting” were actually quite poor at identifying it.” Surprised? I didn’t think so… #BS#BullShit
Remember folks, ChatGPT lies with total conviction about easily verified facts, like this claim that solar eclipses can't happen anywhere in our solar system.
@pettter
I'd argue for #bullshit in the Frankfurtian sense of it not caring about truth, just about outcomes - but it doesn't actually care about anything because, yeah, it's not capable of caring. @cstross
I'm calling #BULLSHIT on wanting to help other nations. Remember, USA is a #warmongering terrorizing nation & have already created AI warfare/munitions/killer robot dogs, etc. If US says it's safe - it's far from safe.
The #UnitedStates is spearheading the first #UnitedNations resolution on #ArtificialIntelligence, aimed at ensuring the new technology is “safe, secure and trustworthy” and that all countries, especially those in the developing world, have equal access.
"Nous ferons ce focus en particulier sur le secteur CPRD, notamment grâce à nos offres « door opener » (cyber, cloud, IA) et avec une ambition élevée sur le resale."
Everybody's heard of a recent court ruling to hold #aircanada responsible for their #chatbot#bullshit by now, but...
Can anything be done to ensure that the same standard is applied to the meatbag clerks at a local utilities office? Today I was given three incompatible opinions regarding a billing issue, but none of those idiots are liable for what they spew and how convenient it is that they never yield any written statements, it's all just advice. No progress made again #bureaucracy ftw
There’s a scammy exhibition in Glasgow #Scotland that uses 100% #AI-generated images to advertise a “Willy’s Chocolate Experience” (not at all related to Wonka, I’m sure). The actual exhibition is basically an empty warehouse.
“Glasgow Willy Wonka experience called a ‘farce’ as tickets refunded”
@TransitBiker So, where in the sequence of #SarsCov2 did you or anybody else find #HIV sequences? How is that compared to other #SARS or # MERS #Corona viri? Any proper literature on anything? I call your hypothesis #bullshit.