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Itty53

@Itty53@mstdn.social

Father/Husband/Programmer in CA with a need to collect my thoughts on stuff. Politics, psychology, sociology, history, law, society, music, film, games, humor.

Header is just the color black.

Avatar is a Photoshop of Barack Obama in a classic suit, framed from the chest up, speaking at a podium. His face is in what appears to be a slight scowl. The image is monochrome black and white, and his face has been altered to add Locs style sunglasses and a black baseball cap reading "Compton".

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lilithsaintcrow, to random
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“Why do the creators of ChatGPT call their chatbot an AI instead of a proper term like large language model? For the same reason that Disney World calls their employees "cast members," corporations use the term "right-sized" when they lay people off, and workers are given a "friendly reminder" right before a manager fires you. In short, all these are examples of corporate doublespeak, where language is used as "an agent of power and control.”” https://www.patreon.com/posts/genre-grapevine-85417093

Itty53,
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@MisuseCase @lilithsaintcrow

More than that, they are trying to set themselves up for the legal challenges with the argument, "we didn't do that, the algorithm did". They need to have public opinion see these things as actual AIs and not just their programming working as they intended it to work when they wrote it.

If I code a virus and release it in software, I can be charged. If I write a machine to do the same thing, they want the argument to be that I'm not responsible for what it does.

Itty53,
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@lilithsaintcrow @MisuseCase

I think this is America, the only way massive tech companies like Google and OpenAI and Facebook and the rest are ever held accountable is if they stop earning their shareholders money.

dgar, to random
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I asked the barman what the wifi password was.

He said “First you need to buy a drink”.

I bought a beer, and asked again.

He said “First you need to buy a drink, all lower case, no spaces”.

Itty53,
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@dgar

Local pool hall of mine has theirs as "tip your bartender".

Bellingcat, (edited ) to random
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In a new investigation, Bellingcat’s Tristan Lee and @FP reveal the leading outlets including Amazon and Barnes & Noble that are selling books associated with a Satanist Neo-Nazi group. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/06/30/the-mainstream-publishers-distributors-and-bookshops-selling-satanist-neo-nazi-books/?utm_source=mstdn

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@Bellingcat

"Even after the 11 years he spent as a Muslim, becoming a key ideologue for al-Qaeda, he never really left his National Socialism behind."

Why am I not surprised? One extreme to another. Pieces of information like this really highlight the mental health aspect of these beliefs. Swinging from Islam to Satanist Nazisim. In fact I'm not even sure I would qualify this as mental health, it's more along the lines of intellectual development. "Mom it's not a phase! I'm a Satanist now!".

w7voa, to random
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Former FBI assistant director says if former President Trump is convicted he could end up in a supermax prison with just one Secret Service agent for shower time. https://www.mediaite.com/radio/nbc-news-analyst-says-trump-could-end-up-in-supermax-prison-with-one-secret-service-agent-for-shower-time/

Itty53,
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@w7voa

I like that this really let's the argument get framed simply, "at the end of the day the secret service just needs to establish a protocol for it and then there isn't much of a problem".

People act as if this isn't doable. Of course it is.

AnarchoNinaWrites, to random

The people "on the left" excited by Kennedy running, are the same people "on the left" who have complicated opinions about why Putin was right to invade, and the same people "on the left" who thought we should hear QAnon out about vaccines, and the same people "on the left" who thought we should "work with" checks notes fascist militia Boogaloo Bois to, something something.

Maybe they just aren't "people on the left" at all. And it's the exact same people, every time; curious that.

Itty53,
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@oliphant @AnarchoNinaWrites

It's only a coup if it's from the coup region of France. Everything else is just sparkling sedition.

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