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cykonot

@cykonot@mas.to

Polyherbal cyberpolitics

Avi is me in a hat and a short-sleeved flamingo-print button-up in a parking lot. I am mixed and 29 in the picture (30 now).

Background is a blooming palo verde bearing pendulous boughs laden with yellow blossoms almost completely obscuring the thin, skin-like green bark.

https://justmytoots.com/@cykonot@mas.to
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Dhmspector, to random
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I’ve been in this business, writing software professionally, since I started my first software business at 16 in high school an an Apple ][. That’s 45 fucking years. It would never occur to me to steal other people’s code, let alone their likenesses, voices, or art.

Just eject these thieving “AI” companies into the sun. These people, and the VCs that fund them, are a cancer on the software industry.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/technology/ai-voice-clone-lawsuit.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tE0.1KUx.2vYNvYuSXMmW&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

cykonot,
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@Dhmspector

davidzipper, to cars
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In Fast Company, I wrote about how wild it is that Ford, GM, and Stellantis no longer offer any sedan models in the US.

That's bad for Americans -- and it's risky for the Big Three.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91123174/detroit-killed-the-sedan-we-may-all-live-to-regret-it

cykonot,
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@Slyence @davidzipper https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-wants-to-close-the-suv-loophole-that-supersized-cars/

We're all entitled to our own opinions, though some questions REALLY aren't opinion-based

ben, to random
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Stack Overflow announced that they are partnering with OpenAI, so I tried to delete my highest-rated answers.

Stack Overflow does not let you delete questions that have accepted answers and many upvotes because it would remove knowledge from the community.

So instead I changed my highest-rated answers to a protest message.

Within an hour mods had changed the questions back and suspended my account for 7 days.

Diff view of a stack overflow question showing it being changed from the original text to a protest message, then being changed back again by a mod. Protest text reads: Why does OpenAI get to profit from our work? I have removed this question in protest of Stack Overflow's decision to partner with OpenAI. This move steals the labour of everyone who contributed to Stack Overflow with no way to opt-out. OpenAI has a history of flooding the web with inaccurate information and have explicitly stated that they will never pay creators for their work.

cykonot,
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@ben lawsuit! Lawsuit! Lawsuit!

"Terms can change without notice" etc clauses are often unenforceable.

People should class-action these predatory scrapers. I BET m$ has used data they did not have rights to for training. Errbody should sue. Sue sue sue. "AI" is the providence of mankind, not some rich douche

sundogplanets, (edited ) to random
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Hello Toronto - I'm giving a public talk there in 8 days. Want to hear me yell about satellites for an hour? Come say hi!

EDITED to add: Oops I didn't give image credit! The image in the poster was taken by Joshua Rozells, see APOD link: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220614.html

cykonot,
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@sundogplanets >tfw 10,000 kilos of aluminum+etc starts burning up in the atmosphere every year in the 2030s
>tfw i recylce while elon pumps gallons hydrazine into the upper atmosphere
>tfw pollution starts slowing global warming while stripping away the ozone layer AGAIN

cykonot,
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@sundogplanets Cirrus blankeys + ozone hole?
Or sulfur particles with a reflective metallic core + soot + ozone hole?
Let's roll the dice 🙄🤡

For some reason, I feel like Elon could call this a free speech issue, and would not really be shocked if SCOTUS judged all pollution to be speech. Because, why not lol. Bribes are speech, CO2 can't be a pollutant, presidential immunity is real, etc.
Interesting times.
/Doomerism

cykonot,
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@sundogplanets dear god the 10k kilos i used was potentially multiple orders of magnitude too low 😨
https://spacenews.com/aerospace-agu-reentry-pollution/

mondoweiss, to Palestine
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In the first such divestment action by a major Christian denomination, the General Conference of The United Methodist Church has voted to divest from Israel bonds, and those of other countries carrying out prolonged military occupations.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/united-methodist-church-votes-to-divest-from-israel-bonds/


@palestine @israel

cykonot,
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@mondoweiss @palestine @israel jihadi

cykonot, to random
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With the passage of H.R. 6090 I, an ethnically Jewish American, am legally engaging in hate speech by criticizing the country of Israel.

This is not justice. This is a racist, ethnonationalist law and does NOT make Jewish people more safe.

jonny, to random
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A future for the web is the radical idea that its bad to put all data in a single place owned by 3 companies and rented by a few hundred. The internet wasnt a mistake, the cloud was a mistake. Platforms were a mistake. A mistake where its not only possible but routine for "everyone's health data" to get stolen. https://infosec.exchange/@patrickcmiller/112341111375581551

I need to share my health data with like 3 people that arent me. Why on earth is that data in the same pile as literally everyone else's.

cykonot,
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@jonny companies are allergic to capital expenditures, and selling off your servers in exchange for a monthly fee can really make a quarter pop.

"We own nothing, we're so nimble. All we do is rent factories in China with guaranteed outputs. We're basically like any other incestment firm but we have a very special list of customers/suppliers and maybe some intellectual property, which is very real. Invest in us! Who needs a moat?"

jonny, (edited ) to random
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is occupying a floor of a neighboring building to surveil encampment - which explains choppers only in the morning and few drones: https://twitter.com/paularcurtis/status/1783659629249257549

update: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/112340807050597038

cykonot,
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@jonny rant:
wtf do they think the kids are gonna DO?
Jfc these people are crazy...
So insecure with all the power because they know they dont have the people. They know how fragile their position is
And yet...

The revolution will not be televised, seize the means of communication (bye tiki talk), etc etc

So many warrantless taps etc used by municipal police. Just theater to justify their corrupt domination of local funds. If a mayor speaks out against dirty cops they all strike. Acab

jonny, to random
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all jonny knows is charge they phone, mythic humanoids wiki category, eat hot chip & lie

cykonot,
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@jonny psychonautwiki.org

aetataureate, to random
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    cykonot,
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    @aetataureate not drinking =/= sober

    Most sober friends are for sober times. It is nice to be on the same wavelength

    cykonot,
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    @aetataureate okay normal guy

    cykonot,
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    @aetataureate dickhead

    Edit: maybe people just find "sober" you insufferable.

    cykonot, to music
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    me when I'm simping

    https://youtu.be/tJ90-9e5HwE?si=mikX1Brlm25g8h32

    cykonot,
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    Me when I'm a bad b**ch

    https://youtu.be/TDGQfIZE1W0?si=FoJaL_gjRGwZ2oIi

    cykonot,
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    Me when I'm having a mental breakdown

    https://youtu.be/sO5APfKnR50?si=6ZmTJ6jEp7TYPRCI

    TechConnectify, to random
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    Hey! Remember those toots from yesterday of mine? I've got a name now for the phenomenon I've been picking at:

    Weak Induction

    I'm probably not using it correctly in this explanation, but this is when you're looking at something (say an online post) and, because you have a brain which is constantly looking for patterns and motives, you induce things about what the author means.

    But watch out for weak inductions! If what you assert isn't plainly there in the post, you might be on about nothing!

    cykonot,
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    @TechConnectify single-issue voter type people are distressfully common, and digital siloing is not helping. Maybe their whole stream + network is about whatever tf, so when they come in with the unhinged "why don't you disavow murder" take when all you're trying to do is like fulfill your slot in the algo or bring attention to 1 other thing, their context is the 10 posts they JUST saw about it.

    It's like people bending themselves into caricatures to fit the weird algorithms running everything

    StillIRise1963, to random
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    Kevin said Matt asked him to do something illegal.

    cykonot,
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    @StillIRise1963 well, seems like he did it since Matt Gaetz got his investigation quashed

    marcelias, to random
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    The Republican Party is worse than ever. The only way out of this is to defeat Donald Trump in 2024 and make Republicans realize that there is no political future for them living in their alternative universe.

    Watch full episode w/me and Brian Tyler Cohen.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXjw_O2aqn8

    video/mp4

    cykonot,
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    @marcelias wonder if Michael Reinoehl's family would do a civil suit (or something) with one of your friends for that hit Trump admitted to ordering on national tv 🤔

    VeryBadLlama, to random
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    "I don't get why you set so many alarms"

    congrats on being able to rocket back to existence every morning but some of us have to be gradually raised from the depths like the remains of an ancient shipwreck being brought to the surface

    cykonot,
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    @VeryBadLlama the problem is a lack of pan au chocolat, a shortage of café au lait, and the price of cigarettes

    Some of us need a very specific kind of breakfast to have a good day 😤

    RickiTarr, (edited ) to random
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    https://www.thedailybeast.com/kyle-rittenhouse-flees-university-of-memphis-stage-after-facing-off-with-booing-protesters

    What is interesting is so many young white men believe they are entitled to respect by birthright, and when it doesn't go as expected, they act as if society has rejected them, and completely lose their shit. They think they have a right to violent behavior, because the world is so "unfair" Meanwhile, this is only a tiny taste of what minorities deal with every day.
    In conclusion, dude you literally got away with murder, SHUT. THE. FUCK. UP.

    cue cringey Joker meme

    cykonot,
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    @RickiTarr i would never put myself in the situation he put himself in. Partly cuz im not a psychopath, and partly because the police would do me like ol' yeller. there would be no trial y'all.

    Even if the features were right, my politics are wrong; Trump ordered the assassination of Michael Reinoehl and NOTHING HAPPENED.

    https://truthout.org/articles/trump-appears-to-admit-extrajudicial-killing-of-michael-reinoehl-was-planned/

    yogthos, to technology
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    In a twist of irony, US immigration policies have left China with the upper hand in 5G technology. Who knew denying a Caltech and MIT graduate a visa renewal could be such a game-changer?

    https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/07/16/immigration-us-technology-companies-work-visas-china-talent-competition-universities/

    cykonot,
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    @yogthos maybe we should have actual immigrants instead of visa slaves? Like, visas are good for keeping down wages, but making them actual citizens would clearly be better for workers already here and the overall economy since they wouldn't build skills etc then leave.

    Then again, these are the same people who decided to put all the factories in China because they hate the poors, so what do i know

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    To all the down ballot Republican candidates who think the party is going to help your campaigns, you are screwed.
    https://apnews.com/article/trump-campaign-fundraising-rnc-c0e8f1e7b59f70c5237e13a3462e5790

    cykonot,
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    @marcelias get money out of politics, campaign finance reform now, etc etc

    I'm glad he's broke but this system is not acceptable.

    Good on you for your legal work, i do appreciate it. Just wish dems actually cared about corruption.

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    @DrALJONES we have repeatedly allowed them to kill citizens with no repercussions. Wonder what happens if they attack a US ship AGAIN, this time in an election year.

    God, i imagine trump would come out in support of it, while also saying it wouldn't happen to him. Just like with ukraine. Because of course.

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