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gimulnautti

@gimulnautti@mastodon.green

Pirate Politician, Software Developer, MA Musicology (he/him)

Interests:
Culture, Math, Sociology, Philosophy, Music, Demoscene, Games, #NAFO, Writing, Disc Golf, Skateboarding.

Not here for snarky comebacks. A slur is not an argument.

Other fediverse accounts:
https://mastodon.green/@gimulnautti @metapixl.com
https://mastodon.green/@gimulnautti @mastodontti.fi

Blog:
https://gimulnaut.wordpress.com
https://medium.com/@toni.k.aittoniemi

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GreenFire, to random
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"Trump is not actually running for a second term—he is running for a forever term," Chris Hayes said.

I'm not so sure that he is, just like I don't think he really was in the beginning of 2016. I think it was just an attention-grabbing PR schtick. Skipping the Iowa debate I think reinforces that thesis.

Now, I think that he knows he can't win, but he's learned how to earn a lot of money campaigning plus he just loves to be given so much attention.

Anyways, he's still fucking dangerous.

gimulnautti,
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@GreenFire Even he wasn’t, there’s plenty of people who would use the situation to clear out a few people they don’t like, and ensure no-one else ever has power though. His rhetorical style is perfect for ”soft fascists” to latch on to.

ilovecomputers, to random

I’m thinking about them beans

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/5/12/23717519/beans-protein-nutrition-sustainability-climate-food-security-solution-vegan-alternative-meat

gimulnautti,
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@crlf @ilovecomputers Also confirmed. I was vegetarian long enough to confirm that (10+ years).

Perhaps it is a matter of gut microbe or other factors, but for me it remained an issue. Moderation in legumes was definitely required to sustain a vegetarian diet for more than a decade.

Noupside, to random
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Product design shapes user action and interaction, and heavily influences community norms. Business operations is downstream of all of that. So good luck to Linda Yaccarino, because she now has to sell the place he creates.

gimulnautti,
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@Noupside There’s that everything app X again. What he wanted to with paypal. But nobody wants to pay with and app called X.

And talking about his technical credentials, his programming at Paypal was also something that needed to be removed before the platform could gain enough reliability and scale.

Which concludes that Musk should be kept out from issues he doesn’t understand, because he thinks he does.

RepShontelBrown, to random
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Anti-Black hair sentiments lead many Black women to use chemical hair relaxers.

However, studies have shown that these products may pose serious health risks.

Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley and I have called on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to investigate the safety of these products. Read more: https://www.cleveland.com/news/2023/05/rep-shontel-brown-wants-straight-answers-from-the-fda-on-hair-straighteners.html

gimulnautti,
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@StillIRise1963 @RepShontelBrown If straightening and / or lightening your hair is what gives you better service, social integration and decreases your likelihood of encountering racism (like it does), people having to do this deserve protection. I’m white but know enough that a ”colour blindness”-rhetoric is just newspeak for continuing with those slight acts of micro-racism everyone does without any consciousness of it involved.

gimulnautti, to random
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Have to say I really enjoyed the tales of an elf supremacy conspiracy

wants

antmetsa, to random Finnish
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Saksassa on noussut melkoinen kohu äitienpäivän ympärille.
Kaikki sai alkunsa siitä, kun eräs katolinen päiväkoti Frankfurtin seudulla ilmoitti luopuvansa tänä vuonna lahjojen askartelusta äitienpäiväksi äideille ja isänpäiväksi isille. Perusteluna se, että siinä yhteydessä monet lapset tuntevat itsensä ulkopuolisiksi.
Tästä raivostui Tilman Kuban, 35-vuotias CDU:n kansanedustaja, juristi, katolinen ja puolueen nuorisojärjestön entinen puheenjohtaja. (jatkuu >)

https://www.fr.de/politik/aus-tilman-kuban-cdu-politiker-loest-auf-twitter-shitstorm-auf-kita-92266195.html

gimulnautti, (edited )
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@antmetsa @Tuumaru @juuhaa Naulan kantaan. Ei kannata katsella horisonttiin fasistisen uhkan perään, kun valtaa vallan vuoksi tavoitteleville riittää ihan sekin että saadaan vastustajat hiljennettyä pelolla.

Samalla tavoin Tynkkynen tuossa juuri antoi ymmärtää Ylen rahoituksen vähentämisen liittyvän, ei budjettiin, vaan tiettyjen sinkkunaisille suunnattujen ohjelmien näyttämiseen.

Toimittajilla voi olla journalistinen vapaus, mutta jos ei ole rahoitusta eikä turvallisuutta, kirjoita siinä sit.

StillIRise1963, to random
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There should be a global delegation meeting to plan out how we all destroy fascism in our various nations.

gimulnautti,
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@StillIRise1963 But it’s not your grandfather’s fascism for the most part. The illusion of democracy is so much better maintained by the strongman leaders these days.

In the old days, the junta would execute you, now you get planted a fake criminal case to land you in prison.

Before, the leader would tell the media what to write, now he takes away the funding if you publish the wrong things.

Instead of shutting down universities, he switches the staff and drowns them in regulation.

gimulnautti,
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@StillIRise1963 Those who seek power for power’s sake are often very aware of the kind of narrative you need to build.

Even Mussolini held up the impression of Italy being still somehow a republic right until 1939, and there wasn’t internet at those times.

Today the strongman has to work even more through storytelling than ever. But Berlusconi, Erdogan, Orban and Putin have shown the way.

w7voa, to random
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In his high-profile return to mainstream news since his defeat in , former President Trump, during a CNN town hall-style program, repeatedly amplified his baseless claim that his loss to President Biden was the result of a rigged election. Details in my VOA radio report.

gimulnautti,
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@Noupside @w7voa totally out of the blue 😄

w7voa, to random
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"That was a rigged election," says Donald Trump at the top of his appearance on CNN 'Town Hall' from about , repeating previous lies. "They were stuffing ballot boxes."

gimulnautti,
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@w7voa Putin is literally trying to stalemate the situation in Ukraine right now, so he would have a chance at holding on until 2024.

Because this guy is his man on the job to make Russia great again.

gimulnautti,
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@panamared27401 @w7voa Don’t be overwhelmed! That’s the strongman play, 101.

The emperor wears no clothes. ✌️

gimulnautti, to programming
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As a programmer, I use -based autocomplete daily.

My career spans almost 30 years now, and there is a issue in which is usually referred to as . It is a combination term from A) code which means the code has bad organisation and lacks structural rules B) mindlessly copying something.

Enough ”doing the same thing over and over again” can slowly turn even the best codebase into a badly organised mess, as the code no longer reflects the big picture.

gimulnautti,
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that I use is simply perfect for creating copypasta. This can probably boost efficiency for a some junior-level tasks, but relying on it too much can also risk deteriorating the quality of your codebase.

Extrapolating from this to what our society is going to face as ML tools augment our communication, I feel we might need to be prepared for a lot more copypasta that does the job, but with itself in ways that make it harder to see what is actually happening.

davidak, to ai
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is Smarter than You Think: Introducing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVzuvf9D9BU

gimulnautti,
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@davidak Thinking in prompt systems is something I’ve been also trying to explain to people lately. Thanks for this one, it’s almost the perfect example to show to them!

alsutton, to ai
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Anyone else betting models this decade will follow the trajectory of social media last decade; In 10 years time folk will be getting what the tech-savvy folk wanted from the start - an open solution everyone can contribute to and use as they want?

gimulnautti,
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@Sh41 @alsutton yes, the recent google leak speculated 93% of gpt-4 level capability of the best open-source models.

gimulnautti, to random
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Within a year or two, we will be able to actually talk to animals. We won’t be able to really understand what they mean, but the language probably won’t be the problem.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2tCoKxrVVCUYhfi575XUID?si=cLlQOLarTXW0icia4F21Qw

gimulnautti,
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@JohanEmpa Yes. But the model input would be more than that. Think:

Dog A is the real dog
Dog B is the ML

You specify the position, speed, posture and other aspects of dog B, and the model will spit out how the dog would move and bark in the next 2 seconds.

Diggler67, to random
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This video by Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin helped me understand why the current "arms race" in implementation is so dangerous. 😬

https://youtu.be/xoVJKj8lcNQ

I'm probably late to the party on this, but I just saw it linked somewhere today (lost the reference) and just watched it tonight. These guys really know how to explain things to non-technical people. It's really worth watching, but you need to set aside an hour!

I had a vague layman's uneasiness about until now...

gimulnautti,
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@Diggler67 @panamared27401 This is legit one of the best popularisations of the field of problems underlying the worries.

I like how it really underlines that we are largely looking at the wrong moment in AI: where it becomes better than human excellence.

The moment that counts though, has maybe already passed; Where it surpasses human weaknesses.

drahardja, to photography
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This article describes how journalists sent photographs across the Atlantic “instantly” in 1926. The most amazing thing to me is that the image is literally digitized into “pixels” along a helical scanline, quantized into 5 levels of gray—all through analog means.

So utterly fascinating.

An enterprising person could have used the 5 hole punches to encode 32 levels of gray, or used maybe 3 holes to encode 8 levels of gray, saving 40% of the transmission cost at the expense of making the machines more complicated…

https://petapixel.com/2013/07/01/how-they-sent-photos-across-the-ocean-back-in-1926/

gimulnautti,
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@drahardja @retrogaming_bot super cool!

estherschindler, to random
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Yes, children, we had to pay extra to get sound on our computers.

gimulnautti,
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@estherschindler @damonyoung Unless you had an

OnceUponAGoblin, to random Portuguese
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I never get tired of this photo. Steve Jobs showing off the first Macintosh to Andy Warhol, Sean Lennon, and Keith Haring in 1984.

gimulnautti,
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@OnceUponAGoblin @retrogaming_bot I bet someone at that age shouted: ”Get a real job!”

JamesGleick, to random
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Once again Ted Chiang has it exactly right. The immediate danger from is not that it will become sentient and do whatever it wants. The danger is that it will do what it’s being designed to do: help rich corporations destroy the working class in pursuit of ever-greater profits and thus concentrate wealth in fewer and fewer hands.

https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey

gimulnautti,
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@JamesGleick with the recent advances in , AI will be available to everyone. And if I know human nature at all it will be first applied by malicious actors, only one of them being capital as specified here.

The steps taken by society to mitigate should be of humans and verification of accurate reporting.

AI for every kind of social and political mischief imaginable will be available by 2025.

Governments need to act, stop looking at business.

ellent, to random Dutch

The UK and US have intervened in the race to develop ever more powerful technology, as the British competition watchdog launched a review of the sector and the White House advised tech firms of their fundamental responsibility to develop safe products

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/04/uk-and-us-intervene-amid-ai-industrys-rapid-advances

gimulnautti,
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@ellent Safety protocols for commercial actors in the AI space are one aspect of the problem, but as a whole just regulating companies isn’t even cutting it close.

The community has answered the call of developing lighter techiques, which I predict will make training AI capable of fooling 98% of the population available to anyone by 2025.

Yes, this means the nasty people. Populists, fascists, nazis.

We need systems for humans and truthfull reporting, now.

gimulnautti, to random
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@tootapp I want to block a user that is sending me pm spam. Do I have to do it in the webapp? The client doesn’t seem to allow it?

gimulnautti,
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@tootapp seems to be the case. Thank you and thanks for the admins!

mnutty, to politics

1/ Today the kicks off in earnest with ’s re-election bid announcement

There is 560 days to the . Much will happen, conditions will change but it as suggests a continuation of the battle for the soul of America

I’ll use this thread to comment periodically on the election over the next 80 weeks. It’s a long road to , but the stakes couldn’t be higher

https://youtu.be/ChjibtX0UzU

gimulnautti,
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@volkris @mnutty Signing and verifying human-generated content should have been top-priority last year already.

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