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indieterminacy, to random

Some annotating I made for an article concerning , which uses for - so as to provide declarative-workflow-management:
https://git.sr.ht/~indieterminacy/3q60oq_swi-prolog/tree/main/item/rw-fe_biomake-a-gnu-make-compatible-utility-for-declarative-workflow-management.kotl
https://git.sr.ht/~indieterminacy/3q60oq_swi-prolog/tree/58ef0a65799f6c80a4cde3e46962dce47169c779/item/beb-fe_download-files.mk

BenjaminHan, to llm
@BenjaminHan@sigmoid.social avatar

1/

If a powerful is told that “Daphne Barrington is the director of A Journey Through Time”, it would surely be able to answer the question “Who is the director of A Journey Through Time?”, right? Well, according to a recent paper [1], not quite (screenshot).

indieterminacy, (edited )

@BenjaminHan
Do you know this Brave New World excerpt? 1/3:
> 'The Nile is the longest river in Africa and the second in length of all the rivers of the globe. Although falling short of the length of the Mississippi-Missouri, the Nile is at the head of all rivers as regards the length of its basin, which extends through 35 degrees of latitude...'
>
...

indieterminacy, (edited )

@BenjaminHan
> At breakfast the next morning, 'Tommy,' some one says, 'do you know which is the longest river in Africa?' A shaking of the head. 'But don't you remember something that begins: The Nile is the...'
>
> 'The-Nile-is-the-longest-river-in-Africa-and-the second-in-length-of-all-the-rivers-of-the-globe...' The words come rushing out. 'Although-falling-short-of...'
>
> ...

2/3

indieterminacy, (edited )

@BenjaminHan
> 'Well now, which is the longest river in Africa?'
>
> The eyes are blank. 'I don't know.'
>
> 'But the Nile, Tommy.'
>
> 'The-Nile-is-the-longest-river-in-Africa-and-second...'
>
> 'Then which river is the longest, Tommy?'
>
> Tommy bursts into tears. 'I don't know,' he howls.)

3/3

https://gutenberg.ca/ebooks/huxleya-bravenewworld/huxleya-bravenewworld-00-h.html

indieterminacy, (edited )

@BenjaminHan Its the type of thing that stays in my brain.

A graph orientated brain wasnt well positioned for school exams but it holds for a world which requires only 2-4 word combinations and some light perusing.

Id posit that those with the biggest usage of AI are those who remember dates well but struggle to extemporize .

In a similar vein, Orwell's description of duckspeak struck a raw nerve - look that up incase you missed that one.

indieterminacy,

@BenjaminHan
and remember, Huxley was tentatively a teacher
(making that excerpt more delicious)

... including briefly teaching Orwell ;)

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/01/30/aldous-huxley-was-george-orwells-french-teacher-at-eton-college/

dgar, to random
@dgar@aus.social avatar

Most puns make me feel numb, but math puns make me feel number.

indieterminacy,

@dgar ... yeah, that floats

JamesBaker, to Bulgaria
@JamesBaker@social.openrightsgroup.org avatar

So it turns out Europol want the access to all the data that would be collected under plans to scan messages for CSAM. Confirming worst fears that child abuse is being used as an excuse for routine mass surveillance of all images and messages https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/29/europol-sought-unlimited-data-access-in-online-child-sexual-abuse-regulation/ .

indieterminacy,

@JamesBaker Let me speak in no uncertain tones, I do not approve of the breaking down of the social contract.

Whomever uttered these words in a European meeting is uttering incantations of tyranny and represents a tangible and considerable threat to the liberty and security of my children, let alone the universal rights of all peaceful citizens:
"...unlimited access to the data produced from the detection and scanning of communications, and that no boundaries be set on how this data is used"

indieterminacy,

@JamesBaker Heres a photo

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Petit_Sablon.JPG

You have 24 hours to identify the illegal content contained in it.

If you cant identify it then perhaps there is something wrong with you.

Perhaps your inability to identify the illegal content in it is a failure of your upbringing or some malignant failure that emerged during your adolescence.

It could even be that you can recognise the illegal content in this content but are refusing to confirm it as much because you are coopted..

indieterminacy,

@JamesBaker For the record, that post was ironic (ffs)

andre_meister, to random German
@andre_meister@chaos.social avatar

Europol wünscht sich ungefilterten Zugang zu Daten der Chatkontrolle, um KI-Algorithmen zu trainieren. Das geht aus internen Dokumenten hervor, die wir veröffentlichen. Zwei ehemalige Beamte der EU-Polizei wechselten zur US-Organisation Thorn, die massiv für das geplante Gesetz lobbyiert. https://netzpolitik.org/2023/interne-dokumente-europol-will-chatkontrolle-daten-unbegrenzt-sammeln/

indieterminacy,

@andre_meister Let me speak in no uncertain tones, I do not approve of the breaking down of the social contract.

Whomever uttered these words in a European meeting is uttering incantations of tyranny and represents a tangible and considerable threat to the liberty and security of my children, let alone the universal rights of all peaceful citizens:
"...unlimited access to the data produced from the detection and scanning of communications, and that no boundaries be set on how this data is used"

strypey, to random
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz avatar

Broken window theory in action. Getting a handle on it... ; )

indieterminacy,

@smallcircles @strypey Does that window belong to Overton?

indieterminacy,

@smallcircles @strypey Well, perception is everything when it comes to windows.

Or was that for doors?

Better ask Huxley.

starwall, to random
@starwall@wizzzard.online avatar

we are all stardust

indieterminacy,

@starwall Thats cool!

FWIW, I did a talk using the periodic table to describe my annotation system which is formed by keyboard aligned categorisations:
https://10years.guix.gnu.org/video/l-union-qiuy-fait-la-force/

indieterminacy,

@starwall Why does Tc and Pm not receive a classification for origin from those categories?

hrefna, to random
@hrefna@hachyderm.io avatar

Between and and let's also look at another threat model that I think people don't fully appreciate with

How much do you trust the blocklist source—not its upstreams, but the actual place you get it from—to do what they are telling you it does?

How much do you trust the maintainer to not perform a MitM attack?

How much do you trust others who have access?

If a MitM attack were performed, how would you know about it? How would you catch it? How quickly?

1/

indieterminacy,

@hrefna The community are great at doing reproducibility - to for instance pin in a precise and reusable way technology stacks.

Investigate their approach to guix download for example:
https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-download.html

Using such stacks with moderation lists is the ideal way to be fully accountable and reduce a lot of attack vectors.

edgarmtoro, to random
@edgarmtoro@mstdn.ca avatar

This is not only happening in Spain, it's happening everywhere.
AI apps to transform any picture into a nude.
A simple Google search throws several apps and forums available.
How come this is not illegal?

https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-09-18/in-spain-dozens-of-girls-are-reporting-ai-generated-nude-photos-of-them-being-circulated-at-school-my-heart-skipped-a-beat.html

indieterminacy, (edited )

@edgarmtoro
The good news is that the parents of the affected girls were militant enough to talk with their daughters and coordinate with other parents.

Of note is the fact that 'parent' features nowhere in the article, 17 references to 'mother' however.

As somebody who is the main parent and who took extended parental leave (many years) to be the main carer I hope you may see how problematic men not being featured as regulating in this occurrence.

indieterminacy,

@edgarmtoro There is also the fact that the reporting is focused on the victims and the remedies but there is no reference to any dialogue with males (whether perpetrators; bystanders; whistleblowers; nor regulators).

Its unfortunate to imagine how corrosive such a technology can be to this next generation, whereby peergroups can commodify eachother.

indieterminacy,

@edgarmtoro

It is a societal problem, even if the technology is the enabler here.

One may as well class this type of behaviour to be a demonstration of a DDOS attack that CSAM legislation is unlikely to be able to keep up with.

vagina_museum, to random
@vagina_museum@masto.ai avatar

On this day in 1985, a US Senate hearing began on the topic of obscene music. The Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) were front and centre of this hearing, and we're going to briefly explore their "Filthy Fifteen" - the songs they found most morally objectionable.

Songs on the Filthy Fifteen list contained lyrics which were violent, sexual, referencing drug or alcohol use, or the occult.

And some of them were certified bops.

indieterminacy,

@vagina_museum Not a watch on the road fetish song? I guess Ill have to keep searching...

Private
indieterminacy,

@eugenia_diegoli @linguistics @academicchatter Have you tried looking on the floor?

angeidheal, to history Scottish Gaelic
@angeidheal@mastodon.scot avatar

Wish I was taught in school (90s/00s).

LBC caller: My daughter was taught too much Scottish history in school https://www.thenational.scot/news/23798045.lbc-caller-says-daughter-taught-much-scottish-history-school/

Mar a sheinn

Dh'ionnsaich sinn a leithid ann
Cànan 's bàrdachd, bàrdachd Bheurla
Ceòl na Gearmailt, Eachdraidh na Spainnt
'S b' e sin an eachdraidh mheallt
…
Fichead bliadhn' airson firinn
B' fheudar dhomh feitheamh
'S b' fheudar dhomh lorg
Fichead bliadhn' de bhreugan
Thug iad eachdraidh air falbh bhuainn

@gaidhlig

indieterminacy,

@angeidheal @gaidhlig Heres a funny look into the history of Black Agnus:
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Wc_Eo20kCI8

That is good enough to be on the English curriculum

and a bit on a bit of English land that Scotland won in a game:
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=uxz7tKQDfOY

indieterminacy,

@gunchleoc @angeidheal @gaidhlig Ive got Irish parents and was raised in London.

Down (far) south, they know nothing north of some royal court or some foreigners that they didnt defeat in war.

Can you imagine them understanding Irish politics, let alone the history?

No, its far easier to focus on 'origin stories' about Henry and his wives than understanding the complexities of local regions and countries

strypey, to random
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz avatar

In s01e13, a TV news announcer says;

"... an unusually bad 'flu season is buffeting the country. Doctor say the strain, originating in China, is particularly severe. Children and the elderly are most at risk."

... and Sheldon, panicking, says;

"We're all gonna die!"

... then his mother Mary says;

"But you need to understand that sometimes the news says those things just to scare people."

Hmmm...

indieterminacy,

@strypey @jens @clacke At the height of the pandemic the lack of masks in highly dense public transport systems was a disgrace, all the more clearer given that many of those refusing to wear a mask had the hypocrisy to have one under the chin.

It seems to me there was not only ignorance but moral hazard, im alright jack type behaviour and socialising risks.

In all likelyhood many environments dont need mandates (and the data should arbitrate).
For conferences test rather than mask attendees

indieterminacy,

@strypey @jens @clacke

Yes, targeting an existing regulatory approach is apt, given it targets contagion from further afield (something more significant) and reduces duplication.

Also, modern standards of ventilation of the event hall(s) is worthy of bringing up. There is no point us tearing into eachother if it distracts us from the improvements to the physical environment (which is an old divide and rule game).

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