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karabaic

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John Karabaic's account. he/him. BLM.

NYC MIT WPAFB CIN PDX, kinda in that order

Virtual plumber to https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic

Breakfast on the Bridges volunteer https://social.ridetrans.it/@bonbpdx

Working for tech companies since they made hardware.

The gurney is the reward, as my NeXT colleagues put it.

Expect book and media reviews, comments on science and technology policy, frequent #NoirAlley #TCMParty posts.

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andybaio, to random
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"Consent Mode is off by default" should be the unofficial motto of the tech industry. https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/15/24130832/limitless-ai-pendant-wearable-meetings

karabaic,
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@stg That makes sense for a generic recorder used in a place with no expectation of privacy with other uses, like recording music.

This is specifically designed to record human interactions and has a consent setting turned off by default.

Is there a colorable argument that the service provider knows the product has consent issues?

I'm thinking something like the product liability lawsuits against gun manufacturers who marketed guns for particular uses?

karabaic,
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@andybaio Gotta wonder how this works in multi-person consent states? Would a person recorded without their consent be able to take action against Limitless? Betting the user agreement indemnifies Limitless from the purchaser, but not sure how that would work for the person recorded.

karabaic, to random
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Hey! US folks! Those noncompete clauses you signed? Just banned.

Celebrate!

Go work for a competitor. Go found your own competition.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/ftc-announces-rule-banning-noncompetes

StillIRise1963, to random
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I think we can now stop saying “google it” when looking for info. No one will find it there.

karabaic,
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@axeshun @StillIRise1963 This was always a risk, though we never acknowledged it! Brewster Kahle was a lone visionary when he started archive.org, the web's DVR.

karabaic, to random
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Software is eating the world and it wants the humans sous vide.

https://gizmodo.com/tesla-software-update-traps-woman-in-hot-car-1851407234

Mrfunkedude, to random
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Currently watching “Scavengers Reign “ episode nine. I seriously don’t know why more people aren’t turned onto this show?

Beautiful animation.
Well crafted science fiction.
Great voice actors.

It is by far the best sci-fi show that’s on streaming at this moment. If you have Max (HBO) you’ve got to check it out.

karabaic,
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@Mrfunkedude it’s absolutely amazing, a combination of influences from the naturalism of Miyazaki to the weird nonlinearity & landscapes of Fantastic Planet. So much fun!

futurebird, to random
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Here is an interesting experiment design (I couldn’t do since it makes me too sad.)

2 sets of ants. The control group is washed, placed alone in the territory of another colony (one at a time) until they are attacked— but then they are rescued via asperator washed again and returned home.

The test group is washed & disguised with alien pheromones and returned to their home colony until they get attacked by their sisters but then they are rescued washed again and returned home.

karabaic,
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@futurebird @ariadne Do ants know when they, themselves, smell “wrong”? Could you add a step in this experiment where you isolate ants before and after foreign chemicals are applied to determine self-detection?

atomicpoet, to random
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If you really want to troll Star Trek fans, tell them:

  • Star Trek V was the best movie ever
  • the novels, comic books, and video games are canon
  • D.C. Fontana was the real visionary, not Gene Roddenberry
  • TOS implies a dystopic vision of humanity, not utopic
  • the reason a Star Trek future is not bound to happen is because someone in Star Trek’s timeline travelled to the 1960s, got a job as a sci-fi writer by recalling their lived history, and this therefore has changed our timeline.
karabaic,
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@flockofnazguls @atomicpoet Isn't that last one kind of the plot of Far Beyond the Stars?

karabaic, to random
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Google is an unreliable business partner, even if you're an independent writer using their free apps.

HT @phil_stevens

https://www.wired.com/story/what-happens-when-a-romance-author-gets-locked-out-of-google-docs/

karabaic, to random
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If you are a fan and a fan, plan ahead for the "The Death of Venturion: A Venture Brothers Fan Ride" for

June 23, 2024

https://www.shift2bikes.org/calendar/event-18571

karabaic, to random
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I don't remember the NY Daily News having this strong a pun game but damn.

From Sam Staggs Close-up On Sunset Boulevard

karabaic, to random
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gonna put a stop sign on my car's liftgate

https://youtu.be/LzHnFqw46eg?si=ustguK1glxbBodCx

From: @karabaic
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karabaic, to random
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Robert Kennedy Jr gets multiple (correct) diagnoses of a brain tumor, and one quack who says maybe it's a parasite. Guess who BobbyJ went with? Dr Red Wiggler, the Cadillac of oncologists.

karabaic, to random
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I'm reading The Freaks Came Out to Write, Tricia Romano's oral history of the Village Voice and getting angry and sad all over again over the censorship of Lenny Bruce and the death of Don McNeill, Jr, things I haven't thought about it in years.

karabaic, to random
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I just wish we could run the last-longer-than-a-lettuce thing with OpenAI

karabaic, to random
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boeing be crimin' https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/us/politics/fbi-investigation-boeing.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ek0.gere.gkmwklCQqzDd&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

karabaic, to random
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Oh, and let's put everything, even the tilt of a tanning bed, under control of this fucking insane Alexa.

karabaic, to random
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It is important to note that the context for the FTC's ruling to ban noncompetes is not the techbruh who signed a NC.

It's the person who works at a Wendy's franchise who signed a noncompete during onboarding and now can't get a job at McDonald's.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/29/opinion/noncompete-agreement-workers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mk0.ZCWO.4QqYOicCdWVF&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

karabaic, to random
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The most and, yet, least surprising thing I learned from this Raffi profile is that he's a Swiftie.

Of course he is.

Raffi is a transnational treasure.

https://www.motherjones.com/media/2024/04/raffi-guide-to-fighting-fascism-baby-beluga-penny-penguin/

ht @gratefuldread

karabaic, to random
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One of the things I never realized as a kid reading the Odyssey and the Iliad is that Odysseus is just a compulsive liar who can't tell the truth under any circumstances.

karabaic, to random
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stay tuned for the lifetime movie
the last neanderthal lover

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01452-3?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=3a0a12a552-nature-briefing-daily-20240528&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b27a691814-3a0a12a552-51112012

karabaic, to random
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oh look a careful attempt to replicate a breathless "gpt outperforms humans" result fails.

whoda thunkit

https://open.substack.com/pub/aiguide/p/stress-testing-large-language-models

karabaic, to random
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show us the training
data you cowards

HT @gratefuldread

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/20/1252495087/openai-pulls-ai-voice-that-was-compared-to-scarlett-johansson-in-the-movie-her?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

karabaic, to random
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in the toby-won't-eat-his-cinnamon-monstrosity Wendy's ad they kind of make the feminine crewmate the caregiver when she puts the fork in his fist and why do i care about this shit but i wish they had cast a masculine person in her role

thepoliticalcat, to random
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    karabaic,
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    @thepoliticalcat 'Noting the massive lobby waterfall promoted by the Trump Organization as "One of the most notable features of Trump Tower is the breath-taking 60-foot waterfall embellishing the eastern wall of the building," Scovell reported, "Today, it’s notable that there’s no water in the waterfall. And a waterfall without water is just a wall."'

    Did Mexico pay for it?

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