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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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emilymbender, to random
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Okay, aside from the fact that we need real regulation, not toothless "voluntary commitments" that they're only going to "start" working on, I'm super curious about the collection of companies involved here.

How were they chosen? Is the phrasing "top companies" coming from the white house, or just this reporter? Did any companies decline to join this?

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/21/23802274/artificial-intelligence-meta-google-openai-white-house-security-safety

karabaic,
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@emilymbender Apple is notable for its absence. As is IBM.

GottaLaff, (edited ) to Michigan
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👉🏼: attorney general charges 'false electors' over efforts to overturn the 2020 election

Sixteen people forged documents and claimed to be "duly elected and qualified electors" for the state of Michigan, Attorney General Dana Nessel said.
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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/michigan-attorney-general-charges-false-electors-efforts-overturn-2020-rcna94838

karabaic,
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@GottaLaff best part:

‘Michele Lundgren, who was also charged, previously told local television station WDIV that she thought she was signing an attendance sheet for a meeting.

‘"I didn't even know what an elector was, let alone a fake elector," she told the station.’

mmitchell_ai, to random
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So I found this incredible lawyer + scholar at the intersection of AI, tech, ethics, and law and I can't hire them (though I desperately want to). Does anyone know of good job opportunities for someone with this unique and valuable skill set?

karabaic,
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@mmitchell_ai The FTC is hiring folks just like that.

https://www.ftc.gov/technologists

Here’s an excellent position https://www.usajobs.gov/job/732195400?PostingChannelID=

Popehat, to random

Dear Serious Trouble fans: sorry, no episode this week. Getting over being sick and sound like Gollum getting a Brazilian. Next week we’ll be back.

karabaic,
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@Popehat @Teri_Kanefield I’d be happy if it were a blogpost

karabaic, to random
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has written a comprehensive, engrossing survey of ’s work, in . It’s mostly unsparing in its criticism & admiration, and made me want to rewatch the films I have seen and watch the ones I haven’t.

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/07/13/loves-work-hayao-miyazaki/

mmitchell_ai, to random
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Dear boss,
Apologies for not responding to any messages today.
I was too busy sharing 1 thought relevant to our company on 83 different platforms with slightly different writing constraints.

karabaic,
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@mmitchell_ai couldn’t you just write a langchain that does that for you

<<ducks>>

Popehat, to random

Apropos of absolutely nothing, a reminder of JFK’s successful Harvard application essay

karabaic,
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@Popehat apropos of nothing https://www.google.com/books/edition/How_the_Irish_Became_White/w7ztAAAAMAAJ?hl=en

Popehat, to random

BREAKING: Special Counsel Jack Smith reportedly launching Mann Act investigation of former President Donald Trump

karabaic,
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Not an evergreen post, apparently a response to this story, where TFG is even more repugnant than you can imagine. https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-ivanka-naked-sexism-miles-taylor-book-nyt-anonymous-1809187

karabaic,
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@aegisgfx877@Ijio@this.mouse.rocks https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-ivanka-naked-sexism-miles-taylor-book-nyt-anonymous-1809187

Teri_Kanefield, (edited ) to random

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    @Teri_Kanefield A jury won’t ever decide if she dismisses the case after they’re sworn in.

    GottaLaff, to legal
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    Via Rolling Stone:

    EXCLUSIVE: Several insiders were told to hand over “mirror images of their personal cell phone, personal email, & iCloud” as ’s lawsuit moves forward.

    Smartmatic claims in lawsuit Newsmax knowingly pushed falsehoods about the co. following 2020 election.

    Newsmax staffers slapped w subpoenas for their texts & emails are not happy, telling RS that the co. has threatened to fire them if they don’t comply w subpoenas. https://t.co/G1nGQpqoIc

    karabaic,
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    @Teri_Kanefield can you explain the interaction between 5th amendment rights and evidence found in civil discovery?

    Can you refuse to hand over an image of your phone if there’s evidence on it that may implicate you in a crime?

    And, under the FRCP, is it reasonable and appropriate for an employer to demand such a sweeping search without an intermediary vetting the material? I might be happy having my own lawyer, for example, only handing over relevant material.

    mmitchell_ai, to random
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    The new trend in the EU of making all the doors to large appliances and cupboards identical is interesting/kinda fun. As I go from Airbnb-to-Airbnb across Holland and France, it's like every time I open something that looks like a cupboard, it's a new surprise!

    karabaic,
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    @mmitchell_ai see, this is why symbolic ai was right all along. You need a representational ontology for learning and planning.

    emilygorcenski, to random

    Orca uprising grows in strength

    https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/24/sport/ocean-race-orca-pod-gibraltar-spt-intl/index.html

    karabaic,
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    @emilygorcenski go shamu go

    mmitchell_ai, to random
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    "Beyond Burger" as replacement for veggie burger is destroying my ability to go out to restaurants and eat a full meal as a vegetarian. Look, many long-term vegetarians are actually revolted by the idea of eating blood-squirting carcass, synthetic or otherwise.

    karabaic,
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    @mmitchell_ai sorry to hear that! In PDX, I’ve noticed that most v-friendly places that had their own house-made burgers have kept them, and Impossible & Beyond have allowed non-v places to offer the option, since they can get it from their supplier.

    I hope that holds, because there are some awesome vegan burgers in this town, and I say that as the occasional meat eater who tends vegetarian.

    Teri_Kanefield, (edited ) to random

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    karabaic,
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    @Teri_Kanefield oh, yeah, but Jared Diamond’s approach to scholarship is on the order of a just-so story. He’s got almost as many problems as Yuval Harari and Jordan Peterson in terms of his rigor and penchant for just making shit up.

    Check every footnote. And especially think about assertions made without footnotes.

    He’s not quite a charlatan, like Peterson & Harari, but he’s been to open houses in the neighborhood.

    emilygorcenski, to random

    Beautiful beasts

    A P-38J lighting in a museum
    Front view of a P-61C
    A P-47D in a museum from above

    karabaic,
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    @emilygorcenski helloooo dayton?

    lauren, to random
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    ***** Who made the horrific decision to permit election deniers to return to YouTube? *****

    A persistent friend of mine keeps asking me (I've lost count!) who made the decision to permit election denial videos back on -- the exact content that triggered the violent uprising and insurrection on Jan 6, and that nearly cost us our democracy -- a ban which YouTube has NOT reversed regarding elections in other countries! (I'll note here that irrespective of any possible legal requirements in this regard associated with other countries, reversing the ban only in the U.S. gives the clear impression that election denial associated violence only really matters to outside the U.S.)

    I don't know the specific answer about the exact person or persons involved in the decision, and frankly I don't think that's the most important issue (though yes, it does matter, of course). But what matters much more is that this terrible decision is reversed before horrific new damage is done, which Google will be responsible for.

    I will say this. Even without any specific knowledge, I would make the assumption that such a controversial decision would likely have pushed up to either the CEO of YouTube or Google -- and likely both. If not, it should have!

    Because they are the ones who are going to ultimately have to deal with the aftermath of new election denial videos that will flood the YouTube platform and perhaps incite even more violence in the future, unless these executives take the wise and only ethical choice, and reverse this decision before that new damage has a chance to take hold on their servers, along with a public perception that Google can no longer be trusted as a custodian of our important societal values and personal data. -L

    karabaic,
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    @lauren Google proved a long time ago that they could not be trusted with important policy questions. Haven’t you been following their disingenuous omission of 3rd party data they buy for surveillance capitalism purposes from one’s “data privacy profile”, their firing of moderators, dismantling of AI ethics teams, playing both sides of the ad market?

    emilygorcenski, to random

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    @emilygorcenski Portland OR is creating a series of camps for the unhoused. I’m negotiating with the city over them.

    ianrosewrites, to random

    People in security and computing have been saying for years - there's no cloud. There's just someone else's computer.

    Right now, there's no AI. There's just someone else's work.

    Stop calling generative text and image programs AI. It's inaccurate and insulting. They are just the evolution of corporate creative theft that's been going on as long as media corporations have existed.

    karabaic,
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    @ianrosewrites

    Piracy as a Service

    ct_bergstrom, (edited ) to random
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    This week, Science published a stunningly irresponsible news story entitled "Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common" and claiming that upward of 30% of the scientific literature is fake.

    https://www.science.org/content/article/fake-scientific-papers-are-alarmingly-common

    Below, the first two paragraphs of the story.

    Headline and intro notwithstanding, the story itself later notes that the detector doesn't actually work and flags nearly half of real papers as fake. Does the reporter just not understand that?

    h/t @Hoch

    karabaic,
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    @ct_bergstrom @Hoch "Sabel’s tool relies on just two indicators—authors who use private, noninstitutional email addresses, and those who list an affiliation with a hospital. It isn’t a perfect solution, because of a high false-positive rate. Other developers of fake-paper detectors, who often reveal little about how their tools work, contend with similar issues."

    WTF?

    The_BookishWolf, to books

    Go on, give me your best!

    When I wake up,the other side of the bed is cold and then the Dragons arrived.

    @bookstodon

    karabaic,
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    @The_BookishWolf @bookstodon “"In five years, the penis will be obsolete," said the salesman. And then the dragons arrived.

    lauren, to random
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    Vint Cerf on the ‘exhilarating mix’ of thrill and hazard at the frontiers of tech - https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/05/vint-cerf-on-the-exhilarating-mix-of-thrill-and-hazard-at-the-frontiers-of-tech/

    karabaic,
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    @lauren Let’s take a network engineer with little to no expertise in AI, ML, & computational linguistics and drill him about those topics for most of an interview. smdh

    ct_bergstrom, to random
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    For the entire span of my life, people have tried to develop AI systems and anticipated a day when those systems can pass the Turing Test.

    Now that day has arrived, and no one seems to care about Turing Tests anymore. Why not?

    Is it that

    1. We're not actually there? It would take more than a few simple patches (google the answer to arithmetic questions!) on top of ChatGPT to pass a turing test?

    2. Arriving there makes it clear that the Turing Test never was the right metric?

    karabaic,
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    @ct_bergstrom You have to reread the original paper to understand. Turing wrote, if you believe that someone or something who can pass the imitation game is what they claim to be, maybe what they claim to be doesn’t have construct validity in the context of this test.

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