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knowprose

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Author, Writer, Software Engineer. Eclectic Interests... centered around technology and humanity. A neo-generalist who has a depth of knowledge on many topics, but not enough. It's never enough.

I like being wrong because I learn something.

Privacy advocate, human rights advocate, sensible technology advocate.

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faab64, to Eurovision

Israeli performance was jeered with booo and free shouts from the public I'm , last night.

They shouldn't be allowed to participate if it wasn't for disgusting double standard of the organizers and pressure from Swedish and German government.

vm.tiktok.com/ZGeQpxxso/

@palestine @israel

knowprose,
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Wait. isn't just

Man, what's in a name, right?

mondoweiss, to Palestine
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The New York Times is not an unbiased fount of information, but a sophisticated ideological weapon. Our goal is to unmask the Times and expose the paper for what it is: a tool of empire encased in a liberal veneer.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/the-new-york-times-state-run-media-in-service-of-genocide/


@palestine @israel

knowprose,
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@mondoweiss @palestine @israel the New York Times was the only media that published an apology for false news after the Iraq INVASION, AFAIK.

There is a nuanced issue of reliable sources for media. .

Not defending them, but saying the sources available to them are at issue... As has well known when all the major news agencies maintained offices in Moscow to cover that region after the fall of USSR, which portrayed things from... A Moscovite perspective.

JapanProf, to Israel
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This is like an unofficial admission by a cabinet member that Israeli media outlets supress #gaza related news. “According to Israel Hayom, right-wing judicial coup architect Yariv Levin told the hostages' families that he watches the Qatari station, which the government recently shuttered in Israel.”
@palestine #israel
https://archive.is/jbrBC

knowprose,
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@JapanProf @palestine more likely they do not get as much information from Israel sources. If you look at the opinion pieces they publish...

jeffjarvis, to random
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Good.
Biden Puts Arms Shipment to Israel on Hold Amid Dispute Over Rafah Attack https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/07/us/politics/israel-biden-arms.html?smid=tw-share

knowprose,
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@jeffjarvis since it's pay walled for most, an excerpt.

dangillmor, to random
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Stack Overflow's deal with "Open"AI is prompting the site's contributors to remove their posts and close their accounts. Good for them.

The "AI" cartel is telling the people who created and populated the open web that they were suckers.

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@dangillmor someone who tried that today had their content Undeleted and their account suspended.

People voluntary gave them license of content, thinking nothing of it.

And all the developers should understand they have backups, especially major one before such a deal so they could quantify what they are selling to negotiate price.

Paying to whitewash with 'sweat equity' now being sold.

Look what web 2.0 has wrought.

https://knowprose.com/2024/04/20/paying-to-whitewash-the-fence-of-ai/

knowprose, to random
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Very thick dust hangs in the air. We've been seeing a lot of it these last months in

cory, to tech
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📝: The tech industry doesn't deserve optimism it has earned skepticism https://coryd.dev/posts/2024/the-tech-industry-doesnt-deserve-optimism-it-has-earned-skepticism/

knowprose,
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@cory A good point, made more poignantly than I have in the past. I generally start off with the promise of paperless offices, which dates me.

Nicely done, I have it in a tab to link to. :)

knowprose, to random
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@stux thanks for the comment. 🙂

knowprose,
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@stux yeah. The WordPress connect took some getting used to. It presents a new potential problem in November, when I may be moving my sites from WordPress.com.

knowprose,
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@stux I'm looking into a potential change of cms too, though it seems less likely. WordPress does one thing well.

In playing with 10 on a local... Well, I have a tendency to make my life complicated without good reason sometimes. 😂

knowprose,
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@stux yup. I need to start playing with that in a month or so.

QasimRashid, to random
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Watching the bear vs man in forest stories & I remember when our 9-year-old son said some boys at recess offered to play with him if 'he hugged & kissed a girl.'

He replied, "No, that's inappropriate," & told us he didn't mind not being able to play with those boys after all. Later his teacher shared she was happy he stood up to peer pressure.

Y'all—it's never too early to teach boys about consent & boundaries. Have the convo. Then again. And again. Boys will be the boys we teach them to be.

knowprose,
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@QasimRashid I wish everyone would just leave the poor forest alone. It didn't do anything to anyone. 👀

br00t4c, to abc
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Jon Karl Opens ABC's This Week With Stunning Commentary on the Stakes of 2024: 'This REALLY IS The Most Important Election of Our Time'

https://www.mediaite.com/news/jon-karl-opens-abcs-this-week-with-stunning-commentary-on-the-stakes-of-2024-this-really-is-the-most-important-election-of-our-time/

knowprose,
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@br00t4c wake me up when we have candidates.

dangillmor, to random
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You're found guilty based on "AI" software that can't be tested for accuracy.

How can this be?

Because law enforcement stacks the deck, and judges allow it, while legislatures ignore the injustices.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/ai-tool-used-thousands-criminal-cases-facing-legal-challenges-rcna149607

knowprose,
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@dangillmor this is exactly what Facebook does.

In the past, did we not get to face our accusers?

knowprose,
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@dangillmor not an analogy. The point is that it demonstrates how flawed such algorithms are.

Your focus is on the risks. Rightly so. But the algorithms are used elsewhere.

Israel has been using algorithms with Lavender, but I did not want to go there. Civilian casualties could be seen as an analogy here for that which you speak.

knowprose,
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@dangillmor of course they are not equal. And the point is that the lower consequence issues should have made the case for higher consequence issues.

They know there are problems. We keep seeing them with lower consequence issues. Yet, despite that, they are used in very life affecting ways.

Didn't think I needed to expand this much to make the point. Apologies.

br00t4c, to random
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Hopes of Gaza ceasefire rise as Hamas delegation arrives in Cairo

#gaza

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/04/hopes-of-gaza-ceasefire-rise-as-hamas-delegation-arrives-in-cairo

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@br00t4c "... A senior Israeli official, speaking on Saturday on condition of anonymity to discuss ongoing negotiations, played down the prospects for a full end to the war. The official said Israel was committed to an offensive on Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city, and that it would not agree in any circumstance to end the war as part of a hostage-release deal... "

#palestinian civilians will still be at risk.

#Israel #hamas

br00t4c, to journalism
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The media focuses on emotive conflict --and so far, 2024 is presenting a blizzard of it

https://www.alternet.org/emotional-conflict/

knowprose,
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@br00t4c great article. Trump does play to emotions (and not rationality), the mainstream media generally tells my generation and older what to think... Which is weird because my generation built the foundation of social media, citizen journalism, etc

Trump shows the dangers of emotive, Biden faces the dangers of rationality. That was a very good piece.

br00t4c, to Palestine
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Unity: Pro-Palestine and Pro-Israel Protestors Chant 'F*ck Joe Biden' in Unison

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/unity-pro-palestine-and-pro-israel-protestors-chant-fck-joe-biden-in-unison/

knowprose,
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@br00t4c This is not going to help our planetary Yelp review.

nixCraft, (edited ) to linux
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Poll: If you were designing a new distribution, which existing distro would you use as your foundation?

knowprose,
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@nixCraft Linux Mint.

ai6yr, (edited ) to random

Disappointed the real estate agent (is that Realtor(TM)?) at the door, who specifically drove over to my house to try to figure out if we were selling (noticed the pods out front for the last few months due to our disaster remodeling), LOL. Has been showing up regularly trying to find "the owners", based on all my security camera logs... (there is a shortage of inventory on the market here, for sure).

knowprose,
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@ai6yr Well, gotta give 'em credit for paying attention...

br00t4c, to TikTok
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TikTok users claim freezing bread can make it healthier - here's what the science actually says

https://www.salon.com/2024/04/29/tiktok-users-claim-freezing-bread-can-make-it-healthier--heres-what-the-science-actually-says_partner/

knowprose,
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@br00t4c I'd heard a doctor say similar things - Dr. Karan? - about resistant starch.

I'm at an age where I look at these things.

arstechnica, to random
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US Department of Homeland Security names AI Safety and Security Board members

CEO-heavy board to tackle elusive AI safety concept and apply it to US infrastructure.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/us-department-of-homeland-security-names-ai-safety-and-security-board-members/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

knowprose,
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@arstechnica Has anyone noticed how many on that board have taken shortcuts to get ahead? Is that what we want on a board related to safety?

Yuck.

nixCraft, to windows
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You can rename OS. What would you name it? 🤔

knowprose,
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@nixCraft linux--

gimulnautti, (edited ) to Russia
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Article in Finnish, but very important in current conflict

Kreml uses ”traditional Russian heritage” as reasons to setup paramilitary training abroad. These ”cossacks” are not ethnic , but are paid by Russian state to conduct training with live weapons as ”heritage”

Of these Kremlin-funded cossacks around the world, 27000 have already fought in

Needless to say, Cossacks are not originally Russian either, but from south Ukraine 🇺🇦

https://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/art-2000010318814.html

knowprose,
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@gimulnautti Many people never connect the 'Slavic' people to it.

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