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trochee

@trochee@dair-community.social

NLP (the nerdy kind). Wrong-half Jew. Privilege-traitor.
Linguist. Empiricist. Rager against machines. formerly #indymedia
Also, #comics, #SFF #scifi, languages, big data, algorithms, software design, and more, including #EthicalAI

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trochee, to random
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this is just to say

I have eaten the coconut that you left in the icebox

https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/112411684628599192

trochee, to random
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> [AI imperialist politics] looks more than a bit like the competition among colonialist state and corporate powers in the seventeenth century, which together carved up the globe and its peoples.

How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI — Nathan Sanders and Bruce Schneier
https://jacobin.com/2024/02/artificial-intelligence-frontier-colonialism

via my younger, wiser brother dkg

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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If you had never seen a camera before and had no idea of the concept what would you call a camera lens?

trochee,
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@tsturm @MattMerk @Adam_Cadmon1

This is a little creepier when I remember that the word "angel" (as in "biblically correct angel") originally meant "messenger" or "deliverer of news"

So a "deliverer of news" with hundreds of "eyes" starts to sound like the photography gallery at a press conference

lizzard, to random
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An interesting but ugly history

Blissymbols - Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blissymbols

trochee,
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@lizzard Okrent's book is full of weirdo attempts at universal languages like this one. Highly, highly recommended

danhon, to random
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legacy system modernization, but it's buildings and building infrastructure modernization with dangerous cosmetic cladding and self certification and an intentional lack of effective regulatory oversight and people burn and die

trochee,
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@danhon this is fine dot gif

trochee,
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@danhon

Rebuilding the building while living in it while the spare room is on fire

mcnees, to random
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Pretty sure you aren’t supposed to advertise this.

trochee,
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@mcnees maybe top of class at Culinary Institute of America?

danhon, to random
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fixed it for you

the intersection of l̵i̵b̵e̵r̵a̵l̵ ̵a̵r̵t̵s̵ and technology

trochee,
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@danhon the intersection of sand technology with what, Mu'ad-dib?

mcc, to random
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Hard to imagine a signal that a website is a rugpull more intense than banning users for trying to delete their own posts

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

Like just incredible "burning the future to power the present" energy here

trochee,
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@mcc @tuban_muzuru

Fukuyama's got nothing on this End of History

liza, to random
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In 8th grade I bought a cassette tape on a whim because the album had a bad word in the title and then showed it off to my friend while still in the store. A Sam Goody employee approached us to accuse us of shoplifting a Sugarcubes record, and I got to show him the receipt and say, “No, see, I paid for this, and it’s called ‘Songs about Fucking.’”

I’ve always been grateful to Steve Albini for this formative Gen X moment.

trochee,
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@liza OMG I'm sure the store clerk just shriveled in embarrassment and made no eye contact ever thereafter.

trochee,
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@liza and that he -- presumably at least a sixteen-year-old -- was now having a conversation with an eighth-grade girl about "Songs about Fucking"

it's to his credit that he cringed, honestly

trochee, to random
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RIP Albini, who died at 61. He was an a**hole for the right reasons, after he grew up a little:

> “However you define ‘woke,’ anti-woke means being a cunt who wants to indulge bigots,” he wrote recently – but these days he also says things like: “Life is hard on everybody and there’s no excuse for making it harder. I’ve got the easiest job on earth, I’m a straight white dude, fuck me if I can’t make space for everybody else.”

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/15/the-evolution-of-steve-albini-if-the-dumbest-person-is-on-your-side-youre-on-the-wrong-side

danhon, to random
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I would probably read an interview/flash oral history of “how the fuck did the AI sparkles spread and end up everywhere so quickly”

trochee,
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@danhon

Those diamonds have always looked like Elfquest "sending" telepathy to me

guncelawits, to random
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2024 Presidential Candidates

  • Competent administrator and war criminal

vs.

  • Serial rapist and wannabe war criminal

vs.

  • Science hater and serial whatthefuckist
trochee,
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@guncelawits

Reminds me of TRANSMETROPOLITAN's Beast v Smiler election

Though Spider comes off as grass-always-greener naïve when he seems to say (after the fact) that electing Smiler was a mistake

trochee,
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@MisuseCase @guncelawits

It's easy to compare them to the two faces of the American political establishment, too

The Beast is the overtly corrupt [the Roy Cohn GOP, since Nixon]

The Smiler is the covertly corrupt [DNC as handmaidens of corporate power, since at least Clinton]

trochee,
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@MisuseCase @guncelawits

Reagan became who Nixon aspired to be.

Reagan put the Smiler on the outside and never performed The Beast on camera.

trochee,
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@MisuseCase @guncelawits

Don't get me wrong I'm not talking about the whole Democratic Party.

I'm specifically calling out the DNC establishment wing, which gave us Clinton and Lieberman and Manchin etc

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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And Finn. Should. Have. Been. A . Jedi.

trochee,
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@Adam_Cadmon1 he even has the "orphan hero" jam going just like Anakin and Luke.

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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Just...something that Ive always found interesting about Star Wars tech; the mix of digital and analog. You have sentient AI but you're still sending radio transmissions? Wired radio transmissions.

trochee,
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@Adam_Cadmon1

I love that bit. There's a whole "we don't know how this tech works any more" vibe that's super great

trochee,
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@Adam_Cadmon1

At several points Han and Chewbacca fix incredibly powerful tech (warp drives, etc) by thumping on a bulkhead in just the right place.

That is not the sign of somebody who genuinely knows how things work, just how to make it work.

At Galaxy's Edge in Disneyland there was a barbecue joint that was juked up to be a decommissioned starship drive with a few slave droids turning a carcass on a spit below the exhaust plume

jwz, to random
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I weep for the future.

Last night, a friend I thought would know better was telling me how excited they were about "AI". My gesticulating ten minute response hit points such as: fraud at scale, fruit of the poisonous tree, VCs with sunk costs in...
https://jwz.org/b/ykP4

trochee,
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@jwz

Co-sign allathis!

mcc, to random
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Irene Pepperberg's theory is that parrots do not learn words by hearing the word in proximity to an event, rather they learn words by hearing flock members use a word during an interaction with another flock member https://mastodon.social/@JoeKozinski/112394735459907294

trochee,
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@mcc

Seems reasonable to suggest that humans learn words in a similar way (literacy makes that a little muddier, of course)

trochee, (edited ) to random
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NO RELATION. I don't know him.

New York Times editor Joe Kahn says defending democracy is a partisan act and he won’t do it | Press Watch
https://presswatchers.org/2024/05/new-york-times-editor-joe-kahn-says-defending-democracy-is-a-partisan-act-and-he-wont-do-it/

(But let me tell you about the Joe Kahn I am related to: 1/3)

trochee, (edited )
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Joe Kahn shares a name with my grandfather, a Manhattanite who put himself through night school to get his CPA and literally helped defeat Hitler by doing accounting for the Army.

He (my grandpa Joe) was radicalized at Fort Bragg basic training, where the Jewish New Yorkers stuck together for protection against the hillbillies.

So a bunch of working class brainiacs (who had, as you might guess, thought a LOT about how money is used by power) introduced my granddad to Das Kapital.

(2/3)

trochee, (edited )
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Grandpa Joe died in the 1980s, having been a member of the New York Communist Party since the end of the war.

I still remember his memorial service in the CPUSA headquarters, where I (a fourth grader) thought that the balding, goateed man in the painting was my grandpa. (It was Lenin.)

(3/3)

trochee,
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@xgranade

I know , and they've been right up in front with the people "ethics washing" the murder and starvation of children

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