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jwcph

@jwcph@norrebro.space

Spirit animal: The Doctor

I believe society is a thing built by the powerless to keep the powerful in check, and that politics & policy failing to reflect this are incomplete at best.

Enjoy overanalyzing pop culture and building weird, practical and/or funny sh*t. Also, playing guitar.

I'm argumentative. This doesn't mean I hate you, or that I need to "win", or that I don't respect your position - but if you can't take an argument, don't engage.

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randahl, to random
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Police in Brussels have started using bait bikes, which are GPS tracked bikes that when stolen lead the police to the criminals.

I look forward to the evaluation of this project, as so many cities are plagued by bike theft. Could this be the remedy?

(New story from January this year)

https://www.brusselstimes.com/871521/police-can-make-unlimited-use-of-bait-bikes-to-track-down-thieves

jwcph,
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@randahl I've thought about this concept, not least through having a number of nice bikes stolen - I think the only way we can get the police to act on this is if many bikes are GPS tracked.

Just one tracked bike is going to give too many false positives (e.g. the Po moving out in force for a "single use" theft) but if a dozen trackers on bikes reported as stolen are all moving together at speed down the highway towards the border/next town? Now there's a possible catch.

jwcph, to random Danish
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"Evil doesn’t win because good is dumb. Evil wins because evil is easy. It’s so damnably easy to be stupid and hateful and ignorant and mean. It’s effortless. It’s easy not to regulate your behavior or your emotions because fuck everyone else that’s why. It’s easy to just go through life the way your parents told you to and hate anyone who lives differently..."

It's never not time to share this but expecially not now.

https://catvalente.substack.com/p/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-smart-fascist @Catvalente

jwcph,
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@zdl @Catvalente Well sure, you can say that, but those arguments are cop-outs, escape hatches from having to deal with evil - or in other words, easy. Like those perpetrating the evil, this is bystanders also choosing the path of least effort.

All it takes is for good people to do nothing, but the problem is, doing nothing always going to be easier than doing something. Are good people doing nothing still good, or are they really just passive agents of the same evil...?

mike, to fediverse
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is awesome.

jwcph,
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@mike please elaborate. Thinking of establishing a presence there.

jwcph, to random Danish
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"Når jeg siger, at danskerne skal arbejde mere, så mener jeg det selvfølgelig ikke bogstaveligt; det er en metafor for at danskerne skal arbejde mere..." - Mette Frederiksen

#dkpol

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Så sidder der lige en dansk journalist & siger at demonstranterne på Columbia "eskalerer konflikten" - selvom han i en sidebemærkning eksplicit anerkender, at eskaleringen sker når politiet bliver tilkaldt.

Hvad hulen er der galt med #dkpresse!?

baldur, to random
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Please stop using generated art for thumbnails and illustrations for videos and blog posts that aren’t generated themselves. It gives people the impression that the post is spammy bullshit. Starting to see people dismiss links out of hand just because of the preview thumbnail on social media

jwcph,
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@NatureMC @baldur @futurebird I think we're talking about very different things as if they're the same here. Use an AI for what is essentially a deepfake can be very hard to spot because the engine just finds the person in question & use actual pics of them - but more "generic" scenes tend to get more of a style to them (because the engine basically averages out a lot of imagery to get there...

baldur, to random
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That feeling when you do a customer survey for a SaaS investigating generative model features and nowhere in the survey does “I don’t want or need AI features” appear even once

jwcph,
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@baldur "Always look for zero", as Mark Ritson once said, in reference to analyzing customer/user statistics: What did they not ask or look for, and/or what results were omitted...?

jwcph, to guitar Danish
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So, I went ahead & acquired this cute - and very cheap - little looper pedal 😊 just got it today and I can already say that it's going to be a fun & useful practice tool.

I should note that it doesn't sound like it has the advertised true bypass - it definitely changes the sound, killing some of the bottom & making it a bit tinny. Not gonna have it in my signal chain permanently.

Otherwise, though, works as advertised & I know I'm going to like having it.

jwcph,
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@patrickworld @eyesquash As far as I can tell, the simplest setup is to just have the looper at the end of your signal chain, right before the amp, so that you can loop layers with different effects.

I have a volume pedal in my setup which I think might come in handy; the level knob on the looper affects not just the loop but also the through signal, but with the volume pedal I can boost the solo level when playing over the loop 😁

tveskov, to random Danish
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Worth reading, AI prompting is not a real artistic skill (at least not yet)

jwcph,
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@tveskov Yet? In what scenario will it be, do you think?

dgar, (edited ) to random
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jwcph,
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@dgar My mind went in a different direction so it took me a second... 😂

jwcph, to tech
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"The truth is that the ability to build Facebook-like services is relatively common. What was rare was the moral recklessness necessary to go through with it..." 👉 https://mastodon.social/@gyokusai/112301065732034869

I'd only add that in addition to showing certain people certain things to get them to act a certain way, these systems also afford the ability to manage what not to show those people - basically, keeping their bubble tidy.

#SurveillanceCapitalism #tech #SocialMedia #business #privacy @pluralistic

virtualbri, to random
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I wish I could get $50 million a year to run a business as badly as David Zaslav is running Warner Bros.

jwcph,
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@virtualbri The worst part is that it's possible he's just being measured on some stupid enshittification metric we don't know about that he's actually performing great at, which would at least follow some sort of stupid logic - but it's also possible that nobody gives a sh*t & it's just a case of the people deciding what to pay him are his friends and/or people he can do the same for...

gyokusai, to random

And while we’re at it, here’s @pluralistic's “Zuck’s Empire of Oily Rags” again, probably the best essay on Zuck’s Evil Empire ever written:

“No one would pay very much for this oil, but there were a lot of oily rags, and provided no one asked him to pay for the inevitable horrific fires that would result from filling the world’s garages with oily rags, he could turn a tidy profit.”

https://locusmag.com/2018/07/cory-doctorow-zucks-empire-of-oily-rags/

jwcph,
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@gyokusai @pluralistic "In corrupt systems, a few bad actors cost everyone else billions in order to bring in millions – the savings a factory can realize from dumping pollution in the water supply are much smaller than the costs we all bear from being poisoned by effluent. But the costs are widely diffused while the gains are tightly concentrated, so the beneficiaries of corruption can always outspend their victims to stay clear." 👍👍

pluralistic, to random
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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Precaratize bosses; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/19/make-them-afraid/

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jwcph,
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@pluralistic Quick note: There's a link URL near the bottom of the "Bosses" article which isn't hyperlinked 😊

Also, quick question: I've noticed that you never set links to "open in a new window/tab" & since I know you know what you're doing, I was wondering why you choose to do this? I always set links to "new window/tab" based on my own behavior of reflexively closing windows but I don't presume to be right that this is how it should be done 😁

etherdiver, to random
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Carne thisclose to severing my fingertip this afternoon. Instead I merely cleanly sliced off about a quarter of the fingernail on my middle finger and a tiny bit of the meat underneath. Lots of blood but no real harm done (and it didn't even really hurt).

Anyway, the takeaway here is Sharp Knives are Sharp and I should really be more careful.

jwcph,
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@etherdiver Evolution equipped us with nails specifically to keep us from slicing off fingertips. At least that's my theory, based on how many times I've done this exact thing.

  • and yes, it bleeds a loot; once I did it & then violently shook my hand in pain, as you do, it left a neat line of blood spatter across the entire kitchen ceiling 😬
w7voa, to random
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Trump campaign is asking for down-ballot candidates who use his name, image and likeness in fundraising appeals to give at least 5 percent of the proceeds to the campaign. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/17/trump-campaign-fundraising-five-percent-00152830

jwcph,
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@futurebird @w7voa I'm 100% certain he's already tried to do this - so far, someone must have managed to make The Dumbest Person In The World™️ understand how much harder people would laugh at him if he did it...

molly0xfff, to random
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was briefly baffled by this CAPTCHA until i realized it was asking me to identify the animal that was bigger than the other animals in the picture, not the animal that, in real life, is bigger than roughly 1cm

we are rapidly approaching the point at which CAPTCHAs clever enough to keep the bots out are too confusing for the humans

jwcph,
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@molly0xfff I'm just tired of wasting my time training their AI. Just build more secure systems & stop making it my problem.

Alice, to random
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All of these women are sticking tons of false eyelashes to their eyes while I’m over here whining like a baby because ONE of my eyelashes got in mine.

jwcph,
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@Alice Srsly tho - bushy eyelashes? I've seen that coming in recently & I wonder who thought that was a good idea...

jwcph, to random
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This thread 👇

I actually happen to think the business potential for Content™️ is wildly overrated; it's based singularly on the idea of distributing ads to the eyeballs consuming it & that's, uh, let's just say "not popular" & thus, speaking as a marketer, not effective - the return on investment for this is fart noise for most businesses & it only seems to be getting worse.

Sadly this probably won't stop content mills from flooding the 'net anytime soon...

https://mastodon.social/@KydiaMusic/112279625343920927

Urban_Hermit, to random
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Great quote from the The Vergecast about AI (in a product review of an AI device that queries other AIs as needed):

David Piece explains that after getting an answer from the device he has to get his phone and google the results to make sure it is accurate - "It completely defeats the purpose. We are so far away from these things being reliably honest, and reliably fast, and reliably useful that it is like 'what's the point?'"

jwcph,
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@sapphire @Urban_Hermit "Find the bug" sounds pretty factual to me, though...

jwcph,
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@sapphire @Urban_Hermit Again: Pretty factual. Did it report back the correct lines, and nothing else? Did it obey you when you told it to change nothing? As soon as you're asking something that the thing could "hallucinate" - i.e. lie - about, you're going to have to re-check everything.

jwcph, to business Danish
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For the record, the #business model of #LateStageCapitalism doesn't work.

They™️ are hard at work cutting humans out of the production loop in order to remove the "Salaries" line item from the expences sheet & be able to offer their products to the #market at lower cost.

But... what market?

If They™️ own all production & don't pay anyone for their work, how are people supposed to afford anything, let alone frivolous & idiotic convenience products, a.k.a. 95% of Silicon Valley's output?

jwcph, to random Danish
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Source unknown (seems to be at least a decade old) but yeah, that about says it.

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