Abbe @Abbe@social.cleverlibre.org

People being allowed to patent plants is fucking ridiculous

The Idea that the value of your work changes based on what country you are from is fucking ridiculous almost as ridiculous as blaming the countries we exploit for being poor.

Slavery hasn't been abolished, it has only been obscured.

We rarely talk about a paradigm shift that changed how we acquire news and views. In college, my friends and I would read everything on the newsstands. But the articles themselves, and only rarely things written about the articles. That all changed with blogging. The citation became an article by itself, often with richer content. Today, we mostly consume news referred to us by others via social or podcasts, but without any blogger's gatekeeping to help frame it. I feel that loss more every day.

I should be in awe of the kidness of the man who co-founded worldcoin ripping off millions of people in vulnerable groups, lets not even start with the premise itself.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1048981/worldcoin-cryptocurrency-biometrics-web3/

#elon #musk

@talkinto

This socialization into an Elite Institutions brings with it certain intellectual blindspots and emotional stuntednes. But this factor is often absent in criticisms of EA by peers who share the same socialization.

However, for outsiders (for example other countries academic traditions) this is pretty obvious and has been criticised at least since the 19th century. Pointing that out is what I find pretty refreshing on Mcgoeys piece.

Fascinating to read from all the Silicon Valley libertarians how society should step in immediately to fix the private business they banked with.

"It might seem that the obvious course is not to make multiple models but rather to grow a network. Instead of developing two networks for recognizing cats and horses respectively, for instance, it might appear easier to teach the cat-savvy network to also recognize horses. This approach, however, forces AI designers to confront one of the main issues in lifelong learning, a phenomenon known as catastrophic forgetting. A network trained to recognize cats will develop a set of weights across its artificial neurons that are specific to that task. If it is then asked to start identifying horses, it will start readjusting the weights to make it more accurate for horses. The model will no longer contain the right weights for cats, causing it to essentially forget what a cat looks like. “The memory is in the weights. When you train it with new information, you write on the same weights,” says Siegelmann"

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01962-y

Fountain in Italy, on sunset gets highlighted by sun, looks like pouring fire

What if extraterrestrial civilizations exist, but they are not so utopian as some SF writers are trying to sell them to us, but they struggle as we, humans on Earth do. And if they finally reach the technological level barely allowing them the interstellar travel and communication with sub-light speed, the civilizations crumble because of social inequality and environmental damage.

Tiny rant: US-/North America-centrism is so pervasive on the English-language Internet. People are quick to describe a plant or animal in a post as "invasive" without knowing where the photo was taken. I'm like, *where do you think it is native to?* Mars? ⁦ಠ⁠_⁠__ಠ⁩

I just saw a user assuming a planarian they found was invasive because that's what North Americans automatically parrot. They were in its native range.

HAHA BOOOOOM

The mighty @pluralistic@mamot.fr has a theory of inflation that works for late-stage capitalism.
Pluralistic: Excuseflation (11 Mar 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/11/price-over-volume/

@atomicpoet

Czy to jest coś czego należy się obawiać? Pierwsza próba kiedy BigTech próbuje położyć rękę na tym projekcie i później go ubić tak jak kiedy google sforkowało diasporę po to aby po przejęciu uższykodników zrobić to co google robi ze wszystkimi fajnymi projektami?

Czy może to tylko zwykłe objawy mojej paranoi? :D

Łotwa od 2023 roku zaczęła konfiskować samochody pijanych kierowców. Państwowe parkingi zaczęły się przepełniać, dlatego postanowiono, by wysłać pojazdy do ukraińskiego wojska i tamtejszych szpitali. Pierwszy transport wyjechał w środę.
https://tvn24.pl/biznes/ze-swiata/wojna-w-ukrainie-lotwa-wysyla-skonfiskowane-auta-pijanych-kierowcow-na-ukraine-pierwszy-transport-6812855

Genialne! Brawo!👍

@Radical_EgoCom
Child labor was never fully abolished. Exemptions, particularly in agriculture, have allowed the continued legal exploitation of children, incl long hours and dangerous conditions

Remember in 2008 when millions were losing their houses and millionaires and billionaires swooped in to buy up all the foreclosures at bargain basement prices? Same thing is going to happen with all of the start ups that are going to go under because of SVB. All the intellectual property will be purchased and exploited by fuckers like Elon Musk, Peter Theil and the whole parade of sociopaths.

Look everyone! Squirrel!

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