Abbe @Abbe@social.cleverlibre.org

1776-1933 - major bank crisis every 10 years

1930s - FDR bank rules enacted

1930s-1980s - no major crisis

1980s - rules rolled back

1980s-2010 - major crisis every 10 years

2010 - Dodd-Frank rules enacted

2010-2018 - no major crisis

2018 - rules rolled back

2023 - crisis?

Someone on Twitter wrote that “children’s rights should absolutely override privacy rights” and honestly, that shook me. The reason I care about privacy so much is because I have kids, and I don’t want them to grow up in the kind of world that person would build.

"This Bing chat thing is a mess. It keeps making things up and giving weird advice."

"Don't worry GPT-4 will fix everything. It'll be a revolution."

Some time later.

"GPT-4 is out! It's a huge leap forward and fixes most of the issues you experienced with earlier systems"

"Fine. I'd like to see the people who've been testing Bing to repeat their tests once it's updated"

"No need! The new Bing has been using GPT-4 this whole time! Isn't it magical? Fixes everything."

https://blogs.bing.com/search/march_2023/Confirmed-the-new-Bing-runs-on-OpenAI%E2%80%99s-GPT-4

Ludwig von Mises worked for a fascist government and explicitly praised fascism. Murray Rothbard was a Hitler apologist. Hans Hermann Hoppe writes for a neo-Nazi publication.

Propertarians are lousy with fascists because fascism is fundamentally an extremist reaction by a capital class to a (perceived) existential threat to its dominance.

Propertarians aren’t actually concerned about “freedom” in any general sense, but rather the freedom of property owners to act and dominate others as they please insofar as their property allows them.

Oh my freaking Dog, here we go with anthropomorphizing and personifying a semi-random text generator.

Look, the Postmodernism Generator has been around for *over 20 years*. You want to fawn about a stochastic parrot? Fawn over this:
https://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/

#GPT4 #ChatGPT

That gives me a horrible, horrible idea…

Surely it would not be too hard to get some "tech pundits" to claim the Postmodernism Generator was built using cutting-edge GPT ML AI WTF BBQ wordsoup buzzword bingo tech boondoggle, would it?

And then maybe have a papers written using it published somewhere?

GPT-4? Bah, humbug! I give you Sokal 2.0!

#GPT4 #ChatGPT

I hadn't planned on making this image until later in spring with lime green leaves, but alas there was an opportunity that was too good to pass up.

This veteran hornbeam has bags of character - I just love its shape. The snowstorm lasted about an hour in the dying light of the day.

By morning the snow was gone, and the opportunity had gone. Sometimes you just have to take advantage of a short window.

#ThickTrunkTuesday #woodland #trees #forest #winter #nature #landscapephotography

Your periodic reminder: if your existence or actions may at some point in the future become illegal, the time to work on your cyber #privacy is now.

Migrate all of your personal communications to end to end #encryptedMessaging apps - @signalapp is by far the best of the available options at this point.

Reduce your reliance on corporate owned collaboration and social media platforms like Google, Discord, Twitter, or Facebook who can and will turn records over to police upon request, and can ban you for any reason at any time.

Build durable and multi-channel ways to keep in contact with your network. Make sure that even if you don't trust other people with sensitive personal info like your personal phone number or home address, that they know some of your emergency contacts who do. Especially if some of those emergency contacts are people with more privilege and/or outside of your country's jurisdiction so they can't be as easily pressured by law enforcement.

If you're an iPhone user, enable encrypted iCloud backups. It's a regular tactic of police to get your phone's backups in order to get your pictures and messages in clear text even without your knowledge. Android backups have been end to end encrypted for a while. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/12/13/how-to-turn-on-apples-encrypted-icloud-backups-on-your-iphone.html

There's a lot more out there you could do for privacy, but those are some pretty good first steps.

Remember: if ALL of the stuff lot of people do is using private and secure methods, it improves the security and privacy for those who need it by giving them additional cover. If the only person you ever message with SMS is your black market HRT dealer or your Antifa friends, it makes it super easy for cops to figure out who is suspicious - the people who use advanced and secure encryption. If millions of normal boring housewives are planning their potlucks via Signal, they can't as easily assume that the person getting encrypted comms from a dozen people is someone suspicious.

@matthew_d_green

Children have a right to privacy.

What conservative people mean by "children's rights" is really "the parent's rights to treat their children as private property", and is a fucking violation of children's rights.

Jaridin Secret
By Abygala

#landscape #painting #mastoart #trees #lake

https://gs24.pl/cba-zabralo-wszystkie-karty-pacjentek-z-gabinetu-lekarki-ze-szczecina-teraz-bada-je-prokurator/ar/c1-17316995

czy tez uwazacie ze dokumentacja medyczna powinna byc

1) cyfrowa
2) zaszyfrowana
3) posiadajaca backupy

podzelcie się opinią, zwlaszcza z lekarzami

Ukraina z karaluchami w sutannach sie nie ceregieli. Wlasnie wypedzili popow z historycznej swiatyni w Kijowie <3

zglebowani duchowni, przeszukania, i tu u kazdego przez przypadek okazyjnie znajdowano rosyjskie flagi, literature Dugina, popiersia Stalina, kontakty do FSB w telefonach i inne poszlaki do ruskiego miru. Typowe...

Pozostaje sie modlic zebysmy mogli doswiadczyc takich widokow tutaj.

Tutaj ta Gangsta nietykalna jest.

https://www.bbc.com/russian/news-64917462

This article on a female #academic's experience in the #Netherlands is pretty shocking.
I feel I have been lucky at DMI.

"we should forsake the collective delusion that having an equal opportunity program is equivalent to being an equal opportunity employer. The discrepancy between public commitment and actual progress seems to stem largely from the conviction that, if put on paper, diversity will magically result in inclusiveness."

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joms.12516

“De-extinction” is not exactly what it sounds like. Rather than “bringing back” lost species, it’s more like creating high-tech lookalikes. And those creatures wouldn’t have their ancestors to teach them how to live. And would de-extinction efforts make humans less likely to worry about species going extinct? It’s a mess of ethical issues. More: https://theconversation.com/should-we-bring-back-the-dodo-de-extinction-is-a-feel-good-story-but-these-high-tech-replacements-arent-really-resurrecting-species-199586 #Science #Environment #News

"Our research suggests that highlighting greed in tweets is associated with an increase in amplification and approval of political messages by US senators on social media and that this association a) occurs
regardless of political, moral, and emotional framings, b
emerges across party lines, and c) is especially advantageous for Democrats when used to attack political opponents."

#RhetoricalCudgels

https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2218680120?af=R

Still no news from #Keybase: 999 days and counting. Either the developers don't care about the people using their software, or they aren't allowed to talk about it. I'm leaning towards the former.

Beware of #OpenSource projects with proprietary backends, or messaging apps without #federation. They really aren't any better than being in a walled garden. You will get screwed in the end.

@neonsnake @BendingUnit

MOAR READING FOREVER

But seriously, Veblen was the first economist to recognize that industry, the actual cooperative production of society, is separate from business, the profit-seeking element. Writing around the Great Depression, he realized that business often sabotaged industry by leaving productive plant idle when it was more profitable.

Folks like Bichler and Nitzan have built on Veblen (and others) to argue that *all* capitalist business is sabotage.

Veblen also coined the term “conspicuous consumption” when he realized that profits were about creating status, not material accumulation.

Every supermarket that throws unsold but edible food into a dumpster at the end of the day and pours bleach onto it to prevent the hungry from eating it is reminding us, over and over, that capitalism is not “trade” or “commerce” but rather *sabotage.*

Capitalism isn’t about producing and selling things; it’s about setting up toll booths.