Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

202 Republicans voted nay/no on the Gun Violence Bill.
2 0 2 voted no,folks.
Mind you,the bare minimum that was put on the table.
While only 5 Republicans voted Yea.

If that doesn't show who these cretinous bastards are,what will?
#thinkingcap #gunreform

AI-powered Bing Chat loses its mind when fed Ars Technica article

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1917591

#machinelearning #arstechnica #microsoft #Features #BingChat #KevinLiu #ChatGPT #Biz&IT #openai #GPT-3 #Bing #AI

Am I correct in my understanding that the original idea of #OpenAI was that advanced deep learning models were inevitable and them being exclusively in the hands of bad actors would be bad for humanity. So the best way to counter this would be to develop the best possible ones and give them away for free, and that a bunch of billionaires pledged to this cause. And then after they started developing models they were like "Oh wait, this is good, screw philanthropy let's sell this for profit".

Long Live Social Security: Chief Actuary Says Bernie Sanders’s Plan Would Keep Program Alive Another 75 Years: The proposal includes applying two new taxes: one 12.4% tax on investment income for individuals earning $250,000 per year, and another 16.2% net investment income tax for specific business owners, including active S-corp. holders and active limited partners (the latter tax would be divided among retirement & disability benefits as well as the general TSY fund)-: https://www.barrons.com/articles/retirement-social-security-benefits-plan-17fc8330

Interesting that Mike Pence is resisting his Grand Jury subpoena.

Got something to hide, Mike? Got secrets of your own you'd rather We The People didn't know about?

Mike knew everything about the plan but told no one. Sure, Mike didn't pull the trigger, but Mike knew the plan - and said nothing like the co-conspirator to commit insurrection that he is.

Mike will lose this fight. This is the last battle. Pence's testimony - his isn't the only testimony here - is the icing on the cake.

I am with the scientist.

#Michigan rep Ranjeev Puri to #republicans: Fuck your thoughts and prayers https://boingboing.net/2023/02/14/michigan-rep-to-gop-mass-shooting-enablers-fck-your-thoughts-and-prayers.html

Jesus At The Super Bowl—Who Is Behind The 'He Gets Us' Ad Campaign - Second Nexus
"Taken together, the He Gets Us ad campaign portraying Jesus as progressive revolutionary is a dangerous Trojan horse intended to capture and sway the spiritually curious into supporting a radical right-wing, Christian agenda."
#ChristoFascism
https://secondnexus.com/he-gets-us-ad-campaign

With only a few exceptions, male journalists have little understanding of what female journalists routinely face in doing their jobs. This story, from @taylorlorenz, is must-reading. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/02/14/women-journalists-global-violence/

DoNotPay's CEO has bent over backwards to avoid confronting @kathryntewson's challenges regarding the company's claims. Now she's taking him to court... and explicitly saying he can represent himself with his claimed AI lawyer.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/14/kathryn-tewson-invites-donotpay-to-use-its-ai-lawyer-in-court-to-address-her-petition-for-pre-action-discovery-for-a-consumer-rights-claim/

@PeteAguilar
I'm so angry — House Republicans have just introduced legislation to repeal the $35/month cap on insulin that Democrats passed for seniors on Medicare.

I need you to retweet and spread the word about this. Every voter needs to know.

GOP is bragging they hit a new record for Black GOP members of the House. Out of 223 GOP members of the House how many are Black? Four. Yep, just four. Zero are Black woman. The GOP Black outreach program will now shut down because that is enough for them.

How Opera plans to integrate generative #AI into its #browser

“Following the surge in demand and popularity of the many new services like #ChatGPT and Midjourney, we are working with both multiple partners and in-house on different solutions..."

Oh boy.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90850165/how-opera-plans-to-integrate-generative-ai-into-its-browser

The stages of playing with GPT-3:

- OMG this can do anything
- There goes my job
- I should start a business around this
- Some of the responses aren’t too good
- Actually, some of these responses are just awful
- This isn’t really intelligence
- This is just spicy autocomplete

(as was forwarded to me w/no attribution)

Satanic Temple opens online abortion clinic named after Samuel Alito’s mother

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/satanic-temple-online-abortion-clinic-b2282058.html

Mike Pence claimed executive privilege to avoid testifying to the January 6 committee.

Mike Pence is now claiming legislative privilege to avoid testifying to a DOJ-empaneled federal grand jury.

Neither privilege applies to testimony about criminal conspiracies.