Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

I have to admit I only just learned that you could look at "lists you're on" over on Twitter, so I took a look. Gee, I wonder why I'm spending all my time here instead, and why Twitter feels so toxic all the time...

@atomicpoet My predictions are that they doing all this crap lately with their app only to build some profitable value to that platform and i BET it will be soon on SALE for much bigger price... Personally i hate when someone trying to make money based on FREE #FOSS project, same as i never liked how thousands of people earning on making premium themes and plugins for #WordPress ....

@mergesort i understand why they've done this, but it intrinsically disappointing when you hit the end of the road sign of "i prefer not to continue this conversation!" 🥲 #Bing #openai #sydney

How the potential of voice as a platform was wasted: closed ecosystems, overly ambitious claims, distorted monopolistic incentives, and too much capital (Ranjan Roy/Margins)

https://www.readmargins.com/p/alexa-what-happened
http://www.techmeme.com/230226/p2#a230226p2

*takes my emergency elsewhere*

Most people in the world know healthcare in the USA is bonkers and often doctors won't treat you unless you can prove you have insurance cover it. But what non-americans might not know is the lengths medical places go to extract profit from you at every turn.

Here's a real thing that has happened several times:

You're in the ER. Someone you love's health is in the balance. There's a knock on your ER bay door, and someone in business attire walks in with a clipboard...

ChatGPT appears to have a refined sense of the absurd. I asked it to write a ridiculous Republican-Democrat, both-sides New York Times political story, and it did exactly that.

People confuse etymology with entomology all of the time.

I have no words for how much that bugs me.

Your irregular reminder that Monopoly was invented as a game to teach kids why monopolies are bad.

We have forgotten this, but this blog post will help remind everyone. Including folks who want to play Monopoly with you.

https://kottke.org/16/02/how-to-win-at-monopoly-and-piss-off-your-friends

Sources: Dish Network has been hit by a cyberattack "by an outside bad actor" and the company is working with an external vendor to resolve the issue (Ax Sharma/BleepingComputer)

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dish-network-goes-offline-after-likely-cyberattack-employees-cut-off/
http://www.techmeme.com/230225/p18#a230225p18

ChatGPT's just confidently making shit up now. It confidently stated a lyric in a song that has no such lyric at all. #openai #chatgpt

#OpenAI presents its principles, the logic behind #ChatGPT launch, and what's ahead:
"Society will face major questions about what AI systems are allowed to do, how to combat bias, how to deal with job displacement, and more. The optimal decisions will depend on the path the technology takes, and like any new field, most expert predictions have been wrong so far. This makes planning in a vacuum very difficult."

https://openai.com/blog/planning-for-agi-and-beyond/

Boston-based Electra Vehicles, which provides AI-based cloud and onboard software for EV battery systems optimization, raised $21M led by United Ventures (Silicon Canals)

https://siliconcanals.com/news/startups/united-ventures-backs-electra-vehicles-19-7m-round/
http://www.techmeme.com/230225/p17#a230225p17

Ms. Gebru notes that in the rush to rival #OpenAI’s #ChatGPT tech companies aren’t heeding calls to slow down.
“Our recommendations basically say that before you put anything out, you have to understand what’s in your data set and document it thoroughly.
But at the end of the day this means taking more time, spending more resources and making less money. Who’s going to do that without legislation?”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/timnit-gebru-is-calling-attention-to-the-pitfalls-of-ai-8e658a58

As AI tools and CGI creations get better at pretending to be human, some creators say they are often being asked to prove that they're human (Kate Lindsay/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/24/23608961/tiktok-creator-bot-accusation-prove-theyre-human
http://www.techmeme.com/230225/p16#a230225p16

The "Beers family of Canton, Ohio" is beyond contemptible. Read this detailed and infuriating ProPublica piece, on a sordid scheme that law enforcement refuses to care about, to see why. https://www.propublica.org/article/liberty-healthshare-healthcare-sharing-ministries-obamacare

6 year-old: Have you ever played Minecraft before?

Me: I have! I played it a long time ago.

6 year-old: Was it in black-and-white?

#cults #CultHopping #ReligiousTrauma #coercivecontrol #BITEModel #CriticalThinking #therapist If you grew up in a fundy family, you were primed to feel comfortable in high-demand, coercive groups/religions/cults/relationships. Before joining yet another group with the same dynamics, measure it against the BITE Model: https://freedomofmind.com/cult-mind-control/bite-model/?fbclid=IwAR1hVf12wVANS8FBNpHyuzUMFoINrzyZP3SySZk5GQ3qqEbdMADh1mtvj1U