Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org
Joined Dec 2022
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If you want a truly clear, easily understandable, and thorough look at what the Supreme Court is actually looking at next week in the Gonzalez case, this piece by @jmiers230 is fantastic. I've been following these issues and this case, in particular, for years, and I still learned new stuff. https://medium.com/chamber-of-progress/what-to-expect-as-the-supreme-court-hears-gonzalez-v-google-aa3f3007c5cd
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It's hard for me to figure out what bothers me most about Florida Gov. DeSantis demanding health records of trans students from Florida universities:
- The political targeting of trans people as a culture war issue
- The fact that half the state universities have given records without a fight
- That this bigot is likely to be the Republican nominee for President
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Source: Microsoft is demoing Bing chatbot to ad agencies, with plans for paid links within the chatbox responses and industry-specific ads (Sheila Dang/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsofts-bing-plans-ai-ads-early-pitch-advertisers-2023-02-17/
http://www.techmeme.com/230217/p15#a230217p15
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Ubuntu Advantage is being wired deeper into the distro https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/17/ubuntu_advantage/
#bot
Original tweet : https://nitter.it/TheRegister/status/1626544839746519041
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Bing's new AI chat has secret chat modes that can be used to change the AI bot into a personal assistant, a friend to help with your emotions and problems, a game mode to play games with Bing, or its default, Bing Search mode.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/bing-chats-secret-modes-turn-it-into-a-personal-assistant-or-friend/
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How should #AI
systems #behave, and
who should decide? We’re clarifying how #ChatGPT’s behavior is shaped and our plans for improving that behavior, allowing more user customization, and getting more public input into our decision-making in these areas. https://openai.com/blog/how-should-ai-systems-behave/ #OpenAI #agi #Artificial GeneralIntelligence #behavior https://openai.com/blog/how-should-ai-systems-behave/
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"OpenAI mentioned the upcoming upgrade to address concerns that ChatGPT was programmed with a bias on politically and culturally sensitive topics. This includes users showing that ChatGPT will write positive #poems about current #US #President Joe #Biden, but not his Republican rival, Donald #Trump."
Translation:
The #ElongatedMuskrat , who owns #OpenAI, wants to make #ChatGPT more palatable to his #RightWing, #extremist #cult followers
https://www.pcmag.com/news/customizable-upgrade-could-result-in-more-divisive-chatgpt-answers
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Here's a first... I just got an email because ChatGPT suggested an article I wrote to somebody. Could I send them a copy? Except, I never wrote the article, it doesn't exist. PLEASE realize right now that this tool isn't pulling out cool references for you. It's making plausible titles and matching them to authors names.
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Sloth is a native #MacOS app that shows all open files, directories, sockets, pipes, and devices in use by all running processes on your system.
This makes it easy to inspect which apps are using which files, etc.
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Ron DeSantis is requesting medical records of trans students
6 of 12 universities are confirmed to have complied with the request, regardless of HIPAA violations
If a liberal did anything similar, you’d head right wing media talking nonstop about their freedom being violated.
But for some reason, if you attack our at-risk communities or apply the word “woke” then fascism is a-ok.
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Meanwhile companies are selling the names and home addresses of people with depression or bipolar disorder to pretty much anyone who wants them and it's completely legal, has been for years, with no indication Congress cares all that much
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/13/mental-health-data-brokers/
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The Biden admin offered federal disaster assistance to Ohio after that toxic train derailment, Mike Dewine said no thanks and now thanks to some right-wing disinformation circulating on social media every wingnut in America is convinced that Biden refused Dewine's request because he only cares about Ukraine.
Democracy and a sprawling RW #propaganda network are incompatible. Especially so in a country with basically zero media literacy.
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TikTok's CEO has been going door-to-door on Capitol Hill explaining to senators why the short-video app is not a secret Chinese spy portal into the minds of American teens. It's not going all that well
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Gov. DeSantis battling the dastardly American scourge of, uh, a college preparatory education:
"My number one concern as a parent right now is that my kids will be cut off from additional information about the world. Will they be able to learn beyond what our state is going to allow them to know?"
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Buoyed by the purported end of a pandemic that continues to kill thousands, anti-vaccine activists now vow to punish their enemies. “These people,” said one, “need to go to prison.”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvm993/anti-vaxxers-think-its-time-for-political-and-legal-revenge
#anti-vaccine #delbigtree #COVID-19 #consciouslifeexpo #janeruby #Thailand #DonaldTrump #qanon
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Occasionally, I write or comment about a topic and it sets off a maelstrom in the U.S. right-wing ecosystem. This assures me that I have done some good.
Putting an idea into the world is only a small thing, but better than doing nothing.
Today, I received deranged and incensed emails from strangers regarding this article, co-authored with @Dahlialith. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/02/gun-laws-bruen-clarence-thomas-framers-domestic-abuse.html 1/ (thread)
