So please don’t get me wrong. Fascism is bad and we have some very real problems with it in America. But 2020s America is NOT 1930s Germany in so many ways. It just isn’t. We have our own history to reference and need to quit using Germany as the lense. It’s a weird perspective.
The hyperbole on the issue is strikingly similar to the hyperbole I see on AI. There are plenty of concerns that we should discuss, but some of the commentary sounds like it’s being smuggled out of a French cellar in 1943.
Let the shitstorm begin! Allez cuisine!!
The only thing more chickenshit than a cable personality/journalist asking a question prefaced with “people are saying…” is a cable personality/journalist prefacing a question with “what do you say to people who say…”
What’s wrong with owning your questions? What’s wrong with being direct? How about saying “why do you contend that…” or “you have been quoted as saying…what exactly do you mean by that?” How about “I hear you saying XYZ but I observe you doing ABC…why is that?”
Finally had a moment to read this statement from the FTC and it is 🔥🔥🔥
https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2023/02/keep-your-ai-claims-check
A few choice quotes:
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I would love to see a mass of dildo parades converging on the capitals of the fascist drag queen haters. It could be good fun.
https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/25/cocks-not-glocks-texas-campus-carry-gun-law-protest
How many drag queens have let loose a bloodbath in an elementary school?
John Stewart, nails it.
ya know, it's an amazing feeling when i come to the same conclusion as @mmasnick or @KarlBode do independently:
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/03/01/our-growing-tiktok-moral-panic-still-isnt-addressing-the-actual-problem/ #tech #news
tiktok isn't the real problem
What is consciousness? What is intelligence?
Over the millennia the ink spilled on these two words have produced more smoke than mirrors making all the sturm and drang and pearl clutching and about “artificial intelligence” so incredibly laughable. AI has truly put the “hype” in hyperventilation.
Please read this slightly older opinion that makes the case.
Well. I guess Bill Maher is qualified to define “woke”. Apparently it’s a lot of things. Ya know, a lot of things.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/bill-maher-shares-definition-of-woke-during-jake-tapper-cnn-interview
I keep hearing media outlets using the term “wokeism”.
I have not heard once, not once, what the fuck that word means. Do you think maybe they could spend a three minute segment on defining it, and interviewing those in the know? Please oh please I would love journalism to do it’s duty to educate the public on the arcane language they use.
It’s a great sign to see more right wing trolls on mastodon. It means they’re getting nervous about no one paying attention to them on Twitter. So far I have blocked a few. I’m sure they’ll figure out soon that Mastodon doesn’t reward their bullshit. Before I block them, though, I private message them and tell them to fuck the fuck off. Try it. It feels good.
Elon Musk has laid bare an essential truth I have speculated about in private for many years.
Scott Adams is IN FACT rubber and the media is INDUBITABLY glue. QED.
Jiu-jitsu liberal. Couldn't drink well enough to be a writer or a lawyer. Became a stoned philosopher instead. Sometimes pay the bills.