ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

I'm just gonna say it. 5 years ago, I was definitely of the opinion that cryptocurrency, while having a few interesting aspects, was going to do a lot more harm than good, and was basically a crappy fad. In general, this has borne out.

So I'm gonna say it now: ChatGPT and other LLMs, while they have a few interesting aspects, are going to do a lot more harm than good, and are basically a crappy fad.

An incisive and cogent account of how the Republican Party lost its mind. (Hint: it didn't start with Trump.)

Review: American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy https://www.redheadedfemme.com/2023/02/review-american-psychosis-historical.html

Did Marie Antoinette's headless corpse write this

One more time, for the people at the back: domestic abusers FREQUENTLY have the passcode to their target's phones, either through coercion or shoulder-surfing. Monitoring software that requires a passcode in order to install it is STILL STALKERWARE. The defining trait of stalkerware it is designed to deceive the user into thinking their data is not being exfiltrated.

As a joke, I wanted to pay homage to The Dead Milkmen's Stuart song by having AI generate "Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick." I completely failed at figuring that out and ended with Jesus Jedi Knight.

If someone can figure out the pogo stick thing so it looks cool, I will forever laugh in your honor.

#ai #AIArt #StarWars

@lwndow @timbray I gave up on crowdsourced blacklists long ago. My experience, in the context of email spam, is that eventually the admin has a tantrum and ends up blocking all of AWS or some shit.

I saw this on Reddit and thought there's no way it's real, but after testing for myself I've confirmed it is. Bing AI will give you incorrect information then fully gaslight you if you question it.

I wrote about the dangers of integrating AI chatbots into search engines in my article here, but I could never have imagined Microsoft programming their chatbot to be this aggressive.

https://escapingtech.com/tech/opinions/the-ai-search-engine-problem.html

This makes the Ohio siren the perfect dog whistle, pun intended.

If I were to play Stukka dive bomb sounds outside the window of the geriatric wing of the Veterans' Administration every day, people would understand why that could be traumatic.

But a sundown siren in Vermilion, Ohio every day at 6pm is not understood to be traumatic.🙂🙃

Ohio is a state with a history of racist lynchings, pogroms, ethnic cleansing, and sundown towns. Sundown towns near Vermilion absolutely did use a 6pm siren.

Participating in this chain of violence has not changed much in the past 100 years. The NextDoor app is a fancy way to either find your lost cat, or to police the movements of Black people.

Ahmaud Arbery was murdered by 3 white men with no authority who wanted to detain him under that 1863 citizens arrest law from the civil war.

https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/582508-its-time-to-repeal-and-replace-citizens-arrest-laws/

Many white folk don't even know this history of why they feel so comfortable asking a Black person to prove that they belong in an area. But they participate in it.

If you are white in the US, think of how many times *in your entire life* that a Black citizen with no authority whatsoever, walked up to you, detained you, and demanded that you show ID.

The number of times is likely to be close to zero, even if you live in a majority Black neighborhood. It just doesn't happen in reverse. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Milky Way Over Chimney Rock - From Bill - https://flic.kr/p/2j6jC6X

From 15 Feb: TN GOP objects to Right To Life tugging at their leash: A legislative hearing to consider potential changes to Tennessee’s no-exception abortion ban sparked unusual public remarks from House Speaker Cameron Sexton (R), who condemned a lobbyist from Right To Life for “intimidation“ tactics. - https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2023/02/14/tennessee-abortion-ban-republicans-press-state-right-to-life/69903309007/ #uspol #tennessee #abortion #gop #abortion-rights

Really wild to lay off 8,000 people then go on a press tour about how you took a 10-day vacation and turned off your devices so you couldn't see the mean things people were saying about you. https://www.businessinsider.com/salesforce-ceo-benioff-10-day-digital-detox-after-layoffs-report-2023-2?utm_source=reddit.com

Accidentally Making Terrorist Explosive – Two articles looking at TATP in university labs made by mistake – https://tinyurl.com/ywxd86mk #IED

Mood.

ok, this s cool

https://youtu.be/M1-YeqGynlw