Kris Sargent, MD @kristofor@social.cleverlibre.org

I don’t think Charles Apple made it over this way, but he shared a great meme that I feel I must share with you.

On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter reconnaissance for an attack on an alleged North Vietnamese-controlled village at My Lai.

As the ground attack developed below, Thompson realised he was in fact witnessing something something else:

A massacre.

He decided to act. /1 🧵 #history #histodons

The whole discussion about banning TikTok is incredibly frustrating to me, as it seems like a fairly blatant 1st Amendment violation that *also* completely destroy whatever (slight, and always mostly rhetorical) moral high ground the US had on this sort of thing: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/03/16/yes-the-us-government-threatening-to-block-tiktok-violates-the-1st-amendment/

1. Fox News' @JesseBWatters@twitter.com told millions of viewers that Silicon Valley Bank "donated $74 million to Black Lives Matter."

Similar claims went viral on Twitter

Some "facts" are too good to check

The actual amount that SVB donated to BLM is ZERO

Follow along for receipts 🧾

But anyway, I'm sure Putin will stop at the annexation of T̶h̶e̶ ̶S̶u̶d̶e̶t̶e̶n̶l̶a̶n̶d̶ Crimea. We should have a meeting in Germany to negotiate a Ukrainian Concession. I hear Munich is nice this time of year.

This was an actual argument made about reasons for the SVB failure in the Wall Street Journal. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/13/silicon-valley-bank-woke-right-wing/

Spotify: 25000 people listened to your album, we’ll never tell you who they are and how they found you! Here’s $1.74.

Bandcamp: 30 people bought your album and left a comment! Here’s $250.

The BBC confirming the revolution will not, in fact, be televised

Spend less time worrying about drag queens and more time worrying about youth pastors, boy scout leaders, and republican house speakers.

If you are discussing your abortion and you live in a place where abortion is now essentially illegal, please remember to speak only to people you trust and remember to use end-to-end encrypted comms with disappearing messages turned on.

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/03/10/texas-abortion-lawsuit/

Reminder: Prior to 1982, stock buybacks were considered stock manipulation. It was Reagan's SEC that opened the floodgates to their abuse.

Stock buybacks don’t create more jobs. They don't increase wages. They don’t grow the economy.

They make corporate execs richer. Hello?

When Alaska rolled back its protections for LGBTQ people, it didn't send out a press release.

Instead, the state quietly announced the policy change via the social media feeds of its human rights commission.

The agency's Twitter and Facebook accounts had a total of 102 followers as of yesterday.

New, from @ProPublica & Anchorage Daily News:

https://www.propublica.org/article/alaska-drops-lgbtq-discrimination-ban?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#Alaska #LGBTQ #CivilRights #HumanRights #SCOTUS #Employment #Discrimination #Housing #Credit

These machines can do neither. They produce strings of tokens that statistically appear like they were produced by a human.

To an LLM the statements “Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon” and “Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on Mars” are differentiated only in that more people have written the former than the latter.

That’s it.

AI doesn’t exist and companies letting what we DO have make decisions is just a way to avoid culpability for the results.

3/3

Cat with a Pearl earring- Urban Street Art
#Cats #CatsOfMastodon

#covid19 #virus #vax #weaponsofmassdestruction

The Department of Energy says they think SARS-CoV-2 escaped from a lab.

I think I'm going to wait to hear what the Postal Department says about it before I make up my mind...

(sarcasm)

if america ever gets nuked the headlines will say "Millions of workers didn't show up for work yesterday. Is No Call No Show the new standard?"

Esther Crawford, who proudly slept in the Twitter office to meet some arbitrary deadline Elon made up, has apparently been fired. I hope that some day people will understand that killing yourself for your employer is pointless.