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#ECE Professor. Computer/Network #security #research. #InternetFreedom applications in #SubSaharanAfrica. #Africtivistes supporter. #Danaides CTO.
Joined Nov 2022
Merrick Garland criticizes German government move, explaining that it is customary for authorities to only act years after the right wing coup, if at all
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/07/world/europe/germany-coup-arrests.html
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Herschel Walker can now spend more quality time with his families.
@anneapplebaum On the plus side, it is crystal clear that republicans would have 1 more senate seat, if not for Trump. His supporters can not claim he has winning political instincts.
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If you see this toot (yeah this one right here), can you boost it for me? It will help my new server federate with the wider Mastodon network. 🚀 🙏
Thanks to anyone who can do this. It is really appreciated! This server is small but will be hosting several #peace #SocialJustice and #Humanistic groups, so it is for a good cause.
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Hello there!😃 Greeting from ACM, the world's largest computing society. We're celebrating our 75th anniversary this year and am thrilled to be embarking on a journey on #Mastodon with you all.
Would love to connect with students, educators, researchers, technologists, and entrepreneurs in the fields of #computing. Any recs o accounts to follow and #followback on us would be appreciated!👍 #introduction
@aphyr is it too much to hope that this finally kills the web?
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God, search results are about to become absolute hot GARBAGE in 6 months when everyone and their mom start hooking up large language models to popular search queries and creating SEO-optimized landing pages with plausible-sounding results.
The orange calf:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/05/opinion/trump-evangelical-leaders.html
BTW Kushner's business address has street number 666
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So my takeaway from The Twitter Files is that there are a whole lot of Republican men disappointed that they never got to see Hunter Biden’s dick
@AdamDavis @schoolingdiana @intelwire @skry
Agreed. If you look at the failure modes, it always seems to affect people that would not be in the C-suites of companies.
Like facial recognition that works well on white/asian males, but finds that all dark skinned people look alike. Not to mention women.
Orthographie, c'est plutot nationaliste cretin.
@AdamDavis @schoolingdiana @intelwire @skry
Yes, but then you should not be using the Turing test for acceptance, right?
@MrMeritology @spaf @wendynather
It is just math, right? You can not argue with an algorithm. It is totally objective. It must be true.
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@spaf @wendynather Related:
ChatGPT admires Spaf, as we all do, but is willing to do more -- go on record in favor of royal treatment.
Who are we to argue?
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On this day, 4 December 1969, Chicago Black Panther leader Fred Hampton was murdered while asleep in his bed during a raid on his apartment by Chicago Police in conjunction with the FBI.
Hampton had been drugged earlier in the evening by an FBI informant, who also told agents the location of Hampton's bed, where he slept alongside his nine-month pregnant fiancée.
Fellow Panther activist Mark Clark was also killed in the attack, and several others injured.
Aged just 21, Hampton was an active, charismatic and effective organiser, who had been making significant inroads into making links with working class whites and building a "Rainbow Coalition" including Puerto Rican, Native American, Chicano, white and Chinese-American radicals.
Hampton and Clark were amongst the most prominent victims of the FBI's COINTELPRO program, which amongst other things was directed by FBI director J Edgar Hoover to "prevent the rise of a Black Messiah".
Read Huey P Newton’s Ph.D. thesis on the government war against the Panthers here: https://libcom.org/library/war-against-panthers-study-repression-america-huey-p-newton-doctoral-thesis
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@intelwire @AdamDavis @skry @schoolingdiana “success… is a humanlike presentation and everything else is a minor detail that can be worked out later” sounds like a lot of political campaigns…
@intelwire Question: observing the addiction of many people to phones and the increasing dearth of human to human interaction, and increasing amount of forced human to chatbot interaction, how much are humans becoming more botlike? Rather than AI becoming more human?
@AdamDavis @schoolingdiana @intelwire @skry
Are you implying that humans are accurate and fair? Not the ones I meet.
Hate to say it, but the last paragraph sounds like 90% of the business, political, and academic discourse in USA.
I think this would have happened without him. Possibly due to laziness, possibly due to capitalism.
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OpenAI shines again by the bias present in their models:
From bird site: https://twitter.com/spiantado/status/1599462375887114240
#ECE Professor. Computer/Network #security #research. #InternetFreedom applications in #SubSaharanAfrica. #Africtivistes supporter. #Danaides CTO.
Joined Nov 2022
