Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

Alex Jones has a branded game on Steam. I just reported it for "child exploitation". I don't think this is what Steam intends by "child exploitation", but the Alex Jones *brand*, which is what the game is promoting, is a brand that is foundationally built on denigrating and exploiting *murdered children* for his (and the brand's) profit.

There is no “Alex Jones" without child exploitation, and a game that makes him money *should not be on Steam*.

Well apparently OpenAI stated that without copyrighted materials they won't be able to train their ChatGPT models, or as they say those models won't meet needs of today's citizens. Looks like a hypocrisy to me, large company with lot's of money in the bank, wants creators to forfeit their rights and then charge them for use of their models. No comments ... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/08/ai-tools-chatgpt-copyrighted-material-openai

Good grief.........😱

The Pope has publicly called for a universal ban on surrogacy, which is pretty bad news for Mary, mother of Jesus, the OG surrogate.

UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges
For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is a feature.
This is AI working exactly as planned. Cutting costs. Why else would we use it? And perfectly targeting older people because they're old and weak and won't fight back. AI has a bright future ahead of it. Well done, AI designers! Because a 90% error rate takes quite a bit of designing.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/11/ai-with-90-error-rate-forces-elderly-out-of-rehab-nursing-homes-suit-claims/

Whatever forces ate away at the social contract undergirding our democracy, they acted while we slept, not completely unnoticed but not unchecked either, until one day we had a reality-show president, QAnon, horse dewormer, and the sacking of the U.S. Capitol.
https://digbysblog.net/2024/01/09/maga-epistemolgy/

Thirty years ago, I used the holidays to rewrite our in-house 3d tool from scratch, based on specs and design I worked on for a year. On January 2nd 1994, the first version was running!
I'm incredible proud, humbled and impressed of where it went. Happy 30th birthday :) #b3d

from Bell's 1951 “The Telephone and How We Use It”: instructions on how to use a dial telephone and how to be a good telephone neighbor (full pdf here if you're interested https://dn790003.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-telephone-and-how-we-use-it/The%20telephone%20and%20how%20we%20use%20it.pdf) #othernetworks

@shuttersparks Only if out failed lying media would go for it and do their job.

Yes the New Yorker when there.

9 January 1932 | A Czech Jewish girl, Ruth Herzogová, was born in Miroslav.

She was deported to Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. She did not survive.

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts #children #Czechia #Theresienstadt #Miroslav

The New Yorker is spot on.