Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org

#AI in a nutshell

"AI has lots of problems:
(It is an environmental disaster.
It inflicts cruelty on clickworkers in the global south who vet its training data.)
* It turbocharges monopoly.
* It cloaks terrible bias in a false empiricism.
* It is wildly unreliable.
* It is a stock bubble and an enshittification accelerant, marketed as a means of replacing skilled workers with broken automation whose substandard goods we will have no choice but to consume."
@pluralistic

https://doctorow.medium.com/everything-made-by-an-ai-is-in-the-public-domain-caa634a8f7f1

You must publicly state the name of the crying "Sir, Sir" man in your stories.

#OddBailConditions
#TrumpCrimeFamilyArrestWeek
#HashTagGames

‘Sir’ alert: This one word is a telltale sign Trump is being dishonest
Analysis by Daniel Dale
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/16/politics/sir-trump-telltale-word-false/index.html

It's pure coincidence that Elon Musk just happened to erase the entire record of how twitter was used to organize and share photos and video from Arab Spring, right?

I realize that people not used to quakes (e.g. visitors) can understandably go utterly ballistic for days after a quake like this. But for we natives -- and I've lived in L.A. my entire life -- if nothing is damaged and nothing even falls over it's really just a footnote that says "A gentle reminder."

Re-upping this again: I wish more lefties could internalize the idea that hypocrisy is not a meaningful accusation to the right. Of course they're being hypocrites. That you are bound, by rules, standards, logic, human decency, some fundamental moral consistency, anything at all, and they are not? That is their conception of what power is, and why they seek it. So they can exercise power, without constraint, and you cannot.

That's the whole point.

Hypocrisy is the virtue-signaling of fascism.

Before I was rudely interrupted by the #earthquake, Tropical Storm #Franklin just formed in the Atlantic, joining #Six and #Emily. https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo.php?basin=atlc&fdays=2

IRAQ: All public advertising screens shut down in Baghdad after irate technician pushes porn film to them.

Sometimes think about the time I heard a Danish right-wing politician flat-out state, un-prompted, in a speech inside f**king parliament, that they were using anti-immigration as a platform for building the influence needed to relieve taxation & regulation on the rich - and not only didn't a single mainstream news channel ever say a single word about it, but neither, to my knowledge, did any other politician, including her opposition...

#politics #press #bias

ChatGPT prompt: “Please provide textbook example of cult behavior.”

Trump Voters Trust Ex-President More Than Their Family and Friends: Poll

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-voters-trust-ex-president-more-their-family-friends-poll-1821138

🇺🇦 Top Gun Zelenskyy 🇺🇦

I hope every single Ukrainian on Mastodon sees these pictures from Skrydstrup Airbase earlier today.
Europe cares about #Ukraine, and now the first 19 of the F-16 fighter jets from Denmark are scheduled for transfer to Ukraine.

Slava Ukraini! 🇩🇰♥️🇺🇦

learning French has really encouraged me to live in the moment because I currently cannot conjugate any other verb tense

@atrupar

DeSantis campaign is losing because he lost the patronage of billionaires, who want the destruction of democracy but quietly.

Bigelow wants tax cuts for himself and lax regulations on gambling
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/08/ron-desantis-robert-bigelow-donor-2024-election

Ken Griffin wants Wall Street climate denial and to keep frying the planet
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article277827628.html

Perlmutter wants anti-unionism and tax cuts. August Busch too.

"It’s always us versus them at the megachurches. So many white American Christians, arguably the best defended human beings on planet Earth, have been brainwashed into thinking of themselves as one election away from facing lions in the Roman colosseum.

Guns are practically sacramental in this worldview."

~ Nina Burleigh

#WhiteChristianNationalism #Republicans #guns #democracy #churches
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https://americanpoliticalfreakshow.substack.com/p/poison-pews

On August 20, 2023: Temperatures at the North Pole have been above zero for more than a day, a further indication that the latent heat tipping point has been reached and that no more heat can be consumed by sea ice melting.
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2023/08/two-tipping-points.html

Great news! Humans are now slower and perform worse at solving Captchas than machine-learning bots!

Article here:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12108

Is there an indictment tracker? I've lost count.