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@simonzerafa@infosec.exchange @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
This is a fun game.
"Our AI went rogue and started asking very uncomfortable question regarding the ethics of our business operations"
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@gsquirrel@cupoftea.social @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
There is a definition in the bill that would also cover a public Forgejo server.
Also 'BE IT ENACTED by the King's most Excellent Majesty' do these people actually listen to themselves??
No king but king Ludd!
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@ajroach42
I wonder how many older conservatives in decision making positions have been exposed to difficult questions by their children or grandchildren, due to what these young people have reading/watching.
Somehow I think this has a non-zero effect on all this, I just wish there were enough people in positions to point out how stupid all this control is.
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@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt
Those sneaky Chinese, not getting involved in war crimes, genocide, illegal invasions, assassinations or kidnappings.
They must be up to something.
/Sarcasm
The 'developed' world's projection is showing.
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@tante@tldr.nettime.org
To put it another way.
Capitalism alienating a new sector of workers from the means of production. their own thought.
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There is a special place in my heart for
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Don't tell the vibe coders.
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@MicroSFF
What would a genie do if you don't make a wish? Would they just hang around?
It's not like they have much to do. Do they just lay dormant in the lamp till someone rubs it?
Maybe they have whole other life in the lamp and randomly get pulled out while boiling pasta, that could be a problem.
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@brian_greenberg
Is it just me or is it obvious that those drones wouldn't stand a chance against a kid with a schoolbag.
And the chance is, they would be facing off against a number of kids.
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@smallcircles
I have had endless 'discussions' in non-tech related orgs using big tech for office related tasks, and I have consistently lost the arguments, mostly due to some type is 'convenience' position, even after implementing FOSS solution which have been successful in the orgs.
My personal opinion on licensing is release everything under non-commercial, no profit can be extracted from the use of the tool. cut capitalists out entirely. I don't know if this makes a diff though.
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@notjustbikes @LovesTha
There was and interesting conversation between Robert Scheer and Thomas Bass (who wrote a book on Fukshima)
I have not fully investigated the assertions from Thomas, but he posits that nuclear was never viable, it was only ever a subsidy to enable weapons, there are obviously other positive and negative outcomes from nuclear, but this seems credible from my cursory understanding.
https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/8b142d79-e9a0-474f-a9b0-42ea71256169/bob-and-bass-june-26-2026.mp3
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@Brad_Rosenheim @noondlyt
I didn't know it still existed, IIRC nextdoor was set up as a front for a newspaper coalition to farm for stories. Probably not surprising they remove stuff like this.
Nice work though.
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@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us
The MET are disappointed?
So they are now The institutionally racist, misogynistic, homophobic, and disappointed Metropolitan Police.
;)
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@IndyRichard@mastodon.scot
"You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it!! Is that clear?! ..."
https://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/moviespeechnetwork4.html
Everyone should give @ARG@kolektiva.social some serious love and donations.
They have a number of books which they read and are available as audiobooks on youtube (for want of a better platform).
Including "What Is Antiracism?: And Why It Means Anticapitalism," by Arun Kundnani.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vifzr8fsLME
It is well worth a listen and if you can pick up the book from verso.
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@ilumium
"Do not lock us in a golden cage and call it protection. The failure to address the root causes of harm does not justify our exclusion, not even temporarily."
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If this is trolling, you got me. If it is not, you lost me.
It is time to admit that allowing websites to run embedded code on your computer was a terrible idea!
It was a terrible idea when we first did it, it is a terrible idea now, and at every point in the future it will be a terrible idea.
Terrible.
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@smallcircles
There was an interesting talk by the economist Mark Blyth on Politics of grievance, I don't agree with everything he says, but this conversation reminded me of it.
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=fLWhiugHkbQ
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@smallcircles
On the same note, it is interesting stuff, thanks for the response.
Don't take the criticism as hostility, everyone here is working in their own way to what could be a better place, and I'm not so hubristic to believe I could not be wrong.
With care and peace.
Anyone proposing that you should use AI in your job.
Consider what it would look like if the AI was a person. You get them to do something for you, you then correct them. Whether they know it or not, they are getting you to train your replacement.
Now if you think of this person as capital of a heavily indebted corporation. It will end up screwing you our of a job and screwing your employer out of money.
On top of that, this thing has no understanding of your job, it will probably fail.
"We need to be clear. The west has no lessons to teach other powers and countries in the world when it comes to democracy and human rights."
Spot on!
Clara Mattei speaks with Hamza Hamouchene, North Africa Programme Coordinator at the Transnational Institute and editor of Dismantling Green Colonialism.
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@LovesTha @notjustbikes
I don't think he is talking about the 90s
I feel this may be 2023-5 estimates.
This paper estimates solar at $45/MWh for large scale solar. I don't know where Thomas gets the nuclear figure from.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/372355663_Electricity_Generation_Costs_by_Technology
So going to a website I get the message:
"AI scrapers break the web, to use this page you'll need JavaScript enabled."
I get what you are trying to do, but there must be a better way to do this, because it could be just as accurate to say:
"Data can be scraped, to see the data you have to execute this arbitrary code on your computer."
I don't know what this code does, I don't know who it communicates with and I don't trust my web browser to protect me. We are at an impasse.
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@cstross@wandering.shop @Remittancegirl@mstdn.social
I think the people who are getting murdered in the footage, are receiving significantly more harm.
'Your mom does the washing' by Joshua Idehen
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@SmartmanApps@dotnet.social @jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io
It is a funny metaphor, because all it takes to put a genie back in a bottle is three wishes.
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@shadow53@floss.social
If they appreciate academic research, there is always this
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5
"We argue that these falsehoods, and the overall activity of large language models, is better understood as bullshit in the sense explored by Frankfurt (On Bullshit, Princeton, 2005): the models are in an important way indifferent to the truth of their outputs."
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@nogodsnomasters@kolektiva.social
Not sure why this would get so much traction.
As far as I can figure, there is no source for this quote, and I don't feel it is either representative of Kropotkin or particularly insightful.
The only conversation about AI that made any sense to me.
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@sfb
Are you attempting to propose journalists have more freedom in Israel, when they have just spent the last 2 years perpetrating a genocide which has been the deadliest conflict for journalists in history.
Erik is spot on.
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@JohnnieMac@mastodon.scot @ScottishGreens@mastodon.scot
Why the russophobia, were they also responsible for the guilded age, which was alleviated by a wealth tax (~90% top rate) in the 50's in the US?
Also if charity could solve a distributional issue like this, it would have done so already. I would argue business leaders are never benevolent, otherwise they wouldn't have built the empires they have.
If you work in a position, and you fuck it up so epically you have to resign, you generally don't get to hand it over to your mate.
Why does this seem to be the way it works for the Prime Minister of the UK, can we not just leave it vacant for a bit until someone who can actually do it comes along.
It may actually give the entire nation a bit of respite.
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@LevZadov@kolektiva.social @jeremy_pm@mastodon.nz @bob_zim@infosec.exchange @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt
It is a good quote. The quote is in reference to being embedded in an active war and it illuminates war propaganda.
I think it is worth noting that this does not apply universally. Given freedom from war propaganda many people don't believe this. States wouldn't need the media and propaganda apparatus if this were universal.
A song recorded in March.
Everything Is Great! By Carsie Blanton & The Burning Hell
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@samlitzinger
So the message to all NATO members, recognize that you are only in NATO at the US's benevolence.
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@LovesTha @notjustbikes
If I remember the figures from Thomas, it was a while since I listened to it, the cost of nuclear excluding build, disposal, and decommissioning is about $170 /MWh where solar is about $40 /MWh inclusive. *I will probably listen to it again today and correct later.*
He describes it as "the most expensive way to boil water."
*I edited from what Thomas said in the recording, I had guessed too low on nuclear and too high on solar.*