When you deposit money in your bank account it actually then becomes the bank's money, and they simply owe you the money back pursuant to a really crappy loan agreement which pays you basically no interest.
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A founder of https://www.COVIDIsAirborne.org and its-airborne.org so many years ago.
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@calcifer@masto.hackers.town
Everybody should lock pick their own front door so they realize just how insecure they are
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@VeeRat@zeroes.ca
I couldn't even get AI to make me a compound interest calculator. It did it incorrectly. I have no idea what anyone uses this "tool" for.
I do use a dictation tool which is an LLM (local) and it works well. That is the only use case I have found so far for me.
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The U.S. State Department generated a map of Africa during an international conference.
It misidentified countries and positioned them all over the continent. It didn't even get the shape of six countries correct.
Yes, it was generated by a white supremacist using AI.
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@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org
Just make sure it's not a listening device.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)
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@Clutha@mastodon.scot @Barbramon1@mas.to
I agree, but the article does point out that these turbines are right at the nesting site of an endangered bird. So it's more about protecting that particular bird than it is the numbers.
Cats are by far the biggest killer of birds. By far.
(Edit: but hey why not a bit of paint? Also, it cuts the talking point of people who whine about turbines killing birds being a reason not to adopt turbines. ...
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@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org
Oh so now you're going to tell me that you can't just buy coffee from the store because coffee farms are ALSO owned by billionair--DAMN IT do billionaires own EVERYTHING?
https://intelligence.coffee/2024/07/billionaire-buys-brazilian-coffee-farm/
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@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social
"But the fintech company you’re signing up to do business with, X Payments LLC “is not an FDIC-insured bank.” And the FDIC “only covers the failure of an insured bank,” X Money has disclaimed."
Glad the article got it right. If x loses your money you get nothing. You're not insured for nothing. Also, Elon is a white supremacist Nazi so why would you give your money to a white supremacist Nazi unless you're a white supremacist Nazi.
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I just asked a local AI (Jan, v3.5 4B) using to examine my website and it misspelled it. When I corrected it via a second prompt it apologized. It's not alive, this is like your search engine apologizing. This is all marketing nonsense.
Oh and also, remember, it literally misspelled my website *which I had typed into the query*.
I have no idea how people are accomplishing anything with this tool.
I just asked it a test legal question and it got it completely wrong and cited an old 1978 case.
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Reuters was less polite about it and noted that _every single country_ on the continent was mislabeled.
(Edit: I guess I'm going to have to find the map because everybody seems to be saying slightly different things about it.)
Oh my God these Nazis. It's only a matter of time before they confuse Canada and Mexico and impose a 100% tariff on Canadian hot sauce which will have absolutely no impact. 😄
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@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt
That's because AI is ultimately for making money. Anything else that makes is incidental.
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@ryanboswell@sfba.social
So I opened the article expecting some kind of malware attack needed but nope the charger is just completely open to root access. Okay.
"An EV charger's charging port is a network port. We found SSH and Telnet services exposed on XCharge C6 chargers with default root:root credentials. A threat actor with a malicious EV can gain immediate full control access on the charger and perform energy theft or potentially cause physical damage."
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@jalefkowit@hachyderm.io
"For the uninitiated: the Book of Enoch is a Hebrew text from around 200 BCE, cut from most Bibles and considered canonical mainly by the Ethiopian Orthodox church. It’s best known for the Watchers, fallen angels who come down and father a race of giants. It is a lot of things. A residential solar lease is not one of them."
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@Clutha@mastodon.scot @Barbramon1@mas.to
... and on that point an interesting aside: headaches caused by turbines were an exclusively white and English-speaking phenomenon. Hmm.)
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Citizens cheered at the news that ICE had issued a directive to back off traffic stops but this was quickly replaced with terror when they realized the directive was simply to shoot the drivers in the head from 50 paces and not bother trying to stop the car at all.
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It has now made up a completely fictitious case, with fictitious quote.
Edit: two cases, with two quotes. 2019 ONSC 234 is a criminal case. And the link did not work. (I mean, it fed me a link, but since the case is made up, the link obviously could not work.)
Is this all just a big prank? I am just curious about it, and I cannot get it to give me basic information. I could not get CoPilot to make me a compound interest calculator. But I'm supposed to believe people are coding with this?
The far-right oligarchs busy saying there's an evil left-wing global reset underway when they are busy resetting everyone to be their wage slaves.
As usual, every accusation is a confession with them.
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@meowki@meowstodon.eu
Hmm. Patreon presented the fluffy belly and then scratched the s out of you, unfortunately.
(Hope you can restore it.)
Republicans say that immigrants are taking American jobs but they (and industry) introduced the cheap labour to union bust in the 70s (and have continued since then).
Once more Republicans destroy everything they touch because they serve the oligarchs. (Also they are child predators but that's separate from union busting.)
Good podcast about unions getting busted in the 70s and 80s and on.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/podcasts/the-daily/trump-housing-immigrants.html
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_ Second ex-wife of ICE agent who shot man in Biddeford recounts history of violent behavior
David Brouillette’s former wife, Lucinda Brouillette, writes about her experiences in a message Saturday. _
https://www.pressherald.com/2026/07/18/second-ex-wife-of-ice-agent-who-shot-man-in-biddeford-recounts-history-of-violent-behavior/
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@catsalad@infosec.exchange
First, you must sell them to a pension fund.
THEN you may say they are too big to fail.
This is the way
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@NicelyManifest@mastodon.social
I don't personally vouch for this site in any way but here you go, a list:
https://www.bartehrman.com/books-removed-from-the-bible/
I didn't even know there were so many frankly.
New television show idea:
"Is it Cake? (Workplace Safety Equipment edition)"
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@dyckron@cosocial.ca did you guys adopt it? I think we have a law that if New York and Quebec adopt it, we automatically adopt it in Ontario.
It may include Manitoba as well.
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@kruemmelspalter@chaos.social
Hidden in that you have to actually plug into the port I guess
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Woohoo! We really did ourselves in with this one!
"Some participants who would have answered correctly on their own asked the AI and became wrong."
_AI advice made people three times less accurate but twice as confident, researchers found_
https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-advice-suppresses-critical-thinking-wrong-answers-study
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@nixCraft@mastodon.social
Didn't Luddites break machinery as protest for better working conditions? (That is, to create leverage for the workers.)
Maybe the people _should_ be called Luddites but then also get back to the original meaning of the term. 🤷
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@diazona@techhub.social @VeeRat@zeroes.ca
Any examples? I would presume there must be some uses for them, but I've not heard a word about those uses. Perhaps they're very niche and so don't tend to hit general media
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@MissConstrue@mefi.social
Just watching this short reaffirms why I don't use these stupid programs. It's just a pack of lies.
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A compound interest calculator, which someone made with Copilot, is not correct.
It took the effective annual interest rate and divided by 12, which results in a higher monthly interest rate than it should of course for a monthly rate compounded monthly.
So again, I'm so VERY glad to have seen trillions of dollars poured into this absolute trash.
(LLMs do not have any capability to deal with math properly so this was the expected result, by the way.)
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Just a reminder that ICE has _always_ said that they were going after _everybody_ and not just criminal illegals. Always.
Here is Todd Lyons saying it.
https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/114616355368609678
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@Netraven@hear-me.social
I was just thinking about this issue as I stared at some LLM generated text which I was marking as LLM generated so that it could all be thoroughly verified later. (It's a test but still needed to be marked.)
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@NicelyManifest@mastodon.social
I guess God has terrible process control. Must be tough for him to run such a big operation with such garbage quality control 🤷
(He She It Burning Bush) should probably do something about that.
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By the way, when they did the surge in Maine they arrested 200 people and only 19 of them were criminals.
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@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org
Looks like it puts offensive weapons in space
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Development_Agency
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@NicelyManifest@mastodon.social
And there are multiple versions of the Bible with multiple different collections of different stories in them. Weird that god wouldn't have settled on one set ... I guess he was busy.
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Here is Tom Homan saying it. And remember Tom speaks at white supremacist gatherings and was caught years ago taking a $25,000 bribe.
https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/116013655761221299
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@NicelyManifest@mastodon.social
The various churches have different collections of stories in their Bibles as I understand it although I've never tracked them all to ground. I was just reading an article which was mentioning one of the stories in the Egyptian Orthodox Bible which is no idea in any of the others. I can't remember the name of it right now.
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