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Pandora

@pandora_parrot@beach.city

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Non-binary trans person. Tabletop game afficianado. TTRPG GM. Part time parrot. Xennial.

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Joined August 30, 2018

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Ypsilanti, MI

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Pandora @pandora_parrot@beach.city

· 6mo ago

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Remember the Alamo? Yeah so that happened in part because Mexico was trying to kick out USA settlers they were renting land to, after they refused to follow Mexico’s law outlawing slavery. I’ve learned about the motto “We didn’t cross the border. The border crossed us.” This fucking country.

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Pandora @pandora_parrot@beach.city

· 5mo ago

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I desperately want the AI bubble to pop so people can finally wrestle with the real costs of LLMs instead of the deeply subsidized prices. I want people in legislation to penalize these companies for their crimes against humanity.

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Pandora @pandora_parrot@beach.city

· 6mo ago

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The Spanish speakers in “southwestern USA?” Yeah so they were there before the USA was. This fucking country.

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Pandora @pandora_parrot@beach.city

· 5mo ago

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I’m really bothered by so much of this. So much of these AI systems are built on deeply unethical theft and disregard for human impact. They willingly allow these systems to give medical advice, provide therapy, and more. They have been documented to encourage suicide and murder in some cases. Their businesses are destroying the environment and the global marketplace of tech components. They are destructive and evil companies.

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Pandora @pandora_parrot@beach.city

· 6mo ago

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Mexicans now finding themselves in the USA state of California, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, or Utah were told they would become full citizens of the USA and keep their land. This was, of course, a lie. They were pushed out in favor of European descended Americans. Everything in this country is a lie. I see the worries of Canada echoing from USA’s past. This nation has done this before.

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Pandora @pandora_parrot@beach.city

· 6mo ago

I'm not really seeing many people in my social circle caring much about Artemis II. It's interesting and strange. But I feel it myself. With the world being on fire, the USA turning into a wanna-be fourth reich, and everything else horrible... It's just hard to care about burning shit tons of fuel to send 4 folks around the moon in preparation for a USA centric moon base.

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Pandora @pandora_parrot@beach.city

· 6mo ago

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At the time, Mexico was struggling after having just won its independence from Spain. Mexico tried to boost its recovery by renting land to USA settlers. Then the USA refused to free their slaves or leave and created Texas instead. The USA used that to further invade the still recovering Mexico and forced them at gunpoint to sell 55% of their land at a discount. These events were still in living memory when presidents like Trump and Biden were born. It really wasn’t that long ago.

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Pandora @pandora_parrot@beach.city

· 5mo ago

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I said “Everyone can get that 80% from AI, including your competitors. What humans do in that 20% is what’s going to differentiate you and elevate you over your competition.” That 80% is the easiest part of the task, and it does it poorly/average at best. It’s not good at it. If you’re okay with mediocre, fine, but you’re going to get thwomped by someone that invests in humans doing human work much better than you can do it.

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Pandora @pandora_parrot@beach.city

· 6mo ago

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There’s way more going on here than fits in my 500 character toot, but these are the parts that stood out to me as I relearned about this stuff. Just dire shit.

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Pandora @pandora_parrot@beach.city

· 6mo ago

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@Misofist Oh fuck yes.

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Pandora @pandora_parrot@beach.city

· 6mo ago

Man cars are bad: https://youtu.be/umgi-CbaSRU?si=fgvgQHFezQ08I4kE

It’s so fucked up to me that we are out here fighting a war to get more control over oil so we can have worse cars that make downtowns worse and poison our communities.

This is so messed up that we work so hard and cause so much harm for something that is basically a societal addiction that mostly harms the humans in that society.

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Pandora @pandora_parrot@beach.city

· 5mo ago

If what we are hearing is true, our president attempted mass murder earlier this week.

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Pandora @pandora_parrot@beach.city

· 6mo ago

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@KolaMagpie@this.mouse.rocks this is precisely where I’m at.

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Pandora @pandora_parrot@beach.city

· 6mo ago

I had my first car v bike harasser today. He didn’t like that I was in his lane trying to make a left turn. There’s two intersections where I have to do this on a main road and I hate it every time.

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Pandora @pandora_parrot@beach.city

· 7mo ago

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@ireneista It is genuinely good to hear that. I agree.

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Pandora @pandora_parrot@beach.city

· 7mo ago

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@aeduna@aus.social @pseudonym@mastodon.online YEP. It's worse than a Junior engineer...

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Pandora @pandora_parrot@beach.city

· 7mo ago

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@pseudonym@mastodon.online This is one of my biggest problems with AI... They're unreliable and inconsistent. Sure, you can get great stuff out of it when you stick within the bounds of what it's been trained on... but outside that, it can be astonishingly and confidently awful and downright dangerous.

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Pandora @pandora_parrot@beach.city

· 6mo ago

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@AmyZenunim this is *precisely* where I’m at with this stuff. I’m a slipper at work but I hate it.

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Pandora @pandora_parrot@beach.city

· 10mo ago

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@venya @pluralistic I have recently rediscovered this joy myself and it is glorious.

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Pandora @pandora_parrot@beach.city

· 5mo ago

I like folk music and electronic music in general. Anyone got some suggestions of artists to check out?

My faves are stuff like
- Gaia consort
- Alexander James Adams
- Dana Lyons
- Infected mushroom
- BT
- 1200 micrograms

Also political music of any genre rocks.

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Pandora @pandora_parrot@beach.city

· 6mo ago

I’m truly astonished at the levels of corruption going on with the USA. https://youtu.be/ZYzPMR6Bw3M?si=L69gyaWQ7dHBmgku

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Pandora @pandora_parrot@beach.city

· 10mo ago

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@Daojoan@mastodon.social @darwinwoodka@mastodon.social so true

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