tarknassus

To the surprise of nobody… 😆

I’m surprised the Social Media moguls can’t see this becoming the norm. Good luck to them I guess.

Out of all the things on a PC that I wish were a little safer, that was the last.

The IO shield however, is an evil thing designed to extract my blood…

They were doing a business.

We’re aimed at achieving a new level of employee empowerment, enhancing both our team’s performance and the customer experience.

To use an ancient acronym:

ROFLMAO

They will probably use the YouTube model - “you’re wrong and that’s it”.

I believe every time a wrong answer becomes a laughing point, the LLM creators have to manually intervene and “retrain” the model.

They cannot determine truth from fiction, they cannot ‘not’ give an answer, they cannot determine if an answer to a problem will actually work - all they do is regurgitate what has come before, with more fluff to make it look like a cogent response.

Last update 2010. Makes me sad. Good times using IRC, I should find a modern program and get back on there.

DuckDuckGo has made A.I. results optional, which is a good move.

Companies that are making it fixed can go swimming in lava for all I care (looking at you Google).

Bold emphasis is mine

But idea of offering** feral populations **financial incentives for voluntary sterilization is completely taboo.

Wow, just wow.

When a population gets feral, a little snip snip keeps things in control. Could offer incentives (Air Jordans, etc.).

Sure… some new sneaks for never being able to procreate? Sounds legit (heavy /s obviously)

I have a suspicion where this is being aimed at:

It’s not politically correct to say, but low-IQ, low-impulse control populations lack higher reasoning and moral faculties - they require strict corporal punishment and threat of violence to function properly within a society.

It’s the people RFK is targeting - people with Autism, ADHD, other neurodivergent conditions, the physically and mentally disabled. Cull the ones who are already “diseased” and leave the healthier ones to live one and procreate. At least that’s my suspicion here - basically they’re pushing the discourse towards an acceptance of some form of eugenics. It’s terrifying.

The point in the last quote - ‘to function properly within a society’ is really a veiled form of saying - ‘you will work until you die in whatever way we see fit’.

There’s a similar push in the UK to get disabled people into any job, seemingly regardless of suitability, workplace accommodations (despite there being legal requirements to make such things) - and the way this is being done is to effectively penalise them financially by sanctioning the disability allowances, refusing PIP (Personal Independence Payment) and forcing those with lifelong conditions to undergo a full review every year. This pretty much can starve out someone into finding a way to live that means the Government pays less and the quality of life the person has is drastically reduced owing to the various stressors inflicted on them. The whole thing is a shitshow and is being argued about a lot at the moment in our Government parties.

Can disabled people work? For sure, and many do. Can all disabled people work? No, but the Government is going to make damn sure that you at least try, and if you fail, then find another job cause we ain’t supporting you now we know you can work regardless of how effective you are… From a Govt statement:

We’re determined to fix the broken benefits system as part of our Plan for Change by reforming the welfare system and delivering proper support to help people get into work and get on at work, so we can get Britain working and deliver our ambition of an 80% employment rate.

In other words, to “function properly within a society”.

What do you expect from a company that removed independent fact-checkers, wanted to add AI profiles as users, amongst other things? I think they relish bots and the engagement they bring to the platform, completely blind-sided by how bad it looks for them long-term.

Assuming we had friends in the first place - something I haven’t had for about 25-odd years now…

If this were really true, why is there the existence of link rot and a large volume of online lost media?

I think the proper way to say this is that “if you post it on the internet, you should consider it being there forever”.

For example - a personal one. I did a short ambient music podcast series highlighting artists who release music via Creative Commons (a new thing at the time). It was only 5 episodes, and I have the first one archived. The other four are now completely lost to time, despite being put out on the internet back then. It’s not there forever.

In terms of social media, it’s harder to not be forever, but even that’s down to the same issues - has someone else archived it, screenshotted, especially in the case of a site ceasing to function? Internet Archive doesn’t preserve everything either. Plenty of archived pages missing images or files that enable true functionality to view everything as it was.

Do you trust Mark Zuckerberg…

Now let me stop you right there. The answer is no. It’s always no when Zuck is involved.

I love the fact that the information they can provide is basically a couple of reference points that takes up a quarter of a page 🤣