The Power of And

The Power of And

@cjsmith.bsky.social

Embedded systems, also veterinarian. they/them. dreamwidth, mastodon.social : cjsmith.

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Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

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“Right now, the public backlash is so strong against Flock, and the public is not as well aware of the concerns with Axon and some of the other surveillance companies,” EFF’s Beryl Lipton told @thorbenson.bsky.social for @prospect.org.

prospect.orgLicense Plate and Switch - The American ProspectCities are succumbing to public pressure and removing Flock license plate readers. But they are substituting alternatives with the same capabilities.

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i feel like when you're just openly holding, like, universal human interests hostage like this the correct governmental response should be an international coalition aiming for your complete liquidation

KetAnthropic JoshAI@ketanjoshi.co

OpenAI won't even consider renewable investments in Australia until the country agrees to kill its copyright laws so they can freely train on creative work. When Albanese caves and agrees to this, OpenAI will just run on fossil fuels anyway: guaranteed. archive.ph/mzSVj

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NEWSNATION: Why should we believe that now all of the sudden prices will come down after the election? KELLY LOEFFLER: We've done it before and he'll do it again. The Biden administration ... NEWSNATION: Why do you guys keep talking about the Biden administration?

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In his Second Discourse, Rousseau talks about how man was born free and able to live off the bountiful food that surrounded him in nature and then he was plucked from this state and introduced to society, where he was forced to labor. IG riverreachconstruction

Good job by all, controller especially and also the pilot who called out the fact someone else was responding for their flight number.

Flightradar24@flightradar24.com

Just after midnight, a pair of American Airlines flights with the same call sign were on the same frequency near Phoenix. Call sign confusion has resulted in previous incidents, but thankfully ATC and the pilots were able to resolve the situation. flightradar24.com/blog/aviatio...

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When I was growing up, the tv used to ask: "It's 10pm. Do you know where your Children are?" And the simple fact that this announcement existed, tells you everything you need to know about our childhood.

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The next natural disaster hitting the United States is going to be swamped with satellite and drone fakes showing minorities looting white owned patisseries

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com

I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:

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Though most people know Dr. Fauci from his work with COVID, he was incredibly effective in championing research and treatment for AIDs/HIV during the Reagan administration. For those of us who worked in healthcare at that time, when Reagan would not even utter the word AIDs, he sustained us. Thanks.

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say what you will about AI, always-on voice recording and auto dictation has been a game changer for my workflows. Save post and close app. Yeah Footlong meatball sub on white. No veggies. Don't toast it. Ranch and barbecue sauce. Yeah, ranch and bargecue sauce. More. More. Little more please

truly, we live in the stupidest timeline.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social

Not a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source.

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When the selkie returned to the beach, a man was holding her sealskin. "Is this yours?" he asked. "May I borrow it?" "You want to be a seal?" "No, but when I take it off, I'll be a woman, right?" "My heart, you already are," the selkie said. "That skin is mine, but I can help you find yours."

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🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️ One milkshake to rule the boys, one milkshake to find them, one milkshake to bring the boys and in my yard to bind them 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️

Yup. It's a small thing but very telling. The depth of hatred/disdain for women never ceases to amaze me.

Willow@rockshrimp.bsky.social

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

attention humans this is the sound of an llm being eaten by cthulhu

ompuco@ompu.co

found a whole operation of unmanned youtube channels making completely unchecked long form slop videos where the ai voice simulacra regularly trips up & does this for a full ten minutes every time. all the very legit comments are like "NO! THATS NOT TRUE! YOU LIE HE DID NOT" & never acknowledge it.

brilliant

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ALSO THIS. Also two Irish coffee glasses for @zem42.bsky.social from where I got my two. I don't know how much money we're talking here, but I have such a list... 😄

lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com

not many people know this, but Barilla has a line of 3D printed pasta it sells mostly to the fine dining industry. I don't want the pasta. I want the pasta printer

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Counterpoint: the appropriate amount of alarm is pretty much incapacitating

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

i feel like a lot of people are dissociating and not reacting to the threat of nuclear war with an appropriate level of alarm?