Apparently Boy Genius Sam Altman of OpenAI has said that “We believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology." Meaning AI, aka Autocomplete on Steroids.
Absolutely. Assuming Altman goes first to get the "bad things".
That's what he means, right?
_Right?_
Apologies. I don't have any practice crossposting from bsky so this is just a screenshot. But, major props to Mathew @realmatrobnew.bsky.social, what a screenshot. (So what if it's AI. It's perfect.)
😂 🤣 🤪 😆 😂
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@adamshostack/117236366773531776
This is so far beyond "What could possibly go wrong?" you can't even be funny.
EVERYTHING is already going wrong. Like cryptosporidia in metal, it's the explosive diarrhea of cars.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@CuratedHannahArendt/117228307346821048
Seen from a distance of time, and therefore also knowing what they've done, the big dictators look terrifying. But judging by the Orange Moron, they're just stupid and self-centered beyond anything I could have imagined.
I wonder if, up close, they're all on that theme?
RE: https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/116924532050310547
Boggle! Australia is not only passing on free electricity from the sun to people for three hours, now they're actually going to control AI and force it to be some use?
Double boggle.
About AI taking all the jobs, just for the record, I'm going to state the obvious.
Almost nobody cares about it taking ^jobs^. They care about the ^money^.
If AI/robots/whatever did the jobs and we all got a two-day workweek at our current pay, NOBODY would object to AI taking the jobs.
(This is pretending it would do the work to the standard of a human, which it obviously doesn't. That's another issue.)
It's the same thing wherever you look: "People got no money. Billionaires took it all."
It's the distribution of wealth that's the issue.
Not the jobs.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@rhymerepartee/116805776587858218
"Solar leaders #Germany and #Spain are providing electricity imports.
Take heed of what works, and what doesn’t. #climatecrisis #carney #canpoli. Nuclear is a complete waste of money."
Oh my God. I just understood why the Washington DC Reflecting Pool has turned green.
It's a Message from the universe.
Go Green!
RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116710138152248123
A masterpiece of analysis. Read it for the world-class debunk. It's mind-melting how effortlessly the AI crowd flat out lies. And it works until we have people with Davi Ottenheimer's or Ed Zitron's level of knowledge to lay it out for us. Read it. Read it now.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/116191686669869182
Agree. The country that's tried to destroy Tibetans, that's put millions of Uighurs in "re-education" camps. *They're* trying to move away from Gehenna.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@TreeStarMan/116060383296061198
"If it's such a great idea, why isn't the private sector doing it?"
Exactly.
"IF IT'S SUCH A GREAT IDEA, WHY ISN'T THE PRIVATE SECTOR DOING IT?"
Okay. It's official. I love this guy.
"Former FTC chair Lina Khan to serve as co-chair of Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral transition team." (https://bsky.app/profile/moreperfectunion.bsky.social/post/3m4vj7yuxi22a )
She's the first one in decades to actually try to rein in megacorps. The billionaires hate her.
#Fedi help needed. The hosting service I've used since 2003 ( 😳 ) suddenly stopped including email hosting.
These are just personal email addresses, not commercial, but I've had them since forever and want to keep them. I also don't want to move my web hosting elsewhere, yet anyway.
So how do I find really cheap (eg around $2/mo or $30/yr) email hosting that let's me keep my own custom domains?
I want quixote@myownweirdsite.com to stay exactly the same.
I've spent hours searching and that option is either business oriented and expensive, or else it's all about web hosting which isn't what I want.
Hope someone here knows a simple solution!
Aaaand the latest installment: Chris Rufo, writing in the NYPost (which has inherited the Screaming Headline franchise from the National Enquirer) says that Mamdani's SATs are pffft. Only 2140 out of 2400, which is a mere "89th percentile."
Huh?
This Rufo character gets _paid_ by right wing think tanks. At least according to Wikipedia. And he doesn't know the difference between a percentile and a percentage.
The latter is 2140/2400, which is 89%.
The former, percentile, is where an individual lands compared to the scores other people got. For the year Mamdani took those tests (https://bsky.app/profile/timothysnyder.bsky.social/post/3ltjoavvsfs2s), he was in the 97th percentile.
Maybe the opinion of someone who can't even tell the difference, especially about someone else's academic abilities, is not worth the pixels it's printed in.
I'm starting to quite like this Mamdani character.
They (meaning NYT) try to slag him off for zomg!11!! ticking the box for "black" on an old college application. He also ticked the boxes for Asian and wrote in Uganda. They didn't have a box for "Africa" so there wasn't really a way to summarize his (complex, global) background. He points this out. He could have yelled at them for following the lead of a white supremacist whose only published article (on white superiority) used such appalling methodology it got the supremacist's tenured coauthor fired. (That takes some doing.) But Mamdani didn't. Very, very, very restrained of him.
Then the rich folks' lapdogs found another bit of scuttlebutt. Zomg!!! he stole a table when at Bowdoin College.
He did indeed. He even wrote an article about it at the time. Go read it if you want a good laugh and to brighten up your day. (Saw it via Josh Marshall https://bsky.app/profile/joshtpm.bsky.social/post/3ltfzr5vva22d ). "Idiots Steal Table" https://bowdoinorient.com/bonus/article/6544/
As a commenter from Austria said, I've never been so interested in a New York mayoral race! 😂
Regulatory Standards submission done. (Link to the Government page: https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/make-a-submission/document/54SCFIN_SCF_E22299B3-B67B-4F74-023D-08DD9688D2C5/regulatory-standards-bill). I hope that miserable pile of libertarian poop is flushed away!
Is there any indication of the pro and con votes in Parliament?
You know the AI I'm waiting for? The one that hangs on the phone for me to deal with companies too stupid to have a human-powered email ticket system.
Not only does it hang on the phone, it has to have a better-than-95% success rate. In _my_ favor.
That, I might pay for. Not otherwise. End of.
@j258853 @CiaraNi Found it. I'm pretty sure it was Jenny Cohn's toots where I saw it first.
From Brendan Dilley April 19 on the DeadBird site: h ttp s: //x. com/warlorddilley/status/1913620225490116937
Joe Lonsdale, some co-founder of Palantir with Peter Thiel, quoted that tweet or admired it or something. That's where I got the "begins with a J" thing from.
Anyway, rather accurately summarizes how they've weaponized the law from the start.
Mastodon friends: need help finding a quote.
Sometime in the last few weeks, I saw a post of 3? 4? screenshots of a Muskian-type Thiel-adjacent crony saying, basically, "Crash through the system as fast as you can, force them to litigate all the illegal stuff you do. They'll never catch up."
Idea being it was strategy expressed months ago. First or last name may have begun with a J.
I thought I'd bookmrked / saved it, but cannot find anywhere. TIA!
So, we have a US constitutional crisis:
There was a court order not to deport migrants to El Salvador.
Trump just deported them.
Now we find out what happens when he ignores the law.
So far, nothing. Not even six-inch headlines.
(As if we didn't know that already.)
(Another thing we all know: until he's in handcuffs and sent to jail, he will keep doing shit, just like he's always done.)