"It is not the case that “AI gathers data from the Web and learns from it.” The reality is that AI companies gather data and then optimize models to reproduce representations of that data for profit."
"The productivity myth suggests that anything we spend time on is up for automation — that any time we spend can and should be freed up for the sake of having even more time for other activities or pursuits — which can also be automated."
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"Loomer isn’t the disease, she’s the product of a MAGA movement that both attracts and produces attention-hungry fantasists—a movement that routinely whips up threats against minority communities and—not so long ago—attempted an insurrection."
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"Trump hardly needs Loomer to encourage him to spread hateful lies about marginalized people. He has spent years doing that himself without her help.
Nonetheless, having someone as hateful as Loomer so close to Trump is disturbing and dangerous. Trump is notoriously easy to influence. He has no knowledge of and very little interest in policy and a bottomless need for flattery."
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🌞 Good morning #Fediverse! This is GBH #News bringing you the world from #Boston. It's 62F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10 mi.
A suspect was arrested after what the FBI is calling an assassination attempt at Trump's golf course in Florida.
A Jane's Addiction show in Boston was halted after an onstage scuffle between band members.
A Texas law that takes effect Nov. 1 will require some hospitals to ask patients about their immigration status.
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- cargo shorts (60%, 115 votes)
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"Trump aides think it’s a net plus. The longer the discussion is about migrants, the less it is about tougher topics for them.
'We talk about abortion, we lose. We talk about immigration, we win,' said one Trump adviser."
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"But what about spreading an incendiary story for which there is no evidence?
'We’ll take the hit to prove the bigger point,' the adviser said."
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"Sending abortion 'back to the states' has proved wildly unpopular, particularly as conservative legislatures passed draconian bans with criminal penalties for health care providers."
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"These laws are an albatross around the neck of every Republican who hopes to carry a swing state, and none more than the presidential candidate who appointed the three Supreme Court justices who made it happen."
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"ProPublica obtained reports that confirm that at least two women have already died after they couldn’t access legal abortions and timely medical care in their state.
There are almost certainly others."
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"I see covering abortion rights in this moment as covering democracy. Newsrooms need to be vigilant to not distort the fact that 65 to 70 percent of Americans support legal access to abortion."
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"To give equal weight to each 'side' in coverage is already a distortion of the electorate that often fails to account for the anti-democratic forces at work in the anti-abortion movement's fringe."
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The same states that ban abortion provide absolutely no help for medical expenses, therapy, etc.
Republicans wage war on women, rape campaigns are part of that war.
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Republicans do not see women as human beings with agency or autonomy.
The GOP view women as livestock. They are breeding vessels. Merely a host for sons & heirs. A vehicle for eugenically-driven "make America white again" Christian Nationalism.
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Just a "vessel" in their creepy worldview.
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They are a source of low cost paid labor & unpaid societal labor.
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They are convenient scapegoats for the problems of America & serve as distractions from the truly culpable.
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While at the same time not recognizing that they are among the stupidest among us....................
Some brilliant minds were eugenicists.
It's a stupid idea that provides overly simplistic 'solutions' for bigotry.
Unfortunately, high intelligence in the service of evil...
RA Fisher
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Marie Stopes
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Francis Galton
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Keynes
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David Starr Jordan
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Pete Buttigieg described in detail why the GOP are clinging to the malign influence narrative about immigrants & pets.
It's to hijack a news cycle after the debate where Trump was a failure & avoid focus on issues. It's a deliberate media strategy.
Issues like women's rights, climate, gun violence, taxes on the rich, Project 2025,
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Trump was uninjured. And never really in danger
Unlike the Haitian students in Springfield
So, let's drop this bullshit "assassination" nonsense, thoughts and prayers, walk it off, get over it, etc. And get back to the part where Trump and JD Vance are currently engaged in a deliberate campaign of stochastic terrorism against immigrants in this country, putting their lives and the lives of their children in danger from lunatics just like Ryan Wesley Routh
Don't let them change the narrative
Fuckin' life will fuckin' steal your fuckin' slack. Fuck.
Apologies for the negativity. But, damn, life has kicked me in the nuts lately, so sorry I haven't filled your days with random AI generated slackfulshit.
@johnhattan @bobcromwell don’t forget that KFC is a Christmas tradition in Japan.
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What's the deal with... KFC and Christmas in Japan?
Why the country known for its gastronomy flocks to Kentucky Fried Chicken for the festive seasonKirsty Bouwers (Time Out)
Needed It and Didn't Have It
This morning, after preparing the morning meal for Ben and Charlie, I decided to take them for their walk before the meal. It was spur of the moment decision, I was already outside, so off we went. I left my camera in the house. We got down to the end of the driveway and I noticed something in a bare tree across the way and seconds later realized it was a pileated woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus). I ran back to the house, I'm not quite as feeble as I let on you see, and got my camera, but the woodpecker was gone. We continued our walk when I spotted the bird flying towards me and got this horrible picture.
I don't post all of the photos that I post here to my Pixels gallery, but I post the photos I like best. Some don't make the cut.
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I see the pair here, now and then, but haven’t got a good close look since last year.
Grazie mille per quelle gentili parole. C’è molta fortuna nel catturare un uccello in volo, dipende da quanto sei veloce. È un po’ puntare e scattare e sperare. 😆
Thank you. I'm aware that I'm not a good judge of what other people might like. I don't dislike the composition or the subject. But I was too far away so therefore had to crop the image in a lot creating much noise that needed smoothing out leaving the image without much detail. Having said that, I post a bunch of images without detail simply because I think they look good from an artsy point of view.
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Anti-cheat, gamers, and the Crowdstrike disaster: The constituency for trusted computing is fracturing.
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While I'd love to see remote attestation / trusted computing / DRM be eradicated from personal computing, I fail to see how anticheats/antimalware getting kicked out of kernelspace changes anything here.
In order for those softwares to keep doing what they currently do from userspace, Microsoft will have to implement new kernel APIs for them.
I fail to see why such APIs couldn't include remote attesation, and in fact, I'm really expecting them to include it. (sadly)
Nice biography, sad ending
Drone view of graves submerged by floodwater at a cemetery in Brzeszcze, #Poland. Agencja Wyborcza/Jakub Wlodek
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Gary McGraw
in reply to Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) • • •Thomas Vander Wal
in reply to Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) • • •Martin Dougiamas
in reply to Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) • • •Some meaningful things in there along with a lot of statements that indicate a shallow perspective: one of the latter was this:
"For one, a model doesn’t exist until it has “learned,” which is quite different from what we do as people: a student exists, and then goes to school, and then learns, using a mind that was already there"
We start #learning from the womb, and #AI systems definitely exist before training!