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aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

We will continue to live within an unjust system as long perpetuating it is seen as what normal people do while fixing it is considered the purview of a select group of specialists.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
shoq ("Shoq") wrote:

Would anyone in Europe like to help me do a simple price comparison between common household purchases? I ‘m convinced the public has no understanding that pricing is not competitive, but predatory, and long ago ceased to have anything to do with real costs, only the producer’s share price. It’s time someone documented this fraud. Journalists don’t seem to be very interested in doing this kind of work.

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th@v.st ("Trammell Hudson") wrote:

This end is called the Thagomizer, after the late Thag Simmons.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
RustyMiko@meow.social ("🔞 RustyMiko (commissions are OPEN)") wrote:

I'm so tired, lads.

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/
#chatcontrol

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
NouranKhaledGh ("Nouran 🍉") wrote:

Only the western part of Gaza City is left, crowded with about one million people.

One million souls stuck between the bombing and the sea, waiting for the unknown.

In the coming days the rest of Gaza City will be invaded

Will we be thrown into the sea?

#gaza #palestine

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
NouranKhaledGh ("Nouran 🍉") wrote:

I don't know why donations are getting slower by time 😢 We need your help all the time

We are living the toughest time ever, and we expect that the worst will begin soon 😞

Please don't ignore my request. If you would like to donate, kindly check the bio

Could you please share this post with your friends?

#gaza #palestine

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
NouranKhaledGh ("Nouran 🍉") wrote:

Our suffering is not only bombing, hunger, and displacement.

It is also that there is no real human life.

The humidity in Gaza reached 75% in the past days.

Can you imagine newborn babies and old people living in tents in the hot and heavy air?

This is insane!

Please help my family in the link in the bio 🇵🇸 :underheart:

#palestine #gaza

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Aseelsehwel@mas.to ("Aseelsehwel🇵🇸") wrote:

Gaza before the war

#gaza @palestine

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hotdogsladies ("Merlin Mann") wrote:

I think about this video a lot.

Almost daily.

It's changed how I move out of frame.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FOzD4Sfgag

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Aseelsehwel@mas.to ("Aseelsehwel🇵🇸") wrote:

The occupation is expanding its destruction in the Al-Zeitoun neighborhood, issuing warnings to the areas of “Asqula” and its surroundings. People are being displaced at this very moment, at night, in a tragic scene! The occupation is destroying Gaza City and reducing it to ashes in silence, using a new method described as “silent erosion” @palestine #gazaunderattack #gaza #StopGenocide #war #genocide

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële"):
elilla@transmom.love ("elilla&, europe penetrator") wrote:

when email spam started getting too big a problem to handle by filtering keywords, the use of statistical methods to classify spam was a small revolution. you'd click "spam" or "not spam", and the computer would slowly learn to categorise the emails you in particular receive.

generative "AI" is nothing more than the cooptation of that mechanism on the spam side of the equation. capitalists now use very powerful computers to write spam that would statistically look like "not spam", therefore unfilterable by statistical methods.

I don't see any solution to this problem other than a "web of trust"–like system of human curation. like I trust the judgement of my friend Rebeca, Rebeca trusts Fátima, Fátima trusts the Gamer's Quarter magazine that she's read for years and knows the writing style of the authors. So when I open Gamer's Quarter the computer says, "probably human-written", according to my network of trust.

but we never managed to get PGP signatures to go mainstream, even when corporate phishing became a real-life problem. the sociology is always the crucial part, not the technology.

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aby@aus.social ("Aby--not fast, just furious") wrote:

#KarlMarx #labubu #Communism #googlesearch

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dashdsrdash@tilde.zone ("-𝚍𝚜𝚛- (has pronouns)") wrote:

@gvwilson

Wikipedia keeps a list of Musk's predictions about self-driving, with date of proclamation and range of predicted dates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%5Fof%5Fpredictions%5Ffor%5Fautonomous%5FTesla%5Fvehicles%5Fby%5FElon%5FMusk

It starts with the 2013 prediction of 90% of miles driven autonomously in 2016.

I wonder if they should keep a list of predictions about LLMs?

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

Seeing someone confidently claim on Hacker News that “everyone who works seriously with documentation prefers RST to Markdown.” Sure, Jan.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq-Y7crQo44

Here's a lesson how everything is political, even Monte-Carlo algorithms.

There's now no way a politician would look at this and *not* want to actually use it as a redistricting tool. And this will harm people.

Reminds me of those sociopaths who treated Snowcrash as a blueprint rather than a cautionary tale.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

If you thought someone should have been keeping track of all failed predictions of Elon Musk about autonomous driving, well here it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%5Fof%5Fpredictions%5Ffor%5Fautonomous%5FTesla%5Fvehicles%5Fby%5FElon%5FMusk

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Just ordered food delivery. The app is telling me "the courier is en route to your location" and now I feel like I'm in an action movie.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Another Worldcon in the books. Thank you to everyone who said hello to me, came to one of my panels, attended my reading, came to get a book signed, or danced at my DJ set! Every single one of you is fabulous.

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ianlivingston.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ian Livingston") wrote:

Outside Dupont north metro

jwz wrote:

@mattblaze White Collar Crime Risk Zones https://whitecollar.thenewinquiry.com/#9q8yyzf

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

R.I.P. Terence Stamp

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computer@facts.computer ("Computer Facts") wrote:

many of you are too young to remember when computers were briefly kind of cool

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
gleick@mas.to ("James Gleick") wrote:

@mattblaze @noplasticshower Perhaps New York could send its National Guard to do some law enforcement in the West Wing.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
JenLucPiquant@universeodon.com ("Jennifer Ouellette") wrote:

MIT Backs Away From Paper Claiming Scientists Make More Discoveries with AI. After a review process, MIT stated that it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.” https://gizmodo.com/mit-backs-away-from-paper-claiming-scientists-make-more-discoveries-with-ai-2000603790

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
samwho@hachyderm.io ("Sam Rose") wrote:

Email addresses are very simple, and you will score highly in this quiz.

https://e-mail.wtf

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële") wrote:

I'm sure there is a domain that you master. Because you've spent many years learning it, reading about it, thinking about it...

Maybe you don't know, but you are certainly an expert on this subject.

Why won't you share your knowledge with us? Don't you want to write some posts about that? You could open a simple blog, or a wiki? and share it here, on the Fediverse.

I'm sure that many Fedinauts would be happy to read your publications.

#indieweb #blogging #writing #shareknowledge

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Taweret@timeloop.cafe ("4 8 15 16 23 42") wrote:

but catscan

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

I wonder if the federal patrols descending on DC will be including white-collar crime in their crackdown. You know, like pulling over fancy cars and auditing their taxes.

That could have a real impact.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële"):
dillo@fosstodon.org ("Dillo browser") wrote:

If you are familiar with #Ruby and want to help making #Mastodon web available in browsers without #JavaScript, consider implementing any of:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/34241

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/23153

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële"):
PhoenixSerenity@beige.party ("Ms. Que Banh") wrote:

Good morning, fedizens / fedifriends / masto-mateys 🌅

A reminder on the real #luxuries in life 🙌💞