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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“The couple had a son in 2024 but have since separated. St Clair says Musk’s team offered her a $40m lump-sum payment and a monthly stipend of $100,000 in return for her signing a non-disclosure agreement but withdrew the offer after she refused to sign it.”
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
the ABI era is here. the ABI in question is C, of course it's bloody C.
Mastodon FeedI'm not saying that if you vibe-code a single demo you're going to become suicidal and psychotic, _most_ usage is normal and most harm is slow and incremental, and maybe not even cumulative. But whether it's cumulative or whether it's severe depends in part on how you self-observe and how you think about your own safety! You should think about your own safety!
Mastodon FeedThese tools are NOT designed to be safe and there are oceans of evidence that they're incredibly risky to use. (for starters, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths%5Flinked%5Fto%5Fchatbots). I care about you! You should care about yourself! You are not Built Different and neither am I, in fact if anything my psychological profile is especially vulnerable to such things and that's why I am extra careful and somewhat squicked out by them!
Mastodon FeedAlso, and I mean this, _sometimes_ in the Discourse Vortex we manage to actually get _somewhere_ productive on some of these questions, but we typically run out of time about a question that I care about _more_: how are you protecting *yourself* from the deleterious effects of vibe sickness and AI psychosis and self-radicalization and disinformation? As an LLM user the biggest externality that causes harm is *to you*, and I care about you not cooking your own brain while using them!
Mastodon Feedhere are some things that *don't* count as this:
"I like the way it makes me feel, so it's fine" [that's great for you, but doesn't address any externalities]
"You're just being ridiculous if you can't acknowledge the benefits" [what benefits? seriously, if you're going to say this, at least drop a link?]
"what about beef/video games/conflict minerals/fascism" [these things *do* have answers but they're long and complicated and it's just whataboutism at the end of the day anyway]
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samlitzinger@journa.host ("Sam Litzinger") wrote:
This may be the end of the Smithsonian, which might well be the single greatest loss in American cultural history.
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rbreich@masto.ai ("Robert Reich") wrote:
The Real Fix For Social Security https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-real-fix-for-social-security-2ef?utm%5Fsource=dlvr.it&utm%5Fmedium=mastodon
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DarkWebInformer@infosec.exchange ("Dark Web Informer :verified_paw:") wrote:
Nitter announced yesterday that, after seeking legal advice, the project will continue and is in the process of bringing its instance and others back online soon.
Mastodon Feed[1]: I mean if you want to do that, I'll take it, that would be great, but that's not something I would expect
Mastodon FeedI have a relatively uncompromising view on AI ethics but I really want to emphasize that what I'm looking for from LLM users who want to justify themselves to me—and it seems like many do, for whatever reason, which I do appreciate—is not "okay I'll stop using LLMs"[1], but "I've thought about the externalities and the harms, and here's my reasoning about the benefits I've seen".
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benroyce ("⏩︎VOTE⏪︎ ᶜʸⁿⁱᶜⁱˢᵐ⁼ᵃᶜᶜᵉᵖᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉ (Ben Royce)") wrote:
In June I posted about #Protests in #Albania against #JaredKushner and Ivanka #Trump over a corrupt land deal that would turn pristine #flamingo habitat into some shit #MarALago:
https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/116687570382208218
It's called the #FlamingoRevolution
I posted follow ups, because they kept going
It's been over 100 days now
THEY'RE STILL PROTESTING
Here surrounding a lawmaker who voted to sell the island to #Kushner
Holy fucking shit
If only Americans had 1 billionth of the backbone of Albanians
💪😤🇦🇱
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Thomas Jefferson wrote: ‘Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.’ It’s dangerous to ignore his warning.”
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ross@crikey.social ("Ross Wintle") wrote:
My “Psychology of Software Teams” book keeps giving me gold. Today @grimalkina gave me “Mastery Orientation” and “Performance Orientation” as… are they approaches? Traits? I’m not sure. But it ties into a lot of online discourse about tech (IMO - IANAP) and pulls on many other threads.
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ukscone@cupoftea.social ("Russell Davis") wrote:
@krypt3ia For the 1st time ever on the news today they mentioned the court officers that died that ran from family court to help after the 1st plane hit. They never mentioned them in previous years on the news just the fire and police and the people in the towers. their families never got any money from the various funds either because not fire or police or wtc workers
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krypt3ia@infosec.exchange ("Krypt3ia") wrote:
I came home from working at the pile with lungs full of fluid. There were no respirators, barely masks. We were woefully unprepared.
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
like a bat out of hull
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
Jay Bhattacharya is one of the worst human beings in the country, and somehow he is running the NIH. Running it into the ground, that is.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/09/08/pilfering-the-nih-for-missile-money/
Mastodon Feedireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:
we are already maxed out on how much anger and sorrow we are capable of feeling towards these companies and their effect on the world. this latest revelation doesn't really change that for us; the human brain has a limit, and we reached it long ago. alas.
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
brain frog leaps over you when you least expect it
Mastodon Feedireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:
this is exactly the same as how it doesn't really matter, morally, that tobacco companies knew about cancer from early on. they absolutely did, the historical record is very clear, but regardless, when you're credibly told you're causing cancer, the correct action is to fucking stop.
Mastodon Feedireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:
notice that it doesn't even matter whether anyone inside the company concretely knew that the specific proof strategy had been stolen. they may or may not have, but they're the ones who built a fucking plagiarism machine. the company supposedly knows more about how it works than anyone else in the world, and that absolutely makes it responsible for the consequences of using it.
Mastodon Feedireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:
go ahead and read the mathematicians' statement, which we linked above, if you haven't
as a former whistleblower (our main focus was labor organizing but we also relied on whistleblower law in a few small ways), the company's attitude in that story sounds familiar to us
it comes off to us as (pastiche) "if we did anything wrong it was by accident and it's your fault for caring. you can't prove we knew about it and you can't make us change it."
Mastodon Feedhonestly nothing I've seen in the last year _on_ the fediverse made me think that we had any juice, but this gives me the faintest glimmer of hope
Mastodon Feedmeanwhile, over on the blue butterfly web site, I think maybe they're starting to get nervous. remember when the blue bird web site started doing this?
Mastodon Feedireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:
the takeaway people should have is that all the megacorps have always reserved the right to plagiarize any research you use them for. it's always been super fucking shitty and none of us should ever have accepted it.
only two things have changed.
- LLMs make it feasible for megacorps to actually find the stuff worth stealing
- companies whose focus is LLMs are desperate for good PR, which makes stealing attractive
Mastodon Feedireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:
again, we're not a lawyer. we have not sought legal advice on the OpenAI ToU. we have worked alongside lawyers on enforcement of contractual provisions almost exactly like this, and on that basis we're in a position to attest that it really says that.
Mastodon Feedireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:
we'll be blunt: "improve our Services" means they can train their model on your stuff.
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MeiLin@tech.lgbt ("Mei Lin :v_ace: :v_gqueer: :xenia_blahaj: :tux: :arch:") wrote:
@soatok
A few years ago, Eurofurance happened at the same time as an IT conference. Both happened in the same conference center.Jokes went around that the people at the IT conference used it to get their workplace to pay for going to EF.
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mathias@rhizospherelabs.com wrote:
Who else on fedi is working on #robotics either professionally or as a hobby interest? I follow a few folks but would love to find more.