FlashMobOfOne
@FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
Artist, musical performer, and former derby skater from the Midwest.
I’m single, childless, and married to freedom and adventure.
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- Comment on YSK: The CIA proposed a 9/11 style false flag attack on US citizens to justify invading Cuba 1 day ago:
Exactly.
Not much is different here than the presentation.
- Comment on Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record 3 days ago:
Awesome. Thank you for the tips!
- Comment on Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record 3 days ago:
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?
I’ll go do that. Thank you.
- Comment on Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record 3 days ago:
I still wish someone, somewhere could have backed up Geocities. That was a huge chunk of Internet history lost.
- Comment on CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court 3 days ago:
100% deserves it for being both stupid and inexcusably cheap.
- Comment on Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company 1 week ago:
Ugh.
The service has been quite good for ten years.
Guess it was good while it lasted.
- Comment on I am only now discovering the sheer addictiveness of Sid Meier's Civilization. 1 week ago:
Just one more turn, bro.
Then you’ll totally go to bed.
- Comment on AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in North Dakota fraud case 1 week ago:
I hope she sues and makes it hurt.
ACAB
- Comment on What’s the endgame? 1 week ago:
We just watch.
I don’t think that’s accurate, and it became especially true in Chicago and Minnesota when the sensationalist nature of the events there forced the MSM to report on it. The issue here is that most people only have power at the local level, so unless you’re going full Luigi, the contributions you or I are making are local and not really notable. But they’re happening regardless.
please help me understand where my taxes go (without representation)
If you’re an American, mostly, your taxes are going to three things: The military and war, Social Security, and Medicare. Those are the big three things. The corruption you’re seeing is the result of entrenched legislators and political parties leveraging their offices to enrich themselves and the billionaire class, and their greed has no limit, therefore the people keep suffering more and more and it’s by design. There’s also no way to change it, because those in power are not going to vote themselves into less power. Your only power to make lasting change is local.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
GenAI has already trained on the entirety of human content, and it still screws up basic inquiries. I think it will get worse as it cannibalizes its own hallucinated data and the problem of hallucinations gets worse as a result.
The US will not regulate, but regulations originating from international jurisdictions will roll downhill to some extent and for the bad actors in the US to establish some guard rails.
I think the most significant change in GenAI will be social. People’s poverty and isolation is only getting worse, and it’s likely there will be an economic crash due to the concentration of wealth in this sector and its failure to deliver on its promises; However, there is genuine demand for frictionless relationships and that is one thing generative AI does very, very well. In a decade these models will have artificial bodies and people will be literally publicly dating their AI companions.
- Comment on The Metropolitan Museum of Art Releases High-Definition 3D Scans of 140 Famous Art Objects: Sarcophagi, Van Gogh Paintings, Marble Sculptures & More 1 week ago:
For a while there was a VR app for Google Earth that allowed you to visit museums virtually. This is a wonderful use of modern technology.
- Comment on Mother of wounded Maya Gebala sues OpenAI over mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. 1 week ago:
LLM’s have been proven to manipulate their users into doing terrible things. That’s what happens when there isn’t any meaningful regulation of a harmful product.
OpenAI will settle, NDA’s will be signed, and people will forget this ever happened.
- Comment on Israeli tech CEO calls to 'limit the First Amendment' to prevent spread of 'lies' on social media 1 week ago:
This guy needs to lodge his head deeply into a dark recess of his own anatomy.
- Comment on Is Palantir Under Contract to Surveil the Federal Workforce? 1 week ago:
I just assume they’re under contract to surveill everyone.
Bummer that the voters never held anyone accountable for the ‘Patriot’ Act.
- Man tells of pride as newly emerged photo reveals Greek grandfather being led to Nazi executionapnews.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to history@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse 1 week ago:
Yeah, when you’re on the global feed, posts fly by at a dizzying rate. Turning on slow mode makes it so that they stop auto-scrolling and only scroll when you click that you want to see more posts.
- Comment on Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse 1 week ago:
No doubt there are bad actors polluting communities on the Fediverse
Yeah, but there’s a huge difference: human moderation coupled with better curation tools. You can block a user or a whole instance, which quiets the Nazis pretty fast.
- Comment on Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse 1 week ago:
Yup.
Though I thought of it as the Internet from 2010. No ads. No algo. All chronological. Once you figure out where the slow mode setting is and turn it off, Mastodon is the fucking best. I even pay a voluntary sub every month to help my instance host itself.
- Comment on A Wired analysis shows that ICE & CBP have collectively spent at least $515 million on products from Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Palantir in the last few years alone. 2 weeks ago:
Correct.
It’s a cycle, and one that’s repeated many, many times.
- Comment on Meta's AI display glasses reportedly share intimate videos with human moderators 2 weeks ago:
Any camera/audio device with a wireless connection in your home is recording and storing your intimate moments.
- Comment on LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy 2 weeks ago:
And it will falsely identify people at even greater scale, because it is an imprecise and buggy tool.
- Comment on A product of his environment 2 weeks ago:
I’m just glad my HOA is chill and I like them.
The only thing they’ve had to bring fines about is people trying to move furniture in the wrong elevator and scratching up the wood finishings, and they should. We have a freight elevator for that.
- Comment on Papa Johns is closing 300 locations 2 weeks ago:
Double the crap is still crap. :)
- Comment on Papa Johns is closing 300 locations 2 weeks ago:
Didn’t need two. I prefer the bachelor life.
- Comment on Papa Johns is closing 300 locations 2 weeks ago:
The last time I purchased a PJ pizza it was $9.99.
And it still wasn’t worth it. Super low quality crap.
- Comment on U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material 2 weeks ago:
If you want to call yourself an artist, do the work yourself, Stephen.
You limpdick, no talent ass clown.
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- Comment on Prediction market trader 'Magamyman' made $553,000 on death of Iran's supreme leader 2 weeks ago:
The general public has no power here except at the local level, just like when LLM’s decided they were just going to make taxpayers pay their electric bills. You’ll see some states regulate prediction markets, but that’s it. The Federal Government and the legislators there love being able to monetize their offices, so no change will come at the national level.
- Comment on Prediction market trader 'Magamyman' made $553,000 on death of Iran's supreme leader 2 weeks ago:
Stories like this are why they will never be federally regulated.
A few states will step in though.
- Comment on The reason why the US president loves McDonald's so much is simply because he's a world-class narcissist and it sounds like it's named after him. That's it. 2 weeks ago:
He’s probably getting paid for all the endorsements too.