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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- Submitted 2 weeks ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on Google's Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a "Chatty Slimey" AI companion, Square Enix has announced 2 weeks ago:
AI Slop.
Just, no.
- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 2 weeks ago:
Doubtful.
This is just a way for SpaceX to try further integrate itself into the spheres of government and public funding, and thus, make it easier to justify government bailouts.
- Comment on The FCC decided that all foreign-made consumer-grade Internet routers are prohibited from receiving FCC authorization and are therefore prohibited from being imported for use or sale in the US. 2 weeks ago:
Yup, they followed up with a Super Bowl ad to that effect, and the negative response was so strong that Ring/Amazon immediately walked it back.
- Comment on The FCC decided that all foreign-made consumer-grade Internet routers are prohibited from receiving FCC authorization and are therefore prohibited from being imported for use or sale in the US. 2 weeks ago:
Here’s one source: nbcnews.com/…/investigators-wrangled-video-nancy-…
- Comment on The FCC decided that all foreign-made consumer-grade Internet routers are prohibited from receiving FCC authorization and are therefore prohibited from being imported for use or sale in the US. 2 weeks ago:
they want all of that “spying on their own people” power for themselves.
My assumption as well, after after the video release in the Guthrie case, we know objectively that every device with a microphone or camera and a wireless connection is spying on us and feeding the data to the US government without a warrant too.
- Comment on This tiki mug my friend made me 2 weeks ago:
That’s rad!
- Comment on YSK: Denazification in West Germany was lenient and ultimately abandoned, with many Nazis remaining in positions of power. 2 weeks ago:
The French executed a lot of them, like 10,000 to 15,000.
Shutting their brains off entirely seems effective.
- Comment on YSK: Denazification in West Germany was lenient and ultimately abandoned, with many Nazis remaining in positions of power. 2 weeks ago:
“I’m fighting the system from the inside” is 100% pure cope, too.
Eh, 100% pure cope is a bit hyperbolic.
There are at least tens of thousands of accounts of Jews who lived, in part, because of the intercession of people who existed within the Nazi infrastructure. We just don’t most of the names because people couldn’t actually use their names when operating within resistance networks, but there are some famous accounts, like Schindler and The Pianist.
It is not always possible for people to work outside of a fascist system, and to pretend that it is is absurdly idealistic.
- Comment on YSK: The CIA proposed a 9/11 style false flag attack on US citizens to justify invading Cuba 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 3 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
I hope she sues and makes it hurt.
ACAB
- Comment on What’s the endgame? 4 weeks 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] 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago to history@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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. 5 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 5 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 5 weeks ago:
And it will falsely identify people at even greater scale, because it is an imprecise and buggy tool.