Telorand
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- Comment on (ICW-NRU) Meta Leaks Part 1: Israel & Meta, The Greatest Global Mass Censorship Campaign to Ever Exist 1 day ago:
Anyone who uses a Meta product, at this point, and thinks they have free speech, privacy, and/or ownership of their data either just joined the internet or is choosing to stay ignorant of the lengthy and growing list of abuses—abuses that are core to their business model.
- Comment on Man Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT 5 days ago:
This is not just “using the internet,” though. AI use ≠ finding some conspiracy-fueled rant on some long-forgotten message board. ChatGPT does not scour the internet or have any sort of meaningful sanity checks on the pattern of words it generates. It doesn’t “know” what it’s saying, nor does it “care.”
If he had done even the most basic of generic internet searches, he would have discovered the DASH diet.
The inclusion of this goober’s use of AI is yet another example why using what is essentially a reinforcement and pattern-generation engine is one of the dumbest things a person can do. It doesn’t seem to matter how many experts remind people of its limitations, so all that remains is pointing out every time somebody does something stupid, so people can at least get a reminder that the other end of the conversation is dumber than they are and only an illusion of intelligence.
- Comment on Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io 2 weeks ago:
Somebody should check their PCs and internet history; after all, name a better duo than Conservatives and Projection.
- Comment on Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals 2 weeks ago:
Ironically, they’re still wrong, because even in their wildest conspiracies, they didn’t imagine Wi-Fi could be used to “take pictures” of a sort.
- Comment on A Prominent OpenAI Investor Appears to Be Suffering a ChatGPT-Related Mental Health Crisis, His Peers Say 3 weeks ago:
If I could upvote your comment five times for promoting libraries, I would!
- Comment on A Prominent OpenAI Investor Appears to Be Suffering a ChatGPT-Related Mental Health Crisis, His Peers Say 3 weeks ago:
Inb4 “AI Delusion Disorder” gets added to a future DSM edition
- Comment on A Prominent OpenAI Investor Appears to Be Suffering a ChatGPT-Related Mental Health Crisis, His Peers Say 3 weeks ago:
I have no love for the ultra-wealthy, and this feckless tech bro is no exception, but this story is a cautionary tale for anyone who thinks ChatGPT or any other chatbot is even a half-decent replacement for therapy.
It’s not, and study after study, expert after expert continues to reinforce that reality. I understand that therapy is expensive, and it’s not always easy to find a good therapist, but you’d be better off reading a book or finding a support group than deluding yourself with one of these AI chatbots.
- Comment on Fullstack Engineer - Waifus (for people looking for job) 3 weeks ago:
Also, you’d have to work for Xitter and explain to future employers why you chose to work for an open fascist that facilitated the economic recession of the mid-2020s.
- Comment on Dentist accused of fatally poisoning wife asked daughter to create deepfake AI video of mom asking for chemicals, daughter says 3 weeks ago:
I agree with you, but OP didn’t make that explicitly clear; being a total stranger and given the number of people who unironically promote everything from long-debunked conspiracy theories to outright lies, I do not see why anyone should assume somebody is joking rather than in earnest.
You’re welcome to infer that OP is being sarcastic, but they haven’t made a comment on the matter either way.
- Comment on Dentist accused of fatally poisoning wife asked daughter to create deepfake AI video of mom asking for chemicals, daughter says 3 weeks ago:
I thought they were serious, too.
- Comment on OpenAI just launched its new ChatGPT Agent that can make as many as 1 complicated cupcake order per hour, but even Sam Altman says you probably shouldn't trust it for 'high-stakes uses' 3 weeks ago:
Man, remember all the custom cupcake bakers who were clamoring for an AI to take their craft?
Me neither. Billionaires are a scourge upon society.
- Comment on This column does not express support for Palestine Action – here’s why 4 weeks ago:
Now, now. We might have learned the first inklings of it from our national ancestor, but the US has crafted its own awful brand of fascism all on its own. The blame is ours for that, and we must own it.
If anything, the British wealth class is taking notes from the US oligarchs, and these are the results.
- Comment on Windows 11 has finally overtaken Windows 10 as the most used desktop OS 5 weeks ago:
That’s only because I left for Linux.
- Comment on [JS Required] The Past, Present, and Future of Police Body Cameras 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, sure. Like the police need extra help with racial profiling and “probable cause.” Fuck this, and fuck the people who think this is a good idea.
I’m sure the authoritarians in power right now will get right on those proposed “safeguards,” right after they install backdoors into encryption, to which Only They Have The Key™, to “protect” everyone from the scary “criminals.”
- Comment on Tech firms suggested placing trackers under offenders’ skin at meeting with UK justice secretary 1 month ago:
I recommend reading the article, because holy fuck is that whole thing dystopian, but here’s who was there:
Those present included representatives of Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Palantir, which works closely with the US military and has contracts with the NHS. IBM and the private prison operator Serco also attended alongside tagging and biometric companies, according to a response to a freedom of information request.
Ah, yes. The very companies that helped install a fascist in the US would be great partners to bring about safety and criminal reform, and they would definitely not inject their fascist ideals into the UK government, eroding and poisoning it over time. Sounds like a brilliant plan! /s
- Comment on Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy 1 month ago:
Pragmatically, yes. Legally, no. Progressives have been fighting for years to get internet classified as a utility in the US, and regressives and (ironically) internet companies have been fighting against that effort at every turn in the name of profit.
And now look how well that’s turned out. Gee, if only some people had warned them that deregulation was a monkey’s paw…
- Comment on Misogyny and Violent Extremism: Can Big Tech Fix the Glitch? 1 month ago:
Fix? Bruh, they explicitly cultivate that shit. Even if they could, they’re not gonna.
- Comment on California’s Corporate Cover-Up Act Is a Privacy Nightmare: it would let corporations spy on us in secret, gutting long-standing protections without a shred of accountability. 1 month ago:
Jesus Fucking Christ.
Y’all, remember when people freaked out over Mozilla changing their TOU (but not their Privacy Policy)? This bill is the pro-corporate, ultracapitalist, “hold my beer” version of that change, and it could be enshrined into law.
If you live in California, call your state reps (i.e. don’t just email or write a letter). Tell them to vote no on this blatant privacy violation.
- Comment on Why Marijuana Prevention Matters—Especially for Teens and Young Adults 1 month ago:
Brand new account posts sourceless comment that’s eerily similar to propaganda from the War on Drugs.
Citations needed.
- Comment on Are Voice Assistants Becoming Family Members? 1 month ago:
Sure, if that family member is just deaf enough to mishear everything and has the functional intelligence of a cabbage.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It is, but this data is useful to anthropologists and political analysts. They can’t work off of gut feels and vibes.
- Comment on Silicon Valley cities hit with request for residents' emails to train AI 2 months ago:
Premium supported. You get plenty with the free tier, but you get lots more with paid.
- Comment on Silicon Valley cities hit with request for residents' emails to train AI 2 months ago:
These AI apologists are deranged.
Start taking your privacy back. Use aliases and throwaways whenever possible. addy.io is free and allows you to create lots of aliases and then delete them later.
- Comment on The World's First Mass-Produced Flying Car Is Here and It Costs $1 Million 2 months ago:
Okay I will admit it was impressive to see how they solved where to stow the wings and essentially shrink the airplane footprint to a long car footprint, but who is this for? Who out there has $1mil to blow and is like, “I have to drive directly from the tarmac to my hotel”?
This thing needs 300m of runway in its airplane form to get airborne, so forget city or even suburban takeoffs. And you’re not going to just drive this thing around. At the end of the day, this is still a (very fancy) plane that drives.
- Comment on The candid naivety of geeks 2 months ago:
I think they’re using “geek” here to mean “fan,” but I agree that being a geek implies a level of fandom or interest that these “wounded fans” don’t have, or else they’d know more about these corporations they’re stanning.
I think a better word would simply be “fan.”
- Comment on We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. 2 months ago:
It’s pretty cool how books are more than just fuel for imagination, no? But I second the idea of joining a book club, because not only do you get the cognitive effects of a book, but you get the social benefits of a club!
- Comment on We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. 2 months ago:
Some people think you can use it as a replacement for therapy or to fight loneliness. Turns out, simply reading fiction is better.
- Comment on How to delete your Twitter (or X) account 2 months ago:
Oh good. So my account is already long gone. Phew!
- Comment on New York Mayor Eric Adams to Crypto Industry: Come Build an Empire in NYC 2 months ago:
Nope, and it’s actually pretty clever what happened. The judge in the case basically let him go (which is what Trump wanted) but in such a way that the DoJ can’t ever relitigate it (something Trump didn’t want).
Justice was denied, imo, but under the circumstances, the judge managed to thread the needle and keep Trump from being able to blackmail him into doing his bidding.
- Comment on San Francisco crypto founder faked his own death 2 months ago:
So gifted! So capable! Such a deep understanding of the technology!
In a sense, he kinda does have a deep understanding. He knows how the grift works and knows how to trick people into giving him money for a little acting.
Sometimes, I wonder what my life would have been like had even just dabbled in Bitcoin at the beginning, but then I remember that I would have to have been rubbing elbows with these weirdos.