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- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 19 hours ago:
Thanks. I thought Microsoft would be unscrupulous enough to be pretending they were producing general AI.
- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 19 hours ago:
All of us Geeks were evangelical about the Internet in the 90’s. It is very humbling.
- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 19 hours ago:
Why is it referring to GenAI? It doesn’t exist.
- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 19 hours ago:
That’s the Peter Principle.
- Comment on Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps 1 day ago:
Historically, NSO has avoided selling to US-based clients and was banned by the US Commerce Department under President Joe Biden’s administration for allegedly supplying spyware to authoritarian governments. However, shifting political dynamics under the Trump administration raised the possibility that spyware could become more prevalent in the United States, exacerbating mobile exploitation
- Comment on France to sue Australian platform Kick for 'negligence' after livestream death 1 day ago:
“women often make false accusations”
Up to 10% of the time in court. “often” is not a useful qualifier.
absolutely a red-herring used to try and delegitimise accusers again, and again, and again.
“Absolutely”? So no exceptions?
I am all for presumption of innocence until proven guilty and treating all parties with dignity in the meantime.
Am unfamiliar with the Kavanagh case.
Did you see the video example in the Reddit thread showing cops believing the woman and treating the man in an undignified fashion? Spoiler: the man is obviously innocent.
Enjoy your passive-aggressive smugly wugly day.
- Comment on France to sue Australian platform Kick for 'negligence' after livestream death 2 days ago:
Hashtags sometimes are used for indexing. In this instance it was the the only hashtag used and it was at the end of an understandable congratulations Tweet re Higgins win.
The hashtag was used to make a political point and it is an irresponsible one IMO, feeding extremist views in vulnerable people (as my two friends demonstrated).
There was the other two points I mentioned as well, all within a year.
- Comment on France to sue Australian platform Kick for 'negligence' after livestream death 2 days ago:
Nah, that’s fine. Most people don’t want to know the details because they just want to be right about their entrenched view. The few serious ones will politely engage, and you then explained.
Maybe it is better in this sub but on Reddit it was usually ugly. Yay Lemmy!
- Comment on France to sue Australian platform Kick for 'negligence' after livestream death 2 days ago:
Do you think Greens would have won within the old boundaries? Or would the preferences screwed them anyhow. Speaking of which…
The greens lost out because the liberals preferenced Labor over them
Just to be precise: Greens probably preferenced Labor in the previous election too. The difference this time is that 2PP was between Lab & Grn this time whereas previously it was between Lib & Grn so of course the Kab preferences followed mainly to Greens.
You sound savvy enough to know it but your wording was ambiguous so I just want to make sure a fellow Green is armed with the info.
I no longer vote #1 Greens although they get my vote via preferences. A few of my friends have followed suit. Their support of the Digital Identity Bill was a sellout and their lack of criticism of Hamas put me off.
Also Larissa Waters using the hashtag#ibelievewomen. I have been arguing this week with two women friends who embraced it literally to mean that not a single woman would lie about rape. It took a lot of energy to budge then from that delusional stance. That is why using the hashtag is irresponsible regardless of what Waters means.
- Comment on France to sue Australian platform Kick for 'negligence' after livestream death 2 days ago:
Maybe it is unfair to call it Gerrymandering but it definitely worked against Greens.
- Comment on France to sue Australian platform Kick for 'negligence' after livestream death 2 days ago:
Gerrymandering in Melbourne also worked against Greens.
- Comment on France to sue Australian platform Kick for 'negligence' after livestream death 2 days ago:
OK so that’s what you meant by “leading into”. TIL. Thanks.
- Comment on France to sue Australian platform Kick for 'negligence' after livestream death 2 days ago:
Everyone seems to be missing the important part which was buried deep in the article.
An autopsy showed Mr Graven did not die from impact trauma and that the probable causes of death appeared to be medical or toxicological in origin.
- Comment on France to sue Australian platform Kick for 'negligence' after livestream death 2 days ago:
The greens got more votes in the last election than the one prior, and their overall percentage remained unchanged.
Isn’t that a contradiction? Was it increased or was it unchanged?
- Comment on France to sue Australian platform Kick for 'negligence' after livestream death 2 days ago:
Cap and trade? Isn’t that an emissions trading scheme? She didn’t install ETS, she installed a carbon tax (and I don’t consider tax a dirty word) aka carbon pricing.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 3 days ago:
Conversely, if you introduce political censorship, you might get support by the copyright industry, including the news media, for helping their economic interests.
Never occurred to me.
“sweep out with the iron broom”
The would be fascists don’t want democracy. Note how Trump is softening up the public by using the term lately.
Good essay:
The goal is to shift the Overton window: dictatorship is not a threat, but a regrettable necessity.
dictatorship as safety, democracy as danger.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 4 days ago:
The ideal of free speech is a naive fantasy especially with social media which can amplify the craziest of ideas which can go viral.
- Comment on If what they taught us about checks and balances was a lie maybe what they taught us about civil disobedience was a lie too. 5 days ago:
Poor kids tend to get given second hand school uniforms so they still get discriminated against for what they wear.
- Comment on FTC chair Andrew Ferguson warns Google not to filter or suppress emails sent by Republicans over Gmail 6 days ago:
No. A university study.
So when I said “article” I meant the FTC letter OP linked to which, via footnote #2, in turn cites an [article in New York Post ](nypost.com/…/google-caught-flagging-gop-fundraise… directly-to-spam-memo/.) which in turn cites the study.
A 2022 study by researchers at North Carolina State University found that Gmail flagged 59% more Republican fundraising emails as spam than Democratic ones during the leadup to the 2020 presidential election.
“We observed that the [spam filtering algorithms] of different email services indeed exhibit biases towards different political affiliations,” the researchers said at the time.
The consulting firm’s tests involved sending identical emails through Gmail, with the only difference being that one contained a WinRed donation link and the other contained an ActBlue link.
“The only difference between the two emails was the link,” the memo said. “ActBlue delivered. WinRed got flagged. That is not a coincidence.”
But I am confused: was a consultancy firm hired by the university? What kind of study refers to a “memo”.
Even if it is indeed biased, surely Google is a business and can do as it pleases?
- Comment on FTC chair Andrew Ferguson warns Google not to filter or suppress emails sent by Republicans over Gmail 6 days ago:
Article says similar spam from Dems got through.
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- Comment on 🏹🏹🏹 1 week ago:
You missed the pun.
- Comment on when ur higher than sagan 1 week ago:
Avoid the headaches by titrating off the caffeine.
- Comment on when ur higher than sagan 1 week ago:
They act as if the alternative practitioners are immune from corruption.
- Comment on Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods. 1 week ago:
The instance matters: some will ban you if you cite too many credible articles which bring up uncomfortable truths.
No matter what one’s stance is on a political subject, there will be some uncomfortable truths. Unlike a Hollywood hero movie.
- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 1 week ago:
I think it was just summarising the article, not giving an “opinion”.
- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 1 week ago:
This comment, summing up the author’s own admission shows AI can’t reason:
this new result was just a matter of search and permutation and not discovery of new mathematics.
- Comment on Stop the free ride: all motorists should pay their way, whatever vehicle they drive 2 weeks ago:
2x the weight causes 16x the damage (2⁴)
- Comment on Stop the free ride: all motorists should pay their way, whatever vehicle they drive 2 weeks ago:
Don’t discriminate against the poor.
The environment is better off with improved public transport rather than EV’s anyhow.
- Comment on LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think. 2 weeks ago:
Networking your home computers still does not work smoothly. It often stops for no good reason until you reboot everything.