Month: 25 Av 5783 (August 2023)

I am really, really, REALLY irritated by what I just saw. The #ImageDescription function of Microsoft's #Bing is outright lying to people with vision impairments about what appears in images it receives. It's bad enough when an #LLM is allowed to tell lies that a person can easily check for veracity themselves. But how the hell are you going to offer this so-called service to someone who can't check the claims being made and NEEDS those claims to be correct? How long till someone gets poisoned because Bing lied and told someone it was food that hasn't expired when it has, or that it's safe to drink when it's cleaning solution, or God knows what? This is downright irresponsible and dangerous. #Microsoft either needs to put VERY CLEAR disclaimers on their service, or just take it down until it can actually be trusted. #Blindness #VisualImpairment #Accessibility #AccessibilityMatters #Disability #DisabilityRights #CorporateResponsibility #LargeLanguageModels #MoralHazard

I think the funniest thing about the current strain of rabid conservatism in the States is how much these chucklefucks are hurt that people think they're creepy and uncool, so instead of trying to become interesting/decent humans, they just resort to trying to force everyone to pay attention to them, while doing spiteful shit to make themselves feel better.

Funny how people always go with the classic, "If you're not doing anything wrong, you should have nothing to hide." over a far more sensible: "If I'm not doing anything wrong, you should have no reason to spy on me." #privacy #surveillance

He gets a New York charge, he gets a Florida charge He gets a DC charge, he gets a Georgia charge He enters the pleas that remind him of the good times He enters the pleas that remind him of the better times

Can we even say "indictment day" anymore? It's more akin to a season now.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised that when TFG accused the Democrats of stealing the election what he really meant was that his team had actively tried to steal the election by hacking into voting systems in Georgia and possibly elsewhere but failed.

The same people who act like a commercial real estate crash would be an economic apocalypse are weirdly quiet about Elon Musk—maybe the most famous lessee of office space in the world—refusing to pay his rent. #ReturnToOffice #RemoteWork #RealEstate

Isn't it weird how the corrupt deep state only targets the Republicans who happened to have committed the most egregious crimes?

Arkansas banned paying for AP African history tests—but pays for AP European history TX banned abortion b/c a fetus has rights—but reject liability for a stillbirth b/c a fetus has no rights N Dakota GOP banned free school lunches—but gave themselves free lunches For the GOP, hypocrisy isn’t a bug—it’s the feature. Vote them out.