Amanda CAARSON – Page 5627 – Amanda Unvarnished

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· 8 Adar 5783 (Wednesday 1 March 2023) · 0 minutes to read

You are not a parrot. And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this.

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· 8 Adar 5783 (Wednesday 1 March 2023) · 1 minute to read

Fighting ‘Woke AI,’ Musk Recruits Team to Develop OpenAI Rival

OK let me get this straight.

Musk criticizes the content safeguards GPT3 (and probably GPT4 too), use as woke, and therefore wants to build an alternative, which I am supposed to believe will not use fewer content safeguards. It’s gonna be that anti-woke thing that magically turns out to not be bigoted that we keep being promised.

Anti-woke shit ends up at bigotry every Goddamn time, and yet I am supposed to pretend these are people of goodwill bla, bla, bla.

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· 8 Adar 5783 (Wednesday 1 March 2023) · 0 minutes to read

I don’t want to log in to your website by Elizabeth Lopatto

There’s no public commons on the web. It’s a race to the bottom, and the bottom is gross. You want me to log in to read? I think I simply will not read.

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· 8 Adar 5783 (Wednesday 1 March 2023) · 0 minutes to read

Ron DeSantis’s Illiberal Education Crusade by Cathy Young

Florida’s “anti-woke” power grabs in K-12 and public universities should be opposed—but not by defending progressive illiberalism.

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· 8 Adar 5783 (Wednesday 1 March 2023) · 1 minute to read

Good morning everybody, and welcome to Wednesday. Despite all the first-of-month mailman emails, I just now realized it's officially March now. Good thing I haven't written any dates yet today.

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· 7 Adar 5783 (Tuesday 28 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read

Marcus Hutchins :verified: (@malwaretech@infosec.exchange) (Infosec Exchange)

If the US wasn't a superpower, I'm pretty sure we'd all be in talks to discuss banning American media along with TikTok. The US culture war is going to slowly poison the rest of western society and before long every country is going to be descending into fascism while yelling about woke mind viruses or some other made up nonsense. https://www.theinformation.com/articles/fighting-woke-ai-musk-recruits-team-to-develop-openai-rival

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· 7 Adar 5783 (Tuesday 28 February 2023) · 1 minute to read

Good evening everybody, I guess Tuesday has mostly passed. Just waiting on some dinner and kicking back with John.

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· 7 Adar 5783 (Tuesday 28 February 2023) · 1 minute to read

Senator Markey letter to Musk on Twitter accessibility

I’m glad Senator Markey wrote this letter, although I expect that it will do no good and that Republicans will just shit on accessibility in this case just like they have when it comes to every other recent accessibility/disability related thing.

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· 7 Adar 5783 (Tuesday 28 February 2023) · 1 minute to read

We’re having a bullshit conversation about the future of ‘super intelligent AI’ while our automated bureaucracy kills children.

–Greg Borenstein

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· 7 Adar 5783 (Tuesday 28 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read

Eric Meyer :firedoge: (@Meyerweb@mastodon.social) (Mastodon)

I just used a handheld supercomputer to contribute a tiny improvement to an openly available titanic compendium of human knowledge via a globe-spanning network while lying in my bed. I was never promised this future, and I am grateful to have been a part of it.

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· 7 Adar 5783 (Tuesday 28 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read

The tech tycoon martyrdom charade

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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· 7 Adar 5783 (Tuesday 28 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read

yona :heart_transgender: (@yonabee@eldritch.cafe) (Eldritch Café)

life is the process of slowly realizing how wrong you were about everything, painfully changing and integrating these new realizations into your life, and then doing it all over again because you are *still* amazingly wrong about absolutely everything.

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· 7 Adar 5783 (Tuesday 28 February 2023) · 1 minute to read

jamie hill 🏴‍☠️ (@hilljam@mastodon.social) (Mastodon)

Attached: 1 image some intersectional antifascists were protesting some shitbag yesterday and omg THIS SIGN 😂😂😂😂💀💀💀💀💀

The sign says: “Respect my trans homies or I’m gonna identify as a fucking problem”. I need this on a t-shirt.

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· 7 Adar 5783 (Tuesday 28 February 2023) · 0 minutes to read

Sean Kelly (@nutjob4life@wandering.shop) (The Wandering Shop)

CATHOLIC CHURCH: No meat on Fridays PEOPLE: Ok so no eggs for breakfast CC: No, eggs are ok P: But eggs are chicken CC: Not until they hatch P: So the thing isn't the thing until it's born? CC: Correct—um, no, wait.