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Just saw a blog post about someone just… feeding tons and tons of personal information into a GPT4 model for personal assistant purposes and I don’t get it. I just don’t get it. It doesn’t matter how many times we shout the dangers of not caring about privacy from all the roof tops in the world. People just don’t care. What’s the point. Gah this is so damn demotivating. OpenAI even tells you that they’ll totally use that data and you shouldn’t give it to them. You have to click next like 5 times before you get to the point of being able to do that very thing. And people still do. This is why we’re losing. It’s actually insane.

—@talon

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Congrats to Bob Zeidman, who just won $5 million from Mike #PillowGuy Lindell by proving that Lindell had nothing but fake data to back his claim that the 2020 election was stolen.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/05/26/my-pillow-mike-lindell-investigation-00097903

Zeidman voted for #Trump twice. But he did a good thing and made this good point:

“If more people sought truth, even when that truth is contrary to their beliefs — such as when a #Republican like me destroys a Republican myth — then I think we really can save #democracy in America.”

—@petersuber

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Elon Musk furious after Ron DeSantis event saw his own app crash
Ron DeSantis claimed his campaign launch was a success, but Elon Musk was left furious as his own app crashed repeatedly, Platformer reported.

Thoughts and prayers you little shit.

Also, no wonder your latest head engineer quit less than 24 hours after the incident. If I were him I would have quit too so you can’t throw him under the bus.

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The cashier/barista at the café where I sat and worked yesterday was a trans woman.

I didn’t feel any Satanic vibe in the café or smell sulfur. I heard no nearby children declared their intention to become trans, nor to my eyes did any suddenly engage in “sexualized” behavior.

I guess I need to develop my radar for the presence of evil.

—@jjgass

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Tony Stark (@TonyStark@progressivecafe.social) (Progressive Cafe)
My plan for the next 18 years includes enjoying my work and my hobbies, traveling a little, and seeing my daughter off to college. Then again, I did not commit sedition against American democracy. I’ll enjoy thinking about Rhodes while I enjoy my freedom. On my less ambitious days, maybe I’ll sit on a lawn chair outside his prison with a "Biden Won" billboard behind me for shade. Oath Keeper Stewart Rhodes will spend 18 years in prison, longest sentence yet- https://www.npr.org/2023/05/25/1178116193/stewart-rhodes-oath-keepers-verdict