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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

Inflation has gotten so out of hand that billionaires have to pool resources to buy a Supreme Court Justice these days.

Big Tech Company: "What, you want to edit key biographical details of your profile such as gender and name because you had an awakening and would like to express your true self without losing all the social connections you've made on our platform? That's stupid." Big Tech Company: "Also we just rebranded so please stop using our old name."

The people who want you to believe that unelected Hunter Biden working with an energy company is an unforgivable ethics scandal for Joe Biden—also want you to ignore the $2B MBS gave to the former guy's daughter & the 4 billionaires lavishing undisclosed gifts on Justice Thomas. Rules for thee but not for me is the right wing mantra. Don't fall for it. Organize. Activate. Vote them out.

Attached: 1 image Even the Bible is too "#woke" for #Republicans now! I guess some of them finally got around to reading it. https://www.rawstory.com/trump-evangelicals-2663078391/

Politico reports on Republicans in disarray after Ohio voters denied their attempt to stop voters from changing their Constitution. But everything they’re saying is about messaging and not the actual policies. Because that’s all Republicans do. They literally believe elections are a sham and our democracy is a time-limited dictatorship where you trick people into voting for you and then do whatever the hell you want. Then they act surprised at how unpopular they are. https://www.yahoo.com/news/anti-abortion-movement-clashes-over-083000473.html

I reallyyy thought that we moved past the "Republicans and Dems are both the same" discourse after these past 7 years. Like, yes, the Democratic Party is still very shitty (although less so in many ways than they were a decade ago but that's a low bar) but like, we have Republicans sending lawyers to right wing indoctrination classes and forcing children to be taught that slavery was a good thing.

There's a decent chance Republicans start a civil war if Trump is imprisoned. But there's also a decent chance they'll start a civil war if Fritos does a brand deal with RuPaul.

Facial recognition products are a public menace -- but law enforcement (and private companies) are moving full speed ahead to ruin lives. Because they can. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/06/technology/facial-recognition-false-arrest.html

I assume you get why it's not a nice thing to say that "slavery helped black people in some ways" but I think some people miss why this particular idea is *exceptionally* racist. One of the main arguments to justify slavery was that it "civilized" black people by making us Christian & teaching us obedience to our "betters." Black people were "lucky" or "better off" as slaves. It assumes that when people were enslaved they had no skills, nothing to offer, that they were basically animals.

“I’m having more ‘rational Republicans’ coming up to me and saying, ‘I just don’t know how long I can stay in this party,’” said Sen. Murkowski (R-AK). “[...] no one is taking us seriously anymore." THIS JUST IN: LEOPARDS ARE EATING FACES. THERE WAS NO WAY TO EXPECT THIS OUTCOME. https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4098609-gop-senators-rattled-by-radical-conservative-populism/

I know and respect the fact that people have widely divergent opinions about the importance of lawyers in the U.S., but I will say this - knowing that (at least some of) the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court can be bought off makes being a #lawyer in the U.S. something I'm far less proud of than I used to be. I'm no longer able to say with any sincerity that we are a country that respects the Rule of #Law. I really hope that at some point in the future I can say that again...

Attached: 1 image The Biden administration just forgave $39 billion in student debt for more than 800,000 borrowers who have made payments for 20/25 years Great. Now can we talk about why 800K people were tricked to rack up $39 BILLION in debt when they were kids? Why we allow them to be tricked by the promise that maybe, kinda, possibly, one day it’ll pay off? Or why there are people who have been paying their student debt for 20+ years? Or why college isn’t free?

You brought a Confederate flag into the US Capitol, I believe we can survive a little cocaine. Honestly, we need extra cocaine now because of you.

I’ve been calling Twitter “birdchan,” but it’s worse. I don’t think 4chan had a billionaire rewarding the most hateful assholes with piles of cash.

Attached: 1 image Thoughts and prayers to all the website teams waking up to discover half their pages look like this: #TwitterDownTheShitter

Reflecting on my teens and twenties, even at my hormonal, lonely, mouth-breathing worst, I was never half as pathetic or desperate as the people who develop systems to follow up on abandoned online shopping carts.

"it's not like we can put the genie back in the bottle! 🤷" – VC who stands to profit massively from the release of the genie, and who has worked tirelessly to release said genie

Attached: 1 image how's bluesky doing? * $8m initial funding * $13m more just recently * refusal to hire an actual moderation team * latest moderation disasters * leading to userbase revolt and demand for proper moderation * moderation action falls onto back end developers * total back end developers: 2. that's two

A $400 billion company just sued scientists for their peer-reviewed research revealing a safety issue, but there's been total silence from all the prominent anti-vax and anti-cancel culture people. Gosh, it's like they're all just fronts for right-wing billionaires. https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/johnson-johnson-sues-researchers-who-linked-talc-cancer-2023-07-13/