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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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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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Which multi-million-dollar-funded overlay company is out there testing bugs with display properties in browsers, tracking results, pressuring browsers, monitoring the spec…

Or maybe their overlays are fixing this for their customers by removing display properties dynamically and replacing them with something else? And not bragging about it?

Just a reminder that accessibility overlays do not give back to the community, let alone fix problems. Overlay makers are a parasite.

—@aardrian

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danielle kefford (@quephird@queer.party) (Queer Party!)
My hot take is that Target, and any other organization for that matter, that decides to do something that promotes/supports/celebrates marginalized people needs to anticipate potential backlash, _and_ plan on continuing that support when it happens. If they aren't prepared to do that, then they shouldn't do so in the first place, and they aren't real allies. They're merely opportunists.
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The term #Algorithm is Al-Khwarizmi translated into #Latin

The #scientist & #mathematician Muhammad ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi lived from 780 to 850 AD in Persia & #Iraq.

Also known as the father of #algebra,
Al-Khwarizmi’s #book, “Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing” introduced systematic methods for solving linear & quadratic equations.

Using letters as symbols to represent unknown quantities, lay the foundation for symbolic algebra.

#Islam #Muslim #science #math

—@EgyptianAphorist

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#Admin #IndieWebSocial

We have 250 Patrons supporting this server – my profound thanks to you all. ✊

As we head into Meta launching an ActivityPub service & Twitter continues to spiral down, I wanted to do another drive for those of our 10,600 community who can give but have not yet.

Even at the $1 dollar a month "keep the lights on" level. 💵

We are doing fine at our current level of support & traffic, but I do want to build out what is to come.
Every bit helps!

https://www.patreon.com/indiewebsocial

—@tchambers

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Last night I got to introduce Mai to #Jamulus, one of the singers I work with for the first time. She wants to rehearse with me but lives far away, and we found that for some reason, Jamulus’s latency is lower than SonoBus so we’re going to use that for the time being. Anyway, after a test run, I said ‘come meet all the mad people I jam with on a regular basis’ and this was the last jam of the evening for her, after about an hour of hanging out. It’s ridiculous and we call it:
Good night, see you later.

—@FreakyFwoof

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influencer voice what’s up guys, it’s [famous tech reviewer], today we’re looking at [some shit that’s gonna turn into ewaste in two years]. i’m so excited, it’s 8% faster than [last year’s version of the same exact shit].

we’re gonna be comparing it against [three other versions of the same shit from different manufactures] — not to get ahead of ourselves, but it really packs a punch for its price (conspicuously doesn’t mention that the price is what it is because of slavery and worker exploitation)

but before we get into that, a word from our sponsor, [some fucking bullshit vpn company that you’re going to let slurp up your data because i told you they’re good for your privacy and you have a parasocial relationship with me that turns off your critical thinking skills]

—@alive

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Every single fucking company rolling out some fake-assed “AI” system today has paragraph after paragraph of arcane IP-restricted lawyer-language agreements with every single person who works for them,

But they’re happy to deploy LLM’s whose entire dataset is based on taking content from people who did not consent to their own IP being used in this manner.

*Every* *single* *fucking* *one*.

—@GeePawHill