Why did you transition, wrong answers only Because I thought it would make my life easier

The main problem I see with combatting this issue is the fact that it's incredibly difficult to outline, in English, the difference between exploitative machine learning algorithms and non-exploitative ones. Protein folding AI should not be impacted by regulation, but we must combat abuse also.

I feel like limits should be placed on power consumption by data companies, and that they should have to pay a high premium above market rate if they want to consume so much power that they drive up the price. My electricity bill has quadrupled since COVID & AI is a big part of it.

If Microsoft had just asked me if they could use my source code to train their chatbot, I actually would have obliged. But, they chose to steal the code instead, so if someone finds my code in their system, I'm going to be pissed. It's a matter of principle.

I don't think *all* machine learning is bad, I feel like it's bad when it's shoved down our throats and used to produce slop. I use Ollama on my local machine for code review sometimes and it does an okay job. For the most part, though, AI has been mostly annoying & it's not made ethically.

Immigrants to this country have consistently made my life better. From the three best buddy day laborers who shared an apt. across the hall from me in my 20s & consistently blazed with me to my Korean friends in highschool and coworkers from The Netherlands, immigrants are my friends.

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

"Dr Cass recommended a ban on prescribing them and a clinical trial to ***build that evidence***" That's not the way science works.

Killed at the 11th hour by Bari Weiss, in an ominous sign for corporate media. (Corporatist censorship to favor the regime) The now-deleted teaser for the 60 Minutes report that was supposed to air last night on the CECOT torture prison in El Salvador.

I'd bet my life savings that we can tie this to the same bigot billionaires that are doing it in the US, or their friends. There used to be a 90% wealth tax in America and during that time we built The Interstate Highway System, without which we never could have prospered to the extent we do today.

"Finally (for now), the unaccountable 'move fast and break things' business model of the companies pushing this trash is morally and ethically bankrupt and enriches billionaires at the expense of everyday people. 'Break things' means 'break people,' and I don’t think that’s acceptable."-Greg Pak

I see people fighting for us every day, and we're getting better at being leftists. This is why I have hope for the future.

This is a really beautiful story about people looking out for each other.

One of my friends in another state is about to become homeless. She's disabled and trans. If anyone knows any resources that I can leverage to help her find a safe place to live please contact me directly via private message

Be an "agitator"

"a panicked call from a Department of Homeland Security supervisor requesting assistance because “we only have a few officers but we have 60 to 70 agitators fighting them.” xD

"In other words, once the four AI tools locked onto a person’s age, race, or gender, those factors would form the backbone of the tissue analysis"-Joe Wilkins

Trying to find a place to go where I'd be safe in the winter outside because I doubt I'll be able to find much shelter and I'm running out of hope to find anywhere stable.

I forgot to buy candy and paper towels :(

Tax the rich.

This system of oppression only works as long as we, the general public, go along with it. When we rise up together, we can change the world and that's what billionaires like Peter Thiel are afraid of.

Don't worry, Newsom is just following an executive order. So, it's lawful and therefore good for him to destroy homeless people's last remaining possessions, right?

So many people just taking the bait today. No wonder we're in this mess.

A better America and a better society are possible. We know how to help people flourish, we understand fully the factors that cause conflict and hardship. Our science and technology is so advanced that we know of no other beings in the vast universe with such advancements. We the people must unite.

The files are redacted because all of the Republicans are complicit and so are a lot of the Dems. This was exactly the outcome everyone should have expected, and I find it a little annoying that people are like, "BuUT tHeY ReDaCTeD iT!" Yeah, no shit, they're pedophiles. That's what pedophiles do.

For some of us, existence is resistance and that is okay, I got you! We look out for each other on "The Radical Left™" it's all we've got.

If you're following me then you've been building or getting involved in a local community and shown solidarity with local actions. If you haven't done those things, just try it, you probably don't even need to shower for some of those events! I know it can be hard, but community defeats isolation.

If we want to stop the march of fascism, the only way is to take away their toys & we can do that by taking away the wealth of those who are abusing the people and the planet and redistribute that to everyone. We should especially redistribute resources to scientists & educators - the key reformers

The thing that really blows my mind about all of this Peter Thiel stuff is that it's so blatantly obvious what he wants to do - cast everyone who disagrees with him as "demonic" and create a surveillance state that he can rule with an iron fist - and there is no meaningful resistance to that.

The reason that there is no "good" FOSS AI is because AI is a tool of social control in it's current form.

Hey guys, I invented a thing. You ask for some artwork, it goes online and steals it, makes it worse, and gives it to you. I'm calling it "DɅТɅТНІΕΦ" We announced the I.P.O. on a Thursday during a national tragedy, raising $22bn, and it's in your device's next mandatory update! .. STOP BOOING ME!

One of the big things I've been learning to feel this year is that I am worth fighting for. I am worth getting up for. I am worth trying for. I am worth being taken care of. I am worth choosing life for.

I am beautiful and so are you

This is an incredibly well-written piece of the sort we should be seeing all the time. It uses the words "stark minority" for the number of those in the study who stopped their transition & notes the false narrative to the contrary often used in politics. The #FailingNewYorkTimes could never.

"[Jonathan Hall KC's] report also notes that journalists "carrying confidential information" or material "personally embarrassing to the Prime Minister on the eve of important treaty negotiations" could face similar scrutiny." -Chiara Castro

The reason they're so focused on trans teens is that people who transition younger typically blend into society better. To the extent that they're willing to tolerate our existence in society at all, they'd rather we be easily identified by our appearance/voices/etc.

This talking point has always given the game away, because what he's describing is a resounding diagnostic success, and the only downside is that there are more trans people getting the treatment they need.

Okay, but, quick question - why does Dr. Oz know how much a child's penis costs?

"You have to understand that it's a platform that's a weapon" -IDF official, speaking of Microsoft's cloud infrastructure service for surveillance

Our right to exist as full and equal members of society is not a distraction.

So, I asked my partner out on a date... AND THEY SAID YES! 🤯 😍 💘 💃

It's about time the rich started paying taxes. Regular people pay between 10%-40% in federal income tax alone each year, while the rich pay nothing whatsoever, or very little.

A SMALL VICTORY IN OHIO Trans politician Amy Heutmaker ran for office in a conservative community in a conservative state, and won. All she did was get people to listen to her. www.reddit.com/r/MI_transge...

Exactly this, and this is one more example of why we *need* to field progressive candidates for every office we can. Centrists & Dems have failed to mount any meaningful opposition so they need to be replaced by people who represent US!

"Well I don't think it's funny at all," "I think it's horrifying," okay well neither of us can do anything about it, your frowns don't convert to action any better than derisive laughter does

Posting snark online is fun and you can do it on the toiled but it doesn't do shit.

Violence begets violence begets violence begets violence begets violence begets violence begets violence begets violence begets violence begets violence begets violence begets violence begets violence begets violence begets violence begets violence begets violence begets violence begets violence beg

If your portfolio is mainly thin characters and you actually want to change that, this book is a great place to start. Free PDF's are readily available if you search "morpho fat and skin folds pdf"

Patches are fine as long as I shower only twice a week.

I don't know how to call this anything but murder