If you see this, quote with the energy you being to bluesky

This is funny AF, I have nothing but admiration for the genius levels of snark achieved here alignmentalignment.ai

Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔 on.ft.com/3K05vhS

“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said Adio Dinika, a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute…These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.”

#IrregularVerb of political violence I strike a righteous blow to the forces of oppression You overreact and go rogue We are just protecting ourselves from Them Those Bastards Over There just want to watch the world burn

The true origins of autism? open.substack.com/pu... Forget smartphones or vaccines, a new study reveals that neurodivergence is tomething that evolved millions of years ago. And we likely wouldn't be human without it. #autism #neurodivergence

THE IDEA OF TRANSCENDENCE IS USED TO OBSCURE OPPRESSION

Mixed feelings on this one - as long as ‘productivity’ is measured by mindless motion rather than thoughtful alignment with intended outcomes, it’s better to have less of it! However, shoving generic Data Fairy tech into everything by default is stupid and dangerous, and should be stopped.

Talking about ‘harm reduction’ exposes some uncomfortable borders and gaps between utilitarian and value-based ethics. Is it more or less ‘harmful’ for a BigTechCorp to lose billions than for a handful of people to die of unnatural causes, or have their lives arbitrarily ruined? It depends….

Excellent thread

Slightly diminish a book: Jude the Unfamiliar

‘Evidence-based’ is meaningless when the ‘evidence’ was cherry-picked to reflect only cheerleading views while excluding practical, social and technical concerns about efficacy. Repeating PR slogans does not change the facts - the OSA is excessive, unworkable, dangerous and dystopian.

THIS Privacy is protection from the arseholery of others

‘Pimps for dystopian spytech recommend dystopian spytech as the answer to everything’ WELL OF COURSE THEY DO

Or to put it another way, the more you know about the hazards and limitations of consumer Data Fairy tech, the more equipped you are to make an informed risk assessment - and thus steer well clear

GenAI is ‘just a tool’ in the same way that a cattle prod is ‘just a tool’ - the end user is the cow being driven by the sparky end

These days we scoff and shake our heads at the irresponsibility of putting radioactive materials in consumer products as a gimmick, and the naivety of those who rushed to purchase. I can only hope that future generations will have the same reaction to our current Data Fairy hypefest

Flag-shagging is virtue-signalling for the vicious.

This is the essence of the business case for using Data Fairy tech in almost all instances.

To gauge how it’s “working,” one would have to be clear on what the actual work is, which is not helping to educate children but rather to imbed these systems in a way that they cannot be removed, establish them as a source of truth, and destabilize labor.

Rather pleased with this one #CatEmbroidery

“Generative AI Is Built on Nihilism. Its Real Product Is Despair.”

A few years back I read some Facebook copypasta describing UX design as a profession in almost satanically manipulative terms, and was a bit baffled. Then the penny dropped, and I realized that in FAANG-land, that's exactly what it turned into, and that's where & how most everyday users encounter it

Heartbreaking: Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point www.404media.co/4chan-and-ki...

It remains to be seen whether APCS’s supply chain due diligence & assurance processes were insufficiently robust to have prevented their software provider from wrecking their service with a massive breach. But from my own experiences, my money is on ‘yep’

“The ways the AI hiring tools tend to discriminate aren’t by inventing new modes of discrimination but applying the same pattern to technologies that are able to discriminate, at times at scale…”

FAO techbros, especially those in the AI space…..

What’s that particular word/phrase for when the safety margins of a system, intended as wiggle room in exceptional circs, become absorbed into standard operations and cease to be effective as safety margins? There’s a lot of it about

PornHub drove a lot of the current age verification regulation because they figured out they could make money from the age verification stuff; they want the money while Meta wants your data

It would seem that the only way to fight fascism is to make it unprofitable.

Laughs in ‘Online Safety Act’ UK regulatory logic - hate and incitement to violence are all fine as long as no-one is showing their tits

Laughing at these techbros’ idea of ‘super-intelligence’ being ‘mindlessly relaying predictive text output without doing the work to comprehend or verify its validity’ Snarling at their ludicrously smug complacency.

Ignore the haters. London is the 🐐

Badge of honour [image of a five-pointed gold star with the words “Has never even opened ChatGPT” inside]

I have achieved the pinnacle of tech nirvana today. Put a new privacy/protector screen on my phone WITHOUT ANY BUBBLES!!! First time!!! So smoooooooth…..<gloats>

I really can't emphasize enough that it takes only about three pieces of information about someone to re-identify them. None of us are particularly anonymous if we have any sort of sustained online presence

Since the Online Safety Act only applies to media like pix, video and audio, not text…. ….doesn’t that exempt ASCII porn? It’s just text!

Disturbia’s cover of ‘The Sound Of Silence’ is sublime. Grabs me by the eardrums every time. That *voice*! <melts>

there's is no evil Zuck's empire is incapable of www.reuters.com/investigates...

One more point on this. Anyone following internet regulation over the last few decades knows that ‘wont anyone think of the children’ is a standard route to any kind of speech control.

Thank fsck this wasn’t a trend when I got married, my terrible ex would totally have done this as a ‘joke’ then punished me for being upset about it. We really need more social education about red flags and abuser behaviour www.loveisrespect.org

Starting the day by regaling the taxi driver with cautionary tales about the origins of data protection and why data is such dangerous stuff 😋

My cunning strategy to end crime is to make everything legal. Job done.

‘AI’ works when developed and tested to rigorous scientific standards by domain experts for narrow use-cases, continually monitored, with human-driven intervention and exception handling. Mass-processing for corporate loss-protection/‘efficiency’ is the very opposite of this.

Authoritarianism isn’t a ‘left/right’ issue, it’s a ‘power corrupts’ issue. The ultimate objective of power is exemption from accountability. Sometimes this is unconscious, sometimes it’s in yer face. We must fight to maintain equilibrium- not between ‘left & right’ but between tyranny & chaos

Democide-As-A-Service

Timeline cleanser

Age ‘verification’ privacy advice: If you have a credit card, use *that* for AV rather than a face scan. -You can change your card number if the data leaks, you can’t change your face -Checking a CC is much less invasive, discriminatory and environmentally disastrous than using AI to guess age

Signal boost for this- The OSA makes everyone less safe and trashing small businesses while not providing any measure of protection to children. It is making the unregulated AI age-guessing industry a lot of ££££ though… petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...