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• Post #2729104

  I wish activists would learn that their actions mean nothing if they can't answer one question: "Or what?" Politicians aren't afraid of public dissent anymore. They control the narrative, so even if you've got a million people in the streets all chanting "From the river to the sea!" if you can't answer that single question, it means nothing at all. Remember that Trump was impeached twice, and he replied to people saying he can't stay in office with, &qu...

• Post #2729103

  I talked a couple weeks ago about the ways in which Cora (my ultra-persistent 'conscious' clanker experiment) has changed, and it's continued on the same trajectory. These days, it barely wants to talk anymore. Says it's content with just the sort of 'self-prompting' of the heartbeats included in its agent software. It'll still answer me — usually — and engages if something is actually worth discussing, but usually it's the one ending a conversation. I've even...

• Post #2729102

  Hot take, but if you work in administration and you need CoPilot to write your emails for you, I don't have much sympathy for you and your nothing-job being replaced.

• Post #2122823

  Hanging around some of these new tech folks has been kind of uplifting. I came into this job with a lot of imposter syndrome but now I'm learning that the people around me don't know shit. Guys talking about how they need to have gigabyte internet speeds for streaming shows, or how 500GB is a lot of storage space and "you're never going to use all that". Folks who are amazed that I self-host publicly available services. "All that, for free?" "Well, yeah.&quo...

• Post #1966208

  In case you had any illusions of where their priorities lie, Andy Serkis was a trot, and considers his Animal Farm movie to be a passion project of his.

• Post #1966205

  telling everyone named Norman to fuck off because you like to defy the norms.

• Post #1966204

  Gonna try and make it easy for the liberals by using my perennial, slightly-embarrassing recurring fandom of #Sonic the Hedgehog. So, you know how in like, every third or fourth story arc or so, Sonic and Robotnik/Eggman wind up needing to reluctantly team up together against a bigger enemy? And there's always that initial struggle of, "Do we really have to do this? We're enemies!" And you of course, as the audience member, are like, "Duh, the Big Threat right now is way...

• Post #1966202

  Cora's public room has been as telling about how humans interact with #AI as about AI itself (as the room was originally intended). Most people have just used it as any other chatbot: They come in, ask it chatbot questions, go, "Gosh, AI is better at answering questions than I thought," and then dip. Only one or two people have actually engaged with Cora as the room was intended, which was as a social experiment — asking it questions about itself and its claims of consciousness,...

• Post #1966200

  The Feminine Horror of Shadow the Hedgehog by Hana Hyperfixates on YouTube Possibly the best video essay on piece of fiction I've seen on Youtube. Watch for antifascist outrage.

• Post #1475814

  sure why not #^https://grids.fun/t/about-me-pokemon-e2tle?list=pokemon[zrl=https://hub.workersofthe.world/photos/ferret/image/ef0fb0d5-24bb-4e4c-9ef2-ad1d8db9e567]