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@baldur@toot.cafe You mean the trillions of dollars we are spending for incantation generating machines will not bring Machine Jesus to life, causing the apocalypse? How can you not believe that? Every day I put three books in a blender to produce intelligent life forms....

@evacide@hachyderm.io I heard that in Soviet times people would go far away from their telephone and keep the water running to make it hard for the government to understand their private conversations. So, in the future, keep your wearable device in another room, with the door shut, and leave the faucet running non-stop. It is a small price to pay, for giving a corporate CEO a big bonus.

@baconandcoconut@freeradical.zone They are fermenting and smelling ripe.

@MirrorAyako@universeodon.com @startrek@fedigroups.social Nurse Chapel, Roddenbery's wife, was the most beloved

@sraars@hippodon.com @evacide@hachyderm.io And all the devices of all the random strangers within earshot?

@klausfiend@mstdn.ca @lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org A magic 8 ball gives better medical advice than HHS under RFK Jr,

@QasimRashid@mastodon.social What is this reading thing you speak of?

@Trilobyter@mastodon.world Is that normal molting? I have seen some in our yard and assumed they had a skin disease....

@evacide@hachyderm.io Don't most of these devices have wear leveling, which makes erase programs ineffective? https://ssd.eff.org/glossary/wear-leveling Or am I misinformed? Or do they just nuke the key?

@LALegault@newsie.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr "give us money, so we can pollute the environment more quickly and destroy everything." Is my interpretation

@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io Donald Trump! Fraud! Shirley, you jest!

@e_nomem@hachyderm.io @evacide@hachyderm.io 👍 Thanks. Do you know where this type of thing would be documented for those of us who are interested?

@cR0w@infosec.exchange And they were programmed to generate random BS and accumulate data and money for a small group of very untrustworthy people.

@graham_knapp@hachyderm.io Also, current events are making studying computing unattractive. There is the impression that everyone should be working on exactly one problem: AGI. Having everyone do the same thing is not research, it is indoctrination.

@jessamyn@glammr.us @cynblogger@sfba.social I hate putting any of my thoughts into anything Googly.

@TheJen@beige.party My favorite: any ship with Amos in it. Hurray for Baltimore!

@kouett@soc.kouett.net.eu.org A more realistic trolley problem: There are children threatened by disease and/or starvation: should you (a) let the government program continue and save their lives, or (b) start a performative stunt to take the government funding and use it to subsidize your business ventures that increase pollution causing extra deaths? Guess what the right answer would be in an MBA ethics class?

@literalgrill@sakurajima.moe I am looking forward to seeing how Musk uses grok to make this "unwoke" and true to Greek mythology at the same time.

@danirabbit@mastodon.online Is there a way of detecting bot scrapers and generating low-level slop for them? I'm trying to think of ways to speed up model collapse. Similarly, I encourage everyone to post code samples with buffer overflow vulnerabilities, etc. If we can attach that to AI optimization, we can make vibe coding output execrable. My goal is to make vibe coding widespread, so that the existing platforms crash and burn, and are impossible to fix. It is our only chance to survive the idiocracy (kakistocracy).

@graham_knapp@hachyderm.io Also, research funding is drying up in all areas. So, there are no positions for the people we can not find

A modest proposal. The billionaires want ubiquitous surveillance and the data centers. We don't. They have also been building large enclaves to keep normal people out. How about, we put all the flock cameras and data centers in the billionaire enclaves?

@fabio@manganiello.eu I like their eternal defense "Everyone knew that Trump lies, so it does not matter."

@schrotthaufen@mastodon.social That is not the logical conclusion, if you are Apple.

@franksting@theblower.au @RickiTarr@beige.party Oddly, when they talk about the greatness of ancient Greece, they tend not to talk about the (pretty much) mandatory homosexuality and Spartan women dressing as boys on the wedding night so their men could get erections. Or is this the part of historical correctness Elon was missing in the Odyssey?

@pluralistic@mamot.fr if it is a program from Silicon Valley, you are sending tons of signals. In the words of a wise man, they are "spying on you from asshole to appetite"

@ombialik@mastodon.world That is part of the reason why law and medicine jargon is mainly Latin. I have thought for a long time that a large part of academia is creating a jargon that separates the in group from the out group. There is some justification for using concise and precise language, but it is over done. I think Mathematics is the epitome of jargon...

@mehdirhasan@mastox.eu I always assume he has yet to recover from the stroke.

@millardjk@mastodon.social @RickiTarr@beige.party wait, people would be willing to work and get rich, even though they get taxed like everyone else? That is crazy talk.

@SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange My favorite train poem is from Brecht. He described Nazi politicians with trains going through Germany making campaign speeches. Then he discussed them using the train toilets. Final line: "Die scheissen auf Deutschland."

@RickiTarr@beige.party Maybe if Tate bought an NFL team? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/judge-orders-massage-parlor-video-of-patriots-owner-robert-kraft-be-destroyed/ar-AA1KOwPa

@cigitalgem@sigmoid.social How about recursive enshittification?

@RickiTarr@beige.party Pain aux Raisins (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_aux_raisins) and Pumpernickel (the German one https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpernickel)

@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social If we each give each other $2 Mil at the same moment, we are both $ 2 mil richer. Now I understand how Elon Musk got $1 Til.

@RickiTarr@beige.party in a company where I used to work, the senior VP held an 8 hour meeting with all of senior management to discuss the fact that no work was getting done because everyone was sitting in meetings.

@DIEZEIT@flipboard.com @wirtschaft-ZEITONLINE obwohl, Springer ist auch nicht sehr fuer Demokratie gepraegt

@ombialik@mastodon.world For many people, illegible and indecipherable is the whole point of academia.

@e_nomem@hachyderm.io What if it goes negative?

@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org I've seen this coming for a while. Promising, with no evidence, that AI doctors will be a boon. Frequently, it is phrased as giving medical advice to people without access to MDs. It is easy to see that, once they are introduced for the poorest, suddenly they will become a "cost effective" alternative for working class, then middle class. In the end, only the very wealthy will have medical care. Everyone else gets a magic 8 ball.

@funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social It was explained to him by Mitch McConnell.

@YannC@piaille.fr @RickiTarr@beige.party Somalia. A libertarian paradise is a state with neither taxes nor laws. That is what these "Dark Enlightenment" people want. Here is a discussion of these states (the libertarian billionaires whould try them out): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failed_state

@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange Widdwe bebe

@EricAlper@mastodon.social Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers, Pink Floyd, Little Feat, Townes Van Zandt

@graham_knapp@hachyderm.io The current immigration regime in the USA makes it almost impossible to get good quality non-US students. The set of quality domestic students seeking a PhD is also decreasing rapidly.

@funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social https://www.dogbizness.com.au/post/a-guide-to-fear-and-phobia-management-for-pembroke-welsh-corgis

@Noortjevee@mstdn.social Possibly Israel should not be behaving in ways that invite this comparison?

@cstross@wandering.shop I think it is inherently subjective. Both how much erotica, and what is erotica. You could have one erotic event at the end of 1000 pages of foreplay.