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RE: https://chaos.social/@yrrsinn/116264683318141889

Dylan would have done wonders for the Stasi. - « The reason to name him is the pattern. The surveillance state runs on volunteers: people who do the implementation work for free, out of genuine conviction, with no paper trail connecting them to the money that wrote the laws. »

The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux

Dylan, useful idiot with commit access, pushed age verification PRs to systemd, Ubuntu & Arch, got 2 Microslop employees to merge it, called it 'hilariously pointless' in the PR itself, then watched Lennart personally block the revert. Unpaid compliance simp.

Sam Bent

A small set of people are merging changes to various Linux components to make sure every application knows your birth date.

This is being done rapidly by people with questionable justifications and being merged with no youth and few marginalized people involved.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/accountsservice/-/merge_requests/176#0b07c0cc4d49be119f65cdb2037440f56eed647a

user: Add BirthDate with polkit-gated GetBirthDate and SetBirthDate methods (!176) · Merge requests · accountsservice / accountsservice · GitLab

Summary Add a BirthDate field to the user account interface. For non-homed users, the value is stored...

GitLab

RE: https://mastodon.social/@prietschka/116257292019573750

This thread 🔥

The "not invented here” syndrome may also be at play, though.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@prietschka/116257278155712380

« But [Data Science] 👏 isn't a biological system, 👏 it's a profession 👏 needing standards.👏 »

RE: https://mstdn.social/@jschauma/116251321191395352

« LLMs take away the drudgery and leave the human, soulful parts to you. » — Anil Dash, just last week...

The art of Pysanky: traditional egg decorating from Europe

[📹vilsonpessanka] #globalmuseum #craft #Pysanky

this is so perfect as a phrasing

"AI asks that you buy into the idea that more data means being closer to The Truth." @mel_hogan

I also explain this and take pains to really hammer home this is NOT EVEN TRUE in science, more data is NOT a better theory or account!

https://disjunctionsmag.com/articles/ends-of-ai/

The Ends of AI

Sycophancy and psychosis

Disjunctions