The Pelagic Streetlights

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I can turn asphalt to seabed.
I can reverse the tide.

Profile Pic: A rainbow shoggoth that evokes sea urchins and anglerfish and has a big mouth.

Profile Banner: Demonic King Purson

Account art done by my friend.

Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/thepelagicstreetlights

SpiritualityPagan Occultist/Christian depending on who is in front.
PronounsThey/Them, or Nautical-Themed Neopronouns
PoliticsEver-Lefter
The Pelagic StreetlightsOct 9, 2023
The VergeOct 9, 2023
Disney’s Loki faces backlash over reported use of generative AI - https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/9/23909529/disney-marvel-loki-generative-ai-poster-backlash-season-2
Disney’s Loki remains silent over reported use of generative AI

A promotional poster for the second season of Loki on Disney Plus has sparked controversy amongst professional designers following claims that it was created using generative AI.

The Verge
The Pelagic StreetlightsOct 9, 2023
poet of the fallen moon 🍉Oct 6, 2023

coming to realise that laziness is not really a thing. it's just that capitalism makes us believe that any time spent on rest or one's self-interest is not productive and thus a waste.

anyway, i hope you all have a slow friday & a restful weekend.

The Pelagic StreetlightsAug 9, 2023
Low Quality FactsFeb 19, 2023
Why give Meta $12-$15 a month when you could pay only $1 to support my occasional jokes about how hilariously incompetent Meta is instead? Also, I post pictures of my cats. Just look at them. Mark Zuckerberg doesn't post pictures of cats. If anything, Zuckerberg eats cats. I have no proof of this but we all know it's true.
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Creating Low Quality Facts written in lower quality handwriting.

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The Pelagic StreetlightsAug 7, 2023
Megan FoxAug 7, 2023

Hahahahah. Holy shit.

So Zoom is irrevocably turning their entire network into a training data set: https://hackers.town/@devlogic/110843380784157782

EVERY "public service" company is now attempting to extract value. They're all going for it. They're gonna burn it all down to try and turn AI into a financial exit. Search engines, communication backbones, social networks, everybody.

My read is they're all shit terrified of the impact AI will have and aren't long-term thinkers, so their only short term play is to burn it all down and exit ASAP. Never mind that what they're burning down is, uh, the entirety of our infrastructure. They don't care.

devlogic (@[email protected])

This can't end well. I've already sent emails to our exec and data security departments about this. Zoom terms of service now allow training AI on user content with no opt out https://explore.zoom.us/en/terms/ §10.4(ii): 10.4 Customer License Grant. You agree to grant and hereby grant Zoom a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license and all other rights required or necessary to redistribute, publish, import, access, use, store, transmit, review, disclose, preserve, extract, modify, reproduce, share, use, display, copy, distribute, translate, transcribe, create derivative works, and process Customer Content and to perform all acts with respect to the Customer Content:(ii) for the purpose of product and service development, marketing, analytics, quality assurance, machine learning, artificial intelligence, training, testing, improvement of the Services, Software, or Zoom’s other products, services, and software, or any combination thereof #zoom #machinelearning #llm #ai

hackers.town
The Pelagic StreetlightsAug 7, 2023
Dr. Damien P. Williams, MagusAug 6, 2023
if zoom isn't going to let us opt out of them feeding our faces & voices & conversations into their LLMs, I'm going to very loudly & vocally stop using Zoom, & by loudly i mean "actively marshaling resistance w/in my university home departments & multiple affiliate organizations." Just sayin'.
The Pelagic StreetlightsJul 14, 2023
Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSCJul 11, 2023
Repost if #transgender people are welcome and safe with you.
The Pelagic StreetlightsJul 9, 2023

We arent here for the purpose of filling the coffers and stockpiles of capitalists. Our purposes are not decided by the men with the most money.

These men seek godhood at the expense of the planet. They yearn to receive the threatment of ancient pharaohs; to be elevated so far above humanity that we forget they still have to shit on a regular basis.

We arent here for the purpose of Labor, and people like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel are no more your ally than the Pharaoh of Exodus.

Free yourself

The Pelagic StreetlightsJul 9, 2023
at home in my headJun 13, 2023

A Texas Law Maker goes to Hell and argues his case--but he's not allowed to lie. Hilarious.

https://youtu.be/IWejgpyqxAk

Sharing some Mason Denver!

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The Pelagic StreetlightsJul 9, 2023
at home in my headJun 16, 2023
One of my friends posted this and it made me laugh. I figured I'd share it and hopefully give some other folks a laugh.
The Pelagic StreetlightsJul 9, 2023
at home in my headJun 20, 2023
When Chris Christie can tell Donna Brazile to "calm down" over laws restricting abortion access, it demonstrates why we desperately need to teach an honest history of slavery in the US. After what wyte cis men in this nation did to Black women, it's obscene that any wyte man in power would suggest to a Black woman she is not justified in her outrage over her reproductive rights being threatened... again.