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Moin! Here you can mostly find boosts about politics and tech. Sometimes mixed with other stuff I deemed interesting.
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elilla&: kendล club arc12h ago
porn games kicked out of itch, non-porn queer games brought down together as collateral, karada house deleted from instagramโ€ฆ the capitalist puritanism keeps accelerating as christofascism comes out of the closetโ€ฆ being overtly sexual and kinky was always a political act and is now more than ever, the fascists don't really want to eliminate sexualness or sex work, they want it hidden, marginalised, easily abusable outside of public lifeโ€ฆ it is by horny on main that we build safety and justice. horny on main is an insurrectionary act.
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mekka okereke 2d ago

"Why Black people don't call the police."

And

"Why cops make the murder rate go up."

Part 1000.

Award winning musician GloRilla's house was burglarized by home invaders who knew she would be performing at a concert.

Police showed up and... searched her house for drugs...๐Ÿค”

And charged her.๐Ÿคก

The burglars knew that she wouldn't be home because her public performance schedule was well known. But they weren't expecting one of her relatives to be home, and heavily armed.๐Ÿ˜ฌ That relative wasn't going for the home invasion. He bucked back.

The would-be home invaders ran off. No one was shot.

The cops showed up and immediately started doing what cops do: not preventing any crimes, not solving any burglaries or home invasions, not investigating, but doing what they do best: putting drug charges on Black people.๐Ÿคท๐Ÿฟโ€โ™‚๏ธ

They searched her closet with drug dogs and found a stash of weed.

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tomate ๐Ÿ…1d ago

When an #ADHD person says โ€žI forgotโ€œ what we often mean is:

* I remembered 5 times but at the wrong time
* I fully planned to do it but I felt overwhelmed
* I shamed myself for not doing it that I did not do it

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Dataline1d ago
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Lukito2d ago

This was my zodiac   

(Palm tree is the only correct answer)

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koehntopp ~ :2d ago

Wenn 'KI' nicht 'lernen' kann, ohne alle Literatur der Welt zu stehlen, und das fรผr alle OK ist...

...mรผssten wir dann im Interesse "der Wirtschaft" nicht auch SchรผlerInnen, Auszubildenden und StudentInnen erlauben, ihre Fachliteratur umsonst zu beziehen....?

Frage fรผr ein "Land der Ingenieure".

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maxi, enby fatale. 2d ago
guys, i stole the google teheheheh, what do we do now with it 
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Natasha Jay2d ago

Today's front page ๐Ÿ“ฐ of The National ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ

"Convicted US felon to arrive in Scotland"

Scotland not pulling any punches!

Source:
https://bsky.app/profile/scotnational.bsky.social/post/3luqgr2bbku2q

#Scotland #SCO

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Mario Sixtus ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ฐ้ฆฌๅ…ญ3d ago
So geht grรผner politischer Videoclip 2025: Den Wahn der Rechten und der bรผrgerlichen Scheinlinken als solchen benennen, weil รถko, progressiv und links komplett das gleiche ist, in einer Welt, die gerade von rechten Ego-Oligarchen aufgegessen wird.
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Enno von Friedland2d ago

These: Gasspeicher werden nicht rechtzeitig gefรผllt, damit die Freunde (und Freundinnen?) der Wirtschaftsministerin im Winter nochmal richtig "Kohle" machen kรถnnen..

(Zur Wiedervorlage am 31.12.2025)

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Show threadJohnJul 19

@cstross

LLMs are the shitbrained version of the ML models that had been accelerating (and transforming entire research areas and industries for the better) until LLMs took up all the oxygen.

To your point, those ML models were built slowly and deliberately using vetted information, which is why they're truly miraculous.

Only this era's humanity would throw away actually revolutionary technology to invest in the image of revolutionary technology instead.

But it's not a pipe, never will be

Show threadBJ Swope โž–Jul 19
@johnzajac @cstross @mhoye EXACTLY
Show threadElectropictJul 19

@johnzajac @cstross

Eventually they'll realise that ceci n'est pas un profit.

Show threadDave ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ฑ ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝJul 19

@johnzajac @cstross

"... those ML models were built slowly and deliberately using vetted information, which is why they're truly miraculous."

There were many wrong turns along the way. A late colleague once gave me a spreadsheet of ML failures. Unfortunately I don't have it any longer, but two failures stuck in my mind ...
1/3

Show threadDave ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ฑ ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝJul 19

@johnzajac @cstross

2/3
The ML that was shown photographs of mushrooms and told which were poisonous. Unfortunately the data mostly alternated between poisonous and non-poisonous, so the machine learned that the odd-numbered mushrooms were poisonous.

Show threadDave ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ฑ ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝJul 19

@johnzajac @cstross

3/3 The ML was shown photographs of skin lesions and told which of them were cancerous. The machine learned that having a ruler in the photograph indicated a cancerous lesion.

Show threadJohnJul 19

@TheLancashireman @cstross

Wouldn't it have been crazy if, even though they knew the mushrooms are poisonous, they just shrugged and fed everyone those mushrooms anyway, like "this machine intelligence must know better! lol lmao"?

That's what they're doing with LLMs. As I type this, a healthcare company is implementing a hallucinating shit-tech into your medical records to "summarize" them for your doctor. I expect thousands of people without uteruses to be *shocked* that they're with child.

Show threadJohnJul 19

@TheLancashireman @cstross

When LLMs are 100% correct all the time, never make stuff up, are energy efficient to the point of being less wasteful than an internet search, and are trained on data obtained legally, call me.

Until then, they're immoral, unethical, and are going to destroy the entire internet and then the planet.

Show threadCharlie StrossJul 19
@johnzajac @TheLancashireman You don't even have to insist on 100% correctness; just on them being incorrect less often than an equivalently-trained human. (That, right there, is a high bar they can't reach yet, if ever.)
Show threadJohnJul 19

@cstross @TheLancashireman

With what I know about the relationship between human beings and machines, the impact of mediation on credibility, and the reliance of some people on technology to do hard work that will never be suited to technology (moral, ethical) I'd have to insist on 100% correctness.

Show threadGeorgJul 19
@cstross @johnzajac @TheLancashireman no worries, we will solve that by dumbing down humans, killing education and reducing everyone to the mental capabilities of a snail on coke to make LLMs look better.
Show threadCavyherdJul 19

@rfc1437 @cstross @johnzajac @TheLancashireman

(squints at Project 2025, & the US Republican party generally)

You say that like it's a hypothetical....

Show threadJohnJul 19

@cavyherd @rfc1437 @cstross @TheLancashireman

Of course, the problem with the entire US fash strategy is that there *is* a real world, and it's *not* the one they're in. By exiling people who know enough about the real world to be effective, they're basically guaranteeing their eventual retirement.

Because you can fake it some of the time, but not all of the time. Eventually, reality asserts its irresistible hegemony.

Show threadCavyherdJul 19

@johnzajac @rfc1437 @cstross @TheLancashireman

Colbert's "Reality's notable leftward bias," yep.

Show threadNemoJul 19

@cstross @johnzajac @TheLancashireman Ultimately, it's about tech bros being lazy and hoping to do what Google did. Google found that a meh ranking with huge amounts of data was working better than excellent ranking and little data.

Now this worked because you needed the right link, picked by the human, to be in the top 10.

LLM are not like that: there's no human to do the intelligent bit that gets you there. But bros dream on.

Show threadmonkeyflower jelly beanJul 19
@johnzajac
LLM written mushroom identifying handbooks have been sold on Amazon already. So pretty literally already happening. I don't know that the LLM products are worse than the algorithms we let control healthcare decisions, or credit scores, or prison sentences, but they're definitely expanding the realm of people giving up accountability and attempting to profit without taking ownership.
@TheLancashireman @cstross
Show threadJohn6d ago

@thesquirrelfish @TheLancashireman @cstross

Yeah, that was the point I was making: LLMs are garbage tech they rushed to market, and ML models like the ones described above are representative of the long years put into training *actually* revolutionary technology driven by algos in the same familiy as the ones behind Midjourney and ChatGPT, but nothing like them in implementation and development.

Show threadCharlie StrossJul 19
@TheLancashireman @johnzajac I've heard similar anecdotes. NATO tried to train an image recognizer to distinguish NATO from Warsaw Pact tanks. But Soviet tanks were often photographed against pine forests. So in the end all they had was a tree recognizer.
Show threadnicopapJul 19
@johnzajac @cstross I just finished reading Lem's Futurological Congress. And the plot of a completely destroyed and ruined world where humans feel as in an utopia of abundance thanks to an illusion induced by psychoactive stimulants had a je-ne-sais-quoi of LLM.
Show threadAnnie GJul 19
@nicopap or the matrix
Show threadnicopapJul 19

@AnnieG There is a scene in the book where the main character is given the choice between taking the white pill or the black pill.

I went bonkers. But it was a different context. It was the main character's girlfriend letting him chose between a marriage pill and a separation pill.

There a different scene like the red/blue pill scene, but no pills are involved.

Show threadOblomovJul 19

@nicopap @johnzajac @cstross see also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCeeTfsm8bk

Mark Osborne's MORE

YouTube
Show threadnicopapJul 19

@oblomov ah! I had to watch it twice, nice video. I get the link.

MORE touches a different vibe, like, it's "happiness that can be sold to you" and "society made so that there is nothing to do but put happiness in the box". In futurological congress, it's more "why organize society around production, when you can organize it around illusion".

But there is a lot in common.

Show threadJohn6d ago

@nicopap @cstross

Oh fascinating. I'll add that to my pile.

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Show threadMatthew WaltonJul 20
@johnzajac @cstross one thing I disagree with - humans have always been this dumb. We're just the first group who've had the opportunity to make this mistake so of course we're making it.
Show threadJohn6d ago

@mathw @cstross

I don't know. No offense, but isn't it kind of boring to just think everyone is dumb and shitty? Personally, I know a LOT of very very smart people who have revealed themselves to be total fools over the last 5-10 years. And some that aren't the sharpest tools in the shed who have real wisdom about these issues.

I just don't think it's that simple, tbh.

Show threadMatthew Walton6d ago
@johnzajac @cstross It's not that everyone or most people are dumb or awful. Most people are just trying to get along. But I look at history and it seems clear that as a species we are collectively excellent at making bad decisions.
Show threadJohn6d ago

@mathw @cstross

I can see why one would come to that conclusion, but I have a different theory: I think we're fundamentally social creatures who are genetically predisposed to be almost comically gullible.

Most of those "bad decisions" were actually driven by leadership, not "popular assent". Also, history is always going to describe past events in the context of current mores, and we live during a time of grotesque and ahistorical individualism and total dominion by a small number of people.

Show threadMatthew Walton6d ago
@johnzajac @cstross I like that way to look at it. A bit more optimistic than I've been for the last decade or so.
Show threadJohn6d ago

@mathw @cstross

As someone who has always been *extremely* gullible, esp with people I trust, I see the signs everywhere.

We just *want* to trust people. It's why it goes so badly on a society-wide scale when the ruling class so brutally betrays us that we feel the need to rise up.

I mean, the French ruling class literally *deserved* to have their heads cut off en masse for betraying the trust of the people.

I think we love dogs so much because they have the same gullibility/trust feature

Show threadK-ZO da Snowman6d ago

@johnzajac @mathw

I think you would both enjoy Wild Democracy by Anne Norton, about the balance between courage and fear/gullibility and their respective impacts on struggling for freedom or submitting to authority.

https://academic.oup.com/book/45531?login=false

Show threadBilal Barakat ๐Ÿ‰6d ago

@johnzajac @cstross @mspro

Also, they tended to be specialized.

Show threadJohn6d ago

@bifouba @cstross @mspro

Because AGI can't exist with current computing paradigms.

No matter how big the array, microprocessor-based computing simply can't match what human cells do in microtubules.

Show threadCharlie Stross6d ago
@johnzajac @bifouba @mspro Ah, a Roger Penrose believer! (I'm very doubtful about he microtubule hypothesis. However, it's clear that computational neural networks rely on a grossly over-simplified model of the real thing.)
Show threadJohn6d ago

@cstross @bifouba @mspro

Well, evidence is mounting that the quantum effects within microtubules are both real and extremely unexpected, considering how hot and wet the environment is.

If nothing else, it throws a century of human biology orthodoxy on its head, and points us away from Western sciences's engineering-based ideas of discrete systems being coordinated toward the idea that there's in fact a single completely integrated and interrelated system that is much more complex.

Show threadJohn6d ago

@cstross @bifouba @mspro

Penrose's theory of quantum consciousness is interesting, if non-falsifiable (like all theories of subjective consciousness are).

But the fact that he predicted something like quantum microtubules to great ridicule decades ago is kind of astonishing, tbh.