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complexifire Feb 26, 2023

John Gordon Feb 26, 2023

Mastodon culture seems pretty anxious about infectious disease and pretty relaxed about where AI is going.

I’m the inverse so that makes me a Mastodon contrarian. (Actually I’m not that relaxed about ID, just used to it.)

complexifire Feb 6, 2023

Ryan Moulton Feb 6, 2023

It's kinda wild that the causal chain to where AI is today was *already* strongly dependent on John Carmack, 3 decades before he started intentionally working on AI.

If the humans in Terminator wanted to go back in time to prevent skynet, they'd try to make Quake a commercial failure.

complexifire Feb 1, 2023

never quite understood why “WE are all in a simulation” seemed parsimonious to anyone. if the rest of reality is simulated, why would the other people in it be any different? WYSIWYG and full solipsism both make a lot more sense

complexifire Feb 1, 2023

Kevin Collier Feb 1, 2023

New: ChatGPT's ability to write song lyrics and news articles might be garbage (for now at least), but it's already become a crucial tool for coding and helping newbie programmers:

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/chatgpt-code-website-rcna66981

ChatGPT can code, and that's got some technologists excited

YouTube and TikTok are already rife with videos of people showing how they’ve found ways to have ChatGPT perform tasks that once required a hefty dose of coding ability.

NBC News

complexifire Jan 23, 2023

John Gordon Jan 23, 2023

One of the lessons of COVID will be that influenza is nastier than we thought it was.

And we thought it was pretty nasty.

Get your flu vaccine. It’s not as good as the COVID vaccine but it helps.

complexifire Jan 13, 2023

fakegreekgrill Jan 13, 2023

https://www.businessinsider.com/wife-of-iowa-republican-accused-of-casting-23-fraudulent-votes-2023-1

An actual instance of voter fraud! It shows how dumb voter fraud is as a crime too. Even 23 votes, which is pretty prolific for this type of crime, is very rarely going to make a difference, especially in right-wing Woodbury county.

It's hard to make enough fraudulent votes to matter in an election. Systematic disenfranchisement though...

Wife of Iowa Republican accused of casting 23 fraudulent votes

She was charged with 26 counts of providing false information in registering and voting, three of fraudulent registration, and 23 of fraudulent voting.

Insider

complexifire Jan 10, 2023

putting the nozzle back into the gas pump with the valve handle locked in the “on” position because I’m an absolute psychopath

complexifire Dec 28, 2022

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Julian Sanchez Dec 28, 2022

The protection of U.S. psyops is a real story; some of the COVID stuff is a real story. But it’s so buried in horseshit—some that seems misleading by dint of ignorance, some so calculated it has to be deliberately dishonest—that what IS newsworthy has ended up getting lost.

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complexifire Dec 26, 2022

we kind of knew all along, but it’s still kind of amazing how well 2 1/2 fricken years ago works as a period for a period piece

complexifire Dec 26, 2022

Uber for Biospheres
how are you not going to love this?