RE: https://mastodon.social/@jplebreton/115577829870837997

Anthropic's product is now confirmed to have suggested targets in the first wave of US strikes that hit a school and killed 175+ children. Their marketing for this product is so deep into AGI cultism they insist on its human rights and employ a philosopher to maintain its system prompt. Essentially they're claiming their program is a real boy and that their Pinocchio is a mass murdering war criminal. Entire company must be obliterated and its apologists shamed out of public life.

A reminder that 10,736 of the total world stockpile of 12,331 nuclear warheads is owned by the US and Russia.
https://www.icanw.org/nuclear_arsenals

That's 87% of the world's stockpile.

A reminder that both these countries have first-use policies.

A reminder that the treaties that existed between these countries (INF and NewSTART) are now dead, due to the hubris of both nations.

So those figures would already be out of date cause they're beefin up that stockpile on account of there being no limits and no observation of either.

A reminder that their systems allow for unmitigated all-out no holds barred very short and extremely deadly war on the say-so of an extremely untrustworthy hierarchy.

A reminder that their 'testing' of such weapons on marginalised communities has caused untold horrors.

A reminder that only one of these nations has used nuclear weapons during a war.

And continues to make excuses for these war crimes.

A reminder that these nations 'share' their nuclear weapons with their allies, spreading them about further.

A reminder that neither of these countries has ever signed up to a prohibition on nuclear weapons
https://www.icanw.org/united_states

https://www.icanw.org/russia

A reminder that the peak nuclear stockpiles of the 60s and the 80s is *directly* attributable to these nations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_nuclear_weapons_stockpiles_and_nuclear_tests_by_country#/media/File:US_and_USSR_nuclear_stockpiles.svg

There has *never* been a concern from these entities about nuclear weapons.

A reminder that if it weren't for select ppl who refused orders, none of us would even be here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Arkhipov

and others.

A reminder that the words of the US and Russia mean nothing and their actions demonstrate what they are.

A reminder that if anybody is the threat, it's the ones that have existed all along.

A reminder that both are european colonies on other ppl's land.

A reminder that neither of these entities have been prosecuted for their crimes.

While they tell you how dangerous the nations they bombard supposedly are.

IT’S THE #WATER, STUPID

making a separate thread to this:
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/115866471452808920

because a lot of y’all are under the impression people in #Iran are rioting to live in Fuck-Yeah-Capitalist-USA Iran.

NO.

the “economic turmoil” in Iran is about #climateCrisis: the chaos of having no #water.

❝ Iran's Capital Has Run Out of Water, Forcing It to Move | Scientific American - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/irans-capital-has-run-out-of-water-forcing-it-to-move/

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116132892929193689

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BTW this is like the Hapsburg incestuous marriages. the incest meant to limit exposure to their assets & #valuations.

after all, if you kept it in the family, who was going to question your worth? there’d be no outside auditors to dis/prove you.

what's happening with #NVIDIA is a form of finacial #incest : they’re passing around the same “billion” that exists only on paper; because all the parties involved SHARE THE SAME BANKERS.

this is why a valuation is like printing money.

"AI is built on the collective knowledge of humankind."

No. Nononononono. It is not built on _knowledge_, it it built on _data_. And not everyone's experiences are available as data, many communities are excluded. Also: "Collective" implies some sort of collaboration and shared activity. But "AI" is just accumulation by a few powerful.

So No. It's not collective but extractive, not knowledge but data, not humankind but the hegemonic western view. Everything in that statement is wrong.

I’m seeing more comments to my blog from people asking for the latest support / bug / gap / etc for testing I’ve performed.

I write these posts so people can do it on their own.

I look forward to people commenting with their own (rigorous) testing results instead. Some day.

My book, Accessibility For Everyone, is now free and online as a website.

https://accessibilityforeveryone.site

The book was first published by A Book Apart in 2017 but it holds up! It covers web accessibility for designers, developers, content folks, and really everyone who works in tech.

the whole ai-bro shtick about "ai democritizes art/programming/writing/etc" seemed always so bs to me, but i couldn't put it into words, but i think i now know how.

ai didn't democritize any of these things. People did. The internet did. if all these things weren't democritized and freely available on the internet before, there wouldn't have been any training data available in the first place.

the one single amazing thing that today's day and age brought us is, that you can learn anything at any time for free at your own pace.

like, you can just sit down, and learn sketching, drawing, programming, writing, basics in electronics, pcb design, singing, instruments, whatever your heart desires and apply and practice these skills. fuck, most devs on fedi are self taught.

the most human thing there is is learning and creativity. the least human thing there is is trying to automate that away.

(not to mention said tech failing at it miserably)