An Octopus sits down at table on the outdoor patio of a coffee shop. The Octopus turns to the Cow at the next table and says, "Hey, wanna hear a joke?"

The Cow is wary, never having met the Octopus before, and knowing all the ways that this kind of thing might go bad, but the Octopus is in good colours, displaying inviting and cheerful concentric rings, so the cow decides to chance it and says, "Sure, why not."

"All right," says the Octopus, "and stop me if you've heard it already: So it seems that dozens of women, Black people, disabled people, LGBTQIA+ folx— just a bunch of marginalized folx, across the board— well they were trying to tell everyone about the social and philosophical implications and potential horrors of technology, both as a general thing, but specifically about what people think of as 'A.I.,' in specific. Then six white dudes walked in— several of whom were the direct cause of so many of those horrors—and, though not acknowledging those marginalized folx even a little bit at all, said the EXACT same things."

Here, the Octopus' coffee arrives, so the Octopus stops and sips at the very hot, very well-prepared Cubano in its tiny cup, and stares off into the distance.

After a few moments, the Cow is a little confused and says "…Is that it? How's the rest of it go?"

Startled, the Octopus looks over at at the Cow and, sadly smiling, says, "Oh. About like you'd expect."

Die @informatik veranstaltet eine Runde zu IT-Genossenschaften. Das tut sie auf #zoom. Nicht nur, das die #GI auch nach 3 Jahren Pandemie keine #Grundrechte wahrende Infrastruktur nutzt: Zur Farce
wird es, da die @hostsharing als Referentin auftritt. Und die bietet #BigBlueButton an, das problemlos genutzt werden könnte. 🤦‍♀️

https://bigbrotherawards.de/2023/zoom

#zoombies #bba23 #BigBrotherAwards

Ihr wisst manchmal mit verschwörungs-gläubigen Freund:innen oder Verwandten nicht weiter?

entschwört. hat 10 Tipps herausgearbeitet, die euch im Umgang helfen könnten:

https://entschwoert.de/10-tipps-im-umgang-mit-verschwoerungserzaehlungen/

#berlin #verschwörungsideologie #desinformation #fakenews #verschwörungstheorie #prävention #noafd

If "intersex" is not really a familiar term for you, please consider reading this background information why in the #USA hundreds of babies(!) still get unnecessary surgeries only to fulfil the expectations of parents and doctors who never heard of the normal and healthy existence of intersex people.

https://interactadvocates.org/faq/#whatissurgery

#inter #intersex #biology #queer #lgb #lgbt+ #lgbtq+ #lgbtqia+ #children #childcare #protection #safetyforall #healthcare #humanity #babies #surgery #ProtectOurChildren
#lgbtqiaplus

Dear everybody re ChatGPT etc,

The word you need that you don't know you need is CONFABULATION.

What y'all are calling "hallucination" is, in neurology and psychology (where it means two slightly different things) called "confabulation".

It means when somebody's just making up something and has no idea that they're making things up, because their brain/mind is glitching.

A lot of folks are both trying to understand the AI chatbots and are trying to grapple with the possible implications for how organic minds work, by speculating about human cognition. Y'all should definitely check into the history of actual research into this topic, it will make your sock roll up and down, and blow your minds. And one of the key areas will be surfaced with that keyword.

There have been a bunch of very clever experiments that have been done on humans and how they explain themselves which betrays that there are parts of the mind that are surprisingly - and even alarmingly - independent.

Frex...

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