Howard Burkett

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Musician, Wino, unholy hermit...
Classic.
Enshittified = verkackt.
Surely I'm not the first to notice.
@chris someone said "if you you live in a 15 minute city/area and the person who makes your coffee can't afford to live there, congrats, you live in a theme park". No more theme parks.

May be an unpopular take, but I think the main risk of ML is not that it's good at what it does.

It's actually very bad, worse than humans by far at what it does. But because people collectively believe it is good at stuff, people are focusing so much on "the singularity" or "it replacing [x job]" the real risk continues unhindered.
This is a good example of the true goal of ML: introduce bias and inefficiency in areas where inefficiency is desirable to capitalism.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/11/ai-with-90-error-rate-forces-elderly-out-of-rehab-nursing-homes-suit-claims/

UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges

For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.

Ars Technica
They keep on finding that leaving homeless people on the street is more expensive than just giving them housing, or in this case, money.

Never let your political leadership deny that homelessness is a policy choice, not a fact of life or an unchangeable reality.

Edit: as requested, link to study
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2222103120
And a related news story
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/30/canada-study-homeless-money-spending

Do you eat breakfast?

And by "breakfast", I mean the first meal of the day, and actual food (coffee, tea, and juice, don't count as food but smoothies do)

#poll

Please boost for a wider demographic! 🙏

Yes
72.5%
No
27.5%
Poll ended at .
Me: Theft and illegality is out of control!
Conservative: yes, we need to crack down on people stealing from stores
Me: what, no, I'm talking about real theft, wage theft!

@naomiaklein @pluralistic

Relevant for the idea of "lean in" feminism and allowing women and minorities in board rooms, I'm currently based in the UK (normally, Denmark) and the government here is a case in point: Is Rishi Sunak as PM a victory for anti-racism and inclusivity?

No, that's not a victory for anything. Sunak may be non-white, but what matters is that he's *posh*. Inclusivity would, in the UK, mean letting people in who are not upper class. More precisely, who are not *rich:*.

@JoshuaHolland
“Meet me in the middle," says the unjust man. You take a step towards him, he takes a step back. "Meet me in the middle," says the unjust man.