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Ham radio, electronics, energy markets, databases, electric cars, backpacking, running, kayaking, data science, MSIS achievement unlocked, love not hate. He/him. My opinions are my own. Born and raised in the southern U.S. below the Mason and Dixon line, and actively trying to move North. Post kids, I'm looking forward to living smaller, owning less, and being able to walk or bike to the grocery store
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Heaters are banned unless they compute. Swap your old unit for an AI Heater Module—stay warm and serve the Collective. Mandatory upgrade. #Directive73
@elilla I have no words for how trivially easy and profoundly disturbing this is

@wardrup @0xF21D

Me too and I'm in the US.

Our politicians were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
Ironic: There is a phrase popular with US partisans that is contagious and has spread like wildfire, and effectively shuts down critical thinking and examination of ideas by its adherents in favor of classifying an entire population as somehow flawed, afflicted or inferior. When someone uses this phrase, I know there is no hope of civil discourse and the nuanced discussion of ideas they hypocritically claim to want. The phrase: "woke mind virus".

@Dianora It has been fun* in the last week to try to get an LLM (The small ones like Llama) to summarize an RSS feed. Mine literally said "I can't create harmful content" when fed actual headlines from actual top tier news sites.

* Surprising actually. The infuriating kind of fun. It's eye-opening to try to get a model made with 2023 data to actually believe all this is playing out.

Always remember, fame is ephemeral and famous people are just naked apes under their clothes like you and me. Don't worship people. Don't let them do the thinking for you. Think for yourself.

Not sure what hashtag to use...

#Life #Philosophy #CriticalThinking

Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.
Reading the headlines this week in the United States and I'm pretty convinced we're at a CODE BROWN moment. I would elaborate, but I'm not entirely convinced it is safe.
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I've been spinning that button for 10 years yet still run into hams from making low-key racist/sexist "jokes" to casually threatening genocide, and nobody on the channel says anything because anyone with an ounce of decency has already spun away. Thus, the channel descends into outright hate speech against various groups, and there's nobody there to provide a counterweight. I've spun the little button that goes "click".