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brooklyn-based designer, programmer, and dabbler in music, art, and other random endeavors.
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The US is not in decline because Trump rose to power.
Trump rose to power because the US is in decline.
Starting with Reagan and continuing with Clinton, we decided to sacrifice everything at the altar of making wealthy people wealthier. This is the inevitable result.
And please listen to Vlad when he warns that Trump is paving the way for a worse authoritarian regime to come later.
12â…“-minute video
https://youtu.be/f6fvHOOFYbw
Also, and I want to say more on this soon, but if you think that the big AI players are hoping for *anything but* them being able to put a legislative moat around themselves where output *is* copyrighted and training materials *are* restricted but they're the *only ones* able to play, you're being a fool.
Their key goal is to capture rent on all intellectual pursuits.
The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux
https://www.sambent.com/the-engineer-who-tried-to-put-age-verification-into-linux-5/
The lasting damage was knowing it could happen at all: that a single contributor with no stated organizational backing could submit compliance infrastructure for surveillance law directly into the software that boots your computer, get it merged by two Microsoft employees, and have the creator of systemd personally block the removal.
Dylan, useful idiot with commit access, pushed age verification PRs to systemd, Ubuntu & Arch, got 2 Microslop employees to merge it, called it 'hilariously pointless' in the PR itself, then watched Lennart personally block the revert. Unpaid compliance simp.
"Galton and his fellow eugenicist / protegee Karl Pearson were not directly involved in the development of early computational machines. But Galton’s foundational work with multidimensional modeling — a technique he used while measuring the attractiveness of African and European women — shaped Pearson’s thinking as he developed statistical tools like logistic regression, which is one of the fundamental components of modern machine learning."
https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/897923/ghost-in-the-machine-valerie-veatch-interview
30 years ago, a friend paid me for a gig with late 19th-century glass negatives.
I specifically chose the "flawed" ones (blurry/underexposed) thinking that maybe they were never originally printed, and therefore I might be the first person to see these remarkable images.
I’m sharing one a day for the next 10 days. Clues suggest these were taken in Western Massachusetts approximately 120+ years ago. High res versions are here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremyosborn/albums/72177720298855306/
"Do not obey in advance"
A very important concept to have in mind when protesting against the rollout of authoritarian rule.
This is a post about birthDate in systemd.
Reminder that these "It's Inevitable" dimwits have no fucking idea about anything
Cookie rant.
Good: no cookies.
OK: accept or reject cookies?
WTF: reject all but essential/required cookies.
There are no required cookies. You are deciding they are required. I don't require them.
What do you mean your site won't work without them? Fix your site.
To be clear, not talking about web apps where I have to log in, save prefs, etc. They get somewhat of a pass. I'm talking about some random site I wind up on and I have to agree to this stuff before I see anything.
Quantum ⊂ AI
Tofu Golem
Ann1944
Christine Lemmer-Webber
Khrys
Timnit Gebru (she/her).
Jeremy Osborn
Troed SÃ¥ngberg
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