@vindo

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On the acceptance of GenAI

Ethics is the worst.

Joep Schuurkes
@crmsnbleyd looks like brooke bond red label? Yeah it's technically marked as flavoured tea but it is meant to be used for normal chai and you can barely tell it is flavoured. They use pretty low quality tea dust so this must ve to give it some flavour at least.
@iris_meredith when monarchs are crowned by spam, spammers will rule us all

“‘For Orbán in Hungary, it took about four years, for Vučić in Serbia, it took eight years, and for Erdoğan in Turkey and Modi in India, it took about 10 years to accomplish the suppression of democratic institutions that Trump has achieved in only one year’

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US democracy is now back at the worst recorded level since 1965, when US civil rights laws first introduced de facto universal suffrage. All progress made since then has been erased, according to the report.

Worldwide, democracy has receded to its lowest levels since the mid-70s. ‘The world has never before seen as many countries autocratising at the same time’

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A record 41% (3.4 billion) of the world’s population currently resides in countries where democracy is deteriorating, the report claims, adding that Washington is leading this global turn away from democracy.”

The very fucking *least* you can do right now is not comply in advance.

Yes, I’m looking at you, tech folks.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2026/mar/17/trump-is-aiming-for-dictatorship-thats-the-verdict-of-the-worlds-most-credible-democracy-watchdog

#fascism

‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog

Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin Gelin

The Guardian
idk if it's static or what but it ends up endlessly buzzing static at max volume until you take it out
protip: don't let your samsung ear buds touch the overhead handles in the Bangalore metro trains

Let me put it another way: AI models are sycophantic because that's what customers want, and capitalism drives producing models that people will want to engage with and somehow give money for.

And that's leading to a sense of subservience that is *not inherent in this technical architecture*, it is *trained into it*.

@foone because I feel like a bunch of bash commands like jq, df, awk can look oddly like keysmashes
@foone what's your idea for identifying keysmashes? Qwerty character proximity based stuff or just train some kind of classifier