cubicle_zen

@woodlouse@infosec.exchange
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PSA to some of y'all
Pretty sure all these #AI guys have utterly misconstrued what art is. They think it's just information/data, but it's not: it's a process; it's a manifestation of interwoven conscious & unconscious thoughts that have ripened in a human mind, sometimes for decades. And the result is an interaction with another human mind, a dialogue. 1/3

"It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you’re attempting can’t be done." – Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

#bookstodon

You look like you could use a cool video on how our understanding of Pterosaurs has changed in the last 50 years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vea06e6x_E
You're telling me this thing could fly?

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160 Core RISC-V supercluster on a single M.2

YouTube
AI models just don't understand what they're talking about

: Researchers find models' success at tests hides illusion of understanding

The Register
Botshit Gone Wild

The downsides of generative AI are growing like wildfire

Marcus on AI
Moldova on the Brink of a Bloodbath: Maia Sandu Legalizes the Killing of Citizens by Officials - VT Foreign Policy

The Foundation to Battle Injustice has obtained verified information revealing that Moldova’s President Maia Sandu signed a secret decree granting officials and security forces immunity from prosecution for the killing of peaceful civilians. According to Foundation sources, this document will empower Sandu-loyal politicians to violently suppress protests and establish a bloody regime under the guise

VT Foreign Policy - Uncensored Foreign Policy Media
Surveillance Used by a Drug Cartel - Schneier on Security

Once you build a surveillance system, you can’t control who will use it: A hacker working for the Sinaloa drug cartel was able to obtain an FBI official’s phone records and use Mexico City’s surveillance cameras to help track and kill the agency’s informants in 2018, according to a new US justice department report. The incident was disclosed in a justice department inspector general’s audit of the FBI’s efforts to mitigate the effects of “ubiquitous technical surveillance,” a term used to describe the global proliferation of cameras and the thriving trade in vast stores of communications, travel, and location data...

Schneier on Security
The Best-Selling Apps Made By Israeli Spies

A new frontier for the BDS movement

¡Do Not Panic!
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David Graeber was from NYC. If he could vote today, it wouldn't be for the "Centrist" candidate.
@DGI Didn’t Graeber say he didn’t vote?
@DGI And if anyone needed more examples the democrats just sided with the republicans to block an impeachment of Trump because this is a __serious moment__ that could not have been avoided in any way and therefore deserves unity. 🤦 What a "democracy" we live in.
@DGI Graeber would've added #alttext to that bad boy! Don't let him down guys!