JWcph, Radicalized By Decency

My daughter sent me this & yes to all of it - I hadn't even thought of the fonts thing, but it's totally on point, too; there's a reason font design is a major speciality skill, you don't just pull something like that out of your ass. #AI #StopTheSlop

Can confirm that "Reptilicus" (1961) is THE so-bad-it's-good movie 😱😂 The plot simply jumps from one monster cliché to the next with no attempt at actually connecting events at all, the monster & miniatures are grade school quality & almost constantly out of focus, and the acting turns "wooden" into a glowing compliment 🤣 Also, it features not one, not two, but THREE fan service women with nothing to do beyond "look pretty, fight over the male lead & be leered at by everyone else". #film

RE: https://techhub.social/@fedipete/117380946866839875

I'm pushing 60 but that's still young enough that, barring an accident, I will get to see the post-oligarchy world. The current clusterfuck doesn't have generations of life in it - you can see the cracks widening in real time...

• and like @pluralistic@mamot.fr I am hopeful. Remember, hope is not optimism; hope is looking what needs doing & making a plan.

The worst in us rules right now, but the best in us has overcome worse. Pop the bubble & let's get to work.

#oligarchy #future #humanity #hope

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/117376877496850295 How the fuck does something like that ever end up in print? How oblivious can you be?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/117299934830818022 I'm sorry, I just can't get past that apparently everyone uses their phone like complete maniacs. Not once in my fucking LIFE! have I felt the need to ask my phone questions like "What is the last picture Bill sent me". What the actual hell is wrong with you!? I contend that nobody ever actually needed any of this bullshit. All these goddamn stupid Tony Stark fantasies about things that are barely conveniences are a big part of how we got here. I'm begging y'all, just fucking stop. #AI

Cornell 7 gang-rape a woman - are asked to write an essay about what they learned from it. OpenAI, Anthropic et al violate everyone's consent at every step of their business, stealing, hacking, destroying & lying about it - are asked to write essays bout what they learned from it. Am I the only one seeing this...? #AI #cornell7 #business #RapeCulture #consent #resist

RE: https://mastodon.social/@top_news/117350050414789478

• aaaand the countdown to the inevitable incidents showing it doesn't work has started...

Reminder: Exactly none of the tech we have so far is secure in any meaningful sense & not a single Big Tech company is remotely able to keep its data safe or its services running without such incidents on the regular.

Why we should believe they suddenly can now, with even less actual incentive than ever, is beyond me.

#AI #Nvidia #tech

I cannot coax myself to give a shit that Apple made a folding phone, haven't even seen a picture. This is not a brag but a lament - I'm something of a tech nerd & would LOVE to be excited by new developments & products, but what I've seen the past decade plus, from quantum & AI to everyday gadgets, phones & computers etc., nothing Commercial Tech™️ does right now is remotely interesting. It's not useful or innovative & it doesn't work. This actually pisses me of quite a bit. #tech

RE: https://privacysafe.social/@whistlepost/117030031401351950 This 👇️ #ai @pluralistic@mamot.fr

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117313716231482340 Like Stoller I too feel strange pangs of hope - certainly helps having several different convos today hearing ppl from unemployed person to management being fed up to the point of genuine anger over AI, war for profit, surveillance capitalism, lack of environmental responsibilitiy & action... basically all the shit foisted on us by the oligarchy. Not torches & pitchforks yet, but it's getting less improbable every day 🤞 #oligarchy #capitalism #resist

Only realized yesterday that this, while a necessary accessibility feature, is placed in a rather unfortunate way... A blind person almost walked itno me because I was blocking it & I really shouldn't do that, but as you see I'm not exactly alone... why was it put where people naturally stand, not where they naturally walk, more than likely turning it into an obstacle course? Or am I missing something else? #accessibility #design

@AlSweigart@mastodon.social You mean do I burn another fucking ton of coal & potable water trying to ascertain if I should think less of somebody for burning a ton of coal & potable water in the first place...?

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Because again, it has no cost. The only people who will boycott your network if you ignore him are the 300 idiots watching the WH live stream.

@sorenhave@mastodon.nu @Koefoed@helvede.net - og problematisk at dét at udføre journalistens grundlæggende job er så usædvanligt at en artikel som denne stikker ud...

RE: https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/116874131473946928 No, here's how to opt out: Enforce regular laws, even when broken digitally. Almost everything Big Tech does against us is illegal (and the rest should be) - stop making it everyone's individual problem to desperately try & yet still ultimately fail to not be victimized. #BigTech

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116962881683745520 "Trump is the escrow agent who keeps the money and the deed, then announces he did it because the seller was a fentanyl dealer and the buyer was a lizard-person; and then publishes a long screed on Truth Social calling everyone who criticises him a terrorist, promising to do it again next time. Even if you need to sell your house, and even if Trump is the only escrow agent you can find, you're just not going to trust him with your deed or the money." - @pluralistic@mamot.fr Learn this, world. #uspol

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116991564459295969 "If the EU kills off Article 6 of the Copyright Directive, they can use European companies to bring Google and Apple's defective tech exports into compliance with European law. Unlike Trump's companies, those companies can be forced to pay their taxes and respect their users' privacy, labor and consumer rights. That's the Serenity Prayer's "wisdom to know the difference."" - @pluralistic@mamot.fr#BigTech #regulation #resist @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu

RE: https://climatejustice.social/@ketan/117037187808173536 The reaction has been sharp because the ad appears inside a product customers have already bought [...] the car's cabin is supposed to feel personal, not like a billboard." Yes, this is utterly horrific, of course, but in writing this, didn't anyone notice that this applies to EVERY SINGLE FUCKING TECH PRODUCT WITH A SCREEN & MOST ESPECIALLY PHONES & LAPTOPS!? If buying isn't ownership, piracy isn't stealing. How many times do we have to say it? #tech #enshittification

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116888646077038176 Exactly, @pluralistic@mamot.fr - bothsidesism can go fuck itself. One important note, before the "well ackshully"'s start: Left & right wing *dictators* are the same. Politics & ideology is wholly irrelevant to what a dictator wants, which is to be a fucking dictator, i.e. not just "be in charge", but to specifically wield the power to do things to people that they would rather he didn't. That's why Trump & Putin are of the same bretheren. #politics

RE: https://uddannelse.social/@jeppe/116990298677274526 Ja, rigtig god artikel om @maiathecyberwitch@helvede.net 👍 Blot en enkelt bemærkning: Det er ikke kun Musk & TikTok m.m., der går højrefløjens ærinde - også legacy-medierne er LANGT mere tilbøjelige til at give spalteplads til højreekstremister, racister & kældermennesker. Dét er formentlig den største enkelt-årsag til slagsiden, i hvert fald i DK, fordi det er stadig i udstrakt grad de "klassiske" mediers indhold, der udgør fundament når historier & temaer kører. #medier #dkpresse #cybernauterne

RE: https://mastodon.world/@oldguycrusty/117000120331234100 For Americans who still throw up their hands & ask what they're supposed to do: "The rapid response mechanisms, Schrantz writes, need to be political, legal, media, operational, and above all, organized, with massive grassroots deployment of large numbers of well-prepared citizens..." Get fucking organized, that's what you do. #uspol #midterms

The boiz debunk another batch of AI bullshit 🦬💩 proving again that the one thing AI is useful for is supercharging the same kind of fraud we've always been fighting.

• and no, Big Tech is not resisting this; they're promoting it. Yes, it will kill their platforms & businesses dead, but they're expecting to get full-on technofascism in return & then they won't need businesses or platforms that work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgfzPsHIKQw

#AI #slop #tech #Youtube #business #technofascism

@HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social It isn't just American institutions - the world community is letting him get away with anything, too. Considering the international (lack of) response to all this, I really can't see any reason why he would even consider not committing these enormous, overt crimes; for someone with his mentality, it's a no-brainer. It's what the's always been doing.

@randahl@mastodon.social "Let's talk about pedophiles NO NOT LIKE THAT I'M AFRAID WE'RE OUT OF TIME!"....

I abso-fucking-lutely knew it: Etsy won't let me close my shop until it is "brought into compliance", even though I clearly told them that I'm closing it because I don't want to do that. The tech world is so goddamn fucking exhausting. 🤮 #tech

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/117014705180956763 While using a machine to flag AI is decidedly iffy, I'm still a little tired of the but-it-works-for-me arguers behind that "witch hunt" whining. Dude, this isn't about you - it's about a technology literally destroying human creative output, in part by simply destroying & in part by destroying our ability to trust what we see & read. If your minor convenience is a casualty in the war (!) against this, I'm increasingly inclined to call it tough shit. #AI

Another note to Americans: Just because he won the election - twice, to your lasting & indelible shame - that doesn't mean that what's happening right now isn't a coup d'état. Your current regime is literally on the list. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-coup#uspol #fascism

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place - and the same goes if any of the other articles in your sidebar/links are about how useful AI is.

“There is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood—of the fact that you owe things to other people.” - Jamelle Bouie I could not agree more with this article & not just because I, too, was raised to be an asshole man & still have to beat that motherfucker inside me down all the goddamn time. Talk to your fucking boys. If they get mad at you they weren't your friends to begin with. https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-help-men-pull-their-heads-out-of-their/ #equality #masculinity #feminism #MikeMonteiro

RE: https://sfba.social/@markmetz/116850223076964583 It's almost as if being American isn't the only problem with Big Tech... #tech #BigTech #WSocial

@CiaraNi@mastodon.green Also, besides all that, it's yet another complete misunderstanding of what the original thing does for people. They™️ think every visitor came to visit exactly one shop & they know the name / category (including spelling) - but that's not how people work. A primary function of any map is orientation; where am I & what else is here? This isn't explicit in most people's minds, such that they could describe the need - but they have a worse experience when it's absent.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/116824076897344879 This is unaccountably hilarious to me - like a wolf pack being bullied by a huge flock of ducks 😂

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/116944007732074986 Fun fact: When I was a child, my stupid little kiddie account paid something like 3-4% interest. This was normal - banks actually paid you for lending them your money, because that's how the system is supposed to work. Then they discovered they could get away with not doing that & never looked back. Also, you could go to the bank & withdraw for free. Basically they hadn't invented trickling your money out of your pockets & into theirs & we pro'lly shouldn't have let them do that. #money

Even emblazoned with a huge Pepsi ad, hot air balloons are still pretty cool 😁

@pallenberg@mastodon.social Also, his entire fortune is literally built on IOUs.

I've been known to be lax about my stuff & expect it to stand up to casual user habits - but stacking guitars like flapjacks may be too much even for me 😂

@futurebird@sauropods.win I know at least one person who agrees with you... 😝 https://helvede.net/@jwcph/114714407615528803

RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/116940960305296929 Well, he can create any power for himself that he feels like, if he just does it & nobody stops him. I struggle to comprehend how the US - currently a smoldering crater due to the results of him repeatedly doing exactly that - hasn't figured this out yet. #uspol #elections

RE: https://helvede.net/@jwcph/116914586419979565 " - most men are good, but when one in ten men are shit & the other nine to nothing, they might as well not fucking be there. Being good on the inside counts for absolutely fuck-all." - Daniel Schloss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uZFHpEh5So#gender #masculinity #equality #responsibility

@TimFinnerty@toot.io @oldguycrusty@mastodon.world Well... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-coup

RE: https://helvede.net/@jwcph/116992771103406177 Also, I have no doubt that the reply they sent to my request is AI generated. Not a single one. #AI

@anderslund@expressional.social @bettina@mastodon.nu Jeg bruger også CoMaps på telefonen, men dén findes ikke til browser & Mapy er det mest brugbare alternativ til Google Maps jeg har fundet (indtil videre, i hvert fald)... Det skal siges at jeg ikke bruger alle mulige profil-funktioner m.m. - det er til at slå en adresse og/eller en rute op, og ikke andet.

RE: https://social.data.coop/@cryptohagen/116899772774645777 Det er edderhyl'me ikke kun nye / unge politikere, der hellere vil se ud som om de gør arbejdet end rent faktisk gøre arbejdet! Jeg er lidt træt af det her med at teknologisk skabte / øgede problemer skubbes over på de generationer, der er vokset op med teknologien, som om alle, der er opvokset før, har fået Ordentlige Værdier™️. Måske - men hvad siger det så om de ældre generationer, at de begejstret smider de værdier fra sig i samme øjeblik de får chancen? Er det ikke værre? #dkpol #tech

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116830015225440372 "Attack memorization is inherently brittle; it only works against attacks the LLM already knows [...] In contrast, role perception is the robust alternative. All the LLM needs to do is recognize that the command is in a role like tool that inherently lacks authority to give orders. But we'll show that LLMs cannot perceive roles accurately." TL;DR: they CANNOT be made secure. This is not a technology that should be taken seriously outside of a laboratory. #AI

RE: https://mastodon.me.uk/@ChrisMayLA6/116999623654301110

Yes, burying reports like this is bullshit, but you know what is also bullshit? About a third of ALL food goes to waste. According to @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu almost 60 million tons of food is thrown out every year in Europe alone.

• so when we say that food scarcity will be a security problem, it's laden with a massive helping of colonialism, i.e. We The Rich™️ have plenty of food, but the people who can't afford it might get desperate enough to become a threat...

#intpol #resources #sustainability

@thegaffer@hobbitwhispers.social @Kiernian@infosec.exchange You know exactly what to do. It's in every single history book. You just don't want to, as much as you want to make up reasons why things are different for you & therefore you don't have to feel responsible as the ship sinks with you in it.

RE: https://helvede.net/@jwcph/116992771103406177 Re. tech being fucking exhausting, my POS work iPhone apparently tried to update overnight (despite being set not to), failed & then screwed itself up so hard nothing works, including button shutdown & internal search. You try starting your day seeing this on your commute, realizing it also took down your train card app & digging around the stupidly convoluted settings for software shutdown, not knowing if any of the load spinners never resolving might be it or if rebooting will even help 😬🤬😫

RE: https://chaos.social/@slothrop/116822787176624044 I'm starting to seriously wonder if fucking ANYONE cant point to ANY part of the digital age that isn't either a raging dumpster fire or a raging dumpster fire that hasn't happened yet... I programmed in grade school. I drew a logo for my "data company" before I knew what a company was. I wasn't just on board with the internet - I'd been waiting for it for half a decade when it happened. I'm a huge tech fan. And I'm still considering the possibility that we simply made a mistake.

@bettina@mastodon.nu @anderslund@expressional.social FWIW: Jeg bruger Mapy på laptop, ser ud til at virke ret fint 👉 https://mapy.com/

RE: https://helvede.net/@jwcph/117417976870092082 Well, technically I can re-confirm - this afternoon was the US version but I also saw the Danish version a few years ago. They are equally janky, but the US one still manages to distinguish itself by adding some optical effects for the monster spewing toxic slime & eating people that wouldn't look out of place in a Monty Python sketch 😂 Seriously, though, that monster... hard to believe that Sid Pink apparently gushed over Danish model makers 😱 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reptilicus#film #kaiju