I'm an tired of these mother fucking mambas in this mother fucking mall

I saw a little of it. Then I saw the offending instances quickly banned. Then I saw a comment from the admin that they didn't like having to implement bans of entire instances, but it became a necessity until admin of those offending instances took action.

I dunno, seems like it is working exactly as intended to me.

And it's far better than a monolithic tech giant. Pointing at Mastodon and calling out spam is utterly silly when compared to the amount of spam on large services. This article reads like a hit piece sponsored by Xitter.

On at least one of his towers, they just skip numbering some floors so that the numbers are higher and makes it sound more impressive.

"Students who have completed Archery, Fencing, Pistol (Air Pistol or Rifle) and Sailing should send an email to..."

When a university education becomes a fantasy story meme. At least if you're attending MIT, you're probably multiclassed into some kind of technomancer.

Let me ask you this: when have you ever seen ChatGPT cite its sources and give appropriate credit to the original author?

If I were to just read the NYT and make money by simply summarizing articles and posting those summaries on my own website without adding anything to it like my own commentary and without giving credit to the author, that would rightfully be considered plagiarism.

This is a really interesting conundrum though. I would argue that AI isn't capable of original thought the way that humans are and therefore AI creators must provide due compensation to the authors and artists whose data they used.

AI is only giving back some amalgamation of words and concepts that it has been trained on. You might say that humans do the same, but that isn't exactly true. The human brain is a funny thing. It can forget, it can misremember. It can manipulate. It can exaggerate. It can plan. It can have irrational or emotional responses. AI can't really do those things on its own. It's just mimicking human behavior at best.

Most importantly to me though, AI is not capable of spontaneous thought. It is only capable of providing information that it has been trained on and only when prompted.

*in the US.

In the US, the thought is that if you are in a public place, you have no presumption of privacy. If you're walking down the street, or shopping in a grocery store or whatever else, anyone can snap a picture of you.

Other countries have different values and laws such that you may need a person's permission to photograph them even if they are in a public place.

That's the thing. Republican politicians have a corporate mentality. They pretend to care about the customers, but their true allegiance is to the shareholders. And that mentality has worked surprisingly well for them for decades. Pretend to care just enough about social issues, but don't do anything too controversial, all the while enacting legislation that disproportionately assists the 1%. They had a good thing going.

But they kept wanting more. They kept going back to the social policy well to get more voters because they weren't getting enough buy-in on their fiscal policies. Now you've got more elected politicians willing to push unpopular social policy when just ten to fifteen years ago they knew better for the most part. This new batch of Republicans actually intend to enact their regressive policies when previously they were content with merely stymieing progress and loudly complaining.

Now that they've reached a critical mass of people who don't know better or don't care, they have started enacting deeply unpopular policies. They don't know our care how unpopular they are because they can't imagine anything outside of their echo chambers. They're listening to the loudest 10 people in the room while ignoring the quiet 200 who will only speak at the voting booth. And voters have finally had enough. They may not love what the democrats are doing, they may even think that the democrats are doing a terrible job, but they absolutely hate what the republicans are doing even more. I'm betting that a large number of apathetic voters are starting to show up.

So republicans resort to every trick in the book to silence the majority who disagrees with them. Gerrymandering, purging voter rolls right before an election, closing poling places and limiting hours, restricting absentee voting, holding special elections during times when voter turnout has historically been very low, enacting voter ID laws... Every single trick they can think of so that only their voices count. And that still isn't enough.

They're doing what the people who voted put them there to do. The only problem is that those people apparently don't actually represent the majority, and republicans absolutely refuse to accept that.

Sure. And just don't listen to fascist speeches if you don't like them. Just let those nazis live their best life.

An extreme example, but my point is that we can't just ignore hate speech.

I see no way in which that attitude will end well.

Bad shit is already happening. How many more wars need to flare up, how many more inches does the sea need to rise, how many more acres of forest need to burn, how many more mass shootings, how many more people need to reach a point where working a full time job isn't enough to cover rent... I could easily go on. This isn't a future thing anymore. This is all happening now.

Had to look it up myself. I think it refers to Group Member Organizations, which would be the health insurance providers.

When you really think about it, health insurance companies are a bizarre sort of consumers' union. Your insurance company negotiates prices with providers on your (and their own) behalf leveraging their buying power based on the size of the group. That was probably a good thing at one time, but now the system is so completely broken that if you try to get the same procedure done without insurance, and it'll cost you double or triple what it would cost the insurance company.

This is why I'm so confused by Amazon's approach. I know they've already sunk millions if not billions of dollars into this, so why has the user experience not improved in the last 8 years?

I'm not going to buy things with my voice when just getting the lights to turn off or music to play can be an infuriating endeavor. Speech recognition has stagnated.

The third party integrations are just so clunky too. They could have made money by selling licenses to businesses in order to access the service, but again, they haven't improved that experience at all.

The "Alexa, let me talk to dominos." or "Alexa, ask LG to turn off the TV" is just stupidly cumbersome. Why can't you set up preferred providers? I don't have to say "ask Spotify to play music" I just say "play music", so we know it's possible. It would be trivial to implement other preferred service providers compared to the overall scale of Alexa.

It'll take 20 hours. Unless it's harder than I thought. Or it's easier than I thought. Or it's exactly as hard as I thought except there's one little thing that I get stuck on for 5 hours.