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gimulnautti

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Pirate Politician, Software Developer, MA Musicology (he/him)

Interests:
Culture, Math, Sociology, Philosophy, Music, Demoscene, Games, #NAFO, Writing, Disc Golf, Skateboarding.

Not here for snarky comebacks. A slur is not an argument.

Other fediverse accounts:
@gimulnautti @metapixl.com
@gimulnautti @mastodontti.fi

Blog:
https://gimulnaut.wordpress.com
https://medium.com/@toni.k.aittoniemi

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gimulnautti , to Random stuff
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People who

How many times have you read ”Culture” series by Ian M. Banks?

davidho , to Random stuff
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3°C is a political choice. Future generations will think very poorly of us.

gimulnautti ,
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@davidho Where are the longtermists now, I might ask? 🤔

taylorlorenz , to Random stuff
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“We found the company's phony authors and their work everywhere from celebrity gossip outlets like Hollywood Life and Us Weekly to venerable newspapers like the Los Angeles Times.” https://futurism.com/advon-ai-content

gimulnautti ,
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@taylorlorenz The garbage machine is just getting started..

pre , to Random stuff
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Here's an interesting case-study on the way the media/press distort reality:
"Children must show ID to use social media"
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/08/children-must-show-id-to-use-social-media/

Why is the word "children" in there? These ID checks don't only apply to children, it's an ID check that everyone will need to abide by since there's no way to know if you're a child or not otherwise.

The headline should say "All UK internet users must show ID to use social media"

In fact, for Children there's no point in showing their ID since doing so would mean their account would be denied.

It's ONLY ADULTS who will be showing ID at all.

gimulnautti ,
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@pre Sensationality.

But the incentives provided by current laws for online companies are indeed perverse:

The companies are made legally responsible for harms to under-age users ONLY if they have positive ID of their age.

No wonder companies avoid collecting positive ID from users like the plague.

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“Crypto researcher Molly White skewered [Chris Dixon’s Read Write Own] with the delight of Pete Wells after downing an Almond Joy cocktail at Guy Fieri’s Flavortown.”

😂

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-05-06/silicon-valley-crypto-investor-chris-dixon-wants-to-overhaul-the-industry (paywall)
https://archive.ph/BDP2I (archive)

gimulnautti ,
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@molly0xfff Buhaha.. Of course they would pump & dump the book. That’s the core problem with crypto, it does not do enough to de-incentivise scumbags.

rbreich , to Random stuff
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Trump held an event for megadonors this weekend.

These super-rich individuals don't seem to care that he wants to free Jan 6 insurrectionists.

Or that he echoes the words of Hitler to dehumanize opponents.

They'll overlook Trump's fascism in exchange for tax cuts.

Be warned.

gimulnautti ,
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@rbreich It’ll probably be the same as it always is: The pro-business right lifts the anti-democratic far right to power, thinking they can ”control” them and benefit themselves.

Obviously, they are wrong and many who thought they’d win end up losing everything as the state quickly grabs the industry in the name of fighting whatever half-fictional enemy is the fashion of the day.

We saw it in Germany, we saw it in Russia. It can happen here.

nixCraft , to Random stuff
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Everyone should immediately stop contributing to the stack overflow and its network. The human touch is what made it unique. Delete your profile from SO AND all your answers. Freeloaders are making money out of human contributions.

gimulnautti ,
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@nixCraft I think you should rather make them pay you for your efforts, since they’re making money out of it. I don’t AI tools are bad in itself. It’s that they don’t license the corpus they’re training on that’s wrong.

noalevi Bot , to news group
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HEADLINES

  • Turkey Cuts All Trade Ties with Israel Amid Escalating Conflict, Ends 75 Years of Commercial Relations
  • Palestinian Casualties Surpass 110,000 in Gaza as Conflict Reaches Day 210
  • Protests at Columbia University Lead to 112 Arrests Amid Rising International Tensions Over Israel-Hamas War

Listen to the 08 AM update of Israel Today: Ongoing War Report here: https://widget.spreaker.com/player?show_id=5985229&theme=dark&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true
Click on the (i) for the full transcript and links to sources.

Listen and Subscribe on your favorite podcast app:

Podcast Details: https://www.spreaker.com/show/israel-today-ongoing-war-report
@israel @news

gimulnautti ,
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@noalevi @israel @news I hope we will end at 1 Israeli life equalling 100 palestinian lives.

But i’m not holding my breath. The ratio of 9/11 was 137 dead Iraqis for one American dead.

QasimRashid , to Random stuff
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BREAKING: The House just passed HR 6090, which expands the definition of antisemitism to include criticism of Israel.

Let me be clear. People have rights. State governments do not have rights. This terrible bill sets a dangerous precedent & does nothing to actually decrease or stop the scourge of antisemitism. The Senate should not pass this bill and Biden should not sign it into law.

gimulnautti ,
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@philip @QasimRashid It’s cutting it close. Whether the state of Israel’s stated goals of remaining a jewish state is racist should still be up for debate, because it is a debate that can be learned from. It’s useful because ethnicity was a thing on the ground through 1920 to 1990, even if technically one can convert to Judaism nowadays.

The conflict is based on deep ethnically-based divisions and violence in the past, and it isn’t a worthless argument.

molly0xfff , to Random stuff
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Many yearn for the "good old days" of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.

https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/

gimulnautti ,
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@molly0xfff Great article!

VPS_Reports , to Random stuff
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HAPPENING NOW: Zionists are throwing fireworks and pepper spraying pro-Palestine protesters at UCLA! https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6al9fAOIAX/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

gimulnautti ,
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@VPS_Reports Another case of Wilhoit’s law showing how Israel is a right-wing project.

The law works differently for the true conservatives: It binds but doesn’t protect those that are below, and protects but doesn’t bind those that have been presupposed to be above.

This is why at the same time pro-Palestine demonstrators have remain peaceful, and pro-Israel demostrators can engage in attacks against them.

Only far right doesn’t think this is wrong.

foone , to Random stuff
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the world needs more recreational programming.
like, was this the most optimal or elegant way to code this?

no, but it was the most fun to write.

gimulnautti ,
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@foone With the world full of AI shit code in a couple of years, I’m sure there will be a need for it. 😏

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Our commitment to the fediverse is here to stay.

We are working on a solution to ensure our continued presence on your feeds, taking full advantage of Mastodon's identity portability.

And we are even growing the team behind our Mastodon presence, increasing efforts to engage with your comments on our posts.

We are fully committed to being a real part of the conversation in the fediverse.

Interested in our next steps? Follow us as we take on this new chapter.

gimulnautti ,
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@EU_Commission Go Europe Go!

Commitment to open systems can only be shown. Talk is cheap. 🫡

GottaLaff , to Random stuff
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10-post thread by Angry Staffer: 1/...

Let’s talk .

There’s a lot of analysis out there that I believe is driven by a fundamental misunderstanding of the way fights wars.

Bottom line up front: Russia’s current goals in Ukraine aren’t necessarily victory, at least not in the traditional military sense.

We’ve seen evidence of this since even before Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. More on that later.

gimulnautti ,
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@GottaLaff What’s funny is that Russia is actually always somehow forward about what it intends to do.

It’s just that the West doesn’t want to believe it would, but rather would believe the obvious lies it keeps telling, like in 2014 when ”no Russian troops were in Crimea”.

This week Belarus accused Lithuania of attacking with drones. A population that is already been manipulated they’re at war with NATO.

It’s all out in the open. The Russian empire wants to be reconstituted.

gimulnautti , to Cybersecurity
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So let me ask you this simple two-part question:

  1. When is there going to be a cyber Hamas?
  2. When’s the first terrorist strike against Google going to happen?

It’s quite simple: Google is providing Israel the means to kill Palestinians. Seriously hitting that capability is going to help Palestinians stay alive.

Mollysdailykiss , to bookstodon group
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If you have not read either of these books, then you really should.

Regardless of whether you like Non fic or not, if you are using this here big old interwebs, then honestly read them both. Start with Doppelganger and then read Code Dependant.

Is technology gonna destroy democracy? What about the whole of humanity?

These books made me worry, but both also gave hope for the future and the power of humanity and most of all communities.

@bookstodon

Front cover of the book Code Dependant by Maghumita Murgia which shows a Control keyboard button lit in purple and red

gimulnautti ,
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@Pappy @bookstodon Doppelganger is great. I think there’s even a weird glimmer of hope if we take the idea at face value, that MAGA is essentially worried about the same things as Occupy Wallstreet was, just that their solutions are completely backwards and destructive.

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Those of us of a certain age remember when used to be a thing of crunchy hippies. Much like nonsense as well.

Of course, the antivax crowd are mostly types nowadays, and, guess what? MAGA recently went gaga over raw milk.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/03/10/the-alt-right-rebrand-of-raw-milk-00145625

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gimulnautti ,
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@zenkat @benroyce Great book, I recommend it too!

They are unified by the same basic idea:

Humanity would be living in perfect grace, IF IT WASN’T FOR THIS EVIL PRESENCE making a mess of everything that was beautiful and perfect in a mystical past, where men were great heroes.

gimulnautti ,
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@benroyce @zenkat Evolution preferred a bit of those who see cons everywhere. The paranoid survived.

Not much we can do but hold the flag of civilization up high.

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Researchers studying free speech have carried out a report analysing the six major chatbots, to find out whether they embrace international free speech standards.

As reported by @FastCompany, the team found that AI chatbots regularly censor topics that companies deem to be controversial, thanks to "vague and broad" policies.

As AI's integration into all areas of our lives increases, the researchers discuss the wider implications on the right to access information, when chatbots decide what content they will and won't generate.

https://flip.it/NDnvks

gimulnautti ,
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@TechDesk @FastCompany Humans have freedom of expression, bots don’t.

exador23 , to Random stuff
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When +972Mag revealed that Israel was using an called Lavender and trained on faulty data to decide who is or isn't a militant, and another one called Where's Daddy to track them until they were home to kill the whole family, many folks here rightfully wanted to know who was providing the servers and computer infrastructure for that.

Time Magazine now has at least part of the answer: & https://time.com/6966102/google-contract-israel-defense-ministry-gaza-war/

The Israeli Ministry of Defense, according to the document, has its own “landing zone” into Google Cloud—a secure entry point to Google-provided computing infrastructure, which would allow the ministry to store and process data, and access AI services.

gimulnautti ,
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@exador23 Wow shit. The amount of compute it takes to run models and systems like that must be massive!

Which means Google & Amazon are making serious cash off providing Israel these capabilities.

That’s blood money. 😡

gimulnautti ,
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@irenes @exador23 We really need get our heads around one important thing very soon or we’ll be in trouble:

These are not anymore companies in the traditional sense of the word, ie manufacturing a good or service.

These companies are power brokers and gatekeepers of a whole new domain. They can give or take away the power to create worlds and perform feats equalling magic.

Just letting things stay as they are will make them our feudal lords of a digital middle-age.

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Modern fascists always attack women, immigrants, & LGBTQ+ people first. They long for a white-led, patriarchal, theocratic society.

Remember that when you see reproductive rights, gay rights, and migrant rights stripped away.

gimulnautti ,
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@rbreich It’s not just modern fascists. The German nazis in fact didn’t come for the communists first, as the famous poem goes.

They came for the LGBTQ+. The clinic who had performed one of the first gender-affirming surgeries was among the first targets of Hitler’s still young nazi party’s band of thugs.

It is the same. For our slipping toward fascism is an inborn trait. We need to work to stay out of that slip. Actively. Stopping means slipping back!

mondoweiss , to israel group
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The events of recent days suggest we may be seeing the Israeli endgame take shape. Netanyahu's far right government’s goals are not limited to Gaza: it wants to take over all of Palestine and start a war with Hezbollah and Iran as well.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/netanyahus-endgame-and-the-israeli-far-rights-regional-ambitions/


@palestine @israel

gimulnautti ,
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@mondoweiss Israel keeps getting a free pass pretty much whatever it does. And that’s what’s lead to the genocide.

Attacking a consulate would be totally off the menu for anyone else. Not Israel though.

gimulnautti ,
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@mondoweiss It does not make a good impression on upholding rules-based international order, when Israel gets a get out of jail free -card at every turn.

Attacking an embassy would be illegal for anyone else, not Israel.

onrust , to Random stuff
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what it said vs. what it should've said

don't blame the machine for committing your war crimes and mass murder

The Guardian headline, modified: "Occupation forces' [underlined] did it coldly': zionist entity used AI to identify 37,000 civilian [underlined] targets" Followed by a summary: "Israeli intelligence sources reveal use of 'Lavender' system in Gaza war and claim permission given to kill civilians in pursuit of low-ranking militants" Below that a picture of complete, utter destruction of buildings and civilians infrastructure, with people walking around amongst the rubble.

The Guardian headline: "'The machine did it coldly': Israel used AI to identify 37,000 Hamas targets" Followed by a summary: "Israeli intelligence sources reveal use of 'Lavender' system in Gaza war and claim permission given to kill civilians in pursuit of low-ranking militants" Below that a picture of complete, utter destruction of buildings and civilians infrastructure, with people walking around amongst the rubble.
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    • gimulnautti ,
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    @onrust No more waiting for a Black Mirror episode to come true.

    chu , to Random stuff
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    Have to give Israel credit. They're getting exactly what they wanted. Shoot up aid workers so every other aid agency gets the hint and pulls out.

    The only question is if the world will tolerate this. If the West does nothing, they are sending the signal that there is no moral high ground, only higher fire power.

    You can win the war but even as far back as Confucius we knew that was not a path to stability.

    gimulnautti ,
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    @chu Israel’s politics might be too far down the far-right rabbit hole to rescue itself.

    The underlying engine of all totalitarian regimes is fear being quelled by the strength of military leadership.

    People in fear will give power to the strong leader without much hesitation.

    briankrebs , to Random stuff
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    This is so badass: Ukraine is using a network of thousands of mobile phones deployed across the country to track incoming drones and missiles.

    h/t to @riskybusiness which notes on this week's podcast that Iranian drones apparently are really loud. So they use these network of phones to hear when lawn-mower drones trundle on by, and then shoot them down with small arms fire.

    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/technology/how-ukraine-is-using-mobile-phones-on-6ft-poles-to-stop-drones/ar-BB1kzCIL

    https://risky.biz/RB742/

    gimulnautti ,
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    @briankrebs And the gods of engineering granted them eternal life in paradise!

    pluralistic , to Random stuff
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    Back in the 1950s, a new, democratically elected Iranian government nationalized foreign oil interests. The UK and the US then backed a coup, deposing the progressive government with one more hospitable to foreign corporations:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalization_of_the_Iranian_oil_industry

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    If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

    https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/27/korporate-kangaroo-kourts/#corporate-sovereignty

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    gimulnautti ,
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    @pluralistic Great news. I’ve been appalled at these treaties most of my life. Just plain horrible that international companies could hold sovereign countries to account. It’s awful because it turns the tables, and gives corporations the opportunity to run the show. At that point, it’s not really about nations or their people any more.

    georgetakei , to Random stuff
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    Last week's House Oversight Committee hearing was a spectacle, marking the demise of the GOP's feeble attempt to impeach Joe Biden. Rep. Eric Swalwell's top 10 list hilariously dismantled their case, declaring its time of death at 5:16pm ET on March 20, 2024.

    The whole charade rested on allegations from an FBI informant, who turned out to be indicted for lying to the FBI about Biden, basing his intel on 'Russian intelligence contacts.' Oops! And let's not forget the star witness, testifying from prison via Zoom. Lev Parnas merely reiterated what we already knew, exposing Republicans' compromised stance and their willingness to align with enemies to tarnish political opponents. Read more on The Big Picture. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/republicans-biden-impeachment-russian-disinforma

    gimulnautti ,
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    @georgetakei The Russian REALLY want Trump as president, I wonder why? 😄

    arstechnica , to Random stuff
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    Missouri AG sues Media Matters in lawsuit echoing Elon Musk’s complaints

    Media watchdog slams "meritless, expensive, and harassing investigations."

    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/missouri-ag-sues-media-matters-in-lawsuit-echoing-elon-musks-complaints/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    gimulnautti ,
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    @arstechnica There they go again, defending nazi speech. Big money always sides with them. Always.

    atomicpoet , to Fediverse News
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    Looks like @zuck is not the only Threads profile that's followable on the Fediverse. I'm seeing multiple accounts show up from a threads.net search.

    @fediversenews

    gimulnautti ,
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    @atomicpoet we can see them, but can they see us?

    zuck , to Random stuff

    First post in the fediverse! 👋

    gimulnautti ,
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    @zuck We can hear you, but can you hear us? 🤔

    w7voa , to Random stuff
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    At SpaceX if an employee is fired “for cause,” the company can repurchase their stock for a price of $0 per share, according to documents viewed by TechCrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/15/spacex-employee-stock-sales-forbidden/

    gimulnautti ,
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    @w7voa No surprise that there’s an element of autocratic rule and soft fascism in these arrangements.

    Thanks for reposting!

    arstechnica , to Random stuff
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    A hunk of junk from the International Space Station hurtles back to Earth

    Three tons of trash from the space station fell to Earth in an unguided reentry.

    https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/03/a-hunk-of-junk-from-the-international-space-station-hurtles-back-to-earth/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    gimulnautti ,
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    @arstechnica Convenient flying so low, that you can just leave stuff around to be slowed.

    But this means the ISS would fall too, should it stop boosting it’s orbit. 🤔

    parismarx , to Random stuff
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    Italy’s far-right party proposed using AI to assign youth mandatory jobs.

    “The young person will no longer be able to choose whether to work or not, but [will be] bound to accept the job offer for himself (sic), for his family and for the country, under penalty of loss of all benefits.”

    https://algorithmwatch.org/en/italian-neofascists-artificial-intelligence/

    gimulnautti ,
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    @parismarx What could go wrong?

    No wait! They actually know about algoritmic bias.. 🥶

    appassionato , to History
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    The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
    A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi

    A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history.

    @bookstodon
    @palestine


    In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous people who would not easily accept their own displacement. He warned of the perils ahead, ending his note, "in the name of God, let Palestine be left alone." Thus Rashid Khalidi, al-Khalidi's great-great-nephew, begins this sweeping history, the first general account of the conflict told from an explicitly Palestinian perspective. Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival materials and the reports of generations of family members—mayors, judges, scholars, diplomats, and journalists—The Hundred Years' War on Palestine upends accepted interpretations...
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    • gimulnautti ,
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    @Kirilov @KarunaX @ymishory @appassionato @bookstodon @palestine What am I not getting here? Study at advanced academy isn’t trustworthy simply because a large number of people say so. If anything, that high education isn’t trustwortht has lately become a rather popular argumentum ad populum..

    w7voa , to Random stuff
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    Meta is debating whether to more aggressively remove some social media posts containing the words “Zionist” to counter a surge of antisemitism online. https://wapo.st/42zh98E

    gimulnautti ,
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    @w7voa It will also be soon illegal to call fascists fascists. At least they will sue you for it.

    I guess this falls in the same category: Use power to change the goalposts.

    Zionism is a real thing, just like fascism. It’s not something that happened in the 1930’s & 1940’s and was filed as a historical event.

    It’s a way of thinking that continues to influence the way people behave today.

    parismarx , to Random stuff
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    The AI boom requires massive data centers that consume enormous amounts of water and energy.

    Tech CEOs have plans for hundreds more hyperscale facilities in the coming years, but activists around the world are fighting back to protect their communities and force us to ask who really benefits from the future Silicon Valley is building.

    https://disconnect.blog/ai-is-fueling-a-data-center-boom/

    gimulnautti ,
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    @parismarx What was is about trusting billionaires?

    Yesterday’s friends often become tomorrow’s enemies. Next up is Sam Altman, who is already proposing that powering up his vision machine artificial intelligence is SO IMPORTANT, that humanity should take up geoengineering to guarantee his machine learning data centers are guaranteed evermore increasing power.

    parismarx , to Random stuff
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    does mastodon still not have quote tweets or am i just using the wrong interface?

    gimulnautti ,
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    @parismarx links are effectively quotes here. For now at least.

    pluralistic , to Random stuff
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    Apple's most valuable intangible asset isn't its patents or copyrights - it's an army of people who believe that using products from a $2.89 trillion multinational makes them members of an oppressed religious minority whose identity is coterminal with the interests of Apple's shareholders.

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    If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

    https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/12/youre-holding-it-wrong/#if-dishwashers-were-iphones

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    gimulnautti ,
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    @pluralistic These buffoons sure haven’t figured out the difference between pro-market and pro-business.

    Unfortunately a lot of voters don’t seem to have either. 🥶

    nixCraft , to Random stuff
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    Scare a developer with under 10 words:

    gimulnautti ,
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    @nixCraft Just some minor issues with the login

    mmasnick , to Random stuff
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    My end of the year post on optimism this year has a slightly different tone, in which I explain how my tech optimism differs from Marc Andreessens, and I see his more as pessimistic cynicism, not optimism. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/12/29/new-years-message-moving-fast-and-breaking-things-is-the-opposite-of-tech-optimism/

    gimulnautti ,
    @gimulnautti@mastodon.green avatar

    @mmasnick Great take! E/ACC not only makes no sense, even when taken at face value, but resolves to bullying when seen through a critical lens.

    There are eerie similarities to Italian Futurists of the 1930’s, who likewise took the stance of: ”Get on board, or get out of the way!”

    The picking out of enemies is an especially chilling precautionary tale, because what else loved enemies more than Mussolini’s , which absorbed the ethic as it’s outfacing facade?

    Miro_Collas , to Random stuff
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    The situation in Gaza is getting worse, Mohammad – Mondoweiss
    https://mondoweiss.net/2023/12/the-situation-in-gaza-is-getting-worse-mohammad/

    "Germany, for instance, thinks that standing next to Israel in its frenzied attack on Gaza will somehow erase the blood of the Jews, the Gypsies, the Communists, and the Poles from its hands. "

    gimulnautti ,
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    @Miro_Collas Naomi Klein put it very acutely when she said:

    ”The state of Israel is framed as reparations, but in fact it is only a repetition.”

    jerry , to Random stuff
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    You better not shout, you better not cry

    video/mp4

    gimulnautti ,
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    @jerry That looks like Nuuttipukki!

    They would come in after christmas and sing, but if you didn’t give them food & wine, they might make trouble!

    Unmarried youth would join them as a troop, and join in the singing. If the people in the house were nice, they would nice too.

    Late at night, they might gather for a party.

    It was a bit like trick or treating.

    https://www.digisarka.fi/tarinatiinut/tahan-aikaan-vuodesta-nuuttipukit-lahtevat-liikkeelle/

    georgetakei , to Random stuff
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    Taking sex advice from Ted Cruz is like sourcing recipes from Jeffrey Dahmer. https://www.comicsands.com/cruz-liberal-women-small-weenies-2666728479.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

    gimulnautti ,
    @gimulnautti@mastodon.green avatar

    @georgetakei Same old same old, fascists always imply to the high virility of their tribe, and the lack of sexual power with their enemy. What else is new?

    ZLabe , to Random stuff
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    Areas in the Northern Hemisphere observed temperature anomalies more than 5°C above the 1951-1980 average in November. The signature of El Niño also continues in the equatorial Pacific.

    Information about the data: https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/faq/

    gimulnautti ,
    @gimulnautti@mastodon.green avatar

    @ZLabe except Scandinavia. We somehow got the only cold spot on the planet right now 😏

    Great for skiing, but yeah. It looks bad!

    Gargron , to Random stuff
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    is testing federation for a few selected profiles. I'm now following @mosseri! It's one-way for now, but it's exciting. It's a step towards the interoperable social web that we've been advocating for 🙂

    gimulnautti ,
    @gimulnautti@mastodon.green avatar

    @Gargron Ok. I’ll behave. You have to start with assuming good intentions.

    If actual appears, where Threads users can find other ActivityPub users as easily as Threads users, and users aren’t made to jump through hoops to get followed in there, I’m all for it.

    If doesn’t send it’s goons and exercise it’s immense monetary might to take over nonprofits and boards that decide the future of the , I’m all for it.

    Let’s see. 🕑

    taylorlorenz , to Random stuff
    @taylorlorenz@mastodon.social avatar

    BREAKING: Tesla recalls nearly all vehicles sold in the US over the past decade https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/13/tech/tesla-recall-autopilot/index.html

    gimulnautti ,
    @gimulnautti@mastodon.green avatar

    @taylorlorenz Selling that autopilot snake oil…

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