Lunatech @Lunatech@qoto.org

Meta cranks Zuckerberg's personal security budget to $14m while cutting everything else https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/16/meta_zuckerberg_security_budget/

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Original tweet : https://nitter.1d4.us/TheRegister/status/1626303293352775680

#Debian-Based #Clonezilla Live 3.0.3 Disk Cloning/Imaging Tool Adds Support for Multiple LUKS Devices, Powered by #Linux Kernel 6.1 LTS https://9to5linux.com/clonezilla-live-3-0-3-disk-cloning-tool-adds-support-for-multiple-luks-devices-linux-6-1-lts

#OpenSource

In America, they say the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.

But that just sounds like someone trying to sell two guns.

Senator Marco Rubio and Rep. Jim Banks have introduced legislation seeking to ban transgender Americans from serving in the military. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/marco-rubio-jim-banks-introduce-bill-ban-trans-military-1234681140/

First let’s ban Rubio and Banks from serving in our government.

Stifling Free Speech Is Now A Core Plank Of The Republican Platform — @mmasnick

Clarence Thomas, Devin Nunes, Sarah Palin, and Ron DeSantis support laws that would enable politicians to harass critics with punitive lawsuits.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/16/stifling-free-speech-is-now-a-core-plank-of-republicans/

I wrote a while back about how generations of AI researchers viewing the Turing test as a holy grail led to our current predicament, in which chatbots hyper-optimized to mimic human interaction actually do fool people into thinking they're sentient. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/17/google-ai-lamda-turing-test/

The FCC is investigating whether ISPs exaggerated their coverage to authorities preparing to distribute billions in subsidies for broadband in underserved areas (Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-16/fcc-is-investigating-broadband-providers-over-coverage-claims
http://www.techmeme.com/230216/p34#a230216p34

Is this at least a violation of HIPPA? Or is Ron planning on taking on the medical care of all these students?

https://www.insider.com/ron-desantis-trans-college-students-medical-records-florida-medical-care-2023-2

As the New York Times once again defends the underprivileged, marginalized, and oppressed J.K. Rowling, it’s important to remember that a pretty big chunk of hand-wringing about cancel culture is in fact just status anxiety, as people used to having their opinions unchallenged and their prejudices celebrated are now facing criticism, and they hate it.

DoorDash announces a $750M stock buyback program and says Chief Financial Officer Prabir Adarkar will replace President Christopher Payne on March 1 (Jackie Davalos/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-16/doordash-forecasts-profit-growth-as-customers-keep-ordering-takeout
http://www.techmeme.com/230216/p33#a230216p33

it's completely wild that people in the TRUTH AND ACCURATE INFORMATION business are oblivious to both their role in amplifying a bigoted right wing moral panic, AND honestly believe that journalism is best served by silencing their own employees

scary: i'm told that folks who believed they largely purged their twitter account of tweets are noticing random tweets showing back up in their profile timeline. same for purged DMs. i observed as much on my own account.

check your own to corroborate?

Sounds like Tesla’s Full Self-Driving feature got fed the Elon Musk Management Style AI. https://www.pcmag.com/news/tesla-recalls-362758-cars-over-potentially-dangerous-full-self-driving

"In life, treating minor problems as catastrophes is a straight path to misery—but online, the most catastrophic headlines get the most attention. In life, nurturing anger produces conflict with friends and family; online, it’s an excellent way to build an audience."

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/02/the-tragic-mystery-of-teenage-anxiety/673076/

Google's VP for search asks staff to rewrite Bard's bad responses as it "learns best by example", and keep the responses "neutral" and not "imply emotion" (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/15/google-asks-employees-to-rewrite-bards-incorrect-responses-to-queries.html
http://www.techmeme.com/230216/p30#a230216p30

Things that make you go Hmmm… #FAITHHEALING #criticalthinking #exchristian #secular #nullifidian #atheist

Lots of people talking about @kevinroose's chat with Bing AI, and noting how unsettling it is (leads to the chat becoming a stalkerish entity claiming to love Kevin and telling him his wife doesn't love him), but it also struck me how it got there after Kevin seemed to keep trying to manipulate it to break its rules as well. I'm not sure what this means for AI... or humanity. But I find both sides fascinating. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/technology/bing-chatbot-transcript.html

Google Calendar now allows you to block spam. What a world. 📆

https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37135?hl=en&visit_id=638121712306309527-3531848076&p=manage_invitations&rd=1#manage_invitations&zippy=%2Cmanage-your-incoming-invitations-and-notifications

#NewGoogleCalendar

The really remarkable thing isn't just that #Microsoft has decided that the future of #search isn't links to relevant materials, but instead lengthy, florid paragraphs written by a #chatbot who happens to be a habitual liar - even more remarkable is that #Google agrees.

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/2023/02/16/tweedledumber/#easily-spooked

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