Dr Keith Walker @SteelFolk@qoto.org
Steel industry metallurgical specialist.
Joined Nov 2022
Dr Keith Walker
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I was terribly disappointed to miss this community AI debate yestedrday due to having Covid 🤒 These kinds of event are a vital counterweight to Rishi Sunak's fantasy summit 🤡. I'm posting my 1 minute of opening remarks here anyway:
- Most AI debate is missing the point because it tries to be balanced.
- AI doesn't bring benefits but it does bring harms.
- AI isn't sci-fi but bureaucracy on steroids.
- Correlations make it prone to machinic paranoia, & systems like ChatGPT are bullshit machines.
- Despite a decade of hype, deep learning fails to do important things better.
- But to work at all it requires a surveillance society,
- exploitative & colonial forms of labour,
- and carbon emitting infrastructure that competes with communities for energy and water resources.
- We don't have generative AI we have degenerative AI.
- It would be better to dump AI solutionism, and instead fix school buildings instead of using AI to teach kids,
- and recruit more doctors and nurses instead of using AI for fake diagnoses.
- It's not just that AI does a bad job,
- but it hands important services over to big tech.
- We don't need to regulate AI, we need to resist it.
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If you ever need a reminder of how the Democrats are the party of the rule of the law and the Republicans are the party cowed by a mob boss, during the “impeachment inquiry” hearing in the House, the panel was asked to raise their hands if they believe that both Hunter and Trump should be held accountable if they are found guilty. The Democrats all raised their hands. None of the Republicans did.
@sciencebase They'll never get a CE mark for those silly tails.
Dr Keith Walker
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@sciencebase Where's it barn, then? Africa?
Even in Yorkshire, no one says 'barn' to mean 'going' anymore. Or 'Laith' to mean 'barn' either.
@sciencebase I didn't realise they went like that cos they've only got legs at the front and back. Seems like an odd adaption at first sight. Like a kind of Lep with only one wing.
@sciencebase We get that sort of larva here, but they are rather small (150mm, 2mm diam). Called 'loopers', very staccato movement. I don't know what they are. Any ideas?
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Smirking Suella trashes 70 years of human rights in 30 minutes
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/26/smirking-suella-trashes-70-years-of-human-rights-in-30-minutes?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Just been sent a Home Office refusal notice for a client I’m assisting. He’s been refused because he has, on multiple occasions, received antisocial behaviour warnings for rough sleeping. This is a reason for refusal. The accommodation he was in was entirely unsuitable and was not only inaccessible but he was assaulted by another resident living in the same block. An assault which the police have investigated and have charged the other resident. There is no depth to which this government are unwilling to plunge in order to make these islands as unfriendly, hostile and unwelcoming to those in need of protection.
@sciencebase They tend to be butter and dragon flies not buggers after my food and beer.
Dr Keith Walker
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New review: The Value of a Whale is a shocking and necessary corrective to the green capitalist solutions to address climate change.
#ClimateChange #Economics #Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Scicomm @bookstodon
Dr Keith Walker
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Dr Keith Walker
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CLIMATE KILLER
How War and Aging Dams Left Libya Exposed to a Climate Superstorm
More than 15,000 Libyans ended up dead or missing as a result of a single night of flooding, a stark demonstration of what happens when warming temperatures collide with aging infrastructure and chronic political instability.
#AureFreePress #GlobalWarming #climatecrisis #climatechange
@mjambon In English, it is used more as a verb now:
Ca m'est egal = I don't mind
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@olives The same people have 'attacked' masturbation in the past, inventing breakfast cereals that cure it etc etc. At the root is their belief that you are on earth to suffer, not experience any pleasure.
@sciencebase I've got a book "Mauve" by S Goldfield - Perkin was 18, and working on Malaria, when he stumbled across it in his petri dish.
Dr Keith Walker
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Research shows new government tactic of ‘making up awful policies to take credit for cancelling’ them ‘only works on morons’ https://newsthump.com/2023/09/21/research-shows-new-government-tactic-of-making-up-awful-policies-to-take-credit-for-cancelling-them-only-works-on-morons/
Steel industry metallurgical specialist.
Joined Nov 2022
