ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

These are 10 commandments I can get behind!

#atheism
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/women-as-sex-objects-09-02-17/
> Fiske explained that the areas, the premotor cortex and posterior middle temporal gyrus, typically light up when one anticipates using tools, like a screwdriver. "I’m not saying that they literally think these photographs of women are photographs of tools per se, or photographs of non-humans, but what the brain imaging data allow us to do is to look at it as scientific metaphor. That is, they are reacting to these photographs as people react to objects."

> Fiske also tested the men for levels of sexism and found a surprising effect those who scored high on this test, "...the hostile sexists were likely to deactivate the part of the brain that thinks about other people's intentions. The lack of activation of this social cognition area is really odd, because it hardly ever happens. It’s a very reliable effect, that the medial prefrontal cortex comes online when people think about other people, see pictures of them, imagine other people."

@thiswomanswerk

I boosted this, but I'm going to also toot in reply to drag attention to what you're saying.

White people need to hear what it's like for Black users on Fedi, and why they're not flocking here to use what *should* be a better place.

None of this diminishes what happens to other marginalized groups here, either. But if we want trans liberation, my friends, we must also fight for Black liberation. It's all tied up together, we won't achieve our goals without Black help, and Black folk won't achieve theirs until white folk start making some real effort to make it better, since *we're the ones making it bad in the first place*. We need one another.

This isn't a subtoot at anyone; it's a general plea for solidarity and attention to our anti-racist and anti-transphobia work on either side. We fight, we just make it easier for the fash.

If we met an alien species, would any of our units of measurement be the same?

“It’s time to turn off this car accident of a tech future, and get on with reclaiming the world from this new generation of robber barons. These are not the demigods we’re looking for.” @Rushkoff brilliant article.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/25/we-will-coup-whoever-we-want-the-unbearable-hubris-of-musk-and-the-billionaire-tech-bros
#books
#socialmedia #technology

These are things that must be said on #Caturday

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I came across this cartoon/meme this morning and literally spit out my coffee. 😂 #AlienHumor

The Fishers #midjourney #AIArt

you're reading that right - duct tape levels are at 90%

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With the OpenAI clownshow, there's been renewed media attention on the xrisk/"AI safety"/doomer nonsense. Personally, I've had a fresh wave of reporters asking me naive questions (as well as some contacts from old hands who are on top of how to handle ultra-rich man-children with god complexes). 🧵1/

hello #caturday

Had a dream in which I took a photo of several everyday objects on a table (keys, diver's license, etc.) and then asked GPT-4 to describe the contents of the picture.

It got pretty far, but then made up a story about the driver's license holder being an international spy, and interpreted everything in the rest of the photograph to fit the theme.

Since the dream itself was made-up, does this count as a meta-hallucination?

Anyone in the UK collect or have an interest in old hand operated sewing machines? I've had this in my shed for years and it needs to go to a new home.

November 24, 1974, the fossils of the first Australopithecus afarensis specimen, known as Lucy after the Beatle song "Lucy in the Sky with 💎💎 , found by Don Johanson & his team 💀

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_(Australopithecus)

Not only was it not a terrorist attack, the model of Bentley that ran into a barrier and exploded at the Rainbow Bridge crossing, killing the occupants, was subject to a recall in 2021 due to a "stuck accelerator" problem.

Incoming negligence lawsuit (against Bentley) ahoy ...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/border-incident-erroneous-reporting-1.7036978