Kris Sargent, MD @kristofor@qoto.org

If you are discussing your abortion and you live in a place where abortion is now essentially illegal, please remember to speak only to people you trust and remember to use end-to-end encrypted comms with disappearing messages turned on.

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/03/10/texas-abortion-lawsuit/

Reminder: Prior to 1982, stock buybacks were considered stock manipulation. It was Reagan's SEC that opened the floodgates to their abuse.

Stock buybacks don’t create more jobs. They don't increase wages. They don’t grow the economy.

They make corporate execs richer. Hello?

When Alaska rolled back its protections for LGBTQ people, it didn't send out a press release.

Instead, the state quietly announced the policy change via the social media feeds of its human rights commission.

The agency's Twitter and Facebook accounts had a total of 102 followers as of yesterday.

New, from @ProPublica & Anchorage Daily News:

https://www.propublica.org/article/alaska-drops-lgbtq-discrimination-ban?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#Alaska #LGBTQ #CivilRights #HumanRights #SCOTUS #Employment #Discrimination #Housing #Credit

These machines can do neither. They produce strings of tokens that statistically appear like they were produced by a human.

To an LLM the statements “Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon” and “Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on Mars” are differentiated only in that more people have written the former than the latter.

That’s it.

AI doesn’t exist and companies letting what we DO have make decisions is just a way to avoid culpability for the results.

3/3

Cat with a Pearl earring- Urban Street Art
#Cats #CatsOfMastodon

#covid19 #virus #vax #weaponsofmassdestruction

The Department of Energy says they think SARS-CoV-2 escaped from a lab.

I think I'm going to wait to hear what the Postal Department says about it before I make up my mind...

(sarcasm)

if america ever gets nuked the headlines will say "Millions of workers didn't show up for work yesterday. Is No Call No Show the new standard?"

Esther Crawford, who proudly slept in the Twitter office to meet some arbitrary deadline Elon made up, has apparently been fired. I hope that some day people will understand that killing yourself for your employer is pointless.

@chancerydaily The Onion approaches chimpanzee typists about plan to develop an alternative to ChatGPT.