Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org

@w7voa
"My question is, have you ever engaged in bestiality? Go down to the farm and git you some, and then come back here and say 'This is a terrible thing."

Golly. It works for any damn thing.

@w7voa You'd think an administration that's this frightened of everything would be easy to bring down, wouldn't you?

@bruces
They also serve who only stand and wait (for the light to change).

Don't mind me, just catching up with some remedial study

https://archive.org/details/Artificial_Intelligence_Projects_for_the_Commodore_64_1985_TAB_Books/mode/2up

@inthehands Imagine you're in the middle of taking on a lifetime of debt for the privilege of attending Columbia, and next thing you know its administration is destroying your hard-won education opportunity by self-unravelling out of cowardice. Is that grounds for a class action lawsuit?

@w7voa "would have beat him with a hammer"? Cue days of speculation on Fox that he's the governor's gay lover.

@dimpase @cessie @stux @loke @notjustbikes

Some cities have experimented with giving transport drivers the ability to issue citations, but the possibility of an encounter with an aggressive owner means you pretty much have to leave that to trained law enforcement.

@w7voa
So in other words, key products made entirely in China will have low or no tariffs.

Whereas similar products built in the US which include materials and components from China will become more expensive, typically a great deal more. And of course, we have zero ability to make those materials and components here at this time.

Sheer genius on display here.

@mcc
An interesting question is whether it will produce _predictable_ defects.

One thing that has been a rich source of exploits was the culture, which held for decades in Windows development, of copy-pasting MSDN code without troubling to understand it.

This has enabled hackers of both hats, having found exploits in standard boilerplate, to correctly anticipate that those exploits would reliably exist in the wild, in huge numbers.

The AI-generation issue is subtler, but has a similar origin: lazy programmers who don't analyze what they're given in the context they'll be using it. That it will produce defects is a given, but is there a recurrent character to the _kind_ of defects, and will that prove to have results that are usefully predictable to someone?

@mtconleyuk @bruces Given that the subject is the white house, one can only hope it was a pun about the imperial presidency

@1br0wn In the US you can't even require the auditing of voting machines. "Why not" is one of those questions to which the most cynical response is almost certainly the correct one.

@bruces You'd think it'd at least show you the alt text it was offering to post, so you know you're not consenting to "yo' mama, in combat boots"

Y'know, Columbia University has one hell of a History department. You'd think someone in its administration would ask them how well appeasing autocrats works out.

Saturday's Toronto Star

@sinabhfuil @fj Since the advent of e-bikers with bluetooth speakers blaring their terrible music I take nothing for granted anymore.

@EverydayMoggie @bruces
Read that in a bad Australian accent, including the at-tagged part, and it all comes out very Philosophy Department of the University of Woolloomooloo.

@bruces
My AP nearest the street was advertising a "USDA Poultry Inspector" SSID for a few weeks.

@davidallengreen
It seems to give equal weight to every clause of every sentence, and overdecorates each one with rather trite, stodgy formalisms. It's creepy and the mind sort of recoils from it after a few sentences.

@bjoern I remember it was once said that the ratio of jabber users and servers was 1:1. (I too ran my own at the time.) That's almost like the mastodon ratio now.