Last night I turned on Netflix for the first time in what must be four months. Had the usual experience where it offered me the same 20 shows over and over again, continually recontextualized and using different still images. Turned it off again. That's all I've done with Netflix for as long as I can remember.
Just now googled "I'm cancelling netflix" to see how much company I've got.
Wow. Lots.
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Stochastic parrots, systemic racism, doing evil and Google.
Why Bad AI is here and why it matters so much.
Timnit Gebru on her sacking by Google, AI’s dangers and big tech’s biases
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/may/22/there-was-all-sorts-of-toxic-behaviour-timnit-gebru-on-her-sacking-by-google-ais-dangers-and-big-techs-biases?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
@QasimRashid To be fair you're talking about people who get apoplectic when they hear the poor have refrigerators too. Because, one supposes, you're sure to escape poverty if you can't keep food in the house and have to eat out.
The useful part of having the motherboard die on my file server was it belatedly occurring to me that with the addition of a pair of USB3 SATA adapters I could replace it with a #RaspberryPi 4 that I already had. Uses a fifth of the wattage, has a minuscule footprint, makes no sound, and it's powered from a #PoE switch so there's not even a wall wart.
It's said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome.
Ron DeSantis — the Florida governor who is expected to soon announce his intention to take down Donald Trump in the 2024 Republican presidential primary — still can’t admit that the former president lost the 2020 general election. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/ron-desantis-trump-lost-2020-1234735411/
Scholz says that some countries see double standards in the West's defense of Ukraine. He's not taking into account differences in the sought or expected outcome.
The chance of Ukraine ending up ruled by a junta on victory seems as low as it was before the invasion. Chance of it ending up ruled by a totalitarian theocracy is essentially zero.
People act like it's always racism and nothing but racism that keeps us from intervening. Maybe that's an influence in some cases, I don't speak for anyone. All other things being equal that might be the reason. But other things mostly don't seem to be even remotely equal.
And this, today, to the BBC; he openly states its purpose and that Opposition accusations were correct, accusations he denied as a Government minister at the time.
Before Brexit even passed I was wisecracking about the UK kids finally getting flammable pyjamas back...
And now today, Brexit pundits, when asked for examples of what they don't like about retained EU regulation, are actually going on about child car seat requirements and infant formula safety.
Can't say it often enough: there's no parodying these people.
Consulting SW Engineer, mostly Pacific Northwest these days.
Medical Informatics - Carrier-Grade Network Video Distribution - Real Time Clinical Telemetry
Formerly: Motorola, Tektronix, Intel, HP, Qualcomm, Nintendo; others you're less likely to have heard of.
"Millions for nonsense but not one cent for entropy."
Will code for pie. 🥧