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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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@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 4 that I already had. Uses a fifth of the wattage, has a minuscule footprint, makes no sound, and it's powered from a switch so there's not even a wall wart.

Hey, wake up. Elon Musk? George Santos? What are you talking about? It's 1996 and we just set up our first gateway computer. Once my mom gets off the phone we can surf the web before this internet fad blows over. In the meantime let's play skip-it and enjoy a Clinton presidency free of any scanda

Can't say I understand why, but I'm glad the Chief AI Scientist at Meta is determined to convince everyone that the AI industry does not take trust and safety issues seriously and thus needs to be heavily regulated. 🤷‍♂️

I just told Stanley the cat that the entire reason the universe exists is to bring him into being.

He said "meow", which I'm pretty sure is cat for "well duh".

Author Martin Amis has passed away. Perhaps his greatest achievement was becoming a breakfast cereal mascot in 2007.

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. rollingstone.com/politics/poli

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.

If there's something you're not supposed to tell anyone, be sure to say "I'm not supposed to tell anyone this" each and every time you tell anyone.

(Yes, I know people like this. We all know people like this.)

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.

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Shorter NYT for the last 7 years:

"Won't *someone* think of the forgotten white working class gun owning male in flyover country? I mean, besides us and every other media outlet?"

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.

Massive standoff on the back porch last night between the cat and a raccoon. It was like that scene in The Incredibles 2, except Stanley doesn't have laser eyes.

I'd post video but my file server's motherboard failed three days ago so it didn't get recorded.

Over on that other site, such personages as Brendan O'Neill, Toby Young and Julia Hartley-Brewer are excoriating the Met for the Coronation arrests.

Stopped clocks and all that; the authoritarian Right really has no friends today.

Bucatini should be extra-long as well, so you can have it with really big meatballs and then feel like a little kid again when you eat it.

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