Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org
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Software Engineer, mostly in the Pacific Northwest of late
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.
Will code for pie. 🥧
Joined Dec 2022
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"key reason so many offenders went missing was because they had changed their names"
Elizabeth Holmes has graciously turned herself in for her prison sentence. What a gal.
Meanwhile poor and/or black people spend two or more years in Rikers without a trial any time a cop has a beef with them.
At any point did anyone ask McCarthy to enumerate the Federal spending in Red states he wanted cut? Because most of them are taker states, receiving more in federal dollars than they remit in taxes.
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This scenario is why Daniel Dennett is right https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/05/problem-counterfeit-people/674075/ to say that the act of counterfeiting people is the great danger and that it should be illegal. Do whatever else you want with your AI; you should not be allowed to create fake humans for purposes of deception. https://infosec.exchange/@jerry/110402514310273332
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remember when this guy fired Iceland's person of the year, mocked him for his disability, then belatedly realized the dude was on a "DO NOT FIRE" list because he was the founder of a company Twitter acquired and so firing him would cost a staggering sum of money?
I confess I'm instablock with people who state things they just made up as fact.
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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#BigTech is driving #polarisation & populism while the climate crisis requires commitment to #science & #democracy.
We join >270 Nobel laureates, journalists, activists & experts to support a plan to rein in Big Tech and #ReclaimOurRights.
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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
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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 #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.
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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
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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".
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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.
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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.
- Enthusiasms
- 🏍️ 🪂 🚀 🎷 🔬 🔭 🎞️ 🐧 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
- Credit
- A Quinn-Martin Production
Software Engineer, mostly in the Pacific Northwest of late
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.
Will code for pie. 🥧
Joined Dec 2022
