Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@qoto.org
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So. Cal. engineer (hardware/software since 1968, retired, he/him), born at 313 ppm, musician, chef, now living in West Virginia. KW2P ham radio (the original social network), father of three, grandfather, astronomy, solar dynamics, photography, writing, birding, birdwatching, eBird, fountain pens, cats and dog, reader of banned books, scary fast Python jockey, Chairman of the Charcuterie Board, Whisk Manager, Compuserve refugee, founder of The Church of The Unwarranted Assumption. Crypto is short for cryptography. Blog: shuttersparks.net
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"To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire
"I never understood wind. You know, I know windmills very much. Gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right? So the world is tiny compared to the universe. So tremendous amount of fumes and everything." --Donald Trump
Joined Nov 2022
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Hi Fedi Family,
In 2008 Californians voted for Prop8 that defined marriage as the union of one man and one woman in the California constitution. While this was defeated in courts this draconian Prop8 language is still in the California constitution. Justice tHomas and the right wing SCOTUS is openly hinting at destroying precedent and trampling rights. If they overturned Obergefell - the Prop8 language in the California Constitution will act as a “trigger law”, raining havoc on queer families like mine across California.
Please spread the word to vote “YES” to repeal Prop8 (2008) from the California constitution in Nov 2024. Talk to your friends, family and colleagues about it.
Boosts appreciated.
https://ballotpedia.org/California_Right_to_Marry_and_Repeal_Proposition_8_Amendment_(2024)
#lgbt #lgbtq #California #marriageequality #Prop8 #gay #lesbian #bisexual #transgender #queer #nonbinary #enby #HumanRights #Politics #USpol #scotus #lgbtqia #indivisible #equality #trans #love
@AmishSuperModel In some cases, such as myself, this is the case. In other cases, such as my younger daughter, there are actual perpetual introverts. Lol.
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NBC News:
UAW hits Trump and Musk with federal labor charges over union-busting comments
The United Auto Workers on Tuesday filed federal labor charges with the National Labor Relations Board against former President Donald Trump and... Elon Musk for publicly applauding the practice of firing employees who threaten to strike.
It is illegal to fire workers who threaten to strike, because the right to strike is protected under federal labor law.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/uaw-hits-trump-musk-federal-labor-charges-union-busting-comments-rcna166403
@theogrin Exactly. The first "chatbot" was created in the mid-1960s. It was called Eliza, created by Joe Weizenbaum at MIT. You can easily get Eliza running on your machine and play with it. I first encountered it in 1970 and it was running the classic script called Doctor that mimics a psychoanalyst. I was very impressed, of course.
Weizenbaum was shocked that his secretary, a perfectly intelligent woman, wanted to have a private conversation with Eliza to discuss her marriage. He was so shocked he studied and wrote about how easily humans fall for "artificial intelligence".
The original source code to Eliza has now been found and published in the public domain. It's really quite simple. Clever and creative, yes. Intelligent, no. But it was the first program to pass the Turing Test.
@nickapos @ChrisMayLA6 Acquiring great wealth nearly always involves luck, and Musk has had that. But I have to give him credit for discovering the new angle of presenting himself as a tech genius (which he is not) and baiting those who worship tech into investing huge sums of money in him.
We live in a tech-hungry world and Musk is taking direct advantage of that by learning to string buzzwords together and to paint himself as a smartie. When his charade collapses is anyone's guess.
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Though she showed up pregnant, bleeding and in pain, emergency room doctors in Texas turned Kyleigh Thurman away, handing her a pamphlet on miscarriage and telling her to “let nature take its course.”
Three days later, the ER finally admitted her. But it was too late; her fallopian tube had already ruptured.
There are at least 100 others like her.
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/over-100-pregnant-women-some-bleeding-or-in-labor-turned-away-from-emergency-rooms-since-dobbs-ruling/
@gentlegardener Even so, I will continue to do my part. ;-)
@ChrisMayLA6 Exactly. The planet doesn't need saving. It's been through FAR worse than we can come up with. It's WE who need saving.
@nickapos @ChrisMayLA6 Very far indeed, I think. It will eventually come and I suspect it will come suddenly. But we are definitely not there yet. LLMs are nothing more than fancy indexers. AI is something else altogether.
@cohentheblue @GrimmReality I'm with you on all that. At the same time I get that it's hard to stick to the high road when howler monkeys are pooping in their hand and flinging at you. ;-) (don't ask how I know this.)
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A bunch of small-town white people who supported a coup d'etat to end American democracy in favor of being ruled with an iron first by rapey gameshow host who can't even remotely string together a coherent sentence and wants to fuck his daughter want you to stop calling them "weird," please.
@Saltssaltgirl Fabulous! Wonderful!
@zleap Excellent idea. He can then rule over a whole planet and we can be rid of him.
That's how people like him are. They'll destroy a country just so they can rule over the ashes. It's a mental illness.
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I guess the takeaways here for me are that my MP is not the brightest bulb (which I already knew), and that I am really incredibly good at talking about satellite pollution now.
I'm not sure if the latter is something I am proud of or not...it would sure be nice to be able to talk about cool science discoveries instead of billionaire garbage.
In conclusion, billionaires suck.
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1️⃣ Remember when the Arizona Supreme Court revived a 19th century abortion ban earlier this year?
Two of the justices who participated in that decision are up for retention this fall.
https://boltsmag.org/your-state-by-state-guide-to-the-2024-supreme-court-elections/#AZ
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If you have an Apple device and have installed the Patreon app, delete it now. Use the mobile web or desktop version.
Why? Because Apple is forcing Patreon to force the creators on the platform to give an additional 30% to Apple.
This is unconscionable, but then again we're talking about Apple.
https://news.patreon.com/articles/understanding-apple-requirements-for-patreon
Hmm. Seems to me that Elmo banning pro-Harris accounts on "X" is easily shown to be election interference.
He'd better pray that Trump wins or else there will be questions to be answered next year.
Maybe Musk and Trump can share a cell and make friends, you know.
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It’s super fun how Musk is banning pro-Harris accounts and burying campaign tweets while running Trump’s tweets as ads & “interviewing” him in half an hour.
I look forward to there being no consequences for any of this.
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@Moira
As close to "the russians are full of shit and caused this fire themselves, but we can't say so in order to maintain inspection access" the IAEA can state.
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Acc/to the #IEA, #China now has 85% of #solar cell manufacturing capacity, while 0.6% is located in #NorthAmerica, so there is a lot…to make up.
In the 1st yr after passage of the #IRA, acc/to an analysis by GoldmanSachs, 280 #CleanEnergy projects were announced across 44 states, representing $282B of investment creating 175k #jobs. “What we found was that…the reality is living up to or even exceeding expectations,” the rpt said.
#FactCheck #VanceLies #TrumpLies
#ClimateCrisis
#HarrisWalz2024
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So. Cal. engineer (hardware/software since 1968, retired, he/him), born at 313 ppm, musician, chef, now living in West Virginia. KW2P ham radio (the original social network), father of three, grandfather, astronomy, solar dynamics, photography, writing, birding, birdwatching, eBird, fountain pens, cats and dog, reader of banned books, scary fast Python jockey, Chairman of the Charcuterie Board, Whisk Manager, Compuserve refugee, founder of The Church of The Unwarranted Assumption. Crypto is short for cryptography. Blog: shuttersparks.net
#HamRadio
#Morse
#MorseCode
#Birding
#BirdWatching
#eBird
#wv
#WestVirginia
#food
#cooking
#astronomy
#physics
#engineering
#photography
#FountainPens
"To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire
"I never understood wind. You know, I know windmills very much. Gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right? So the world is tiny compared to the universe. So tremendous amount of fumes and everything." --Donald Trump
Joined Nov 2022
