Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@qoto.org

Sick of all these changes indeed...

#Trump #fascist #nazi #campaign #2024 #hatred #repression #discrimination #politics #political #humour #humor #cartoon #Twitter #X #Elon Musk

Friendly reminder, as both Republicans and the Trump campaign try to weasel out of this: Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe was reading from a teleprompter. His “joke” about Puerto Rico plus all other racist remarks were vetted, approved & uploaded by Trump’s team in advance. In. Advance.

Immigrants are 80% more likely to start a business than U.S.-born citizens.

They're not “taking jobs.”

They're creating them.

🤬 Russians directed a kamikaze drone at girls playing on the playground in Nikopol, - National Police

12 and 13-year-old children noticed a drone over the playground, ran away and fell to the ground. The children were hospitalized with shrapnel wounds.

My First Post-Helene #POTA Activation!
#QRP #HamRadio
https://qrper.com/2024/10/my-first-post-helene-pota-activation/

Alaska's education commissioner drafted a proposal banning students from using cellphones at school, citing multiple studies linking cellphone distractions to poor academic achievement. The state Board of Education voted to approve the ban.

Just one problem: most of the studies cited in the policy don't exist; they were hallucinated by bullshit-generator machines ("AI"). This crap is now guiding public policy!

https://alaskabeacon.com/2024/10/28/alaska-education-department-published-false-ai-generated-academic-citations-in-cell-policy-document/
#ai #alaska #policy #tech #generativeAI

What’s worrying is that the analysis seems to show that a good chunk of the hallucinations, 40%, are outright harmful. That basically means that 1 out of roughly every 200 sentences transcribed contains a harmful fabrication.

Together, this would mean that if this tech is rolled out widely in sensitive industries such as healthcare, even with some safeguard, it would be very likely to result in the serious harm or even death for a non-trivial number of people.

This would be, y'know... bad.

🚨WA & OR drop-off ballot boxes set on fire, unknown number of ballots destroyed—MSNBC

Actually, a point I had not considered.

just a few more of this gorgeous & silly birb

DEI for white people

That was one of the most depressing meetings I've ever attended (space debris committee). A Chinese upper rocket stage exploded in LEO, a huge US sat exploded in GEO, and a SpaceX Crew Dragon just reentered and it's trunk will dump many potentially lethal debris pieces on the ground. AST SpaceMobile dumped a bunch of debris in LEO while unfurling their fucking huge direct-to-cell sats.

And then all the Americans on the call said they were moving in with me if the election goes badly 😭

@mastodonmigration @KamalaHarrisWin Michelle Obama's speeches are always indescribably beautiful--raw but also precise. She pulls no punches but is eloquent at the same time. She manages to bring together lived experience with the big picture. Forever FLOTUS is the most remarkable speaker and thinker, truly one of a kind.

@lovelylovely

Disagree: Trump *is* shit. 🙂

Wealth of Elon Musk
2012: $2,000,000,000
2024: $273,000,000,000

Wealth of Jeff Bezos
2012: $18,400,000,000
2024: $207,100,000,000

Wealth of Mark Zuckerberg
2012: $17,500,000,000
2024: $200,000,000,000

Federal Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2024: $7.25

Three words: tax the rich.

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BREAKING: 11,000 young South Carolinians won't be able to cast a ballot this year after a judge declined to fix an error that wrongfully denied the registrations of those who were 17-years-old when they registered but would be 18 by Election Day.-- Democracy Docket

This letter to the editor of the #WashingtonPost says everything.

What a weird world when Rolling Stone magazine has more bravery and commitment to doing what's right for the nation than The Washington Post. Democracy dies from cowardice.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/kamala-harris-president-rolling-stone-endorsement-1235096166/