Notices by William Pietri (williampietri@sfba.social), page 3

@stevestreza
This is true, but your analysis is not complete. Privilege is also involved for somebody to say their need for an audience outweighs the harm they are doing by supporting a guy who today is literally blaming the Jews.
@aral

@inthehands Thank you for saying so. I lost both my parents to brain tumors. There are plenty of ways to joke about McConnell, and plenty of non-jokey things to say too, that don't involve making fun of people for things out of their control.

I see the EFF is wrongly defending KiwiFarms again. Sorry, but ISPs have freedom of association like everybody else. If they don't want to host racist abusers, they don't have to. And they shouldn't. Except for protected classes, ISPs not only can choose their customers, they should. That has always been the case; look at how spam and spammers are treated, for example.

If there is a separate problem here that the US has too few "Tier 1" ISPs such that Hurricaine Electric has excessive market power (which I think isn't the case), then that's an anti-trust problem, not a give-up-your-moral-standards problem.

And that's not to say we won't eventually be able to construct synthetic human-equivalent intelligences. Just that expensive autocomplete is so far off the mark of what a real mind is up to that it's a tragedy that people are confusing the two.

One of the wild things to me about ChatGPT discussions is the number of people who apparently don't have any appreciation for the actual complexity of human beings. How sad to be inches from such treasurehouses, only imagining them filled with sand and sticks.

So ex-Twitter is removing blocking at Musk's order. He believes the feature "makes no sense." And I think I know why.

A consistent theme in Prof Manne's "Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny" is entitlement. Men feeling entitled to women's care and love and deference. Men acting entitled to feelings of competence and prominence and correctness, making successful, knowledgeable women a threat.

From a Trust and Safety perspective, that male entitlement is the number one reason blocking exists. 1/

https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/elon-musk-x-twitter-block-feature-delete-1235699759/amp/

Weird Al continues to be the literal best.

@doot @anders

That makes total sense to me. I'm very male presenting, but find a lot of socially constructed masculinity as somewhere between tedious and repulsive. So I'm happy with "he" or "they" pronouns. But my ideal gender so far is the second option here:

@inthehands @Javi As a kid I went to a computer conference. Call it 40 years ago roughly. And this fantasy of "just write English" was being used to sell tools even then.

I think it will remain a fantasy until AGI. As you say, the hard part is understanding the human need and expressing it with precision. Document-driven development vigorously demonstrates how inadequate mere words are for explaining what software is supposed to do even when the readers are human.

I've been thinking about this #bluesky post, and this seems backwards to me. In my view, protocols should be extracted from functioning apps, not created in a vacuum. The core feedback loop for development should involve actual users and actual use. Without that, it's just building sky castles in hopes that all your guesses turn out right.