Notices by J Λ M Ξ S (jmsdnns@mastodon.social)

@mekkaokereke and they named the place with a coin toss. the person from Maine won. the person from Massachussets was going to call it Boston

🤓 I have joined UPenn as an AI researcher. I was just helping out before, but it seems they like me and I think theyre pretty great too. This is quite funny if you know how cynical I actually am about AI

I am working on scientific verifiability, which I regard as one of the rare good fights in AI

If any of yall wanna talk to a hypefree human (with no patience for VCs) about what AI is *actually* capable of, hit me up

I'll never forget the way the tech industry was sacrificed to counter inflation

Nov 2022: The Fed minutes show they want increased unemployment to stop inflation (1st pic)

June 2023: Bernanke and Blanchard say the labor market will have increasing influence of over inflation, and the Fed should continue slowing the economy (2nd pic)

May 2024: Where we are now, and tech roles are still rare. The few openings that exist still receive thousands of applicants

@mekkaokereke Frederick Douglass complained about being told he must wait for coming change too. He was sick of the lie during the civil war, and still the lie persists today!

MLK was killed 100 years after Douglass complained to Lincoln about being told to wait. Rodney King, Trayvon Martin, George Floyd, all lived in a world where black people were told to wait for coming change.

Black voters are right to not trust whatever politicians say!

📺 How the Electoral College Works and Why It Exists | One Person, One Vote?
by PBS

This is a fantastic documentary that make sit clear how racist the electoral college is and how it disproportionately favors voters in small states.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7mM8q70iUw

@BeAware @paninid @triptych fwiw i have been trying searxng while ddg is down and so far it's pretty solid. it's a metasearch and anyone can run an instance. open source too! https://github.com/searxng/searxng

I know #DuckDuckGo isn't perfect, but I love what they're trying to do so much.

Let's go easy on them for whatever mistakes they make today as they work under extreme stress to get everything working again.

I keep thinking about how these two things feel so similar:

- AI tech bros trying to convince us to not worry about their amibitions because UBI will allow us to work less and get closer to utopia

- Southern elites convinced the poor white men (as in money) who fought for the confederacy by promising equality for white men

We know from southern history that the 1860's elites never did anything to elevate anyone and they even chose to destroy any attempts by USGov to help them

Zoom's terms of service now include training GenAI with no ability to opt out

Check sections:
- 10.2 Service Generated Data; Consent to Use
- 10.4 Customer License Grant
- 16.2 Ownership of Zoom Property

Edit: included other sections of ToS

https://explore.zoom.us/en/terms/