Notices by Taran Rampersad (knowprose@mastodon.social)

"When #Israel comes to town, everyone is occupied."

This just all seems so surreal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14O8JNJ79p8

#google #privacy #ai

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/gemini-ai-caught-scanning-google-drive-hosted-pdf-files-without-permission-user-complains-feature-cant-be-disabled

@trwnh @evan Perhaps throwing in some autodetection for markup/xml.

It would be nice if there were a standard, but if there were a standard the walled gardens wouldn't follow it. 😂

@BeAware yup. Which is why I am doing my own fine tuning.

Well, I've installed #ollama and tossed #llama3 at it. Long term goal is to do my own sort of thing with #fabric since it's #opensource - but not necessarily the way Daniel Miessler (the creator of Fabric) suggests usage. And no, not to write, but to help me #factcheck and #cite when necessary in my writing.

@br00t4c This was good, and the advertising was tastefully done and pretty painless.

@scott Not for nothing, but many people who are not tech bros don't know who the real monster is in Frankenstein.

Or that, "I, Robot" demonstrated that the 3 rules of robotics failed.

Or...

#literacy #fiction #scifi #humanities

@JasonPerseus If we stopped sending money to #Israel in their atrocities, we could really help #Ukraine out.

@aral I don't know that he's a Zionist, but here's what I do know.

(1) Palestinians don't have a fiscal lobby of note, whereas Israelis do.

(2) Campaign donations are considered 'free speech'. 👀

(3) No one seems have demanded that Democrats 'divest'. In fact, quite the opposite, they'll crawl out of the woodwork and tell you, "If Trump wins..."

If the campaign is about fear, we're seeing Hillary all over again. Fleetingly.

@br00t4c "...Sanders referred to Section 6201 of the Foreign Assistance Act: “Any country that blocks U.S. humanitarian aid is in violation of law and should not continue to receive military aid from the United States,” Sanders explained. “That is precisely what Israel has done.”..."

@BeAware yeah, it's on a different level. If it makes you feel better, I've been called that too.

It's not true. I'm pretty boringly binary. But I have been called all manner of things over the decades. Just people hating me for the wrong reasons.

Get to know me so you can hate me for the right ones! 😂 👀

@BeAware Yeah... I generally don't block people anywhere because I like to take in other perspectives. But I had one that couldn't substantiate his opinions in any substantive way.

Ahh, I blocked my first person in the #fediverse It took a while.

I feel like I finally scratched the new car so I don't have to worry about it anymore.

@paninid

The source of it, with the context within which it was used in that editorial piece back in 2022.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/18/opinion/cancel-culture-free-speech-poll.html

@paninid I mean, we could cancel cancel culture... but then we wouldn't because we used it to cancel... I have a headache already.

But really, if people simply vote with their feet... boycotting...

But 'cancel culture' is different because... spontaneity and unpredictability. It tends to happen organically. Boycotting is more organized and defined.

The trouble is people conflate the two when they are separate.

@paninid Dunno where you dredged that up from.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cancel

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boycott

@paninid Oddly, you exemplified what you wrote. It's why I stick to a dictionary. Yes, language shifts and changes, but the dictionary is an agreed upon thing.

I dislike cancel culture myself. It's often used like a blunt instrument and can easily harm innocent people based on some opinion.

I'm of the firm belief that if you complain about a platform you gave someone, you're helping them because bad press is still press - like talking about a certain person with bad hair ALL THE TIME.

@paninid The reasons we have dictionaries is for this very purpose.

If people just make shit up, nothing has shared meaning and everything goes to shit.

@paninid I wouldn't cancel anyone based on a 'vibe' or feeling. As a trained mediator I try to balance my own biases.

Biases have their purpose. Sometimes they are intuitively right. Sometimes intuitively wrong.

@BeAware pull them over to the real fediverse!