Notices by Beggar Midas (beggarmidas@mastodon.social)

@Gargron You made the assertion, the software didn't 'make' you do it. You're having a very human feeling of displacement of your comfort zones. Your expected normatives are shifting around you. It's provoking an emotional response that has nothing to do with anything objective. It's happened many times before you and will happen many times long after we and our great grandchildren have come & gone. You can acknowledge it for what it is or pointlessly blame the software for what it isn't.

@Gargron I've seen arguements like yours posed at every technical evolution of the arts. The same types of commentary was made as people switched to digital formats. Heck, it was said of daguerreotype photography as it was introduced way back in the 1840's.
Sorry, not buying it.

@Gargron That's been true since we first started generating art period as a species. Placing an arbitrary line along that graph as being 'too far' verges on pedantic point sticking. One could just as easily make the same arguement for Dr. Seuss depictions of animals. Or drawings of aurich & bison on cave walls.

@Gargron @EUCommission Oh, i'm 90% positive he's using the entire twitter user data analytics on a rebooted Cambridge Analytica Ver. 2 to try and bend elections. He's got something shaking & baking his "project dojo" so bad it causes local blackouts regularly, and somehow I doubt with the types of LLM specialists he's got roped off on his 'special project' they're dinking with his cars visual recognition problems.

@Gargron You'd almost certainly be dead, unless you were in Moscow or St. Petersburg proper.

@dansup @aral That's actually really good to know. Thanks. Does it fall under GDPR then?

@WarnerCrocker He stole more than that. There's a reason 15 million dems inexplicably sat out the election, and it sure AF ain't Gaza

@eff @theintercept @jilliancyork Yeah, backlash against all that enforced political correctedness, I presume. If you think the language is hurtful just wait until you see what they have in mind legally & physically.

@eff I suspect Its far worse than even you know, EFF.

@selzero You don't have a choice, now. It's fight by every means within your power to fight before the gestapo knocks down your door. Get your ass off the bench & into the game. Times growing short. Tick muthfuck'n tock. Choice has nothing to do with it. That was a convenience you once enjoyed. But no longer.

@selzero Who are you writing to? If it's people who already agree with you it's kind of pointless, isn't it? Go seed such sentiments where it's likely to influence your opponents.

@jwz Might be worth holding up on a placard outside the court building the day the jury pool is selected, too.

@bagder Just curious how it's that much different than, say, using any other autonomous mass scanner. What makes it any better or worse, than, say metasploit or any other dozens of autonomous tool suites routinely used in pentesting? Seems a little hypocritical to selectively single out something that's only SLIGHTLY more automated. It completely ignores the fully autonomous software that protects the internet every day, too. Explain that to this non hacker, could ya? What's the difference?

@scy @bagder They are capable of generating false leads, too. That's a matter of correction through iteration, not a distinction in kind. To my admittedly outside view it just appears y'all are flipping out over something that at the end of the day is just a tool using other tools using other tools. I've used some of the hacker AI's. They still require extensive guidance just like the other tools. It just takes it up a notch. It seems a silly point of genuine nondistinction.

@bagder @scy Even back before I retired over a decade ago fellas like y'all that'd come in redteaming our setups were semi-joking that you were busy automating yourselves out of a job. Many of you even set starting around now as a prospective timeline. From an outsiders viewpoint it just looks like y'all are going strangely luddite as your prophecy starts to come true.

@MHowell @StillIRise1963 Nah. They haven't forgotten. They just don't believe y'all are capable of directed violence anymore. They're pretty sure you've been so thoroughly domesticated that you'll accept the yolk & take the bit, even if you buck at first. Looks like they might be right.