Notices by Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io), page 8

@mmasnick @ubiquity75 @dell @dansinker When you are trolling people by giving away your unpopular product that you've bet your company on, you have to wonder how bad your business judgment has become.

There is no great rush to develop these vehicles. Mars will still be there by the next best launch windows in 2035 and 2050.

I'm more concerned with shit on Earth right now.

Should online stalkers who doggedly pursue and threaten women be held responsible for causing harm? Or if they won’t admit to intending harm should they be free of legal consequences, whatever the harm?

https://news.yahoo.com/constitutes-true-threat-online-major-194108644.html

So there is literally no way to search my own mastodon feed for something I posted previously? Am I missing something here??

The PassGAN AI password cracker: What it is and why it’s mostly hype

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/04/the-passgan-ai-password-cracker-what-it-is-and-why-its-mostly-hype/

I keep seeing people propose that we should use AI to write code, and it keeps being a bad idea for a lot of reasons. So, I wrote about some of them.

https://jenniferplusplus.com/losing-the-imitation-game/

Some hospitals are saying they don't need mask mandates anymore because people are likely to get #COVID elsewhere anyway.

That's a dereliction of duty. Regardless of what is happening elsewhere, no one should ever have to risk their health while seeking medical care. Do no harm.

@rbreich Can someone explain what this means, I live in Britain and I'm not sure what is going on in the US.

Someone steals the Bored Ape belonging to former football star Dez Bryant

April 7, 2023
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=someone-steals-the-bored-ape-belonging-to-former-football-star-dez-bryant

"…between 2019 and 2022, groups of Tesla employees privately shared via an internal messaging system sometimes highly invasive videos and images recorded by customers’ car cameras, according to interviews by Reuters with nine former employees… One ex-employee described a video of a man approaching a vehicle completely naked… one video [of a child casualty] spread around a Tesla office in San Mateo, California, via private one-on-one chats, 'like wildfire,' "

https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-images-recorded-by-customer-cars-2023-04-06/

Wait, this is a much better photo.

Some of the best learning about marginalized communities can be had from listening to members of that community speak to each other about their problems. One of the situations where lurking is encouraged!

I learned a ton about what would help reduce Asian hate crimes, by listening to Asian women talk to other Asian women, without me or other non-Asian folk speaking.

I don't need to speak to contribute to the conversation or support a community. Being present and listening, *is* participating.

@mcc It's not clean at all from a license POV

LLaMA is licensed by Facebook for non-commercial use only, and apparently they've started sending out DMCA take-downs: https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1638925249709240322

And the fine-tuning data was generated using OpenAI's GPT, which has terms that say you can't use it to help train a competing model

Cerebras-GPT is much more interesting - it appears to be cleanly Apache 2 licensed. It's not instruction-tuned yet though: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/28/cerebras-gpt/

It remains way past time to stop letting corporations unilaterally make a mess of the sky.

And, again, Starlink & Kuiper & OneWeb are designed to try to sell to a small number of customers at a steep premium. They cannot provide many people with internet access.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/03/23/1070187/amazon-project-kuiper-launch/

@thomasfuchs
http://seefigure1.com/2013/12/07/superpet.html
@robferguson

But why, oh why, did the marketing folks behind these mass-market machines have to gender the branding so heavily? Look who's at the keyboard in these photos, who's guiding, who's entirely a passive observer and who's entirely absent.

#bbcmicrobot MO.2:V.29;0;2:F.J=-5TO5:GC.3,0:FORK=RND(1)TO60:DR.21*K,(SINK*3+J)*.06*K*(60-K):GC.0,7-ABSJ:N.,:V.5,1

@thomasfuchs If you had ChatGPT write your analysis for you, they’d say your take was excellent.

I love how Silicon Valley Bank is being portrayed as a "woke" bank, and their failure is blamed on being too woke.?

There is absolutely nothing that the US won't try to blame on Black folk.

Less than 2% of VC money even goes to Black folk. By assets, it was an anti-woke bank.

Black. Woke means Black.