Notices by Tom Bellin :picardfacepalm: (tob@hachyderm.io), page 2

@mekkaokereke @doctormo That isn't fair. The tools that trans people used to make a safe social media environment for trans people could be used to make a space for black people.

I think it's more complicated. There's a twisted symbiosis that happens on Twitter and FB (and eventually BlueSky).

On those platforms, people share posts of people they hate more than they share posts of people they like. The algorithm puts "controversial" content in peoples' faces.

@WhyNotZoidberg @nikatjef @root42 @Tattooed_Mummy Good thing history doesn't have anything to say about civilizations collapsing because of the misallocation of investment based on the whims of a disconnected and increasingly bizarre class of elites.

@nikatjef @WhyNotZoidberg @root42 @Tattooed_Mummy I suspect if you go back and check your data points you'll find they're misleading.

Acing exams is actually a really good case for testing our assumptions about these systems.

After all, the whole idea is that they have access to the entire internet. How could they do anything but ace the tests.

It turns out that LLMs can sometimes do kind-of-ok on tests given a very carefully constructed environment.

So what gives?

@root42 @nikatjef @Tattooed_Mummy LLM is a cul-de-sac. An interesting party trick and toy.

The "game changers" aren't anywhere except in peoples' fantasies.

What you have instead is the masked work of humans. e.g. Nigerians working for $2/hour filtering through thousands of horrific images in the vain hope that Midjourney won't produce snuff-porn.

@root42 @Tattooed_Mummy those "next steps" are no closer to becoming reality today than they were 30 years ago.

@vees @GossiTheDog This is like an intern's summer project. A proof of concept for a grant.

@carnage4life lol, " Google asserted that its check, which it said covered its alleged overcharges for online ads, allows it to sidestep a jury trial whether or not the government takes it."

Yeah... I'm guessing the gov'ts response is going to be "that's not how any of this works."

@FlashMobOfOne @futurebird @ServerWrestler @Jorsh Has it occurred to you that the Green Party runs almost zero candidates for state and local elections? There is no Green Party minor league where up-and-coming young pols can cut their teeth.

Did you ever wonder why they spend the millions of dollars they raise on hopeless vanity campaigns for president instead of building a national political movement state by state?

@inthehands universal toot

Imagine knowing the history of mass student protests in the United States and being like "No. *This* time the cops are right."

#Palestine #Gaza #BDS

@TonyVladusich @sbszine @brucelawson does it mean anything that I do not see the shimmering effect you're describing?

@TonyVladusich @sbszine @brucelawson no maybe it's my phone

@mattly Bob: why is it like this?

Joe: job security.

Bob: maybe I can ask chatGPT how to do that stuff

Joe: that's how I got this job!

@futurebird @sidereal @alloydflanagan @hazelnot On the one hand, you're describing how representative democracy is supposed to work.

On the other hand, Biden seems pretty unequivocal about the need to raise taxes on the highest earners and corporations.

It's kinda funny to me that you're replying to someone who says that Biden "busts the rail workers' unions" when he... didn't? He got them the deal they wanted without a strike that would have hurt (literally) everyone.

@RickiTarr At first, I was like, "Why wouldn't she check. Like a simple Google search would prove it."

But that 2nd tweet gives the game away. Her skepticism comes from the fact that she doesn't believe that there *were* trans people in Nazi times. Like "trans" was created in the last decade rather than something that has been part of human society from the beginning.

@HistoPol @CindyS @steveo1049 @GottaLaff or if he loses. I can totally see Trump blaming his loss on "Deep State Republicans" and declaring that the only answer is to "start over with a brand new party."

Of course, he won't actually start anything over because that would be hard and cost money. But a re-branding in service of his continued grift?

@ericmacknight @thomasfuchs OK. I'll revise my statement. I missed it because I was looking at the quote from the report and it *doesn't* say that.

@thomasfuchs There's no allegation of torture in the linked article.

It's gonna take a while to sort out what happened with the UNRWA. But this reporting is based on an unrelease report and they're holding back the transcripts

Take this reporting with a giant grain of salt.

@carnage4life lol. Siri-GPT is going to be such a huge disaster. I can't wait!

@selzero conservatives view the Bible as more of an "a la carte" thing, these days.