Notices by mx alex tax1a - 2020 (5) (atax1a@infosec.exchange), page 3

bunch of the AI booster's arguments basically boil down to "cyber manifest destiny"

like you understand that the prevalence of internet video as a thing that Must Be was built on fake data made up by fuxkin facebook, right?

us: we find video content incredibly difficult to watch

them: Mainstream videos, maybe. There are many philosophical videos on the Internet that bring you wisdom.

no you yutz we are objecting to the form of the content

"idk i just think people like videos" no, that was a "preference" that was actively engineered by people making shit up

thinking about how LLMs don't understand their input, they just build a list of probable token sequences, but also a lot of people do the same thing, and that explains the popularity/lasting impact of LLMs

@austinkocher we once heard this phrased as "ratchet-and-pawl theory of american politics" and it never left our head.

fyi the guy who's hyping up the supposed "unauthenticated RCE" impacting all systems is a self-aggrandizing domestic assault perpetrator trying to draw attention to himself; successful exploitation of the so-called vuln depends on ability to edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, which generally already requires administrator privileges

and here he is being verbally abusive in a github issue: https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups-browsed/issues/36

@tillshadeisgone oh we have absolutely seen people go "excuse me im not a woman im it/its" to derail conversations about them pulling some gringa shit on us

@tillshadeisgone adapting this to "it/its" trans women who try to degender themselves to protect against accusations of white womanhood: Schroedinger's Karen

y'know, when we were a kid, people would provoke us into a bad reaction and then use that as a lever to get us in trouble

people would abuse us and then we would get punished for it

and this hasn't stopped. it has been a perennial constant of our life. there is something sick in the broader culture that enables this kind of shit

tired: being trans is a social contagion therefore don't do it

inspired: being trans is a social contagion, lets start a gender pandemic

our take on the brianna wu thing is that if you're gonna make a social contagion reference you should be leaning the entire fuck into it instead of going by half measure

sighing heavily as people go into the exeptionalist/nationalist trope of "russia bad" instead of reflecting on how american culture enables and is amenable to influence ops like that

@ryanhoulihan @PallasRiot you saying "insight" reminds us of a similar expectation we get as a non-white person: "since you have magic indigenous culture i can only defer to your superior insight" as if we have anything more insightful than besides "stop being systemically racist to us", as if it's on us to bring the enlightenment

hearing about cohost having the shape of issues that stem directly from the premises of 'this centralized web site is made by and for sea/bay-cultured white queer techies' and going damn someone should have seen this coming (the joke is weve been saying this was inevitable since we heard about the fucking site)

apropos of the Washington software engineer doing a salami slice, the moral of Office Space is not "salami slice the company", it is "burn down the fucking building"

it is a category error to believe that one can "call out" or "hold accountable" a corporation. the entire purpose of the corporate structure is to obfuscate accountability.

@pikhq all modern social networks are inferior to 2004 livejournal — in this case, fediverse is missing moderated replies and the ability to freeze threads.

@anarchopunk_girl that sounds like something you should reflect on, instead of making it my problem

@anarchopunk_girl fully 2/3rds of your messages towards us could have gone without being sent, fwiw