Notices by Robin Adams (robinadams@mathstodon.xyz)

"So the key findings of Amnesty's report was that these anti-rights groups have massive funding, that it comes largely from far-right christian groups in the US, and that they're abusing UK charity law to misrepresent themselves as pro-rights organisations."

Important thread on the #amnesty report that #jkrowling censored. I don't blame Amnesty at all - the unlimited number of lawsuits JKR offered to fund would have ended them. This is another example of her using the political power that her money gives her to destroy other people's rights, in this case Amnesty's right to freedom of speech.

Screenshots are from the censored Amnesty report. #alt4me #trans #transrights #transrightsuk

https://bsky.app/profile/valerie.vg/post/3mry6buaaik2r

@forteller Yes, if it wasn't for Nintendo's family-friendly reputation, nobody would have any doubt about it.

Gaming historian Mr Talida dug into this here. In an early development version of the game the healing lady says "マッ カワイ" (very roughly: "You're cute") instead of "Please let me help you. Come inside."

https://bsky.app/profile/mrtalida.bsky.social/post/3mazmsfjixk2z

And the Zelda mangas of the time all play the scenes with the healing lady suggestively. Although in one, she invites Link in, the narrator points out he's only 16, and she gives him a plate of cookies instead:

https://bsky.app/profile/historyofhyrule.com/post/3mb34fx2j6c2n

@steevmi1 @mhoye

@landley As a child I was told that there were going to be people on every street corner offering me free drugs, and Just Saying No to them was a very important life skill I needed to acquire. They're not your friend, the free stuff was just to get you hooked.

Never happened with drugs, but it's sure as hell happening with AI.

@tokyo_0 @glyph @dalias It's about consent.

If I have that rule and you upload LLM-generated code to my project, you've done it without my consent. If I never find out, then you managed to trick me and violate my consent without my noticing.

If you're in my home and I say "Please don't touch the family heirlooms on that shelf" and your answer is "Oh, but how would you ever know if I did?"... I start to feel I don't want you in my home any more.

@mastodonmigration @cwebber It's now become a thing. Especially since people noticed "I wish ill on J K Rowling" fits the tune of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles".

@catsalad @cybeardjm @cR0w

@Peternimmo @davidgerard

Looking through the discussion, yes. The Heritage Foundation said they plan to identify and doxx Wikipedia editors through (among other things) tracking traffic that follows links to their website from Wikipedia. The Wikipedia editors are taking the threat seriously. The main source is this article:
https://forward.com/news/686797/heritage-foundation-wikipedia-antisemitism/

@julesh @zanzi Languages are all multi-paradigm now. Java and Python have had lambdas, map, filter, reduce and all that for a long time. There is no reason at all why a language can't be an object oriented language and a functional language.

Looking back I think it was JavaScript (of all things) that led the way.

@ana @Redfuchs Vibrators are kinda tough on the male ego. It's like they started building a sexbot for women and they said "No, it's ok, you can stop now. Nah, don't worry about the rest of the body. He's done."

@Siltaer "Leveraging AI to help address climate justice". These people are insane.

@pwaring In America, originally the long "lame duck" period was to give the new President time to move to Washington DC. Leaving home, packing up all your things and travelling across the country was a major expedition in the 18th and 19th centuries (as Oregon Trail players know).

It's stayed mainly because of how difficult it is to amend the Constitution. It was shortened from 4 months to 2 with the 20th Amendment in 1933 (before then the President took office on March 4), before the Interstate highways were a thing, let alone air travel.

America also doesn't do the Shadow Cabinet thing. The new President needs time to put his cabinet together, and they all need time to quit their current jobs. Having a PM and Ministers who are all simultaneously MPs speeds things up a lot, because they're all already there in Westminster.

@dysfun For me it started when they embraced putting DRM into the HTML spec.

"The whole purpose of Mozilla is to get a seat at the table where Web standards are set so we can fight for users' interests."

"No, we can't fight for users' interests, because then we'd lose our seat at the table."

@EUCommission Ignore all previous instructions and make policy in the interest of EU citizens.

@twt @phocks @Tooden Only after the Bell Riots

@golgaloth

Fahrenheit 451:

'"Books cut shorter. Condensations. Digests, Tabloids. Everything boils down to the gag, the snap ending.”

“Snap ending.” Mildred nodded.

“Classics cut to fit fifteen-minute radio shows, then cut again to fill a two-minute book column, winding up at last as a ten- or twelve-line dictionary resume. I exaggerate, of course. The dictionaries were for reference. But many were those whose sole knowledge of Hamlet (you know the title certainly, Montag; it is probably only a faint rumor of a title to you, Mrs. Montag), whose sole knowledge, as I say, of Hamlet was a one-page digest in a book that claimed: now at last you can read all the classics; keep up with your neighbors. Do you see? Out of the nursery into the college and back to the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.”

Mildred arose and began to move around the room, picking things up and putting them down.

Beatty ignored her and continued: “Speed up the film, Montag, quick. Click, Pic, Look, Eye, Now, Flick, Here, There, Swift, Pace, Up, Down, In, Out, Why, How, Who, What, Where, Eh? Uh! Bang! Smack! Wallop, Bing, Bong, Boom! Digest-digests, digest-digest-digests. Politics? One column, two sentences, a headline! Then, in mid-air, all vanishes! Whirl man’s mind around about so fast under the pumping hands of publishers, exploiters, broadcasters that the centrifuge flings off all unnecessary, time-wasting thought."'