Notices by A Slightly Orange Cat (mbrailer@mstdn.social)

@serpicojam I completed the Spanish course and I'm getting started with French. When I read Spanish-language posts here on Mastodon I find that I can follow along some of the time but I still need help with words I haven't learned.

#Duolingo

@lowqualityfacts A proud legacy kept alive in the present day by Techno Viking.

@lowqualityfacts *Israel

@NeonPurpleStar @stux Biden just endorsed Harris, but it's not a done deal yet. The same donor class that pressured Biden out will insist on choosing who will replace him.

Biden is now a lame duck, and he's lost any power he had left to influence his party.

@GottaLaff But Republicans can still heckle Democratic presidents during the State of the Union address, right?

@carnage4life This seems more like a bribe.

@carnage4life Effectively, they have. "In the state of Louisiana, inmates can be paid as little as four cents for every hour of work. The Louisiana State Penitentiary, a maximum-security prison built on a former slave plantation, pays inmates twenty cents per hour to pick fruits and vegetables in the fields."

https://www.vianolavie.org/2023/02/01/prison-labor-in-louisiana

@thomasfuchs I'm assuming that AI, like all computer applications, is just a highly complex mathematical process.

Faster computers would allow for more complex functions, but it would still be just a process and not true creativity.

@pluralistic Join us at the anti-time rally this Friday at 2 pm sharp.

@blogdiva Tech "visionaries" love to invent things that already exist (taxis, cable TV) and con us that they're innovations too new and delicate to regulate.