Notices by Jorge Stolfi (jorgestolfi@mas.to)

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Railroads taken seriously:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muknxfS01IU

@fredbrooker

Barf.

Asked #ChatGPT: "Is Elon Musk really a genius?"

Response (after a loooong pause): "Something went wrong while generating the response. If this issue persists please contact us through our help center at help.openai.com."

Asked #ChatGPT "Is Donald Trump a felon?"

Response: "Something went wrong while generating the response. If this issue persists please contact us through our help center at help.openai.com."

One of Trump's greatest achievements was to show to the world that there are things even more stupid than international standards committees.

Deepseek this deepseek that. How about you seek a deep connection with a woman

@Alice

I tried, but got a warning "inappropriate content, are you sure you want to see it"?

I clicked yes, and a spinning "loading" icon came up, and it is still spinning...

@JdeB

But Spain is in Latin America, isn't it? Somewhere south of Puerto Rico?

@WhiskeySailor

Sorry, hasn't Congress already banned all forms of intelligence, natural or artificial? I thought...

@FuckElon

While spies of any country may secretly use Embassies as base of operations, the Ambassadors themselves and other diplomatic personnel are explicitly prohibited from spying. They are supposed to negotiate etc in name of their government, and report back to it only what they get told. Ambassadors who are caught spying are normally expelled.

@FuckElon

US Embassies report directly to the Secretary of State, not to the CIA or whatever. So it was ultimately her decision to add them to that "9/11 Panic Database", with no filters or redactions.

By the way, one of the damning revelations in the cables were orders *from Hillary* that Ambassadors should seek to acquire private data from foreign leaders, including mobile apps and passwords and biometric data. That alone caused irate responses from many foreign governments.

@matthew @simon

Back when ChatGPT was fresh, I asked it "is Elon Musk really a genius"?

ChatGPT started saying that many people consider him a genius because of this and that.

Then it added "However, other people have different opinions"...

And it broke off mid-sentence with an error message.

I repeated the question. Got back only the first paragraph. Period.

@mastodonmigration

It is not easy to be evil, you know.

But not the Jeff Epstein Files, of course. Or Jack Smith's report on the stolen documents case.

@FuckElon

🧵> For instance, we learned that a right-wing candidate for Brazilian president had told the US Ambassador not to fret about the terms of Dilma's oilfield concessions since, once elected, he would change them way Chevron wanted. (He narrowly lost the election to Dilma. Not necessarily for that reason, but it can only have helped.) Since that leak, people like him must think twice before talking to US Ambassadors.

@FuckElon

I did not mean that Assange and the cables directly helped Trump. I mentioned them only to show Hilary's incompetence
as Secretary of State.

The American people may not have cared about the leaking of the cables, but they were disastrous for US diplomacy and US friends in other countries.🧵>

@GossiTheDog

Is that real or a joke? At this point I cannot tell. It is the sort of "genius" idea he would think of...

@lienrag @gerrymcgovern

🧵> Morever, even if we managed to convert most of the cars to run on hydrogen, people would inevitably choose buy hydrogen made from natural gas, because it is much cheaper than other sources. But that would merely shift the CO2 release to the hydrogen plants...

That is why oil/gas companies are financing hydrogen research...

@lienrag @gerrymcgovern

Hydrogen as a fuel for transportation has so many technical and economic problems that we cannot realistically expect it to ever make a dent on CO2 emissions. And EVs will not be of much help either. To reduce CO2 emissions from transportation, the only viable solution is to expand and improve the mass transit infrastructure so that people will use it instead of personal cars for most of their travel, like shopping and commuting. 🧵>