Notices by Tor Iver Wilhelmsen (toriver@mas.to)

@_thegeoff @rupert @rlmcneary2 @pluralistic also - even though the question of ISPs as «common carrier» has been on/off over the years of changing federal administrations and FCC heads, parsing web pages to identify ads and replacing them, or embellishing them with your own HTML most certainly falls outside that «get out of responsibility» protection.

@thomasfuchs Yes, that works when a bubble is isolated, but in this case the AI disease has spread to non-techbro companies too, so a lot of companies in other industries are going to be sucked in and suffer for believing the hype. Like Air Canada which had to compensate a customer because their AI customer service bot made up an answer, or McDonald’s whose drive-in AI mixed up the orders from multiple customers.

@thomasfuchs This is worse than the crypto or metaverse fads, though, because many companies are convinced they have to implement AI or lose out to their competitors. (Oh, and it seems AI is just as big a boon for criminals as the crypto craze still is, with deepfakes and auto-creation of more plausible-sounding phishing texts.)

@jeffjarvis «I will support the Republican inmate, I mean, candidate.»

@thomasfuchs @nocontexttrek and he rose on the third day, I mean, in the third film.

@tzimmer_history When the party of «states’ rights» approve of a candidate that wants the federal government to wage war against states you know it was never about states’ rights but just about the party.

@ChallengeApathy @QasimRashid Then you will want to change the Constitution to remove the Electoral College and take the responsibility of running elections away from the states. As it is now, elections are PER STATE.

@ChallengeApathy @QasimRashid As they have done. Election qualifications are part of the laws. Being «unelected» is not a disqualification for doing their job. Is your doctor «elected»? No. Being «elected» to a position is a rarity, most people are hired. That does not make them worthless. Unless you want a separate political class that runs unsupervised by others.