Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
@wolvendamien.bsky.social
When EULA ans ToS change with little notice and require someone to have advanced training to understand them, that's not meaningful consent.
…which they find abhorent.
We can't count on regulation to save us from really gross balues built into the technologies; at best the regulations give us some breathing room to do the work we have to do to shift those values
Yeah, but 1) if someone makes and "AI" product by applying these processes in a consentless, predatory way, just because they don't have regulations telling them not to, then franklybthey ARE they problem, and 2) if you ask most people on the street, it *is* the lqck of consent, control, regulation…
I don't know that i agree on that point. I'm old enough to remember BSSes, IRC, and the very first AOL discs going out, and "big corporations get to use my data however they want without my meaningful consent or control" is definitely *not* what my cohort envisioned and sought
And it's just so genuinely depressing.
"[A]nything you post on any of these platforms can and will be used for profit. It's just a matter of time until all your messages on Discord, Twitter etc. are scraped, fed into a model and sold back to you."
www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
And it's kust so genuinely depressing.
"[A]nything you post on any of these platforms can and will be used for profit. It's just a matter of time until all your messages on Discord, Twitter etc. are scraped, fed into a model and sold back to you."
www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
Official Statement from the Virginia Tech Graduate and Professional Student Senate Denouncing the Arrests of April 28 & 29 gpss.vt.edu/advocacy/Apr...
A lot of y'all don't understand the meaning of the word "also"
Thanks for asking! There are a few:
"Heavenly Bodies: Why It Matters That Cyborgs Have Always Been About Disability, Mental Health, and Marginalization"
afutureworththinkingabout.com?p=5396
"Bias Optimizers"
www.americanscientist.org/article/bias...
And
afutureworththinkingabout.com?attachment_i...
Then i have accomplished exactly what I set out to to do: make you feel simultaneously loved AND annoyed
HAPPY @mckelvie.bsky.social DAY, Everyone! In celebration, you quite obviously should go buy a whole bunch of McKelvie comics, and then come back here and be like, "cor blimey guv you do make a right good funny book wot wot." It's traditional.
Nope. Nope. Gonna have to start again
Literally true. Now add the premise "torturing people is very bad"
This is true, but it also hasn't stipped the chuds in the past
I've definitely seen this in action for some of them
*whispers* I'm also fine giving free money to the poor
UBI is not about giving free money to the poor.
UBI is about creating a social structure so that your life and the lives of your loved ones won't be destroyed if misfortune should befall you.
THIS is the framing that needs to be used.
There are channels to force to recuse, and other channels to censure, but they take a lot of work and a lot of time
Paul Syverson once put it, "there's no such thing as perfectly secure, there's only secure enough for your purposes; so figure out what your purposes are, then plan accordingly."
There’s no such thing as safe opsec, just safer opsec.
If you can help it, don’t bring a phone to the protest.
If you have to bring a phone, use a pin to lock it.
If you have to use biometric unlock, turn off your phone if shit is popping off (most require pw on boot up / decrypt)
Hence using not-your-usual-phone
That is a potential solution too. But you can encrypt any android phone using a passphrase/long pin rather than a thumb- or faceprint, and then use signal messenger
I try not to be cynical but come the fuck on: Aileen Cannon is like if the ref from cobra kai was somehow MORE in terry silver's pocket
If you didn't see this coming, you're a rube and a mark.
"Trump-appointed judge refuses to try Trump" should be the actual headline
Federal judge indefinitely postpones Trump classified documents trial | CNN Politics
Judge Aileen Cannon has indefinitely postponed Donald Trump’s classified documents trial in Florida, citing significant issues around classified evidence that would need to be worked out before the fe...
www.cnn.com
Do not bring unencrypted phones to a protest action.
Do not bring phones locked with your biometrics to a protest action.
Do not communicate on unencrypted messaging services to discuss a protest action.
Like, I just asked my university admin to clarify what "wasn't peaceful protest" about the student encampments on campus, and who was "impeded" from entering the buildings where I have my offices and classrooms, because it sure as hell wasn't me.
You can just sent your university president or chancellor an email. It's not even illegal.
Yet.
Exactly. "Aggressive, how?" Should be the immediate follow-up
(of policies that we just changed)
That happens literally all the time, anyway
… It is graduation season and the administrations of these universities have a very clearly veated interest in making these protesting students look bad and trying to make any police response *to* them look Good. Don't just let them claim shit; make them PROVE it.
… It is graduation season and these universities have a very clearly veated interest in making these protesting students look bad and trying to make any police response *to* them look Good. Don't just let them claim shit; make them PROVE it.
Every college admin who sics cops on kids for "nonpeacefully protesting" absolutely MUST BE pressed for specific details about what, EXACTLY, wasn't peaceful. If they claim people were blocked from class buildings, ask for comment from MULITPLE people who teach and take classes in those buildings…
Thank you! Hope your work trip goes smoothly , even if your hair journey will not 😅
Hi to you and my home town! It's about that time unfortunately: not consistent, but waves of humid.
(Also i don't remember if you eat meat, but if you do, please go to Ben's Chilli Bowl for me i miss it)
Hi to you and my home town! It's about that time unfortunately: not consistent, but waves of humid.
(Also i don't remember if you eat meat, but if you do, please got to Ben's Chilli Bowl for me i miss it)
Just a reminder that the place in Hell for people who leave unflushed deuces in public toilets is the one where you get your consciousness distributed across the toilet, the plunger, and the person who has to clean it up
Right?! The shared characteristics of any other defendant who might be given this kind of leeway sure are QUITE remarkable
Thanks! And yeah, it's unfortunately the way these things tend to go
I've tried first and last post 😭
Why am i still getting notifications on a thread i muted from all my devices yesterday?
I'm on the device where i did it yesterday 🤷🏾♂️
Why am i still getting notifications on a muted thread?