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Building sets and things since the the ‘80’s

[kdeliso1]

Conservatives Now Owning The Libs By Dying More

Take that, modern medicine!

[azspot]

“Thanks to the failure of these institutions to reject a software system that produces powerfully convincing fabrications, journalism as an industry is seeing the consequences play out. And those consequences will erode trust, killing that mental shortcut we used to lighten our cognitive load when strolling through the world of digital information. Now, we have to carry the infuriating weight of having to check everything, including stuff from the industry that once offered pre-checked information.”

— How to breathe air when we’re drowning in big tech’s slop

[velasmonet]

We Went To Nebraska. What We Found Could Unrig The Economy.

[redstonedust]

for the record im not technially 100% anti-AI, in the sense that its a broad category of tech being lumped under one umbrella term so it feels over-zealous to say i hate all of it all the time forever. but i also think trying to discuss what it actually IS good for is difficult right now when i cant take one step without something trying to convince me to use chatgpt to summarize my life and speed up my hobbies and turn my friends into chatbots and optimize my life into oblivion. i am certain there is nuance to the topic but can we stop cramming the square peg into the round hole before you start trying to sell me on the legitimate benefits of the square peg. please.

[ralfmaximus]

Neural Nets have existed for decades and are genuinely useful. It's a form of AI that recognizes patterns, and can do stuff like identify cancer cells, tell whether an egg is fertilized or not, detect fraud, and optimize routes.

Those are Expert Systems, tuned to do exactly one thing. If you (say) ask a medical expert system a question about financial law, it's useless. The autopilot that flies a 787 has no idea how to drive a truck on the freeway. A Coulter Counter is excellent at identifying lymphocytes in a blood sample but can't predict the next card in a blackjack game.

And so on.

The problem with so-called generalized AI (AGI) is that we don't have that yet. It doesn't exist. It MIGHT some day, but AGI has been "10 years away" since the 1980s. The goals keep moving as we learn more about how people and machines process data.

But the current crop of AI techbros have been selling generative Large Language Model AI (LLM) as AGI because generative systems do a good job of faking it. There's no actual thought going on, merely the illusion of thought via predicting the next word in a sentence accurately.

If you let a human toddler listen to 800 hours of YouTube car influencer videos, that toddler might end up sounding like a car influencer. They'd parrot horsepower numbers and 0 to 60 times, mention EV range and MSRP numbers.

But they wouldn't understand any of it.

That's ChatGPT.

And yeah, it's worse than useless because it doesn't even know when it's lying or hallucinating. It just babbles convincingly until you stop it.

But for techbros to make money selling that as "AI"? It's the perfect scam, especially if you don't understand how it works.

I fucking hate it.

[kdeliso1]

[tobiosty]

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[kdeliso1]

After Uvalde, Texas Stuffed Schools Full of Cops. They Brutalized Students.

Texas’s response to school shootings was as predictable as it was doomed to produce only more violence in schools — violence by cops.

[kdeliso1]

Indie music has been invaded by fake fans and cynical viral campaigns​. Here’s how deep it all goes

Companies such as Chaotic Good are confecting social media buzz to promote Geese, Oklou and other indie darlings. Industry insiders reveal h

[ptseti]

They turned a word that once kept Black Americans alive into a joke. Here's the truth they don't want you to know. Read. Sit with it. Then share it. ✊🏿

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[kdeliso1]

Hobby Lobby is funding the latest push to end marriage equality - LGBTQ Nation

Conservatives announced a new campaign in January to end marriage rights for same-sex couples. It turns out it's getting money from Hobby Lo

[kdeliso1]

American Society Has Proven Too Weak to Stop Dangerous, Unstable, Violent, and Egomaniacal Trump | Common Dreams

​With the advent of dictator Donald Trump and his dangerously unstable, violent, egomaniacal personality, the resistance from civic society

[kdeliso1]

Two buses, three hours and 13 miles: how Americans in ‘transit deserts’ get groceries without cars

As Covid-era funding dries up and bus services are cut, a food insecurity crisis is brewing from Tennessee to Rhode Island

[kdeliso1]

[bowlby4]

Here are the sources I currently rely on for the truth: The Guardian, Democracy Now, Business Insider, The New Yorker, The American Prospect, Americans for Tax Fairness, The Economic Policy Institute, The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, ProPublica, Labor Notes, The Lever, Popular Information, Heather Cox Richardson.

Source🔗Where to find the truth? - Robert Reich

[theprofessional-amateur]

Link to original post with all the links

Some very helpful tools, ideas, and ways keep going or get involved

I will add the resource Big Beautiful Boycott as a way of checking businesses to avoid that is not an app

The Big Beautiful Boycott stops funding to those funding fascism. Every dollar is a choice

[berniesrevolution]

This is the way.

[singular-disease]

girl, same

[kdeliso1]

Spotify's recommendation system is not built to help you discover music. It is built to keep you listening. And the shuffle is not random.