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sometimes nsfw, rarely mentally well, biblically accurate 90s kid, my gender is whatever makes you gay

[myrfing]

blogging

[crafty-butch]

anyone else notice how when "digital assistants" were just supposed to do specific tasks when you asked for them we had Alexa and Siri and Cortana, but now that they're being marketed as smart enough to take actions and make decisions on their own they've got names like Claude and Devin

[crafty-butch]

@namanie @tsunderrated the point isn't "fake names -> real names," it's "feminine names -> masculine names"

[kiwikiwikiwiii]

With this amount of notes someone has probably already said this but I think its kind of funny that the masculine named agents are also credited with being way more useful and capable than they really are.

[voyage-of-the-porn-spreader]

your email has found me on the fucking brink

[void-milf]

fyi the point of fucking up your data patterns isnt to avoid suspicion. it’s to make EVERYONE suspicious. same logic as the bloc, pals.  protect your comrades, be suspicious. ESPECIALLY if you aren’t doing anything likely to get you arrested.

[void-milf]

the state is less omniscient and significantly more incompetent than you’d think. overextend their resources at every possible opportunity.  make them cry wolf repeatedly. run their data analysis agents fucking ragged.  and strike. attack.

[37womenwieldingknives]

YES i’m a postgrad statistics researcher and i can tell you that the state honestly has NO IDEA what to do with the data it collects, it has an obsession with big data but it’s almost impossible to work with in practice. the traditional statistical approaches that are used can’t be scaled up, the adapted approaches are substantially weakened, and the machine learning approaches have the same problems and often tell them nothing. data scientists are only just coming around to these issues too, most still just push on with it anyway - incompetence is the word. above all this though, like you say, the biggest issue for the state is at the point of data collection. they will NEVER get anything useful if they’re collecting shitty messy data. they will eventually figure out that the real solution is working how to collect accurate and meaningful data, we should make it as difficult as possible for them to do that

[afraidofamericans]

This makes me think that we need WAAAY more apps that generate junk data

[queeranarchism]

Apps that generate junk data? tell me moooore.

[anarchopuppy]

Ooh I know this one!

Ad Nauseum is an adblocker that stores the ads it blocks and continuously generates fake clicks, fucking with analytics and costing the ad companies money

TrackMeNot automatically does randomly generated searches on a variety of search engines to obscure your real searches and fuck with analytics, and you can set it up to work with anything that has a search bar (including facebook, twitter, amazon, youtube, etc)

WhatCampaign replaces analytics parameters in links with the string “FuckOff”. I thought there was a similar extension that used random strings, but I can’t seem to find it

Privacy Possum is a fork of Privacy Badger with a focus on costing tracking companies as much money as possible, and idk if my limited tech knowledge is enough to understand what it does but the description does say it falsifies some data so that’s good enough for me

@afraidofamericans

[mayflower-gal]

Boy it SURE would be a SHAME if this were SPREAD AROUND for everyone TO SEE

[chrub-blog1]

mutuals do this

take care of yourself

[kiwikiwikiwiii]

In this economy?

[kiwikiwikiwiii]

Anyone else being inundated with tags from the bunch of numbers squad?

[kiwikiwikiwiii]

Fan behavior...

[kiwikiwikiwiii]

Anyone else being inundated with tags from the bunch of numbers squad?

[kiwikiwikiwiii]

"The fact that Nikki's wish worked proves that Bear didn't actually love her in the beginning."

The Nikki that made the wish was not the same Nikki he made his wish about.

The fact that he made a wish that supplanted her free will is what proves that he didn't love her in the beginning.

[kiwikiwikiwiii]

Babby's first star war thought in like a decade or more:

Theres that bit about "always two, no more, no less"

So like... was Darth Vader planning on just killing off his apprentice if/when his nepo baby decided to join up?

[kiwikiwikiwiii]

Mom just came to me with a post on my cousin's Instagram and I had to assuage her fears that he is the next shooter. I explained the musical niche he has pigeonholed himself into. I explained that the footage was not his friends and him doing insurgency drills in the woods in Maine. That yes, his friend in the orange hoodie does have a pretty bad drug use disorder, but he's generally harmless since his drugs of choice are downers. Yes, that is a shot of a high capacity rifle with a magazine that would be illegal, but it is also an old video that was originally posted by Russian military dudes in line 2018 or something.

Then my mom asked me "do you ever feel bad for us?... We don't know all these things, so we get freaked out that [cousin] is going to be on the news."

And she's right. He very much appears to be The Type™️. I can see the connections being made by a less informed person.

But I would also really, really, really like to know less sometimes.

And because I turn everything into a joke I told her:

Damned if you know. Damned if you known't.

And she laughed. And we moved on to talk about car stuff, and school stuff, and the heat advisory, etc.

But now I'm not sure. I don't know that all of that footage was recycled military propaganda laid over PTSD-core noise rap. There were some shots of my actual cousin in there. Did I lie to my mother by accident? Is Cousin veering dangerously near to something that could end up with someone dead? With Cousin dead? With him in jail and being name dropped into Twitter arguments? Will the hoards of internet detectives have a reason to dig into his past and massively misinterpret all of his past relationships and friendships? Would they even be misinterpretations at that point?

Will this post be entered into evidence?

[kiwikiwikiwiii]

Going through these required courses makes me understand why so many colleges had arcane secret societies

[kiwikiwikiwiii]

I think my new car might have been used to transport drugs lmao

[kiwikiwikiwiii]

Brought my grandma to a retina specialist and jesus christ her doctor is hot

[kiwikiwikiwiii]

I FREAKING FORGOR THE DISCUSSION POSTS

[kiwikiwikiwiii]

For the first time I am hearing the siren song of ai and its entirely because this course is just teaching mindfulness techniques rebranded to appeal to White American Christians and Business Idiots¹

But I'm stronger than any US Marine and will write this paper old fashioned style because even though I don't respect the course I still respect myself

[kiwikiwikiwiii]

Doing reading for class and this paper started with this gem

"Reflective practice is a method in which one thinks about what they are doing while they are doing it and then consider the relationship between action and thinking."

What the fuck are we doing here? Because that just looks like a description of... what being alive is like. Is there some other way of doing things??? Are there people out there that truly just do not think about the things they do while doing them?

[kiwikiwikiwiii]

I have never felt more neurodivergent than I have while taking this class.

"If you know you retain material better if you hear it, you may read out loud or watch video tutorials covering the material."

Oh thanks, me and my mp3s of myself reading these articles for class would have never thought of that if you hadn't pointed it out.

"Examine your thoughts and be aware of them."

I would actually like less awareness, thanks. If anything, I struggle less with metacognition than I do with megacognition, aka anxiety and overthinking.

[kiwikiwikiwiii]

Considering emailing my professor to just put me in a situation so I can do a practical exam and test out of what appears to be "common sense 101"

[kiwikiwikiwiii]

Doing reading for class and this paper started with this gem

"Reflective practice is a method in which one thinks about what they are doing while they are doing it and then consider the relationship between action and thinking."

What the fuck are we doing here? Because that just looks like a description of... what being alive is like. Is there some other way of doing things??? Are there people out there that truly just do not think about the things they do while doing them?

[kiwikiwikiwiii]

I have never felt more neurodivergent than I have while taking this class.

"If you know you retain material better if you hear it, you may read out loud or watch video tutorials covering the material."

Oh thanks, me and my mp3s of myself reading these articles for class would have never thought of that if you hadn't pointed it out.

"Examine your thoughts and be aware of them."

I would actually like less awareness, thanks. If anything, I struggle less with metacognition than I do with megacognition, aka anxiety and overthinking.