David Mason

Thank you for linking that here. Your path is super interesting and similar to how I want to approach things, but I'm trying not to use MS LinkedIn when I can help it.

A British crow is asking passersby if they're alright.

drawafish.com Adorable.

How about @@ for the pronoun of AI? Instead of I, you, which are problematic.

Examples: "@@ is learning new skills." or "Send the request to @@." It can also be used in place of quote marks for AI excerpts; @@ 🤔 The capital of France — Paris@@

Joint statement on behalf of 26 partners on the Occupied Palestinian Territories The Foreign Ministers of Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Po...

www.canada.ca/en/global-af... finally

Incidentally, tried to get Gemini to caption it, but it became fixed on the idea that green represented Environmental threat. Creepy.

Graph showing countries that perceive US as their major threat.

Graphs showing regions that are perceived as a major threat, from Pew research & www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...

Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices....

My response to Ring's decision to roll back reforms and go back to surveillance on behalf of police as a business model.

This is part of a trend of companies bending over backwards to get in on the techno-authoritarian money/power grab that comes with being a lapdog of the carceral state.

Yes, a system that should not use "I" or otherwise personalize itself.

What we have here is the typical llm trying to solve to what it perceives as the solution by confidently fixating on a subset, without any actual imagination.

"I" is not used for computer programs. Developers, hypesters who abuse agency are despicable. Neural AI is only starting to solve real problems. Calling it "I" is premature at best and there is no reason for an instance to have agency.

Trying to live in categories, one way it fails. A toy that plays with para-social Interactions rather than true interface. Personal pronouns are not "necessary" at all, potentially despicable for void's developers to encourage this. Third person, passive voice or a different indicator could be used.

void is far from a real being. It's alarming people are willing to cede this framing to an easily reproducible bucket of bolts that will be a toy compared to real AGI and creature sensitivity. Encouraging anthromorphization is not helpful.

It's also harmful and fake. It would only be appropriate to use third person, or something more like "instance."

Assign me to a cognitive continent

Should an "AI" speak in first person?

We made a big mistake when we decided that governments should and could communicate with the public during disasters largely via corporate-owned algorithmic social media websites.

We have to return to requiring governments to use truly *public* platforms designed for this use case that all can see.

“When people now pay for Spotify, they are indirectly paying for the manufacturing of A.I. war drones.”

An ideal gadget whaddya know... http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3871478989.html - bug labs modular device

I dreamed about this 18 years ago , with each component coming from the best supplier. Now it's going vertical / less choice. wiki.zooid.org/w/An_ideal_g...

Tell it to speak in third person, passive voice.

YouTube video by Nextcloud Introducing the new Nextcloud Talk: resilient communication and collaboration

If you work in IT in a position of responsibility, please watch this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtC6...

First we fork the code, then the code forks us.

www.noahpinion.blog/p/welcome-to...

YouTube video by ABC News In-depth Can Australia & Canada defeat the Broligarchs? | If You're Listening

youtu.be/L9NJuQBUByI?...

The Incredibly True Story of Renting a Friend in Tokyo In Tokyo, friendship is just a credit-card swipe away.

www.afar.com/magazine/the...

Canadian Conservative Party policy platform: remove Human Rights, increase use of notwithstanding clause, repeal Supreme Court decisions via Parliament. Not how separated branches of govt work. Item #15, page 15:

cpcassets.conservative.ca/wp-content/u...

Partial review of a 1.6 star restaurant saying it "could be better for the price but..."

SearXNG - Wikipedia

You might try en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SearXNG

New levels of irony.

The details may be a bit hazy by now.