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RE: https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/116924532050310547 Boggle! Australia is not only passing on free electricity from the sun to people for three hours, now they're actually going to control AI and force it to be some use? Double boggle.

Apologies. I don't have any practice crossposting from bsky so this is just a screenshot. But, major props to Mathew @realmatrobnew.bsky.social, what a screenshot. (So what if it's AI. It's perfect.) 😂 🤣 🤪 😆 😂

@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green Have you noticed how everything is "by 2030"? We'll start reducing CO2 by 2030. We'll stop using peat compost by 2030. Plastics will be recyclable by 2030. There will be peace on earth by 2030. (Okay, I made this one up.) It started in the 1990s because 2030 was so far away, you could say anything and it sounded, well, maybe not plausible but at least possible. I wonder if anyone has looked at a multiyear calendar lately?

@carnage4life@mas.to I mean, yes, okay, it's sort of AI's "fault" (which anthropomorphizes it beyond the bounds of reason). But, for Christ's sake, doesn't anybody even glance at the first draft before throwing it at an international meeting? ?????????

@ifixcoinops@retro.social "🦝 "Wow, if it's this easy in 1998, I bet it'll be even easier in 2026" you think to yourself for some reason" That is so so so so true. What a world we lost.

@catsalad@infosec.exchange Number 1 on the advice list, not mentioned!, is "Be cute." Oh well. There goes that dream... 😢

@Strandjunker@mstdn.social Well, 1) forgiveness can only follow real repentance. 2) So there's no forgiveness in the cards yet, but even if there were, all we've tried is forgetting about it. That definitely hasn't worked. 3) The only alternative, as you say, is isolating the infection from society, prison, for as long as it takes for the perps to understand the error of their ways. (In Trump's case, it may be a while, him being incapable of reflection and all.)

@inthehands@hachyderm.io It smelled of an ad for the IPO to me. But I guess what we need is actual proof.

@CodingItWrong@oldbytes.space You'll have to not follow the nice clear instructions on web install if you want to break your phone. Also, definitely don't use any of sideofburritos helpful even-more-explanatory videos. (Honestly, it's *hard* to screw up a grapheneOS install.)

@exador23@m.ai6yr.org Me too. Total sticker shock. Prices haven't just doubled. More like tripled (like your pizzas!), even quadrupled. Mind, if it gets The Donald Dump dumped, that would be good.

@MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social 😆

@selzero Wow. Now _there_ is a crime against humanity.

@KiwiEV@mastodon.nz Well, since NZ is on a different planet, the same rules don't apply, of course. So we have oodles of time.

@starraven@mastodon.scot @Strandjunker@mstdn.social This crew, and the Dump foremost, is so bad my conviction about the evils of capital punishment wavers....

@tj Oh my God. Where have you been my whole life? (And why didn't I think of that!?)

@paperposts@masto.paperposts.me @gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green Yeah, for a while it was 2050. My guess is the marketing department told them that didn't sound like they were doing enough. They should throw in a less after-the-end-of-time kind of number. 🙄

@jerry@infosec.exchange Of course. Yes. The Onion takeover. I forgot 😆 . As usual, they're so good that it's funny because it's true. The original vicious clowns really would have come up with that.

@thatprivacyguy@eupolicy.social Thank you for putting yourself out there. A voice like yours carries a hundred times more weight. The solution is for the tech companies to take their responsibilities at least a little bit seriously and have proper moderation. But that takes humans and costs the techbros money.

@BobLefridge@mastodon.nz @futuresprog@mastodon.nzoss.nz @JulianOliver@mastodon.social Ed Zitron, whom a couple of other commenters also mentioned, is the best. He has stacks of facts up to the ceiling. So if you're sitting there saying, "Wait. What? Ten thousand investors and Sam Altman can't _all_ be delusional!" go read Zitron. Then go looking for the opposing facts that show it's not a delusion and ... there aren't any. He's a great No!-I'm-not-crazy reality check. He had a good piece just recently on depreciation. You can bet your Sunday hat on businesses taking the tax deductions for depreciating equipment. The depreciation clock starts running once equipment is in service. Zitron looks at the books of some of these companies, and the depreciation isn't happening on the same scale as the delusions. (And if and when it does start happening, they don't show the revenue coming in to cover that level of depreciation. Forcing everyone to use Gemini won't do it unless they can also force everyone to pay $$/minute....)

@royaards@newsie.social Man. There was a time when that would have been funny.

@helenclayton@mas.to Hmm. Sounds more like box or container to keep them in. And since we _are_ talking about French here, probably for nefarious purposes!

@lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space Well, that explains it. I guess since I'm already smelling of sulfur I should just embrace the badness, learn how to hack, and make millions. (That's how it works, right? (😆 ))

@jerrej@mastodon.social @wynke@mendeddrum.org @quixoticgeek@social.v.st @JMMaok@mastodon.online Exactly. The "just a cold" stuff applies mainly to people with NW European genetics. Me, I got my reaction to colds from the other halves of my genome. I get solidly sick for a week, plus a near-week of my-brain-is-oatmeal recuperation, plus severe keep-you-awake-half-the-night coughs for weeks, plus heart symptoms (pounding heartbeat, sometimes skipped beats), plus a nasty grinding tiredness that goes on for weeks. I've always felt that if I killed the next person who said "it's just a cold" I ought to be able to plead justifiable homicide. This story does have a happy ending. When those of us with more than the minimum of brain masked up for covid, whaddya know, I also didn't catch colds. (Well-fitting N95, not just a medical mask.) I'm wearing those things for the rest of my life. I don't care what anyone thinks. (Oh, and, yes, re the flu. I've had it once when the big swine flu epidemic was going around in the US. 2008? or so? Temp of 104F for a week, but shorter recuperation. Weird.)

@kimlockhartga@beige.party @viq@social.hackerspace.pl @quixoticgeek@social.v.st (In a thread about precise word usage, maybe 'strong' isn't the best word. Adaptable? Resilient?

@lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space Allowed through seamlessly? ?? What? I've been doing those idiotic things since what feels like early childhood and they're always the same, always there. Some people actually get on some virtual list of Proper Eggs? Admittedly, I'm generally on a vpn with scripts blocked, OS is linux, browser is a weird thing out of the Paleolithic. Years ago I had trouble with some online thing my utility company required. I finally had to call them up, fight my way through to third level tech support, only to be told I used linux, so I must be a hacker. 🙄 🤣 🧐

@joewynne@mindly.social Yes, there are many people interested in it. I used to live in Southern California. Quite a large movement there. (Not large enough to dislodge all the astroturf 🙄 ) Also in New Zealand. Though we have to listen to some complainers about how our native plants aren't "green enough." Really.

@lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space Yeah, I've started coming across this shit on archive.today. If you click on the eye icon at the bottom, that gets you back to the old, very annoying, grids of cars, bikes, bridges to identify. What is this actually good for? Anybody fraudulent probably has a way of automating that crap in milliseconds. I've always assumed it's the goog getting free training for its self-driving software.

@Dragofix@veganism.social Yes. If you space the panels apart a bit, it actually helps insects and bigger animals, as well as crops that can use a bit of shade. But China tends to use the obnoxious TotalPaving method, which is just heartbreaking.

@CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social Whatever BS marketing term they attach, it's based on the same model: the price is what any fool will pay for it. As opposed to a rational pricing model which would be cost of production plus a percentage so the seller can make a living, but not a killing.

@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social "KPMG issued a report citing all the transformational ways GenAI has transformed industry, it’s been widely cited. One minor problem: it turns they used AI to write the report, and it made up all of the evidence. " You could not make this stuff up. At least, I couldn't. Just not enough imagination.

@joewynne@mindly.social Erm, _which_ habitat are you discussing? Location seems like an important factor here! Thanks

@McDonald_69@mastodon.social Well, the thing isn't wrong. As Terry Pratchett (or was it Douglas Adams?) pointed out: all mushrooms are edible. At least once.

@catsalad@infosec.exchange Have you seen the videos of cats attacking bears? (I'm pretty sure they're real, not AI) Go straight for the eyes and nose and the bears turn tail and run, with the cat still attached to their head until they're out of the cat's territory. So some little pooch can't expect to impress a cat too much.

@noodlemaz@mstdn.games @Strandjunker@mstdn.social Don't know that I'd go that far, Marianne. Not rubbish. The big contribution of having two haploid cells fuse -- and egg and sperm provide equal halves of nuclear DNA -- is it makes for lots of variability. Variability means adaptability to different conditions, which can mean a more successful species. It certainly has in the human case. But for much of the rest, yes, silly amounts of patriarchy-infused mythmaking there.

@noodlemaz@mstdn.games @Strandjunker@mstdn.social Yes, I'm not arguing, certainly not with you, about the heroic little swimmers BS. (eg "silly amounts of patriarchy-infused mythmaking there"?) A total lack of directionality among most of an individual's sperm can be a cause of infertility though. One of the several sperm-related problems showing up more and more as endocrine disruptor pollution seeps into everything. (Not everyone reading the comments knows all about the value of meiosis, so it seems worth mentioning to me.)

@jerry@infosec.exchange I wonder if the geniuses read something about fish milt and got confused. (No reason to believe milt is magic either, but whatever, right?)

@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy No awfulness is too stupid or too petty for these criminals.

@vervain@sunny.garden @broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca Musk is certainly doing all the right things if that's what he's aiming for.

@cschorn@phpc.social @infobeautiful@vis.social Ohhh. Why did that not even occur to me? I'm obviously hopelessly stuck in a Little People mindset.

@lemgandi@mastodon.social @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social Me too!

@petergleick@fediscience.org That's down from +-60% a few years ago, isn't it? Amazing what a heavy lift communicating facts is, and how fast a bit of emotionally exciting propaganda takes root.

@Strandjunker@mstdn.social Certainly biologically, mammalian paternal contribution to reproduction is on the order of 0.0000001%. Not absolute zero, but very close. You have to hand it to testosterone-induced chutzpah to make something like that the whole ballgame in the face of the evidence from _everything_. Greatest example of mansplaining ever.

@timkmak@journa.host All I can think is the Iranian propaganda video that ends with the Iranian aide bringTrump a note saying, "Trump, shut up."

@cstross@wandering.shop As a bright wit pointed out, cunts are deep and warm and produce life. The Rancid Kumquat is shallow, colder than the last circle of Hell, and everything he touches dies. He is not a cunt. Could we, at long last, finally drop that shit? (Yeah, translated out of the Misogynese, I couldn't agree more. Maybe just stick to facts? They're even worse. "Trump is a pedo")

@inthehands@hachyderm.io There's tech out there we _can_ take charge of. The free and open source stuff. It's just (supposedly) not user-friendly enough for current users. My opinion? Some it, yes, true. Some of it, not true at all. It doesn't exist in people's minds, though, because it's not advertised. Possibly it's the advertising/communications/ marketing problem that needs solving? Not the how to take charge of tech problem.

@infobeautiful@vis.social They do have to pay the loans back though, don't they? Or do they just keep taking out new loans to pay off the old ones?

@tante@tldr.nettime.org And if anyone does remember they will have eyes rolled at them for being olds....

@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca I dunno. Wasn't Eichman hung for 6,000,000? /*ahem. cough, cough remember I'm opposed to capital punishment*/ so, yeah, but jail seems much too good for him.