Michael 🏴‍☠️ Fleet @f1337@librem.one

possibly uninformed hot take about corporate security trainings: they too often take a childish, hypothetical approach to security instead of just using stories that have actually happened. Seems a little odd to sugarcoat reality when you're literally trying to teach people best practices to use in the real world.

True crime and documentary is so hot right now, so why not use that same format to keep employees attention and teach them a thing or two?

This is the #government I want.

I think one underappreciated thing that's happening with ChatGPT is that it's reminding people of how joyful it is to do totally mundane searches, i.e. looking up recipes, and *not* get indundated with a million fucking ads.

If you write code you probably have to read this, because it’s by Steve Yegge: https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/cheating-is-all-you-need

I’m still unconvinced, but you still have to read it.

@colinstrasser In the same way there isn't literally an orchestra inside a vinyl record (as convincing as it sounds), there isn't sentience in LLMs and the rest.

The climate is changing
yes, but it must not be that.

We’ve surrendered to the virus
yes, but it must not be that.

The book banners are in power
yes, but it must not be that.

Bigotry is on the rise
yes, but it must not be that.

The youth are depressed
yes, it must be their phones.

In good news, the US NLRB ruling that nondisparagement clauses are void is apparently _retroactive_! Meaning everyone is now free to talk about former employers: https://ogletree.com/insights/nlrb-general-counsel-says-confidentiality-nondisparagement-clause-decision-applies-retroactively/

For years I've used "AI-complete" to indicate problems C-3PO could solve but computers as we know them cannot.

I would not trust chat-gpt near any of them.

The computer alchemy profession has some sort of P vs NP thing going on with this "I can't believe it's not AI" faces-in-clouds nonsense where closing the gap is likely to take multiple lifetimes if it can be done.

I want to say "computer science" but if you can't reproduce it from scratch under laboratory conditions, it's not science.

A left-wing conspiracy theory about the 1980 election was that GOPers convinced Iran to hold onto the hostages to sabotage Jimmy Carter's re-election.

Holy crap; it was actually true.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/18/us/politics/jimmy-carter-october-surprise-iran-hostages.html

@Quinnypig thats the secret, cap - there are no careers at twitter :D

@mekkaokereke @jalcine @brianonbarrington @PJ_Evans It's exhausting how impractical we are about so many things. It's literally energy sucking to know that keeping vulnerable people homeless is more expensive than housing them but we refuse to house vulnerable people. It's exhausting that we're hurtling towards planetary extinction because we can't think practically about our planet and reshaping our societies. It's soul crushing that we make people work themselves to death even though we have evidence that people are more productive when they work fewer hours. It's devastating that we're poisoning the air and water even though air and water are essential to life on our planet.