maol

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[–] maol@awful.systems 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

A man who wants to knock up as many women as possible is definitely trustworthy ladies and you should definitely make him the father or your kids 👍

[–] maol@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago

Love how one of the top qualities for women is "feminine". I can't imagine one of my friends being asked about me and just saying uh she's a woman I guess. A real womanly woman. She-woman. Girl

[–] maol@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago

Some of them think it's demonic but I guess there's a conflict of interest since big tech is supporting the Republicans.

[–] maol@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I think I saw this movie on TV at 2am. And it sucked

[–] maol@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I guess the idea is that the tech economy moves fast and if we don't get to grips with AI we'll be left in the dust, broke and unemployed. Somehow this is proof that AI is good instead of proof the economy is bad (if people are impoverished in a whim). It's just the same self-satisfied fantasy as always.

[–] maol@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago

So much debate about whether his employer was diligent enough at tyre-pumping when the obvious solution is "pump your own tyres yourself, you buffoon"

[–] maol@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago

D: Not only does this community have a missing stair, but they're all explaining to each other how to avoid the missing stair, and the missing stair is in the chat replying to comments?!

[–] maol@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

why is there a vacuum in the jar? To preserve the jam? Isn’t jam a preserve? Like, I thought the whole raison d’etre of jam was as a way to make fruit keep, unrefrigerated, through the winter? Why must we preserve the preserve? Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

I...basic common sense alone would tell you that something with a lot of fruit and a lot of sugar in it might spoil if left open outside of a fridge. Why do these people act like they've never seen a banana before

[–] maol@awful.systems 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)
[–] maol@awful.systems 1 points 1 month ago

What these people do is they take something that's vaguely true or at least has a kernel of truth in it and they give it the most sensationalistic and negative spin possible. So it can't be "there were upsides and downsides to the switchover from incandescent bulbs", it has to be "the greatest uglification in history", and anyone who points out the energy saving advantages of LEDs and fluorescent lightbulbs is just trying to Silence You and smear you. It's so wretched.

[–] maol@awful.systems 1 points 1 month ago

I knew some people who lived in Switzerland for a bit and they joked that it was a libertarian paradise because you can drink and smoke when you're a teenager, the age of consent is 16 and everyone is issued a gun as part of their military service. I didn't expect anyone to take it seriously....

Afaik Switzerland does have a unique system of federated democratic governance, one of the oldest democratic systems in Europe. The downside is that women weren't able to vote in some Swiss cantons until the 90s.

 

God help us. These workers are employed by a subcontractor, Covalen.

Multiple workers from Covalen’s ‘AI annotation’ service spoke to The Journal Investigates about their roles. Their day-to-day work involves creating prompts that are fed to Meta’s AI platform so the system can be trained according to guidelines.

In order to do this, some workers have spent entire shifts pretending to be paedophiles online seeking child sex abuse related information, or suicidal people looking for details on how to kill or hurt themselves.

Covalen also does moderation for Meta, with workers forced to watch extremely violent and disturbing footage that has been flagged for moderation.

“Sometimes in my dreams I am the victim, but sometimes – and this is far worse – I am the perpetrator,” they said.

One bright spot:

Over 100 Covalen employees have now joined the Communications Workers Union (CWU). The toll that dealing with sensitive content and inconsistencies in wellness break length were extra motivating factors for the move.

They are also asking for a better rate of pay, as they are currently earning an average of €29,700 per year.

 

"Total demand for electricity last year grew by 4.4pc, or 1.3 terawatts (TW), but 80pc of that increase, or 1.1TW, was from data centre growth."

Training data for LLMs = higher energy prices and environmental degradation.

 

A video interview with the artist John Wild about AI, AGI, eugenics and Silicon Valley TESCREAL cultism. Posting without watching.

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