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In news that will get very little coverage, Mariska Hargitay's "End the Backlog Campaign" achieves rape kit reform in ALL 50 states, DC, and Puerto Rico. It's women who are going to save us. Thank you Mariska Hargitay.

The is AWESOME‼️ Hopefully more states can make something like this happen. Please LIKE and RETWEET if you agree

Mark Cuban just compared the most powerful AI on earth to a two-year-old in a high chair. The toddler won. Cuban: “A two-year-old on a high chair with a sippy cup knows that when she pushes that cup off, Mom’s going to come running and the baby’s going to be laughing its ass off. It knows the consequences of its actions.” Then he named the thing no one building AI wants to say out loud. Cuban: “If you ask ChatGPT or any of them something and it gives you bad advice, it has no idea what’s going to happen because you took that bad advice.” A system that passed the bar exam. Aced medical boards. Still can’t grasp what a child who can’t tie her own shoes already knows. The child understands cause and effect. AI understands pattern and prediction. They sound similar. They are not even close. A pattern tells you what comes next in a sequence. Consequence tells you what happens to the person standing at the end of it. One is math. The other is meaning. Cuban went further. Cuban: “If you were blind at an intersection and had the choice between your seeing-eye dog or holding up a phone with AI, I’m taking the seeing-eye dog every time.” Because the dog understands something no language model on earth understands. Stakes. The dog knows a wrong step means its owner gets hurt. The app knows a wrong step means a revised output. Hundreds of billions spent building systems that can write, reason, and diagnose. Not one of them loses sleep when the answer is wrong. A toddler pushing a cup off a tray runs a tighter feedback loop than every foundation model combined. The child doesn’t just predict the outcome. The child wants the reaction. Pushes the cup off the edge, watches it fall, watches Mom come running. Laughs. Because the child knew what would happen before the cup ever hit the floor. That gap between prediction and consequence isn’t a bug. It’s not getting patched in the next update. It is the unsolved problem of artificial intelligence. We didn’t build minds. We built mirrors. Mirrors don’t flinch when you walk into traffic.

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

@simplesamtx There's women's fashion store near me that no one goes to because she talks to us so much. We love her clothes (from the window). Such a shame.

We have a nice little cafe right down the road from the shop that we love to eat at. But they have hired a waitress that will not leave us alone when we eat there. Super sweet lady and she means well but she will not go away. We just want to sit and enjoy our meal and talk with each other but she makes it impossible. Constantly interrupting. Wants to tell us stories. We just want to decompress. Lately we have just been grabbing a corn dog from the gas station 😂 crazy thing is we had some friends tell us the exact same thing. They just stopped going there. We have too. Weird to think a business is losing customers because their employee is to damn nice.

@lorrainewhat First like

I just broke the drought of me not posting. It took a grunting koala to get me started.

@synanthropy He's right

Pulling out my headphones to eavesdrop on an elderly patron complaining to the librarian about movies whose names start with “the” being shelved under “T”

@historyrock_ The gap between tracks

@DarkOg428186 @KeruboSk Thank you

@atheists4yes @KeruboSk yk how men and women are "equal" in america/europe but the man is the only one paying the bills, etc, its not the same in australia thankfully

Went on a date and halfway through he says, “I don’t really spend money on women who aren’t my girlfriend.” I nodded and said, “That actually makes sense.” Called the waiter over immediately and asked to split the bill. He goes, “No no, I’ll pay.” I said, “No, I get it. We’re just two people eating.” Paid my half, grabbed my bag and left before dessert even came.

@ahdayzay01 @KeruboSk This is your problem not mine. I said some men think it means we owe them. They start to treat you like you owe them.

@atheists4yes @KeruboSk Your coochie is worth a plate of food?

@Autsp23 @KeruboSk Agree. But it can lead to that. I know it can. But also in the US it clearly doesn't mean that, but that means women are dining without paying on every date. Seriously?

@atheists4yes @KeruboSk Splitting it is fine. Paying for the whole thing as a woman is fine. Not even doing dinner is also fine, but no one should feel like that have to have sex because someone spent money. That's the part that's crazy.

@TheBayonetBra @KeruboSk The hell you do. Agree, but pay for your dinner.

@atheists4yes @KeruboSk Owe the man sex? The hell we do

@Autsp23 @KeruboSk So tired of these answers. Americans are brought up to think it's fine. Men don't owe you dinner for your presence. I used the true scenario of feeling obligated by not paying and you can't even fathom it. It's your culture.

@atheists4yes @KeruboSk I couldn't imagine feeling obligated to have sex for a pasta dish and a few drink.

@VicToriA19_72 Wikipedia: "Flying the Union Jack (or Union Flag) upside down traditionally signifies a signal of dire distress, indicating extreme danger to life or property. In the context of British naval tradition, it is a call for assistance."

The Union Jack was mistakenly flown upside down at the military cemetery, a breach of flag protocol Really? We look like morons.

@DarkOg428186 @KeruboSk Not sure what you mean. Can you say it differently?

@atheists4yes @KeruboSk australia's goated bro people actually value equality over there and not the bullshit in the west actual equality

@ijeoven @KeruboSk In America? I think it's belittling. It's chattle level treatment. Imagine wanting to meet someone you can love and you have to pay for all the bad dates. Let alone women being ok with being treated like they can't pay. It's obviously entrenched in US culture, but it's wrong.

@atheists4yes @KeruboSk Yes, if you invite a woman for a date you pay for everything. It's not discussed.

@Gaz3putt Sorry. Grief! Just shows she's always with you. ❤️

Not really sure why I'm even saying this, but lost my mum just over 6 months ago now. Handled it okay. On a rooftop bar in Portugal last week, on a golfing trip with the lads, I absolutely lost it because it's the sort of time I'd have sent her a photo. Grief, bloody hell.

@ijeoven @KeruboSk But do women expect to be paid for?

@atheists4yes @KeruboSk Not in my culture