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@okeefekat

I’m not completely quitting here but the new owner is tanking the place so spending more time over in the fediverse at okeefekat at dair-community dot social.

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Michael Tremmel
Michael Tremmel@MichaelTremmel·
Physicists need to stop thinking everything is trivial and they can speak with authority on any topic. At best we look foolish. At worst we do real damage. But also it’s ironic how people that fashion themselves as great thinkers are often closed minded and, frankly, stupid
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Paul Mozur 孟建國
Paul Mozur 孟建國@paulmozur·
One thing was clear, China’s model of camera-covered cities using facial recognition to track in real time has moved beyond its borders. The Dubai police run their own. To build it they got advice from KPMG and Gartner, then bought Hikvision and Huawei. Here’s their control HQ.
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John Ira Jennings
John Ira Jennings@JIJennings·
Happy Science Fiction Day! portrait from ages ago I did of my friend Dr. Nnedi Okorafor.@Nnedi #scifiday
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@SDonziger @Chevron Congress must impose on SCOTUS the same rules and standards for ethics that federal judges are bound by. To not do so in light of this reporting is to wither away the legitimacy of the court to nothing.
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Sarah Lazarus
Sarah Lazarus@sarahclazarus·
no new years resolutions. it is the circumstances turn to improve
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Terri Gerstein
Terri Gerstein@TerriGerstein·
I'm really mad that the words "meta" and "uber" have been permanently ruined. They were good words!
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Matthew Skala
Matthew Skala@mattskala·
@pendertif I don't think they expect the "making up facts when it doesn't know" part, and people not knowing that that's absolutely a thing with language (and image!) models is going to cause a lot of trouble.
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@Cavalorn Yup. Wilde basically reversed it in The Critic as Artist, and the extension is pretty much antithetical to his style, his Philosophy, and his creative mode. twitter.com/okeefekat/stat…
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@Lady8Jane Incidentally, does talk a good bit about imitation in other ways: Mainly, arguing against "mimetic" art or Naturalism in art. Art should not imitate life. In fact, in "The Decay of Lying" he does a reversal of Colton's quote:"...imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult"

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Adrian Bott
Adrian Bott@Cavalorn·
Apologies, the Colton quote re imitation and flattery is from 1820, not 1821 But the important points are: Wilde didn't come up with it, and there is no missing second half that changes the meaning. It's yet another modern Internet confection.
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Adrian Bott
Adrian Bott@Cavalorn·
First record of "blood's thicker than water": 1737 (A. Ramsay, A Collection of Scots Proverbs) First record of "the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb": 1994 (R R Pustelniak, "How Shall I Know)
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Meredith Whittaker
Meredith Whittaker@mer__edith·
I agree. I'll add that fact checking these claims is often practically impossible. Those who can are those w narrow technical training + access (i.e. they work for the tech exec's company) to the technical infrastructures that are shielded from public scrutiny by corp secrecy.
Librarianshipwreck@libshipwreck

My hot take is that it a lot of our current messes could have been avoided if “fact check the grandiose claims of this tech executive” was standard procedure.

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Geoffrey A. Fowler
Geoffrey A. Fowler@geoffreyfowler·
A @washingtonpost reader tells me she read my Fri column about facial recognition at airport security, and told the TSA "no thank you." Agent waved her through and said "There's always one." This is exactly why people don't trust we have a real choice. wapo.st/3iw6DfA
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