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Socialist dictator of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of being “the Hitler of the 21st Century” in response to Israel’s airstrikes on Friday against Iran, a key ally of his authoritarian regime.
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Considering putting out some #FediHire feelers. My current company seems to be turning more and more towards AI and my concerns are that this will be at the expense of stuff I want to focus on, like optimization, architecture and system work. I'd rather take this moment to grow my career towards what I originally imagined, biotechology, but honestly I'm open to any role that seems interesting and does good work.
I'm an excellent dev in Java, with significant experience in Go, Python and HTML5, and a degree in Bioinformatics from the medical research center at the local university hospital. Moreover, I'm really, really good at working in a team, especially asynchronously. I'm also looking to pivot from the role of a general lead developer into focussing more on backend, devops and security work
I'm at the GMT-0 to GMT+4 band and I'm looking for remote work! And I'm in South Africa, so if you're from the northern hemisphere you'll get to vicariously enjoy my summers while your fingers freeze off 😎
Any boosts or leads would be rad! But also making this post is me keeping myself honest too.
So UK sending war planes to middle east. Now imagine IF tomorrow something happens in England. Would it be a war act? Not terrorism? Is this what they are looking for? Pd: and by "something" I mean moSSad doing what they do and blame "someone"else.
It’s all about regime change in Iran & the event that triggers a “reluctant” US to pile in on Israel’s behalf is called a “false flag” as I’m sure you know!
This ⤵️ is interesting/ scary in that respect:
“A Major False Flag on US Soil and Average Joe Will March to Kill 'Them Eye-rainians!'”
Twenty Months of idly standing by has proven one truth: The world remains blind to imperial depravity. They have no conception of what's coming, and no framework to comprehend it when it arrives.
Tehran, June 16 (Prensa Latina) The head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting Corporation, Peyman Jebelli, today denounced the Israeli attack on the media's central building during a live broadcast.
Europe must be ready to defend what it stands for: Our people. Our values.
We are proposing to support EU countries to invest €800 billion over the next four years by cutting red tape, including:
📄 Less paperwork, thus faster new defence technologies. 🛒 Faster and easier for countries to buy and share defence equipment. ⚡ Quicker permits for important defence projects 💶 Simpler rules to get more companies to invest in defence
Today, the European Commission proposes measures to speed up defence investments and production to make the EU more responsive to today\'s security challenges, as outlined in the Commission\'s White Paper for European Defence-Readiness 2030.
Gen Z faces a challenging job market with disappearing entry-level jobs and uncertain career paths. Many graduates struggle to find work despite impressive academic records and internships. The economic slowdown, federal policy uncertainty, and emerging technologies are contributing to this trend. The unemployment rate for recent graduates is higher than the overall unemployment rate, and some sectors, like public service, are experiencing significant cuts. businessinsider.com/gen-z-unem…
I know this probably comes up a lot and is liable to spark some debate, but I'm curious what the good options are for terminals. I've skimmed some reddit/lemmy posts about it and looked at a few options and I dunno how to decide between them because they all seem like they're too narrowly focused on some particular use case. I'm just using it for general terminal stuff, nothing terribly fancy. I'm aware that there's not one terminal to rule them all or anything, so I'm curious: what do you folks use, and more importantly, why do you use that over the (many) other options available?
Personally I've just been using konsole since it's what came with kde and it seems nice and all, but I feel like I'm missing out on features I don't even know about. One feature that might be nice is some kind of local LLM integration so I can get help on how to tinker with settings and such where i'm doing the tinkering instead of constantly tabbing out to duck.ai or w/e.
I use Xfce and Cinnamon, but I always install Gnome Terminal regardless (you don't need all of Gnome desktop to use it). The main reason I like Gnome Terminal is that it is very simple, and it lets you save your own terminal themes and switch between them from a context menu. Xfce terminal is nice and simple, but doesn't have this really handy theme switching feature.
That said, the terminal emulator I used most often is the Emacs built-in terminal emulator (term-mode), because it integrates flawlessly with other Emacs tools. But its rendering and theming isn't as nice as Gnome terminal, so I only recommend it if you are an Emacs user.
I like guake, or yakuake.. they are inspired by the console in Quake. F9 drops it down and hides it. Works for what i need it to. I'm just a guy who recently ditched windows, not a power user.
The one that comes with your DE is generally just fine, unless you're a serious terminal user.
One feature that might be nice is some kind of local LLM integration so I can get help on how to tinker with settings and such
I think that's a quick way to nuke your install, LLMs are generally wrong about what commands to run and don't understand enough to know when something is dangerous. All it takes is changing one wrong file and everything breaks.
I'm using st with tmux. It's in written in c, simple configuration can be done by editing the header file(s). More complex customization (such as visual bell or transparency) can be done via patch files.
Not the most beginner friendly terminal but super light weight and fast.
I was tinkering with ollama+deepseek and trying to integrate it into my bash functions, but gave up, because i could not supress that stupid "thinking..." prompt. Found it easyer to just have a browser window open (switching windows can become muscle memory in tiling wms like i3/sway or dwm).
If you want features, I suggest you try Kitty. It is probably the terminal with the most features. I personally prefer Alacritty because it is quite bare and doesn't have all that fancy stuff that I don't need (and that takes up cpu cycles).
Es curioso como las cadenas de radio mencionan al político corrupto,en este caso del #psoed PERO se olvidan mencionar a las empresas que sobornaban para ganar concursos. Luego escuchas la publicidad en sus emisoras y voila! Ahí están. 😁
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The components of a story are still: Who. What. Where. When. Why. How. As far as the Indian and foreigner problem, we have been shown the first 4 and the How but what is missing in the discussion is the Why part. Does anyone really think that Indians and foreigners are invading America on their own. They are being used as pawns for a bigger Who that needs a Why understanding. I believe that a common thread is the lack of a heritage European and Christian culture ethos which is despised and to be actively eliminated\eradicated. I heartily recommend reading or listening to the following 80 minute podcast reading to understand. It is in their own words. It will be the most enlightening hour that one spends this week. Without this knowledge, one has a huge blind spot through which anything can be and has been made to happen. Take it from the conspirators themselves to acquire Better Judgement. podchaser.com/podcasts/the-pet…
I believe that the reading was for subscribers but a second release came today which I have not heard so cannot comment. It is hard for people to believe that an oath to a position above family and everything else really occurs. In the Mafia it is called Omerta and they are serious. So was Skull and Bones and the other secret societies. No one can serve two masters which is why dual citizenship is a joke. podchaser.com/podcasts/the-pet…
I have a feeling that the Mafia were always zionist aligned.
That first reading was impressive enough for another listen. So many things just magically connected into place and none of it was complicated at all. Suddenly the entire backstory behind Israel became clear as day which for me is a first as trying to figure it out from other sources somehow always had me going around in circles.
so Starmer, Macron and Von Der Leyen defending the use of car bombs in crowded cities is a new development. Terrorism for Israel is not terrorism for humanity. #politics #spectacle …
The sharp uptick of crap flown around 2.6 piques my interest. As does someone's introduction of 'retard' into the vocabulary shortly prior. Must have been popcorn times.
He compartido esto en #Instagram (sí, sigo teniendo una cuenta ahí, la vida es complicada...) con algo de éxito, así que lo pongo por aquí por si a alguien le es útil. #Signal #WhatsApp #Meta #technofascism #fuckZuckerberg
Por qué dejar de usar WhatsApp y cuál es la alternativa
Meta ha anunciado que va a empezar a incluir anuncios en WhatsApp. Estarán personalizados con los datos que extraen de Instagram y Facebook. Por ahora, la publicidad aparecerá en los «estados» (esa especie de stories que no todo el mundo usa) y en los canales.
Solo un día después, algunes usuaries han recibido un mensaje dentro de la propia app que les pide su correo electrónico «para mayor seguridad». No hace falta ser muy lince para entender que ese interés repentino por tu seguridad tiene que ver con otra cosa: si les das tu email, les será más fácil saber quién eres en Instagram y/o Facebook (asumiendo que uses la misma dirección para loguearte allí) y podrán «personalizar» tus anuncios con toda la información que tienen de ti.
No es el primer movimiento desagradable de Meta para WhatsApp este año: hace poco agregaron un agente de IA (que se puede ocultar, pero no desactivar del todo). Esta función nos resta privacidad: si bien los mensajes que intercambias con otras personas en WhatsApp están cifrados de extremo a extremo (lo que significa que solo pueden leerlos las personas que conversan, para Meta son ilegibles), lo que le digas a la IA podrá ser analizado por Meta. Lo utilizan para entrenar esa IA y, en el futuro, probablemente, servirá para personalizar la publicidad que te muestran.
No es tampoco el segundo: Meta estrenó 2025 anunciando que dejaría de controlar las noticias falsas y los contenidos de odio, como expliqué en detalle, en un claro alineamiento con Trump.
La alternativa es fácil: vámonos a Signal
Signal es una aplicación de mensajería con funcionalidades muy similares a WhatsApp. Pero mejor: es respetuosa con la privacidad, es software libre, sus desarrolladores no tienen ánimo de lucro y prometen que no van a introducir IA ni anuncios. Cualquiera puede bajársela de su app store favorita y usarla con facilidad.
Yo entiendo que nos atrapen plataformas sociales tóxicas (como Instagram) porque en ellas está nuestra gente, o la información a la que queremos acceder… Pero en este caso la migración debería ser más factible porque tenemos un buen reemplazo. Te animo a hablar con les amigues con quienes tengas más contacto (quizá pasarles este texto ayude, para eso lo he escrito) para proponerles la mudanza. Probablemente no consigas convencer al 100%, pero todo lo que le arranquemos a Meta es positivo.
Preguntas frecuentes
¿De quién es Signal y por qué es seguro? Signal está promovido por una fundación cuyo cometido es proteger la libertad de expresión mediante comunicaciones seguras. Sobrevive gracias a donaciones y su presidenta es Meredith Whittaker, una activista contra el capitalismo de vigilancia que mola mucho. Es software libre, aka open source, que es ese tipo de software cuyo código se publica para que cualquiera pueda examinarlo y, por ejemplo, asegurar que no contiene funcionalidades ocultas para espiarnos. También se puede copiar y modificar para hacer otras versiones, con lo cual contribuyendo a Signal puedes estar contribuyendo a otras apps futuras que sean todavía mejores.
Pero Signal es una aplicación minoritaria. Bueno, no es la más usada, pero sí la recomendada por la Comisión Europea para todo su personal, y la que usa la CIA por considerarla especialmente segura. No estamos hablando de un proyecto underground para hackers, sino de una alternativa muy consolidada que tiene todas las papeletas para crecer mucho con cada medida impopular de WhatsApp.
¿Telegram no sería también una alternativa? Telegram es menos segura que WhatsApp y que Signal porque los mensajes no están encriptados por defecto. Pertenece a Pavel Durov, un CEO con todos los tics de tech bro y un historial dudoso. Durante un tiempo fue recomendada en entornos activistas porque, al estar fuera de la influencia de la UE (es rusa), no suele colaborar con la Policía. Esto también significa que aloja contenidos que podemos considerar, además de ilegales, muy poco éticos (porno infantil, nazismo, etc). Está introduciendo la publicidad e impulsando versiones de pago con funcionalidades extra (lo cual suele ser una camino para empeorar la experiencia de quienes no pagan). Por si fuera poco: a partir del 30 de junio, introducirán Grok, la IA de Elon Musk. A cambio de 300 millones de dólares, permitirán que esta IA pueda entrenarse con las interacciones de quienes la usan en Telegram.
En resumen: quizá quieras estar en Telegram por funcionalidades o usuaries que te interesan, pero que no sea por motivos éticos o políticos porque bajo esos criterios es basura.
Pero hay alternativas mejores que Signal… Depende lo que tengas en cuenta: si quieres una opción descentralizada/federada, sí, lashay (la descentralización es una gran ventaja técnica: en Signal no dejamos de depender de una sola entidad, por mucho que nos caigan súper bien y nos fiemos a tope, si nos lanzamos a la descentralización tenemos que molestarnos en establecer y configurar dónde se archivan nuestros datos, pero por supuesto tendremos mucho más control). Si lo que buscas es una app fácil de instalar y usar, para convencer a tus amigues no techies ni especialmente militantes de la seguridad informática de que den el salto, la mejor opción es Signal. Sin duda.
¿Pero esto es legal en la UE? Probablemente no: según la Ley de Mercados Digitales y el RGPD, no se pueden compartir datos entre aplicaciones aunque pertenezcan a una misma empresa. Aunque también es cierto que Meta está crecidita bajo el paraguas de Trump, que presiona a la UE para que no controle a las big tech (es uno de los argumentos de su guerra arancelaria), y que las represalias europeas siempre llegan tarde y en una magnitud mucho menor que los beneficios de este tipo de empresas. La organización de derechos digitales NOYB ya está quejándose. Veremos cómo evoluciona.
Si no comparto mi email, o si estoy en la UE y se hace cumplir la ley, ¿ya me libro de publicidad? No, porque, a menos que cambien de idea, la publicidad te la van a poner, otra cosa es que no vaya tan «personalizada». En todo caso, ten en cuenta que si ya le diste tu teléfono a Instagram o Facebook, ya pueden cruzarte con tu cuenta de WhatsApp, sin necesidad de email. Y además es probable que encuentren otras maneras de identificarte, como tu IP u otra información extraída de tu teléfono, porque tienen mucha creatividad para encontrar maneras de rastrearte, sean o no legales.
¿Más preguntas? ¿Ideas para convencer a gente o facilitar la migración? Por favor, deja un comentario o escríbeme (tienes mi contacto aquí) si te haces más preguntas, o si quieres compartir tu experiencia llevando a gente a Signal u otras alternativas.
A todo esto, si con el fin del soporte de windows 10 vais a tirar ordenadores viejos… acordaos de los pobres (o sea, de mí), que seguramente mi ordenador sea bastante más viejo. 😬
Donde yo trabajo hay un proyecto para "reutilizar y recuperar" todo tipo de electrodomésticos,incluyendo ordenadores. Informaos en vuestros "puntos verdes" más cercanos. De hecho se tendría que aplicar una normativa europea sobre "reutilizacion" (Llei 7/2022 de 8 d'abril de residuos sóls contaminants per una economía circular /Promover les actividades de reparacio I PxR personas apararells)
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@Aldo2 I haven't seen him calling to throw pedos into a woodchiper, but yeah yeah I get the point, lot of people who share his opinions would throw him into a woodchipper.
@Aldo2 maybe, but I mainly see the woodchipper posts from various trad or selfie in a truck accounts. I think it primarily reeks of low IQ, because they're rarely about actual pedophiles.
@Aldo2 Oh, I remember now. Fuentes did indeed say it's trad to marry children. Yeah, any groomer or woodchipper talk is projection from him/his simps.
MAP is a really retarded term and I think it is pushed with ulterior motives, because it's both a rebranding and it lumps together hebephilia and pedophilia, which are different degrees of bad.
There's obviously something wrong about being a rw schizo nutjob, but bad behaviors and traits tend to cluster ie it's not really shock that the schizo nutjob who tries getting into a "self defense" situation also likes kids.
@Aldo2 I vaguely remember that survey, but I don't remember if they asked aoa. Like I said there's a difference between being attracted to prepubescent and pubescent features. While hebephilia seems to be to some extent a part of male sexuality, I see no reason why sexual attraction to someone unable to reproduce should be considered normal.
@Aldo2 I wanted to make a point but fell asleep midway lol. The point I wanted to make is that even though a large amount of people drive over the legal speed limit and that the speed limit and enforcement of it is to some extent arbitrary, it doesn't negate that driving at higher speeds is more dangerous.
I agree that Americans are retarded on sex (and other things) and push that retardation onto other places, but not everything they push is retarded. I don't know the history of AoC but I do know that around the 70s pedophilia was a social justice cause so how was it before that? and I also know that in the past in Europe, while you could marry children, that was primarily done by nobles for power reasons and the average age for marriage was early 20s.
>"relationship doesn't equal reproduction" No, but a sexual relationship does. Arousal is a feeling that we have to motivate reproduction. Being aroused by something/someone that can't reproduce isn't normal behavior.
Did the survey ask if the attraction is exclusive?
To answer your previous question about institutionalizing 20% of the population, no, just the ones who act. Men have quite a strong propensity towards violence and often have violent fantasies, but we only lock up those who act on it in (usually harmful) ways.
Had quite a few blackouts and brownouts here in #ABQ over the past couple days. It's only going to get worse for the next few months I'm afraid.
On Saturday we peaked at 106° where I'm at. Yesterday we peaked at 102°. Today is supposed to be a little cooler fortunately.
And people wonder why I've got so many UPSes!
(1) 20A for my desktop/ workstation (1) 15A for both of my NASes (1) 15A for my networking gear
I've got an automatic shut-off for my RV. When the voltage drops too low or gets too high it automatically kills power so some of these blackouts might be self-inflicted. Still, I'd much rather have no power than bad power.
Attending my first conference in a while, I’m tempted to do a quick presentation. Title: “Offsetting the societal and environmental costs of ChatGPT so that you can use it responsibly to power your next startup.” The slide: “You can’t.” Thank you for coming to my lightning talk.
For nvidia "data center brought in 14x as much revenue as the gaming segment last quarter": tomshardware.com/pc-components… 14-fucking-x. And I don't have hard data on this but I would bet that the GPUs in data centers spend much more time actually working, so the difference in energy use is much higher than that. It was not home gaming that made Google revert its sustainability goals: fortune.com/2024/07/10/ai-has-… Or undermine Microsoft's: sustainabilitymag.com/articles…
But hey, we're betting on AGI to jump out any day now to solve the climate crisis for us, right? Right after it answers Altman's question on how to make his company profitable: youtube.com/watch?v=gjQUCpeJG1… I don't know if this is the stupidest bubble ever, but it can't be far from the top.
What folks don’t get is that he said exactly what the VCs want to hear. If he’d said they had a revenue plan or — heaven forbid — a plan to become cashflow positive and/or profitable; they would all have pulled out immediately. That’s just not how things work in the Silicon Valley model. You grow. You dominate. You monopolise. Then you monetise. It’s a zero-sum game.
Even in SV most companies must present some semblance of a plan, at least by analogy to an already known model. But this is the moonshot of all moonshots so the normal rules don’t apply. And he said exactly what *he* needed to not be responsible for the losses when the bubble collapses.
Aral, the reports from that region are relentlessly sickening. Why do you suppose there isn't universal condemnation from the rest of the world? Is it all just due to racism?
@Professor_Stevens Sure, racism is a huge factor. But, also, in the words of the leader of the UK opposition, Kemi Badenoch: “Israel is fighting a proxy war on behalf of the UK.”
(This was not a criticism but a statement of fact and a defence for the UK’s ongoing support for israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.)
Here I confess my American ignorance of world affairs (we do have a lot to worry about locally, but still...). What's the UK's reason for supporting the destruction of Palestine?
That would explain the reaction to the Israeli attack on Iran. But am I to understand that the atrocities going on in Gaza are being tolerated (if that's the right word) by the UK (and the US) just because they are a kind of "foot in the door" for action against the larger countries to the east?
Orthodox priest and professor Darko Ristov Djogo reacts to footage from Chișinău, where peaceful Christian protesters — including priests — were violently thrown to the ground by police during an LGBT...
Las detenciones se producen en Berriozar y el Casco Viejo de Iruñea, relacionadas con manifestaciones contra la presencia del partido de extrema derecha.
Israel ha industrializado el terrorismo de Estado - mpr21
"Irán ya no es víctima de las incursiones israelíes, sino que se ha convertido en el trágico e implacable espejo de su política exterior. Es una consecuencia lógica y directa de décadas de provocaciones no autorizadas"
Se os acabo el monopolio de la violencia en oriente medio putos mierda sionistas, bienvenidos a la realidad cabrones, arde telaviv, haifa es un puto cráter y suma y sigue.
Hubo una época, no hace mucho, en que Israel reivindicaba el monopolio de la violencia en Oriente Medio, exhibiendo su poderío tras su Cúpula de Hierro, sus armas estadounidenses y sus armas nucleares no declaradas, dictando su voluntad a los medios …
Israel ha invocado tanto el infierno que arde en él.
Sin olvidar las perlas como:
Irán ya no se conformará con ser la víctima silenciosa de provocaciones y ataques ilegales [...] sino el brutal regreso de la justicia histórica. [...] Israel está siendo devuelto al lugar que le corresponde, no por la diplomacia ni los tribunales internacionales, sino por la fuerza implacable de un Estado que se niega a permitir que lo humillen y aniquilen [...]
@disisdeguey @xesfur De acuerdo, pero las armas nucleares tienen dos nombres, uno que utilizan de cara a la sociedad y otro que responde a su propósito real.
El primero ws "armas de disuasión" y el real es "armas de venganza" ya que en realidad se diseñaron para que en caso de que alguien las use el otro bando también y se provoque una destrucción mutua.
@disisdeguey Ya, pero en cambio los países árabes en general, están dando un espectáculo lamentable. Ni están, ni se les espera. Se ve que quedaron muy tocados desde la Guerra de los Seis Días, y además muchos países laicos donde el panarabismo de los 70 era importante, han ido cayendo por el camino.
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This seems contradictory. On the one hand you're saying that these works are wrongly locked behind paywalls, but on the other you're saying that scraping them is an "assault on the cornerstones of our public knowledge." Is this information supposed to be freely viewable or not?
IMO the ideal solution would be the one Wikimedia uses, which is to make the information available in an easily-downloadable archive file. That lets anyone who wants the whole thing to have it without having to "hammer" the servers. Meanwhile the servers can be protected by standard load-balancing and DDOS prevention systems.
so every single repository should have to spend their time, energy, and resources on accommodating a bunch of venture funded companies that want to get all of this shit for free without contributing to these repositories at all themselves?
Was Aaron Schwartz wrong to scrape those repositories? He shouldn't have been accessing all those publicly-funded academic works? Making it easier for him to access that stuff would have been "capitulating to hackers?"
I think the problem here is that you don't actually believe that information should be free. You want to decide who and what gets to use that "publicly-funded academic work", and you have decided that some particular uses are allowable and others are not. Who made you that gatekeeper, though?
I think it's reasonable that information that's freely posted for public viewing should be freely viewable. As in anyone can view it. If they want to view all of it and that puts a load on the servers providing it, but there's an alternate way of providing it that doesn't put that load on the servers, what's wrong with doing that? It solves everyones' problems.
If someone did an Aaron-Schwartz-style scrape, then published the data they scraped in a downloadable archive so that AI trainers could download it and use it, would you find that objectionable?
That suggestion is exactly the same as what I started with when I said "IMO the ideal solution would be the one Wikimedia uses, which is to make the information available in an easily-downloadable archive file." It just cuts out the Aaron-Schwarts-style external middleman, so it's easier and more efficient to create the downloadable data.
I don’t understand why the burden is on the victims here.
They put the website up. Load balancing, rate limiting, and such go with the turf. It's their responsibility to make the site easy to use and hard to break. Putting up an archive of the content that the scrapers want is an easy and straightforward thing to do to accomplish this goal.
I think what's really going on here is that your concern isn't about ensuring that the site is up, and it's certainly not about ensuring that the data it's providing is readily available. It's that there are these specific companies you don't like and you just want to forbid them from accessing otherwise freely accessible data.
That is absolutely ridiculous. The pressure AI scraping puts on sites vastly outstrips anything people built for, as evidenced by the fact that the systems are going down.
Yes. Which is why I'm suggesting providing an approach that doesn't require scraping the site.
"In the USA" and "by large portions of the capitalist class" are the answers to your question, I think the previous commenter was just a bit too incredulous because this topic came up in the news lately and they'd expected it to be common knowledge even outside the U.S. since much of the "AI Industry" is involved with U.S. tech companies.
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Remember when people were trying to say people being shot in bread lines was from warning shots and now those same people just ignore dozens of people a day being shot in bread lines?
this is just /one/ of a multitude of atrocities that are being ignored & that israel used to try to justify, but now realise they don't even need to do so. i genuinely feel as though i'm losing my mind.
If I was a kid and I found out my parents intentionally infected me with COVID multiple times I would make sure my parents suffered horribly during their twilight years. Nothing illegal. But definitely enough to make them regret their life choices.
I am once again begging journalists to be more critical ~~of tech companies~~.
But as this happens, it’s crucial to keep the denominator in mind. Since 2020, Waymo has reported roughly 60 crashes serious enough to trigger an airbag or cause an injury. But those crashes occurred over more than 50 million miles of driverless operations. If you randomly selected 50 million miles of human driving—that’s roughly 70 lifetimes behind the wheel—you would likely see far more serious crashes than Waymo has experienced to date.
[...] Waymo knows exactly how many times its vehicles have crashed. What’s tricky is figuring out the appropriate human baseline, since human drivers don’t necessarily report every crash. Waymo has tried to address this by estimating human crash rates in its two biggest markets—Phoenix and San Francisco. Waymo’s analysis focused on the 44 million miles Waymo had driven in these cities through December, ignoring its smaller operations in Los Angeles and Austin.
This is the wrong comparison. These are taxis, which means they're driving taxi miles. They should be compared to taxis, not normal people who drive almost exclusively during their commutes (which is probably the most dangerous time to drive since it's precisely when they're all driving).
We also need to know how often Waymo intervenes in the supposedly autonomous operations. The latest we have from this, which was leaked a while back, is that Cruise (different company) cars are actually less autonomous than taxis, and require >1 employee per car.
edit: The leaked data on human interventions was from Cruise, not Waymo. I'm open to self-driving cars being safer than humans, but I don't believe a fucking word from tech companies until there's been an independent audit with full access to their facilities and data. So long as we rely on Waymo's own publishing without knowing how the sausage is made, they can spin their data however they want.
edit2: Updated to say that ournalists should be more critical in general, not just about tech companies.
to amplify the previous point, taps the sign as Joseph Weizenbaum turns over in his grave
A computer can never be held accountable
Therefore a computer must never make a management decision
tl;dr A driverless car cannot possibly be "better" at driving than a human driver. The comparison is a category error and therefore nonsensical; it's also a distraction from important questions of morality and justice. More below.
Numerically, it may some day be the case that driverless cars have fewer wrecks than cars driven by people.(1) Even so, it will never be the case that when a driverless car hits and kills a child the moral situation will be the same as when a human driver hits and kills a child. In the former case the liability for the death would be absorbed into a vast system of amoral actors with no individuals standing out as responsible. In effect we'd amortize and therefore minimize death with such a structure, making it sociopathic by nature and thereby adding another dimension of injustice to every community where it's deployed.(2) Obviously we've continually done exactly this kind of thing since the rise of modern technological life, but it's been sociopathic every time and we all suffer for it despite rampant narratives about "progress" etc.
It will also never be the case that a driverless car can exercise the judgment humans have to decide whether one risk is more acceptable than another, and then be held to account for the consequences of their choice. This matters.
Please (re-re-)read Weizenbaum's book if you don't understand why I can state these things with such unqualified confidence.
Basically, we all know damn well that whenever driverless cars show some kind of numerical superiority to human drivers (3) and become widespread, every time one kills, let alone injures, a person no one will be held to account for it. Companies are angling to indemnify themselves from such liability, and even if they accept some of it no one is going to prison on a manslaughter charge if a driverless car kills a person. At that point it's much more likely to be treated as an unavoidable act of nature no matter how hard the victim's loved ones reject that framing. How high a body count do our capitalist systems need to register before we all internalize this basic fact of how they operate and stop apologizing for it?
(1) Pop quiz! Which seedy robber baron has been loudly claiming for decades now that full self driving is only a few years away, and depends on people believing in that fantasy for at least part of his fortune? We should all read Wrong Way by Joanne McNeil to see the more likely trajectory of "driverless" or "self-driving" cars. (2) Knowing this, it is irresponsible to put these vehicles on the road, or for people with decision-making power to allow them on the road, until this new form of risk is understood and accepted by the community. Otherwise you're forcing a community to suffer a new form of risk without consent and without even a mitigation plan, let alone a plan to compensate or otherwise make them whole for their new form of loss. (3) Incidentally, quantifying aspects of life and then using the numbers, instead of human judgement, to make decisions was a favorite mission of eugenicists, who stridently pushed statistics as the "right" way to reason to further their eugenic causes. Long before Zuckerberg's hot or not experiment turned into Facebook, eugenicist Francis Galton was creeping around the neighborhoods of London with a clicker hidden in his pocket counting the "attractive" women in each, to identify "good" and "bad" breeding and inform decisions about who was "deserving" of a good life and who was not. Old habits die hard.
Your feedback is frustrating because it seems like you almost have it, but then you fall back on technosolutionist logic.
The fact we can even say that human drivers are "negligent" is a very good thing. That means we are aware that human drivers are accountable for their (in)actions.
"Autonomous" vehicles cannot be called negligent. It wouldn't make sense to do so. It might be the case that their makers cannot be called negligent either. Perhaps every person involved puts every effort into making the vehicles safe, but they turn out not to be. That is a very bad thing. It is (meta)negligent to set up a system like this, where people can be severely harmed or killed and there is no one who takes responsibility. I dare say it is sociopathic to do so.
The last point does not hold. Spanish people I know eat dinner at 11 PM and breakfast at 7 AM. And they live outside of Spain, the timezone issue does not apply here. Idk when they sleep (Siesta? Siesta in Sweden/Germany?) Please explain.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al 1) The #Fediverse is not #Mastodon. It is vast, and it is wide. Mastodon may be the most *popular* platform that is part of the Fediverse, but that is only because of Marketing. Think Windows vs. Mac vs. Linux vs. FreeBSD vs. every other operating system on the planet. Windows is #1 due to marketing only. Doesn't mean it's the best. 2) Even among Mastodon servers only the flagship server is in Germany. Anyone is free to run a Mastodon server and a lot of them are located outside of Germany. 3) Equating the Fediverse with Mastodon and a Zionist developer in Germany completely ignores the vibrant tapestry that is the Fediverse. 4) Just avoid Mastodon. Seriously. Find a different server. Find a different platform. Mastodon sucks monkey balls but 99% of people never know this because they happy to bitch, moan, and complain about Mastodon sucking when 99% of other Fedi platforms and instances have already solved all the crap they're complaining about Mastodon doing.
Someone educate the admins at mastodon.social that holocaust and Holocaust are different things. Note the capitalisation.
What israel is perpetrating in Palestine is *a* holocaust, not *the* Holocaust. And yes, it is genocide. And yes, they’re also guilty of close to eight decades of apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and settler colonialism. All these things can be (and are) true at the same time.
Basically, if you’re defending israel in any way, shape, or form right now, you’re the worst of the worst. Almost a century ago, you’re the kind of person who would have been cheering on Hitler. And yes, that’s also a valid comparison.
(Genocide-loving Germans on mastodon.social don’t @ me. My mentions are a genocide-apologist-free zone.)
Good summary. No idea what it has to do with my post, which doesn’t mention fediverse once, but still, appreciate the effort. Always good to reiterate the facts.
I was responding to your post about how Gargron (and mastodon.social) is anti-Palestine. Simply pointing out there are other alternatives out there, nothing more.
Over the course of its 20-year history, the ODF standard has been adopted, or at least recommended, by numerous supranational bodies and several countries on almost every continent.
Just encountered a water moccasin also known as a cottonmouth snake in the blackberries. I decided not to be so foolish as to stop and take a photo with my phone. Just imagine a very angry-looking, stocky, black snake displaying a triangular head and posturing as if it were giving me a few seconds head start.😅
I know. My analytical mind was like, "Hm. I wonder if regular non-venomous black snakes can mimic vipers." But luckily my amygdala was like, "Move it, sister!" LOL
Ah, yes, another person who can’t understand large numbers.
The combined net worth of all billionaires in the US is around $6T. That would only fund the federal government (not state and locals, just the federal government) for about 18 months. And you could only tax that once. And that’s just current spending, it doesn’t address the $37T debt.
it's a matter of having a fraudulent monetary system. many people make this sophomoric mistake of blaming "capitalism" (freedom and private property) for the fraudulent, private, fractional reserve central banking system we have that allows bankers to create virtually unlimited money and give it directly to themselves.
until the banking system is fixed and the systemic fraud is eliminated, wealth inequality won't change.
this applies to whatever political system is in place- if the currency is issued by fiat and the monetary system is fraudulent, it really makes no difference whether it's communist, fascist, or otherwise. wealth will be concentrated in the bank accounts of whoever issues the money by fiat
Fractional reserve is fine when properly managed. We can talk about how much reserves should be on hand but zero is incredibly inefficient.
As long as loans are actually paid back, it’s not inflatiionary over the long term since the dollars are returned (with interest) and that money is not chasing goods and services. Defaulted loans are different, so you need to have good risk management and keep those under control.
Wealth inequality is simply the result of freedom. People make choices, not all of those choices are good ones. If you started fresh and gave everyone the same amount of money, inequality will return as time goes on. It’s the natural order of things. Some people may not like it, but true equality == slavery. If you want a truly equal society, we have a place where everyone has the same housing, food, clothing, etc. We call that place prison because that’s what it takes to enforce that system.
@midway you're deeply misinformed. fractional reserve is not "fine" on any level, it's fraud. it's double-book accounting. it means the bank does not have your money. especially when combined with lending at interest, the bank creates money out of nothing, loans it out to people, then gets paid back plus interest, requiring perpetual, inflationary debt money creation that is mathematically impossible to ever repay. this is BY DEFINITION inflationary.
i don't expect everyone to be equal, or have equal outcome. i expect *** equal OPPORTUNITY*** meaning we don't have some rules for private bankers and others for private individuals, specifically that they control the creation of fake debt-money (counterfeit, essentially, with a power monopoly of the state, yet they're not answerable to the taxpayers) yet the rest of us can't create a competing currency.
what we have is socialized risk, and privatized profit. this level of wealth inequality isn't just a result of freedom, it's primarily a result of fraud, and lack of freedom
so i don't know what crack pot econ school you went to but you should ask for a refund
If a bank must keep all of your deposits on hand, it can’t loan money out and would therefore have to charge you fees to hold it. That is a very inefficient use of capital.
I never said that money should be loaned out that would be impossible to repay. That is the exact point I made…proper risk management is key. Some loans will default to be sure…it’s the real world. But money paid back isn’t inflation over the long term because you are taking money out of circulation by paying back a loan. That money is not chasing goods and services and acts as a demand suppressant to counteract the demand increase by the loan.
If you want to live in a world without a credit market, good luck to you. It is literally the basis of our entire modern society. Go live out in the woods and barter…there’s a ton of empty space out there.
This is, in no way, a defense of how every detail of our system today. But the underlying concepts are fine. It’s all in the risk management. I’m fine with there not being “too big to fail” banks…those are a bad idea. Reasonable regulation on what banks can do based on their balance sheet is important. Under that scheme, some banks can fail and their losses need not be socialized. This would change consumer as well as institutional behaviors that are the core issues with the system. Risk, like pain, can be a good thing…it helps prevent doing stupid things. There should be risk in the system. Trying to eliminate it is what leads to dumb policies.
@midway yes, a bank should keep all your deposits on hand unless it's an investment account and you explicitly authorize them to invest it on your behalf. if that costs money then so be it, there's value there. you should pay for it.
the fractional reserve system we have is beyond fraudulent ,there's zero reserve ratio, they create the money for loans out of nothing, so it's not like they actually loan out "your" money they loan out fake money that they litereally punched up on a computer out of nothing (this is one of the primary ways money is created in the """federal""" """reserve""" bank system, through loan origination. so to be absolutely clear, that's so far from the function of a savings bank- it's something completely different. again, the system is fraudulent.
and the taxpayers are on the hook for endless bailouts. this is how we ended up with 25% of our federal budget being interest on the debt. the system needs to be burned to the ground and replaced with sound money, imo a combination of constitutional gold and silver money, and non-fiat crypto like btc, and allowing other competing currencies.
Feel free to bury metals in your backyard and barter. I’m good making interest from a bank on spare cash. Credit isn‘t a bad thing when used properly. It’s how we have grown and advanced over the last century. Is it perfect? No. Should people diversify? Yes. But full reserve banking makes no sense. If you want a bank that is more local and looks out for its customers more, credit unions are a thing. Different options for different people.
>It’s how we have grown and advanced over the last century giving a fraudulent private banking system credit for "how we've advanced" is idiotic. we've advanced IN SPITE OF the parasitic drain on society extracting such a massive amount of wealth out of the productive economy
Someone's taken feeding the birds in Kelvingrove Park to a whole new level! This was the set up I found on the parapet of the Prince of Wales Bridge when I visited it for this morning's dog walk.
The Israeli-Iranian conflict has lessons on market power and war. So does China's use of rare earth magnets. Plus Meta tries a big AI acquisition, and Warner-Discovery splits up after a dumb merger.
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We speak with the UN expert about efforts to stop the genocide, the "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" and activist convoys trying to reach Gaza. It was also one of the costliest weeks for the Israeli army.
Someone educate the admins at mastodon.social that holocaust and Holocaust are different things. Note the capitalisation.
What israel is perpetrating in Palestine is *a* holocaust, not *the* Holocaust. And yes, it is genocide. And yes, they’re also guilty of close to eight decades of apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and settler colonialism. All these things can be (and are) true at the same time.
Basically, if you’re defending israel in any way, shape, or form right now, you’re the worst of the worst. Almost a century ago, you’re the kind of person who would have been cheering on Hitler. And yes, that’s also a valid comparison.
(Genocide-loving Germans on mastodon.social don’t @ me. My mentions are a genocide-apologist-free zone.)
i absolutely agree. thank you for this! I received this same message a few days back for responding with an image. And the image did not fall into any of the categories listed in this response from the admins!
stop calling every genocide a "holocaust", an holocaust is a sacrifice, an offering, it's the total opposite of a genocide
The jews were not genocided as a some sort of sacrificial ritual, and neither are the palestinians
That's why we call the genocide of the jews "Shoah" which means "disaster", and we should use the same vocabulary when speaking of the palestinian genocide, it's not a sacrifice, it's a genocide
Language essentialism is a big sign of Nazism/Fascism. As per Umberto Eco:
"Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak.[...] [E]lements of Ur-Fascism are common to different forms of dictatorship. All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning. But we must be ready to identify other kinds of Newspeak, even if they take the apparently innocent form of a popular talk show"
This is another of those scenarios @pluralistic is fond of reminding us of, where those responsible were warned, loudly, before the damage & forged ahead anyway.
It's bad enough that we, modern humanity, collectively, can't stop pissing where we sleep, but rewarding the biggest bed pissers with billionaire status might be just a little over the top in terms of bad idea'ness...
Es geht nicht um Atomwaffen. Es geht #Netanyahu um #RegimeChange - hin zu einer Art neuem #Iran als Vasallenstaat für #Israel und USA.
»Analysis | Netanyahu's True Goal in the War With Iran Is the One He Isn't Openly Admitting. Israeli PM Netanyahu often speaks of 'historical changes that will be talked about for generations' – and his real ambitions for this war against Iran certainly fit the description« haaretz.com/middle-east-news/2… (Paywall)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu often speaks of 'historical changes that will be talked about for generations' – and his real ambitions for this war against Iran certainly fit the description
Implicitly addressing #Israel, #EU says diplomacy is best method to address #Iran nuclear program
Foreign policy chief Kallas: "We all agreed the urgent need for de-escalation. Iran cannot have a nuclear bomb, and diplomacy is the solution to prevent this, and EU will play its part"
Analyst in #Tehran: "For years, #Iran civil society had been fractured: student activists demanding freedoms, ethnic minorities decrying repression, women resisting the mandatory hijab and a middle class crushed by inflation. Yet #Israel aggression transformed dissent into solidarity"
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