Gaywallet (they/it)
I’m gay
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Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•The Future of Forums is Lies, I Guess3·5 days agoEh frankly I just see us moving to more strict reputation based systems - someone has to vouch for you.
Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust4·5 days agoSo how is an AI prompt poking for Holocaust denial different than a Google search looking for Holocaust denial?
Because one is something you have to actively search for. The other is shoved in your face, by a figure that many feel is one who has some authority.
Why are you defending anything about this situation? This is not a thread to discuss how LLMs work in detail, this is a thread about accountability, consequences, hate, and society.
Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•The Future of Forums is Lies, I Guess6·6 days agoDefinitely something I’ve observed even here. Luckily we get few applications and there is a report button, but I share the author’s frustration and the author’s jaded view of a limited timeline on services such as ours being tenable. Eventually it will be trivially easy to flood this place with slop.
Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Google loses $314 million lawsuit over data transfers when Android phones are idle16·11 days ago314m what a joke! Still, good to see them lose this court case
Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops12·19 days agoYou believe that a police officer, who is doing public actions, in a public role, should be given privacy while performing public actions? Say more
Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops8·19 days agoEven if an officer’s name and badge number were not public (which would be weird, because both of these are a part of a police officer’s uniform), what is the concern about a tool which provides these?
Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops15·19 days agoI would love to hear what has you concerned about a tool which provides a piece of information which is, by law (California Penal Code Section 830.10), supposed to be accessible to all individuals interacting with the officer - their name and/or badge number.
Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Trump Taps Palantir to Create Master Database on Every American17·2 months agoIn what world is that even a plausible outcome of this news? This feels non-sequitur by its pure absurdity. If they had a list of 1000 things they can do with this database, that would not even be on the list.
I understand you are talking about something which either interests you or is a cause you care about, but we’re talking about monumental governmental surveillance by a president many scholars are calling a fascist. This is not the time nor the place to discuss such matters and trying to have that conversation could easily be read as dismissing the plentiful and obvious concerns around privacy and safety of the American public.
Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Trump Taps Palantir to Create Master Database on Every American37·2 months agoAlready not a fan of Palantir, this is pretty bad news
Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Trump DOJ goon threatens Wikipedia42·3 months agowokepedia lmao what’s wrong with the world
Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media12·3 months agoI’m glad to see a lot of different people trying different models. I don’t think microblogging really has the capability of being nontoxic, but who knows? Maybe they’ll succeed where everyone else has failed. I certainly know we’re trying to have nontoxic social media around here, and we have plenty of issues at a much smaller scale.
I understand why you might be upset based on how they made a rather sweeping statement about the comments without addressing any content. When they said “a bunch of sanctimonious people with too much appreciation for their own thoughts and a lack of any semblance of basic behaviour” it might strike many as an attack on the user base, but I’m choosing to interpret it through the lens of simply being upset at people who are not nice. I could be wrong, and perhaps @sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al can elaborate on exactly who and what they were talking about.
Regardless, let’s try our best to treat them in good faith. Don’t let your own biases shape how you interpret people or their language. Please try to ask clarifying questions first before jumping to the assumption that they are a right wing troll.
Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.orgMto Science@beehaw.org•Ideology May Not Be What You Think but How You’re Wired6·3 months agoHey fam, starting with this reply its pretty clear you’re not engaging in good faith - this statement is fundamentally accusatory. It’s unsurprising that other folks viewed this as an attack. Please chill out, treat users with good faith, and do your best to avoid escalating things - you should gut check your own comments and ask yourself “how will others view this? Is this helpful?” and if the answer is no, rewrite your comment or don’t reply.
Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.orgMto Politics@beehaw.org•Dismantling the IRS Only Helps Billionaire Tax Dodgers3·3 months agoyea fair enough
Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.orgMto Politics@beehaw.org•Dismantling the IRS Only Helps Billionaire Tax Dodgers10·3 months agoI mean, yeah? Are things so bad this isn’t obvious?
Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.orgto Gaming@beehaw.org•have positive reviews destroyed games?5·3 months agoThat’s just cherrypicking. Yes some people will review bomb. Others will make fake positive reviews to counteract people review bombing a game for being too “woke”.
In the end the only thing that even could matter is how people in aggregate work - and that’s easy to account for, you just readjust the distribution to be more spread out to get the “true” score of things.
This video seems more like clickbait than anything. I’m finding it hard to find anything worthwhile to engage with here even from a high level.
Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.orgOPMto Politics@beehaw.org•Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding for programs with 'improper ideology'5·4 months agoThat’s not even worth addressing or bringing up, because they don’t understand science. It’s better to just call them racist, for being racist, because that’s what is happening here… racism
Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.orgOPMto Politics@beehaw.org•Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding for programs with 'improper ideology'12·4 months agoFrom another article on the same issue:
Buried within the list of issues is a reference to a display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The display, the executive order complains, “claims that ‘sculpture has been a powerful tool in promoting scientific racism’ and promotes the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct.”
I’m brought to mind of the concept that any movement must have a peaceful branch for the system to acknowledge and meet demands for change as well as a “violent” branch to drive the opponents to the bargaining table. And within both of those is a need to take care of the community to enable them to continue to protest for change.
Completely agreed with this concept. I’ve been a big fan of multiple voices advocating for different things. It helps others understand where the center is or where the most agreement is likely to be. You need some people asking for everything in order to push in the direction of change, otherwise the people in charge will think what they have given up is satisfactory (or perhaps even too much).
I think where these protests will succeed or fail is community coming together to take care of each other, with a safety net so many more people will be able to participate and make their voices heard.
Yes I think general principles of anarchy apply here in that the more people you can get mobilized around a single issue and the more engagement you can get the more successful it will be. Entirely peaceful protests can drive huge change, but only when the government is a peaceful one who actively wishes to represent the people. The more corrupt and out of touch they get the less they will care about the constituency and the massive prevalence of voter disenfranchisement and a system of corruption which is increasingly run on money in the United States seems to suggest that it falls more closely in that latter bucket.
While you are correct, and the author deserves to be called out on their behavior, the context of the entire article is around how they are struggling with being bombarded with things taking up their attention and time. This response is seriously lacking in any compassion for the author’s struggle and more or less ignores the entire point of the article in order. Beehaw isn’t the place for one-liner gotchas. Please try to engage with the content if you’re going to comment.