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thebiscuiteternal: > doomhamster: > >> shofarsogood: >> >>> shaiko-system: >>> >>>> tpwrtrmnky: >>>> >>>>> tpwrtrmnky: >>>>> >>>>>> tpwrtrmnky: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Tbh I think the “but data centers are important infrastructure, not just AI” talking point misses that like >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Ok so roads are important infrastructure. A lot of stuff that’s important happens on roads. Now, let’s imagine that quadrillionaire Matt Stench has decided that the next big tech innovation is the Wide Car. It’s a car that takes up six lanes despite seating only one passenger. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The Wide Car is supposed to be the future, and everyone’s going to be driving Wide Cars, even though nobody who makes Wide Cars is turning a profit. Employers are offering Wide Cars as an employee benefit, and getting “nah.” Some employers are going as far as _demanding_ their employees drive Wide Cars, and the result is that people take time out of their workdays to get in the mandatory gas usage for their Wide Car before driving home in a regular car. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> In spite of the fact that the Wide Car is clearly set to fail, there’s an enormous push to expand to twelve-lane roads to accommodate a bunch of Wide Cars that simply will not materialize. This is not an organic response to demand, but a speculative investment that amplifies the existing issues with road development for no good reason. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> _That_ is the problem. >>>>>> >>>>>> Oh and the road infrastructure project is buying up resources other people could have used for literally anything else. With money they promise they’ll be making from Wide Car sales any day now. >>>>> >>>>> Okay so what I’m getting from the notes is that when you try to transplant some techbro nonsense into an offline equivalent, you have to be careful to avoid simply inventing something the Americans are already doing in real life >>>> >>>> i’ve stood next to one, 5'3", its sheer presence genuinely fucking intimidates me. that thing should not be on the road. >>> >>> This is also a problem in the US because >>> >>> * These cars don’t fit into parking spaces and make pulling out in parking lots impossible >>> * The weight of big cars is causing additional stress on roads and bridges >>> * The number of big cars and trucks is directly linked to the number of children struck by cars because the drivers can’t see over the hood! >>> >>> >>> These cars should be banned. They’re not even useful for hauling because the truck bed space keeps shrinking. >> >> …please don’t be telling me there are Even Wider Cars that we aren’t seeing in Europe? Because the humongousness of some of the cars people are trying and failing to cram into our parking garages here in Sweden already causes disasters, frankly. > > Doomy, I am so sorry to tell you this, but Ford put this thing on the market last year. > > And this is its even worse sibling from this year.

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reverendyoda: > shofarsogood: > >> bane-of-technology: >> >>> argumate: >>> >>>> argumate: >>>> >>>>> Therapists are secretly using ChatGPT. Clients are triggered. >>>>> >>>>>> Declan would never have found out his therapist was using ChatGPT had it not been for a technical mishap. The connection was patchy during one of their online sessions, so Declan suggested they turn off their video feeds. Instead, his therapist began inadvertently sharing his screen. >>>>> >>>>>> “Suddenly, I was watching him use ChatGPT,” says Declan, 31, who lives in Los Angeles. “He was taking what I was saying and putting it into ChatGPT, and then summarizing or cherry-picking answers.” >>>>> >>>>>> Declan was so shocked he didn’t say anything, and for the rest of the session he was privy to a real-time stream of ChatGPT analysis rippling across his therapist’s screen. The session became even more surreal when Declan began echoing ChatGPT in his own responses, preempting his therapist. >>>>> >>>>>> “I became the best patient ever,” he says, “because ChatGPT would be like, ‘Well, do you consider that your way of thinking might be a little too black and white?’ And I would be like, ‘Huh, you know, I think my way of thinking might be too black and white,’ and [my therapist would] be like, ‘ _Exactly_.’ I’m sure it was his dream session.” >>>>> >>>>>> Among the questions racing through Declan’s mind was, “Is this legal?” When Declan raised the incident with his therapist at the next session—“It was super awkward, like a weird breakup”—the therapist cried. He explained he had felt they’d hit a wall and had begun looking for answers elsewhere.“I was still charged for that session,” Declan says, laughing. >>>>> >>>>> omg that’s so funny, all the worry about patients therapising _themselves_ with ChatGPT when a real human therapist can do it for them 😂 >>>> >>>>> So had Hope, 25, who lives on the east coast of the US, and had direct-messaged her therapist about the death of her dog. She soon received a message back. It would have been consoling and thoughtful—expressing how hard it must be “not having him by your side right now”—were it not for the reference to the AI prompt accidentally preserved at the top: “Here’s a more human, heartfelt version with a gentle, conversational tone.” >>>> >>>>> Hope says she felt “honestly really surprised and confused.” “It was just a very strange feeling,” she says. “Then I started to feel kind of betrayed. … It definitely affected my trust in her.” This was especially problematic, she adds, because “part of why I was seeing her was for my trust issues.” >>>> >>>> it was never about the words, all about the person >> >> As a future therapist: >> >> This violates the social worker code of ethics and I sincerely hope everyone who does this is stripped of their license. There’s no excuse for this shit. > > Húbazmeg _napalm._

vaspider: > aggressivewhenstartled: > >> vaspider: >> >>> shofarsogood: >>> >>>> vaspider: >>>> >>>>> vaspider: >>>>> >>>>>> illumanarchy: >>>>>> >>>>>>> vaspider: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> ALT >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> ALT >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Common Cause put together a $115K deal with the Washington Post in partnership with SPLC to have these two huge ads in the WaPo papers that are delivered to Congress, the Pentagon, and the White House. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> When they saw the images, they backed out, presumably bc Bezos doesn’t want to piss off the Trump administration. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Well. I can’t get these images into Congress, but I surely can start them running around the internet. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I’m no Musk fan, but geez, people. Get some political literacy. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Musk is a Special Government Employee (SGE). Hires don’t go through elections or congressional confirmation. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> SGEs have been a thing since 1962. Just because the TV has told you Musk is Satan incarnate, and you believe everything the TV tells you, doesn’t mean this is an unprecedented unconstitutional scenario. >>>>>> >>>>>> Before I block your condescending ass,**_perhaps you could learn to fucking read_**. Nothing in this says that Musk being hired is an unprecedented unconstitutional scenario. What he and his crew are doing certainly break an awful lot of laws, shit on the separation of powers, and are causing a constitutional crisis, but him being hired? No, that was legal. Sort of. Because what he’s doing doesn’t meet the definition of an SGE, you see. I know that your favorite podcast host probably told you to scoff at people and say “SGE,” but some of us actually know what that means and that Musk is far, far outside the range of what an SGE actually does. Here, I’ll link to a very short, basic explanation for you, since you seem to be really fucking confused about this incredibly basic concept. >>>>>> >>>>>> What is a Special Government Employee (SGE)? | NIH Ethics Program >>>>>> >>>>>> # That’s why the ads say “** _FIRE MUSK_** ,” you useless sack of wet dead mice. Because that’s what you do with someone you hired who sucks shit through a soggy paper straw: you fucking fire them. >>>>>> >>>>>> They don’t say “Musk is Satan,” they don’t say “hiring Musk **_in any way_** was illegal,” they say FIRE MUSK. Nobody elected him and we _**therefore**_ don’t want him to have the level of power that he has, in part because he has outright stated that he will ignore any attempts to place checks or balances on him, _**and he ’s doing that right now**_. Just fucking ignoring the checks and balances built into our system of government. >>>>>> >>>>>> I know that you’re really eager to run in and condescend to people and feel so much smarter than others, but before you do, you should try being, you know. Actually correct. Otherwise you don’t look very smart at all. :( >>>>>> >>>>>> Please fucking understand that some of us read the text of bills for fun, have an active list of bills we’re following on various bill-tracking sites, devour books on political history, and read/watch legal analysis, again, _**for fucking funsies**_. I will literally sit at my computer with the text of a bill before the OR House open, reading through multiple versions to compare the changes because I want to know what’s going on in my state. You are barking up the exact wrong tree if you want to throw the “oooh the TV told you to be scared” at someone, babykins. >>>>>> >>>>>> And unlike you, I have **_basic fucking reading comprehension_** , so I know the difference between an SGE acting within **_a narrow, defined advisory scope to a committee or as a consultant_** , which is what an SGE is **_supposed_** to do, and a single man and a bunch of untrained college-age sycophants running roughshod over specialized COBOL databases twice their age, literally breaking the law because the money that Congress disburses via the federal budget is in fact disbursed as part of a law because _that ’s how that fucking works_, “disbanding” agencies that he has no authority to disband (and who coincidentally started investigating his business dealings in Ukraine last year) and all other kinds of fucking bullshit. >>>>>> >>>>>> Anyway: >>>>>> >>>>>> # FIRE MUSK. >>>>>> >>>>>> _Oh, and P.S., if his toadies really were in the Dept. of Education databases like they claim they were, that ’s a violation of FERPA and if you have outstanding student loans you should file a complaint. :_) >>>>> >>>>> Imagine spending all that time on a response when I could have just written “lol, antivaxxer” and moved on with my life. >>>>> >>>>> oh well, that was fun to write tho >>>> >>>> You gave me the phrase “sucking shit through a soggy paper straw.” >>> >>> I give the people what they need. >> >> It also gave me more information! So like, “you’re arguing not to convince THEM, but the onlookers” for the win! > > Well that’s often what I say I’m doing, so, win.

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