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uspol, being pragmaticAlso, keep in mind other relevant goals such as my goal: eliminating Trump from the political sphere entirelyWhat's the best (legit) way to do that? Well, losing twice in a row to...
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My mom and I spent like a solid hour last night chatting about politics... excitedly, nay *hopefully*, chatting about politics Y'all, I think #KamalaHarris is the one. She's not perfect, but we got an...
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Playing videos of Jennifer Hale talking about voice acting in the background, not because I care about voice acting, but as a reference for femme voice training...
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Elon Musk is a transphobic shit stainMusk: I'm a tech genius billionaire like Tony Stark. I will make sci-fi shit happen in real life. EVs everywhere. Colonizing Mars. Super intelligent AIs in our...
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Pretty sure figuring out a way to get a trans woman or man to grow their own functional reproductive organs is probably more likely than a self-sufficient Martian colony
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⚠️ SCAM PSA ⚠️My sister was just telling my mom and I about a scam she just narrowly missed. Super devious. I'm not sure I would have seen through it in time.She got a few texts that looked like those...
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⚠️ SCAM PSA ⚠️A guy called her pretending to be from the bank and went through an act about the fictional transaction and how he's checking in on it. My sis says it's not authorized, so he's like, "no...
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⚠️ SCAM PSA ⚠️She called her bank's number to verify. No unauthorized transactions. It was all fake.It was a clever trap. Not sure I would have caught it in time. Stay vigilant out there. Under no...
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LLM tools aren't useful to most employees. They are only useful to management, and only as a way to coerce and threaten workers into doing more for less pay, in a more precarious environment.The danger...
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It's important to have a good understanding of how technology works.Not because getting a STEM job is valuable, or because technical knowledge is somehow more important than other types of...
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The more you are ignorant of those design choices in a system, the easier it is for those in power to launder justifications for their actions with those systems.Suddenly it's the system's "fault" for...
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This is true of organizations and societies as well as machines. Rules and norms are a kind of technology, in that they have a similar ability to constrain your choices.Some things are not allowed...
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I'm opposed to most "AI" tech not because of the technology itself, but because the ignorance of how these systems work is often exploited to reinforce existing hierarchies of power.AI systems trained...
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There's nothing inherently morally wrong with AI. What's wrong is how it's used by people.Those people should be held accountable for the consequences of these systems. The potential of a technology...
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If AI is truly as powerful as people like Altman and Musk like to claim, that's reason for more state intervention, not less.- Oversight and transparency on the training data used.- Oversight about...
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The concern over "data privacy" should be reframed as being about digital surveillance.Like, making sure the data is secure and anonymized or whatever isn't as much of an issue as every fucking...
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For #astrophotography, one of the things you have to worry about is making sure the telescope stays locked on the target as accurately as possible because if it drifts at all, it'll ruin the long...
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There are a lot of cameras designed specifically to be used for guiding, and quite a few have an extra "ST4" jack on them to connect to the respective port on the mount for autoguiding.I had always...
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It's basically just a ST4 adapter built into the camera. As in, the intended use is to connect the camera to a PC over USB, and the guiding software is able to send signals on the ST4 port to control a...
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