Everything encrypted except pirated media on external drives. All personal data encrypted so if i die people are locked out of personal files and will have to wipe the drives to make them usable. Finally if they don’t use linux they might be out of luck with those external drives with media, too.

Oh, for sure, I agree, I have been interested in similar ideas, but these ideas held by the tech elite are some kind of weird insanity of thinking they will have a hand in shaping the future and not that the future is something that is emergent, not controlled.

On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? (this is the paper that got her fired from Google)
https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3442188.3445922

A breakdown of the ideas in her paper from the MIT Technology Review:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/04/1013294/google-ai-ethics-research-paper-forced-out-timnit-gebru/

Other research from Gebru also led to Amazon putting a one year moratorium on selling facial recognition to police:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/12/1003482/amazon-stopped-selling-police-face-recognition-fight/

Gebru is also credited with creating the term TESCREAL which is a descriptive term of all the inter-related ideologies that drive the Nerd Reich:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TESCREAL

Anyway, she’s been loud and open and mostly ignored, sadly. Understandably, she is saying this stuff very recently and the seeds of it all actually go very far back, so I would hope the Nerd Reich delves more into where the ideologies of TESCREAL arose and what they arose from.

I wasn’t sure if the Nerd Reich was going to be telling me stuff I already knew. I kind of felt like Timnit Gebru called this all when she got shitcanned from Google… because they couldn’t have her talking so openly about what their plans clearly are and were. To the people in charge at Google, it was a feature, not a bug, and they didn’t need this woman (a brown African woman no less, the horror!) telling the world exactly what they were planning and asking them to change it.

I may be more interested if it goes pretty deep into the history of how these people came to be who they are, and what sources influenced their thinking in this perverse “its only utopia if we build it, and if you dont think its utopia you are wrong” attitude they all seem to have.

Yeah it looks like she never submitted to Maralago face either, she still looks way too much like herself for that ilk.

It’s so interesting to me that they simultaneously think that they can privatize everything and that there will always be people there to care for them somehow. One of the real issues with privatization is the problem of businesses not wanting to train the next generation of workers, they want workers coming in already knowing the ropes, they don’t want to spend money on training them.

So what happens after all the avenues of becoming a doctor shut down, and their private doc retires, and they struggle to replace them because now there are no new doctors? It just doesn’t make a lick of sense, honestly, because shutting down these places will result in people in the medical field having to find other jobs (and they no longer exist in their field once its all shut down) and those skills will end up fading as they move to other fields and the number of people in the medical field able to support ANYONE including the billionaire class continues to shrink.

Everything about what they do is so completely short sighted.

In the early 2000s I worked in the news and used to see her on CNBC. For how intelligent and top of things she seemed at the time, it always was a bit surprising to me that she turned to FOX and then Trump. Makes me a bit sad for her to have chosen such a path, so much potential wasted.

From what I read US intelligence rated the threat as very low.

Feels more like scripted bullshit to help justify a “state of emergency” and canceling elections.

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Yeah this fat ass ain’t a contortionist

For Lemmy it’s “verification beans” and you’re not allowed to poop for three days.

Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in making text editors in the first place. And some said that even making operating systems had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have built computers at all.

The second half of this statement is debatable

This baby boy is 26, meaning he was 25 when these comments were made. Anyone acting like this problem will go away when the elderly bigots begin to die off is a fool. Further, as he is a Democratic Socialist, it’s just one more for the pile of evidence that the LGBTQ+ community could never and still can’t count on “the left” for support and representation.

Those indeed can be fun but be aware they’re almost assuredly doing facial recognition on their users, and the whole system works by always retrieving the files themselves from a remote server, I’m fairly sure they don’t even cache on your phone (I could be wrong there, though). It’s really up to you if you think it’s all fun enough and worth having fun socializing with your friends with the risk of lack of privacy in that respect. Maybe you can keep it to a minimum of anything important being talked about? Unless you have a major reason to worry about being targeted, most people can probably safely dip in just for a handful of throwaway conversations with friends.

Sorry other folk don’t read modern slang.

Not the field you’re talking about, but I worked in television news broadcasting for a while, and yes, the goal was absolutely to get a job at a bigger station with more news and thus more work and faster pace.

Our production manager used to try to train us for the bigger markets as well, he described it as making sure the team could “think on their feet” and deal with unexpected scenarios calmly and quickly.

So at least in that industry, yes, the goal is to end up in a more high stress workplace.

Believe it or not, some people actually really thrive in high-stress environments and do terribly in low-stress environments because it’s simply not exciting enough to keep them engaged with the work.

Munitions, then funding cut, then Trump blaming the lack of munitions on the funding cut.

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I mean… that is indeed true

I wouldn’t want to curse anyone with that