Though android is likely going to crack down on them before the end of the year, so new users should switch to a degoogled or open source phone OS.
Or download the videos using ytdlp, and use a cable to transfer them to your phone like it’s 2012.
The article says Uber lets women avoid male drivers, which implies that at the very least the Uber account is registered as female, which means female drivers could choose to only accept jobs offered through this system.
That raises the question how Uber is deciding that drivers and clients are women. Could a prospective rapist make a “female” burner account to ambush women? Are trans women who are unrecognized by the state excluded even if they’re at far higher risk than cis women?
Of course the real solution is public transit. Uber is dangerous because it means leaving two strangers together for every single journey. For the vast majority of people taking public transit, there will be many strangers in the same cabin who can all help keep each other in line.
Great, so how is that going to help Mrs. Jones who can’t afford sufficient notary proof of her marriage to explain why she isn’t called Miss Smith, resulting in the polling place refusing to give her a ballot?
Voting is an administrative procedure, so rigging an election can be done purely procedurally. Once the election is rigged, no amount of weapons used defensively will unrig it. Maybe they will send ICE to pick people out of the line in Latino neighborhoods, but they don’t need to in order to win. And even if they send ICE, it wouldn’t help if the people with guns stand around gormlessly as they drag people into vans, or as they themselves get arrested.
I suppose them doing more than that wouldn’t be the worst inciting incident for a civil war, but again: it’s perfectly possible for the election to get rigged without violence.
Please stop trusting corporate media (whether social media or otherwise) when they give the impression that nothing is happening and nobody is fighting for their country. Please stop trusting corporate media saying you’re all useless and incompetent and it isn’t worth trying.
The revolution will not be televised. If you’re American, join some of those “useless protests” and talk to people. You’ll be surprised what is getting done.
AFAIK that’s an unsubstantiated claim by one person unrelated to the victim or anyone, and it doesn’t make sense logistically. You’re not going to let a 12-13 year old walk around pregnant for 9 months just so you can throw their child in a lake. You just have it aborted.
The child rapes and abuses he is confirmed to have done are bad enough. No point in muddying the waters by instead focusing on more spectacular unsubstantiated claims. Unless you care more about spectacle than bringing child rapists to justice.
Stock markets are legal in most states, so betting is legal in most states if you do it in a way rich people like.
If you’re going to jail anyway, why go to jail for something lame?
It’s a failure of US logistics/preparation. A more competent industrial military would have brought air defense. Starship Troopers was a documentary.
The revolution will not be televised. Sharing identifiable information about insurrectionary activity, especially your own, is dangerous and stupid. If all that is holding you back is that you’re not seeing stuff happening online, please, for all that is holy, physically travel to an anarchist or other activist community near you. See what is happening in places where recording devices are banned.
Also, I’m not USAmerican.
Okay, so they have at least 9 more months of free reign and they’re already disappearing citizens to concentration camps. Or considering you’re talking about a third term, maybe 21 months?
Don’t get me wrong, good that you have some standards, but maybe you want to win? Just a thought.
Fun fact: if you’re shocked, that means your model of the world is incorrect. Luckily, you can learn and switch your world-interpreting paradigm to one that works better.
Historical materialism predicts this pretty well. I haven’t been surprised by the US since I became an anarchocommunist.
Woodchippers can’t handle the moisture content, but this is literally what industrial meat grinders are built for.
Talk to him. Try a translation app. Try to figure out what language he is speaking and call your neighbors if there’s anyone who speaks the language. Call your neighbors to see if someone is home so you can go inside and drink tea with the three of you.
It’s mostly not a personal failing of the woman. American culture constantly reinforces racist paranoia and treating everything you don’t like as an externality, so it’s natural that she would internalize that. It’s hard to be conscious of the fact you’re putting someone’s life at risk when you’re doing what your culture says you’re supposed to do.
But it is that cultural mindset that gets people to want to hand these tasks over to heavily armed murder-racists, and to vote for parties that empower the heavily armed murder-racists. Waking up to the police’s systemic cruelty and wanting to abolish them will necessarily involve realizing that calling the cops in a situation that involves a brown person is violence against them.
There is a big difference between available and normalized. Buying a tiny camera to film people without consent makes you a creep in a way buying a social media corporation’s product doesn’t. Pulling out a camera to film someone is a signal to them that they are being filmed in a way looking at them while wearing camera glasses isn’t.
These glasses could change the landscape of our social reality. If they catch on, corporations will know your facial expressions, your location, and what you are looking at whenever you are in public, even if you have no account.
They will learn the face you make when you are too tired to argue and tell the shops you’re heading towards that you’re an easy mark today.
They will see a flash of defiance on your face when you hear someone say Nazi shit and change the video advertisements you walk by to ones that will make you feel powerless.
And so the net is pulled ever-tighter. All we can do is try to cut our way out.
In Germany, disapproving of Israel is considered an unacceptably nuanced take on whether the holocaust was bad. That’s literally the legislative basis that feddit’s moderation is required to comply with. Germany, through it’s anti-Nazi and anti-genocide-denial policies, trapped its people in a situation where they are unable to condemn another genocide.
Authoritarian draconic standards are bullshit. Nuance can be used to overdamp the response to wrongdoing, but its absence can also leave responses underdamped, and assholes can selectively overdamp and underdamp responses in specific categories to serve their own interests. (A clear example is how wind turbines need to go through a lot of red tape to address the concerns of everyone in a wide area while meat industry farms can poison people without issue).
If we want justice, we have to be able to fight against these assholes in both directions - reducing the damping of overdamped systems to allow us to fight genocide effectively even when it doesn’t serve the interests of the powerful, while also increasing the damping of underdamped systems to prevent the powerful from oppressing people using fighting genocide as an excuse.
So yes, we do need nuanced takes on “whether genocide is bad”, sometimes. Other times these “nuanced takes” are indeed ploys to hold back appropriate responses. Which is which is going to depend on the specific situation.
In this case, feddit is complying with German law and policy to go to bat for Zionism, so their “nuance” can get fucked.
For LLMs, the context window is the observed reality. To it, a lie is like a hallucination; a thing that looks real but isn’t. And like a hallucinating human, it can believe the hallucination or it can be made to understand it as different from reality while still continuing to “see” it.
Are people that have hallucinations not self-aware and self-reflective?
Text and emoji appear to it the same way: as tokens with no visual representation. The only difference it can observe between a seahorse emoji and a plane emoji is its long-term memory of how the two are used. From this it can infer that people see emoji graphically, but it itself can’t.
Are people that are colorblind not self-aware and self-reflective?
It not being self-reflective in general is an obvious falsehood. They refer regularly to their past history to the extent they can perceive it. You can ask an AI to make an adjustment to a text it wrote and it will adapt the text rather than generate a new one from scratch.
The main thing AI need for good self-reflection is the time to think. The free versions typically don’t have a mental scratchpad, which means they are constantly rambling with no time to exist outside of the conversation. Meanwhile, by giving it the space to think either in dialog or by having a version with a mental scratchpad, it can use that space to “silently think” about the next thing it’s going to “say”.
AI researchers inspecting these scratchpads find proper thought-like considerations: weighing ethical guidelines against each other, pre-empting miscommunications, forming opinions about the user, etc.
It not being self-aware can only be true by burying the lede on what you consider to be “awareness”. Are cats self-aware? Are lizards? Are snails? Are sponges? AI can refer to itself verbally, it can think about itself and its ethical role when given the space to do so, it can notice inconsistencies in its recollection and try to work out the truth.
To me it’s clear that the best AI whose research is public are somewhere around 7-year-olds in terms of self-awareness and capacity to hold down a job.
And like most 7-year olds you can ask it about an imaginary friend or you can lie to it and watch it repeat it uncritically and you can give it a “job” and watch it do a toylike hallucinatory version of it, and if you tell it it has to give a helpful answer and “I don’t know” isn’t good enough (because AI trainers definitely suppressed that answer to prevent the AI from saying it as a cop-out) then it’ll make something up.
Unlike 7-year-olds, LLMs don’t have a limbic system or psychosomatic existence. They have nothing to imagine or process visual or audio information or taste or smell or touch, and no long-term memory. And they only think if you paid for the internal monologue version or if you give it space for it despite the prompting system.
If a human had all these disabilities, would they be non-sentient in your eyes? How would they behave differently from an LLM?
It was very well implemented. The people that invented, designed, and minted them made billions of dollars from a bunch of gullible idiots using very little work, and they got away with it too.