Nostr notes by Mark Pesce

On a related note: wage increases less than the rate of inflation ...

2025-01-15T06:26:49Z

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On a related note: wage increases less than the rate of inflation must _always_ produce greater poverty.

VOX POPULI VOX DEI 🙄 ...

2025-01-15T06:24:22Z

VOX POPULI VOX DEI

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For those who may not know: Hawai'i was illegally annexed by ...

2025-01-13T10:20:16Z

For those who may not know: Hawai'i was illegally annexed by the United States.

“We’re constantly begging and asking: ‘please donate, ...

2025-01-11T02:34:44Z

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“We’re constantly begging and asking: ‘please donate, please donate’,” she says. “Which we hate. We’re in a rich country, we shouldn’t be asking. It is not the responsibility of the general public. Our pantry is in the prime minister’s electorate. During Covid, the prime minister was packing boxes here, he knows the need.”

This is NOT a failure at Foodbank Australia. This is a deeply ...

2025-01-11T02:31:26Z

This is NOT a failure at Foodbank Australia.

This is a deeply painful political policy failure at the Federal level.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jan/11/australian-food-charities-expensive-foodbank-falling-donations-unprecedented-demand

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2025-01-11T00:58:23Z

Being very close to the best produce markets in Sydney (Beamish ...

2025-01-11T00:44:11Z

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Being very close to the best produce markets in Sydney (Beamish St) has affected me that much

Having a kitchen the size of all outdoors helps.

you’d all be shocked at how conversant I’ve become at ...

2025-01-11T00:21:35Z

you’d all be shocked at how conversant I’ve become at sterilising jars and making preserves 🤣

i has a sad - rizitripan is almost magically effective for me

2025-01-10T07:48:19Z

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i has a sad - rizitripan is almost magically effective for me

can you take teh medicines? (rizitripan)

2025-01-10T07:45:19Z

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can you take teh medicines? (rizitripan)

Adopting an abhorrent policy is - as we are now seeing - another ...

2025-01-09T23:29:41Z

Adopting an abhorrent policy is - as we are now seeing - another way that a large tech company can institute a stealth layoff.

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2025-01-08T07:07:01Z

There are now _four_ major fires in Los Angeles. 😱

The images out of Los Angeles (my lovely and still loved home ...

2025-01-08T05:56:19Z

The images out of Los Angeles (my lovely and still loved home before I moved to Sydney) are truly apocalyptic and the stories I'm hearing from friends are just... unbelivable. 😭

Current status: GLORIOUS ...

2025-01-05T01:41:12Z

Current status: GLORIOUS

The high-intensity training was the only form of exercise that ...

2025-01-04T08:24:09Z

The high-intensity training was the only form of exercise that led to retained cognitive improvement five years later.
“After five years, you couldn’t see a difference between their cognition at six months and five years, and we think the reason for that is that there is a change in the volume of the hippocampus …
“Six months of high-intensity exercise has … rewired or reconnected a lot of the pathways associated with the hippocampus & that appears to be long-lasting.
https://www.afr.com/life-and-luxury/health-and-wellness/scientists-identify-the-best-type-of-exercise-for-mental-sharpness-20240711-p5jsxz

a nice hot bath?

2024-12-29T07:16:15Z

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a nice hot bath?

BMJ: Alzheimer’s disease mortality among taxi and ambulance ...

2024-12-28T06:06:04Z

BMJ: Alzheimer’s disease mortality among taxi and ambulance drivers: population based cross sectional study

Conclusions: Taxi drivers and ambulance drivers, occupations involving frequent navigational and spatial processing, had the lowest proportions of deaths attributed to Alzheimer’s disease of all occupations.

https://www.bmj.com/content/387/bmj-2024-082194

This morning, while biking the lovely Cooks River, I saw two ...

2024-12-28T01:20:43Z

This morning, while biking the lovely Cooks River, I saw two people fishing.

Which brings me to my question: Would you eat anything that came out of the Cooks River?

"Comparing cooperative geometric puzzle solving in ants ...

2024-12-26T01:47:19Z

"Comparing cooperative geometric puzzle solving in ants versus humans"

"Collective cognition is often mentioned as one of the advantages of group living. But which factors actually facilitate group smarts? To answer this, we compared how individuals and groups of either ants or people tackle an identical geometrical puzzle. We find that when ants work in groups, their performances rise significantly. Groups of people do not show such improvement.."

SCIENCE!

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2414274121

ANTS HAVE TEH SUPERHUMAN INTELLIGENCES WE HAS TEH DATAS NAO ...

2024-12-26T01:19:18Z

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ANTS HAVE TEH SUPERHUMAN INTELLIGENCES WE HAS TEH DATAS NAO

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/ants-prove-superior-to-humans-in-group-problem-solving-maze-experiment/ar-AA1wo9SD

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2024-12-25T23:41:31Z

I FOR ONE WELCOME OUR NEW ANT OVERLORDS

"Sydney, says US-based analytics organisation Demographia, is ...

2024-12-24T06:25:10Z

"Sydney, says US-based analytics organisation Demographia, is the world’s second most expensive city – after Hong Kong – with 13.8 times the median household income needed to buy a median-priced house. Melbourne and Adelaide are in the top 10 most expensive, while Brisbane and Perth are in the top 20."

A government able to afford a 38% over 4 years pay increase for ...

2024-12-23T01:50:48Z

A government able to afford a 38% over 4 years pay increase for police can't afford a 32% over 4 years pay increase for transport workers.

https://www.pedestrian.tv/news/nsw-police-increase-nurses-strike/

Happy Solstice to all experiencing the extremes of sunlight ...

2024-12-20T21:51:49Z

Happy Solstice to all experiencing the extremes of sunlight ☀️ and darkness 🌑!

Year? Decade.

2024-12-19T22:39:16Z

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Year?
Decade.

tbqh both of those historically attested techniques always had a ...

2024-12-19T08:55:49Z

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tbqh both of those historically attested techniques always had a fatal outcome

was that the punishment for traitors to Rome? or was that being ...

2024-12-19T08:48:29Z

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was that the punishment for traitors to Rome? or was that being thrown down the Gemonian Stairs?

Both the starry-eyed notion that AI thinks like us and the ...

2024-12-19T02:17:36Z

Both the starry-eyed notion that AI thinks like us and the paranoid fantasy that it will manifest as a malevolent dictator, assert a fictitious kinship with humans at the cost of creating a naïve and toxic view of how our own minds work.

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/12/19/ai-is-the-black-mirror/

The Arc of Innovation Bends Toward Decadence (Not entirely sure I ...

2024-12-18T21:09:55Z

The Arc of Innovation Bends Toward Decadence

(Not entirely sure I buy the argument, but it's an interesting one nonetheless)

https://www.newcartographies.com/p/the-arc-of-innovation-bends-toward

On a Christmas Eve when nothing felt right, I lapsed into a deep ...

2024-12-18T08:15:05Z

On a Christmas Eve when nothing felt right, I lapsed into a deep yet disturbed sleep.

I awoke to perceive a diffuse glow. Was it a smartphone notification?

I opened my eyes. Three spectral presences crowded around the sides of my bed.

"A Technocarol" -- My latest for The Register (npub10cz…4lpy)

https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/18/a_christmas_technicarol/

i never ever ever update to a .0 version of macos after being ...

2024-12-18T06:42:03Z

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i never ever ever update to a .0 version of macos after being burned so badly with 10.3 a billion years ago

only upgraded to 15.x on the weekend...

that seems low given a 50% mortality rate of the under-5 set ...

2024-12-18T06:25:39Z

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that seems low given a 50% mortality rate of the under-5 set until quite recently... but some of that is undoubtedly clean(er) water...

OR POSSIBLY NOT ...

2024-12-17T22:53:39Z

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OR POSSIBLY NOT

Proton Mail web is back!!! CHRISTMAS IS SAVED!

2024-12-17T22:45:03Z

Proton Mail web is back!!!

CHRISTMAS IS SAVED!

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2024-12-17T22:36:41Z

The Proton Mail app for iPadOS appears to be working fine however 🙄

"As soon as you stop watching, or as soon as the AI gets ...

2024-12-17T00:35:03Z

"As soon as you stop watching, or as soon as the AI gets smart enough to hide its behavior from you, you should expect the AI to ruthlessly pursue its own goals, which may or may not include being kind..."

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/12/17/ai-is-lying-to-us-about-how-powerful-it-is/

Per the ABC: EVs in Australia: More than 200,000 EV battery fires ...

2024-12-17T00:22:04Z

Per the ABC:

EVs in Australia: More than 200,000

EV battery fires in Australia since 2021: 9

Number of these battery fires where EV was connected to charger: 1.

The one confirmed incidence of an EV catching fire when connected to charging appears to have been the result of a battery fault common to that model of hybrid SUV, Ms Sutcliffe says.

Didn't @npub12cu…d38p write an SF novel which had a subplot ...

2024-12-16T23:04:31Z

Didn't Greg Egan (npub12cu…d38p) write an SF novel which had a subplot of a bunch of billionaires trying to use 'Mirror Life' to make themselves... immune to the petty concerns of mere mortals?

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ads9158

For example, on a day such as today, there should be enough solar ...

2024-12-16T21:08:41Z

For example, on a day such as today, there should be enough solar entering the grid to keep all the aircon humming along, and every EV battery charging with some left over to dump into some gigabatteries.

Do we have that grid yet? Sadly, no.

In terms of political fitness, Albo is Australia's Jimmy ...

2024-12-13T01:41:26Z

In terms of political fitness, Albo is Australia's Jimmy Carter.

If we’re headed for a Singularity, it is not going to be a ...

2024-12-13T01:34:18Z

If we’re headed for a Singularity, it is not going to be a grand, exciting revelation of the fate of humankind, but a more mundane Management Singularity, in which we shift from one set of technologies that glue organizations together to another.

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/12/13/the-management-singularity/

At the start of this year it appeared unmistakably clear that ...

2024-12-13T00:31:20Z

At the start of this year it appeared unmistakably clear that Microsoft was going to be cock of the walk in the dawning age of generative artificial intelligence.

At the end of this year it’s clear how wrong that was.

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/12/13/has-microsoft-lost-the-ai-wars/

To recap: At the start of 2024, Microsoft had an apparently ...

2024-12-12T22:15:33Z

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To recap: At the start of 2024, Microsoft had an apparently insurmountable lead in AI.

Microsoft had every conceivable advantage.

At the end of 2024: Microsoft blew both its lead and advantage comprehensively.

Impressive.

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What's your experience? Is it similar to Drew Smith (npub1sjh…ht6y)'s and mine at Wisely AI? Or do you reckon Microsoft will pull another AI rabbit out of its hat in 2025? Share your thoughts in the replies - and thanks!

The 'AI PC' seemed to be a way for Microsoft to ...

2024-12-12T22:14:15Z

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The 'AI PC' seemed to be a way for Microsoft to transition from x86 to ARM without anyone really noticing - until buyers tried to play any of their x86-specific games - or older applications that just didn't work quite right under Microsoft's less-than-seamless x86-to-ARM emulation.

Now those very same ARM-based 'AI PCs' are discounted 50% at retail.

Because no one wants them, and, furthermore, no one understands why they'd need one.

Microsoft never made that clear.

Where AI is perceived as a technology of surveillance, it meets ...

2024-12-12T22:13:36Z

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Where AI is perceived as a technology of surveillance, it meets resistance in the organisation and by individuals. Recall has only met resistance. Yet Microsoft persisted, now trying to shoehorn it into its 'AI PCs' through an update mechanism.

And while we're here, the less said about 'AI PCs' the better.

But hey, since we are here, let's talk about this other massive self-own of Microsoft's year of AI...

A tool like Recall could be key to a robotic process automation ...

2024-12-12T22:12:36Z

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A tool like Recall could be key to a robotic process automation process training of AI agents. But doesn’t mean users want their desktops under surveillance all of the time. Or even part of the time. Only when they choose the time and place and task.

That's not how Recall works. It just runs. All the time.

Which means Recall isn't a technology of automation. It's a technology of surveillance.

Basically everyone everywhere has told Microsoft repeatedly that ...

2024-12-12T22:12:17Z

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Basically everyone everywhere has told Microsoft repeatedly that there is no need nor any desire for a technology that creates a perfect memory of the desktop environment of a user. Yet that has not stopped Microsoft.

Recall screams that Microsoft don’t really understand what they’re doing.

And here, just a few hours ago, further proof, were any needed:

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsoft-recall-screenshots-credit-cards-and-social-security-numbers-even-with-the-sensitive-information-filter-enabled

Copilot is a debacle. Not only because it has precious few use ...

2024-12-12T22:11:31Z

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Copilot is a debacle. Not only because it has precious few use cases, but principally because it effectively forces any enterprise using it to classify and secure all data on their networks.

You can argue that’s just good practice - but it’s not something any enterprise wants to be forced into.

So bye-bye Copilot.

Now let's move on to the utterly unforced error of Recall...

Microsoft owned 51% of OpenAI, they had integrated it as Copilot ...

2024-12-12T22:11:07Z

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Microsoft owned 51% of OpenAI, they had integrated it as Copilot across their Office product stack, and they had the enterprise relationships to drive it into business.

It seemed a sure bet.

It’s been a bloody, frustrating year for AI - largely because Microsoft managed to make every wrong move they could.

Has Microsoft Lost the AI Wars? - a 🧵 First mover advantage is ...

2024-12-12T22:10:24Z

Has Microsoft Lost the AI Wars? - a 🧵

First mover advantage is overrated.

Anyone working in startupland long enough knows that the first out of the gate is all too frequently an also-ran.

Facebook was not the first social networking company.

Last year it appeared unmistakably clear that Microsoft was going to be cock of the walk in the dawning age of generative artificial intelligence.

A year later it’s clear how wrong that was.

As noted elsewhere trolling to crowd out coverage about the ...

2024-12-11T22:59:51Z

As noted elsewhere trolling to crowd out coverage about the massive costs of his nuclear program

Regard appropriately

iOS 18.2 adds additional Apple Intelligence features, including ...

2024-12-11T21:39:22Z

iOS 18.2 adds additional Apple Intelligence features, including Genmoji for creating custom emoji, Image Playground for generating images, ChatGPT integration for Siri, and more.

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/12/12/apple-intelligence-officially-launching-today-in-the-uk-canada-australia-new-zealand-ireland-the-u-k-and-south-africa/

O brave new world that has such bots in it! ...

2024-12-11T06:15:00Z

O brave new world that has such bots in it!

https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/10/ai_slop_bug_reports/

When I post links on Mastodon to my Next Billion Seconds blog, ...

2024-12-10T20:36:10Z

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When I post links on Mastodon to my Next Billion Seconds blog, this is what happens to my server

Something about the distributed nature of the fediverse basically instigates a DDoS attack on my server. At least, that's what I think is happening.

Any thoughts about what to do about this?

NEW Next Billion Seconds episode 'v2food, v2.0' - Six ...

2024-12-10T20:32:48Z

NEW Next Billion Seconds episode 'v2food, v2.0' - Six years on from founding v2Food, it's getting difficult to find their product on supermarket shelves - and there's been a broader roll-back from plant-based alternatives. What's happened? Former CEO Nick Hazell gives his read of this unexpected outcome.

https://nextbillionseconds.com/2024/12/04/series-2024-episode-7-the-war-over-plant-based-foods-with-nick-hazell/

Could someone explain to me the difference between a nation state ...

2024-12-02T20:46:02Z

Could someone explain to me the difference between a nation state not recognising the jurisdiction of the ICC and a 'sovereign citizen' not recognising the juristidiction of an Australian court?

Is it just a standing army and (possibly) nuclear weapons? Because I can't seem to find any other difference worth noting.

"Women, senior employees and highly skilled workers were the ...

2024-12-01T07:56:00Z

"Women, senior employees and highly skilled workers were the most likely to quit in protest, the researchers found."

https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/workplace/brain-drain-when-return-to-office-mandates-backfire-20241127-p5ktuh

just add "You call that a knife?" into it somewhere 🤣

2024-11-30T22:03:47Z

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just add "You call that a knife?" into it somewhere 🤣

but but but it's barely raining

2024-11-30T06:57:36Z

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but but but it's barely raining

it's a bit rainy but hardly cancellation weather

2024-11-30T06:40:29Z

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it's a bit rainy but hardly cancellation weather

"Hey Siri, what is regulatory capture...?" ...

2024-11-29T07:23:08Z

"Hey Siri, what is regulatory capture...?"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/27/plastic-lobbyists-biggest-group-un-treaty-talks-busan-korea

“ The new rules won't come into force for another year to ...

2024-11-28T20:58:41Z

“ The new rules won't come into force for another year to allow social media companies time to comply.” - per ABC

After today's 50% price rise in my M365 subscription ($121 ...

2024-11-27T23:50:46Z

After today's 50% price rise in my M365 subscription ($121 -> $192 annually) I can see why

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-27/us-antitrust-watchdog-launches-broad-microsoft-investigation

“Hey Siri, give me an example of enshitification…” ...

2024-11-27T20:25:22Z

“Hey Siri, give me an example of enshitification…”

Let two large models debate the answer to a given question, with ...

2024-11-27T01:33:20Z

Let two large models debate the answer to a given question, with a simpler model (or a human) left to recognize the more accurate answer. The process allows the two agents to poke holes in each other’s arguments until the judge has enough information.

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/11/27/debate-may-help-ai-models-converge-on-truth/

Hopefully you're all coming along to #wdsnext on Friday? Just ...

2024-11-26T22:28:59Z

Hopefully you're all coming along to #wdsnext on Friday? Just making up my slides now... #muahahaahah

😎

2024-11-26T02:57:33Z

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😎

Remember when 3DTV was the Next Big Thing? ...

2024-11-26T02:47:29Z

Remember when 3DTV was the Next Big Thing?

Time to draw all the year's threads together: Are we pulling ...

2024-11-25T21:00:19Z

Time to draw all the year's threads together: Are we pulling back from EVs? Will China dominate manufacturing? And what about all that data vehicles are collecting? It's been full on - enough to require a bit of a 'group hug'. Part one of two.

https://nextbillionseconds.com/2024/11/26/the-next-billion-cars-2024-in-review-part-1/

"Privacy is dead!" And for Schmidt's second act: ...

2024-11-25T06:23:46Z

"Privacy is dead!"

And for Schmidt's second act:

"Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt says AI will 'shape' identity and that 'normal people' are not ready for it"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/ar-AA1uCFCd

A system that fails all but the wealthiest isn't a ...

2024-11-25T02:28:39Z

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A system that fails all but the wealthiest isn't a civilisation.

It's a standover operation.

Meanwhile, SMH reported over the weekend that several of ...

2024-11-25T02:27:06Z

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Meanwhile, SMH reported over the weekend that several of Sydney's councils have childhood poverty rates north of 20%. My own "inner southwest" region has a child poverty rate of 23.6%.

Which is both shocking and utterly, utterly disgraceful.

SO the NSW government has committed to building 58,000 new homes ...

2024-11-25T02:24:00Z

SO the NSW government has committed to building 58,000 new homes adjacent to stations (on the Metro and other lines).

With 3% set aside for low-income earners. (If that actually comes to pass.)

*does some basic maths*

So that's 1,740 homes.

🙄

A preview will be available in early 2025 that will include up to ...

2024-11-24T21:24:11Z

A preview will be available in early 2025 that will include up to nine languages and the ability for the interpreter feature to simulate your personal voice in a different language.

What could possibly go wrong?

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/11/25/microsoft-teams-will-help-you-speak-in-a-foreign-language-during-meetings/

Edge? 😂

2024-11-22T21:57:12Z

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Edge? 😂

OMG THE LLMS HAS TEH REVERSE DISGRIMINASHUNS (from ...

2024-11-22T03:14:39Z

OMG THE LLMS HAS TEH REVERSE DISGRIMINASHUNS

(from The Register (npub10cz…4lpy) )

https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/21/ai_hiring_test_bias/?td=rt-3a

And here are my sources ...

2024-11-22T02:40:10Z

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And here are my sources

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/01/musk-oversaw-staged-tesla-self-driving-video-emails-show/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-10-06/even-after-100-billion-self-driving-cars-are-going-nowhere

You know that time Elon Musk got Tesla engineers to 'hard ...

2024-11-22T02:29:30Z

You know that time Elon Musk got Tesla engineers to 'hard code' the very first demo of full self driving - a sleight-of-hand convincing everyone else Tesla were years ahead of everyone else on autonomy, thereby driving incumbent automakers into a panic, forcing them to blow an industry-wide $100B investment with nearly nothing to show for it?

I did a podcast about it.

https://nextbillionseconds.com/2024/11/21/the-next-billion-cars-the-100000000000-lie/

A brief video expose from Business Insider, on Microsoft's ...

2024-11-21T23:54:01Z

A brief video expose from Business Insider, on Microsoft's Copilot woes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhkFxvAvvd0 http://windowscopilot.news/2024/11/22/microsoft-is-betting-big-on-ai-company-insiders-have-serious-doubts/

The system allegedly assigned lower scores unfairly for Black and ...

2024-11-21T22:53:24Z

The system allegedly assigned lower scores unfairly for Black and Hispanic tenants, as well as people who use housing vouchers, leading landlords to deny their housing applications.

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/11/22/ai-landlord-screening-tool-will-stop-scoring-low-income-tenants-after-discrimination-suit/

"...We don't know what a "data Chernobyl" might ...

2024-11-21T21:36:22Z

"...We don't know what a "data Chernobyl" might look like. With luck, we'll never see it. But playing with fire while relying on luck to keep us safe seems a guarantee for disaster. In order to keep data at arm's length, we've got to find our equivalent of the 'glove box' – managed carefully, and with a full awareness of the risks and costs of an accidental spill."

Latest for The Register (npub10cz…4lpy) "Data is the new uranium" https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/20/data_is_the_new_uranium/

Democracy is consultative, and therefore slow. That's not a ...

2024-11-21T03:31:28Z

Democracy is consultative, and therefore slow.

That's not a side-effect. That's the actual essence of the thing itself.

Speed is intrinsically anti-democratic.

You can be fast, or you can be free. But you can't be both.

"Australia is not as far down that road of income or wealth ...

2024-11-18T21:22:05Z

"Australia is not as far down that road of income or wealth inequality, but we are on it, where the bank of mum and dad and the lottery of inheritance become the overwhelming determinants of financial security...The choice between disruptive radical change and incremental reform depends largely on how soon the latter starts, if it gets off the ground at all."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-19/boomers-keep-on-booming-young-borrowers-renters-pay-price/104614666

"The 2024 overall social cohesion index score was 78 – the ...

2024-11-18T21:03:26Z

"The 2024 overall social cohesion index score was 78 – the same as in 2023 but still at its lowest since the survey began in 2007. The score has been steadily declining since 2008."

2008, to jog your memory, was the year that social media went big.

Correlation is not causation, I know. But this does reinforce a lot of other data around that point in time and changes in social awareness.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/nov/19/australia-social-cohesion-at-record-low-but-70-believe-migrants-make-country-stronger

there was a time in my life when i would roll out of bed and go ...

2024-11-18T08:23:20Z

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there was a time in my life when i would roll out of bed and go get on a stationary bike for an hour at the gym to exhaust myself out of my anxiety 😬

"Using smartphone measurements, we resolve features such as ...

2024-11-18T06:25:19Z

"Using smartphone measurements, we resolve features such as plasma bubbles over India and South America, solar-storm-enhanced density over North America and a mid-latitude ionospheric trough over Europe. We also show that the resulting ionosphere maps can improve location accuracy, which is our primary aim. This work demonstrates the potential of using a large distributed network of smartphones as a powerful scientific instrument for monitoring Earth."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08072-x

While using Gemini to chat about challenges in caring for aging ...

2024-11-17T23:47:16Z

While using Gemini to chat about challenges in caring for aging adults, an unnamed graduate student in Michigan says they were told, in no uncertain terms, save the world the trouble of their existence and end it all.

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/11/18/google-gemini-tells-grad-student-to-please-die-while-helping-with-his-homework/

The high cost of housing is the root of all the city’s other ...

2024-11-17T22:20:28Z

The high cost of housing is the root of all the city’s other issues. It depresses our culture and hurts our nightlife. Damaged though they were by lockout laws, poker machines & ridiculous regulations, none of those threats are as fundamental as the fact people don’t have as much to spend on eating out, grabbing a cocktail or catching a show. They’re spending it on rent and mortgages.

The housing crisis is billed as a national problem, but it is really a Sydney problem.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/as-i-leave-beautiful-but-maddening-sydney-i-ve-realised-all-its-problems-boil-down-to-one-thing-20241015-p5kifp.html

Thunder. Rain. #sydneyweathertooting

2024-11-17T08:08:59Z

Thunder. Rain.

#sydneyweathertooting

"Australia struggling with oversupply of solar power" ...

2024-11-17T01:43:26Z

"Australia struggling with oversupply of solar power"

Whenever we install renwable energy generation, we need to install storage. They're synergistic parts within a systemic approach to decarbonisation.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-17/solar-flooded-australia-told-its-okay-to-waste-some/104606640

I know a lot of people have feels about centralised, corporate ...

2024-11-16T23:42:53Z

I know a lot of people have feels about centralised, corporate instances. I share those feels and am always delighted that Rik Cabanier (npub1uu0…6t2w) has taken the hard work on to run this lovely little instance. But I am also really happy to federate with lovely folks on BlueSky because lovely connections are really what I'm here for. And yes, I'll try to keep to my anarcho-syndicalist ways, but if you want to be centralist/corporatist, that's your right too...

hang on trying to get someone to bridge their bluesky account so ...

2024-11-16T23:23:47Z

hang on trying to get someone to bridge their bluesky account so we can chat on the mastodon

gonna be a lot of this

When you consider how minutely profiled all meta users are, ...

2024-11-16T05:17:34Z

When you consider how minutely profiled all meta users are, asking for age verification is just missing the entire point of how these systems have been designed to create digital simulacra of those users

IMMA JUST LEAVE THIS HERE IN CASE ANYONE FROM TEH GUMMINT IS ...

2024-11-15T22:02:21Z

IMMA JUST LEAVE THIS HERE IN CASE ANYONE FROM TEH GUMMINT IS READING THIS

https://w3c.social/@w3c/113487800020292497

Hey, Jim Chalmers: it ain't political alienation. It's ...

2024-11-15T02:24:27Z

Hey, Jim Chalmers: it ain't political alienation.

It's rage.

Meanwhile, over at COP29, things are going _so_ very well... ...

2024-11-13T20:08:59Z

Meanwhile, over at COP29, things are going _so_ very well...

For everyone (not on Mastodon) who thinks Elon is still just a ...

2024-11-13T20:04:39Z

For everyone (not on Mastodon) who thinks Elon is still just a misunderstood genius...

I recorded a podcast for you.

Lands in one hour.

glances at radar INCOMING!!!

2024-11-13T03:32:30Z

*glances at radar*

INCOMING!!!

Next up: AfD ruining^H^H^H^H^H^Hrunning Europe's largest ...

2024-11-13T02:18:31Z

Next up: AfD ruining^H^H^H^H^H^Hrunning Europe's largest economy...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-13/germany-holding-snap-election-in-february/104593600

The software giant quietly announced it’s making Copilot Pro ...

2024-11-11T21:38:35Z

The software giant quietly announced it’s making Copilot Pro features part of its Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscriptions last week, but only in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand for now.

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/11/12/microsoft-is-bundling-its-ai-powered-office-features-into-microsoft-365-subscriptions/