Computer Technician with a degree in computer therapy, Lurker of the internet. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ She/Her/32 | | Wiccan | Mother to 1 plant ||
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Leaders should reflect the ideals and values of those below them rather than those above them.
Promoting those leaders is the fastest way to fix a company's broken culture.
-@docjamesw
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1. 22 Republican AGs have sent a letter to the American Academy of Pediatricians.
They threaten that endorsing trans care as beneficial may be illegal, and demands extensive internal docs.
They could target abortion with this tactic as well.
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Such a good 1A episode from NPR:
npr.org/2024/04/01/119891051…
Thank you @Imi_Ahmed for being the only one to talk against the narrative that social media can’t do anything to combat hate speech and talk about actual solutions, we know who those bad actors are!
The US is so behind in everything that it does and it feels like it's just cruel on purpose.
🚨BREAKING: The European Parliament has just APPROVED the AI Act. What everyone should know:
➵ The AI Act follows a risk-based approach. Some AI systems are banned, such as those involving:
- Cognitive behavioral manipulation of people or specific vulnerable groups;
- Social scoring: classifying people based on behavior, socioeconomic status, or personal characteristics;
- Biometric identification and categorization of people;
- Real-time and remote biometric identification systems, such as facial recognition.
➵ Some AI systems fall in the "high-risk" category, such as those involving:
- Critical infrastructures (e.g. transport) that could put the life and health of citizens at risk;
- Educational or vocational training that may determine the access to education and professional course of someone’s life (e.g. scoring of exams);
- Safety components of products (e.g. AI application in robot-assisted surgery);
- Employment, management of workers, and access to self-employment (e.g. CV-sorting software for recruitment procedures);
- Essential private and public services (e.g. credit scoring denying citizens opportunity to obtain a loan);
law enforcement that may interfere with people’s fundamental rights (e.g. evaluation of the reliability of evidence);
- Migration, asylum, and border control management (e.g. automated examination of visa applications);
- Administration of justice and democratic processes (e.g. AI solutions to search for court rulings).
➵ High-risk AI systems will be assessed before being put on the market and also throughout their lifecycle. People will have the right to file complaints about AI systems to designated national authorities.
➵ Generative AI, like ChatGPT, will not be classified as high-risk but will have to comply with transparency requirements and EU copyright law. Some of the obligations are:
- Disclosing that the content was generated by AI;
- Designing the model to prevent it from generating illegal content;
- Publishing summaries of copyrighted data used for training.
➵ The AI Act is expected to officially become law by May or June, and its provisions will start taking effect in stages:
- 6 months later: countries will be required to ban prohibited AI systems;
- 1 year later: rules for general-purpose AI systems will start applying;
- 2 years later: the whole AI Act will be enforceable.
➵ Fines for non-compliance can be up to 35 million Euros or 7% of worldwide annual turnover.
➵ If you want to learn more about the AI Act, including challenges, opportunities, and practical insights, join my live session with @BertuzLuca, @JcMalgieri & @RistoUuk on April 4th (register using the link below).
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If the public is going give these folks the
Tax write off, this work should go to the public domain.
‘COYOTE VS ACME’ is now expected to be shelved and deleted forever.
Warner Bros wanted $75M - $80M for the film and rejected offers from Netflix, Amazon & Paramount, refusing to let them counter-offer.
(Source: thewrap.com/coyote-vs-acme-u…)
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Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard arguments on whether it will overturn the Chevron doctrine—a 40-year-old doctrine that's critical to a functioning federal government.
Let me explain 🧵
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Okay you know what, I would feel bad saying nothing about this, so here goes:
🚨SAVE YOUR MONEY🚨
We passionately advocated for a Patreon at Hard Drive & were aggressively shot down. The talent & people who built the site were pushed out. To see this *now* is beyond upsetting
Wanted to give an update on my life.
After a decade of questioning and therapy I am coming out as Transgender!
I have never felt more comfortable and myself. Until I fully transition I’m they/them.
Name will be announced once I figure that one out.
I look forward to the family's lawsuit against the parent company of the radio station for massive damages. Hate speech has consequences. It's time those perpetrating it pay the price.
the terrorist Illinois landlord who allegedly murdered a Palestinian boy in a knife attack appears to have been radicalized by conservative talk radio nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sus…
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Short of Unity open sourcing the engine under MIT terms, the reality is this:
“Unity isn't a game engine. It's a malware-pushing advertising network which merged with a game engine as a delivery channel and now wears its corpse as its skin”
But also: 1/2
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BREAKING: The NLRB has ruled that if bosses commit unfair labor practices in the run-up to a union election then the election will be canceled and the Board will order the employer to immediately recognize and bargain with the union.
Union-busting just got a lot harder.
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If you are in a same-sex marriage, a same-sex domestic partnership, or are currently cohabiting w/ your partner and seeking to marry your same-sex finace, I am going to give you a rundown of the situation of Obergefell v. Hodges being overturned, and what to do, a thread:🧵 (1/6)
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So this is here now. This is why, going forward, you see a blue check tweeting inflammatory nonsense, you don’t engage. Don’t reply, don’t quote retweet, nothing. Block and move on. People now have a financial incentive to piss you off.
This whole thread is a banger.
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Yes, @hamiltonnolan absolutely nails this. "The path we are on today, though—the path that our current political system makes likely—is the path of Wholly Irrational and Completely Ad-Hoc Pirate Capitalism." hamiltonnolan.com/p/insuranc…
