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RIP to Angela Chao, who accidentally reversed into a shallow pond in her Tesla. She called her friends to help, and they arrived. But... none of them knew how to open the doors.

This shouldn't have happened.

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Study, LLM, racism, hypothetical death penalty discussion 

@HauntedOwlbear how unsurprising.

Study, LLM, racism, hypothetical death penalty discussion 

AI models found to show language bias by recommending Black defendents be 'sentenced to death'

euronews.com/next/2024/03/09/a

Link to the damn paper: arxiv.org/abs/2403.00742

Ooo. Company just called I applied for.
Them: We'd like to get you into a round of interviews!
Me: GREAT! How many interviews?
Them: There are six
Me: Oh, Three interviews are my max.
Them: *frustrated* You don't get to decide that.
Me: Oh, but I DO. *click*
Back to #pascal programming :) Fight back #tech bros! Fight back.

I wrote a poem back in 2018 called "Darling Albion"

Next time someone says I'm anti-British I will send it to them and they probably won't get it.

greenplenty.info/darling-albio

I see rich 'non doms' are angry at Jeremey Hunt stealing Labour's policy to end the tax break... and some are now threatening to leave the county.

To my mind this is a bit like squatters complaining to a landlord that the imposition of rent means they will leave & find somewhere else to live...

I say good riddance to them if they don't want to contribute taxes to the maintenance of a country that due to their malign influence is falling apart.

#taxes #JeremyHunt

If seeing Biden both facilitating genocide in Gaza and destroy public health, allowing Covid to cause a mass disabling event, isn't enough to show how dangerous Vote Blue No Matter Who is, I don't know what will convince them. Right wingers are dangerous regardless of whether they have an R or a D after their name.

#US is showing clear signs of pulling out of #ProjectUkraine and this has panicked all #EU puppets to an unprecedented degree.
#LePetitRoi is suffering Napoleonic Syndrome and dreams of wars with Russia, and #FrauGenocide, as she crosses the boundaries of paranoia, wants to develop new weapons systems overnight.

All US puppets in #Europe have become dangerous for peace.

"transgender people are going to destroy Christianity and the traditional American family"

yes, and we need to make faster work of it. chop, chop, everybody!

@danjac@masto.ai @ChrisMayLA6 at least part of the problem is it’s extremely hard to do business with the government. You need to be able to have staff who can answer the questions on contracts and be able to pay their salary for years on end before you can actually make any money. This tends to mean that the big guys are the only ones who can afford to do that business.

It also means that the government tends to pay a huge premium to make it worth their while.

How much money do you think the United States has spent since 1945 on the Cold War? Sometimes they ask this question then from the back of the audience comes in answer ‘billions and billions‘. A huge underestimate – billions and billions. The amount of money that the United States has spent on the Cold War since 1945 is approximately 10 trillion dollars. Trillion, that’s the big one with the ‘T’. What could you buy with 10 trillion dollars? The answer is: You could buy everything in the United States except the land. Everything. Every building, truck, bus, car, boat, plane, pencil, baby’s diaper. Everything in the United States except the land, that’s what we have spent on the Cold War.

So, now let me ask: How certain was it that the Russians were going to invade? Was it 100% certain? Guess not since they never invaded. What if it was only let say 10% certain? What would advocates of big military buildup have said? We must be prudent. It’s not enough to count on only the most likely circumstance. If the worst happens and it’s really extremely dangerous for us we have to prepare for that. Remote contingencies if there is serious enough have the prepared for. It’s classic military thinking – you prepare for the worst case.

And so now, I ask my friends who are comfortable with that argument, including the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, why doesn’t that same argument apply to Global Warming. You don’t think it’s 100% likely? Fine. You are entitled to think that. If it’s only a small probability of it happening since the consequences are so serious, don’t you have to make some serious investment to prevent it or mitigate it? I think there’s a double standard of argument working and I don’t think we should permit it.

— Carl Sagan, An excerpt of a speech given on the 2nd of September in 1990 at the 5th Emerging Issues Forum at NCSU

@passenger @ChrisMayLA6

When I think about it

For example:

If you're a water company and have been fined you can't issue ANY dividends until the problems are fixed to the satisfaction of a panel of inspectors. Unless you meet your obligations in full no dividends.

That would stop the vultures in their tracks.

@passenger @ChrisMayLA6 equity fines. Confiscation of dividends. Holding directors personally responsible. There are ways.

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