Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @francis@greenplenty.social

Reverse Hunger games.

Every year, we reap 10 of the 100 wealthiest people to fight to the death. The odds of being chosen are proportional to their net wealth; they can surrender wealth to lower their odds.

The chosen have one week to prepare. If you can afford a giant killer robot, now's the time.

The losers' fortunes are donated to the poorest countries. The winner gets launched into space. If they did very well, they're inside the rocket instead of strapped to it.

Across the political Right, the narrative is that disability benefits (primarily Personal Independence Payments; PIPs) are too easy to get & are often paid to the 'undeserving'... however, in reality nearly half of applicants are rejected, rising to over two thirds for endometriosis (a gendered dimension I'll leave you to ponder), but with high rates of rejections over-turned on appeal (often with the same evidence).

More Tory lies, callousness & inhumanity

#disability

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/12/claims-conditions-personal-independence-payments-disability-benefits-cancer-arthritis-amputees

So, in the "best democracy" in the world, you will be arrested if you criticise #Israel and the oil companies.
This is the infamous "democracy" of the #UnitedStates.

Tonight, #Eurovision2024 will celebrate #ESC #DoubleStandards, partying on the graves of 9,500 #mothers and 14,500 #children of #Gaza, in tune with music from #Israel.

#EBU 2022: "The decision reflects concern that, in light of the unprecedented crisis in Ukraine, the inclusion of a Russian entry in this year’s Contest would bring the competition into disrepute."

No unprecedented crisis in #Gaza, just a minor Hurricane, and deadly October-to-May Rain, of bombs.

Happy #Cheering4Genocide, Malmö

Reminder that Trump is floating cuts to Social Security and Medicare — supposedly to address the debt — yet supports extending his tax cuts for the rich, adding $4.6 trillion to the deficit.

This isn't about the debt.

It’s about doing the bidding of his wealthy donors.

Earlier today I edited my (small) set of Stack Overflow posts to add the sentence "I do not consent to my words being used to train OpenAI" to the end. Within hours, all these edits were reversed and I got a warning email for "removing or defacing content". I did not remove any content. If this small sentence is "defacing", it is a very minor defacement. In no way was the experience of other users made worse by me adding one sentence.

To Stack Overflow, you are not a person. You are "content".

Spot on.👇

Years of watching @janellecshane mess around with these models has made it just so clear to me that any benefit from these models comes with (a) skill and mastery in using them for the right job (b) bucket loads of human curation.

It's worth patiently and persistently pushing back against AI hype in your worksplace to try and counter the bubble evangelists
- Generative AI can't do facts
- Generative AI can't reason
- Unless a model tells us what it's trained on, we should assume it's participated in the largest copyright theft in history
- No incremental improves are going to change this