Huntn00 @Huntn00@talkedabout.social

At yesterday's US House subcommittee hearing on risks of AI, there was a lot of enthusiasm for privacy enhancing ML technologies. That seems like a valuable direction, but it alone isn't enough. A company training privacy enhanced ML systems over your data ... still has your data, and we don't have to accept that.

Apropos:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/your-personal-information-is-probably-being-used-to-train-generative-ai-models/

American journalist detained in #Russia, charged with failing to register as a foreign agent https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/american-journalist-detained-russia-alsu-kurmasheva-foreign-agent-rcna121173

"I think the big story of the last American decade has been the attack on institutions, and the failure of those institutions to repel the attackers. But that story is driven by a key institutional actor - the Republican Party - injecting people who openly despise those institutions into positions of leadership. Trump is the most obvious example. But every Trump needs his Jim Jordans."

~ Don Moynihan

#Republicans #Trump #JimJordan #PoliticsofDestruction
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https://substack.com/notes/post/p-138047369

Never in Oxfam’s history have we seen a humanitarian crisis like the one in Gaza | Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/19/oxfam-history-humanitarian-crisis-gaza-israel-ceasefire?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Jim Jordan vows to keep fighting for House speaker votes after bruising defeat in second round – US politics https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2023/oct/19/jim-jordan-house-speaker-vote-latest-republicans-leader-joe-biden-democrats?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#uspol #tfg almost as good as “maybe I should go to Israel “ (no, buddy, you surrendered your passport)

From: @bidenhq
https://bird.makeup/users/bidenhq/statuses/1714761007803834789

House speaker debacle underscores tensions between 'pre- and post-Trump GOP': analysis https://www.alternet.org/jim-jordan-speaker-2666020701/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

My question would be. "So you're saying if Nancy Pelosi had been deposed in the same manner, you ard saying 5 Republicans would come to her rescue?"

It's the democrats fault when guys like him leave a wet spot on their pants after urinating.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/cnn-anchor-brianna-keilar-mocks-rep-austin-scott-for-blaming-speaker-chaos-on-democrats#:~:text=%E2%80%9CHe%20was%20the%20largest%20Republican,what%20created%20the%20current%20situation.%E2%80%9D

How to talk to #Trump. Free debate tip. The beauty of this one is that it works for basically every statement he makes.

“Part of me thinks you’re pathetic or possibly just sick and unable manage the affairs of our country. But, then again, if I were facing 91 criminal indictments in three jurisdictions, I might be fighting against reality, too. So it makes sense that you’re too weak now to speak honestly to your fellow citizens.“

#USA #politics #democracy

LOOKING FORWARD TO READING:
"Sedition Hunters: How January 6th Broke the Justice System" by
@ryanjreilly
https://amzn.to/46SLlwj

@Huntn00 I had a Nostromo for a little while, about 13 years ago. I thought it was neat... but I honestly found it if anything harder to get used to than just using a regular keyboard.

Part of that, though, is that even in games I've played for years I regularly double-check my visual reference on what buttons are what (controller or keyboard,) which is a LOT harder to do with the Nostromo since the names on the buttons =/= anything the game will tell you they are.

Also, the thumb pad was odd.

Now... personally? I'm a full-size keyboard kinda person, and a big part of the reason for that is that I like playing older computer games, and a lot of them VERY MUCH benefit from availability of the keypad. Sure, a lot of keypad-less options have ways to simulate the function... but it isn't the same, and always feels awkward to me.

I'd be interested in knowing if other folks like or dislike the pad, though, because more and more I see 10-keyless keyboards pushed hard, and I don't get it. /1

At the same time, I'd love to make my own computer games eventually, and one of the ones I've got in mind is a simple(ish) tactical RPG designed to look and feel like it could run on an 8-bit system from the mid-80s.

To go along with that, I was planning on giving it a control scheme oriented toward a keypad (but duplicated over onto the other side of the keyboard, so num/=2, 5=S, etc.)

But I really want to know how many folks this would cause more annoyance than interest in the end result. /2

Up to 1,000 feared dead!

Photos & Video!

Al-Ahli Arab Christian Hospital, one of the main medical facilities in Gaza City, has been hit with a direct Israeli military strike, first Al-Aqsa satellite channel, then Arab and international media reported.
#AureFreePress #News #Israel #gaza #Hamas #BreakingNews #Breaking

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/al-ahli-hospital-in-gaza-hit-with-direct-israeli-strike-photos-video/

Scientists lay out a sweeping roadmap for transitioning the US off fossil fuels

In a sweeping 637-page document, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine made 80 recommendations for how the United States can justly and equitably pursue decarbonization policies. It includes recommendations for everything from establishing a carbon tax to phasing out subsidies for high-emissions animal agriculture and codifying environmental justice goals

https://grist.org/energy/us-scientists-lay-out-a-sweeping-roadmap-for-decarbonization/

#USA #US

As many Congressional reporters are pointing out, Jordan just now lost as many votes (20) as McCarthy did in most of his 15 ballots in January and more than McCarthy did when he was booted two weeks ago. He could still win maybe on another ballot eventually, but very unclear whether he keeps pushing for more votes or what.

Normalize NOT saying: "X is recovered from COVID" or "X got through COVID all right, thank god", and instead saying: "The acute stage of X's COVID infection went all right, but there's no way to know right now what the long-term damage is".

@Huntn00 It's a wonderful place to live! I grew up in the Great Lakes region and couldn't imagine living anywhere else - but now that I'm here, it's home!

riding bikes every day until I can’t for some reason, day 1149

#Cycling #BikeTooter #Photography #Autumn #Nature

BREAKING: Jim Jordan fails to win House speaker vote on first ballot https://t.co/T5fOjQGmlF https://t.co/3V9tEh1YV8