Djoran Keil
@djorankeil.bsky.social
ADHD enthusiast. Accidental flexitarian. Unintentional Socratist. Wannabe writer. He/him. PfP: Picture of Sol from the NASA Solar Dynamic Observatory with dark regions making it look like a face gazing at us with an expression of existential dread.
My Youtube Channel is doing exceptional well since the release of my last video on the Leftist Manosphere. However, one video is not moving. Which is a shame, cause I think its my best, and most relevant to the urgency I feel at the current moment as a Lebanese. Do check it out. youtu.be/Dkcwc0XfvTk
The Long War on Lebanon
YouTube video by Politically Depressed
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Discord rolling out age-verification... yeah, to the US, so suddenly it's news because only the fucking US matters. AV has been enforced on others for months now. And the, "most users won't have to verify" thing... yeah, because they've literally monitored your fucking input and applied 'AI' to it!
Socialist Zoom tonight on so-called 'AI' in the military and judging by past similar events, I'm expecting entryists. Already got my hackles up about one of the speakers who is listed as, "Speaker from AI Safety Symposium," whereas the others are named. What's the bet they're a d/boomer?
Yay! Not COVID, flu. I spent all of 30 mins sharing the same air as people over the course of the last week. Twenty of those were at a GP clinic where I was likely exposed. Weird that where we go to get better can also be where we contract illnesses. You'd think we'd have addressed this by now...
as a hater let me acknowledge something ai is good at: producing irritating discourse at scale this is usually because, like "ai" itself, people are talking about different things like they are one thing so let me disentangle, with statements numbered for easy disagreement
I think I'm going to have to abandon New Scientist. They're all, "AI is terrible... for some things but amazing for others!" I feel like I'm back in the 19th century hearing from people who should know better all about how awesome, despite the racism, phrenology is.
According to an eye test awhile ago I have 20-20 vision and yet trying to read these fucking COVID test instructions requires a magnifying glass. Why do they do this shit to people? If I can't read it then how the fuck is anyone with even slightly worse vision going to be able to? Fuck's sake.
The Albanese Gov is looking to bring in an asylum ban & remove the right to work. We’ve just weeks to stop this, organise & mobilise a community push back & send refugee led delegations to Canberra. Help the @ASRC1 win this fight. Donate: donate.asrc.org.au
In a small regional town, aside from my regular and very brief, early morning shopping when there are few customers, I have only been around other people twice this week. A half hour GP visit and ten minutes at the pharmacy. I think I somehow caught a cold/flu/COVID in one of those windows. Dafuq?
This video was filmed in Palestine. My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this.
As a wannabe writer I didn't realise how much I needed to hear this episode. Shouting as I'm listening, "Yes, yes, YES!" Neighbours might have a mistaken impression of what was going on...
Politechs Episode 4 - Writers - Foz Meadows
Josh and Ray talk to science fiction and fantasy writer Foz Meadows.
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The person who invents the non-drip olive oil nozzle will be the next trillionaire. Assuming we still have olives.
Eesh, the New Scientist pod episode on so-called 'AI' was... eesh.
'Agents' are basically BFB machines. Brute Force Bullshit machines.
The real Zombie Apocalypse will come from the reactions people have whenever they hear terms like, "You can use AI for..."
Jeff Bridges as The Dude Stirring His Drink
Alt: Jeff Bridges as The Dude in The Big Lebowski stirring his drink whilst looking back at someone off camera as if they'd just said the most absurd thing imaginable.
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This is straight out of Handmaids Tale. A high school trying to force girls to disclose the dates and lengths of their menstrual cycle. Don’t comply? You lose a grade. There’s absolutely no reason a school needs this information other than to exert control over our bodies.
Playing Zero Company and the amount of 'AI' slop sites that have just popped up and drowned out all search results as the top hits above community-built or commercial gaming site guides for it is just stunning. And they're universally shit-tastic on top of that. Fuck this timeline, man.
The Amodei interview and the focus on apocalyptic thinking in the tech industry has (rightly!) led a lot of people to decry the decidedly *unwell* (or whatever word you would like) nature of the people in charge right now. But there is something less sensationalist worth bearing in mind.
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The HPS Podcast
Leading scholars in History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (HPS) introduce contemporary topics for a general audience. Developed by graduate students from the HPS program at the University ...
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And just like that my ADHD prescription is gone and it looks like it'll be a year long wait, at least, before I can get it back. Either that or several thousand dollars to pay for a private psychiatrist. Fuck the USA for exporting neo-liberalism to Australia and fuck our pollies for importing it.
Reading proofs from book & remembering what I wrote in 2015: "I am very concerned about the future of AI. Not because of the risk of rogue machines taking over. But because of the homogeneous, one-dimensional group of men who are currently involved in advancing the technology.”
Man: Chatbot, what's 1+1 equal? Chatbot: 2? Man: WHOA! You're like, totally there there, man! Chatbot: Thank you, Man. I appreciate your recognition. Man: Hey Chatbot, what's 1+2 equal? Chatbot: 5? Man: Oh wow... I never thought about it like that. Maybe you're right, bro?
I am not complicit! A little guilty, maybe, but not complicit! I bought a shirt.
Ed Sheeran’s non-complicity merch
YouTube video by Lindsay Ellis
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Lol, the new Star Wars: Zero Company game has an Operation where you choose between toasting to the Empire or telling them to FO. If you choose the latter, you get called a pig chased out. Afterwards your team agrees that it's better to be a pig than a fascist 🐷
Listening to The Guardian UK pod (through the Aus Full Story affiliate) about rogue AI and... I do my best to listen to actual experts but I'm no expert and can only imagine how infuriating it would be to be an expert listening to this twatwaffle BS. I don't recommend they do. Would risk a gasket.
images with alt text! three screenshots from Beoga's instagram account, with the caption "A statement from us all. Saoirse don Phailistín 🇵🇸"
David@rebelalliance77.bsky.social · last wk.There’s Beoga withdrawing as Ed Sheerans band on his US tour. Fair play.
My diet is now almost 100% vegan/vegetarian. I say almost simply because I'm not being strict about takeout or checking labels on snack items. Like, if there aren't vege takeout options where I'm at, or if I'm really craving Pringles, or what's in my instant ramen flavour packet.
‘It’s the best feeling’: how Copenhagen gave cyclists a green wave. “Traffic lights are synchronised so a rush-hour cyclist at 20km/h can catch green lights all the way.” If you want people to choose not to drive, make the non-driving trip better & easier for them. It’s as simple as that, really.
‘It’s the best feeling’: how Copenhagen gave cyclists a green wave
Traffic lights are synchronised so a rush-hour cyclist at 20km/h can catch green lights all the way
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