βAfter talking to NW Natural, they have released a multi language notice that will also go to every customer regarding how to best identify a NW Natural Utility Worker when they come to your home or are nearby. There has been reports of ICE agents disguising as utility workers to lure people out of their homes. Please stay aware.β
-- Oregon State Representative Ricki Ruiz (Gresham)
Also, the trending tab works. It has been a while since I was on Twitter, but I vividly remember the "For You" tab being worthless for finding people I wanted to follow.
And when you see something come through your feed boosted by someone you've chosen to follow but written by someone else, consider clicking through to that person's profile. If you seem to have some things in common, perhaps you'd like to follow them, or maybe you see other interesting things or people in the things *they* have boosted. This is how you build out your network. There's no algorithm to do it for you, meaning you get to make the choices, not someone else.
@oberstenzian People don't put up with bullshit for long here. If they try bringing their bullshit here, they will quickly find themselves banned or isolated.
Once they realize that their bullshit can't be forced on anyone, they'll run to Threads or somewhere else.
and if the #grok porn bot scandal was the final straw for you, good on ya but please take the time to talk to anyone you know who may still be reluctant to leave X and encourage them to follow you here and leave that shit show behind.
Reminder for my supporters on Patreon, the switch to monthly subscriptions is happening next week. Don't miss your last chance to adjust your pledge. The first "monthly" will be charged on Feb 1st. Update now to avoid surprises! (and thank you for your support!)
@realtegan Thank you for your support! Yes, the 'monthly' label will be converted by Patreon next week. Each tiers will be converted to 1:1 , so if you donate 3$ per episode, it will be converted to 3$ monthly next week.
Furious AI Users Say Their Prompts Are Being Plagiarized
Move over, Ship of Theseus β thereβs a new paradoxical thought experiment in town. Some power users of generative AI have grown so comfortable with their new tools β especially image-generating ones β that they now feel entitled to the specific prompts they use to churn out slop, as if the entire technology wasnβt based on the work of human artists that had been ingested without consent. Consider Amira Zairi, a self-professed βAI educatorβ and βambassadorβ for Adobe, LeonardoAI, and TripoAI, who posted a scathing rant this week on X-formerly-Twitter to her 49,000 followers. Her complaint? Other people were βplagiarizingβ her unique AI prompts. ββMake your own promptsβ isnβt advice. Itβs basic integrity,β Zairi wrote, using syntax that reads suspiciously like text generated by ChatGPT. βIβm honestly fed up. Changing a few words, renaming the prompt, or slightly rephrasing it doesnβt make it yours, the idea is still the same, the vibe is the same, and the results are obviously similar.β βAnd no, this isnβt about one or two people, and it didnβt happen once!!!!β Zairi continued. βCreating your own prompts is actually easier than copying someone elseβs work! Try it.β #AiSlop #AI Futurism
Friends and family of the 43-year-old man who was fatally shot by a Department of Homeland Security agent in Northridge on New Year's Eve gathered on Sunday to demand accountability and hold a candlelight vigil for their lost loved one.
Question for anybody whoβs played a lot of different MMOs: Has there ever been an MMO Raid where one part of the raid has had you do a Power Rangers style βEveryone works together to control a giant robotβ fight, or anything remotely similar? Because I feel like thatβd be sick as hell.
Turns out German farmers grew too much potatoes last year, so now all the extra potatoes have to be consumed (the alternative is just burning them for biodiesel). This means free potatoes for everyone in Berlin! They accept applications for batches over 1 ton until Monday; and also on Thursday and Friday there will be multiple distribution points across Berlin for picking up smaller amounts for personal consumption, measured in kilos. 4000-tonnen.de
π΄ π - AOC: βI understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance and I. I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street.β
βCorrupt, demented circus clownβ: Nobel committee slams door on Donald Trumpβs dream of stealing the peace prize Source: We Got This Covered βCorrupt, demented circus clownβ: Nobel committee slams door on Donald Trumpβs dream of stealing the peace prize Source: We Got This Covered share.newsbreak.com/gq0oo2pk
Hey everybody who knows about the history of mental illness. Someone I care about has ADD and is really badly disabled. I have a big ask of you.
Where can I read a history of societal attitudes to people with poor focus and weak executive functions ***BEFORE 1920***? That is, not a history of the diagnosis. A social history of the empirical phenomenon.
There's lots of books about #depression. Help me out now!
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity is a book by Steve Silberman that discusses autism and neurodiversity from historic, scientific, and advocacy-based perspectives.
This fascist project is coming to fruition now after 50 years in the planning - 1971 to be more accurate, with the Powell Memorandum & subsequently, Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission.
All because the 1960s gave the rich nightmares involving guillotines.
Given what's happening in the #US at the moment, we need to be really aware as to how Scotland is being used to further that agenda in other places
We can see what #Trump's got at the moment around #Greenland. We don't want to be complicit in that.
βIf we're not asking the questions about what they're doing when they come through #Wick, we should be asking the questions.
In the space of a week, the US administration has #kidnapped the Venezuelan president, suggested it could take Greenland next by force, and seized an oil tanker in Scottish waters.
Renee Good's family received so much money on their GoFundMe that they closed it and said that they would like to have the money go to other families in need... What a beautiful gesture
The fact that Renee Nicole Goodβs family closed their GoFundMe after it reached more than they ever imagined and requested we instead send donations to others in need is exactly the difference between the Good family and grifter Erika Kirk.
As I write, highly civilised human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are βonly doing their dutyβ, as the saying goes. Most of them, I have no doubt, are kind-hearted law-abiding men who would never dream of committing murder in private life. On the other hand, if one of them succeeds in blowing me to pieces with a well-placed bomb, he will never sleep any the worse for it. He is serving his country, which has the power to absolve him from evil.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair] Essay (1941-02-19), βThe Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius,β Part 1 βEngland Your England,β sec. 1, The Searchlight Books [ed. Fyvel and Orwell]
"Three... U.S. senators are calling on Apple and Alphabet's Google to remove X and its built-in [ #AI ] chatbot Grok from their app stores, citing the spread of nonconsensual sexual images of women and minors on the platform.
In a letter published on Friday, senators Ron Wyden of Oregon, Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico and Edward Markey of Massachusetts said Google and Apple "must remove these apps from the app stores until X's policy violations are addressed." #tech
WASHINGTON, Jan 9 : Three Democratic U.S. senators are calling on Apple and Alphabet's Google to remove X and its built-in artificial intelligence chatbot Grok from their app stores, citing the spread of nonconsensual sexual images of women and minorβ¦
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i need y'all to understand that the moderate who tells you that you can't protect marginalized people from fascists because it'll paint progressives as dangerous criminals is just as vital a component of fascism as the goon actively rounding up those marginalized people.
fascism's true believers are *very* few in number. the bulk of fascism's power comes from treacherous moderates who will tell you that, yes, fascism is bad - but resistance is worse.
You know how in the early 1900s, radium was discovered and people started putting it into a bunch of random products that were marketed as having any number of magical or healing properties because "ooooo cool it glows" and because radioactivity was such a new concept that no one understood the danger? Or how asbestos was used in like, everything for a while?
This is what generative AI is like, but for the service economy. Future generations are going to treat this shit like toxic waste.
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Exclusive | Here's who's really behind the Minneapolis ICE
resistance movement \
Radical leftist groups, including one financed with $7.8 million from progressive -
billionaire George Soros, are behind the anti-ICE protests...
1 day ago
New York Post \
ICE agent who shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis is >
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in reply to Yakyu Night Owl • • •βAfter talking to NW Natural, they have released a multi language notice that will also go to every customer regarding how to best identify a NW Natural Utility Worker when they come to your home or are nearby. There has been reports of ICE agents disguising as utility workers to lure people out of their homes. Please stay aware.β
-- Oregon State Representative Ricki Ruiz (Gresham)
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Yes. Please stay aware.