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Gaywallet (they/it)

@ Gaywallet @beehaw.org

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I'm gay

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1y ago

AI’s Fairness Problem: When Treating Everyone the Same is the Wrong Approach
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Gaywallet (they/it) @beehaw.org 1y ago
Installing ramps is explicitly not treating them the same. It is making accommodations for them because they are not the same.

1y ago

AI’s Fairness Problem: When Treating Everyone the Same is the Wrong Approach

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Gaywallet (they/it) @beehaw.org 1y ago

Yes, equity vs equality.

1y ago

how's your week going, Beehaw

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Gaywallet (they/it) @beehaw.org 1y ago

On the good side of things: It literally changed my life. I had no idea how poorly I had been sleeping, and once I did have some healing, and started getting good, consistent sleep, many of the things I struggled with just suddenly disappeared. I didn’t have the rapid mood swings. I didn’t struggle with anger. I could think more clearly, and focus on tasks. Life was truly a fundamentally different experience for me.

Interesting, thank you for sharing this.

1y ago

how's your week going, Beehaw

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Gaywallet (they/it) @beehaw.org 1y ago

Woah, okay yea I get sick a fair deal but now I'm wondering how much has to do with the tonsils

1y ago

I missed out on 3D movies, but they're back in VR

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Gaywallet (they/it) @beehaw.org 1y ago

The 3D medium had some fantastic art. There were a lot of gimmicks in movies you'd expect, like harold and kumar go to whitecastle (not meant to be a serious movie). But there were also fantastic shots and art direction such as in tron: legacy and prometheus, where 3D provided a much deeper feel of space and made certain shots that much more emotionally resonant and beautiful.

There were a lot more misses than wins, as most directors saw it as a gimmick, but not everyone did. The folks who thought carefully about how extra dimensions would affect a shot (even when it was done in post rather than shot on 3D cameras) made some wonderful art, and it's a shame so many folks missed out on it because they weren't able to see past it as a gimmick either.

1y ago

America’s Right-Wing Propaganda Problem Might Be Terminal -- [Opinion]

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Gaywallet (they/it) @beehaw.org 1y ago

The quantity of disinformation is irrelevant if people don’t fall for it

I don't know about you, but I find it increasingly difficult to find unbiased takes and find myself spending more time digging than I previously did. Because of this I find myself increasingly mislead about things, because the real truth might be so obscured that I need to find an actual academic to parse what information is out there and separate primary source from other mislead individuals.

Not to say I don't disagree with your point, I think you make a fair one, but I do believe that the quantity of disinformation is absolutely relevant, especially in an age where not only anyone can share their misinformed belief online, but one where this is increasingly happening by malicious actors as well as AI.

1y ago

Generative A.I. a Parasitic Cancer

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Gaywallet (they/it) @beehaw.org 1y ago

Just dropping by here to remind you to treat others on this instance in good faith, even when you disagree.

1y ago

TikTok tells Supreme Court ‘sell-or-ban’ law stems from refusal to censor

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Gaywallet (they/it) @beehaw.org 1y ago

This has been reported on account of the source. I'm not sure it's worth removing necessarily, and would direct people to look at @spit_evil_olive_tips@beehaw.org comment for another source and an excellent summary.

1y ago

Venezuela fines TikTok $10M for fatal social media challenges that led to the death of 3 teenager, intoxication of 200 others

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Gaywallet (they/it) @beehaw.org 1y ago

Kids have been doing idiotic shit to themselves since the dawn of time. Tik tok or youtube didn’t cause this.

It's not about who caused it, it's about responsibility. The responsibility for making it easy to spread, amplifying the message. Kids in your class is very different from millions of viewers. Even in grade school there's a chance an adult might see it and stop it from happening or educating the children.

Ultimately this is an issue of public health and of education. For such a huge company, a $10m fine is practically nothing, especially when they could train their own algorithm to not surface content like this. Or they could have moderation which removes potentially harmful content. Why are you going to bat for a huge company to not have responsibility for content which caused real harm?

1y ago

USB-C charging is now mandatory in EU, here's what you need to know - GSMArena.com news

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Gaywallet (they/it) @beehaw.org 1y ago

Would love to see better standards around wattage and throughput, but my understanding is they are trying to work towards that already! Unfortunately that's a problem for all USB cables and has been a problem since they started adding additional specs besides 5v/1.5a so it can be the next problem they tackle now that they've standardized an interface 😄

1y ago

Chinese ebook reader Boox ditches GPT for state-censored China LLM pushing propaganda

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Gaywallet (they/it) @beehaw.org 1y ago

The discussions on this have kind of gone off the rails, so I'm locking this post. Please don't sling insults at each other because you have a disagreement about what is or isn't propaganda and stop being weirdly defensive of countries as a whole - none of them are a monolith, they are all ran by people.

1y ago

Hi, Beehaw! I uninstalled Reddit.

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Gaywallet (they/it) @beehaw.org 1y ago

Yeah, I've also noticed that sometimes replies don't show up in the inbox for threads with a bunch of replies. I think it automatically mutes replies after a certain number? Unsure, and unfortunately not likely something to be fixed anytime soon as we are not planning on updating our version of Lemmy anytime soon as we wish to migrate to another platform.

1y ago

Hi, Beehaw! I uninstalled Reddit.

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Gaywallet (they/it) @beehaw.org 1y ago

Thankful that folks like you are around making this space possible 💜

1y ago

Hi, Beehaw! I uninstalled Reddit.

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Gaywallet (they/it) @beehaw.org 1y ago

Just wanted to chime in and thank you for providing a valid critique and reality check for folks. No matter what we do as admins and moderators, humans are gonna human (myself included) and we should be realistic about what this space can and cannot be.

I personally never envisioned this place as being a be-all end-all solution to the problem with social media, just one attempt (among many) to find ways to do it a little bit healthier. Building on the shoulders of giants and all - maybe some of our principles will make it into another healthy platform in the future.

With that being said, I do want to be clear that if you ever have a critique or would like to report things that aren't working on this instance, please speak up about it! We can only act on information that is surfaced to us and we want to do our best to curate the best space we possibly can in our little corner of the internet and fediverse.

This is also as good a time as any to remind our newcomers, such as @kimagurevenus@beehaw.org, to go read through our docs when you've got a minute. Of particular note the core principles outline most of what kind of community we're trying to provide a space for and how we expect people to act on our instance.

1y ago

When AI summaries replace hyperlinks, thought itself is flattened

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Gaywallet (they/it) @beehaw.org 1y ago

Interesting thought piece on the importance of interconnection and what is lost when the connections are obscured. I just wish more people in charge of creating AI were spending more time thinking about what we lose in this compression. Thanks for the link, I appreciated the read.

1y ago

United Healthcare CEO Fatally Shot in New York

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Gaywallet (they/it) @beehaw.org 1y ago

At what point does indirectly become directly? I think what's most important here is intent - this man was clearly knowledgeable enough to know he was causing harm and still chose to do so in order to increase shareholder profit. There is malice here no matter how you slice it.

1y ago

How's your week going, Beeple?

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Gaywallet (they/it) @beehaw.org 1y ago

Sold a '13 CR-V to a very good friend who had borrowed it for a few months about two years ago and loved it and wants to go camping more. Bought an '18 Fit so I could have a slightly smaller city friendly car.

1y ago

How's your week going, Beeple?

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Gaywallet (they/it) @beehaw.org 1y ago

Sold my old car a few weeks ago. Finally got a new (used) car last Friday. I'm so glad for it to no longer be consuming some of my brains processing power in the background constantly.

I had a very slutty weekend, which was satisfying. I think I'm in heat. I think I've been in heat a lot the last few months. I wish I had a solution to this. Being slutty didn't really seem to solve the horny, although it was a nice outlet.

1y ago

Legendary Kenyan lawyer takes on Meta and Chat GPT: Mercy Mutemi stands up for Kenya’s data annotators and content moderators, arguing the work they are subjected to is a new form of colonialism

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Gaywallet (they/it) @beehaw.org 1y ago

My dude, I told you to chill and take a step back. People were reporting you for being confrontational. I flagged my comment to help you understand that this was me helping you understand how we do things on Beehaw. If you think someone reminding you of the rules, asking you to take a step back, asking you to not be confrontational and doing their best to treat your comment with good faith and providing you educational material is "rude and condescending" or that it is "talking down to others" then you're probably not a good fit for this instance.

I'm going to time you out from our instance for 7 days. Please take that time to reflect. If you repeatedly show this behavior on our instance, you may find yourself with longer timeouts or even being removed.

1y ago

Legendary Kenyan lawyer takes on Meta and Chat GPT: Mercy Mutemi stands up for Kenya’s data annotators and content moderators, arguing the work they are subjected to is a new form of colonialism

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Gaywallet (they/it) @beehaw.org 1y ago

Hey there, I've removed this comment because it reads as rather aggressive (and was reported for such). Maybe take a step back and re-assess if you're treating others with good faith and be(e)ing nice.

that still doesn’t make this about colonialism because this is about capitalism.

FYI- there is wide overlap between these two and they are not mutually exclusive. If you're unfamiliar with the use of these terms, you should ask how they are defined or how they are being used, rather than pushing a pedantic lens on the words definition.