Architeuthis

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"If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own social network." -- L. Ron Altman (www.theverge.com)
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UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill (www.theguardian.com)
 

The types of information processed includes names, dates of birth, gender and ethnicity, and a number that identifies people on the police national computer.

Also to be shared – and listed under “special categories of personal data” - are “health markers which are expected to have significant predictive power”, such as data relating to mental health, addiction, suicide and vulnerability, and self-harm, as well as disability.

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Michael Lewis "Going Infinite" to become an Apple movie, script by Lena Dunham in c/buttcoin@awful.systems
[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Apropos of nothing, I wonder when Uncle Trump's Presidential Pardon Auction House officially opens for business.

AI worse than humans in every way at summarising information, government trial finds in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 0 points 7 months ago

Did LLama3.1 solve the hallucination problem?

I bet we would have heard if it had, since It's the albatross hanging on the neck of this entire technology.

AI worse than humans in every way at summarising information, government trial finds in c/technology@lemmy.world
AI worse than humans in every way at summarising information, government trial finds in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 1 points 7 months ago (4 children)

but it can make a human way more efficient, and make 1 human able to do the work of 3-5 humans.

Not if you have to proof-read everything to spot the entirely convincing-looking but completely inaccurate parts, is the problem the article cites.

Inside the 'Nightmare' Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town in c/buttcoin@awful.systems
[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Wow, I expected to read about people voting themselves out of healthcare so bitcoin mines can operate at 1% cheaper, instead I got data center induced Havana Syndrome.

edit: I love that throughout the article they keep referring to the police chief who's fighting the mining installation as a former oath keeper, the fuck-one-monkey principle at work.

- I wish people would finally start calling me the anti-crypto police chief.

- Whatever you say Monkeyfucker Joe.

Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Enshittification

Once [a company] can make more money by screwing its customers, that screw-job becomes a fait accompli.

[WSJ:PAID] It's Finally Time to Add Some Smart Tech to Your Dumb Home in c/technews@radiation.party
[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If they open their APIs so I can coordinate different brands without downloading a bazillion different apps and as long as I can do it without my data leaving the house, I'll think about it.