✨ geoff, but witchy ✨ @cooler_ranch@witches.town

net neutrality will never truly be possible while network infrastructure can be privately owned and corporations like facebook and google broker many people's entire internet experience. we need to socialize the internet.

it is 2017 and there is no justification for the internet relying on ISPs imo

mesh 👏 networks 👏

Bible Dad and Goth Dad #AnimeNYC #cosplay #dreamdaddy #dreamdaddygame
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vaporwave is the genre that came closest to applying critical theory to music

Reading about privacy, the FCC and ISPs I have learned an acronym

FANG? Uh Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google

the issue isn't that AI are inexplicable, but that corpers have chosen to trust inexplicable tooling as a means of disenfranchising workers. consider how facebook used its moderation teams solely to train its moderator AI, and then phased out the humans. facebook cannot pretend "it's just the algorithm" absolves them of responsibility when that algorithm turns out to be racist as fuck. they built it. they trained it. they are responsible.

legislators wants "explainable" AI so that they can hold someone to account but uhhh

when a statistician makes a call based on the tools they used, you hold the statistician to account. if the statistician cannot hold their tools to account, they need better tools. they do not get a pass because "it's just what the data shows" because they made the conscious choice to trust their tools' interpretation of the data.

excuse me, "machine learning"

i can't stand researchers creating these automated diviners -- identifying sexuality, transness, legal identity, from training sets copped and bought without consent -- and then washing their hands when people call them out for facilitating a panopticon. "look, it's just what the data shows" doesn't absolve you of creating lists only useful to those who wish us harm.

exfuckinscuse me https://mastodon.social/media/-XCidiPNpbg3HlMd7NM

“central banks are bad because humans are not efficient or reliable monetary regulators. cryptocurrencies do not have central banks* and so are not vulnerable** like they are

*bitcoin uses an algorithm written by a ghost as its central bank
**accountable

all currencies have forces controlling supply. delegating that force to an algorithm does not prohibit that force from becoming exploitive.

@oceangrunge RACHEL NO. >:(

"I’ll keep it short and sweet. Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. When opportunity knocks, you don’t want to be driving to a maternity hospital or sitting in some phony-baloney church. [Narrows eyes] Or synagogue." - Mr. Burns

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behold... the gestalt dragon

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So much for being "tough on crime"

I wish I saw an easy path towards destigmatizing "failure" in our society.

There's so much about life that is impossible to get "right" until you have gotten it "wrong" in enough different ways to understand what "right" even is.

We shouldn't shun our failures, nor the failures of our folk.

Fail gloriously, having been informed by the failure, and spread the good word of the information it ceded.

lmao I'm reading about Samoyeds on wikipedia

"Samoyeds' friendly disposition makes them poor guard dogs"

they are so pure