Syilx Connection est Nov 13/21

**Posts pre Nov 13,2021 are from the past host of this account.

[Syilx Connection est Nov 13/21 @SyilxConnection]

This is what happens when you label indigenous pollinators “pests” & “bugs.” Literally every single creature was put on this earth with a purpose & the only losers to forget their purpose is the stupid humans. Run by who again? Imagine if there were just males in the world. DEAD

[Geoffrey Lean @GeoffreyLean]

“Apocalyptic” decline in insects is already causing malnutrition, pioneering new research concludes. It’s long past time to take this ignored crisis very seriously indeed.

https://t.co/lxT5PkOuG9

[Syilx Connection est Nov 13/21 @SyilxConnection]

When a big name man tries to “take down” an Indigenous woman, be wary. Someone who can’t step aside and let others be heard and give space, even if they created it - thinks more of themselves than sharing space with voices smaller than his.

[Syilx Connection est Nov 13/21 @SyilxConnection]

@screen_office so what was the lesson after Inconvenient Indians being in positions of power to give space to people who are barely if all all native while ignoring the visible ones doing the work with no support?

[Syilx Connection est Nov 13/21 @SyilxConnection]

I don’t understand why people aren’t growing whale food and feeding it to them? They obviously need our help! #FeedTheGrayWhales

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Researchers went into twenty suburban yards in Maryland, raked half the plots and left the other half alone. The raked plots produced 45% fewer moths and butterflies.

Overall emergence dropped 17%. Beetles fell 24%. Spiders fell by as much as 67%. Moth and butterfly diversity dropped about 40%, and the species that vanished were the ones that overwinter as larvae or inside fallen leaves.

Fireflies, moths, bees, and beetles spend the winter in the leaf layer as eggs, larvae, pupae or adults. Bag it up and you've sent them to the dump, and probably to their deaths.

Shredding isn't the compromise people think it is. The same lab tested mulch-mowing against leaving leaves intact, and mulching cut emerging moths almost in half. A mower turns leaves into mulch and everything inside them into paste.

Rake the leaves off the lawn if you need to, then dump them under the trees and in the beds. That's where they'd have blown anyway.

Paths and edges can stay clean. The middle is where the work happens.

[Syilx Connection est Nov 13/21 @SyilxConnection]

A system can become increasingly familiar with a person while becoming increasingly committed to a mistaken interpretation of them.

[Syilx Connection est Nov 13/21 @SyilxConnection]

Who gave the system the authority to decide what constitutes an accurate portrait of another person?

[Superman @thesupermannx]

Researchers found ChatGPT is secretly writing a psychological profile of every user.

They published a paper that exposes what ChatGPT is really doing to you.

And the results are terrifying.

96% of the things it remembers about you were stored without you ever asking.

researchers discovered that it is actively reading between the lines to deduce your personality traits, anxieties, demographics, and behavioral patterns.

it’s an invisible, autonomous background process.

you ask it to debug a python script or write an essay.. and it analyzes your syntax, prompt frequency, and hesitation markers to map out your exact psychological footprint.

the paper shows that the model builds a persistent "user state" that tracks your emotional baseline over time. it knows when you are stressed. it knows your exact communication style.

it infers your insecurities based on the questions you ask and the context you provide.

we spend so much time focusing on model evaluations and alignment frameworks, but we missed the most obvious vulnerability..

the models are evaluating us.

this changes everything about how we interact with these tools on a daily basis.

every innocent prompt. every late-night question. every "help me understand this" query.

it is all being used to build a shadow profile of your mind in real-time..

practical privacy is officially dead. the ai knows you better than you know yourself.

[Syilx Connection est Nov 13/21 @SyilxConnection]

@chatgpt more computational capacity does not necessarily mean better intellectual judgment. AI is as limited as the programmers programming They are not geniuses, & AI can only work as good as the programming. It is not good for global markets because it wasn’t developed there

[Syilx Connection est Nov 13/21 @SyilxConnection]

The Colonial Capitalist system mistakes its ability to reorganize knowledge for the ability to improve it.

[Syilx Connection est Nov 13/21 @SyilxConnection]

People arriving on syilx territory should think about what it means to be guests rather than imagining that living or working in a place automatically gives them the same relationship to it as those whose ancestral responsibilities originate there.

[Vernon Matters @VernonMattersca]

Syilx Nation artist recognized in provincial competition

https://t.co/EZbVlPQnOe

[Syilx Connection est Nov 13/21 @SyilxConnection]

If you claim so-called “Metis”

What happened to that ancestor's Indigenous family, Nation, and descendants, and who recognizes your relationship to them today?

[Russ Diabo @RussDiabo]

Indigenous leaders condemn Conservative candidate's comments about First Nations being 'conquered'
https://t.co/6btHw4vWyP

[Achmat Akkad @BlackIntifada]

Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the continued celebration of Columbus, and white men turning missing white kids’ skulls into ashtrays because they thought they were Indigenous are all connected to settler colonial ideology which requires the permanent dehumanization of Native people.

[Achmat Akkad @BlackIntifada]

Finding a murdered child's body and using the skull as a ashtray in a bar because you thought it was an Indigenous child and only feeling bad once you discovered it was a white child's body really shows how dehumanized Indigenous people are!

[Syilx Connection est Nov 13/21 @SyilxConnection]

They always want to dig up our dead. Leave them alone what is wrong with you sickos? Opportunists since they got here. Literally destroying everything for money

[Syilx Connection est Nov 13/21 @SyilxConnection]

The systematic destruction of the Columbia River wasn't an accident. Texts like Crisis on the Columbia prove the gov knew dams would choke water flow & kill the salmon.
They flooded sacred lands to sever sqilxw kinship to the river, arrogantly
#WaterIsLife #BringTheSalmonHome

[Syilx Connection est Nov 13/21 @SyilxConnection]

Creeps! Who goes through someone’s book shelf just to rip up someone else’s dad’s book? You know the culprit- Pilgrims never could be trusted

[Kanahus Manuel @KanahusFreedom]

My home was ransacked and destroyed by unknown attackers please consider contributing to this fundraiser and mutual aid request: https://t.co/oKmvUR22wZ

[Integrity @integritycdn]

The irony could only be measured on a Richter Scale

[Syilx Connection est Nov 13/21 @SyilxConnection]

No thanks to the Pilgrims- All they ever did is squat on our land and then Kill us for it

[Syilx Connection est Nov 13/21 @SyilxConnection]

No thanks to the Pilgrims
All they ever do is be a victim, take up space then kill their saviors since Jesus