Okeefekat at dair-community.social

I’m not completely quitting here but the new owner is tanking the place so spending more time over in the fediverse at okeefekat at dair-community dot social.

[Michael Tremmel @MichaelTremmel]

Physicists need to stop thinking everything is trivial and they can speak with authority on any topic. At best we look foolish. At worst we do real damage.

But also it’s ironic how people that fashion themselves as great thinkers are often closed minded and, frankly, stupid

[Paul Mozur 孟建國 @paulmozur]

One thing was clear, China’s model of camera-covered cities using facial recognition to track in real time has moved beyond its borders. The Dubai police run their own. To build it they got advice from KPMG and Gartner, then bought Hikvision and Huawei. Here’s their control HQ.

[John Ira Jennings @JIJennings]

Happy Science Fiction Day! portrait from ages ago I did of my friend Dr. Nnedi Okorafor.@Nnedi #scifiday

[Jennifer Stisa Granick @granick]

@mer__edith I wrote about this a year or so ago. Law enforcement feels entitled to know everything about us. https://t.co/0n0FWRCXw1

[BA @babluegreen]

@SDonziger @Chevron Congress must impose on SCOTUS the same rules and standards for ethics that federal judges are bound by.

To not do so in light of this reporting is to wither away the legitimacy of the court to nothing.

[Sarah Lazarus @sarahclazarus]

no new years resolutions. it is the circumstances turn to improve

[Terri Gerstein @TerriGerstein]

I'm really mad that the words "meta" and "uber" have been permanently ruined. They were good words!

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

Put simply, Trump held a foreign bank account in China — and other countries — while he was president. This isn’t normal and should enrage all of us. Trump must never return to public office ever again.

[Matthew Skala @mattskala]

@pendertif I don't think they expect the "making up facts when it doesn't know" part, and people not knowing that that's absolutely a thing with language (and image!) models is going to cause a lot of trouble.

[Okeefekat at dair-community.social @okeefekat]

@Cavalorn Yup. Wilde basically reversed it in The Critic as Artist, and the extension is pretty much antithetical to his style, his
Philosophy, and his creative mode.

https://t.co/JUbdUCZ42e

[Okeefekat at dair-community.social @okeefekat]

@Lady8Jane Incidentally, does talk a good bit about imitation in other ways: Mainly, arguing against "mimetic" art or Naturalism in art. Art should not imitate life. In fact, in "The Decay of Lying" he does a reversal of Colton's quote:"...imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult"

[Meredith Whittaker @mer__edith]

I agree.

I'll add that fact checking these claims is often practically impossible. Those who can are those w narrow technical training + access (i.e. they work for the tech exec's company) to the technical infrastructures that are shielded from public scrutiny by corp secrecy.

[Joanna J Bryson @j2bryson]

Blockchain study finds 0.00% success rate and vendors don't call back when asked for evidence https://t.co/oBnXvdxLrD via @theregister

[Okeefekat at dair-community.social @okeefekat]

@newgrangeknowth @opwireland @heritageireland @NationalMons @DiscoverBoyneV People all over the world were able to join with us in this important cultural moment the last couple years with the live stream.

These are beautiful photos but no comparison. Please bring back the livestream next year.

[Okeefekat at dair-community.social @okeefekat]

Horribly disappointed that @opwireland isn’t presenting the wonderful livestream of the solstice sunrise at @newgrangeknowth this year. It was the highlight of the season the last couple years.

[John Aravosis 🇺🇸🇬🇷🏳️‍🌈 @aravosis]

@ericfreyss Éric, did you see that EM just called Twitter a “publisher,” and implicitly compared it to a newspaper?

[Geoffrey A. Fowler @geoffreyfowler]

A @washingtonpost reader tells me she read my Fri column about facial recognition at airport security, and told the TSA "no thank you."

Agent waved her through and said "There's always one."

This is exactly why people don't trust we have a real choice.

https://t.co/3GeuCvcWjt