Posts by KenSmith@social.masto.land
 (DIR) Post #ASe3ZA08CPxa40n6Yq by KenSmith@social.masto.land
       2023-02-13T18:29:57Z
       
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       @dave I asked the program to write instructions for a short technical process I know well from my early years working in a tire store. I would say that the results are adequate as a reminder for a person who already knows the process, but are sloppy, possibly inadequate, and possibly dangerous for a novice who does not. (The person who already knows the process wouldn't bother to read it, though.) There's more to say about less technical tasks I have given the program. I'd say the software is both an amazing accomplishment and, at this point, a narrow one.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATROe0og4WKX2EsjL6 by KenSmith@social.masto.land
       2023-03-09T13:46:59Z
       
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       @dave It's hard to know how to disrupt certain parts of the chicken-egg-chicken-egg process they have underway. In Indiana, they gerrymander themselves a supermajority in both chambers of the Statehouse. It still looks like a representative assembly, but you can't put pressure on it through voting. It still looks like voting, but the results are known ahead of time by party in most districts. The local papers have next to no reporters and are likely owned by distant asset-stripping corporations. Democratic institutions have become shells and façades, have been captured, processes meant to keep the system open have been closed. Where is the point in this corrupt system that is most vulnerable to sustained pressure, and how is that pressure to be created and sustained. Etc.