Posts by courtcan@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AwZasMvMLyVpjHKloO by courtcan@mastodon.social
2024-08-13T15:58:15Z
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This makes me furiously happy. 🤣
(DIR) Post #AxOVMgyRbRYuaAu4VE by courtcan@mastodon.social
2025-08-21T12:21:06Z
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@futurebird I obviously don't know as much about ants as you do, but I've always thought that if we humans collectively cared for human young as intently and consistently as ants care for any young, humanity would improve exponentially.
(DIR) Post #Ay50DuX74vMdFOjGiW by courtcan@mastodon.social
2025-09-10T23:44:36Z
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Because it's apparently especially relevant TODAY:"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.”--Hannah Arendt, Jewish survivor of Nazi Germany, German-American historian and political philosopher,1906-1975#ItCanHappenHere#ItIsHappeningHereEDITIn replies, @ricardoharvin points out that barbarism has always been present in the USA.He's absolutely right, and I appreciate the gentle, plain, but firm reminder.
(DIR) Post #Ay55B01ugVdrCIZCV6 by courtcan@mastodon.social
2025-09-11T01:20:19Z
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@futurebird I'd heard of him, but I wouldn't have been able to put a face to the name before today.
(DIR) Post #Ay5Lc3hyiNKngvAQHw by courtcan@mastodon.social
2025-09-11T04:24:32Z
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@HMLivy @ricardoharvin Oof, Russell called it for sure. We certainly don't seem to be headed in a particularly civilized direction -- to understate severely.
(DIR) Post #Ay87TfEszVXnbIXfsG by courtcan@mastodon.social
2025-09-12T12:30:14Z
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@futurebird Yesterday I had to have yet ANOTHER conversation with my daughter about dead and injured schoolkids and the terrible system we're living in. She's not 13 yet. This is not normal, and I am so fucking sick of it.
(DIR) Post #AyU3HdJ8McN01nVa88 by courtcan@mastodon.social
2025-09-22T05:36:13Z
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As is his wont, @pluralistic knocks it out of the ballpark.In these, our increasingly enshittified days, this message cannot be repeated enough:"(T)here's one job that an AI can absolutely do better than a human: it can reinforce our delusions more efficiently, more quickly, and more effectively than a community of sufferers can."Speed isn't the only reason that LLMs are super efficient delusion-reinforcers. An LLM has no consciousness, it has no desires, and it has nothing it wants...1/
(DIR) Post #AyU3HeVvsWCZlmVJia by courtcan@mastodon.social
2025-09-22T05:38:37Z
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...it has no wants, period. All it can do is transform a prompt into something that seems like the kind of thing that would follow from that prompt. It's a next-word-guessing machine."-- @pluralistichttps://pluralistic.net/2025/09/17/automating-gang-stalking-delusion/2/2#AI = #LLMs = #NextWordGuessingMachines#enshittification#hyperenshittification
(DIR) Post #AyU3HgDvWQzH4W5xvk by courtcan@mastodon.social
2025-09-22T12:56:21Z
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@pedromj @pluralistic Okay. "AI" = "Artificial Intelligence"...but the thing is, * * * it's not intelligent * * *.LLM or A"I" -- they're both next-word-guessing glorified copy-paste machines. Read Doctorow's full article and the associated articles he links to.
(DIR) Post #AyuWx4OBKxbI5RZ9Bw by courtcan@mastodon.social
2025-10-05T20:41:57Z
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All US-American politicians should earn no more than an hourly minimum wage and receive the same universal healthcare as every other citizen of the nation. Guarantee that would solve 90% of our societal problems.
(DIR) Post #AzPc28mCyTicoUnbSC by courtcan@mastodon.social
2025-10-20T20:53:42Z
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@aral What. The Actual. Fuck.
(DIR) Post #AzRWHPfgEQcI98Z4bo by courtcan@mastodon.social
2025-10-21T18:17:08Z
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I hope his fucking ballroom burns to the ground the day before he celebrates its opening.
(DIR) Post #AziPjM2g1CKi8bAcl6 by courtcan@mastodon.social
2025-10-29T22:28:39Z
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@kaia Yay, that means I've finally accomplished a task! *celebrates in ND* 😆
(DIR) Post #AzrvY1NBTIAfnt2dOK by courtcan@mastodon.social
2025-11-03T12:45:05Z
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@futurebird Yes. We cannot poach the Frankensteinian deer of the nobility.
(DIR) Post #B0RpIitL57NGlohFI0 by courtcan@mastodon.social
2025-11-20T19:12:18Z
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Hey, just for the record, all Nazis past and present can fuck off into the sun.
(DIR) Post #B10Wcz1L0y0S50rPai by courtcan@mastodon.social
2025-12-07T14:09:30Z
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@stux Seconded!
(DIR) Post #B1dH5NDct0VDbVJdzc by courtcan@mastodon.social
2025-12-26T06:50:11Z
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@futurebird I would pilfer one of the extra gears from my dad's stash of old clock parts. (He repairs old clocks for fun.)
(DIR) Post #B1eidVf8tH8xYfeFGK by courtcan@mastodon.social
2025-12-26T23:33:37Z
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@futurebird LOVE THIS GAME1. Used to be popular: Wicked Game by Chris IsaakCurrently(?) popular: Anti-Hero by Taylor Swift 2. Rich People by Carsie Blanton3. PoP! goes My Heart by Hugh Grant
(DIR) Post #B1rupJlif832eLbIAa by courtcan@mastodon.social
2026-01-01T16:19:42Z
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@wdlindsy This is what I don't get. Why is *anybody* hearing anything this man says and then actually going out and *doing* what he said to do? I can't imagine thinking, "What he says is what I must do." I don't care what his office is or what power and wealth he has or what information he might be using to blackmail me. I simply cannot fathom ever following a single directive issuing from *him*. Damn the consequences.
(DIR) Post #B1zMAWlHbjLrtfSCTw by courtcan@mastodon.social
2026-01-05T22:30:46Z
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@Nonilex I mean...I don't know much about any of this kind of thing, but aren't Rojas and Maduro both assessing this accurately?