Posts by knbrindle@creativewriting.social
(DIR) Post #ATLHKM67NEkOcPxYhM by knbrindle@creativewriting.social
2023-03-06T14:04:51Z
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Because we're here now, I need everyone—especially cis people—to hear this.The word "eradicate" was used in reference to PEOPLE on a national stage by a mainstream political party in the US, and was cheered. Think about that.You don't have the luxury of being neutral now. They have taken that away from you. I'm going to be very blunt here. If you are not being vocal in your community about our right to exist, then you are not an ally, you are standing against us. #ThereIsNoMiddleGround1/2
(DIR) Post #ATLHKNCXGrTW2byCLA by knbrindle@creativewriting.social
2023-03-06T14:05:24Z
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Boosting is great. But it's not enough. Posting to social media is not enough. If you can, you need to be speaking out loud in your community IN PERSON to your neighbors, your family, your government, and to strangers. If you're cisgender and still remain silent, then you are complicit. I'm sorry I have to put this on you... remember... they did this. #ThereIsNoMiddleGroundIf you don't know what I'm referring to, go to advocate.com, or rollingstone.com, or... any actual news agency.2/2
(DIR) Post #ATMhuDOtyiwY2KSv20 by knbrindle@creativewriting.social
2023-03-05T14:22:43Z
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@jonny This is the endgame of all initiatives to infuse techbro ideation into the moral corruption that is capitalism: Existence As A Service. Hence Uber and Airbnb and the "gig economy." Hence DRM-locked printer ink cartridges and coffee pods, and Tesla's software-controlled car features and Zuck's metaverse wet dreams. Once the absolute mega-rich own everything, everyone else simply pays "service fees" to them in perpetuity for every aspect of our very existence.
(DIR) Post #ATbu3h3lBoldRwGHBI by knbrindle@creativewriting.social
2023-03-06T03:42:24Z
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@Miriamm alas, it’s actually pretty straight-forward: America was initially settled by Puritans, and their “moral” foundations still underly our culture:Hating people who aren’t like you and denying their humanity is perfectly reasonable and acceptable. Being happy and enjoying yourself is ungodly and sinful.
(DIR) Post #AUWmpWRwOEeGNARMum by knbrindle@creativewriting.social
2023-04-10T21:00:45Z
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@bathsheba This can't be said loudly enough. - Unrestricted guns leading to school shootings?- Don't say [ gay | racism | evolution | science ]?- Banning books?- School choice vouchers?- Keeping teachers at lowest-possible pay?- Don't hire school social workers?- End free & reduced lunch programs?- Deny funding for universal head-start and preschool programs?The goal of all of these positions is absolutely to end public education. Because an uneducated public is a controllable public
(DIR) Post #AWSwPz5qbcdaqGtKpE by knbrindle@creativewriting.social
2023-06-07T23:09:34Z
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@Hedgewizard @markarayner @jrdepriest Typographically, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that... Em dashes serve a different but similar purpose to parentheses. They both demarcate a secondary expression within a base expression. Parens whisper. Em dashes shout.
(DIR) Post #AWSwQ02h4pi1mmQKY4 by knbrindle@creativewriting.social
2023-06-07T23:11:28Z
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@Hedgewizard @markarayner @jrdepriest My pet peeve is when Em dashes are used typographically incorrectly. There should be no space on either side of the Em dash. The punctuation—like this—should be directly abutting the interrupted words.
(DIR) Post #AYSeLUglY3hgQLTmjo by knbrindle@creativewriting.social
2023-08-02T16:56:04Z
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@baldur exactly this:(Quote from the article):”””“This isn’t fixable,” said Emily Bender, a linguistics professor and director of the University of Washington’s Computational Linguistics Laboratory. “It’s inherent in the mismatch between the technology and the proposed use cases.”“””It’s like trying to solve the problem that cars don’t provide any nutritional value. The idea of using LLMs to provide detailed factual information is just not tenable. That’s not what they are.
(DIR) Post #Ad52g9MPd13H36H92e by knbrindle@creativewriting.social
2023-12-22T20:29:50Z
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@georgetakei I would, George, but your article host is a Nazi bar & a happy host of anti-trans & anti-queer content. So I won’t.
(DIR) Post #AdZfw2rJpHZUbaKsD2 by knbrindle@creativewriting.social
2024-01-02T03:45:28Z
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@samuteki I’ve been thinking a lot about how different the internet was before modern social media. We had genuine communities in the form of individually operated bulletin boards that catered to highly specific interestsThose communities self-governed in beautiful, low-confrontation ways. The difference is palpable
(DIR) Post #AkbGPcvgBtImqIdMDQ by knbrindle@creativewriting.social
2024-07-21T20:57:27Z
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@MrBerard yes, we used to call this an effect of “Observer Particles”
(DIR) Post #AkpJPEJ0lEnmY6UKjQ by knbrindle@creativewriting.social
2024-08-10T14:27:01Z
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@futurebird Simply the fact of a recent breech isn't an indication of poor privacy practices. EVERY system connected to the internet will be breeched at some point in time. That's not a battle anyone can win, only keep fighting.I think what's vastly more important to this calculus is:1. WHY are they collecting the data they're collecting?2. what practices do they maintain to protect it?3. how quickly and clearly do they message issues?#1 is by far the most relevant & where most will fail
(DIR) Post #AkpMVaIKDeTQLXtBPE by knbrindle@creativewriting.social
2024-08-10T15:01:48Z
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@futurebird In a previous life, I worked in info-sec. What I mean is that it's not just a matter of “do this thing right & you're safe.” The worst actors are backed by the budgets of entire governments. If the bar for a “good company" is "never breeched" then only nation-scale actors have a chance, and even those are not immune, as we knowWhat's vastly more important is what they're doing right/wrong, what info they're collecting and why, and how they respond *when* they are breeched
(DIR) Post #AkpN1xRbgVQFPWfR0y by knbrindle@creativewriting.social
2024-08-10T15:07:36Z
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@futurebird Sure. And when a system went down because of a vendor or hardware issue that was not previously known or disclosed by that vendor, was it your fault? New infrastructure or kernel-level exploits are being discovered all the time, usually by the threat-actors. Whose fault is that? Should a manufacturing company be penalized because there's a zero-day in their fully-up-to-date corporate email servers that is only discovered *because* of the breech?
(DIR) Post #AkpZaNT4dP21PwX4kK by knbrindle@creativewriting.social
2024-08-10T17:27:06Z
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@Vrimj @futurebird It’s a question of calculating risk:What info are they collecting?What is the cost to me of this info being leaked?How much trust do I feel can I put in their processes/systems?Are there alternatives/do I *need* to use this?All of those answers form the calculus. “Have they been breeched recently” is actually not a good indicator of trust, because:1. Not all breeches are the fault of that company (see previous posts)2. They may fix poor practices after a breach