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I'm a Vietnamese cis woman born and currently living in the U.S. You may know me from Sandwich, from Twitter or Mastodon (same username), or on Twitch as Sharkaeopteryx. I do not have a Discord or Bluesky account.

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vectorpoem
@vectorpoem

(site is German, but the speech itself is English.)

machines that have the power and the discretion to take human lives are politically unacceptable, are morally repugnant, and should be banned by international law.


lcsrzl
@lcsrzl

They are selling the derivatives of the toxic surveillance business model as the product of scientific innovation.

And they are working to convince us that probabilistic systems that recognize statistical patterns in massive amounts of data are objective, intelligent, and sophisticated tools capable of nearly any function imaginable. Certainly more capable than we, mere mortals. And thus we should step aside and trust our business to them.


lokeloski
@lokeloski
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in reply to @vectorpoem's post:

if only the award would come from a different foundation, really.

Helmut Schmidt was kind of a "prototype Tony Blair" in some ways. Pretending to be progressive, while (especially later in his life) pushing a lot of liberal/conservative ideas.