Electrocution, n.: Burning at the stake with all the modern improvements.

—fortune(6)

innovate, v.: To annoy people.

—fortune(6)

Nowlan's Theory: He who hesitates is not only lost, but several miles from the next freeway exit.

—fortune(6)

I have always* maintained that the legitimacy of any state extends only insofar as that state protects the rights of those it claims the authority to govern and those whom it claims to be under the jurisdiction of its laws.

No state has a "right to exist". No state *can* have any such right, because no state has any claim to *rights*, in the first place. Rights inhere in and belong only to the individual, solely by virtue of their existence.

States have powers, not rights.

#politics #law

“Not only are the operator’s skills declining, but the situations when the operator will be called upon are by their very nature the most demanding ones where something is deemed to be going wrong. Thus what we really need in such a situation is a more, not a lesser skilled operator! To generate successful strategies for unusual situations, an operator also needs good understanding of the process under control, and the current state of the system.”
— Adrian Colyer

I should seriously spin up an API that returns a classic Magic 8-Ball response and advertise it as an AI powered CEO-as-a-Service service. https://mastodon.sprawl.club/@ludicity/114746425032750797

Cinemuck, n.: The combination of popcorn, soda, and melted chocolate which covers the floors of movie theaters. -- Rich Hall, "Sniglets"

—fortune(6)

@ewolff hahaha ah my apologies

Battle, n.: A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that will not yield to the tongue. -- Ambrose Bierce

—fortune(6)

@ewolff yes, that’s the joke ;)

one must imagine sysadmins happy

Good news everybody, as you can clearly see, Elon fixed the spam problem on Twitter

"each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine"
Edit: I got those screenshots from imgur. It might be from Xitter, with the account deleted or maybe threads with the account not visible without login? 🤷
2nd Edit: @edgeofeurope found this https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1809325125159825649.html
#school #AI #KI #meme #misinformation #desinformation

@b_rain I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess that this person got doxxed after posting this

@b_rain looks like the posts and account have been deleted

@b_rain iirc Xitter no longer allows you to see any posts without a login

@boltx @b_rain you probably know that but it wasn't until a few weeks ago that I learned that under the hood, they have to write "user:" before your prompt and "agent:" after it, before the interface hands it to the LLM, otherwise it would just continue writing your prompt.

@ewolff Keeping all the floppies from sliding off each other long enough to build a proper foundation with them. I’m thinking wire, maybe concrete

A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal sized billiard balls. -- Terry Pratchett, "The Light Fantastic"

—fortune(6)

We’re excited to officially announce the Common Good Cyber Fund, working with the rest of the Common Good Cyber secretariat organizations and with the @internetsociety as the fund manager, to strengthen global #cybersecurity by supporting #nonprofits that deliver core cybersecurity services.
https://globalcyberalliance.org/common-good-cyber-fund-announcement/