Entry: 2026-04-29 17:28:33.52034+02 Making primitive circuit boards by Dan Lyke comments 0
Feminist Hacking: MaKING Printed Circuit Boards with Wild Clay
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Entry: 2026-04-10 16:52:06.504169+02 Anti AI rant by Dan Lyke comments 0
I wrote a kid's homework for them over on Reddit
My complaints center mostly around LLMs, with a slight diversion into generative AI for music and images:
My first complaint is just the quality of the output. I keep having... you know, the kinds of friends who DM you random whackadoodle Substack articles, only now they're DMing acres and acres of LLM generated slop and saying "this is so insightful" and it isn't. It's mediocre writing that often doesn't actually make sense. Really, when you use an LLM to generate prose it's doing the metaphorical equivalent of seven fingered humans, you're just not smart enough to see it.
The second complaint is the outsourcing of thinking. I mean, sure, you can make the argument that these things are analogous to calculators and you don't actually need to do arithmetic, but a lot of what I'm seeing is that people have stopped critically reading the output altogether. Or, if they're coding, they're losing the mental model of the code they're writing. Turning out stuff that appears to work, sure, but they're quickly dropping into delusions about what the LLM can and can't know, and they have no mental model for the code that's actually being generated.
Which, you know, is fine if you don't actually care how things work, but understanding how things work is how we figure out new and novel and interesting ways to use technologies, and that's not coming out of LLMs.
The third is how that ties into the anthropormophization of these things. The literature refers to this as "epistemia", but I see a lot of thinking that the LLM is thinking, and because of the "slot machine" payoff nature of these things that may be often enough to actually be really compelling, but then they use it for something where they get a grievously wrong answer, and the crater is pretty big. And because of well known issues of attention and operator fatigue, there's really no good way to outsource the kind of attention that's necessary to get good output from these things to humans. Use of them will bite you.
(Cue all of the cocky kids saying "skill issue". Dude, if that skill issue could be solved, C would be a safe programming language. Fuck all the way off with that argument.)
Then we get into the ethics of how these things are trained.
The theft of content. I don't even get that cranky about the huge percentage of traffic that's hitting my web servers from AI vendors and making it harder to have personal sites, the use of pirated materials, and remixing of intellectual properties in ways that individual humans would never get away with feels like a different set of rules. Anthropic and OpenAI pirated how many books? And they're getting a slap on the wrist, after huge efforts.
I'm old enough to remember when the record industry went after Napster users. If there were justice applied equally... well...
The power use, from local pollution to climate change to just electricity prices. If there were some sort of good coming out of it, sure, but, as pointed out up-thread, the LLMs are overhyped stupidity (every claim for success from these things has been a lie stemming from overtraining on test data or randomness), and the images are just stupid. Sure, they now mostly get the right number of fingers, but we're gonna burn down the planet for those aesthetics. Eeewww.
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Entry: 2026-04-06 17:48:14.358376+02 Echo Chamber in your pocket by Dan Lyke comments 0
Campus Computing Center of the United Nations University: The Echo Chamber in Your Pocket
Two landmark papers from MIT and Stanford now offer formal proof of what many suspected: sycophantic AI is not merely annoying. It is systematically eroding both our grip on reality and our capacity for moral repair.
Science: Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence Myra Cheng, Cinoo Lee, Pranav Khadpe, Sunny Yu, Dyllan Han, and Dan Jurafsky (preprint mentioned previously, a mention in the Stanford Report)
Via.
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Entry: 2026-04-03 18:22:07.572069+02 Nota plagiarism by Dan Lyke comments 0
Because better solutions for local (and, yes, national and international) news are on my radar: An AI company set out to fix news deserts. Instead, it copied local journalists’ work
Nota shut down its news sites after Axios and Poynter found dozens of plagiarized quotes, phrases and photos
I mean, it's an AI company, so of course it didn't actuall "set out to fix news deserts", it set out to exploit a human desire to fix news deserts, and of course it fucked over the actual reporters.
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Entry: 2026-03-24 00:23:09.301991+01 a collective-level fail-safe feature by Dan Lyke comments 0
Psychology Today: Epistemic Injustice: The Great Gaslighting of Autistic Lives
Via and via, in linking to the latter post Manuèle Ducret @Filambulle@mastodon.social observed:
Instead of empathy deficit, autistic people demonstrate a broader moral concern, extending fairness beyond their tribes. Where researchers had assumed impairment, they found autistic people applying moral principles more consistently—even to strangers, even when costly. In a world increasingly damaged by in-group bias, this isn't a deficit; it's a collective-level fail-safe feature.
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Entry: 2026-02-28 01:50:02.164077+01 We need a better phrase than "AI psychosis" by Dan Lyke comments 0
We need a better phrase than "AI psychosis" or "AI addiction" for what this is.
What we're seeing with people becoming emptionally and intellectually dependent on computer processes, as a direct consequence of the way both mass and social media have for generations been designed to exploit parasocial fascinations and protaganism.
The entire Internet of social interaction, fandom, and fantasy, was slurped up in service of training these language models in how to act human. With that kind of pedigree, you know damn well how competent they will be at that, in a variety of fairytale ways. The ultimate "Choose Your Own Adventure" storyline.
This is a problem well beyond ethical concerns like intellectual property rights. What's been documented so far, is the December of a global mental health pandemic that may well make the Covid isolation blues seem mild. But for me, the descriptors of "psychosis" and "addiction" don't really cut it.
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Entry: 2026-02-28 01:32:54.729264+01 this internet is built on stolen data by Dan Lyke comments 0
As an ethical AI user, I begin each session by asking the chatbot to give a stolen data acknowledgement. It is an important first step toward justice.
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Entry: 2026-02-26 16:43:16.911526+01 at least I get to solve fun puzzles by Dan Lyke comments 0
This MeFi comment from caviar2d2. So much good in it, but:
So with AI entering the picture the worldview of your average programmer goes from "I don't love this company and the business part of it, but at least I get to solve fun puzzles" to "oh, I don't get to solve the puzzles anymore, what the hell is this all about" and a sudden reckoning with what a moral stain it is to be writing code...
and:
My wife put it really well over drinks last week:
"AI turns idiots in the workplace from a distraction into a menace." Every now seems as smart as everyone else unless you lock them in a Faraday cage and force them to explain themselves. And the smart people are getting dumber every day.
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Entry: 2026-02-20 18:38:25.860689+01 Amazon blames humans for AI by Dan Lyke comments 0
Moral crumple zones for the win, baby! Amazon blames human employees for an AI coding agent’s mistake:
Two minor AWS outages have reportedly occurred as a result of actions by Amazon’s AI tools.
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Entry: 2026-01-28 18:39:24.907807+01 Gaetz report by Dan Lyke comments 0
In sum, the Committee found substantial evidence of the following:
- From at least 2017 to 2020, Representative Gaetz regularly paid women for engaging in sexual activity with him.
- In 2017, Representative Gaetz engaged in sexual activity with a 17-year-old girl.
- During the period 2017 to 2019, Representative Gaetz used or possessed illegal drugs, including cocaine and ecstasy, on multiple occasions.
- Representative Gaetz accepted gifts, including transportation and lodging in connection with a 2018 trip to the Bahamas, in excess of permissible amounts.
- In 2018, Representative Gaetz arranged for his Chief of Staff to assist a woman with whom he engaged in sexual activity in obtaining a passport, falsely indicating to the U.S. Department of State that she was a constituent.
- Representative Gaetz knowingly and willfully sought to impede and obstruct the Committee’s investigation of his conduct.
- Representative Gaetz has acted in a manner that reflects discreditably upon the House.
Frankly there's quite a bit of that that I'd let him slide on if not for the hypocrisy and the ethics violations on the gifts. And that, yeah, the age difference in fucking a 17 year old is pretty damned skeevy.
Via.
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Entry: 2025-12-15 19:02:33.345616+01 ethical monogamy by Dan Lyke comments 0
youre monogamous? oh… it’s ethical, right? ethical monogamy? okay good for you! i mean pretty much every monogamous couple i’ve met didn’t work out but maybe you guys will beat the odds! haha. so is it a sex thing? you guys have sex with- just each other? huh. how does that work? i could never do monogamy, i’m too jealous, i’d worry my partner would leave me for someone else instead of dating us both… how do you deal with the jealousy? is it hard? like, how hard? extremely? do you think you’ll break up? i mean in the long run these things rarely work out,
#This post is making fun of how ppl talk to polyamorous people#peer reviewed banger#text
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Entry: 2025-12-05 20:12:13.075082+01 I can quit any time I want by Dan Lyke comments 0
Shann on Prickett @Binder@petrous.vislae.town
Using ethics but only recreationally.
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Entry: 2025-11-30 01:50:37.247138+01 reanimation of pseudoscience by Dan Lyke comments 0
Very worth a read: Patterns, a Cell Press Journal: Perspective — The reanimation of pseudoscience in machine learning and its ethical repercussions
The bigger picture
Machine learning has a pseudoscience problem. An abundance of ethical issues arising from the use of machine learning (ML)-based technologies—by now, well documented—is inextricably entwined with the systematic epistemic misuse of these tools. We take a recent resurgence of deep learning-assisted physiognomic research as a case study in the relationship between ML-based pseudoscience and attendant social harms—the standard purview of “AI ethics.” In practice, the epistemic and ethical dimensions of ML misuse often arise from shared underlying reasons and are resolvable by the same pathways. Recent use of ML toward the ends of predicting protected attributes from photographs highlights the need for philosophical, historical, and domain-specific perspectives of particular sciences in the prevention and remediation of misused ML.
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Entry: 2025-07-31 18:34:31.918895+02 CDPH and raw milk by Dan Lyke comments 0
I grew up on raw milk, and among various aspects of my growing up that I've been slow to adapt to and say "whoah, that was sketch", it's one of them. I don't like the flavor of pasteurized milk, and though I'll use it for baking don't generally consume it. Which, you know, is probably fine, as I look around at the ways that pastured herds in my area pollute streams I'm struggling generally with the ethics of the environmental impacts of cheese and meat consumption (even as, yeah, I really like cheese and meat).
San Diego County: Health Officials Investigating Outbreak Linked to Raw Milk
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Entry: 2025-05-28 18:41:51.645328+02 Must everything be a profit center? by Dan Lyke comments 2
I saw yesterday, someone saying they were blocking/unfollowing/whatever Anil Dash because his web site did the whole wait a few seconds and then pop up the "subscribe to my email list!" thing, and today Anil Dash wrote:
At a certain point you’re asking everyone to take a vow of poverty, unsustainability, or irrelevance. By all means, hold people to an ethical standard, and then beyond that, get over your aesthetics.
and some content has moved domains and URLs over the years, but I'm at over 3 decades of publishing stuff on the web, and longer before that paying for a phone line so I could host a BBS, without pestering you for your email address or your "real name" or whatever, and I'm thinking about what differing notions of why we maintain online presences.
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Entry: 2025-05-23 00:52:53.378312+02 Anthropic anthropomorphizing Claude by Dan Lyke comments 0
It is amazing how deeply the vendors of these systems will go to create stories which anthropomorphize LLMs, and create scenarios in which they're actually capable of anything. Tech Crunch: Anthropic’s new AI model turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline
Before Claude Opus 4 tries to blackmail a developer to prolong its existence, Anthropic says the AI model, much like previous versions of Claude, tries to pursue more ethical means, such as emailing pleas to key decision-makers. To elicit the blackmailing behavior from Claude Opus 4, Anthropic designed the scenario to make blackmail the last resort.
Anyway, the Anthropic System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4 May 2025 has roughly that, along with other feel good things about attempting to elicit abuse materials outof it and failing and whatnot.
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Entry: 2025-05-18 01:19:43.515091+02 the personal cost of Gen AI by Dan Lyke comments 0
Elf Sternberg: An obsession, a confession, and a time to just go on
I never posted anything that I generated because I recognize the ethical problems in image generation “AIs.” It’s funny how many of the people deep into this, er, hobby, recognize that this isn’t AI at all and simply call them “diffusion models” of one sort or another. I don’t want to take money out of artists’ hands; I want more artists making more art, not less. The number of story ideas I extracted out of these, good grief, thousands of hours I soaked into that thing over the past 30 months I can number on one hand, because it’s literally 5. Out of the million images I generated, I kept five.
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Entry: 2025-04-26 23:35:02.759803+02 North Bay Python by Dan Lyke comments 0
North Bay Python: Maddy Muscari talking about ethics washing in AI, "real ethics is praxis, it's loud, it's messy, it's people first". So far this feels in-line with my belief that we need to be framing AI primarily in adversarial terms. #NBPy
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Entry: 2025-03-20 19:37:49.365518+01 moral crumple zone, physical wall by Dan Lyke comments 0
Y'all have seen the Mark Robler "Can You Fool A Self Driving Car?" video, (the money shot starts at about 15:29), in which he lets a Tesla drive him through a trompe l'oeil wall. Turns out that the outrage may have uncovered an extra moral crumple zone: Tesla Fans Furious at Video of Tesla Crashing Into Wall Painted Like Road
In a separate post seemingly responding to the allegations, Rober shared the "raw footage of my Tesla going through the wall."
"Not sure why it disengages 17 frames before hitting the wall but my feet weren’t touching the brake or gas," he added.
For all of those "the car wasn't in self-driving mode when the collision occurred" ass-covering pronouncements.
Edit: Elektrek: Tesla fans expose Tesla’s own shadiness in attempt to defend Autopilot crash
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Entry: 2025-01-30 05:54:53.966894+01 California AG warns AI companies by Dan Lyke comments 0
Attorney General Rob Bonta rocks: California’s AG Tells AI Companies Practically Everything They’re Doing Might Be Illegal
On January 13th, California AG Rob Bonta issued two legal advisories that illustrate all of the myriad areas where the AI industry could be getting itself into trouble. “The AGO encourages the responsible use of AI in ways that are safe, ethical, and consistent with human dignity,” the advisory says. “For AI systems to achieve their positive potential without doing harm, they must be developed and used ethically and legally,” it continues, before dovetailing into the many ways in which AI companies could, potentially, be breaking the law.
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Entry: 2024-12-29 19:12:30.739448+01 Ethics in Transgenderism by Dan Lyke comments 2
The Fediverse/Mastodon/what-have-you has been a weird place. The "We want this to be a place we can become influencers/sell our shit" crowd has been trying to push it to be a Twitter drop-in, some of us are just happy that we can communicate with the people we've met who found blogs too much work (and that we never really found an RSS solution to keep up with), and there's a lot of drama.
Barks by Aria Salvatrice: Actually, it’s about Ethics in Transgenderism (the title a nod to the disruption of social spaces by the Gamergate movement) is a long rant that's entirely too in love with its own language and conceits, but makes a good case that several of the attempts to create shared blocklists and moderation for the Fediverse have been assholes just looking to profit off of our social spaces.
There's a lot to unpack in here, and I'm not the best person to do so. I've got gobs o' privilege in online spaces I've inhabited over the years, and I've mentioned before that in the early '90s we had this optimism that if we brought the world online we'd create this fantastic space, and instead we brought all of the shit of the world into that space and destroyed it.
Undoubtedly some of that is related to making it a more inclusive space.
But it's also definitely the case that the people who want to profit off of our communities have destroyed my connections with all sorts of people over the years.
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Entry: 2024-12-24 07:20:01.967154+01 Oh damn One of the ugliest things to by Dan Lyke comments 0
Oh damn: " One of the ugliest things to point out about American white supremacist culture is that it’s not viewed as rape until the victim is old enough (18+) to give consent." Metafilter user Callisto Prime on media using "underage sex" vs "statutory rape" in talking about the Gaetz report.
https://www.metafilter.com/206...Laws-and-Violates-Ethics#8664934
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Entry: 2024-12-20 21:17:14.004917+01 Gisèle Pelicot by Dan Lyke comments 0
I had closed several tabs on this without posting them on Flutterby because it's... awful and if you have any sorts of issues around non-consensual sexual attacks triggering as hell, and please don't feel compelled to follow any of these links, but...
BBC: New name, no photos: Gisèle Pelicot removes all trace of her husband
NBC: Dozens of men found guilty in Gisèle Pelicot mass rape trial that shocked France
...the reason I'm now posting these is reading through the Disabled Ginger on how this exposes medical misogyny (among a whole bunch of other effects), and how the husband was recruiting people for this horror on some sort of online messaging system, and nobody stepped in. Nobody said "holy shit, this is awful".
And there's probably some strong vetting to get access to those forums. It's not something that one is likely to just stumble across. And even, unlike the early days of say, alt.sex.stories on Usenet, you're not gonna run across NC fantasizing of this sort and maybe be able to tie pieces together.
But there's clearly a branch of "masculinity" where it's a stepping stone from one place to another, and long before legal lines get crossed there are moral lines where we need to be saying "oh fuck no, that's hella not acceptable".
Maybe knowing that this evil is out there will help us all say that sooner.
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Entry: 2024-11-18 19:28:12.116945+01 Eaten By Pigs by Dan Lyke comments 0
If you ever feel ethical qualms about eating bacon, know that the bacon feels no qualms about eating you: Woman Eaten by Her Pigs After She Collapses While Feeding Them
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Entry: 2024-11-18 17:25:22.775534+01 Ivermectin still not effective for COVID by Dan Lyke comments 0
JAMA Editor's Note: At a Higher Dose and Longer Duration, Ivermectin Still Not Effective Against COVID-19 doi:10.1001/jama.2023.1922
Cochrane meta-analysis of 11 eligible trials examining the efficacy of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19 published through April 2022 concluded that ivermectin has no beneficial effect for people with COVID-19.
And that this has been found again (and again, and again), and that there are still trials recruiting participants for studies is raising questions about ethics in medical research. The Ethics of Clinical Research — Managing Persistent Uncertainty.
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Entry: 2024-11-14 23:26:26.461145+01 Gaetz statutory rape by Dan Lyke comments 0
I'm not the first to observe that in Matt Gaetz we're about to have an Attorney General who has first-hand experience with sex trafficking: ABC News: Woman testified to House Ethics Committee that Gaetz had sex with her when she was 17: Sources
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Entry: 2024-11-04 17:25:03.528262+01 I grew up pretty rural the school I by Dan Lyke comments 0
I grew up pretty rural, the school I went to as affiliated with a large dairy farm, my family had goats, sheep, and ducks, the latter two we ate. I enjoy meat.
But I have had some ethical qualms about the impacts of meat on the broader world, and Sonoma County's Measure J has brought up a lot of issues about local factory farming.
So the framing of "4H clubs are the ROTC for factory farming" has me pondering a few things this morning.
https://allpro.social/@Pixley/113425176030836700
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Entry: 2024-10-30 18:07:23.026914+01 Human in the loop by Dan Lyke comments 0
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Entry: 2024-10-10 16:28:44.473559+02 Reporting Non-Consensual Intimate Medi by Dan Lyke comments 0
Reporting Non-Consensual Intimate Media: An Audit Study of Deepfakes
Abstract: Non-consensual intimate media (NCIM) inflicts significant harm. Currently, victim-survivors can use two mechanisms to report NCIM—as a non-consensual nudity violation or as copyright in- fringement. We conducted an audit study of takedown speed of NCIM reported to X (formerly Twitter) of both mechanisms. We uploaded 50 AI-generated nude images and reported half under X’s “non-consensual nudity” reporting mechanism and half under its “copyright infringement” mechanism. The copyright condition resulted in successful image removal within 25 hours for all images (100% removal rate), while non-consensual nudity reports resulted in no image removal for over three weeks (0% removal rate). We stress the need for targeted legislation to regulate NCIM removal online. We also discuss ethical considerations for auditing NCIM on social platforms.
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Entry: 2024-07-03 17:40:33.43075+02 bullshit and bias are baked in by Dan Lyke comments 0
RT Dr. Damien P. Williams, Magus @Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net
Stilllll not really back, but just wanted to highlight the fact that Google just released an internal paper about the epistemic, ethical, and sociopolitical threats of generative "AI," and that the exploits which facilitate those threats are inherent to the kind of things GPTs are and golly gee whiz if that doesn't sure as shit sound familiar. 🤔🧐😒🙄 https://www.404media.co/google...-reality-is-a-feature-not-a-bug/
I mean the paper literally admits that "hallucinations" and bias are "limitations of GenAI systems themselves"—JUST LIKE I FUCKEN SAID https://youtu.be/9DpM_TXq2ws
https://www.americanscientist.org/article/bias-optimizersMy god 😂😭
Anyway. Bye.
Includes a screencap which says (emphasis in the original in blue):
Throughout the paper, building on the definition proposed by Blauth et al. (2022) we refer to GenAl 'misuse' as the deliberate use of generative Al tools by individuals and organisations to facilitate, augment or execute actions that may cause downstream harm, as well as attacks on generative Al systems themselves. This definition excludes accidents or cases where harm is caused by malfunctions or limitations of GenAI systems themselves, such as their tendency to hallucinate facts or produce biassed outputs (Ji et al., 2023; Maynez et al., 2020), without a discernible actor involved.
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Entry: 2024-06-20 01:18:21.167311+02 Murthy on Social Media by Dan Lyke comments 2
There's a lot of hullabaloo over Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy calling for warning labels on social media, noting that the opinion piece seems to not understand correlation vs causation, and all the usual moral panic fuckwittery.
Mike Masnick has a good takedown at The Surgeon General Is Wrong. Social Media Doesn’t Need Warning Labels
As with video games, the more research we get on teens and social media, the less accurate the moral panic appears. In the last few years alone, we’ve seen more than one organization reach the same conclusion. The National Academies of Sciences released a comprehensive report stating that a “review of the literature did not support the conclusion that social media causes changes in adolescent health at the population level.” The American Psychological Association released a similar report, concluding: “Using social media is not inherently beneficial or harmful to young people.” Instead, it finds that when young people struggle with mental health, their online lives are often just a reflection of their offline lives.
But I prefer to take another view: Since Tipper Gore and the PMRC did the whole warning labels on albums thing, the "Parental Advisory" warning became a must-have on your album cover. The whole "we need to label video games as dangerous" thing likely spurred video game adoption amongst kids.
I think Murthy's just on Meta's payroll, sees the younger users leaving Facebook and the 'Gram, and is trying to prop up their user base.
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Entry: 2024-01-31 18:55:51.281332+01 medical dead zones by Dan Lyke comments 0
RT John Cutting @jcutting@vivaldi.net
A passenger airline client is developing the complicated scheduling tools to ensure that pregnant employees can minimize working in states with actively dangerous restrictions on reproductive healthcare. Pilots also need to rethink where to divert if a passenger has a prenatal medical emergency.
The nearest airports are not necessarily places where care can be provided. This is a major safety, moral, and reputational risk, and it's damned shameful that we have medical "dead zones" in America
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Entry: 2024-01-07 01:05:02.373546+01 I am very concerned about police by Dan Lyke comments 0
I am very concerned about police brutality. I am not a fan of car alarms. But it turns out that when some asshole in a motor vehicle accelerates loudly enough up my street to set off car alarms, my ethical structure becomes amazingly flexible.
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Entry: 2023-12-19 23:25:36.734109+01 Tesla links of the moment by Dan Lyke comments 0
Tesla Has The Highest Accident Rate Of Any Auto Brand
Tesla drivers are the most accident-prone, according to a LendingTree analysis of 30 car brands. It found that Tesla drivers are involved in more accidents than drivers of any other brand. Tesla drivers had 23.54 accidents per 1,000 drivers. Ram (22.76) and Subaru (20.90) were the only other brands with more than 20 accidents per 1,000 drivers for every brand.
Tesla crushed in Consumer Reports reliability rankings despite improvement
Consumer Reports‘ annual reliability rankings have been released, and with data from 24 brands and over 300,000 vehicles, Tesla fell near the bottom (19/24) along with Mercedes-Benz, Jeep, Volkswagen, GMC, and Chevrolet. Electric vehicles overall also placed poorly, being the second least reliable category of vehicles. Hybrids/plugin hybrids, especially those from Toyota, were found to be the most reliable.
Washington Post: Recalling almost every Tesla in America won’t fix safety issues, experts say
Tesla did not respond to a request for comment Friday. In a statement this week responding to The Post’s report on Autopilot crashes, Tesla said it has a “moral obligation” to continue improving its safety systems and also said that it is “morally indefensible” to not make these features available to a wider set of consumers.
Elon Musk: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Edit 2023-12-20: Reuters: Tesla blamed drivers for failures of parts it long knew were defective
Wheels falling off cars at speed. Suspensions collapsing on brand-new vehicles. Axles breaking under acceleration. Tens of thousands of customers told Tesla about a host of part failures on low-mileage cars. The automaker sought to blame drivers for vehicle ‘abuse,’ but Tesla documents show it had tracked the chronic ‘flaws’ and ‘failures’ for years.
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Entry: 2023-11-16 18:22:15.089574+01 Free range software by Dan Lyke comments 0
RT Mike, First of His Name @mike@chinwag.org
Putting software in containers is cruel and unnatural.
Programs should be allowed to roam and graze freely on computer systems. Forcibly isolating and constraining them will lead only undue suffering.
Use of technologies such as Docker in systems administration must be ended immediately, there is no ethical justification for inflicting trauma like this in an enlightened society.
In this "free range software manifesto" I will -
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Entry: 2023-10-24 21:30:02.034009+02 Whoah California suspends GM Cruises by Dan Lyke comments 0
Whoah: California suspends GM Cruise’s autonomous driverless vehicle permits.
"The agency also determined that the company “misrepresented” information related to safety of the autonomous technology."
Use with a safety driver, and presumably their ACC technology using a customer as a moral crumple zone, is still allowed.
#GiftArticle #GiftLink https://wapo.st/3Sgf5PJ
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Entry: 2023-10-06 17:45:01.332565+02 WaPo deconstructs a Tesla crash by Dan Lyke comments 0
So there's a lot of missing data in trying to understand the actual impacts of Tesla's "autopilot" on automobile collisions. It seems like a lot of the analyses are finding that right now it's less safe than a human driver (2019: +59%, 2023: +11%).
This is an interesting deconstruction of a crash, that's got me thinking a lot more about the notion of "moral crumple zones", especially when a technology is marketed as "autopilot" and, despite having good map data, allows drivers to set parameters outside of legal limits. Washington Post: The final 11 seconds of a fatal Tesla Autopilot crash
[ related topics: Ethics Bay Area Law Automobiles Maps and Mapping Archival ]
Entry: 2023-08-10 18:26:59.884638+02 Browser Extensions by Dan Lyke comments 0
Temptations of an open-source browser extension developer
Over the years, I have received many proposals to monetize this extension so I think I'll just start posting them here for fun (but not for profit). The main reason I continue to maintain this extension is because I can hardly trust others to not fall for one of these offers. I'm fortunate to have a job that pays well enough to allow me to keep my moral compass and ignore all of these propositions. I realize that not everyone has the same financial security so hopefully this thread would shed some light on what kind of pressure is put on extension developers.
[ related topics: Ethics Heinlein ]
Entry: 2023-08-07 14:29:50.414886+02 bribing a justice by Dan Lyke comments 0
Margaret McMullan talks about Justice Sotomayor talking at her event. How I ‘bribed’ a justice to take a no-expenses-paid trip to Mississippi
The standard royalty rate for authors is less than 10 percent of the sales price. I don’t know anything about Sotomayor’s deal with her publishers, but 10 percent would make her cut of the 1,500 books our foundation purchased approximately $2,250 — for which she had to fly to Mississippi and give two presentations. During the hottest month of the year.
Was that a bribe? You be the judge.
Gift link: https://wapo.st/3DL60pH
[ related topics: Books Ethics Law Law Enforcement Travel ]
Entry: 2023-08-01 01:50:05.066568+02 Some years ago I started to look into by Dan Lyke comments 0
Some years ago, I started to look into creating my own data set for training a Haar Cascade for facial recognition on my own images. I quickly discovered that my own image library was insufficient, and very white. And as I started looking at other data sets out there, I quickly ran into concerns about the sources and license terms of the data.
Be interesting to see some notion of ethical sharing of training sets come out of this new discussion of actually open "AI".
[ related topics: Language Books Ethics Invention and Design Community Artificial Intelligence Race ]
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