Matt is looking for work 🐀

I'm interested to know why it seems that it's only Meta's AI and ChatGPT that drive people insane

Not in defense of AI here but really, there should be better parental controls baked in to operating systems for this and multiple other reasons

People continually point out how much worse the 80s and 90s were on rights, accessibility, etc, and they were. But one thing that I can't shake is how there was a semblance of bright, vibrant hope that things will get better

It's functionally a daily stand up that the PM does already, but he doesn't get to hear his own voice during that

I'm currently on a contract project where the director has the entire team in a meeting where he wastes two hours of our time with his yapping

This makes me almost glad my contract was ended right after the election, can't imagine working in this

Lest you say "it's not like that in the United States," I am currently representing a person facing criminal charges for - and this is true - saying "protect trans kids" during a school board meeting

Black & Decker product insert describing a lithium battery as "Same Battery, New Look"

Describe police reform in 4 words

Gork is this good?

LLM truthers, please understand that using statistical regression to create a string of tokens that resemble an answer to a prompt is not the same thing as actual thought

Patrick, with all due respect, this is cool as hell

Courtroom drama should play out like an episode of DBZ

"The ability to speak does not make you intelligent" - Qui-Gon Jinn

I think it would be a lot more fun if a movie showed lawyers flying through the air with legal briefs, defeating 20 opposing counsel with a well timed procedural motion

It’s worth noting in my work for For Our Future Pennsylvania I knocked on an average of 250 doors a day all over the East End of Pittsburgh. I talked to the richest of the rich, the middle class, the working poor about their biggest political concerns.

Fascism. Autocracy. Authoritarianism.

I have been working on business level AI projects for the past two years. In no way do I believe that 1) these will replace human workers 2) should be used by the general public in any way

so, @thomasfuchs.at has been weizenbaum-posting for ages

everybody should read it

and weep. tho that part’s optional

but not one of the problems we’re facing is novel.

I honestly hate that I can understand the individual words here but the arrangement is complete nonsense

Listening to a podcast where a well known tech world wannabe fascist calls journalism "nonconsensual invasion of privacy for profit" and thinks that's clever and my goodness does that reveal a lot of how completely brain wormed a bunch of these guys are once they faced a tiny bit of criticism.

We will be jettisoning trans rights from the Dem Party platform over my room-temperature fucking corpse. We are leaving no one behind, and fuck anyone who thinks otherwise. A core tenet of American identity is that we, not the government, define ourselves.

All of us get protections or none of us do

This is just incredibly poor UX. Asking for the "birth sex" when what is actually relevant for the provider is current registered sex so they can find the NHS number, is confusing to the end user

You aren't going to convince me that genAI should be used by the general public

I like this new world where it's easier and more profitable to self publish through Amazon

Alright yeah just shut down the servers and investigate Meta

It feels like this was done due to not properly explaining requirements or how the system works to the designers. Otherwise this is what would be viewed as a deceptive pattern, designed to confuse the user more than help

This is just incredibly poor UX. Asking for the "birth sex" when what is actually relevant for the provider is current registered sex so they can find the NHS number, is confusing to the end user

What if the devil gave you a really good deal? What if he said you could trust him?

It's a good thing that Elon's users are smart, decent people who respect women and-

Hold on I'm getting some new information here

I preferred beanie babies