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Cake day: September 20th, 2023
  • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•lemmy user(ule)s: "this sign won't stop me because i can't read"English
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    14 days ago

    Great episode.

    I think they 👇

    need an example of someone being hurt to drive their point home.

    @[email protected] do you have a ready example?

    Aight this isn’t bad:

    So I think we can be preemptively told not to say the word on social media. (RE: “if I…offend someone…I’ll apologize”) When you’re talking to your best friend in your car though it’s probably hard to demand you police yourself (in the example you never use the word in public, and neither you nor your friend ever will no matter how much you say it privately). So it shouldn’t be a thought crime kinda but probably appropriate to avoid it in public or unfamiliar company.

    Curious what you think of that take spujb - “tree falls in the forest …”

  • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•lemmy user(ule)s: "this sign won't stop me because i can't read"English
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    14 days ago

    Without a doubt, there are hateful, spiteful losers who not only use but take pleasure in using language with the specific intent of causing maximum harm.

    In spite of this fact, there I think it’s worthwhile to call out exceptions exist - since a plan of attack has the best chance of success when the full context, the entire enemy, is known. The last person I heard use the word IRL is:

    • kind and generous
    • thoughtful, otherwise respectful, well mannered
    • (a leftist pacifist vegan)
    • friends with a wide, diverse cross section of humanity

    But I know they grew up around the word and haven’t seen someone it’s hurt, so they used it like they’d use any other word - without intent to harm, just ignorantly.

    I’d take tips on how best to counsel them if it comes up again. I think exploring their potential blindspot (no/few disabled friends?) would be part of my strategy. Thankfully they are not just some hateful piece of shit because it wouldn’t be worth my time talking at a wall if they were. They will at least be open to entertaining an argument about the potential impact of their words even in able-bodied/minded company. Thankful that’s the kind of person they are! And when we accurately assess people it gives us our best shot at righting our collective vocabulary.

  • brbposting@sh.itjust.workstoHacker News•Snowden: "They've gone full mask-off: do not ever trust OpenAI or its products"
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    17 days ago

    Did AT&T have an NSA board member?

    I think there’s a good chance you can send text privately when you use proper encryption and both parties are careful. (Private for now, at least, with potential for decryption in the future.) Nothing about OpenAI makes me think any text hitting their API would ever be private. I would expect a three letter agency at my door if I tried to plan 9/11 Pt. 2 with ChatGPT. What should this appointment make me think?

    I’m sure there will be some impact I’m not aware of, but it seems if it were critical for the government to keep the NSA ostensibly distant from the company, this appointment wouldn’t have happened.