jebba

@jebba@jebba.moe

Typist. SpaceCruft! DeepCrayon. Fork Sand. Formerly: LulzBot, LinuxLibre, Indymedia, BLAG, BLASTERISK, Build Your Own PC!, and other libre projects.

The Orphans of Politics and Their Curious Machines
https://theses.hal.science/tel-03007765

#FediPact

Archive of my old blog, starting in 2004:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080610084119/http://jebba.blagblagblag.org/

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

KagroX, to random

Guy who thought he could call out the military to put down protest against his remaining in power:

jebba,

@KagroX

There's an amazing footage in the documentary "Videograms of a Revolution" that shows the exact moment when instead of pointing their tanks & guns at the crowd, the military turned against Ceaușescu.

jebba, to random

Just perusing thru my old blog. Thankfully it is in archive's wayback machine.

I have a copy of it, but it would take a bunch of wordpress migrations to get it going again.

I had it running from 2004-2008. It ended when my home was broken into and all my computers were stolen (again) and I never set it back up.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080610084119/http://jebba.blagblagblag.org/

jebba, to random

“You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war”

-William Randolph Hearst

The Hearst Corporation, privately held, is so powerful they can affect the value of USA government bonds by changing their ratings.

They downgraded the USA government's credit. heh.

"Fitch Ratings" is one of their relatively miniscule holdings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearst_Communications

GuerillaOntologist, to random
@GuerillaOntologist@social.coop avatar

Now do everyone who either signed off on it, covered it up, or tried to justify it after the fact.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/caci-abu-ghraib

jebba,

@kierkegaank @GuerillaOntologist

cough DeSantis

"In the spring of 2006, DeSantis arrived at Joint Task Force Guantanamo (JTF-GTMO), working directly with detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. The records of his service in the Navy were often redacted upon release to the public, to protect personal privacy, according to the Navy. Mansur Ahmad Saad al-Dayfi, who was held at Guantanamo, alleged in 2022 that DeSantis oversaw force-feeding detainees."

jebba,

@GuerillaOntologist

Back in 2005 (?) or so I set up a system called "BLASTERISK Against Torture" that routed phone messages from the group Witness Against Torture to their blog and the public. Witness Against Torture was on the ground in Cuba, literally at the fence of the Guantanamo base... They had a German satellite phone that connected to my Asterisk phone system.

jebba,

@kierkegaank @GuerillaOntologist

I singled out DeSantis because he's in the news everyday, this is never mentioned, and he was literally in the room.

"If they all had one neck"...

Cheney is probably the worst of the worst, if there is a scoring system.

Did you see the video where Sascha Baron Cohen got Cheney to proudly sign a water torture device??!?

jebba, to random

StefanThinks (a vicious punner) posts:

"Rage Against the Machine Learning"

Troll shows up with "it's just a tool," etc.

The mastodon instance they are on is run by a proprietary browser no one has heard of, with 4.7k users.

And with one simple click they're all gone. Voila.

Perhaps there should be a blocklist just of "commercial shit". If it's a bunch of corp crap, a commercial instance, just block.

jebba, to random

"Fitch Ratings - London - 01 Aug 2023: Fitch Ratings has downgraded the United States of America's Long-Term Foreign-Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to 'AA+' from 'AAA'."

https://www.fitchratings.com/research/sovereigns/fitch-downgrades-united-states-long-term-ratings-to-aa-from-aaa-outlook-stable-01-08-2023

jebba,

"Ratings Downgrade: The rating downgrade of the United States reflects the expected fiscal deterioration over the next three years, a high and growing general government debt burden, and the erosion of governance relative to 'AA' and 'AAA' rated peers over the last two decades that has manifested in repeated debt limit standoffs and last-minute resolutions."

jebba,

"Erosion of Governance: In Fitch's view, there has been a steady deterioration in standards of governance over the last 20 years, including on fiscal and debt matters, notwithstanding the June bipartisan agreement to suspend the debt limit until January 2025. The repeated debt-limit political standoffs and last-minute resolutions have eroded confidence in fiscal management. In addition, the government lacks a medium-term fiscal framework, unlike most peers, and has a complex budgeting process."

jebba,

"Economy to Slip into Recession:

Tighter credit conditions, weakening business investment, and a slowdown in consumption will push the U.S. economy into a mild recession in 4Q23 and 1Q24, according to Fitch projections. The agency sees U.S. annual real GDP growth slowing to 1.2% this year from 2.1% in 2022 and overall growth of just 0.5% in 2024."

jebba,

"Job vacancies remain higher and the labor participation rate is still lower (by 1 pp) than pre-pandemic levels, which could negatively affect medium-term potential growth."

jebba,

"The U.S. has an ESG Relevance Score of '4[+]'for Human Rights and Political Freedoms"

mjmbca, to random

“Men today need to grow a pair and learn how to be tough like me, and also the ‘Barbie’ movie was mean to me” feels like a real mixed message.

jebba,

@mjmbca

I was sitting here like "how the fuck is a Barbie movie progressive?". But it sure seems to piss off all the right people.

jebba, to random

"The paradox of automation says that the more efficient the automated system, the more crucial the human contribution of the operators. Humans are less involved, but their involvement becomes more critical.

"If an automated system has an error, it will multiply that error until it is fixed or shut down. This is where human operators come in. A fatal example of this was Air France Flight 447, where a failure of automation put the pilots into a manual situation they were not prepared for."

jebba,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automation#Paradox_of_automation

Alice, to random
@Alice@beige.party avatar

“Have fun!” and other awkward things I’ve said to my poor housekeeper right before she starts cleaning my home.

jebba,

@Alice

Check out "Triangle of Sadness" movie... :)

jebba,

@Alice

ha! I watched it and thought it was great. Then I watched it again with a friend, and had forgotten how it started... She's like wtf you trying to tell me?

If you don't love it ban me forever! :)

TheConversationUS, to news
@TheConversationUS@newsie.social avatar

Today, over 70 years after doctors took Henrietta Lacks’ cells without her consent or knowledge, her family reached a settlement with biotech company.

Here’s why the cells of a Black woman have been crucial to medical research https://theconversation.com/what-are-hela-cells-a-cancer-biologist-explains-169913

jebba,

@TheConversationUS

"As a cancer researcher who uses HeLa cells in my everyday work, even I sometimes find it hard to believe."

If you knew that they were from an unethical source, and no agreement had been made with the family until today, why did you use them?

jebba, to random

Kind of cool site to see if you have been used in an AI training set:

https://haveibeentrained.com

I found pictures of myself, photos I took, old projects, etc. all in there.

Found a nice quote though!

emilymbender, to random
@emilymbender@dair-community.social avatar

Anyone know anything about the news site "Fagen wasanni"? They seem to constantly publish warmed over if not directly plagiarized things from other sites, but the Google News index likes them...

jebba,

@emilymbender

Looks dodgy.

They don't list anything about who funds them.

Nothing is listed about the editors except their names. I couldn't connect those names to any other legit publication--too many hits.

"Candice Clark" and "Chelsea Johnson" work for them on the editorial board for a supposedly Polish company.

The address for the company is a data center in Poland, used by Equinix (and maybe others).

Just seems to be AI scrape and puke.

obeto, to random
@obeto@mas.to avatar

"data inbreeding"

I LOL'd 😅 😅 https://futurism.com/ai-trained-ai-generated-data-interview

jebba,

@obeto

Linky to paper:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.01850.pdf

this is pretty lol too "Jathan Sadowski described it as 'Habsburg AI,' or 'a system that is so heavily trained on the outputs of other generative AI's that it becomes an inbred mutant, likely with exaggerated, grotesque features.''"

Inbred like royalty.

vagina_museum, to random
@vagina_museum@masto.ai avatar

In the news: the family of Henrietta Lacks have been compensated, more than 70 years after cells from her cancer, taken without her consent became an industry worth billions. https://apnews.com/article/henrietta-lacks-hela-cells-thermo-fisher-scientific-bfba4a6c10396efa34c9b79a544f0729

jebba,

@vagina_museum

"The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" is a very good documentary about her too.

zekuzelalem, to OSINT

THREAD: This thread discusses the December 2020 forced expulsion of people inhabiting farming communities in a disputed border area claimed by both Ethiopia 🇪🇹 and Sudan🇸🇩. data appears to suggest that Sudanese troops may have carried out atrocities when it removed hundreds if not thousands of Ethiopians from the Al Fashaga triangle. Nobody has properly documented the expulsions and there's not enough evidence to draw conclusions.

jebba,

@zekuzelalem

This report is by the Ethiopian government about attacks in that area that occurred in November, 2020, one month before the events you describe.

It seems to blame Tigrayans, but the government was at war with them at that moment, so maybe that isn't a surprise. It does confirm there were many attacks.

https://addisstandard.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Maikadra-Preliminary-Findings-English-Final.pdf

jebba,

@zekuzelalem

This talks about an attack in the al-Fashaga area, late December, 2020.

"He stated that property worth more than US$25.5 million was plundered and destroyed, and that 400 to 500 households were displaced, while 1,750 people from Selam Ber Kebele were displaced and their villages were burned to the ground."

https://addisstandard.com/in-depth-analysis-ethio-sudan-border-dispute-manageable-or-time-bomb/

https://addisstandard.com/news-ethiopia-accuses-sudanese-army-of-demolishing-local-administrative-institutions-west-gonder-residents-decry-continued-incursion-urge-solution/

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