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Over-educated but self-aware bleeding heart lefty. #freedomcare

When you argue from ignorance, all you prove is your ignorance.

Search my toots for #mastodonbasics for, well, mastodon basics, or read on medium: https://medium.com/

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shoq, to random
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Okay, wait. Because he has terrible judgment, Olberman say he “also dated” one of the reporters ejected from the Trump trial. Is it wrong to assume it wasn’t the one name released, Oliva Nuzzi, and someone else who remains unamed? He won’t say. I just can’t see her going down (in a manner of speaking) that road with him.

video_manager,
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@shoq

Laura Ingrahm - he says so himself

GottaLaff, to random
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Back to regular life... the Open House, although filled with positive feedback on our house, was a dud.

Again.

It's so disheartening. We're priced right, the house is beautiful, in great shape, great neighborhood... etc etc.

So we wait.

video_manager,
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@GottaLaff @JanisKay

Buyers don't buy because it smells like cookies - but they are more comfortable, and associate the house with their life, and consequently are more accepting of quirks and differences...

shoq, to random
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…Anyone confused about why Republicans are so willing to spend whatever it takes to help Israel? Because almost every major U.S.defense contractor gets some piece of that money every year. The military industrial complex is not a conspiracy theory. For them, politics stops at the dollar’s edge.

video_manager,
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@shoq

95% of ALL Military spending is on-shore, to already wealthy owners. This has ALWAYS been true, even during invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.

stux, to random
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In Switzerland, a mobile overpass bridge is used to carry out road work without stopping traffic

A massive mobile bridge on the highway where workers can work and traffic goes above it

video_manager,
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@stux

...Though it obviously helps to have long straight road segments...

lauren, to mastodon
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In an unofficial survey, cats preferred over / X by more than 100 to 1.

video_manager,
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@lauren

Twitter/X === Xitter, pronounced alternatively "Zhitter" or "Shitter"

eff, to random
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Using AI to turn body-camera videos into police reports is worrisome given that some AI have been shown to "hallucinate" facts, or summarize events inaccurately, EFF’s Matthew Guariglia told Phoenix’s 12News. https://www.12news.com/article/tech/artificial-intelligence-police-reports/75-bab7ec96-5521-40fd-a716-6f4ea908f815

video_manager,
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@eff

AI doesn't SOMETIMES hallucinate - it ALWAYS hallucinates; that's how it works. Well-trained ,it will frequently resemble reality - just like a cloud can resemble a puppy.

But a cloud ain't a puppy, and AI ain't truth.

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to Economics
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#askfedi #RealEstate #economics

This is what I think is a basic question. When a bank sells a home loan it's selling the total value of the loan, which is principal and expected total interest paid minus payments so far, right?

In other words, the sale value is close to

Value = Principal

  • TotalOverLifeOfLoan
  • PaymentsMadeSoFar

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

video_manager,
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell

yes, but discounted back to the "present value of money", which is as squishy as it sounds.

i.e., what's it worth to have and use that money now and over time vs waiting for it.

GhostOnTheHalfShell, (edited ) to Economics
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@economics@a.gup.pe

File this under the heading economics is not even a dismal science, because mainstream economics isn’t even science. Economics could actually be a rigorous discipline, if orthodoxy can be kicked out.

“ In contrast to its attitude to private debt, which it ignores, mainstream economics obsesses about government debt. But this volte-face doesn't besmirch its record of being 100% wrong.”

https://profstevekeen.substack.com/p/its-a-mixed-credit-fiat-world-e3f

video_manager,
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @economics@a.gup.pe

Republicans raise the deficit by cutting taxes.

Democrats raise the deficit by raising SPENDING.

Exactly as MMT says. No need for a NeoClassical economist "lag".

video_manager,
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @economics@a.gup.pe
read keen more closely, and remember the Liability and Equity columns of his Godley tables have the opposite sign of the Asset column. Kinda part of double entry that always trips me. You "add/enter" an entry in two places... The "opposite sign" nature is what makes sure it is a net-zero transaction.

I like to SEE the opposite signs spelled out; 11th century monks, accountants and economists like to enter the same entry in both places.

GottaLaff, to random
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Should I be posting dopey countdown posts to my move to BC?

Your choice.

video_manager,
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@GottaLaff

No!! Absolutely Not!! It ain't nobody's business!!

video_manager,
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@GottaLaff

I tend to significant privacy practices - I don't post restaurant/bar photos while I'm out, for example. Any info that helps the less-than-honest should be kept private and/or limited

lauren, to random
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Noticing that it's very common for the reporters covering Trump's trial to say "so and so sent a tweet saying ..." Yes, you sometimes hear someone say "posted on X" but the real problem is there's no sane way to make a noun out of "X" so "tweet" will probably go on being used as long as the platform exists.

video_manager,
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@lauren yeah, but "Xeeted out a turd" makes me giggle, so there's that...

jeffjarvis, to random
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"May"? First, I think you mean "might," WaPo. Second, people don't need AI to lie. It comes naturally....
Meta’s AI chatbot is coming to social media. Misinformation may come with it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/18/meta-ai-facebook-instagram-misinformation/

video_manager,
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@jeffjarvis

I have on repeat:
"LLMs/AI doesn't sometimes hallucinate - it ALWAYS hallucinates - sometimes this resembles reality to the viewer - just like a cloud looks like a puppy dog

GottaLaff, to Texas
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Wut.

Via Kyle Cheney:

Apparently, in , state bar investigators did such a "scattershot" job putting together its complaint against for her role in the 2020 election that an appeals court has thrown the case out. 🤦🏻‍♀️
https://search.txcourts.gov/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=430b390e-0f80-43e2-9d6b-53a97caf9fb9&MediaID=e591d629-9c76-4d77-920d-f04faab58bf7&coa=%22%20+%20this.CurrentWebState.CurrentCourt%20+%20@%22&DT=Opinion

video_manager,
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@GottaLaff

The Fifth. Of course. They would exonerate a rabid dog if they were told "It's a Republican"

Chrishallbeck, to comics
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Rhyme.

video_manager,
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@Chrishallbeck

you're gonna get SOOOO MANNNNY "well, ackshully's" for this...

video_manager,
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@Chrishallbeck @admin

sigh. y'know, accents and pronunciations have changed over time. The last syllable of englishman was a very very flat and short sound, more like "mun" to us. The rhyming schemes are some of the GREATEST evidence for the shift in pronunciations.

shoq, to random
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Trying to get my head around this. Without much luck. It just hurts.

Sidebar: Icky that mosseri is able to push himself to the top of the feed on any reply thread. I can’t even link you to either post that shows this proximity.

https://www.threads.net/@nateinthewild/post/C5oICByuYVK

video_manager,
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@shoq oh, my LORD, what an arrogant asshole mosseri is... It fits in with my current operating assumption that Tech bros regard EVERYBODY as mere NPCs to be used and abused without regard

shoq, to random
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I still will never understand why so many people lean on that “favorite” button like it’s a Pez shooter, but rarely boost anything. I almost never favorite. If something resonates, I share it. Full stop. Because that’s almost always why they posted it in the first place. I guess I’m an outlier.

video_manager,
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@shoq

Old habits die hard. Previous social systems feed favorites into "The Algorithm" to goose their chosen metric "Engagement" - forgetting that once you try to optimize a metric, it ceases being a useful metric.

Mastodon is more like being with your friends in a bakery. Muttering "I like scones" doesn't affect your friends; grabbing a scone and holding it out and saying "See??? Scones!!" does.

shoq, (edited ) to random
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@QasimRashid Frequently said to mythical boomers, but unfair, imo. “They” didn’t close anything. They just lived their only lives. A far smaller class of super wealthy among them—the same class screwing this generation now—did that. We need to focus on the criminals, not their many victims.

video_manager,
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@shoq @QasimRashid

Maybe they didn't "do" it... But they sure got talked into voting for politicians and policies that made it happen ..

arstechnica, to random
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Elon Musk just gave another Mars speech—this time the vision seems tangible

"These are unthinkable numbers, but we’re not breaking any physics to achieve this."

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/elon-musk-just-gave-another-mars-speech-this-time-the-vision-seems-tangible/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

video_manager,
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@arstechnica

Why do you give this gasbag any credibility?!? His claims are absolutely thorough nonsense.

lauren, to random
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I mean seriously, look at the logic of these firms. They want endless data to feed their commercial AI systems, and they KNOW it would be too expensive to pay for it SO THEY JUST TAKE IT.

Totally unethical, totally like any other crook.

Except, I suspect your average bank robber would NOT try claim it's all for the good of the world. Your average bank robber would be more honest about their crimes than Big Tech can ever manage.

video_manager,
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@lauren

What, you expect us to make a profit PAYING for our raw materials?!? Next you'll expect us to actually pay a living WAGE to employees!

GottaLaff, to random
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About to leave Sacramento for home, the longest and most utterly boring part of our trips. (I5– Grapevine) Harris Ranch does have great bathrooms though. 🤭

Our realtor timed it out so we’d be driving home during an Open House today instead of kicking us/Hammy out for 3 hours tomorrow. Pays off to have our neighbor/friend in that role.

As always, posting & replying may be spotty.

video_manager,
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@Fred_Hymans @GottaLaff @davidbraze

Sacramento is between Vancouver & San Diego. Ain't nuthin in Sacramento.

lauren, to mastodon
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Matt Blaze, a respected computer scientist whom I've known pretty much forever, just told me to "Fck off" (without the '') and blocked me here on #Mastodon.

I think you may find the reason why interesting.

While I have frequently stood up for him when he's the subject of unfair comments of one sort of another, I still call issues as I see them.

Earlier today, without any prompting, Matt noted here that he just cancelled a bunch of reservations he'd made to help assure he could get a "cloud free" viewing experience of the eclipse.

In response to my comment that this seemed to be rather obnoxious behavior, given how tightly rooms have been booked, he suggested that people could just use the reservations now. I noted that not everyone can do last minute planning and sometimes it takes weeks for many to plan such trips.

He "apologized" for not meeting my "personal standards". I noted that I felt they were pretty basic standards and wondered how many reservations he had made.

At that point, he threw the invective and blocked me.

What's interesting here is that Matt openly made a point of publicly saying he had made multiple reservations only to cancel all but one. Why he made that post in the first place I can't imagine.

But I stand by my analysis of that post.

Just wanted you to know why I apparently won't be interacting with Matt any more here on Mastodon at least.

I welcome alternative points of view regarding this dialogue.

Best, -L

video_manager,
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@lauren

you're not wrong - tech and tech-bros have fully embraced the "one weird trick" ethos, regardless of it's impact on others. I've seen some brag about multiple restaurant reservations so they can decide late what they feel like doing - often not cancelling because "well, the restaurant will just cancel if I don't show up"

The extreme disregard for consequence to others plays out everywhere from reservations to traffic

atomicpoet, to random

When people say, “You’re not wrong, but what you’re saying is an attempt at misdirection,” what they’re usually saying is, “You’re right, but what you’re saying is inconvenient to me.”

video_manager,
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@atomicpoet

...or You're right, but about something we're not talking about at the moment...

shoq, to random
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Meh morning. This World Kitchen tragedy is just appalling. But I won’t be surprised if Hamas set it up somehow by gaming IDF intelligence assets. But even if they did that, few will believe it.

video_manager,
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@shoq nice completely evidence-free speculation and vilifying you got there. Be a shame if it ran into any facts.

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