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Waving around credentials on the internet often gives me pause -- not because I don't like to see it, but because professionals that I know who actually have weighted credentials would never do it, unless they were acting on behalf of their employer.

You don't see that s*** on social networking sites in my line of work. 🤷‍♂️

This is why the ever-encapsulating "hacker" threat literally has no bearing on my outlook. That real threat I won't see coming, and neither would you.

A fast-paced startup simulation game where you play the founder of a tech startup.
https://sillycovalley.com/

James Cameron Doubts AI Can Write Good Scripts, Says the ‘Weaponization of AI Is the Biggest Danger’: ‘I Warned You in 1984 and You Didn’t Listen’

“You got to follow the money,” he said. “Who’s building these things? They’re either building it to dominate marketing shares, so you’re teaching it greed, or you’re building it for defensive purposes, so you’re teaching it paranoia. I think the weaponization of AI is the biggest danger.”

https://variety.com/2023/film/news/james-cameron-ai-nuclear-war-cant-write-good-scripts-1235673940/

#AI

Follow the money as usual.

#Mastodon is a slow-motion trainwreck in progress, and one that long-time CoSo users have been watching for several years.

My loathing for them has nothing to do with social media loyalty either. Their entire structure is straight up unsafe for their users.

Like a castle built on quicksand.

Word has reached us through a leaked and supposedly confidential memo that the Ron DeSantis campaign is officially a “train wreck.” Despite his desperate efforts to out-TrumpTrump and fan the flames of his imaginary war on whatever Wokeism might be, poor little Mickey Mouse-o-lini just can’t gain any traction. Sorry, Mickey… you’re going to wind up as yet another footnote in electoral history, not even interesting enough to be the subject of a political science thesis. #Politics #Florida

I don't think they even make instruments big enough to measure the massive dickery of Melon Husk and Fuckerberg. #RandomThoughts

Seeing lots of talk about Threads, and the hard truth is, CoSo will never be threads, and never compete with threads.

And thank the Gods for it.

We got our own thing here. Something unique, that Threads will never have.

Sure Threads has its own strengths and weaknesses, but it will never have the soul that this place has, or the organic connections that exist here.

We don't need to compete, we don't need to be better, we just need to be ourselves. ^_^

Larry Nassar stabbed? That's awful ! (just kidding he deserved it)

retooting

National Weather Service

Widespread and extreme flash flooding is possible across interior New England today as heavy rains continue to fall. Multiple Flash Flood Warnings are in effect and many roads are washed out with another 3-5 inches of rain to come. #TurnAroundDontDrown

https://twitter.com/NWS/status/1678401531245211648

Can we have a cage fight between Elon, Zuck and Cory but Cory gets to use a robot and Dean Kamen get to pick the design team and the kids who will run the robotics? And Cory will assemble a tiki hut and be bartender while we watch?