I remember some months ago, people were warning that it took Hitler less than two months to go from an elected position to dictator. I'm sure Trump is jealous that it took him longer, but here we are.
I seriously doubt most Americans, even progressive ones, realize the unfettered power he and his fashy billionaire buddies now have and what they are likely to do with it.
What will you tolerate? What won't you tolerate happening to yourself or others? Where is your "red line" after which you'll give up security and comfort to fight? And how will you fight? What are you willing to do?
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White Pocket, Arizona. In the Vermillion Cliffs National Monument.
I was feeling tired and it seemed like the rest of the afternoon/evening would be dull and cloudy, so I packed up, intending to start heading back. I've been on the road sleeping in my truck for a while, low on food and out of clean socks and shirts. But I thought, well, maybe there will be one last sun break for some dramatic afternoon light, so I grabbed my camera a couple of lenses and a tripod and headed back out…
Ok biology fedi, WTF are these? They look like a miniature horseshoe crabs. I have never seen them before! These are in an ephemeral pool in the slickrock in SE Utah, Vermillion Cliffs National Monument, about 5,000 feet elevation. They are a couple inches long. From above I first thought they were tadpoles but I didn't see their tails wiggling as they swam so I went down for a closer look.
#arthropods #Invertebrates #WhatTheFuckIsThis
No thanks. I don't need to get messed up.
Sincerely, another #WellAdjustedAtheist
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I remember Spybot!
I guess the other option would be to mark those emails as spam and let them auto delete. Thing is, we also built our B2B mailing list the same way: by sending out ads to the state list of licensees. It's pretty much what everybody does because it's otherwise very difficult to advertise in a way that reaches thousands of widely scattered small cannabis farmers (we're a nursery). It's mildly annoying, but it's what everyone does now.
I would rather have people unsubscribe so we don't have to pay for sending bulk mail into a spam folder. And I'm sure they feel the same way. But I wish there were a simple and safe way to do it in case someone does try that as an attack vector.
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Lol finishing drywall is the absolute worst job ever.
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"Utopia!" as an advertising gimmick to sell us a security nightmare. Don't buy it.
nostr:npub145umrlfuf9cppkgkzf08438peevqs8lqrswsu27w3txkeh4n2yysathq7w Yes, there are so many reasons not to trust these companies. We need decentralized software freedom respecting services that are not controlled by for profit companies.
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Well, yes, that's the best option! And here we are on the fediverse for that reason.
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More to the point, IMO, is that there is nothing legally stopping them from lying and in fact using user input to train their LLM's. How would we know? And what could we do about it after the fact anyway? Without strict legal prohibitions on data collection, combined with guillotine-level enforcement, they are under no obligation to not lie, if lying suits them.
It's like they could replace the whole TOS with "We'll do what we want. Suck it up, loser."
None of these companies should be trusted, ever.
BTW I am learning with Eagle Paragliding in Santa Barbara California. Totally recommend them.
Like many paragliding schools, they have a seemingly odd business model: Buy your gear and the lesson package from them and you get lifetime lessons whenever you want to show up.
This makes a lot of sense from a student point of view, because people learn at very different speeds (it's been kind of slow for me, tbh) and you don't want to feel rushed with a sport that could easily kill you.
The nice thing about #paragliding, from a financial point of view, is that once you've paid for the gear and lessons, flying is basically free. No lift tickets, etc.
#paragliding training update.
If the weather cooperates tomorrow, I will get my first mountain flight, after which I will be checked off for my P2 paragliding license! P2 is a novice level license that means I can fly on my own, without an instructor present. It's a super basic skill level, but allows me to fly at other sites wherever I travel.
This is something I've wanted to do for over 20 years. If anyone recalls, I started in October, but botched a launch, landed hard and seriously injured my ankle. I trained another five days in late May, but ran out of time to finish, so now I'm back and need one more good day.
Can't wait to get off the training hill!
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It properly arrives in a box that the cat would prefer to sit in.
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Seems like way too much work to go to for a pickpocket scam. Especially since nothing in my profile suggests I'm wealthy. But we'll see what happens.
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(Note, I deleted the thread, for reasons.)
My experience has been totally opposite. All real people except for a recent crypto scammer. I'm sure being really picky helps and I doubt scammers creating fake accounts would try to mimic my particular "type". Hint: If I have a type, it's *not* the female profiles with tons of makeup, stylish clothes, lip filler, posing in classy restaurants, etc. 😂
So...last night I did a short thread about a convo I was having on a dating site with an account that appeared to be a chatbot. Now there's some ambiguity in it. I will update next week when the account holder says they will actually meet me, though the whole thing still feels odd and off.
I deleted the thread, but what I really wanted to do was hide it until I found out either way. If it's a chatbot, I could restore the visibility of it and update. If it turns out to be a human (odd as that may be) I would delete it anyway. (No need to be inadvertently insulting.)
I tried to imagine scenarios where it could be a real person and the only plausible one was an ESL speaker voice-texting while driving and not manually correcting the glaring mistakes that those things make (at least iPhones/Siri). That was enough of a possibility that I decided to nuke the thread and update next week if need be.
Just the fact that we have to try to discern these things as a normal part of life now is 🤦♂️
Fedi advice needed:
I'm talking with someone on a dating site who I'm starting to suspect is a chatbot.
But, it could also be someone whose first language isn't English (which is what I thought at first).
What sort of things do I ask or say that would trip up a chatbot, but not be insulting to an actual person in this scenario?
This is a fun thought experiment! It's like a covert, polite Turing test.
#FediAdvice #TuringTest #ChatBot #OnlineDating #ModernLifeIsFuckingWeird