Machinist3359

I’m not sure what they gained, they have two opponents (GOP and MAGA) and empowered the more radical of the two. I think thia would be more obvious in a parliamentary system.

I think their rational, as it was with trump in 2016, is that extreme republicans in power bulster democratic support. I think it’s an open question if that’s correct, or if they are assisting the rightward slide of american politics and not getting much of what they promised done.

I agree, but it takes less than 10 min and is more impactful than lemmy posts

To flip it, this means that only AI which responsibly manages it’s initial data set will be successful. Can’t simply scrape and pray, need to have some level of vetting with input.

More labor intensive? Sure, but AI companies aren’t entitled to quick and easy solutions they started with…

To be clear I’m not saying there’s no value to such improvements, but specifically want people to exercise caution in the realm of the hypothetical.

Rather, we should lift up actual evidence and voices of the people affected. If such disabled people are hard to find, that’s a good reason to reframe. Sometimes the actual needs are much less hypothetical. Sometimes the hypothetical greatly overestimated the tech.

To root this discussion, maybe linking to paraplegic speaking on creative AI tools? Or similar examples of AI being used for a11y today which indicates this trend is realistic and a priority.

You may be right in some ways, but if encourage you (or anyone) to not use theoretical disabled people as counterpoints. Ideally, cite something someone has said instead.

I understand the impulse, but doing so often makes people sound more disabled today andputs words in the communities’ mouth.

There are paraplegics writing and creating art today. There is a great list of needs they have from society which precedes ai assistance.

More nefarious people (not saying you, to be clear) also do this to veil shitty tech or policies. “Think of the disabled, with targeted advertisements based on personal data we’ll make using the web less burdensome”

That’s simply not how hiring works at most institutions.

For high traffic lower level positions, hiring managers resent getting given these AI tools. You wind up with candidates that are best at manipulating AI, not the most qualified. Their previous method, basic sorting and hitting the first acceptable worker (rather than the absolute best), is much more efficient use of their time.

For higher level positions, networking plays a much more significant roll. Since it’s a much more significant decision, companies are also less likely to entrust it to an AI.

Screening out unserious applicants is easier than you think, and can be addressed without a blackbox of potential lawsuits

Hell no, speaking as someone who has actually done a lot of hiring. It is very easy to find the top 20 candidates or so based on CVs. The hard part is actually sorting those folks out, which AI cannot do.

AI offers an unknowable bias and unbounded potentoal for discrimination without consequences. this rubber stamp from NYC is a disaster for civil rights.

AI should not be touching these sort of decisions , all agorithims need to be fully auditable and replicable

I was shocked to learn that dental sealant exists. This simple procedure is very effective in preventing cavities, so once a kid has adult teeth they’ll be protected into their 20s.

Yet, many people don’t know to ask for this and can’t afford the upfront cost (about $40 per tooth). Yet, unless your kid has fewer than 3 cavities as a teen it is the most cost effective and wellness promoting option.

It’s wild to me this isn’t a heavily subsidized and promoted procedure, but I guess dental care =/= healthcare…

It’s unfortunate that this drop in replacement isn’t in the fediverse though. Bluesky’s success isn’t technical (yet), it is better marketing and connections with VIP users.

I believe they opened things up to developers recently. I do think they will become decentralized, but am more concerned it will become a “no censorship” aka “no moderation” mess pretty quickly. It relies quite heavily on filters and aggregators rather than moderators.

A little late to the party, considering Apple kicked off much of this anti-e2ee flight with their message scanning announcement.

If you don’t mind getting your hands a little dirty with self hosting…

I recommend using ytdl-sub with jellyfin ( or plex etc).

You download the video and person locally, so no ads, but you can also use sponsorblock.

It also has useful retention options, so I have some channels archive indefinitely and others delete week old or watched videos.

The downside is no gui, so lots of reading the docs to set up properly .

I’m not sure blocking Meta is worthwhile in the long term. Say what you will about email, you still have some degree of choice over your host. I want better for the fediverse, but that’s still a marked improvement over mainstream social media.

In the short term, Meta wants to kill Twitter by collecting all its A-level users. I think this would be good for the fediverse, these are news outlets and poltiicians and etc making posts most people want the option to see in their feed. These are also users who want no-fuss platforms with some amount of “customer service”, and mastodon.social is simply not ready to provide that.

The issues it poses to re-centralization are an inevitable threat as the Fediverse grows. Unless there is a concrete plan to build protections and this is a stop-gap effort, I’m not yet convinced it’s worthwhile.

I know I’m not alone here, but truly a Letterboxd version of bookwyrm would be amazing. Esp if it had some integrations with Jellyfin.