cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/211404

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/44753763

Apple Support page

https://minidisc.tokyo/notes/ak9k4opsb1

Folks who voted for Trump are gullible and fundamentally untrustworthy. They forever carry a virus embedded in their brains, a parasite.

No. Thanks.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16451158

cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/211310

From US news | The Guardian via this RSS feed

Across immigration, voting, and LGBTQ+ rights, overlapping systems are quietly redefining identity, access, and belonging in America, writes Joshua Ackley.

Project 2025 is not a future scenario. It is already unfolding, visible in the quiet failures and the louder substitutions that are beginning to define daily life.

What we are watching is not the collapse of government, but its reconfiguration, as the systems meant to serve people weaken while the systems built to monitor, track, and control them become more visible, more coordinated, and more difficult to question.

That shift has moved into airports, one of the most routine and widely shared spaces in American life. A recent case at San Francisco International Airport made that visible in a way that is difficult to dismiss. A woman and her nine-year-old daughter were identified before they ever reached their gate, flagged through passenger data, and located by federal agents inside the terminal. She was detained in public, in front of her child, and deported within days.

After casting her vote for Donald Trump in 2024 in hopes that he would bring transparency around the Jeffrey Epstein case, Epstein survivor Jena Lisa Jones said in an interview this week that she now fears “we’re not going to get justice in all of this”.

I see a lot of discussion here about over-hyped AI, and then I see the huge AI bubble at my workplace, in news, in PR statements, etc.

Are there folks who work at companies -- especially interested in those in tech -- that have a reasonable handle on AI's practical uses and its limitations?

Where I work, there's:

• a dashboard of AI usage by team and individual, which will definitely not affect performance review in any way
• a mandate to use one AI tool last month, and this month a new one to abandon that tool and adopt a different one
• quarterly goals where almost every one has some amount of "with AI" in it
• letters from the CEO asking which teams are using AI to implement features from ticket descriptions, or (inspired by the news) use flocks of agents, asking for positives without mention of asking for negatives
• a team creating a review pipeline for AI-generated output in our product, planning to review the quality of the output... using AI
• teammates are writing code and designs and sending them for review without ensuring functionality or pruning irrelevant portions, despite a statement that everyone is responsible for reviewing AI output

Is all the resistance to overuse of AI grassroots and is the pressure for rampant adoption uniform among executives/investors? Or are some companies or verticals not drinking the koolaid?

cross-posted from: https://lemmus.org/post/21124885

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9183854