YoungSheldonAdelson [they/them]

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Cake day: December 24th, 2022

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  • This is the same website that helped coordinate violent actions in Myanmar against Rohingya people. In Myanmar, Facebook had essentially no non-English language moderation. So the leaders of the violence campaign were posting their plans openly on Facebook and facebook picked it up and pushed it to more people because anti-Rohingya content was bringing in the most ad dollars and platform engagement.

    From Amnesty International;

    It revealed that even Facebook’s internal studies dating back to 2012 indicated that Meta knew its algorithms could result in serious real-world harms. In 2016, Meta’s own research clearly acknowledged that “our recommendation systems grow the problem” of extremism.









  • When Trump was leaving office last time they literally went on a McKilling spree and McKilled thirteen people.

    The number of federal death sentences carried out under Trump since 2020 is more than in the previous 56 years combined, reducing the number of prisoners on federal death row by nearly a quarter.

    National Academy of Sciences Reports Four Percent of Death Row Inmates are Innocent

    Study from 2014. Four fucking percent!



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    30 days ago

    The requirements for being a foreign "pro" during the Wings of Liberty era were; being a white dude, and having a better-than-average PC in 2010. Destiny's hype was his zerg infestor play, but his real innovation was being willing to say the gamer words on justin dot tv






  • How would someone even go about finding out their specific creative work has been scraped and stolen by these AI companies? Back when I was active people would just steal my [commissioned] work outright and claim they were me. Now it's buried under a thousand layers of algorithmically-generated bullshit that itself is based on previously referenced work.

    The "I made this" comic pops into my head on a weekly basis now.