Amber Volcel Police Whataboutism

I’m part of a coalition trying to prevent a private equity firm from buying out a local nonprofit hospital and using AI to “Improve efficiency” is one of their plans that we’ve had to study (done by people much more competent than I).

The main thing they plan to use AI for is filling out paperwork - nurses will record their introductory interviews with patients and the AI (basically, speech recognition + knowing what fields to fill out for certain information) will automatically fill out that patient’s chart.

I’m sure they’re planning on using AI for other purposes as well, but this is the most prevalent use - speech recognition and filling out charts automatically.

Oh sorry, it seems like you were responding under the assumption that I’m not also a Marxist-Leninist. But yes:

Comparing a Chinese man to a beady-eyed yellow bear is racist

Polls in Hong Kong reveal that 90%+ of the population preferred remaining part of China

“Tiananmen Square” is a place. In China, the event is known as the June 4th Incident. It was not a massacre of innocent protestors. The protestors in the square left peacefully, violence broke out elsewhere. Almost half of fatalities were military and police. They were fighting an armed insurrection, and it happened pretty much everywhere in Beijing except Tiananmen Square.

If I was a Lemmy.ml admin I would remove your comments and ban you after sending this reply.

I believe that Davel acted correctly and with professionalism in this example. He removed racist, misinformational, and reactionary content while countering with sources to debunk those views. This is not only appropriate for a moderator but going above and beyond.

Being a reactionary is a type of being a dick and their posts should be removed

It’s perfectly valid - moderators are both moderators and users.

When someone posts a questionable comment, it’s perfectly fine to press them on it, and see if there was a misunderstanding. If a short conversation reveals, no, actually they were just a dick, yeah, delete that whole thread. Nuke them into orbit

One additional suggestion I might make is to allow you to report the post to your own instance admins but not the host admins. This would be useful for when you want a post to be hidden or an instance defederated and you don’t want to also send your identity to the instance you’re reporting.

This might be used for:

Reporting spam coming from an instance that is unlikely to delete it.

Reporting CSAM on an instance that supports it.

Reporting hate speech on instances that believe hate speech is covered by free speech.

Etc.

There’s a word for this, the promotion of leaders based on merit instead of popularity - Technocracy. And it’s not a distinct ideology but a syncretic one that has been adopted by many groups with differing politics. The most prominent example would be the Technocratic faction of the People’s Republic of China, which was opposed to the Maoists back in the 50s and 60s; they argued for society to be led by experts instead of Democratically with a strong emphasis on Peasant participation (the standpoint of the Maoists). China today follows a moderate path taking from both factions.

In the West, however, Technocracy is mostly associated with Liberals; however, I would argue that the modern Liberal view of Technocracy is fundamentally flawed, since it relies on Capitalism distributing wealth meritocratically (which Socialists understand is not the case).

Lmao amazing

Uncritical support for the Lemmy development team.

Instances can be configured however they want. The standard right now is a blacklist (federate with everyone who asks except blocked instances). Hexbear was considering going with a whitelist instead (only federating with a small handful of servers).

It was supposed to happen before the end of this month but they’ve pushed it back to the 5th.

Hexbear published a small list of servers they intend to federate with, which included lemmygrad.ml, blahaj.zone, and lemmy.ml. It may have also included lemmy.world but I do not remember for sure.

Since lemmy.ml federates with Lemmygrad, I don’t see any reason why the devs would block Hexbear.

(1). Yes and (2). Only the ones that didn’t happen

I think their alignment was probably changed because it was counterintuitive that a Chaotic Evil outsider was from Acheron, a Lawful Evil plane.

Good, I’m a Tankie too.

You can select multiple languages in the box. The “Undetermined” option is for all posts without a language set. Most people do not set a language on their posts. So unselecting it will hide most posts from you.

This might be desirable if you, say, only speak French and don’t want your feed clogged up with unmarked English-language posts. But it also means that if someone made a post in French but forgot to tag it, you won’t see that post either.

If you’re, say, bilingual English/Spanish, you would probably want Undetermined, English, and Spanish selected in the box.

Keep in mind one of the biggest parts of Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is funding Charter Schools (a type of private school). The foundation is so large they functionally set the curriculum in our school system (since schools that don’t follow their curriculum don’t get funding).

It’s not about charity, it’s about privatization and control.

I think this, especially the second issue, is something the Fediverse (Lemmy in particular) will have to work through at some point.

If Reddit bans a subreddit on a controversial subject, it’s banned, it’s gone. But if a Lemmy instance defederates with another instance for hosting controversial content, you just find another instance that doesn’t.

I think the real issue is with federation in general and the creation of bubbles: there is a certain subset of users who just want full federation and full visibility, including sites that host lolicon, fascism, and other problematic content. Even if they aren’t, say, fascists themselves, but just free-speech absolutists. The issue is that any instance that doesn’t defederate with, say, Fascist instances, is tainted, either by association (“this instance refused to defederate from fascist instances, so we’re defederating from them too”) or because problem users are attracted to it (“people in our comment sections from this instance have been defending fascism, so we’re defederating to keep them out”).

And there really isn’t a good solution to the issue, aside from hosting your own tiny client-only server.

Most of the posters are Americans, but more “PSL” American Leftists than “DSA” American Leftists.