Tootfinder

When I contacted my #bank last time via its web service, I got the reply there, after two days.
This time I've also used the web service, and:
• A week later, got a text that they've started processing my request.
• Further two weeks later, I've got an e-mail asking if I'm interested in "electronic reply". I answer using the formula they give.
• Three days later, they text me that they've sent the reply via traditional mail. 🤦
I wonder why they didn't accept my request to reply via e-mail. Was it that I quoted their original mail, or perhaps they didn't like the encoding my mail client used…

"This is an ad that says, if you join up with us, DHS and ICE, you are answering a call from God. You're entering a holy war. You are answering the call to play a part in a story that is transcendent.""
**'Truly frightening': New DHS ads raise alarm for Christian nationalism expert** - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/dhs-christian-nationalism/

The only way Microsoft should be involved in a European Sovereign Tech Fund is if we fund it by taxing the living shit out of them.
But having them organise and influence it (and who gets funded by it), thereby de facto giving Microsoft EU taxpayer subsidies? Get the fuck out of here.
There are no words to describe how angry this attempt at corporate capture gets me when we’ve been working on sovereign tech in the EU for the past seven years with zero EU funding (not for lack of …

We need a European Sovereign Tech Fund
With a new feasibility study, GitHub’s developer policy team is building a coalition of policymakers and industry to close the maintenance funding gap.

I was talking to someone yesterday (let's call them A) and they had another "AI" experience, I thought might happen but hadn't heard of before.
They were interacting with an organization and upon asking a specific thing got a very specific answer. Weeks later that organization claimed it had never said what they said and when A showed the email as proof the defense was: Oh yeah, we're an international organization and it's busy right now so the person who sent…

Researchers: "chain of thought" techniques used by Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI show inconsistencies where chatbot answers contradict the stated reasoning (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b349f590-de84-455d-914a-cc5d9eef…

The struggle to get inside how AI models really work
Anthropic, Google  and OpenAI deploy ‘chains of thought’ to better understand the operations of AI systems

Ya know who ran for president on a promise to get us out of wars and then expanded our participation in wars and so Congress told him they were gonna impeach and remove him so he resigned?
This question should have two answers.
#USpol

“I want to just thank everybody, and in particular, God. We love you, God.”
— Donald Darth #Trump, als er den Angriff auf den #Iran befahl.
Was für eine Blasphemie. Was für ein Zipfelklatscher 🤢

Little #MastodonTip : if you ask a question in a post and eventually get a good answer, you can edit your post with the answer added!
That way people who have boosted it will know the answer as well (it should notify them) and people who see it know that there is no need to answer.

NYers, don't forget to get out there and vote today if you haven't already! And ffs #DontRankCuomo, he's a corrupt abuser who covered up the nursing home deaths that he caused.
#NYC #NYCPol

"How to get the most out of tech while freeing ourselves from the lunatics in Silicon Valley"
Says Ian Dunt in his article on a corporate Substack page linked from his block-chain owned Bluesky account.
He does so without using the words "Fedi" "blog", "decentralize" "open source", "free software", or "mastodon", and while calling Facebook and Instagram "seemingly more benign".
There must be a form of moderate tech disinvestment, which allows us the things we benefit from while removing the things which harm us.
He pleads, admitting
I have no answers for this
Yeah, no kidding.
But he has stopped using Amazon so much and buys more DVDs now, and tries to use a tablet more than a phone!?
Well done I guess.