Ernest

I’ve been checking out fastmail because they’re pushing JMAP and I love me some new standards

lobsters uses it so I assume it’s not actively dangerous

I’ll be chattin’ in there and some person will pop in and be like “can I have an invite? can I have an invite?” and the vibe I always got was that it was unwelcome

I chat in their IRC chatroom occasionally but idk how to turn that into an invite like their about page says <.<

if what ICE does is any indication, they’ll just put you in jail, not deal with any medical issues, and you die

I think OP is trying to say that we cannot let “AI” launder the responsibility that real humans have for their actions.

The point (as I understand it) of “guns don’t kill people” is that it is patently absurd to imply that “tools” are wholly neutral implements. The quote is trying to hold the “tool” accountable. While it’s making a seemingly contradictory point to OP, I think it’s more that both can be true at once–OP is trying to highlight the specific problem with “the AI is the one doing all the naughty things”, because Sam Altman et al. would certainly like everyone to think so. I totally agree that “AI” is not merely a “tool” (in the sense of the neutrality so-implied), but that is a separate point.

(re-reading what I just wrote… it kinda sounds like clanker speak?? I swear I’m a real human)

The article is actually written informatively, but for anyone else who may have assumed from the title that this is some failing of Unicode–it is not, the goal of Unicode is to encode all human writing. This includes “nonsense” glyphs that have been widely used or interchanged between computer systems, including the (in)famous “RIGHT ANGLE WITH DOWNWARDS ZIGZAG ARROW” (⍼).

the rich and poor alike are not allowed to sleep under bridges, steal bread, etc. …

one of my favorite recent shows ❤️

given they finally finished their database refactor, maybe they’ll finally start adding some of these

(copium)

their phones do tend to have that already…

e: at least the lower end ones I’ve had