Trying to make things that vaguely resemble games (and the tech to make them work). Recently released corpo/ghost as @InterleavedSys
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Arvīds Kokins retweeted
"Speculative data center debt is being repackaged and sold to pension and retirement funds, university endowments, and other institutional investors in a manner eerily reminiscent of the subprime bubble."
ourfinancialsecurity.org/res…
Arvīds Kokins retweeted
Freezers should probably not be connected to the internet.
I'm afraid we'll soon conclude that nothing should be connected to the internet.
Cyberattack on French supermarkers. Someone remotely took over refrigeration controllers and made them to defrost. Target temperature set to 50°C. Staff opening freezers in the morning were hit by a wave of hot air. Millions of euros lost. France spent years debating food sovereignty to depend on a firmware update? bfmtv.com/economie/consommat…
Arvīds Kokins retweeted
Game studios are already signaling having to shut down their games due to the EU #KidsAct!
Sign #StopKillingInternet to keep our private servers safe from being illegal, and to keep age verification away from our games!: eci.ec.europa.eu/066/public/
If this proposal passes as written, it is the end of SuperTuxKart in the EU — and possibly the end of the project.
We need to be serious for a moment.
We cannot "block the EU market." We cannot prevent private servers. The code is GPL. Anyone can run one.
That is not a loophole — it is the entire point of open source.
We could not detect EU players on VPNs without tracking our players. We will not track our players. Not for Brussels, not for anyone.
A law written for tech giants is about to outlaw free and open source software made with love.
Arvīds Kokins retweeted
Jesus fucking Christ
If you live in the EU and love videogames, please sign the petition here
eci.ec.europa.eu/066/public/
It takes like 2 minutes and it might help not live in an even worse shithole that we're already in
We just can't catch a break, can we?
The EU Kids Act is nightmare fuel, if you look beneath the honorable surface claim of "protecting kids online". The breakdown: youtube.com/watch?v=mQRcK9nY…
#StopKillingGames #StopKillingTheInternet
Arvīds Kokins retweeted
Connecticut’s latest privacy law, which bans companies’ sales of individuals’ precise location and the use of shoppers’ data to personalize prices, kicks in Thursday as industry attempts to block it persist. news.bloomberglaw.com/privac…
Arvīds Kokins retweeted
You've heard of AI-hallucinated cases and quotes.
Now try hallucinated witnesses and testimony from them!
From New Mexico, here's an order where a lawyer admitted ChatGPT wrote the briefs; made up cases, people, and testimony; and he didn't check any of it.
Arvīds Kokins retweeted
Ten days y'all then we get the unsealed order but this is HUGE. It's not generative AI specifically but it's about copyright and training and the affirmative defense based on fair use and had 6+ amicus briefs so IT WAS IMPORTANT. This was the first paragraph of Thomson Reuters brief. 1/2
Bam! For those who have tried to falsely suggest courts have determined AI training is covered by fair use, not only do we have Judge Chhabria disagreeing in a motion to dismiss, we now have Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence upheld by the third circuit. reuters.com/business/media-t…
Arvīds Kokins retweeted
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for 'Musk' (Exclusive) hollywoodreporter.com/busine…
Arvīds Kokins retweeted
american: I lost all my money on the unregulated limitless gambling website
american government: that's not fair. you should be able to lose more money than that
Arvīds Kokins retweeted
Here is a Microsoft executive appearing to admit that AI training is massive theft.
Arvīds Kokins retweeted
For years we've been screaming from the mountain tops about how insanely dangerous mandatory ID verification is.
Now that half the country is doxxed, it would be a good time to take note of the politicians who didn't listen.
Arvīds Kokins retweeted
AI advice makes people 3× less accurate and 2× more confident at the same time.
Our new paper is receiving a lot of attention, perhaps not surprisingly, given how dramatic the results are.
If you have not read the article yet, here’s a brief summary:
When people receive AI advice:
- Judgment suspension (“I don’t know” answers) collapses from 44% to 3%.
- Accuracy falls by a factor of three, from 27% to 9%.
- Confidence skyrockets from 30/100 to 76/100.
Adding monetary incentives for accuracy helps somewhat:
- People become a bit more cautious and are more likely to override bad AI advice.
- But judgment suspension and accuracy remain dramatically below the baseline.
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Full paper in the first reply
Arvīds Kokins retweeted
Flock takes their privacy very seriously.
But the ethical gray area in surveillance technology works both ways.
Under no circumstances should elected officials or public servants enjoy an expectation of privacy when spending tax dollars to attend a surveillance lobbying event.
Arvīds Kokins retweeted
“The emperor is a fan of Flock, and we must continue utilizing Flock technologies so that we can follow and surveil the rebel scum,"
Arvīds Kokins retweeted
Every college syllabus should include these graphs.
Use AI for homework, you will get it done faster and get a higher grade, and then get crushed on the exam.
Arvīds Kokins retweeted
New exploit: “xor dword [0xf80c2094], 1<<22”
Unlocks CPU microcode, the platform security processor, system management mode, and every internal processor register, all at once, on 100 million AMD CPUs. As far as I can tell can’t be fixed.
github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/skit…
Arvīds Kokins retweeted
In one California town, Flock misread license plates in 71% of the time.
Out of a sample of 1,427 alerts that Flock sent to police in the town of Roseville, alerts that flagged vehicles as stolen or used in a felony after they passed one of the city's Flock cameras, 71% were inaccurate.
One man's car was misidentified by Flock six times.
businessinsider.com/flock-ca…
Arvīds Kokins retweeted
breaking: Wikimedia Foundation says it will not voluntarily recognize its workers union, instead insisting on an election held under Trump's NLRB. Wiki Foundation execs dodged this question at its massive conference last week.
404media.co/wikimedia-waits-…
