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PSA: If you missed the debunking, the recent story about the alleged Swiss DDoS attack using 3 million connected toothbrushes is funny but made up. #InternetOfThings #IoT

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@Rasmus Fuhse Yes, but while it is easy to sue individual drivers in human-caused accidents, how do you deal with robot-caused accidents? Who’s responsible, the owner of the autonomous vehicle who may or may not be inside the vehicle at the time, who may be an individual or a company with a legal department able to stave off lawsuits? Or the car manufacturer who actually made the software but published an End User Licence Agreement that they aren’t liable for accidents?

Car insurance companies have a pretty good model of human behavior, but with robots, I’m assuming all bets are off, including for human drivers who may end up having the worst time establishing who should pay for the damage if they are a victim of robot road rage.

I believe autonomous vehicles should be on rails to ensure safety and linked together for increased efficiency. It turns out it already exists!

My problem with #AI isn’t that it’s a new medium that would somehow threaten the existing ones, like printed books, radio, cinema, television, video games, social media and live streaming did before.

No, my problem is that it’s exactly the same mediums we’re used to, churning an endless stream of a cultural average, reifying it in the process, all the while infringing copyright on an industrial scale and guzzling energy and water like there’s no tomorrow.

It’s the exact opposite of a new medium that grants a new creative freedom and rewards trailblazing artists, instead flattening entire aesthetics genres into their most pleasing surface-level aspect thanks to the absence of creative effort to produce facsimiles at scale.

Like in role-playing video games where not picking a side makes you miss a lot of content, I feel like my personal aversion to commit to any cult (religion, mysticism, economic theories, technology, pseudoscience, conspiracy theories, etc...) is making me miss out on a lot of IRL content.

#RolePlayingGames #VideoGames

@A Sweet Gentleman Thanks, everything people have said so far in this thread seem to point to the same idea that nobody can make them change their mind about it, and it probably wouldn’t matter anyway.

It’s time to channel my inner Ice Queen.

@Sophie Jane @Sean Tilley This conversation is one of the rare public forays I've made about a transition that started back in 2017, so I've definitely been careful about what I've been implying.

It's now been long enough that I think I have a pretty good picture of what changes were probably related to HRT, and which were unrelated. It definitely isn't my intention to imply that HRT makes anyone bad or dangerous.

My experience with #USPS has been abysmal since the turn of the year. I don't mind longer delivery times than usual, it's customary around Christmas, but I have had a few packages just vanish from the tracking system in just a couple weeks, when it had only happened once in the previous 3 years I've extensively used their shipping services both inbound and outbound for my LEGO hobby.

I don't know what to do about it, i could switch to UPS for outbound shipping but it would be more expensive and I wouldn't have any guarantee it would be more reliable anyway, on top of lining the pockets of another private behemoth.

Wake up babe , new gender dropped

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