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Matthew Sheffield

๐Ÿงต The unique danger of fascism is that its irrationality cannot be defeated rationally.

Fact checks and policy comparisons are useless because accuracy and sound thinking are secondary goods to most people

Matthew Sheffield

Fascism is pure emotional negativity so to argue against it or to call the great leader fascist to someone who is in the thrall of fascism sounds like complete nonsense to them. It's as rational as proving a negative.

Most people are not able to process that argument. Which is why a positive message of what you or your candidate will do is more effective.

You cannot be more negative than Trump. But he cannot be more positive.

Matthew Sheffield

No surprise: More than half of the main RFK political action committee's revenue came from a Trump mega donor. Kennedy is a Republican stooge. politico.com/news/2023/07/31/r

Matthew Sheffield

Elon Musk is so stupid that he's unintentionally forwarding a troll who sent him the X Window System logo that's been around since 1984 as if it were new thing made for him.

#linux #freebsd

A still from an Elon Musk video tweet promoting an "X" logo which he believes to be new.
The logo of the X Window System, the venerable Unix graphical library system which has been around since 1984
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Anders Gulden Olstad

@mattsheffield He's in deep shit now. SCO lawyers will call him on Monday

kierkegaank

@mattsheffield his lawyers will make us say he invented it soon enough

Matthew Sheffield

I forgot to tag @XOrgFoundation. Hopefully you guys won't have to sue for such blatant trademark infringement.

Matthew Sheffield

Thread: #AI and the rest of us

This is a summary of the two most recent episodes of my podcast Theory of Change which look at how artificial intelligence will impact regular people, and how to use it for own benefit.

As @simon notes, AI has problems, but it can also be useful for ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ.

flux.community/matthew-sheffie

Matthew Sheffield

Big business & govt are already using AI for their purposes, and the rest of us can figure out how we can as well.

We're at a very important moment for early adopters of large language model technologies. Most people and organizations haven't figured out what AI can do for them. They've got enormous flaws.

But nonetheless, they are very, very useful to those who know their capabilities and limitations.

Matthew Sheffield

Oh my.

@Mediaite conservative writer Isaac Schorr misread the Twitter account @joinmastodon as "John Mastodon," and said that the open source social media software was named after this imaginary person. mediaite.com/opinion/hypocrisy

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deepfriedwater

@mattsheffield this place just hasn't been the same since John Mastodon's been removed ๐Ÿ˜”

Nate

@mattsheffield 100% weโ€™re seeing our first journalist-meets-ChatGPT fail.

Dick Wall

@mattsheffield just imagine if someone incited a violent insurrection via Twitter that ended in an actual loss of life and an attack on a government building. That account should definitely be banned.... Hey, wait a minute...

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