tnafziger.bsky.social
Mennonite writer, organizer, photographer & facilitator in Ventura watershed / Chumash land in California. Newsletter here: http://eepurl.com/gN5UTP
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Yes, it’s pretty grim. If I am reading the Watch Duty app right, most beach front homes as far west as Las Flores Canyon road may have been destroyed.
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It’s all about the wind. We are in the midst of southern California’s most intense windstorm since 2011. The weather service says they will continue at least through Wednesday at 6 pm PT and some sources say through Thursday at 6 pm PT.
Also: it should not be this bone dry in January. (2/2)
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Thanks for highlighting this dangerous work. Californians for Pesticide Reform (CPR) has done important work documenting “separate but unequal” standards for farm worker exposure to pesticides like 1,3-dichloropropene by California state regulators: www.pesticidereform.org/farmworker-c...
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... I was becoming sensitized to the problems with surveillance, the problems with this mass-scale approach, the platform approach—where poison salts the earth for any other competitor—and the problem with that concentrated power." Source: www.wired.com/story/meredi... (6/6)
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...Those are exactly the affordances that have accrued to the early platform companies that have built out their social media networks, built out their data centers. With artificial intelligence, we’re basically relaundering a lot of this shit through broken models that are giving Google... (5/6)
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...So that animated a lot of my concerns around AI. What was new to ignite this AI boom right then? It was the presence of massive amounts of data—training data and input data—and powerful computational chips, the more of them strung together, the better. Now, what are those? (4/6)
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...So I’m like, “Wait, what is machine learning? Oh, so you’re taking trashy data that you claim represents human sentiments... and you’re putting that into some statistical model, and then you’re calling that intelligence?” I was like, “Wait, no, you can’t do that.”... (3/6)
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...that basically brought a bunch of ingredients together and ignited the current AI moment after a long winter. What it showed is that with massive amounts of data and powerful computational chips, you could make old algorithmic techniques... do new and impressive things.... (2/6)