PostmodernPythia

Yes, but none of that applies to a South African born in South Africa to South African parents.

As someone who has extensive personal experience with severe mental illness, I appreciate very much your desire to defend us (your instinct would usually be right), but psychopathy is a weird one. If the previous commenter had said “mental illness” instead of psychopathy specifically, I’d be pissed. But there is evidence that psychopaths advance in business management. I realize it’s not exactly JAMA, but here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephaniesarkis/2019/10/27/senior-executives-are-more-likely-to-be-psychopaths/?sh=24aa505d47c4

Some search engines and social media platforms make at least half-assed efforts to prevent or add warnings to this stuff, because anorexia in particular has a very high mortality rate, and age of onset tends to be young. The people advocating AI models be altered to prevent this say the same about other tech. It’s not techphobia to want to try to reduce the chances of teenagers developing what is often a terminal illness, and AI programmers have the same responsibility on that as everyone else,

Yeah. Not being legally required to abandon principles in favor of short-term profits for shareholders is tight.

“Data” is a mighty broad category to be “driving” anything.

Also, there’s not a large, well-funded far-left movement in the US fighting to radicalize people.

People hate exercise, too. Not doing it will shorten their lives, but they hate it.

Child sexual abuse

They can open a pdf, or their Legislative Assistants can. That stuff is performative, making sure we don’t expect them to regulate huge corporations because they’re so incompetent. This is the stuff they’re interested in regulating, so they do.

The key is defining terms like “false” and “violent.”

Thanks. Might give it a shot. Don’t usually track my reading, but if I do, I won’t be feeding that data directly to one of the Frightful Five.

If the library gambit fails, some states/cities have departments of aging that might have resources. If you can’t get free help, you/they/someone could post/flyer at their local community college for CS majors who would like to help older people with tech. If you can’t get free help, that might be the best skill-to-cost ratio.

Thanks. I spent the last 6 years working in public libraries. 😉

ETA: Some services may be informal, so be sure to call as well as checking the web.

I’m so glad that people with the time, skills, and resources can do that.

Now, what about everyone else?

Really? Elon Musk and his followers make you cringe more than silly wordplay by people frustrated with their lack of power to change the system? Well, that’s one way to order your priorities.

Disabling blocking is announcing that your platform is a haven for right-wing cishet white guys who want to harass people. Seems like a good way to drive everyone else off your platform.

I strongly suggest getting them to check out their local library. Library staff often have knowledge and practice working with older people who may have skills deficits. Even if there aren’t formal classes, often, someone will be willing to help. Sometimes, branches have a dedicated tech staffer. That can spread the workload out a bit, and allow them to have someone local to help, as well.

ChatGPT writes my cover letter first drafts for me. It’s pretty good. I fix the draft, obviously, add things, restructure, but it’s way better at boilerplate corporate newspeak than me. Haven’t tried Bard yet, though.

Yep. The difference is emotional, not material. Zuck, like most billionaires, seems happy to sleep on his pile of Scrooge McDuck money and fuck people over. Muskrat does all that, but he asks something more of us than our money and our lives. He wants, maybe even needs, us to love and respect him while he does it. And that sets rage-fires in the brain-parts.

“Look, I made a pigeon-rat.”