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GUESS WHO’S BACK?

Altman Returns as CEO

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/22/23967223/sam-altman-returns-ceo-open-ai

with new board (except for Adam d’Angelo, he’s staying)

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/22/sam-altmans-back-heres-whos-on-the-new-openai-board-and-whos-out.html

Satya Nadella said regardless of where Sam is, they’ll be working with him, but didn’t know why Sam Altman was Fired? (2:50)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut9zcpOEGgc&t=5s

Why was he fired in the first place?

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/altman-firing-openai-520a3a8c

He was fundraising in the middle east for a new chip venture to rival Nvidia before being ousted

https://fortune.com/2023/11/19/sam-altman-was-fundraising-for-chip-venture-to-rival-nvidia-before-openai-ouster/

If he was prioritizing that, sounds similar to the reason he was fired from Y Combinator

https://lmg.gg/gHIIS

OpenAI pulls itself back together just in time to be hit with another copyright lawsuit along with Microsoft

https://www.reuters.com/legal/openai-microsoft-hit-with-new-author-copyright-lawsuit-over-ai-training-2023-11-21/

 

GOOGLE’S MANIFESTO

Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024 via the Manifest V3 rollout

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/resuming-the-transition-to-mv3/

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/google-chrome-will-limit-ad-blockers-starting-june-2024/

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening

 

(PL)EXPOSED

Plex’s “Discover Together” has opt-out feature where it tells your friends what you’re watching

https://www.plex.tv/en-ca/blog/discover-together/

https://www.techhive.com/article/2120830/plex-discover-together-news.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/180maoe/plex_crossed_a_line_with_your_week_in_review/

https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/01/plex-becomes-a-social-network-with-public-debut-of-discover-together/

People saw this problem coming

https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/17lg0kf/introducing_discover_together/

people were complaining about Your Week in Review emails even before this

https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/zmlih3/why_am_i_still_receiving_week_in_review_emails/

 

QUICK BITS

 

I SPY

Patient privacy fears as US spy tech firm Palantir wins £330m NHS contract

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/nov/21/patient-privacy-fears-us-spy-tech-firm-palantir-wins-nhs-contract

Questionable human rights record

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/uk-palantir-very-troubling-choice-nhs-contract-given-links-serious-human-rights

Supplies spying technology

https://theintercept.com/2017/02/22/how-peter-thiels-palantir-helped-the-nsa-spy-on-the-whole-world/

LOTR-named companies https://arbesman.net/lotrtech/

 

ROBOT UPRISING

Tesla workers report explosions, concussions, and grisly robot injuries at Texas factory

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/at-teslas-giant-texas-factory-injuries-and-safety-lapses-mount

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/21/23971138/tesla-gigafactory-austin-texas-injury-reports-robot-claw-explosion

Tesla/Electric Cars/Cars Tesla introduces new fee to limit congestion at Superchargers, could reduce congestion even further by attacking patrons who charge over 95% with murderous robots

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/22/23972242/tesla-supercharger-congestion-fee-launches

 

ELETRONIC WATERMARK

Sony Electronics and The Associated Press Complete Testing of Advanced In-Camera Authenticity Technology to Address Growing Concerns Around Fake Imagery

https://pressroom.pixelshift.studio/sony-electronics-and-the-associated-press-complete-testing-of-advanced-in-camera-authenticity-technology-to-address-growing-concerns-around-fake-imagery#image-8fec5537-7a4d-4d85-8309-b69fd7f236c2

More Sources

https://petapixel.com/2023/11/21/sonys-in-camera-authentication-technology-passes-aps-tests/

https://identityweek.net/sony-and-associated-press-complete-testing-of-in-camera-authenticity-technology/

 

ALEXA, PLAY DESPACITO

Amazon lays off Alexa employees as 2010s voice-assistant boom gives way to AI

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3711182/amazon-to-cut-jobs-at-alexa-unit-to-sharpen-focus-on-generative-ai.html

Only some of the many layoffs from this past year

https://fortune.com/2023/11/17/amazon-layoffs-alexa-division-ai-andy-jassy/

Including AGI team?

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-layoffs-memo-hundreds-job-cuts-alexa-agi-team-2023-11

 

I’M FIRIN’ MAH LAZER

NASA Tests Space Laser Communication

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/psyche-mission/nasas-deep-space-optical-comm-demo-sends-receives-first-data/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsKgYmQS-Kw

NASA will launch a Mars mission on Blue Origin’s first New Glenn rocket

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/11/nasa-will-launch-a-mars-mission-on-blue-origins-first-new-glenn-rocket/

 

 

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I'm not sure if anyone caught this in the latest TechLinked video, but at 0:30 in reference to OpenAI's shuffle up:

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...we're mostly back where we started, albeit with an entirely new board with the exception of Adam D'Angelo who will remain to represent the views of the former board and to maintain OpenAI's leadership's all important skinny twink quota. 

For those that are not aware.... a "Twink" is gay slang for a gay man who is usually (but not always) in his late teens to twenties whose traits may include a slim to average physique, a youthful appearance that may belie an older age, having little or no body hair, flamboyancy, and general physical attractiveness.[1]

 

Now, while agree that Adam D'Angelo does infact fit the physical definition of a twink, as far as I'm aware he has not come out as gay.

While I admittedly find this description of D'Angelo a bit funny, it does seem a bit tactless and sophomoric to call a tech executive a twink on a tech news show. It definitely caught me off guard when I heard it. 

 

Regardless, I'm personally looking forward to the description of Sam Houser as the gaming industry's resident otter and Steve Wozniak or Gabe Newell as our big cuddly bear. 

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on a personal quest convincing the general public to return to the glory that is 12" laptops.

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Looking around to find who finds it offensive to be called a twink...
found no one. 

Its fun and a good joke. chill. We are not in the era in the west where that's a problem anymore.

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5 hours ago, starsmine said:

Looking around to find who finds it offensive to be called a twink...
found no one. 

Its fun and a good joke. chill. We are not in the era in the west where that's a problem anymore.

Is it not derogatory anymore? It certainly used to be.

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8 minutes ago, Arika said:

Did it? I don’t think I’ve ever heard of it being a derogatory term.

It's definitely not a slur or inherently derogatory, but it doesn't seem like something you should call someone who isn't opebly gay nor close to you. 

 

Like, if Riley where to call Linus a "little otter bottom", while it would certainly raise some eyebrows, but wouldn't be derogatory presay. It seems odd to call a tech exec. that same thing.

ask me about my homelab

on a personal quest convincing the general public to return to the glory that is 12" laptops.

cheap and easy cable management is my fetish.

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1 hour ago, Blue4130 said:

Is it not derogatory anymore? It certainly used to be.

Gay can be but it’s not used that way commonly anymore by most people, it’s easier to read the tone than in the past. Still should avoid joking with it without knowing your audience 

 

twink historicaly is rare to be found used in a derogatory manner, because you have to know lgbt culture to know the term and at that point you are unlikely to be homophonic.

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1 hour ago, Arika said:

Did it? I don’t think I’ve ever heard of it being a derogatory term.

Middle Canada (Saskatchewan) in early 2000`s is was definitely used by racist homophobic farm Boys in a derogatory way.

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3 hours ago, da na said:

I'm all for twink leadership, that's the #1 quality of a good leader

Are you ready for peak twink?

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11 hours ago, SansVarnic said:

Is there a point of relevance to this? [asking for a friend]

Simply commentary on the lastest LMG video. There isn't a dedicated thread for separate non-LTT videos.

ask me about my homelab

on a personal quest convincing the general public to return to the glory that is 12" laptops.

cheap and easy cable management is my fetish.

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1 hour ago, Skipple said:

Simply commentary on the lastest LMG video. There isn't a dedicated thread for separate non-LTR videos.

Are you offended by the joke?

 With all the Trolls, Try Hards, Noobs and Weirdos around here you'd think i'd find SOMEWHERE to fit in!

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2 hours ago, SimplyChunk said:

Are you offended by the joke?

Not particularly. A bit off color as far as LMG videos go, but I wouldn't say I'm personally offended.

ask me about my homelab

on a personal quest convincing the general public to return to the glory that is 12" laptops.

cheap and easy cable management is my fetish.

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13 hours ago, Blue4130 said:

Middle Canada (Saskatchewan) in early 2000`s is was definitely used by racist homophobic farm Boys in a derogatory way.

i don't actually know how to reply to that, if you're being serious or not.

 

it would be like saying "these 3 people in wagga wagga called me a cumquat, therefore it's now an offensive word"

 

Techncially any word can be used in a derogatory way, but it doesn't mean it IS a derogatory word.

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5 minutes ago, Arika said:

i don't actually know how to reply to that, if you're being serious or not.

 

it would be like saying "these 3 people in wagga wagga called me a cumquat, therefore it's now an offensive word"

 

Techncially any word can be used in a derogatory way, but it doesn't mean it IS a derogatory word.

It's more than 3 people though. When an entire set of population uses it a certain way does it become derogetory? At what level of use does the intent change?

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1 minute ago, Blue4130 said:

When an entire set of population

racist, homophobic farm boys from Saskatchewan is an "entire set of a population"?

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1 minute ago, Arika said:

racist, homophobic farm boys from Saskatchewan is an "entire set of a population"?

Have you been to Saskatchewan? They do make up the vast majority of people here, yes.

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1 minute ago, Blue4130 said:

Have you been to Saskatchewan? They do make up the vast majority of people here, yes.

that is one hell of a generalization, actual """racist, homophobic farm boys""" are/were the majority of the population? and all of them (or at least a large majority of them) use/d twink as a derogatory term?....

 

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6 hours ago, Skipple said:

Simply commentary on the lastest LMG video. There isn't a dedicated thread for separate non-LTT videos.

there is for news

 

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