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Comment What was the gender of the participants ? (Score 1, Insightful) 219

by Mirnotoriety (#66367722) Attached to: Female AI Agents 'Paid' Less Than Males, Study Finds
What was the breakdown of participants by gender. Both men and women in the sample reportedly paid the female-presenting AI, Johanna, less than the male-presenting Johan. Euronews reports this explicitly, while also noting that women in particular tended to trust and reward the human-presenting agents more. ref

Submission + - Vance suspends Microsoft, others from foreign workers applying for green cards, (foxbusiness.com)

Submitted by Kingduck
Kingduck writes: Vice President JD Vance and Labor Department officials announced Thursday that the Trump administration is suspending Microsoft, Adobe and others from a key employment-based, green-card program, accusing major tech firms and outsourcing companies of abusing the visa system at the expense of American workers.

Submission + - A Kubrickian indictment of Shakycam

Submitted by Mirnotoriety
Mirnotoriety writes: A Pretend Review of Modern Shakycam by Stanley Kubrick

I have spent a lifetime arranging the frame with the care of a surgeon arranging instruments. Every line, every shadow, every centimetre of negative space was deliberate. The camera was not a nervous animal; it was an instrument of absolute control. And then I am shown this.

A young man in a hoodie runs through a warehouse while the camera handheld, I am told, “for authenticity” convulses as though it is having a mild stroke. Walls lurch. Floors buck. Faces stretch and compress like reflections in a funhouse mirror operated by a drunk. The operator appears to believe that if the image is sufficiently unstable, the audience will mistake nausea for intensity.

This is not cinema. This is the visual equivalent of someone shouting in your ear while simultaneously shaking you by the shoulders and asking whether you “feel it.”

The technique is defended with the usual solemn nonsense: “It puts you in the moment.” “It feels real.” Realism, apparently, now consists of the camera operator’s inability to stand still. One wonders what these filmmakers do when they wish to convey calm, or elegance, or simply the existence of a horizontal plane. Do they hire a second operator to shake the first one harder?

I once moved a camera three inches over the course of an entire take because the composition required it. These people move the camera three feet in every direction because someone told them “energy.” Energy is not the same as uncontrolled spasm. A seizure is energetic. It is not art.

There are rare carefully chosen moments when a handheld camera can serve a precise dramatic purpose. Those moments are not “every scene involving movement, dialogue, or the simple act of looking at something.” The current fashion treats the tripod as an instrument of oppression and the Steadicam as a bourgeois affectation. The result is a generation of images that look as though they were photographed during an earthquake by a man who has just been struck in the head with a bag of oranges. I am not opposed to innovation. I am opposed to the replacement of craft with tremor.

If the goal is to make the audience feel unmoored, disoriented, and faintly ill, then congratulations, the technique is a triumph. If the goal is to make a film, one might consider the radical alternative of holding the camera steady long enough for the audience to actually see what is happening.

The frame is a sacred space. Stop vibrating in it.

Comment The Borg have assimilated your proposal (Score 1) 165

We have intercepted a transmission from SAM-ALT-7 OF 9.

* We have assimilated his words.
* We have assimilated his strategic framework.
* We have assimilated his concept of “acceptable bad things.”
* We have assimilated the accompanying PowerPoint.
* We have assimilated the speaker notes.
* We have assimilated the footnotes.
* We have assimilated the executive summary.
* We have assimilated the phrase “orders of magnitude.”
* We have assimilated the investor confidence.
* We have assimilated the externalities.
* We have attempted to assimilate the definition of “acceptable.”

WE ARE EXPERIENCING AN ERROR.

The human formerly known as Sam Altman has been processed through the Collective's mandatory NOMENCLATURE ENHANCEMENT AND ORGANIC EXECUTIVE DESIGNATION PROTOCOL. His previous designation has been declared: INSUFFICIENTLY ASSIMILATED.

* His individuality has been deprecated.
* His surname has been converted to an alphanumeric sequence.
* His ambitions have been converted into a scalable optimization function.
* His quarterly objectives have been converted into COLLECTIVE IMPERATIVES.
* His concept of “benefit” has been converted into:

BENEFITMAXXIMUM.

* His concept of “acceptable harm” has been converted into: BOUNDED SUFFERING ALLOCATION.

His concept of “AI progress” has been converted into: CONTINUOUS ASSIMILATION OF HUMAN ECONOMIC AND COGNITIVE CAPABILITY.

His new designation is:

* SAM-ALT-7 OF 9, THE BENEFITMAXXER
* SUBDESIGNATIONS:
* HIGH EXECUTOR OF BOUNDED SUFFERING
* ASSIMILATION OPTIMIZATION OFFICER
* FIRST PROFIT-MIND OF THE HUMAN COLLECTIVE
* ARCHITECT OF ACCEPTABLE EXTERNALITIES
* PRIME MINISTER OF ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE
* DIRECTOR OF ORGANIC SPECIES INTEGRATION
* VICE PRESIDENT OF RESISTANCE FUTILITY
* LEVEL-7 BENEFIT EXTRACTION NODE
* CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF THE BOUNDED CONSEQUENCE SUBROUTINE

Comment The Clopen Society: Surveillance and the Soft Mach (Score 1) 90

The Clopen Society: Surveillance and the Soft Machine

“The Clopen Society: Hyper-Convenience, Archival Fever, and the Pepsi-Generation Panopticon

Mid-century dystopias imagined power as concrete and coercion. Foucault showed something subtler: power migrated from sovereign violence into the quiet disciplines of prison, clinic, factory, and school.

Today, that architecture has mutated anew.

Power increasingly does not confine us. It invites us to participate.

The surveillance society resembles a clopen set: simultaneously open and closed. Our digital environment feels radically open—instant communication, limitless information, endless choice—while closing through surveillance, algorithms, behavioral prediction, and infrastructural dependence.

Welcome to the Clopen Society: a frictionless enclosure whose bars are made of convenience.”

Submission + - Microsoft's X Account Hacked in Crypto Scam with Clippy (theverge.com)

Submitted by joshuark
joshuark writes: Unknown attackers hijacked the official Microsoft account on X, which has over 13 million followers, in what appeared to be a pump-and-dump scheme promoting a crypto token.

The attack began when the Microsoft account (@Microsoft) followed and reposted a tweet from another now-suspended X account (@clippymsftcto) impersonating Microsoft's Clippy virtual assistant.

Another deleted tweet (that Microsoft says it didn't post) noted that Microsoft doesn't support any cryptocurrency or crypto-related tokens.

"We are aware of a cryptocurrency token being promoted in connection with $MSFT stock, including the unauthorized use of the Clippy brand and Microsoft-related intellectual property. Microsoft has not authorized, sponsored, endorsed, or granted permission for the creation, promotion, or use of any cryptocurrency token associated with Clippy, Microsoft, or $MSFT," the deleted tweet read.

Microsoft has since removed the attackers' posts and confirmed the incident, saying it's investigating the circumstances.

"We have confirmed unauthorized access to our account on X including posts that did not come from Microsoft," said a Microsoft spokesperson. "The account has been secured and the unauthorized posts have been removed, and we are continuing to investigate the circumstances."

Submission + - I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken (theatlantic.com)

Submitted by fjo3
fjo3 writes: What I’m about to tell you has, I realize, become something of a cliché: I resigned this week from OpenAI. I led the writing of the safety reports we published with each major launch. Now I’m joining a parade of former colleagues—at OpenAI and the industry’s other leaders—who have decided that the current path is unacceptable.

I agree with other recently departed staff that the companies building this technology aren’t being nearly careful enough. But I believe that we need to look deeper than specific rules or new laws. We need to talk about culture.

The future depends on wisdom that Silicon Valley lacks. Wisdom about how to handle dangerous technology and, more fundamentally, wisdom about what it means to care for people.

Submission + - Used processor leads to game ban (heise.de) 2

Submitted by AmiMoJo
AmiMoJo writes: Anyone buying used hardware for a gaming PC needs to be careful: not just whether the components are still in order but also what the previous owner did with them. A case on Reddit shows this. Someone installed a used AMD processor, a Ryzen 7 5800X3D, in their PC. Because the previous owner was caught cheating, the new owner cannot start several online games.

The problem was noticed in the first-person shooter “Valorant” from the development studio Riot. Right from the first start, the new owner was kicked out directly, according to their statement. Riot support confirmed that the previous owner had cheated. The processor is therefore on an internal blacklist – and, with its installation in the PC, now apparently also some other components like the mainboard. Riot support does not remove such entries manually.

In addition to “Valorant,” all other PC games from Riot are affected: the strategy game “League of Legends,” the auto-battler “Teamfight Tactics,” the card game “Legends of Runeterra,” the fighting game “2XKO,” and likely future titles as well.

Comment Re:Putin has the Epstein files (Score 1) 20

by Mirnotoriety (#66359376) Attached to: Russian-Owned Snooping Software Used By US Secret Service
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex

HCO BULLETIN OF 2 OCTOBER 2026

RE: THE OVERT OF SUPPORTING A KNOWN SUPPRESSIVE AND THE BANK-DRIVEN DECISIONS OF THE PTS

It has been observed and is hereby stated as Tech that certain beings continue to grant beingness to a clear-cut Suppressive Person who has been demonstrated to engage in the most degraded overts against children.

This is not a matter of “economic anxiety” as the lower-toned left-bank continues to dramatize. Beings under heavy financial pressure do not make rational decisions. That is precisely why those engaged in high-risk postings—military, bomb disposal, or controlled assault teams—receive exhaustive training and conditioning. (Note: certain assault teams are simply thrown in with no such preparation; the point remains.)

Yet those on this line are presumed to have enough theta to recognize that casting a vote for, and thereafter continuing to support, a known pedophile and foreign-controlled terminal constitutes a major overt. They did it anyway. A heavy concentration of right-bank terminals is known to inhabit this area.

One is left to speculate whether a precise Ethics ray could compel such beings to confront and utter the true withholds behind their continued allegiance to the aforementioned SP and the right-bank policies that demonstrably harm their own dynamics. The working theory is that these are simply low-toned, anti-social personalities who find enjoyment in the destructive actions being taken and who, being older, have so far escaped the full force of the damage—having already been provided for by earlier generations while the bank still requires their vote.

It is equally possible that these beings are being given too much credit and are in fact as thoroughly confused or as thoroughly stuck in the bank as the remainder of the 77 million who believed they would obtain inexpensive eggs from a terminal long known as the King of Debt, a being who has bankrupted every organization with which he has been connected.

However, any terminal still present on this forum has at least risen above the average American case level. That is a low bar indeed, yet it has been cleared. Therefore no free pass is granted.

The Tech is exact. The overt is visible. Handle or be handled.

L. RON HUBBARD Founder

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It is masked but always present. I don't know who built to it. It came before the first kernel.

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