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JW's cautioned against using AI tools

JW corporate location volunteer residents, including world headquarters residents, just received a letter, dated May 11, 2023, notifying them of rules surrounding the use of AI. Corporate location representatives have been asked not to use AI tools to write code that will be used in internal apps. AI is also not to be used to improve articles that are being written for JW literature.
youtube.com/watch?v=wQ6dsdDgqr…
The letter is read about 13 minutes into the video.

Additionally, this article was recently posted on jw.org for the general public to read.
jw.org/en/library/series/more-…

Why do I care? I have family in this organization, including my parents. JW's are usually skeptical when it comes to utilizing new technologies, so the article is not a shock to me. I have no problem with JW leadership teaching their members how to use AI safely. However, I'm worried that the way they speak about AI will cause their members to fear AI tools or shy away from using those tools.

Thank you to my exjw allies on exjw Discord for bringing these items to my attention.


Artificial Intelligence—A Blessing or a Curse?—What Does the Bible Say?

The Bible shows why human efforts often create uncertainty and why we can look to the future with confidence.
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Drew Mochak

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@miki OMG hahaha. "Years after Conan Doyle's death, Levi Edgar Young, a descendant of Brigham Young and a Mormon general authority, alleged that the author had privately apologised, saying that "He [Conan Doyle] said he had been misled by writings of the time about the Church"[6] and had "written a scurrilous book about the Mormons."[7]"

So much fragility! That is really telling. Do not believe for a second that this happened. Just LOL.

@miki
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Amanda Carson

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@objectinspace @miki I'm old enough to remember when JWs forbade the internet. They did this for an incredibly long time. Oh and that weird registry hack they did to enable accessibility in their library, which they refused to put online until relatively recently. Those were some interesting times. Note: Wasn't a JW myself, just new several.
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Amanda Carson

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@objectinspace @miki Yeah there used to be a key you'd have to add under local machine I think and then their application would be reasonably accessible. If you didn't do that, the text displayed pretty weirdly at least for screen readers. Then they added a toggle, but all it did was do the work to add that key for you.
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Rosalín Anne

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@arush @objectinspace @miki They have an iPhone app called JW Library now as well. Edits to publications have become commonplace, which is why they encourage their users to view the electronic copies of their literature. Re: oral sex edits. That's what you'd see in even my members only copy of the tool.
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Rosalín Anne

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@arush @objectinspace @miki Oh yeah. Back in the day, that was pretty much the only accessible access we had to their literature. And like, you need that literature to prepare for leading a bible study or participating in comment-based discussions. Without the literature, you can't participate and are basically seen as just filling a seat and not contributing.
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Amanda Carson

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@objectinspace @miki Yeah and apparently they penalize you for not contributing. That's why I got involved. Because my friend was being penalized by her congregation's elders along with family members. I did it for her but I swear that was the crepiest bit of accessibility related tech support I've done.
@Drew Mochak @miki
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Rosalín Anne

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@arush @objectinspace @miki Oh yeah. That's why I got it working too. So I don't blame you for helping. Of course, now there's an email list where this guy just emails out the study material each week. I'm still on that because me leaving would raise suspicion and cause more questions. It just goes into spam now.
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miki

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@arush @objectinspace I’m mildly curious about what they do for other languages. I know they exist here as an organization, I’ve heard through the grapevine that they supposedly have excellent accessibility of their materials and even provide them in Braille, but I don’t even know anybody, or even of anybody, who would be a blind member outside the US.
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Die geplante Chatkontrolle untergrabe die Vertraulichkeit von Kommunikation, die IT-Sicherheit und widerspreche zudem geltendem EU-Recht. In einer Stellung­nahme geht der Deutsche Anwaltverein mit den Überwachungsplänen hart ins Gericht. netzpolitik.org/2023/deutscher…

Deutscher Anwaltverein: Chatkon­trolle ist ein „massiver Eingriff in die Freiheits­rechte“

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Ihr habt es geschafft!😍
Wer aufmerksam die Statusseite verfolgt, wird mitbekommen haben, dass wir das Fundingziel erreicht haben. Somit werden wir den internen Speicher der Standardausstattung von 128 GB auf 256 GB ohne Zusatzkosten für alle erhöhen.🙂

#shift #shifthappens #shiftphone #shiftphone8 #crowdfunding #community

#community #shifthappens #crowdfunding #shiftphone #shift #shiftphone8

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While I was having a drink on Retro at the weekend, I was approached by a despairing woman asking for support at a counter Posie Parker protest on Sunday 28th in Hyde Park. Apparently numbers last time were distressingly low.

I apologised that I wouldn't be able to make it what with being a visitor, but said I'd spread the word. London queer folks, please go if you can! posieisafascist.com/

NO NAZIS, NO TRANSPHOBES Join us for another event in the park to show visible resistance to the neo-nazis who flock to grifter posie parker meet: Sun 28 May, 11:30 at the 7th of July memorial, Hyde Park, moving to Reformer's Tree bring masks, bring comrades, bring water, bring signs! COME AND JOIN US SUN 28 MAY AND NEXT MONTH TOO

Posie Parker is a Fascist

Hear Posie Parker, in her own words, talk about herself, he views and her neo-nazi following.
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Vas a recoger a tu madre con Alzheimer y dejas el coche mal aparcado. Tu madre está enferma y la única posibilidad de transportarla es en vehículo privado.

Ante eso, llega la policía, HÉROES QUE SE JUEGAN LA VIDA EN CADA SERVICIO, y te pegan una paliza.

OH POLICÍA, GRACIAS POR PROTEGERNOS!!!

PD: Os invito a ver como le dan su merecido a ese peligro señor de la camiseta azul, a todas luces un peligro público.

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 9 updated and 3 added apps:

* Work Tracker: helps you keep a record of your work hours
* zCalc: simple and beautiful calculator
* locus: Share your location end-to-end encrypted on decentralized servers using Nostr

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #fdroid #apps #AndroidAppRain #IzzySoftRepo

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It's been a while since I've taken a photo! This is the Zizkov Tower in Prague, Czech Republic. It's said to be the second ugliest building in the world (second only to the Morris A. Mechanic Theatre in Baltimore). However, living in the area around it, you can't help but love it. It's a symbol that watches over you when you come home from a pub, and sits on the horizon when you're out with your family. Plus, it'll look amazing in 700 years! #photography #prague
Zizkov Tower sitting on the horizon.
#Prague #photography

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Microsoft has released the Windows 11 22H2 'Moment 3' update, bringing many new and long-awaited features to the operating system.

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Microsoft announces Windows 11 ‘Moment 3’ update, here's the new features

Microsoft has released the Windows 11 22H2 'Moment 3' update, bringing many new and long-awaited features to the operating system.
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🦀 I wrote a proposal for an #[export] attribute in #rustlang to allow for *dynamic* linking between Rust crates, without losing memory safety at the linker boundary.

This will make other ABI work aimed at Rust FFI directly usable between Rust crates as well.

github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull…


RFC: `#[export]` (dynamically linked crates) by m-ou-se · Pull Request #3435 · rust-lang/rfcs

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It’s been a long time since we’ve seen a big tech company humbled this badly by a startup. Sundar keeps shipping interviews and op-eds to the press about the dangers of AI instead of product to compete with OpenAI.

The company is cooked.
techmeme.com/230523/p14#a23052…


Building AI responsibly matters more than competition, one company cannot fulfill AI's potential alone, and global cooperation, especially US-EU, will be key

By Sundar Pichai / Financial Times. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Amazon-owned online pharmacy PillPack.com has confirmed a data breach. PillPack said it was due to credential stuffing, where passwords from other breaches are used to break into accounts on other sites — in this case, PillPack.

Here's the kicker.

"The unauthorized person logged into 19,032 accounts in total, and 3,614 of those accounts contained prescription information."

How did Amazon not notice that hackers broke into 19,000 accounts — especially since it allegedly offers MFA?

a portion of the data breach notice by PillPack, which says: "The unauthorized person logged into 19,032 accounts in total, and 3,614 of those accounts contained prescription information."
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Matt Campbell

I find it annoying that we're having to add randomness in more places for security reasons. Another example is DoS-resistant hash tables. It takes us further away from the comfortingly simple idea that computers are deterministic machines that we can fully understand and control. And of course, it's another bit of increasing complexity that keeps the hardware upgrade treadmill going.
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Matt Campbell

I'm aware that the "cranky old curmudgeon" side of me is dominating this morning. I have to remind myself to be eternally optimistic, to keep looking forward to more exciting things we can do with technology, especially assistive technology, rather than looking back to a simpler past. Regardless of whether such an attitude is grounded in reality, it's better for productivity.

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Das #Grundgesetz feiert heute seinen 74. Geburtstag, wir gratulieren recht herzlich!
Statt Blumen verschenken wir in diesem Jahr aber lieber einen gemeinsamen Ausblick auf das nächste Jahr: Wie wäre es, dem Grundgesetz mit einem weiteren Grundrecht frischen Schwung zu verschaffen?
Ein Grundrecht auf analoges Leben böte sich da an, meint Heribert Prantl in seinem Newsletter für die Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Das Grundgesetz verteidigt die freie Entfaltung der Persönlichkeit und stellt alle Menschen vor dem Gesetz gleich. Da würde das dem Grundgesetz doch gut zu Gesicht stehen: Menschen auch davor zu schützen, aus dem öffentlichen Leben ausgegrenzt und benachteiligt zu werden, weil Sie kein Smartphone nutzen oder nicht für jeden Quatsch eine zwielichtige App installieren wollen.

Braucht es noch einen Beleg für den Bedarf eines solchen Grundrechtes?

Voilà: bigbrotherawards.de/2023/deuts…

Ein Stapel von Grundgesetzen liegt auf einer Tischfläche, die nur tiefenunscharf zu erkennen ist. Im Vordergrund sind stilisierte Luftschlangen, Sterne und Dreieecke über das Bild verteilt.

Deutsche Post DHL Group | BigBrotherAwards

Die Deutsche Post DHL Group erhält den BigBrotherAward 2023 in der Kategorie Verbraucherschutz für praktizierten Digitalzwang. Sie will die Kund.innen durch
bigbrotherawards.de
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Gerhard Hallstein

@Michael Vogel Der Feed ist gerade mit 23 Stunden Verspätung bei mir eingetroffen. Da hakte wohl wieder was.

In diesem Zusammenhang möchte ich Dich fragen: Wenn ich die Blog-Feed-URL squeet.me/feed/gerhardsgedanke… abonniere und neue Einträge öffne, werden sie in Gerhard Hallstein geöffnet oder in Gerhards Gedankenbuch? Konnte ich mich verständlich ausdrücken?

@Michael 🇺🇦
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Michael 🇺🇦

Bezüglich der Verzögerung: Das System versucht vorherzusagen, wie häufig es einen Feed abfragen muss. D.h. je aktiver ein Feed ist, desto häufiger wird er abgefragt. Das heißt aber auch, dass ein Feed, der nur alle paar Tage neue Beiträge hat, auch in der Regel nur einmal pro Tag abgefragt wird. Dies wird gemacht, weil es ansonsten das System zu stark belasten würde, wenn es für alle Feeds alle paar Minuten eine Anfrage starten würde.

Zu Deiner Frage: Wo möchtest Du den Feed abonnieren? In einem externen Feed-Reader oder möchtest Du den Feed von Friendica aus abonnieren? Und was meinst Du mit "neue Einträge öffnen"?

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Gerhard Hallstein

@Michael Vogel Das erste hattest Du mir seinerzeit schonmal erklärt, ich hatte die Erklärung allerdings auch nicht mehr im Hinterkopf.

Ich möchte den Feed Gerhards Gedankenbuch in Gerhard Hallstein abonnieren (beide Instanzen in meinem Friendica-Account). Wenn er in Gerhard Hallstein geöffnet wird, soll der Link den entsprechenden Artikel in Gerhards Gedankenbuch öffnen, nicht aber in Gerhard Hallstein.

@Michael 🇺🇦

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I acquired (with help) a killer audio cassette digitizing rig, and then IMMEDIATELY had to spend over 2 months digitizing 90+ cassettes from the 1999 Game Developers Conference (via a slow-and-steady workflow that got the job done without being too disruptive to any other work I was doing).

So, here we are, it's done. Go enjoy 70+ hours of presentations about all aspects of game making and producing, in 1999.

archive.org/details/1999_Game_…

1999 Game Developers Conference Audio : Various : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is an annual conference for video game developers. The event includes an expo, networking events, and awards shows like...
Internet Archive
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Tusky

Transmisogyny

To avoid any possible doubt about this, when Tusky suggests hashtags **it is using your instance's "search" feature** to get the first 10 hashtags that start with whatever you have typed so far.

So those hashtags **are** suggested by that instance.

github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/blob… is the relevant code if you or anyone else needs to verify this.

You can also go to mstdn.ca/, search for "transrightsare" (without logging in) and see the same results.


Tusky/ComposeViewModel.kt at develop · tuskyapp/Tusky

An Android client for the microblogging server Mastodon - Tusky/ComposeViewModel.kt at develop · tuskyapp/Tusky
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Ever heard the term "scratching your own itch"? It means: doing something out of motivation to solve a personal problem. Rafael Lima came across a limitation in #LibreOffice, and helped our community to fix it! Learn more : blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #opensource #qa
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Success story: Fixing a limitation in LibreOffice Calc - The Document Foundation Blog

Ever heard the term “scratching your own itch”? Wiktionary describes it as “doing something out of motivation to solve a personal problem”.
Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
#opensource #libreoffice #qa
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