CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@ProPublica To paraphrase Sean Connery in The Untouchables: "This administration stinks like a whorehouse at low tide." 🤬

@MaryAustinBooks The only Latin phrase I know and employ often is "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur" which means "Everything sounds more profound in Latin."

@randahl As I understand it, China has been using social scores for at least a decade now to punish its citizens when they use for what passes as social media there whenever they show resistance to the party line - e.g. restricting them from travel by limiting access to payment kiosks or other services.

LLMs may not be the direct tool governments would use, but there's plenty of surveillance techniques that would work perfectly

@benfulton @randahl I'm actually using that short story in my upcoming keynote address in a few weeks. It's a Susan Calvin gem!