Ashfae

We don’t want war. We want healthcare, a living wage and affordable housing.

It's incredible how thin-skinned people who post gen-ai images are when it comes to criticism. Just heartbroken when people don't praise something they didn't even make! The world's worst Harry Potter fan-artist has more integrity.

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LLMs hallucinate, & they hallucinate WORSE on topics we don't already know/write a lot about. This creates a huge accuracy gap.

This week I tested ChatGPT on Beethoven & Smyth to show how big this gap is & why it matters. It made up a LOT.

leahbroad.substack.com/p/chatgpts-a...

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*Wisdom from the vault. 
This is a scary era we’re in. Take care of yourselves, my friends. Help others when/how you can. Don’t be afraid to ask for help. Find reasons to be joyful and celebrate life.
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Screenshot of a post by Team Talarico quoting James Talarico saying national media never ask him about housing or prescription drug costs, only about trans athletes. He argues billionaires are the real minority harming the country, while trans and undocumented people each make up about 1% of the population. Below is a photo of Talarico speaking on MSNBC with a Texas flag behind him.

This is their whole M.O. right here.

This comes two weeks after the Council of Europe banned conversion therapy.

The right wing and activist press like the nyt have worked hard to promote the false narrative that transphobic policies are sweeping Europe. They were pushing a lie. Europe speaks for itself

Also oh gosh oh gosh it's still so surreal and amazing to remember I've *been there*, it was only a couple hours of touring the set (two maybe?) but it's all still so clear and familiar in my head. Which considering how fogged my brain is says a lot.

AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

ALL OF YOU are marvellous teasing bastards AHHHHHHH!!!!!

Darling Hare anytime you are in Edinburgh I hope you will let me know so I can metaphorically pounce on you. ;)

I'm still betting he's far far away in another country if not on a other continent! But i cant wait to see what's on the other side.

Yup.

*falls over laughing*

You are TERRIBLE EVIL TEASING BASTARDS please know I mean that as a compliment.

I used to live in Falkirk so I've seen enough of it for a lifetime thanks all the same! 🤣 And alas I'm disabled so I'll have to wait until next time you're in Edinburgh. It'll happen! Meanwhile have an excellent tour!

Friendly reminder:

NO ONE needs AI slop and more AI data centres

EVERYBODY needs clean water, affordable energy, and a habitable planet

Come back to Edinburgh!! I missed you during the Fringe and was so disappointed not to see your show!

I genuinely can't tell if those are legit fungi or if this is an anti-pollution post about microplastics because damn but those things look like the plastic tubes kids iron together to make things with these days.

Because Latin is AWESOME (and also gives you a +10 bonus to learning any Romance language)(did I also take Latin? Yes I did)

Good.

No one has ever tried to sell me drugs as hard as people try to sell me on AI.

We estimate the effects of cash transfers on a severe measure of child welfare: maltreatment. To do so, we leverage year-to-year household variation from a universal and unconditional cash transfer, the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD). Using linked individual-level administrative data on PFD payments and child maltreatment referrals, we show that an additional $1,000 to families in the first few months of a child's life reduces the likelihood that a child is referred to Child Protective Services by age three by 2.0 percentage points, or 10 percent, on average. Estimates indicate that additional cash transfers also reduce child mortality.

Researchers looked at the impacts of Alaska's UBI on kids' interactions with Child Protective Services (CPS) and found that a $1,000 boost reduces CPS referrals by age 3 by 10%. Also, fewer children die.

UBI will reduce child abuse + fewer kids will end up in foster care

www.nber.org/papers/w31733

I hesitate to share pinknews because it has a dubious reputation, especially on trans issues, but this is a decent article.

I wouldn't say rage but there's definitely screaming. Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!

Back at you!

ohhh yes I am...!!!

God yes.

18 and 30?

'Why aren't they in the streets' is answered almost every day in my small town by people in the streets! Rather than asking 'why aren't they in the streets' it's worth asking 'why isn't your media showing them in the streets' and 'who is served by downplaying resistane in its myriad forms.'

Chris and I just had our 21st wedding anniversary. Our marriage is legally an adult! (or is that 18 our here? regardless, whoa)