Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
FTC Admits Age Verification Violates Children’s Privacy Law, Decides To Just Ignore That
We've been pointing out the fundamental contradiction at the heart of mandatory age verification laws for years now. To verify someone's age online, you have to collect personal data from them. If that someone…
i'm taking a brave stance that may get me canceled: there is no reason for the pervert glasses to exist
I want to do a "King in Yellow" style anthology of short stories for my world, as a way to put guardrails on the magic.
Unfortunately I think I need to finish the first novel before I can actually dig into how that anthology will happen, because short stories work differently.
Fame gets tiring very quickly (even at my *extremely* low level experience of it). Money on the other hand rarely gets old.
At the point where I want to spend a month referring to most current-trend tech (genAI, prediction markets, etc) with satanic-panic style language, just to see what happens.
The only thing stopping me is the knowledge of what it would do to my youtube recommendations.
I'm blown away by how fucking stupid this is
My favorite thing about Jack Dorsey how every iteration of his look is different genre of college campus drug dealer
“People with disabilities were most likely, in the Probe survey, to believe nearly every aspect of the transit system is worse.”
This has been the experience of Project SEARCH students dependent on Public Transit to get to/from their placements.
Downtown is just harder to plug in to.
#Winnipeg
Seconded by an old SEO head.
Never build your home on rented land. Having your own website is NOT expensive and is very worthwhile.
NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.
This guy gets it.
Healing magic but limited to some very specific purposes. This is one area of 'common' fantasy magic I've been hesitant to even allow, because of plot.
Like all regulated magics, it's tied to a set of semiprecious stones. In this case, greens with inclusions, like malachite and fluorite.
"So he was attacked by a mob?"
"Er, no he was arrested by the police"
"But it was a moral panic based on outlandish smears?"
"Er, no, there's evidence that he abused his office and shared confidential information."
"So why is this bad?"
"Um… woke?"
A manga panel of Ashley from Chainsaw Man. She has a confused look on her face as she says in a speech bubble "it's magic, bitch. I ain't gonna explain shit."
"Okay, but how does your magic system work?"
Me:
"Clicktatorship" is fucking phenomenal.
Post from twitter on our @clarkesworld account from 11:48AM on Feb 20, 2023. "Submissions are currently closed. It shouldn't be hard to guess why."
Today is the 3rd slopiversary of us having to temporarily close submissions. The problem of "AI"-generated submissions hasn't gone away and is still a huge waste of our time. House policy remains the same: #noAI stories, translation, art, or anything else.
As I've noted before (but is worth noting again!), I have it as a contract point that cover art has to be done by humans. One, because it solves many issues involving copyright and licensing and assures a unique cover. Two, PAY ACTUAL HUMANS FOR ACTUAL HUMAN ART, it's really just that simple.
notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich
Wor, blog post be upon ye.
I have thoughts about the way we talk about our hobbies, access to creativity, and second order burdens.
www.ianmrountree.com/blog-article...
There are a lot of free speech absolutists but not enough human rights absolutists imo
Grev badly wants to pass through the world unnoticed - doing his own thing, quietly.
Unfortunately, being who he is, that just keeps failing to be an option.
photograph from the 80's of the wrestler Sting wearing a Gold's Gym shirt and sunglasses, leaning against a shelf in a bookstore and positively cheesing at an open copy of The Far Side Gallery 2, a collection of Far Side Cartoons.
what if i told you, through the power of forensic analysis, we are closer than ever to knowing the exact Far Side cartoon that is making Sting smile in this iconic photo. 🧵 👇
Wor, blog post be upon ye.
I have thoughts about the way we talk about our hobbies, access to creativity, and second order burdens.
www.ianmrountree.com/blog-article...
PS C:\git>git morg --continvoucly
This HAS BEEN a problem for years, with jobs requiring online applications, with media requiring support structures to access.
It's not new, but the push should be making these issues more visible, and it's not happening. That's deeply worrying to me.
GenAI's a carrot we buy our own stick for.
In food security, we're very careful about accepting or disbursing items that place a burden on the recipient. Like Mac'n'Cheese (shelf stable) requiring milk and butter (perishable).
Try not to give someone a charitable gift that places an added burden on them to use, when avoidable.
Think about the level of consumer behaviour required just to access GenAI in the first place.
A computer/phone, an internet connection, a normative use and understanding of language, a perception of conformal limits close enough that the model will accept your writing.
My adolescence can be precisely described by the fact that I learned to touch-type by hanging out in a busy X-Files chat room on CompuServe where I had to break typing speed records to get my deep and insightful comments in before the conversation moved on
