@talldarknweirdo
Durham NC. I Hack the Planet for a living, designing open source scientific instruments. The rest the time I'm an arts and crafts weirdo. Obsessions include Music, Scale modeling, Printmaking, Stained Glass, Handweaving, Sculpting, that sort of thing...
This.
If they told users that using a traditional payment method jeopardized anonymity in the sign up process, they may have not had data to hand over, and their peepees wouldn't have been so hurt by someone reporting on it.
They could've addressed that. But instead we get the "fake news" defense.
"you need to learn how to use gAI or you'll get left behind!"
counterpoint!
the absolute fastest way to render yourself unemployable is to build your skillset around a tool that does your thinking for you, that everyone has access to, and that one company can change or take away at any time
my thoughts on ai broadly can be distilled to my observance that many are not built or conditioned to consider the chain of impacts by their actions. i see people litter all of the time. parents still smack their children. these are short-term individual conveniences with long-term societal harms
Yes. The "bad code works fine" AI apologia reminds me of the absolute blizzard of garbage HTML that DreamWeaver used to spit out back in the day, and many who adopted it only to discover sooner or later that they didn't really know web development- just Dreamweaver. They all had to start over.
When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946.
In 2007, the US president was born in 1946.
In 2017, the US president was born in 1946.
And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.
uld you support or oppose abolishing ICE? (%) Somewhat or strongly supportNot sureSomewhat or strongly oppose U.S. adult citizens 39 Party ID Democrats 14 Independents 35 Republicans 68
Per The Economist/YouGov, half of Americans support ABOLISHING ICE.
Literally, "abolishing."
yougov.com/en-us/articl...
I suppose in times like these one of the advantages of an Anarchist education is you're basically against all the regimes. You don't have to pick.
The "operation %s %s" formulation has always been unserious and cringeworthy, but this one might take the cake for being most like a small boy would name something after playing too much Call of Duty.
People making up fresh jargon for things we already have serviceable English words for is such a reliable red flag.
An absurdly large gridfinity baseplate
A tool chest drawer filled by o oy two absurdly large gridfinity baseplates
New tool chests is definitely one of those occasions when having a large format printer seems less absurd.
stop calling us nazis just because we are invalidating IDs and rounding people up based on their skin color and putting them in concentration camps and sending them off to foreign gulags and using all that nazi imagery and banning books and dont forget about all the pedophilia. so just stop alright
Am I...back in the 90s? I'm glad I saw this before deciding where my journalism money was going this year, because that's some deeply embarrassing bullshit.
I think you've identified it. He's for whatever gets him speaking spots and praise.
I love how Doctorow, fond of industrial strength scoldsmanship like "the increasing awareness of the environmental and human cost of intensive manufacturing has started to give factory goods a whiff of blood and death." is now gonna tell us you can pick up the LLM turd from the clean end.
A github screenshot showing a repo with the message "a user you've blocked has previous contributed to this repository"
PSA: If you block the `claude` user on GitHub, you'll get a warning every time you view a repo with that user in its commit history.
This allows you to, the moment you look at a repo, immediately adjust your expectations.
You may do so here: https://github.com/settings/blocked_users
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Surely they could just put a bunch of ideas into a training set and have it use those to create lots of new ideas? /s
Well, that's certainly fucking around. Finding out seems like only a matter of time...
Feels good to be printmaking, and damn I love a blind emboss.
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Cable management is self care.
I feel like tattoo removal would have been cheaper.
I collect AI metaphors because it’s such a good way to open my AI literacy class and this is such an interesting one!
A large part of the problem is this site is overall absolutely allergic to fun. I make a political post & it gets attention. I post about something fun, like music or a weird thing I see out and about and it's crickets because we must Always Be Paying Attention to the Horrors™️ or we go to hell.
Pro level trolling to co-opt a Proud Boys meme now that the proverbial tide has turned. A+
Nothing like praising AI surveillance at a press conference for an unsolved case of a missing person disappearing under millions of dollars of AI surveillance.
PSA: I'm learning to make electronic music, because I've always wanted to, and it's hard but also rewarding and if there are creative things you want to learn to do, you can do that, and it's way more fun than commissioning a shitty AI to make tepid pastiche for you.
I updated when the update came up, and it was a total non event. People act like the sky is falling whenever Apple change anything.
