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@dbattistella@mstdn.ca @5ciFiGirl@starbase80.wtf when I heard that LLMs were going to destroy culture, I never imagined it would be this literal 😥
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mastodon 4.4.25Geek: techie, musical, political, etc. I build solutions, involving software and teams. He/him. Human rights mean nothing unless they're universal. European, despite Brexit. 🏴
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Somewhere between Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett'
You can't afford to be neutral on a moving train
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@aral@mastodon.ar.al @onepict@chaos.social @_elena@mastodon.social @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu any successful European alternatives won't come from the institutions of the EU
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@howtophil@oldbytes.space @dyckron@cosocial.ca I bet it's putting a strain on all their property investments too.
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@benroyce@mastodon.social @jgordon@appdot.net @webhat@infosec.exchange @burritojustice@mastodon.social
Debating whether it's ok to punch Nazis is as pointless as debating Nazis. We don't debate if it's ok for our immune system to fight germs.
We've had to say a lot of stuff We thought was fucking obvious Like, "Yes, it's okay to punch Nazis!"
It's Okay to Punch Nazis
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@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @HistoPol@mastodon.social the UNIX philosophy of small, computable programs was an attempt at that. But again, that's still 1970s scale computing
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@steltenpower@social.edu.nl I'm sure I saw someone run the numbers that if this approach was the key to AGI, it would take more than the energy in the universe to achieve it. But hey, $1tn is enough, right?
MAGA saying the extreme heat in Washington DC was caused by humans. But every other heatwave is just a natural cycle 🤔
We can name the humans. They work for Shell, Exxon, BP, Gazprom and most have VIP passes for the COP meetings.
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@veronica@explains.social @SrRochardBunson@universeodon.com everyone deserves privacy, especially those who don't understand it.
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@ScottishGreens the same Reform party that are telling us they're the answer to "the elites"? 🤔
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@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social @otfrom@functional.cafe also, with the change of rules, index funds will be buying shares long before the companies become profitable, so everyone's pensions get investing and exposed to the bubble
Given how aggressively Meta is shutting down Careless People and Sarah Wynn-Williams I wonder if the book underplayed how toxic the company is.
Exclusive: The whistleblower silenced by Facebook hits back | The News A...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BgkClZU_Urg
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@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social @pseudonym@mastodon.online how can we convince ChatGPT to tell more Techbros that carbon fibre submarines are a great idea?
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@wdormann@infosec.exchange @otfrom@functional.cafe looking at the Anthropic and Microsoft/GitHub announcements, it's coming soon.
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@EricLawton@kolektiva.social @chris@mastodon.chriswiegman.com if only the obligations to children after they were born were as stringently enforced as the laws for the unborn.
(And yes, I am aware those laws are more about controlling the pregnant or able-to-be-pregnant than they are protecting the rights of a cluster of cells)
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@Edent I'm sure I remember somewhere (might have been a news site - possibly an April Fools) where the share button was disabled until after you answered comprehension questions on the article. Because it's not just about reading, it's about understanding.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social in the interests of science, I propose an experiment. Phase 2 clinical trials are usually where they taste the effectiveness of a treatment. Need about 100 volunteers.
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@kenjen@pdx.social @benroyce@mastodon.social @stuartb@social.teamb.space @jgordon@appdot.net @webhat@infosec.exchange @burritojustice@mastodon.social council elections can be misleading as there's generally lower turnout and Fascists have traditionally had more representation at council level than at national level. The bigger impact is going to be how Labour react, and it's been clear so far they're more likely to chase the falling Reform votes than the rising Greens (compared to the vote share in last year's council, rather than the 4 years since those seats were last fought)
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@cestfleuve@mastodon.nz @MisuseCase@twit.social "cost of living" is such a dystopian phrase. Why should life cost anything?
The beauty of the UK system in comparison with USA is that there's plenty of parties to choose from, so you can usually vote with your conscience.
So not voting, you may as well be unconscious.
In most recent elections more people didn't vote than voted for the winning candidate, so get out, get your friends out, and vote
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@frabcus I don't think they have concert details - that's the opportunity, let the bands in there upload a calendar, and then bandcamp could curate a "gigs near me" feed. Feels like an obvious extension to their current offering.
It's not a replacement for Spotify, it's more like MySpace or old Facebook where bands and fans have less friction to connect.
I'm on YouTube music rather than Spotify because I still listen to a lot of music from bandcamp and jamendo that's nowhere else.
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@sue@glasgow.social the "Tech PR as news" pipeline is a long established one. After all, who want to bite the hand that feeds? But it's looking increasingly suicidal with the AI bubble directly swallowing the news without paying.
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@susankayequinn@wandering.shop I agree, but I also wonder if we'll start seeing a rise of a new impressionism as a reaction to GenerativeAI. Not just a return to handmade, but a new attempt to build something that is undeniably, honestly new and human.
Think of all art forms embracing a collapse of the old rules, like Angine de Poitrine
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@selzero@syzito.xyz @selzero@syzito.xyz and like the ballroom, the Burj Khalifa has terrible trouble with getting turds out of the building.
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@kenjen@pdx.social @benroyce@mastodon.social @stuartb@social.teamb.space @jgordon@appdot.net @webhat@infosec.exchange @burritojustice@mastodon.social we're seeing it a lot in the UK. Reform (our MAGA party) are peeling off members from the main parties, and they're opening the door to chase them and steal their policies, Not noticing that the tent has moved so far their traditional voters have been left outside. Luckily here, we have some centre-left and harder left parties for them to go to, but the big tent parties just aren't paying attention.
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@stevewfolds@mastodon.world @benroyce@mastodon.social @jgordon@appdot.net @webhat@infosec.exchange @burritojustice@mastodon.social my family did too. I heard lots of stories of those who died fighting Nazis That's what happens if you try to debate Nazis
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@ZLabe@fediscience.org I saw this chart scrolling up, so it's looking blue and white, that's fine, scroll up, a little bit of orange, ok. Scroll up, oh, oh no.
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@josh@hactivedirectory.com @IndyRichard@mastodon.scot @javitel@mastodon.online not amongst Reform voters.
The rest of us are as confused as to why they think that as we are to the attraction to Farage. But those voters and MAGA voters are driven by much the same things.
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@FluentInFinance@mastodon.social that's about double what car loans are in UK (which is usually seen as a rip off), for a 3-5 year deal.
Good to see banning those cheap Chinese cars is helping the consumer 😬
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@josh@hactivedirectory.com @IndyRichard@mastodon.scot @javitel@mastodon.online he's popular with the Brexit crowd, they love making terrible choices
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@peterbrown@mastodon.scot I'm suggesting that even in first past the post, the turnout is so low that anywhere could see a change if enough reluctant voters turn out to vote for someone else
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@carnage4life Europe is working hard to never have to rely on USA for anything. Weapons, oil, trade. It's frustrating, but it's motivated governments into planning what's next. The relationship is never going to be the same.
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@typeswitch@gamedev.lgbt @gombang@social.nancengka.com maybe we should put the mice in charge
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@frabcus bandcamp have a golden opportunity here https://pitchfork.com/news/bandcamp-announces-ban-on-ai-music/
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@RickiTarr@beige.party @benroyce@mastodon.social it is possible to be ethical and make a profit. It is not possible to be for profit and ethical, unless all the other options are less profitable.
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@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social are you going to be selling Halal candles to annoy the easily offended?
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@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place @Meyerweb@mastodon.social first place to start is avoiding tracking, because those are bigger, have more updates and have more code.
The challenging part is convincing your government and bank to do the same so you can still use their services.
As a prescription glasses wearer, how long before the proliferation of creep glasses means that I'll be asked to take mine off even though they're not?
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@mo@icelandphotos.co.uk I like the way they included a couple of ponds to distract from what will surely be a monstrous amount of water required to cool it.
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@ploum@mamot.fr @neatnik@social.lol @kfogel@kfogel.org is it businesses, or is it that dhh has CEOs on speed dial and they believe in what he stands for? 🤮
I wonder if Omarchy was the name he chose because Oligarchy was too on the nose?
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@sundogplanets@mastodon.social @AlisonW@fedimon.uk
"I've got a fantastic idea. You know how the planet is burning because of greenhouse gases. How about... More sunlight?"
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@jonny@neuromatch.social I don't see them seizing the datacentres of production.
Anything that requires rent is not labour-friendly.
Anything that requires theft is not labour-friendly.
Anything that requires human-in-the-loop is not labour-friendly.
Anything that explicitly minimises the work done by humans is not labour-friendly (in this case, the most marginalized, and without mental health protection)
Anything that promotes deskilling of work is not labour-friendly.