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@javier@col.social @mhoye@cosocial.ca Yes: visibility is only part of what makes it slop, reliability is the rest. LLM generated text that reads as though a human wrote it will still contain gross inaccuracies.
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Biologist, humanist, atheist, democratic socialist; anarcho-curious.
Science, art, culture, literature, film, music, poetry, photography, chocolate, beer
If I follow you it's because you said something funny, insightful, or both, and I'm hoping you'll do it again.
Ceterum censeo, Elsevier delenda est.
#OpenScience, #Biotech, #AssayDevelopment, #InVitroDiagnostics, #WorkerOwned, #AntiFascist
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Neurostatus:
self-dx autistic, clinical-dx MDD/GAD
Family Motto:
caseo plus eget
Personal Motto:
Decorum is overrated.
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@inthehands@hachyderm.io Chickenshit bastards.
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@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social What could possibly go wrong?
*facepalm*
*headesk*
RE: https://mstdn.ca/@dbattistella/116840120508755510
Reminder that Bezos is, and the morbidly wealthy very often are, dull witted and incurious.
They think, and they want us to think, that good character and high intelligence underlie their material accumulations, whereas it's mostly luck and the absence of empathy.
We are smarter than them and we are better than them. They are hoarders, sociopaths, and criminals who have become rich by being willing to do things that decent people wouldn't.
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The problem with Jeff Bezos' ideology is that it's based on a false premise. The idea that "6,000 years ago someone invented the plow" is based on a faulty belief that ancient humans functioned as individuals. They did not. Ancient humans were collectivist.
Archeological evidence demonstrates that for hundreds of thousands of years, early humans congregated around communal gathering places, like the fire, and engaged in problem solving and passing on of shared learning down through generations.
Additionally, the plow (and tools like it) were developed by humans in Mesopotamia, Europe, Egypt, East Asia, sub-Saharan Africa as well as other places - not in one place by one person. This is known as parallel development.
Believing that the plow was invented by one 'genius' is like believing language was invented by one person. It is a silly myth and represents the projection of current moral standards onto past events.
Collectivism is how we both survived and progressed as a species.
#HumanEvolution #genius
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@Brad_Rosenheim@climatejustice.social Absolute barbarism. I'm sorry this is happening to you.
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@kayeluvian@the.voiceover.bar Nor should you be, that is comedy gold.
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@Ashedryden@xoxo.zone I also want regular updates on how they're doing in prison... FOR THE REST OF THEIR MISERABLE LIVES.
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@fedops/116928470371480904
This is it, the thing has its name now.
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Grand Theft Autocomplete is my new favorite term for what snakeoil salesmen like to refer to as "ai".
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@TheBreadmonkey I did, indeed, enjoy this nice positive thing very much. Thank you for sharing.
I shall postpone destroying the world for a little longer now.
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@BillMcGuire@mastodon.social Pretty sure that anyone with as much lock picking experience as @alice@lgbtqia.space is also going to be an old hand at evading surveillance. 🙂
The only thing left to celebrate about this nation is the tiny chance that it might get better: remove its idiot King and repudiate the selfish, greedy, patriarchal, white supremacist worldview that put him on his corporatist throne.
Despite everything, I cannot seem to stop believing in that chance. And belief without evidence, or in this case, in the face of gobs of evidence to the contrary -- is faith.
Somehow, I have faith in America.
Happy Fourth of July, motherfuckers.
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@aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au I see things haven't changed much since I left in 2002.
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@Nickiquote@mstdn.social @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party
Shot in the park
And you're to blame
You give birds
A bad name
(I'm so sorry)
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@AinsleyLowbeer@mastodon.social @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party I'm so sorry. I don't know what got into me.
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@farah@beige.party Keeps the powdery stuff off your fingers!
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@senanthic@mstdn.ca Congratulations!
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@mrundkvist@archaeo.social Is there such a thing as a neolithic-scandinavia RPG? You could sit in a giant display case and run it every, say, Tuesday afternoon. Members of the public could play for a few hours in return for a small donation.
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@AinsleyLowbeer@mastodon.social @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party Powerwasher up the bum! Sparkling clean, inside and out!
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@Alice@beige.party @Dennis@beige.party He sure is radiating joy in that photo. 😜
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@reiddragon@fedi.catto.garden @alice@lgbtqia.space Will admit I had this thought, too.
But nobody is gonna snitch and I doubt the people responsible are going to be on the fedi.
And this way, we all get to rejoice in a small but meaningful victory against the forces of enshittification.
RE: @neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org
Straight up fuckin' protection racket. RICO the bastards.
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@octothorpe@mastodon.online Yeah, they clearly are not trying to solve the "robocall problem", or any problem at all -- it's another click on the surveillance culture ratchet.
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@the_etrain ¿Por qué no los dos?
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@Wen@mastodon.scot Restrict your search to luxury vehicles, monstrous SUVs and Teslas. Even the cops will leave you alone to keep doing G-d's work.
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@Alice@beige.party @Dennis@beige.party I totally understand. I myself have Resting Imminent Homicide Face (avatar is actual pic of me smiling radiantly).
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@mrundkvist@archaeo.social And individual human persons held responsible for the things they did, rather than being allowed to hid behind what "the company" did.
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@grb090423@mastodon.social @maxleibman@beige.party
Me three! ❤️
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@mwl@io.mwl.io That's because librarians set them on fire.
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@strange_new_words@tenforward.social @gwcoffey@mastodon.social It was the first of his that I read, because someone had recommended Vonnegut and I thought "start at the beginning". It hit me like a freight train.
This was the first book I'd read that talked about the things that kept me up at night -- and beautifully, too.
By now I'm pretty sure I've read everything he wrote.
There's no way I'm drinking something called "sticky willy water".
Nope, nuh-uh, not happening. *shudder*
The fuck?
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@christianhajer@aleph.land Ah-CHOO! Ah-CHOO! Achoo! Achoo! Aaaahhh-CHOOOOOOO!
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@eyeling@mastodon.art Is friend, just... anxious bitey friend, no snuggling.
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@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party You're welcome.
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@MetalheadDana You and me both. I'm working on being a better human but progress is slow.
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@otte_homan@theblower.au That's not engineering, that's an abomination!
@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party
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@infobeautiful@vis.social Fourteen pounds, or about 6.35 kg.
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@plwt@mstdn.social @mhoye@cosocial.ca Well played!
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@MikeFromLFE@cupoftea.social What, no Creature?
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@ifixcoinops@retro.social Lurpak sounds like something Moomintrolls do at certain phases of the moon.
Boosted by @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/117015445538860011
Just another cog in the oligarch's anti-truth machine. I forget which step of the fascist playbook this is, to undermine the very idea of truth and objectivity and make the State the only source of "trustworthy" information.
Turns out, if you give people fancy toys to do it with, they will carry this step out for you.
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New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles.
This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused
https://www.404media.co/google-earths-new-ai-lets-anyone-fabricate-completely-bullshit-satellite-images/
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@Dennis@beige.party @Alice@beige.party I feel you. The trees in Virginia are planning to kill me even as I type this. The moment I leave my air-conditioned fortress, BLAM! face full of plant jizz. Tree bukkake. A horrible hacking itching twitching snotstorm in the making. I've been mix'n'matching over-the-counter antihistamines like that weird kid in fourth grade did with M&M's.
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@thefathippy@mastodon.world @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party I read that as "you could use a touch-yourself" and, I dunno, a nice wank might help. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Another recession seems almost inevitable at this point. What we *need* is a revolution.
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@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt Oh, booooooo!
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@mhoye@cosocial.ca Terry Pratchett knew but he took the secret with him to the other side.
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@timbray@cosocial.ca "You wanna play rough? Okay. Say hello to my lil' friend!"
Hello little friend!