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Dhmspector

@Dhmspector@mastodon.social

Software Engineer & Writer in DevPubs @  • A #NewYorker in SF • ex-Wall St’er • Foodie • #Coffee roaster • #Maker • W2DHM • Opinions are mine, not my employer’s • Born at 318.43 ppm

Pro-tip: “LLMs generate statistically plausible responses to prompts, not factual answers to questions.”
Outside of my day job, I’m thinking about #FoodInsecurity, #ClimateChange, and #cities. I experiment with #hydroponics, #UrbanAgriculture, and #SensorNetworks to try and create more #ResilientCommunities.

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Dhmspector, to random
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Tell me again how there’s no difference between the parties…

Donald Trumps unhinged rant on Memorial Day calling people he disagrees with “human scum.”

lauren, to random
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I've received a note from a follower commenting (complaining?) that he has a vast collection of identical Leela photos from my various posts. I want to be very clear about this. It is technically impossible to have too many photos of Leela. So it is written. So it shall be done.

(Leela made me send this.)

Dhmspector,
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@lauren exactly what one would expect Leela to write. How do we know this isn’t really just the cat?

kims, to random
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I am convinced that the effective altruists are a more dangerous cult than the fundies. These poor kids...

"The Collinses are atheists; they believe in science and data, studies and research. Their pronatalism is born from the hyper-rational effective altruism movement [...] which uses utilitarian principles and cool-headed logic to determine what is best for life on Earth."

And this is their cool-headed science" to justify hitting a 2-yr-old across the face

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/25/american-pronatalists-malcolm-and-simone-collins

Dhmspector,
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@kims it’s just a rebranded eugenics cult with a modern technobabble wrapper.

Dhmspector, to random
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I’ve been in this business, writing software professionally, since I started my first software business at 16 in high school an an Apple ][. That’s 45 fucking years. It would never occur to me to steal other people’s code, let alone their likenesses, voices, or art.

Just eject these thieving “AI” companies into the sun. These people, and the VCs that fund them, are a cancer on the software industry.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/technology/ai-voice-clone-lawsuit.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tE0.1KUx.2vYNvYuSXMmW&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Dhmspector,
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@ai6yr yup …and these very same people/companies demand copyright, trademark, and patent protection for the new derivative works they create with the intellectual property they steal from others.

Dhmspector,
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@Hika right? Of course this is more entitled techbro BS. You or I did this at even the smallest scale and we’d get a “friendly” visit from the FBI.

Dhmspector,
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@nf3xn only applies to members of the writer’s guild. SAGAFTRA has a different deal. IIRC there was no agreement for anything these companies claim they are doing for “research” — which btw is what OpenAI and most of these AI companies claim about their entire ingestion of the scrapable public Internet as well as all of millions of copyrighted works they’ve trained their models on.

ai6yr, to random

Southern Florida once again has "EXTREME" Heat Risk today 5/18/24.

Extreme - This level of rare and/or long-duration extreme heat with little to no overnight relief affects anyone without effective cooling and/or adequate hydration. Impacts likely in most health systems, heat-sensitive industries and infrastructure.

https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/heatrisk/

Dhmspector,
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@ai6yr @researchbuzz

See also, the opening events of The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson.

tubetime, to random
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i've gotten nerd sniped into helping fix the IBM 729 tape drive at the Computer History Museum...

Dhmspector,
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@tubetime was this the IBM equiv of DEC’s FlipChip modules?

Dhmspector, to random
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At last! An interview with MTG where we finally find out why she is what she is.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6l2wK0xsfP/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Dhmspector, to random
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“Just when you think you’ve scraped the bottom of the barrel, you find you’ve barely scratched the surface.”
— Steve Post

The stupid really is just bottomless. https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112452421062607595

Dhmspector, to random
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And thus the futile and ultimately fools errand that is “AGI” is exposed…

https://apple.news/Ak8hDr7jRQkCJIAmaUjtH0w

Dhmspector, to SF
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Hard to see any evidence of the in , but the sky sure is clear and sure is pretty tonight.

Dhmspector,
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@Artemis201 yep.. 7second, hand held. In the middle of SF the light pollution is… dreadful.

Dhmspector, to random
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Defending Democracy wasn’t a partisan act for the hundreds of thousands of Americans who gave their lives doing it — from the founding of the nation until this very day — but defending the form of government that grants the very freedom of the press that makes his job possible isn’t good enough for the New York Times editor Joe Kahn.

https://presswatchers.org/2024/05/new-york-times-editor-joe-kahn-says-defending-democracy-is-a-partisan-act-and-he-wont-do-it/

lovelylovely, to random
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Are we surprised? she was always an awful mother"kellyanne XXX

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Dhmspector,
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@lovelylovely if true, she should be on a sex offender registry like all the other GOPers who traffic in children. Amazing how that story got buried.

jeffjarvis, to random
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Disagree with @semaforben"s setup for his interview with Joe Kahn. We who criticize The Times don't want it to help Biden win. We want it to fully report on what is at stake with the rise of fascism in the US and to report fairly on Biden.

Dhmspector,
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@jeffjarvis @semaforben because, as usual, the modern press corps is so in love with money, power, and access they’ll do anything to cuddle up to the right. They reek of the desperation of guys who just want to be loved by the bullies they know despise them.

lovelylovely, to random
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GREED-FLATION.

Dhmspector,
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@lovelylovely what bums me out is that the media didn’t need to make up the frankly terribly uncreative neologism “greedflation” when we’ve had two very good legal terms for what’s going on here that describe exactly what these BS shenanigans are…

Price gouging and Profiteering

Dhmspector, to random
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Man, ! Is such a classic. You could never make it today.

Dhmspector, to H5N1
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Well, this is heating up disturbingly fast… #h5n1 #avianflu
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/concerning-spread-of-bird-flu-from-cows-to-cats-suspected-in-texas/

Dhmspector, to random
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TBH, if Zeynep Tufekci is alarmed, we should all be alarmed.

Related: seems like a great weekend to start re-reading Stephen King’s The Stand. (IYKYK)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/opinion/bird-flu-cow-outbreak.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nk0.V6Wg.8PG32ePeKG7a&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Dhmspector,
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Well, on the bright side, the housing crisis will certainly be over if H5N1 jumps to humans and spreads. There’ll be a lot of available housing … pretty much anywhere you want. Just pick a place and move in.

Dhmspector,
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@ai6yr next time, I’m pretty sure no one will be clearing out houses. Lots of available, pre-furnished, ready to occupy dwellings. If you don’t like the decor, move next door! Or go grab furniture from another available house. 💀🪦

Dhmspector, to random
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Oh, cool, another VC fueled flash fad. “Audio note based” social networks.

Seriously? I guess this is the only thing left to try In the social networking space?

Maybe these VC weasels could get back to the 1970s/80s mode of actually, you know, investing in and actually growing companies. Where they were in it for 5-10 yrs and not just to flip it an Ian PO like HGTV stars turn foreclosed crack houses?

https://apple.news/ApyfqwF5bQvu-JcPhQ7t4XQ

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@icanzilb probably not. They’re good at keeping lots of scams spinning at once….

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