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LLS, 5 hours ago to random

During a 36h migraine, I drafted a short story with monsters and killing. The muse was with me. If these headaches persist, I’ll have a themed anthology in no time, though if these headaches persist, no time will feel like a million years and shit’s gonna get dark.

arstechnica, 14 hours ago to random

Using vague language about scientific facts misleads readers

Using subjective phrasing like "scientists believe" makes facts seem like opinions.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/using-vague-language-about-scientific-facts-misleads-readers/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

LLS, 3 days ago to random

this had me in stitches

a what to call this? a celebration? a tease? a loving tribute? a shitpost chock full of brainworms from Gideon the Ninth (with maybe some very small spoilers, though you wouldn’t know it if you haven’t read it)

https://youtu.be/f315N619OKY

LLS, 4 days ago to random

Forget Skynet.

Slopnet will be the end of us — not with nukes and cyborgs but with slop, injecting AI slop into every service, operation, utility, everything we rely on. Nobody will notice until municipal grids fail, planes fall from the sky, food supplies dwindle, summers extend year-round, and billions die.

Then the slop-meister trillionaires will gather in their mountain bunker retreat, pop the last bottles of champagne, and toast to their victory over human diversity and compassion.

LLS, 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago) to random

We used to search for answers.

Now we’re supposed to slop — and slop not even for answers, just enough slopped-up bullshit to bury the question.

#AI #slop

btschumy, 4 days ago to mecfs

After a week of feeling crappy, my ME/CFS wasn’t too bad today. However, I decided to take a nap just to recharge my batteries. When I awoke my dizziness and brain fog was much, much worse. It’s almost like my brain didn’t completely wake up and I’m permanentliy groggy. This ever happen to others of you with #mecfs?

@mecfs

cssbasics, 4 days ago to CSS

Handling The Indentation of a Treeview Component: "In a nutshell, the problem is to build a UI that contains nested components with an increasing indentation for each one. The problem is common on the web, but I will highlight the ones from Github, Figma, Adobe and more." #CSS https://ishadeed.com/article/tree-view-css-indent/

irafcummings, 4 days ago to random

Does anybody have a Substack alternative that doesn't support Nazis?

LLS, 5 days ago to random

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me: goes back to TBR pile

LLS, 6 days ago to random

if you want to radicalize yourself, look up Project 2025

StillIRise1963, 6 days ago to random

Elon should implant Neuralink into the brain worm hole of Bobby Kennedy.

LLS, 7 days ago to random

too much light pollution to see the aurora and Paramount+ is streaming shows as “live” so you can’t shuttle back and forth

no luxury in dystopia tonight

evan, 7 days ago (edited 6 days ago) to random

How often do you carry a water bottle?

#EvanPoll #poll

carnage4life, 7 days ago to random

Apple execs tried ChatGPT last year and came to the conclusion Siri is antiquated.

A functional digital assistant that can actually understand conversations and complete tasks would be a good reason for users to buy Android devices instead of iPhones. So they’ve panicked.

They also plan to tout on-device AI as more private than cloud-based AI. The question is if it will be as useful? 🤔

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/business/apple-siri-ai-chatgpt.html?unlocked_article_code=1.q00.IV5N.67nNsQJiprKV&smid=url-share

arstechnica, 7 days ago to random

Report: ChatGPT search engine could be announced as early as next week

OpenAI's announcement would be the day before Google's annual I/O show.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/report-chatgpt-search-engine-could-be-announced-as-early-as-next-week/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

thomasfuchs, 7 days ago to random

There's people arguing that the Apple Crush! ad is "neat" and "fun".

It's literally showing the wanton destruction of things we love and make us human. Including shots that makes you identify with the things as a viewer.

I don't understand what's wrong with people. Do they not have emotions?

KathyReid, 8 days ago to stackoverflow

Like many other technologists, I gave my time and expertise for free to #StackOverflow because the content was licensed CC-BY-SA - meaning that it was a public good. It brought me joy to help people figure out why their #ASR code wasn't working, or assist with a #CUDA bug.

Now that a deal has been struck with #OpenAI to scrape all the questions and answers in Stack Overflow, to train #GenerativeAI models, like #LLMs, without attribution to authors (as required under the CC-BY-SA license under which Stack Overflow content is licensed), to be sold back to us (the SA clause requires derivative works to be shared under the same license), I have issued a Data Deletion request to Stack Overflow to disassociate my username from my Stack Overflow username, and am closing my account, just like I did with Reddit, Inc.

https://policies.stackoverflow.co/data-request/

The data I helped create is going to be bundled in an #LLM and sold back to me.

In a single move, Stack Overflow has alienated its community - which is also its main source of competitive advantage, in exchange for token lucre.

Stack Exchange, Stack Overflow's former instantiation, used to fulfill a psychological contract - help others out when you can, for the expectation that others may in turn assist you in the future. Now it's not an exchange, it's #enshittification.

Programmers now join artists and copywriters, whose works have been snaffled up to create #GenAI solutions.

The silver lining I see is that once OpenAI creates LLMs that generate code - like Microsoft has done with Copilot on GitHub - where will they go to get help with the bugs that the generative AI models introduce, particularly, given the recent GitClear report, of the "downward pressure on code quality" caused by these tools?

While this is just one more example of #enshittification, it's also a salient lesson for #DevRel folks - if your community is your source of advantage, don't upset them.

thomasfuchs, 8 days ago to random

Gonna enjoy a bananum for breakfast

LLS, 9 days ago to random

“While it’s true that SCOTUS is not bound by ethics rules, we can all be reassured that every other judge and magistrate in the federal court system is held to a code of ethics where even the appearance of impropriety must be avoided.”

…stolen top secret documents case is postponed indefinitely by judge because reasons…

“There’s nothing anyone can do.”

LLS, 9 days ago to random

We can’t stop fascism because it would be impolite

damonism, 9 days ago to random

It occurs to me that you’d only use AI to write for you if you believe you’re not good at writing, and if you’re not good at writing you have no way of discerning if the AI is wrting well for you, and in the process you’ll never get any better at writing yourself.