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"No, no! Listen! Don't listen to me! Listen!"

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kiplet, to random
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ICE delenda est.

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Maple scones for breakfast, then I gotta set up the dough for the buns for turkey burgers tonight…

kiplet, to random
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To be clear, the thing the students are doing that must be stopped with overwhelming force is not pitch tents, or chant, or drum. The thing the students are doing that must be stopped with overwhelming force is to demand the end to a genocide that those in power over them are complicit in.

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This article is one enormous [citation needed]

> “I’m more optimistic because we have been using the tool a lot, and some of the insights we’re starting to get from a scientific standpoint are things that none of our scientists were aware of,” he added.

Moderna CEO says AI will help scientists understand ‘most diseases’ in 3 to 5 years | Semafor
https://www.semafor.com/article/04/18/2024/moderna-ceo-says-ai-will-help-understand-most-diseases-in-3-to-5-years

kiplet,
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@trochee It is true that generative AI spins up a whole lot of things that scientists were never aware of before.

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"It matters, because if people genuinely believe that the UK only grew and developed into an advanced economy because of exploitation and oppression, then the solutions they will devise will make our growth and productivity problem even worse."

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kiplet,
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@trochee There's a STORY. Let me finish typing it in this other window.

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So I was prepping a slide deck for a presentation on pitfalls and possible uses of generative AI in the legal profession, and everyone thought it would be fun to have AI art for a presentation on AI, so I was playing with one of those things.

kiplet,
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And I thought, while I was there, let's see what it can do with whatever traces of myself might linger in the training data. Turns out, not much: lots of images of generically big-eyed weeaboo female protagonists earnestly surrounded by roses in some nameless city—

kiplet,
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—the only real difference being that Jo was mostly wearing bolero hats (?), whereas Ysabel was bare-headed, or tastefully draped in a hood (and always blonde).

kiplet,
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But! So. The image above, then, came as a genuine surprise, a one-off strikingly different in that otherwise slick sea, and I couldn't help but find the attempt at text quite charming. —So.

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@trochee I mean, it's a little story. Mostly about how the genuine delight of the unexpected can still be found in grey goo.

kiplet, to random
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It's not just what's been done. It's what will be countenanced, later, soon enough, in doomed attempts to justify, to deal with, to avoid ever thinking about what's been done.

kiplet, to random
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Because there is both “all ready” and “already” does not, under any circumstances, mean that there is an “alright” as well as “all right.”

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Every now and then I remember that Sucker Punch was sincerely intended as a feminist statement.

kiplet, to random
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(I'm wondering what all the people who didn't know it was from Dune thought "Walk without rhythm, and you won't attract the worm" was supposed to mean or be from.)

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"Well, I don't like your revelations. I don't think you intuit well at all."

kiplet, to random
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"Unhyphenated American." —I mean, marking the unmarked out of some grasping envy of the passing approval some other marks have somehow accrued is wildly missing the point of this system you've set up to your benefit, but y'all do you, I guess.

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Counterargument: the real reason software productivity metrics are widely disliked and considered to be not useful is because they're used to measure developers, not their managers or leaders.

We all like to talk about outliers but on average, a bugs is a bug. On average, the average engineering team is average.

The engineering team is where you can measure the work, but the responsibility and accountability for making sure that work is productive and meaningful belongs to leadership.

kiplet,
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@trochee @mhoye "Well if the productivity happens over there, why are you measuring it here, under the streetlamp?" asks the cop, bemused.

"Well, the light's better, innit!" shouts the drunk.

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"...a key fear appears to have been that incorporation would provide a method for incompetent volunteers to remain in positions of authority or for various cliques to exercise out-sized influence."

kiplet, to random
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Every time I see the terms "hard magic" or "hard fantasy" something of my hope for the future withers and dies.

kiplet, to random
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"She added that Meta will work continually to refine its definition over time."

kiplet, to random
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Motherfuckers out here still going on about the woeful baleful misuse of that precise legal term, "genocide." The only possible argument left that it isn't is that they aren't done yet.

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