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cstross,
@cstross@wandering.shop avatar

Not enough people realize that the "Turing Test" as originally presented was "can a gay English man in 1945 tell the difference between a chatbot and a femme-coded woman" over a teletype connection.

(Turing was very gay and had a sex-segregated education and then work life: he basically didn't know women and his alienation is palpable. But today's techbros don't have any such excuse, and the emphasis on femme-coded AI is ... telling.)
https://mastodon.xyz/@pmorinerie/112506480363973206

cstross,
@cstross@wandering.shop avatar

@PChoate You haven't read many Turing biographies, have you, if you think this is worth tooting about as some sort of insight. (The classic is the Andrew Hodges one.)

heiglandreas,
@heiglandreas@phpc.social avatar

@Npars01 @cstross what makes up a "male" or "female" voice?

phrawzty,
@phrawzty@hachyderm.io avatar

I feel like most in-house software is tacitly released under the Hot Potato Licence.

heiglandreas,
@heiglandreas@phpc.social avatar

@phrawzty Now I have to re-read "The Long and Dark Teatime of the Soul"....

"Hot Potato" "Pass it on"...

jeffjarvis,
@jeffjarvis@mastodon.social avatar

Meta’s new AI council is composed entirely of white men https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/22/metas-new-ai-council-is-comprised-entirely-of-white-men/

wcbdata,
@wcbdata@vis.social avatar

@jeffjarvis What could possibly go wrong?

benroyce,
@benroyce@mastodon.social avatar
Daojoan,
@Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar

"Embrace AI or be left behind" is a condescending and heartless ultimatum. A false dichotomy that reeks of debunked social darwinist horse-fuckery.

Tech should adapt to people's needs.

Not the reverse.

xs4me2,
@xs4me2@mastodon.social avatar

@Daojoan

Exactly. Technology is there to serve mankind. Not to provide riches for the few and to enslave the rest. Unacceptable…

bobmorris,
@bobmorris@mastodon.social avatar

@Daojoan Cancel my subscription to their resurrection.

Alice,
@Alice@beige.party avatar

You can try to distract me with a woman wearing a shirt with a boob cutout and not one but TWO bucket hats, but your shoes will always be ugly, skechers.

Neat_hot,
@Neat_hot@beige.party avatar

@Alice As far as I'm concerned, there's only two things you need to know about Sketchers: 1) They are the only company I have found who offered a purple slip-on in my size, and 2) They have discontinued the aforementioned purple slip-on in my size.

the_etrain,
@the_etrain@beige.party avatar

@Alice @NickGates
Is this an internet beef? Are we having beef? Neat!

divya,
@divya@sfba.social avatar

Billionaires can get laws written in just weeks since they get distressed by it. Remember this the next time they say they cannot do anything to address climate change or poverty.

Also, remember this law exists because of the newly minted billionaire Taylor Swift.

https://gizmodo.com/congress-just-made-it-way-harder-to-track-taylor-swift-1851492383

onlybrownmastodon,
@onlybrownmastodon@todon.nl avatar

@divya

Is it okay to repost this, since it's a personal recollection?

Edit: 'repost', meaning to reblog it.

divya,
@divya@sfba.social avatar
davidho,
@davidho@mastodon.world avatar

Lamppost EV chargers are the answer to how you charge your vehicle in cities.

This is possible because when energy intensive street lamps were replaced by LEDs, there’s excess power for charging EVs.

All cities should do this. ⚡️

h/t Robert Llewllyn

kybernetes77,
@kybernetes77@mastodon.world avatar

@davidho LEDs don't need significantly less power per post in inner city lighting (in total however it's a lot). The difference can barely charge an e-bike.

cragsand,
@cragsand@mastodon.social avatar

@davidho This isn't accurate, you do have put down larger wires.

In the city where I live they run 5G10 wiring as a standard which is still generous.
The dimensions aren't limited by the load, but the wire length. The resistance turns the wires into radiators at the lengths used for municipal street lights.

Here are some rough examples:
On a 16A fuse you can manage about 300-500 meters max length
On a 10A fuse about 500-1000 m
This is still only enough to trickle charge a single vehicle.

StillIRise1963,
@StillIRise1963@mastodon.world avatar

It’s clear journalism’s present day mission is both to NOT find out anything important and if they do find out, NOT TO TELL YOU.

kaffiene,
@kaffiene@mastodon.nz avatar

@StillIRise1963 I find Al Jazera pretty good. Certainly get a lot of information through them that TVNZ won't mention - or if they do, it's late, one sided and lacking

StillIRise1963,
@StillIRise1963@mastodon.world avatar

@kaffiene I do too. I was really talking about the U.S.

futurebird,
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

I have a soft spot for Libertarians even though I shouldn't and they don't deserve it. When I was a kid I had a weird neighbor who was always giving me Libertarian books... I wish I still had some of them they were WILD. He was a thorn in the side of the local, school board as well insisting that if they had an event at the school that involved politics Libertarians had to be included.

And in defense of the guy, he was about as likable and earnest as a Libertarian could be.

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futurebird, (edited )
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

@johnmark @salad_bar_breath @richpuchalsky @angst_ridden

I was a Bernie supporter. Like the vast majority I voted for Clinton. How is dredging this up helping? You say "coalition" but that last paragraph isn't about that at all.

Trump was elected by the people who voted for him. We could argue about if Clinton being dismissive and overconfident hurt more than some people being stubborn, but neither was the main issue.

You should stop saying this kind of thing. It's not helping either.

futurebird,
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

@richpuchalsky @johnmark @salad_bar_breath @angst_ridden

I don't find the "anarchists suck" stuff "understandable"

kaia,
@kaia@brotka.st avatar

I urgently need a nerdy gift that can be Amazon-Primed for a 40-something dude who likes Star Wars, Blade, and many other nerdy things :mukiHelp:

fzer0,
@fzer0@nerdculture.de avatar

@kaia

What? No, not lewd at all.

Getdigital.de is a good shopping site for nerdy stuff.
Quality is usually pretty good, not sure about the speed tho.

grillchen,
@grillchen@brotka.st avatar

@kaia star trek collectors edition blue rays

auschwitzmuseum,
@auschwitzmuseum@mastodon.world avatar

A heartbreaking moment that was saved by an SS photographer at Auschwitz II-Birkenau during the deportations of Hungarian Jews. It was taken 80 years ago, most likely in late May 1944. A little child finds a dandelion in the grass and is handing it or showing it to an older boy.
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eliasp,
@eliasp@mastodon.social avatar

@ArneBab that's a phishing SPAM-bot.

Reported & hopefully soon removed!

ArneBab,
@ArneBab@rollenspiel.social avatar

@eliasp Thank you! I reported it, too.

thomas, German
@thomas@metalhead.club avatar

ist ne coole Sache und ich mag das Projekt.

Trotzdem hat es so seine Macken. Und die sind nicht ohne: Beispielsweise fängt die offizielle App beim Musikplayback an, zu stottern. Nämlich dann, wenn sie nicht mehr im Hintergrund läuft.

Das Problem ist bekannt und liegt wohl daran, dass die App in Grunde nur ein Webbrowser ist, der dann von Android schlafen gelegt wird.

Aber trotzdem. Das ist doch eine absolut grundlegende Funktion. Dass das so schlecht funktioniert, frustriert.

thomas,
@thomas@metalhead.club avatar

Und natürlich kann man den Entwicklern nicht wirklich einen Vorwurf machen. Denn die machen das in ihrer Freizeit.

Jetzt überlege ich aber ernsthaft, nicht auf Plex zu wechseln, der Firma 100 € in den Rachen zu werfen und dann etwas zu haben, das hoffentlich besser funktioniert.

Ist das denn so? Dass #Plex besser funktioniert als #Jellyfin? Hat da jemand den direkten Vergleich?

thomas,
@thomas@metalhead.club avatar

Und ja, es gibt noch weitere Apps, die man mit Jellyfin nutzen kann. Sind aber alle mehr Notlösungen und funktionieren auch nicht zuverlässig meiner Erfahrung nach. Das ist sehr sehr unbefriedigend.

Immerhin geht der DLNA Server...

dgar,
@dgar@aus.social avatar

Those who boost my posts are happier, more intelligent and better looking than those who don't according to a study I made up.

dgar,
@dgar@aus.social avatar

@Susan60 😁

ahimsa_pdx,
@ahimsa_pdx@disabled.social avatar

@dgar It's 1000% accurate 😉

MarSolRivas, French
@MarSolRivas@mastodon.online avatar

Si Jeanne Mas n'avait pas écrit "Le rouge et le noir" de Stendhal, jamais Victor Hugo n'aurait eu l'idée des "Fleurs du mal" de Baudelaire ☝️😌

Toi aussi, aide les à acquérir les bonnes bases du 😊

AugierLe42e,
@AugierLe42e@diaspodon.fr avatar

@MarSolRivas C'est logique. Après tout, après la crue, la décrue 😌
@Superspindoctor @Natouille

MarSolRivas,
@MarSolRivas@mastodon.online avatar
ciredutempsEsme, French
@ciredutempsEsme@mamot.fr avatar

Stolen to add the alt :

I'm 4 and 7
I've got a 1, a 8, several 7, multiple 10, and unfortunately a 9 in m'y team

scudery,
@scudery@piaille.fr avatar
toniours,
@toniours@tooter.social avatar

@hemiole @ciredutempsEsme je crois que chaque troskiste se considère comme le dernier 😅

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