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GhostOnTheHalfShell

@GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai

opinionated lurker of the intarwebs.

Used to write code, still do. c/c++, java, php, js, c#, gdscript, gnawed on sql, sparql, unix/windows etc etc billions of years ago.

tech, graphics, anything STEM
anything anthropology, history, linguistics
anything blender, gimp (although i scream using it), audacity
prefers not to be run over by cars

I drink Philz.

I do a (non-monetized) video or so a week on yt.

Tyranny and poverty are everywhere a mainstream economics phenomenon.

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ricci, to random
@ricci@discuss.systems avatar

At last, some information from Google that students can really use!

clive, to random
@clive@saturation.social avatar

If you haven't seen it yet, go check out @ernie's new search engine ...

... which automatically appends "&udm=14" to the end of your search query ...

... thereby triggering Google to give you your results with no AI answer at the top, and (for me, anyway) no ads

It's like google from 2004 or something

https://udm14.com

JoeUchill, to random
@JoeUchill@mastodon.social avatar

Can I use gasoline to cook spaghetti faster?

dlakelan, to socialism
@dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org avatar

So, every other subthread is someone talking this and that with very poor commonality of definitions. So here's one to try on for size:

Capitalism: a system of economics in which the state determines through threat of violence a special group of people who have exclusive say in how capital goods are used.

That covers for example both the USA, and USSR pretty well. any other capitalist countries we'd like to discuss?

Migueldeicaza, to random
@Migueldeicaza@mastodon.social avatar

I am a:
⚪️ man
⚪️ woman
🔘 bear

looking for a:
⚪️ man
⚪️ woman
🔘 1/8 cup of non-toxic glue to add to the sauce to give it more tackiness

MissingThePt, to random
@MissingThePt@mastodon.social avatar

Dear Google AI, if I wanted to read complete nonsense I’d just skim through my own posts.

w7voa, to random
@w7voa@journa.host avatar

Tesla vehicle in Full-Self Driving mode appeared to fail to detect a moving train and stop on its own, leading to a chaotic accident.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/tesla-owner-says-cars-self-driving-mode-fsd-train-crash-video-rcna153345

jsrailton, to google
@jsrailton@mastodon.social avatar

Regular user: I want to feel safe and private.

Google: cool, anyways here's an AI that listens to your calls.

Microsoft: word, how about an AI that takes screenshots of everything you do?

peterdutoit, to climate
@peterdutoit@mastodon.green avatar

I don’t think any of us really understand how quickly collapse can happen:

> About 85% of the country expected to see highs of at least 40°C
> Almost 40% of the country’s dams below 20%
> 40% are between 20 and 50%.
> Mexico City (Population 22.51 million) forced to reduce water supply as reservoirs that feed city dry up.
> Stores running out of mineral water.

https://apnews.com/article/mexico-heatwave-drought-protests-monkey-deaths-6310778f139ef786a8c70301fb340bd5

#ClimateCrisis #Heatwaves #Mexico

StillIRise1963, to random
@StillIRise1963@mastodon.world avatar

When Black people tell you to be scared, you really need to listen.

technicaltundra, to random
@technicaltundra@mastodon.social avatar

I mentioned walls of moss, but I am tragically unable to choose just one picture worth my delight at this short but intensely mossy path. You can breathe the green just looking at the pictures.

Same as the first image, but taken further along the path
Same as the other pictures, but taken further along the path

rebeccawatson, to random
@rebeccawatson@mstdn.social avatar

I hate how whenever US liberals defend immigrants they have to say how hard working they are. I just want it to be known that I support immigrants who are just as lazy, if not even lazier, than me.

ElleGray, to random
@ElleGray@mstdn.social avatar

horror writers, start your engines

mpesce, to random
@mpesce@arvr.social avatar

Now it can be told:

While doing some AI engineering work for a client, I developed a prompt - completely inadvertently - that reduced every AI chatbot to gibberish (except Anthropic's Claude 3). I then spent a week trying to alert the LLM vendors to this issue - and largely failed. There is no mechanism to report flaws in these models that are already deployed to billions of users. Read the whole story in @theregister

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/23/ai_untested_unstable/

ayoub, to random
@ayoub@spore.social avatar

So what do you call this level of hatred? This fanatical desire to annihilate an entire civilisation?

Image description: Israeli occupation soldiers set fire to Gaza’s Al Aqsa University library and took photos of themselves doing it

rbreich, to random
@rbreich@masto.ai avatar

I can't believe I even have to say this, but it is not normal that the Supreme Court is taking its sweet time to decide if the president can incite an insurrection to overturn an election and maintain power. This should have been decided already. The answer is no!

BrianJopek, to random
@BrianJopek@mastodon.world avatar

"A poem cannot stop a bullet. A novel can't defuse a bomb. But we are not helpless. We can sing the truth and name the liars." - Salman Rushdie

kev, to DuckDuckGo
@kev@fosstodon.org avatar

So it seems that was down for the last few hours because of a outage. That's very annoying; DDG should probably get out from under Microsoft's coat tails...

<https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/23/bing-is-down-bringing-duckduckgo-and-ecosia-down-too/>

gerrymcgovern, to random
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green avatar

In Mexico, the data gets water before the people. Is your community next?

Mexico’s water shortages have gotten so bad that even the police are blocking traffic. The officers stood blocking six lanes of traffic, saying their barracks hadn’t had water for a week, and that the bathrooms were unusable.
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-heatwave-drought-protests-monkey-deaths-6310778f139ef786a8c70301fb340bd5

Mexico poised to become significant player in global digital services, with plans for the construction of up to 73 new water guzzling data centers
https://banderasnews.com/mexicos-data-center-boom-potential-hub-and-economic-boost/

gerrymcgovern,
@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green avatar

“We walk for the water we need. If we don’t walk, who will give it to us?” asks Juan, a middle-aged man born in the Indigenous rural community of Maconí, Mexico. “It’s a four-hour journey each day to fetch water … Since last year, there hasn’t been rain, and this year it’s the same.” The bean crop has withered and there’s no corn to make tortillas, he told Ana Valdivia, an AI expert from the U.K.’s Oxford Internet Institute.

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/03/critics-fear-catastrophic-energy-crisis-as-ai-is-outsourced-to-latin-america/

rbreich, to random
@rbreich@masto.ai avatar

Amazon squeezed sellers and jacked up prices.

Apple used its power to kill off challengers.

Ticketmaster/Live Nation leveraged its dominance to jack up ticket costs and tack on massive fees.

Each company is facing an antitrust lawsuit from the Biden admin.

This is a big deal.

dangillmor, to random
@dangillmor@mastodon.social avatar

Great news in pro-competition policy as Biden administration moves to breakup Ticketmaster monopoly. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/us-sues-ticketmaster-and-owner-live-nation-seeks-breakup-of-monopoly/

Lotje, to Bloomscrolling
@Lotje@pancakesontuesday.com avatar

Currently blooming.

BrideOfLinux, to random
@BrideOfLinux@mastodon.opencloud.lu avatar

This came down the pike four hours ago, so I don't know whether it's still true: Bing’s API is down, taking Microsoft Copilot, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT's web search feature down too | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/23/bing-is-down-bringing-duckduckgo-and-ecosia-down-too/

ChrisMayLA6, to climate
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar

So while you & I might think its necessary to speed up the Green Transition & enhance/accelerate measures to reduce emissions, Shell's shareholders disagree.

The firm has just sought & obtained agreement from investors to slow down its measures to mitigate its environmental impact & reduce progress towards its own (already weak) climate targets.

More reason(s) the fossil fuels sector cannot really be central to climate response(s).

We don't have the time to slow down!

zakalwe,
@zakalwe@plasmatrap.com avatar

@IveyJanette @pete @Mary625 @KimSJ @GhostOnTheHalfShell @Npars01 @ChrisMayLA6 And then the Ivy League schools of business management realized that they could normalize plundering the entire heart of the economy for its assets, and nobody would stop them.

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