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Itty53

@Itty53@mstdn.social

Father/Husband/Programmer in CA with a need to collect my thoughts on stuff. Politics, psychology, sociology, history, law, society, music, film, games, humor.

Header is just the color black.

Avatar is a Photoshop of Barack Obama in a classic suit, framed from the chest up, speaking at a podium. His face is in what appears to be a slight scowl. The image is monochrome black and white, and his face has been altered to add Locs style sunglasses and a black baseball cap reading "Compton".

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codfather, to random
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davetroy, to random
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📻 NEW EPISODE: The UFO Hoax with Jack Brewer + Art Levine — For decades a clique of UFO activists has worked to influence the US government. And they’ve injected requirements into the NDAA. Learn why, the risks posed by this network, and who’s involved.
https://pod.co/dave-troy/the-ufo-hoax-with-jack-brewer-and-art-levine

BenRiceM, to random
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My "Not involved in assassinating the Boeing whistleblower" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

hampants, to random
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Some church people in town found out their pastor had been doing rap shows two counties over as MC ClamBam and now everyone is trying to find out if the lyrics were clean.

plamobot, to Metal
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- , "Invincible Shield." 50+ (!) years and still going strong! And yes, the legendary still hits those high notes among the unparalleled twin guitar attack. They haven't had a run this great since the Painkiller era!

RealJournalism, to random
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Back in 2016, Hillary Clinton elevated Donald Trump because she thought he would be the easiest candidate to beat. She took too much for granted, didn't campaign in key battleground states, and lost. Now, demographics are much more favorable to us. Biden is taking Trump much more seriously. Union activity is much stronger than in 2016. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/dont-despair-were-winning?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=365422&post_id=142294785&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=741t&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

emilymbender, to random
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Big Tech likes to push the trope that things are moving and changing too quickly and there's no way that regulators could really keep up --- better (on their view) to just let the innovators innovate. This is false: many of the issues stay stable over quite some time. Case in point: Here's me 5 years ago pointing out that large language models shouldn't be used as sources of information about the world, and that doing so poses risks to the information ecosystem:

https://x.com/emilymbender/status/1766634514946945414?s=20

johl, to random
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Who called it “intellectual property problems around the acquisition of training data for Large Language Models” and not Grand Theft Autocorrect?

flexghost, to random
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282 million instagram followers and she just told them to go vote on Super Tuesday

I can’t name a single song

But I’m a Taylor Swift fan

TonyStark, to random
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She didn’t have a chance. I knew she wasn’t going to run. Good. Elect Ruben Gallego.

Sinema announces she won't run for reelection -
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/03/05/congress/sinema-not-running-00144995

JamesWNeal, to random
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Y'know, I get lonely too, but still I'm not part of the "I'll take a call from a stranger" demographic

drahardja, (edited ) to ai
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Here’s a clear example of how aggressive the image processing has become on newer iPhones. This is a comparison between the iPhone 15 Pro Max and the iPhone 11 Pro Max, taking photos of distant text at equal magnification. Note how the 15 Pro Max’s image pipeline has made up all the details.

EDIT: I’m going to drop mentions of “AI” and “hallucinating” here because I think it’s conjuring up the wrong mental models in readers’ heads. What’s likely happening is over-eager noise reduction and sharpening (which may or may not have pattern matching) creating details where none exist. Every phone does some amount of NR and sharpening, but later iPhones are super aggressive in this regard, so much so that the results often depart from what we accept as “reality”.

Original video: https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=885196069752553

rayckeith, to random
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    renegadejade, to random
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    Protect your peace.

    paulschoe, to Russia
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    Even about deeply sad situations you can make jokes.

    carnage4life, to random
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    Self pay gas station pumps couldn’t accept payments in New Zealand yesterday because their code couldn’t handle February 29th, a leap day.

    I feel like you have to go out of your way to have a bug like this in your system given standard date libraries.

    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/leap-year-glitch-broke-self-pay-pumps-across-new-zealand-for-over-10-hours/

    rhempel,

    @Itty53 @carnage4life I will bet that for many of these bugs, there is a developer that cares, has root caused the problem, and has a fix.

    I'm also willing to bet there's a manager somewhere that doesn't want to introduce the fix because of regulation required testing or some other "business" reason.

    MisuseCase, to random
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    People are getting so excited about that Washington State union encouraging members to vote “uncommitted” but it’s not actually over Gaza although the reporter tried to spin in that way. If you read the people quoted in the piece none of them talk about Gaza.

    It’s actually really stupid, they’re really just like “but we want someone different.”

    inthehands, to random
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    This essay from @jenniferplusplus is very good, and very important.

    It’s good enough and important enough that I’m just going to QFT the heck out of it here on Mastodon until I annoy you into readying the whole thing.

    https://jenniferplusplus.com/losing-the-imitation-game/

    This essay isn’t the last word on AI in software — but what it says is the ground level for having any sort of coherent discussion about the topic that isn’t all hype and panic.

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    inthehands,
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    Here it is: the One Weird Thing that people who aren’t programmers (or are bad programmings) just don’t understand about writing software. This is it. If you miss this, you’ll miss what LLMs can and can’t do for software development.

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    tess, to random
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    To all the people who thought Lorentz "won" the interview with Raichik: No.

    Lorentz got dirty and the pig enjoyed it.

    w7voa, to random
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    A team led by former Twitter engineers is rethinking how AI can be used to help people process news and information. https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/26/former-twitter-engineers-are-building-particle-an-ai-powered-news-reader/

    swordplay,
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    @w7voa

    good news everybody now ai will filter and rewrite the news for you and choose who gets paid best of all there's some tech bros designing it don't worry they won't take all the money and support nazis this time

    timClicks, to random
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    Difficult for a job ad to have a red flag in every sentence, but not impossible apparently.

    tilton, to random
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    Kurt Vonnegut always knew what was up.

    peter, to random
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    weird how a speaker at a major conservative political conference calling for the end of democracy and the establishment of a theocratic authoritarian state is something i have to read about in goofy little niche websites and social media accounts because i can't find it in, like, the pages of a newspaper whose catchphrase is "Democracy Dies in Darkness."

    peter,
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    Obama's pastor said "God damn America" and it was like a month-long news cycle that ended with him changing churches. Jack Posobeic says, at a political conference, at a PANEL HOSTED BY THE FORMER CHIEF STRATEGIST AND AIDE TO A MAN CURRENTLY RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT, that the coup attempt didn't go far enough and he wants to replace American democracy with a theocracy. and that's, like, fine. a curiosity. https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2024/02/23/jack-posobiec-cpac-remarks-democracy-cnc-vpx.cnn

    BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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    There's a place that I like to buy wings from that is only open like 3 days a week for four hours per day and I'm pretty sure it's a drug front and they're sick as hell of me actually ordering food from them 😂😂😂

    stylinstainless,
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    @BlackAzizAnansi This sounds like a great comedy sketch.

    "We have a customer."
    "So?"
    "For FOOD."
    "Oh shit! Somebody get in the kitchen and turn everything on!"

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