KevinMarks

KevinMarks, 10 months ago to random

Nice to see the BBC joining the fediverse @BBCRD
https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub

KevinMarks, 7 months ago to random

Couldn't find the colander, using the cocktail sieve for the eclipse. #eclipse 🌙

KevinMarks, 1 month ago to random

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-millennial-captcha

mekkaokereke, 1 month ago to random

If you got upset at me for pointing out that more people died of Covid under Biden than Trump, in large part because Biden rolled back common sense restrictions that were in place under Trump...

Then you'll hate me pointing out that Trump introduced a 25% tariff on Chinese EVs, and Biden is upping that to 100% tariff.

https://insideevs.com/news/719283/chinese-ev-tariffs-biden-quadruple/

We can't allow the US to get off of fossil fuels... unless US billionaires win! 🤡

Fear the BYD Dolphin! (an EV car for $12K)
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/T3nfyO_UHjk

KevinMarks, 6 months ago to random

“it was Facebook traffic that warped most digital media executives into futile aspirations of moguldom, and it’s the fast-receding tide of Google search traffic that has turned those same characters into frantic, mewling content goblins, desperately trying to force-feed AI-generated affiliate garbage into a robot that hates them.” https://www.theverge.com/c/features/23993135/twitter-breaking-news-history

KevinMarks, 7 months ago to random

“This is the manifesto of an emotionally insecure man having a mid-life crisis as he realises that his life’s work is meaningless and all the gold and treasure he has accumulated will never make him happy.” - @ianbetteridge https://technovia.co.uk/2023/10/16/marc-andreessens-manifesto.html

KevinMarks, 7 months ago to random

Don't read Andreessen's spurious nonsense, read Deb's brilliant book about Infrastructure instead. You'll learn something important from it https://mastodon.social/@debcha/110499188257156021

KevinMarks, 1 year ago to random

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KevinMarks, 10 months ago to random

“Historically, social media sites get sold twice, first for a whole lot of money, and then for very little.” - @scalzi on Twitter
https://whatever.scalzi.com/2023/07/24/preparing-my-x-it/

KevinMarks, 10 months ago to random

Language Is a Poor Heuristic For Intelligence
“With the emergence of LLM “AI”, everyone will have to learn something many disabled people have always understood”
https://karawynn.substack.com/p/language-is-a-poor-heuristic-for

KevinMarks, 3 months ago to random

“Indeed in October, while talking about the massive job losses expected as a result of AI, Altman said “I’m not afraid of that, at all. In fact, I think that’s good.” On November 18, the day after he was briefly fired from his CEO role, his perspective on getting laid off shifted.“I’m hurt and angry, and I think this sucks,” he said.” https://www.fastcompany.com/91040797/what-the-digital-streaming-revolution-of-the-2000s-can-teach-us-about-the-ai-revolution-today-according-to-a-former-musician

KevinMarks, 4 months ago to random

“If governments are willing to spend billions incentivizing rooftop solar, they can simply spend billions installing rooftop solar – no Slow AI required” — @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/27/here-comes-the-sun-king/#sign-here

KevinMarks, 1 year ago to random

In the coronation, Penny Mordaunt played the role of strange lady distributing swords

KevinMarks, 7 months ago to random

I found it - Tailwind's final form https://github.com/marmelab/universal.css

KevinMarks, 4 months ago to random

In which our heroine, Molly White, @molly0xfff explains in excruciating detail how Chris Dixon has Read, Write, Pwned himself https://www.citationneeded.news/review-read-write-own-by-chris-dixon/

KevinMarks, 28 days ago to random

“As tech gets more complex, things seem to get more intuitive locally, but overall the arbitrariness keeps going up. The number of YouTube videos explaining arbitrary shit keeps going up.” https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2024/05/14/arbitrariness-costs/

KevinMarks, 11 months ago to random

Mark Zuckerberg is competing directly with Twitter's main use case by launching a new app called Threats.

KevinMarks, 5 months ago to random

So Facebook thinks votes for women are controversial. Is this Thiel's influence?
https://boardgamewire.com/index.php/2024/01/11/facebook-bans-ads-for-award-winning-votes-for-women-board-game-claims-sensitive-social-issue/ https://www.huffpost.com/entry/peter-thiel-women-democracy_n_5747079be4b03ede4413f6f5

KevinMarks, 3 months ago to random

Bertrand Russell in 1959 describing the LLM "understanding" fallacy that @emilymbender keeps trying to explain to people reeling from soi-disant AI hype:
“Some modern philosophers have gone so far as to say that words should never be confronted with facts but should live in a pure, autonomous world where they are compared only with other words.
[…]This is one of those views which are so absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.”
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2024/03/03/believe-fool/#:~:text=words%20should%20never%20be%20confronted%20with%20facts

KevinMarks, 4 months ago to random

“Steve Jobs said, “What’s the Super Bowl?” [Antosz] said, “Well, it’s a huge football game that attracts one of the largest audiences of the year.” And [Jobs] said, “I’ve never seen a Super Bowl. I don’t think I know anybody who’s seen a Super Bowl.”” https://archive.is/20240209172522/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/09/arts/television/super-bowl-apple-1984-ad.html

KevinMarks, 10 days ago to random

And Middlesbrough wonders why the Linthorpe Road bike lane isn't used much.

Bike lane is full of cones, roadsigns and a traffic light for the adjacent car lane

KevinMarks, 7 months ago to random

Someone had binoculars #eclipse 🌙 🌙

KevinMarks, 10 months ago to random

“People’s lives are at stake, but not because of some super intelligent system,” Buolamwini says, “but because of an overreliance on technical systems. I want people to understand that the harms are real, and that they’re present.”

This time, let’s listen. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/women-warnings-ai-danger-risk-before-chatgpt-1234804367/

KevinMarks, 1 month ago to random

This is brilliant in its own right, and also works as meta-commentary, as no LLM could get the scansion that tight and the rhymes that enjoyable: "well, actually"/polydactyly and plagiarise/Hbomberguys are markers of humanity https://mathstodon.xyz/@andrewt/112380073199982452

KevinMarks, 1 month ago to random

The aurora moved south enough that I could see it looking away from Middlesbrough

green/orange/magenta aurora with a star in the middle and tree branches in the foreground
green//magenta aurora with a stars sprinkled through it
diagonal magenta aurora with trees in the foreground, some city light and a small crescent moon near the horizon