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LLS, 20 hours ago to random

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me: goes back to TBR pile

LLS, 1 day ago to random

if you want to radicalize yourself, look up Project 2025

StillIRise1963, 1 day ago to random

Elon should implant Neuralink into the brain worm hole of Bobby Kennedy.

LLS, 2 days ago to random

too much light pollution to see the aurora and Paramount+ is streaming shows as “live” so you can’t shuttle back and forth

no luxury in dystopia tonight

evan, 2 days ago (edited 1 day ago) to random

How often do you carry a water bottle?

#EvanPoll #poll

carnage4life, 2 days ago to random

Apple execs tried ChatGPT last year and came to the conclusion Siri is antiquated.

A functional digital assistant that can actually understand conversations and complete tasks would be a good reason for users to buy Android devices instead of iPhones. So they’ve panicked.

They also plan to tout on-device AI as more private than cloud-based AI. The question is if it will be as useful? 🤔

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/business/apple-siri-ai-chatgpt.html?unlocked_article_code=1.q00.IV5N.67nNsQJiprKV&smid=url-share

arstechnica, 2 days ago to random

Report: ChatGPT search engine could be announced as early as next week

OpenAI's announcement would be the day before Google's annual I/O show.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/report-chatgpt-search-engine-could-be-announced-as-early-as-next-week/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

thomasfuchs, 2 days ago to random

There's people arguing that the Apple Crush! ad is "neat" and "fun".

It's literally showing the wanton destruction of things we love and make us human. Including shots that makes you identify with the things as a viewer.

I don't understand what's wrong with people. Do they not have emotions?

KathyReid, 3 days ago to stackoverflow

Like many other technologists, I gave my time and expertise for free to #StackOverflow because the content was licensed CC-BY-SA - meaning that it was a public good. It brought me joy to help people figure out why their #ASR code wasn't working, or assist with a #CUDA bug.

Now that a deal has been struck with #OpenAI to scrape all the questions and answers in Stack Overflow, to train #GenerativeAI models, like #LLMs, without attribution to authors (as required under the CC-BY-SA license under which Stack Overflow content is licensed), to be sold back to us (the SA clause requires derivative works to be shared under the same license), I have issued a Data Deletion request to Stack Overflow to disassociate my username from my Stack Overflow username, and am closing my account, just like I did with Reddit, Inc.

https://policies.stackoverflow.co/data-request/

The data I helped create is going to be bundled in an #LLM and sold back to me.

In a single move, Stack Overflow has alienated its community - which is also its main source of competitive advantage, in exchange for token lucre.

Stack Exchange, Stack Overflow's former instantiation, used to fulfill a psychological contract - help others out when you can, for the expectation that others may in turn assist you in the future. Now it's not an exchange, it's #enshittification.

Programmers now join artists and copywriters, whose works have been snaffled up to create #GenAI solutions.

The silver lining I see is that once OpenAI creates LLMs that generate code - like Microsoft has done with Copilot on GitHub - where will they go to get help with the bugs that the generative AI models introduce, particularly, given the recent GitClear report, of the "downward pressure on code quality" caused by these tools?

While this is just one more example of #enshittification, it's also a salient lesson for #DevRel folks - if your community is your source of advantage, don't upset them.

thomasfuchs, 3 days ago to random

Gonna enjoy a bananum for breakfast

LLS, 4 days ago to random

“While it’s true that SCOTUS is not bound by ethics rules, we can all be reassured that every other judge and magistrate in the federal court system is held to a code of ethics where even the appearance of impropriety must be avoided.”

…stolen top secret documents case is postponed indefinitely by judge because reasons…

“There’s nothing anyone can do.”

LLS, 4 days ago to random

We can’t stop fascism because it would be impolite

LLS, 4 days ago to random

Linux looking better every day

LLS, 4 days ago to random

Slop Overflow

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

damonism, 4 days ago to random

It occurs to me that you’d only use AI to write for you if you believe you’re not good at writing, and if you’re not good at writing you have no way of discerning if the AI is wrting well for you, and in the process you’ll never get any better at writing yourself.

grammargirl, 4 days ago to random

My jaw dropped.

I was sitting there with my mouth open after watching this Apple ad, and I can't remember something like that ever physically happening to me before. Just slow, building horror.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntjkwIXWtrc

LLS, 4 days ago to random

I’m not even close to in the market, but really, bros, AI integrated into the computer’s OS? what are you smoking?

no

LLS, 4 days ago to random

…which amounts to the same thing

poser https://mastodon.social/@uspolitics/112406792951146375

LLS, 4 days ago to journalism

ffs

“It’s our job to cover the full range of issues that people have. At the moment, democracy is one of them. But it’s not the top one”

#journalism #NYT https://dmv.community/@AliceMarshall/112405755497040945

LLS, 4 days ago to random

Today is VEDay. 79 years ago, Nazi Germany surrendered, ending the war in Europe.

50 years ago, an epic 26-part documentary chronicled the scope and horror of WW2, w film footage and interviews w survivors and participants.

Part 1 starts w the fascists’ rise to power.

Give this 10 min:

https://youtu.be/0b4g4ZZNC1E

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_at_War

#VEDay #WW2 #fascism

LLS, 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago) to random

What we have is…

> a strategy that not only produces forever reinfections, it is dependent upon forever reinfections. It not only doesn’t protect vulnerable people, it is dependent on harming and killing them. It not only can’t prevent reinfections, it incorporates continual reinfections as critical to its “success”.

And as a result, in the US we get over 100k new infections every week.

Yeah, those “colds” you’ve been getting? Think again

https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/does-the-public-understand-that-variant

#Covid #LongCovid

scalzi, 5 days ago to random

Over at Uncanny Magazine, I have an essay about the aesthetics of spectacle, relating to the Dune films of 1984 and the 2020s: How spectacle in each film was treated and why, and what makes the look and feel between the eras so very different.

https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/scalzi-on-film-the-aesthetics-of-spectacle-a-look-at-dune-in-1984-and-2024/

carnage4life, 6 days ago to random

AI voiced audiobooks have been a boon to indie creators by giving them access to the audiobook market without having to paying for studio time for human narrators.

It means there’s now even more content for readers that needs filtering and narrators are losing gigs. This is what #disruption looks like. Two steps forward and one step back.