cyberlyra

cyberlyra, 17 days ago to space

As someone who keeps her children (born and unborn) away from data detection, I know how catastrophic the #MOMS bill’s national #pregnancy database is.

But I am also a scholar who studies #NASA, so I know a government handout bill when I see one.

Look past the website to Title II, section 1a, eligibility for government grants for maternal support.

This is a #handout for pro-life nonprofits, with restrictions against funding for orgs like #PlannedParenthood , dressed up as maternal support.

cyberlyra, 19 days ago to canucks

Go #Canucks!! #HNOM #StanleyCupPlayoffs 🏒 🥅 🍁

arstechnica, 19 days ago to random

NASA wants a cheaper Mars Sample Return—Boeing proposes most expensive rocket

"To reduce mission complexity, this new concept is doing one launch."

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/05/nasa-wants-a-cheaper-mars-sample-return-boeing-proposes-most-expensive-rocket/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

DaveMasonDotMe, 19 days ago to stackoverflow

It's hard to imagine #StackOverflow made their decision without considering the fate #Twitter and #Reddit suffered. That they willingly chose to burn the remaining goodwill they had with their users is bewildering.

Right now, people are having active conversations here on #Mastodon about an #ActivityPub / #Fediverse replacement for SO.

cyberlyra, 20 days ago to stackoverflow

In the history of data, reuse is a constant. In human history, regime change is a constant.

Hence the extractive repurposing going on at #stackoverflow, #github & #reddit to feed AI and take over your jobs. (And countless injustices, like DACA used for ICE, Nazis using invaded country birth records to find Jews, etc).

This is the true “tragedy of the commons”: upon hostile acquisition, what was once a gift indicating membership, care, and community is liable to unethical extraction.

PearlescentFerret, 21 days ago to random

Announcing the public launch of of Open Torment, a FOSS alternative to The Torment Nexus.

brycew, 22 days ago to random

Off the cuff thought: I've seen a few places open sourcing code from the 80's and 90's (notably MS DOS 4.0 https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2024/04/25/open-sourcing-ms-dos-4-0/), now that the code's 30-40 years old, now that it's not viable to sell it anymore.

The max copyright lenght in the US was 42 years for a good chunk of our history.

There's no reason it should have changed. That code could have all been in the public domain by now

cyberlyra, 24 days ago to random

I am really very excited about this open access special issue on AI, power and domination, with papers from friends and colleagues, that says the quiet part loud. #aiethics

https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm

pluralistic, 25 days ago to random

Cyberpunk trifecta

Me with Bruce Sterling on the streets of Turin
Me with Neal Stephenson at a bookstore in Seattle

BootsChantilly, 25 days ago to random

I lol-ed.

tilde, 25 days ago to random

In the 90s — so the story goes — the APA noticed that they were basically only diagnosing boys with ADHD, so they checked, and, yep, girls get it too, it just looks different because ✨reasons✨. So they invented the inattentive subtype for ADHD to make sure girls got diagnosed too. And anyway it is so strangely validating not only to finally have a formal ADHD Diagnosis, but also to specifically have Girl ADHD™, because yes, obviously, correct.

cyberlyra, 25 days ago to random

Happy Star Wars Day to all who celebrate!! May the fourth be with you :)

streetartutopia, 26 days ago to random

The Top 5 Must-See Street Art Hotspots Around the World <3 https://streetartutopia.com/2024/05/03/the-top-5-must-see-street-art-hotspots-around-the-world/

mattkenworthy, 26 days ago to random

In my astronomy career I have had my foot run over by Stephen Hawking, had Neil deGrasse Tyson come to my seminar and promptly fall asleep, and stood in an elevator with Roger Penrose where he was wearing exactly the same clothing as the publicity poster on the elevator wall behind his shoulder.

ElleGray, 28 days ago to random

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arstechnica, 28 days ago to random

The BASIC programming language turns 60

Easy-to-use programming language that drove Apple, IBM, and Commodore PCs debuted in 1964.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/the-basic-programming-language-turns-60/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

morganth, 1 month ago to random

Trouble with a capital T, that rhymes with P, that stands for Pool? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely right here in River City?

rooster, 1 month ago to random

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cyberlyra, 1 month ago to random

The age of Google is over. The next great search engine must needs filter out LLM-generated sludge and actually privilege information instead of content.

glyph, 1 month ago to random

Watched the original Star Wars trilogy with the kid this weekend and it’s been a long time since I have seen it. One thing that really stuck out to me was… what, thematically, is the movie trying to say about droids? The message seems to be that they are regular people like everyone else, and also chattel slaves, and also that’s it’s fine and also kind of funny? Like both Han and Luke are repeatedly shown doing obvious villain shit to droids and I can’t tell why we are not supposed to care

cyberlyra, 1 month ago to random

Start here by deleting everything Google thinks it knows about you.

https://www.theverge.com/24141741/google-data-delete-how-to

Then pick up with my tips for Google free living.

https://www.optoutproject.net/the-best-non-google-search-engine/

It’s so much better out here without a data-sucking behemoth controlling everything you see, flooding your search results with spam and injecting the internet with LLM-generated sludge. Bonus, if you leave, your data stops contributing to serious ethical problems.

Thanks for @Em0nM4stodon for passing The Verge’s How To along.