ragnell

@ragnell@witches.live

Formerly Ragnell the Foul, but I've been mellowing as I age.

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valkyrie, to random
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    18+ aral, to google
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    Google: Here’s our latest evil plan…

    Folks: That’s an evil plan, we don’t like it.

    Google: Please keep the discussion to technical issues only.

    chrisg, to random
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    Techbros: Here's the detailed technical plans for a working Torment Nexus.

    Everyone: Building a Torment Nexus is a horrible idea.

    Techbros: I wish people would focus on the technical merits of the proposal.

    Mer__edith, to random
    @Mer__edith@mastodon.world avatar

    This is the real, human cost of mass surveillance of everyone's private digital communications.

    If we actually care about keeping people safe, we need more end-to-end encryption not less.

    antimnguyen, to random
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    Reddit users figured out that some bot crawlers scrape popular threads and auto-generate AI articles based on user comments, so they decided to create some fake hype to confuse them.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/154umm2/im_so_excited_they_finally_introduced_glorbo/

    It worked.

    https://archive.li/2023.07.20-203104/https://www.zleague.gg/theportal/world-of-warcraft-wow-players-excited-for-glorbos-introduction/

    This is why real journalism matters.

    emilymbender, to random
    @emilymbender@dair-community.social avatar

    This article by @willknight has some good points in it, but also some real howlers.

    Starting with the good: A clear take-down of the ridiculous interactive fiction session at the UN's "AI for Good" (ugh) conference where people "spoke with" robots.

    Knight writes: "But despite the well-known limitations of such bots, the robots’ replies were reported as if they were the meaningful opinions of autonomous, intelligent entities."

    >>

    https://www.wired.com/story/fast-forward-dont-ask-dumb-robots-whether-ai-will-destroy-humanity/?

    emilymbender,
    @emilymbender@dair-community.social avatar

    The assertion that LLMs are "capable of surprisingly sophisticated reasoning" is supported with a link an article @willknight wrote on the "Sparks of AGI" paper + criticism of it.

    Extruding synthetic text is not reasoning. If the extruded text looks like something sensible, it is because we have made sense of it. I find it dismaying that even critical journalists like @willknight feel a need to repeat these tropes.

    blogdiva, to random
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    i think we should start calling AI what it is: "Corporate Piracy".

    para$$$ites have paid data hoarders to scrape whole websites, digital libraries and archives filled to the brim with copyrighted work; so they can repackage all that knowledge as if it were the serendipitous labor of sentient ghostly robots.

    it's bullshit.

    if unpaid sampling is copyright infringement; then scraping our social media and blogs, and passing it as their own knowledge, has to be as well.

    bitch better have my money

    Deglassco, to history

    A significant number of white Americans opposed fighting in a civil war that would grant freedom to Black Americans. Their concern was former slaves, whom they considered inferior, would compete for jobs at lower wages. Consequently, in July of 1863, a white mob, furious with conscription, targeted Black New Yorkers in an attempt to eradicate them from the landscape. The Union was not as united as it is often portrayed.

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    @blackmastodon @BlackMastodon

    futurebird, to random
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    If you’re on strike and it’s disrupted things for “regular people” just know that there are a lot of us rooting for you— We get it. Media aren’t being very supportive framing the strike as all the fault of workers— as if we all have to take whatever we are offered & be silent.

    The mood is different in the country than it was 15 or 30 years ago— No one is buying that striking workers are greedy. We’re all in this same race to the bottom and it’s good to see people fighting the current.

    catileptic, to random
    @catileptic@chaos.social avatar

    "Infosec Twitter is dead" ( https://www.cyentia.com/the-death-of-infosec-twitter/ ).

    I got some new followers and I just wanna say:

    • it takes a while to detox from "social media through algorithms"
    • the energy invested into social media through community and solidarity is worth it!
    • tech is political
    • the Internet is political
    • infosec, security, confidentiality, communication and content-hosting online? - they're all political
    tiffanycli, to random
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    American recommendation letters: “This candidate is the most brilliant person alive. I will never in my entire life have a student as smart as this one again.”

    European recommendation letters: “This person completed the requirements for my class. They are currently alive.”

    VeryBadLlama, to random
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    research psychologist: my goal is to uncover universal truths of the mind. I want to strip out the social conditioning and lay bare the essential facts of the human condition.

    research psychologist: to do this I will study 40 white 20-year-olds who attend the University of Ohio

    Moosader, to random
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    Me 15 years ago: wow everything should be connected to the internet!

    Me now: STOP connecting EVERYTHING to the INTERNET, keep as much of everything LOCAL to the system as possible. NOT EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE ONLINE. AAAGGGHH.

    paintedsky,
    @paintedsky@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar

    @Moosader reminds me of this, maybe you've seen it:

    ami_angelwings, to random
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    Gatekeeping was a mistake, humans were not meant to keep gates

    johnfugelsang, to random
    BPStuart, to DonaldTrump
    @BPStuart@mstdn.social avatar

    Republicans:

    👉 Joe Biden is the president of the United States, not Hunter Biden.
    👉 President Joe Biden is running for re-election as POTUS, not Hunter Biden.
    👉 The urgency of top secret classified docs — stolen by a twice-impeached, lying, cheating, treasonous sex offender — trumps your perverse interest in Hunter Biden’s “junk” files.

    Now you know. Get your shit together, you clowns.

    dtgeek, to cars
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    People are getting fed up with all the useless tech in their cars - The Verge

    https://www.theverge.com/23801545/car-infotainment-customer-satisifaction-survey-jd-power

    Spearhafoc, to random

    "Moon Landing Day"?

    Pfft. We've all been living on the Moon since 1898. The entire human race was drugged in our sleep one night and transferred to the Moon, so the Snail People could have the Earth to themselves. The "Moon" we see in the sky at night is actually Earth with a paint-job.

    electricmaenad, to random

    I don’t want AI art and music and literature - I want AI to do all the boring shit nobody wants to do.

    sluttymayo, to random
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    look at this photo of people in the 1950s. people living in the moment, not a cell phone in sight, just a guy full of heavy metal salts holding a camera the size of a toaster blinding them all with a magnesium flash bulb to produce the photo

    SoloRunStudio, to Dragonlance

    It's good to have hobbies.

    gardenvarietylinguist,

    @SoloRunStudio

    I'd watch a show called Stranger Strings about how the Russians are getting babushkas to knit a massive interdimensional portal, only to discover that they've been beaten by some old granny who's already won the Old Ones over with tea & lemon cakes.


    hwsanden, to random

    Nothing says "big ego" more than quoting oneself, so I’m going to share some paragraphs as I edit my book – either because what I’ve written surprises me or because I have to delete it.

    hwsanden,

    "Developers’ obsession with automation in the face of repetitive tasks has turned into an obsession with automation in tasks we don’t want to do or don’t feel confident enough to do."

    On why developers build/accept design systems that take away their ability/responsibility to learn about central interface concepts like

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