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trochee

@trochee@dair-community.social

NLP (the nerdy kind). Wrong-half Jew. Privilege-traitor.
Linguist. Empiricist. Rager against machines. formerly #indymedia
Also, #comics, #SFF #scifi, languages, big data, algorithms, software design, and more, including #EthicalAI

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mhoye, to random
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Tired: This meeting could have been an email.

Wired: This startup could have been a spreadsheet.

trochee,
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@tilde

These days, that's my job too!
@mhoye @hazelweakly

trochee, to random
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OH* at work:

> Nobody writes a manifesto that says "everything should remain exactly how it is", except maybe Marc Andreesen

  • okay, I overheard it because I said it
trochee,
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So my manifesto was about

> take dependencies only on components with longer planning horizons than you

Chasing trends can get you "tool-stranded" — the thing you're depending on goes away (probably because it's no longer the apple of some executive's eye).

Depending on a hot new toolset is asking for trouble (old man yells at clouds); you're better off using tools that were stable 15 years ago

This is not ONLY about "generative AI" but it is not NOT about generative AI.

danilo, to random
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BeefstickAI, which wants to build generative AI for dogs and doggy daycare providers, raised a $14M series A led by Gullible Ventures and LPSwindler (TechCrunch)

trochee,
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@AlSweigart @danilo

I KNOW, this one feels more than 50% real

trochee, to random
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How dare you, whoever stocked this snack drawer.

How. Dare. You.

wordshaper, to random
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@trochee On the one hand I always think it's a good idea when people work on things that directly affect them, as the outcomes are generally better or at least more sensibly designed. On the other, when you look at what these people are targeting when they do work on things that directly affect them you end up being terribly depressed and also feeling a little sorry for how sad their lives are and how much of a mess they're making trying to deal with that.

trochee,
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@wordshaper

Same, my sibling in horrified fascination. Same.

trochee,
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@wordshaper

But it's — as in the case of the LLMs — not the engineers, scientists, researchers, or designers who choose the direction, it's the executives and venture capitalists who decide what problem they're gonna solve.

The "moon landing" great collective effort of the 2010s was to alienate both commerce (crypto, metaverse) and conversation (chatbots, LLMs) from the world of real interpersonal relationships

And then the COVID-19 lockdowns sewed the lid on

peter, to random
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what does it say about Silicon Valley that they think the most pressing problems facing the American worker and consumer right now are: 1) too many e-mails to read; 2) too many meetings to attend; 3) i wish i had an assistant to plan my travel.

trochee,
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@peter

Yes, exactly

https://dair-community.social/@trochee/112503103808679002

trochee, to random
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My kid's band teacher invited us all to hear him play at a local club

And he shows up on stage wearing a t-shirt saying

THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS

I knew I liked the guy

kfogel, to random

So, is there a patterned fabric you can use to make a shirt that is anti-optimized for modern video stream compression, such that your meetings totally bog down for all participants because everyone’s client-side code is working so hard to encode/decode the wildly demanding images of your shirt every time you shift slightly in your seat?

Asking for a friend.

Also adding tags at the request of @femme_mal : #FabricArts #Fabric #SecurityByObfuscation #Obfuscation_Techniques #CodeObfuscation #Nulling #NullingVideo

trochee,
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@jannem @dmarti @kfogel

That suggests that a pattern that has a lot of faces on it would be an ideal visual chaff technique

trochee, to random
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A shockingly large proportion of SV technosolutions are band-aids for the "problems" of a techbro who

  • drives to work alone
  • in an expensive car
  • with a good mobile connection
  • through silicon valley traffic

For example:

  • autonomous driving (or gig drivers)
  • food delivery; task rabbit
  • agents to read and respond to your email
  • voice assistants providing emotional validation

https://mastodon.online/@danirabbit/112502816917988936

trochee,
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@WhyNotZoidberg

And why they can't stop reinventing them.

From the stopped merge lane off Sand Hill Road, every day's commute is another reminder that " there's got to be a better way"

They just can't imagine that they aren't the ones to provide it

trochee,
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@merc eh, doubtful that these particular techbros have ever ridden the train in, say, Berlin or Amsterdam, and they're thinking of trains only in the US media portrayal of "dangerous poors"

trochee,
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@alper @cstross

These people solve for the problems their boss has — and the "problems" his (it's usually his) venture capitalist backers think are real.

trochee,
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@merc oh yes, Google maps is designed around the car, with a painstakingly slow adoption of places that have buses and trains, and an even slower (possibly regressive) adoption of informal carpooling etc

trochee, to random
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Sci-fi author Martha Wells, author of the Murderbot series, on what a machine intelligence might want | New Scientist

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2432947-sci-fi-author-martha-wells-on-what-a-machine-intelligence-might-want/

beep, to random
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moon’s* haunted**

  • capitalism’s
    ** haunted
trochee,
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@beep

There is a specter* haunting Europe**

*haunter
**capitalism

ryanrandall, to random
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Lazy Boyz II Men

trochee,
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@ryanrandall

Nauga Hy Def

blogdiva, to random
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i want to see the whole GOP congressional delegation catapulted into a volcano, starting with that feckless pipe bomber in a track suit enthusiast from Georgia. can a girl ever get her birthday wish 🥺

trochee,
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@blogdiva

Volcano goddess would probably throw them back

trochee, to random
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I always knew I had a good reason to be a @LRRRonEarth fan

https://beige.party/@LRRRonEarth/112550040262034506

trochee, to random
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Ryan Gosling absolutely has a "type" that he keeps showing up as, and it's basically a turducken of masculinity tropes

  • handsome but fake "smooth guy"
    wrapped around
  • menacing but emotionally brittle "dangerous guy", still fake
    wrapped around
  • caring, vulnerable but emotionally young "real Ryan"

His character arcs almost always unwrap the layers through the movie.

Consider:
Ken from Barbie
K from Blade Runner 2049
Colt from Fall Guy

danhon, to random
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I mean, would Picard have broken the Prime Directive over Rafah?

trochee,
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@danhon

Ouch this hurts my soul

fay, to random French
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succès du jour: n'avoir traité personne de vieille pompe à merde

trochee,
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@fay quelle bonne phrase!

charliejane, to random
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SUPERMAN: I only date people with the initials L.L. Lois Lane, Lana Lang, Lori Lemaris....

LEX LUTHOR (adjusts his corsage and waits for the phone to ring)

trochee,
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@charliejane

I mean sometimes the subtext is so clear that it becomes the text

I figure Lex is conflictedly jealous of Kal-el's hair

dangillmor, to random
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Wow, the Times' Tom Friedman had to reach a long, long way to find the required "balance" -- in this case totally false equivalence -- re Supreme Court extremist judges.

Thomas and Alito are corrupt in their acts and words, but Ginsburg said something true but (arguably) mean about candidate Trump.

Identical, right?

trochee,
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@dangillmor

She could have gone a lot harder than "faker" and still stayed well clear of even a smidgen of falsehood

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