Prehistoric #baby bottles: marvellous feeding vessels in the shape of #animals from Vösendorf and Oberleis, Austria, dating 1200-800 BC. Baby bottles in the shape of animals are common in late Bronze and early Iron Age Europe....
From Pretraining Data to Language Models to Downstream Tasks: Tracking the Trails of Political Biases Leading to Unfair NLP Models aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.656.pdf
Technology is not apolitical, because humans are not apolitical. Anyone who says they are or claims to be “neutral” or “centrist” simply means their ideals align with the status quo.
This is a problem with all sectors of tech, but especially in places where algorithms have to be trained. For example, facial recognition systems are notoriously biased against anyone who isn’t cis and white. Fitness trackers/smart watches/etc. have trouble with darker skin tones. Developers encode implicit biases because they are oblivious to the fact that their experiences aren’t universal. If your dev team and your company at large aren’t diverse, that lack of diversity is going to show through in your product, intentional or not. How you shape the algorithms, what data you feed it to train it, etc. are all affected by those things.
Im sorry. I know, I dont want to be that guy either, but what the fuck is this? Is it a DOS game? Can I download it from an abandonware website? Looks fun as fuck.
What does blocking on kbin actually do? I’m asking because it seems incomplete, to put it mildly. If you block someone, they can still see what you post and reply to you and you’re still sent notifications of their replies, even though you can’t see the comment itself (or any replies other people make to comments of an...
And as expected, the destructive consolidation of the industry moves forward again, cheered on by consumers celebrating the short term bump to the value of their subscription service.
Reddit is bringing back r/Place — a collaborative project where individual users can edit pixels on a giant canvas — at a time when users are still furious over things like Reddit’s API pricing that forced beloved third-party apps to shut down, the company’s decision to remove chat history from before 2023 with hardly any warning, and its recent announcement that it would be sunsetting the current system to give Reddit Gold. The 2023 version of r/Place kicks off on Thursday, July 20th.
As you might expect, users are already using the announcement post to air their grievances toward the company. The current top comment in reply to the post just says “fuck u/spez” (“spez” is CEO Steve Huffman’s Reddit username), and many of the other comments say only “API,” so I wouldn’t be surprised to see that sentiment show up in some way on this year’s r/Place canvas.
I think even Reddit might be aware that the timing isn’t great. In a short announcement video, the company’s tagline for the event is “right place, wrong time.” In a different post, a Reddit admin (employee) shared a series of pushed dates for when r/Place would kick off — it was supposed to go live at the beginning of April but kept getting delayed:
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<span style="color:#323232;">April 1st (the previous two r/Place events were April Fools’ Day events)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Then April 20th, two days after Reddit first announced the API changes (but didn’t announce pricing)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Then May 4th
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Then June 15th, which was in the thick of the subreddit blackouts and coincidentally became the same day we had a contentious interview with Huffman
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Then June 23rd, which was one week before apps were set to shut down
</span><span style="color:#323232;">And now, July 20th
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Past r/Place experiments took place in 2017 and 2022. (Josh Wardle, who would later go on to create and then sell Wordle, thought up the idea for r/Place, according to Newsweek.) The final canvases for each (2017, 2022) are honestly fascinating pieces of work, with things like art, country flags, memes, and video game iconography all smashed together into colorful pixel collages.
For the 2023 edition, Reddit is letting subreddit moderators “pin” coordinates on the canvas to help community members more easily navigate to certain areas. While that does sound useful, I imagine some communities will use the feature to help focus their protest efforts.
Reddit declined to comment. It’s unclear exactly how long this year’s version of r/Place will be open to contributions; the 2017 version took place over 72 hours, while the 2022 edition was made over four days.
By the way, this announcement helped me solve where the ugly pixelated Reddit app logo is from: you can see it in Reddit’s r/Place announcement video. For some reason, that video also includes pixelated images of a fire in a garbage can.
Just an open world survival game, only you’re a cat, dealing with regular cat problems. You have to hunt, avoid larger animals, compete with other cats, figure out which humans are dangerous and which will give you treats, judiciously spray things to maintain your territory, maybe mate and reproduce (your sex and fertility...
US judge halts government effort to monitor crypto mining energy use | Federal judge in Texas says new requirement would cause ‘irreparable injury’ to industry amid surging electricity usage (www.theguardian.com)
Warning: New Outlook sends passwords, mails and other data to Microsoft | mailbox.org (mailbox.org)
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Prehistoric baby bottles (mander.xyz)
Prehistoric #baby bottles: marvellous feeding vessels in the shape of #animals from Vösendorf and Oberleis, Austria, dating 1200-800 BC. Baby bottles in the shape of animals are common in late Bronze and early Iron Age Europe....
In 2023, console video game players will spend $21B on in-game items and subscriptions, as "live service games" make the market more akin to mobile (www.ft.com)
Games console industry tries to adapt to rise of free-to-play titles...
Exploring the internals of Linux v0.01 (seiya.me)
Exploring the internals of Linux v0.01
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How Long has The Pokémon Company had this Stance about Fanart? (www.pokemon.com)
AI language models are rife with political biases (www.technologyreview.com)
From Pretraining Data to Language Models to Downstream Tasks: Tracking the Trails of Political Biases Leading to Unfair NLP Models aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.656.pdf
Dragon Appraisal (ttrpg.network)
The Dragon looks so happy at the end.
Top comment decides next move, legal or not | day 42: The biters start collecting pieces of the broccoli and carry it to their nest, similar to irl ants. (lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz)
Colorado Cop Who Left Handcuffed Woman on Train Tracks Says It was an Accident (www.theroot.com)
The officer claims she didn't realize a whole train was coming when she left a woman handcuffed in a parked police car.
Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web (arstechnica.com)
It's just a "proposal," but it's also being prototyped inside Chrome right now.
Pokémon Crystal AI Tournament - Scientifically Ranking the Pokémon Crystal Trainers (youtu.be)
What does blocking someone actually do?
What does blocking on kbin actually do? I’m asking because it seems incomplete, to put it mildly. If you block someone, they can still see what you post and reply to you and you’re still sent notifications of their replies, even though you can’t see the comment itself (or any replies other people make to comments of an...
FTC withdraws its in-house challenge to Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal (www.theverge.com)
PSA: don’t murder the opposing baker in a bake-off (aussie.zone)
Source: Pathfinder 2e Gamemastery Guide...
Reddit is bringing back r/Place at perhaps the worst possible time (www.theverge.com)
In-N-Out bans employees from wearing masks (www.latimes.com)
Bluesky allowed people to include the n-word in their usernames (www.engadget.com)
Before this week, Bluesky did not have an automated system in place to prevent people from including the n-word in their handle..
Genshin Impact Voice Actors Say They Haven't Been Paid In Months (www.gamespot.com)
Despite the game's massive profits, its voice actors say they aren't getting paid, with some even choosing to leave their roles.
Stray really disappointed me. I want a real cat game.
Just an open world survival game, only you’re a cat, dealing with regular cat problems. You have to hunt, avoid larger animals, compete with other cats, figure out which humans are dangerous and which will give you treats, judiciously spray things to maintain your territory, maybe mate and reproduce (your sex and fertility...
Snugs (lemmy.world)