Abbe @Abbe@qoto.org

Myślę, że powoli ten zbudowany dotychczas system wierzeń i mitów kulturowych w jakie wierzy ten kraj powoli runie. Młodsze pokolenia nie chcą ich podtrzymywać. Nie chcą, bo ich zwyczajnie nie da się obronić.

Solidarność. #jp2 . Religia. (Pseudo)Patriotyzm.

Przeminą.

#polska #polityka

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/03/10/ron-desantis-book-bans-martin-county-jodi-picoult/

"“Most of the books pulled do not even have a single kiss in them,” Picoult told us. “They do, however, include gay characters, and issues like racism, disability, abortion rights, gun control, and other topics that might make a kid think differently from their parents.”

“We have actual proof that marginalized kids who read books about marginalized characters wind up feeling less alone,” Picoult continued. “Books bridge divides between people. Book bans create them.”"

Hypercapitalist techbros already calling for, wait for it, government intervention!

What happened to "the market will solve it"?

"The market will solve it" only if it's your money on the line, not their stock options.

Remember all this bullshit about "we get the big payouts because we take the big risks"? Yeah, well… observe what happens when the risks actually materialize. Crying for risk-mitigating bailout *checks notes* literally the next day.

@ummjackson The idea that technology will save the world is practically a religion. One I was indoctrinated into simply by growing up in Silicon Valley. Well, plus having both parents working in tech despite coming from working class backgrounds on the east coast.

I'm pretty sure I'll never quite be out of it.

@stilkov @mnot @timbray@mastodon.cloud @simon @ariadne

Empirically, there are a number of people who would prefer that not every word they post become part of the permanent public indelible record, fully accessible to adTech and attackers.

I understand that you are not one of those people - neither am I - but I don't think it's ethical to ignore them. You might want to read that blog post, which gathers discussion around that point.

Everything is perfect here: a tech bro claiming 97.5% of all science is useless, Baby Elon confirming it, and John Blow retweeting.

In the spirit of reciprocity, I'm not sure how many people know about the tiny miracle of Mom for a Minute on Reddit, but maybe not enough.

Tl;dr: People who have fraught/bad/nonexistent relationships with their families of origin post things they're proud of or worried about, etc, and strangers show up to be proud of them and advise them and offer comfort and love.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MomForAMinute/

@kissane seems like chatgpt wrote that one

If they can find a way to restrict LLM outputs to those that conform with reality,
the biggest tech companies are on the verge of extracting the meaning and style from everything ever posted online, stripping out attribution, and replacing human-written information with the resulting gritty content smoothie.

The really remarkable thing isn't just that #Microsoft has decided that the future of #search isn't links to relevant materials, but instead lengthy, florid paragraphs written by a #chatbot who happens to be a habitual liar - even more remarkable is that #Google agrees.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/16/tweedledumber/#easily-spooked

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Whew, this ChatGPT shit is just a great big security exploit against human theory of mind innit?

I'm being continually astonished by folks attributing confidence, intent, and lying to this thing that's just a clever algorithm recombining source material.

It's not a confident actor lying with intent, it's a system serving up confident lies sourced from human actors

Here's a first... I just got an email because ChatGPT suggested an article I wrote to somebody. Could I send them a copy? Except, I never wrote the article, it doesn't exist. PLEASE realize right now that this tool isn't pulling out cool references for you. It's making plausible titles and matching them to authors names.

society: damn misinfo at scale is getting a bit out of hand lately. seems like a problem.

tech guys: i have invented a machine that generates misinformation. is that helpful?

My latest newsletter: The Chatbot Isn't Your New Best Friend (And Never Will Be) https://www.readtpa.com/p/your-chatbot-isnt-your-new-best-friend?sd=pf

Interesting read for a paper I am writing: study interviewing US and UK journalists about the use, benefits and risks of working with preprints. "verifying preprints appeared to be a real challenge for journalists, even for those with advanced science education".

Just published
@ScienceMagazine

A universal influenza mRNA vaccine effective against all 20 lineages of influenza A and B, protective in experimental models
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm0271

Aviator and athlete Sophie Peirce (aka Lady Heath) was born #OTD 1896. First woman to hold commercial flying licence, set records for altitude, solo flight, parachute. Held records for high jump, competed in Olympics. Trained first generation of Aer Lingus pilots.
Portrait by Sir John Lavery in Hugh Lane Gallery. The year it was painted, she flew solo Cape Town to London in open cockpit!
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary,_Lad…

Hello #ScienceMastodon!

I'm a microscopist and image analyst at the BIOP imaging center at EPFL in Switzerland.

I'll be sharing mostly nerd stuff about #ImageJ/#FijiSc. Can't wait to see if the scientific mastodon community takes off!

So, let's get serious: can we share videos here? Let's find out: