Abbe @Abbe@qoto.org

Oh my freaking Dog, here we go with anthropomorphizing and personifying a semi-random text generator.

Look, the Postmodernism Generator has been around for *over 20 years*. You want to fawn about a stochastic parrot? Fawn over this:
https://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/

#GPT4 #ChatGPT

That gives me a horrible, horrible idea…

Surely it would not be too hard to get some "tech pundits" to claim the Postmodernism Generator was built using cutting-edge GPT ML AI WTF BBQ wordsoup buzzword bingo tech boondoggle, would it?

And then maybe have a papers written using it published somewhere?

GPT-4? Bah, humbug! I give you Sokal 2.0!

#GPT4 #ChatGPT

I hadn't planned on making this image until later in spring with lime green leaves, but alas there was an opportunity that was too good to pass up.

This veteran hornbeam has bags of character - I just love its shape. The snowstorm lasted about an hour in the dying light of the day.

By morning the snow was gone, and the opportunity had gone. Sometimes you just have to take advantage of a short window.

#ThickTrunkTuesday #woodland #trees #forest #winter #nature #landscapephotography

@matthew_d_green

Children have a right to privacy.

What conservative people mean by "children's rights" is really "the parent's rights to treat their children as private property", and is a fucking violation of children's rights.

Jaridin Secret
By Abygala

#landscape #painting #mastoart #trees #lake

https://gs24.pl/cba-zabralo-wszystkie-karty-pacjentek-z-gabinetu-lekarki-ze-szczecina-teraz-bada-je-prokurator/ar/c1-17316995

czy tez uwazacie ze dokumentacja medyczna powinna byc

1) cyfrowa
2) zaszyfrowana
3) posiadajaca backupy

podzelcie się opinią, zwlaszcza z lekarzami

Ukraina z karaluchami w sutannach sie nie ceregieli. Wlasnie wypedzili popow z historycznej swiatyni w Kijowie <3

zglebowani duchowni, przeszukania, i tu u kazdego przez przypadek okazyjnie znajdowano rosyjskie flagi, literature Dugina, popiersia Stalina, kontakty do FSB w telefonach i inne poszlaki do ruskiego miru. Typowe...

Pozostaje sie modlic zebysmy mogli doswiadczyc takich widokow tutaj.

Tutaj ta Gangsta nietykalna jest.

https://www.bbc.com/russian/news-64917462

This article on a female #academic's experience in the #Netherlands is pretty shocking.
I feel I have been lucky at DMI.

"we should forsake the collective delusion that having an equal opportunity program is equivalent to being an equal opportunity employer. The discrepancy between public commitment and actual progress seems to stem largely from the conviction that, if put on paper, diversity will magically result in inclusiveness."

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joms.12516

“De-extinction” is not exactly what it sounds like. Rather than “bringing back” lost species, it’s more like creating high-tech lookalikes. And those creatures wouldn’t have their ancestors to teach them how to live. And would de-extinction efforts make humans less likely to worry about species going extinct? It’s a mess of ethical issues. More: https://theconversation.com/should-we-bring-back-the-dodo-de-extinction-is-a-feel-good-story-but-these-high-tech-replacements-arent-really-resurrecting-species-199586 #Science #Environment #News

"Our research suggests that highlighting greed in tweets is associated with an increase in amplification and approval of political messages by US senators on social media and that this association a) occurs
regardless of political, moral, and emotional framings, b
emerges across party lines, and c) is especially advantageous for Democrats when used to attack political opponents."

#RhetoricalCudgels

https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2218680120?af=R

Still no news from #Keybase: 999 days and counting. Either the developers don't care about the people using their software, or they aren't allowed to talk about it. I'm leaning towards the former.

Beware of #OpenSource projects with proprietary backends, or messaging apps without #federation. They really aren't any better than being in a walled garden. You will get screwed in the end.

@neonsnake @BendingUnit

MOAR READING FOREVER

But seriously, Veblen was the first economist to recognize that industry, the actual cooperative production of society, is separate from business, the profit-seeking element. Writing around the Great Depression, he realized that business often sabotaged industry by leaving productive plant idle when it was more profitable.

Folks like Bichler and Nitzan have built on Veblen (and others) to argue that *all* capitalist business is sabotage.

Veblen also coined the term “conspicuous consumption” when he realized that profits were about creating status, not material accumulation.

Every supermarket that throws unsold but edible food into a dumpster at the end of the day and pours bleach onto it to prevent the hungry from eating it is reminding us, over and over, that capitalism is not “trade” or “commerce” but rather *sabotage.*

Capitalism isn’t about producing and selling things; it’s about setting up toll booths.

People being allowed to patent plants is fucking ridiculous

The Idea that the value of your work changes based on what country you are from is fucking ridiculous almost as ridiculous as blaming the countries we exploit for being poor.

Slavery hasn't been abolished, it has only been obscured.

We rarely talk about a paradigm shift that changed how we acquire news and views. In college, my friends and I would read everything on the newsstands. But the articles themselves, and only rarely things written about the articles. That all changed with blogging. The citation became an article by itself, often with richer content. Today, we mostly consume news referred to us by others via social or podcasts, but without any blogger's gatekeeping to help frame it. I feel that loss more every day.

I should be in awe of the kidness of the man who co-founded worldcoin ripping off millions of people in vulnerable groups, lets not even start with the premise itself.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1048981/worldcoin-cryptocurrency-biometrics-web3/

#elon #musk