Benj @Benj@qoto.org
Financial controller during the day, tired daddy of 2 little monsters 👻 otherwise, tireless dreamer during the few free time I have left.
I love #indiemusic and #SFFF, especially #fantastic.
Je suis belge et le français est ma langue maternelle.
Joined Nov 2022
@Epaule_d_Orion@piaille.fr J'aime beaucoup cette couverture, l'aventure et le mystère qu'elle évoque, la façon dont elle mêle les échelles.
Je garde le livre à l'œil depuis que j'ai lu ta chronique, et attends avec impatience l'ouverture des pré-commandes sur le site du Bélial!
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Ixion review: an intricate management sim wrapped in a stirring space opera - https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/ixion-review #Strategy:Management #BulwarkStudios #ScienceFiction #KasedoGames #WotIThink #Ixion
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With #Galactica and #ChatGPT I'm seeing people again getting excited about the prospect of using language models to "access knowledge" (i.e. instead of search engines). They are not fit for that purpose --- both because they are designed to just make shit up and because they don't support information literacy. Chirag Shah and I lay this out in detail in our CHIIR 2022 paper:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3498366.3505816
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In case you don’t believe the same equations govern #motion in the #atmosphere and the #ocean.
Video by Tristan Heth in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
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hi mastodon! i'm robin, i draw pixelart and do music on my free time. I'm going to post here all my personal work!
lezgongue!
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I made this one with two clothespins, two plastic caps, wire and beads, covered it with a white undercoat then painted it. It's inspired by the amazing work of @ArtFromRachel.
(Also it's a functional mini flower pot!)
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Now seems like a good time to talk about how far-right extremists are using the Overton Window theory to force their ideas into the mainstream. The premise here is that today’s fringe ideas/beliefs can become tomorrow’s normal by shifting the boundaries of acceptable discourse. You do that by introducing people to more & more extreme ideas, so everything else seems reasonable in comparison.
eg, when “praising Hitler” becomes the comparison point, low-key bigotry suddenly doesn’t seem so bad. 1/
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Was reminded of this during a #Microsoft event this morning. Still great.
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The myth of Elon Musk as a genius building a better future for everyone is falling apart — and it’s about time!
As I wrote in Time a few months ago, we need to realize he hasn’t just taken a bad turn in the past few months. He’s always been selling us a lie, and nothing shows that better than his fake transport projects that distracted from real solutions.
His downfall can’t come soon enough.
https://time.com/6203815/elon-musk-flaws-billionaire-visions/
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Financial controller during the day, tired daddy of 2 little monsters 👻 otherwise, tireless dreamer during the few free time I have left.
I love #indiemusic and #SFFF, especially #fantastic.
Je suis belge et le français est ma langue maternelle.
Joined Nov 2022
