Benj @Benj@qoto.org

Important note for educators about now: it looks like GPT-2 output detectors can detect #chatgpt output pretty well.
https://huggingface.co/openai-detector

In #JapaneseFolklore 'The Boy Who Drew Cats' is a tale about a boy who was compelled to draw #cats everywhere. He initially got into trouble but his hobby paid off because one day the cats he drew came to life and saved him from a giant rat goblin. This story speaks of the compulsive nature of creating, the benefits of practicing & perfecting your craft, and ultimately letting your art save you. Full tale here: https://www.curiousordinary.com/2021/07/boy-who-drew-cats.html?spref=tw&m=1
@folklore #folklore #japodon #folktale
🎨Mel Pearce

When two galaxies encounter each other, it takes 1-2 billion years for them to merge and settle down. While the stars already in the galaxies don’t change much, the collision can spark lots of new stars to form! ✨ #MondayMotivation
#NASAUniverse

11/Nuancier
J'ai mis au point un implant d'adaptation du langage à la volée. Ça s'appelle un nuancier. Vous parlez et, le temps que le son arrive aux oreilles de vos interlocuteurs, votre discours se transforme pour devenir plus convenable, plus agréable.
#writever

On reflection, big tech companies churning through the entirity of prior human cultural output whilst burning thousands of megawatts of electricity to automate the creation of fluent bullshit that’s optimised for believability but not truthfulness… it couldn’t be more on message for humanity in the 21st century.

Welcome to the Forbidden Bidet, bring a friend.

Ring-tailed lemurs enjoy sunbathing in the morning, a behavior described as "sun-worshipping", and most often seen following a cold night.

Photo Credit: FPNW / Welsh Mountain Zoo

#animals #nature #sunrise #lemur

Me in class: “Looks like no one managed to finish the reading, that’s on me, clearly I assigned too much today. Let’s discuss [X] instead.”

Students: 😮🤯🥹

It’s really powerful for students when the role model at the front of the classroom takes responsibility & shows imperfection. The more I #Teach the more I realize showing weakness teaches humaneness & combats impostor syndrome, & is one of the things my students most often say they loved when a course is over. #teaching #academidon #histadon

Earth at night viewed from space.

Credit: NASA Johnson

#space #nasa #timelapse #science

I keep thinking about this 1995 passage from “The Demon-Haunted World” by Carl Sagan.

The adorable Venezuelan poodle moth was discovered and photographed in 2009 by Dr. Arthur Anker. It’s supposedly the only sighting of this critter, but insects are small and Earth is big. #nature #photography

Just imagine the diversity of species we haven’t found yet…

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

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.

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!

#pixelart #ドット絵 #illustration #animation

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!)

#MastoArt #model

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/

Was reminded of this during a #Microsoft event this morning. Still great.