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Carl T. Bergstrom

Allowing police officers to submit LLM-written reports reveals a remarkable misunderstanding of what LLMs do, a profound indifference to the notion of integrity in the communications of law enforcement with the justice system, or both.

Given how readily subject to suggestion human witnesses—including police officers—are known to be, this is a disaster.

Yes, police reports aren't always the most accurate, but introducing an additional layer of non-accountability is bad.

apnews.com/article/ai-writes-p

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Kevin Lyda

Working from home is a massive climate benefit and a massive benefit for cities with poor public transit systems. It takes loads of cars off the road which reduces emissions and traffic. It blows my mind that we want to throw that away.

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skribe 🇺🇦 :verified_mustard:

Australia's right to disconnect comes into effect today. It means workers are no longer forced to respond to emails or calls after hours.

I'll never have to answer another email or call again. It's always after hours somewhere in the world.

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barefootstache

One reason why squashing moths is a bad idea is that they can stain the surface they are on, especially if it's drywall. Scrubbing the stain after the matter usually makes the stain worse.

Instead of squashing moths a preferred method it to use an electric fly swatter and zap them in flight.

When moths are on the wall they have a tendency to fall/jump downwards. With this knowledge one takes the swatter while being live (active) and slowly travel upwards until one barely touches the moth. In the best case the moth will jump down and get instantly zapped. In the case it flies away, the racket is in the position to quickly flick the wrist and zap it in mid flight.

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Frank Bajak

Why is there an acute mental health crisis in the U.S.? Perhaps because it’s not a profit center for private insurers? “More than a dozen therapists said insurers urged them to reduce care when their patients were on the brink of harm, including suicide.” Glad to see @ProPublica and @NPR speak to 500 professionals for an authoritative take.
projects.propublica.org/why-i-

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Jason Gorman

When I hear developers complaining about a colleague who's a "perfectionist" that is "slowing them down", even just a cursory investigation usually reveals that the team has low standards and that the "perfectionist" keeps trying to raise them.

This is normally when things like "pragmatic" and "just get it done" get bandied about to try and make it sound as if the developers who've been checking in untested code are the real professionals in this set-up.

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Summary:

MyRuckClub: mention the upcoming events

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Summary:

- Tutorial: How to add quick actions trays in : en.osm.town/@barefootstache/11
- 1 devlog: progress towards app with implementation of

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After completing the for a year a couple of days ago, I will continue the practice of blogging on a weekly basis. This has been proven quite fruitful when doing the switch during the .

I am currently uncertain how the challenge shall continue, if it shall just be a summary over the week or a fully developed post.

The only goal that I will be placing onto myself is writing out one long form piece of content that is post worthy onto the barefootstache website. The couple that I did achieve to post in the past year, I really enjoyed the process much more than doing the daily posts.

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Johann Dr.EO

Current state of our [#AI] hype cycle:
☒ toy problem solved
☒ early adopters oversell
☒ medias spread optimistic propaganda
☒ people starification
☒ everything under an umbrella term
☒ capture research fundings
☒ early producers lie about performances
☒ wannabe seers
☒ late adopters push it everywhere
☒ bad products shoehorned into market
☒ medias circulate how bad everything is
☒ companies notice it is actually more costly
☐ economic bubble cracks
☐ fundings cut
☐ umbrella term cancelled

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👻 Annie Fantasma 👻

Rant about Social Media BS 

Please keep in mind the snippets of people's lives they choose to share on Social Media does not accurately portray the full truth of their lives.

You may be comparing your life to a narrative you've created in your own head of what their lives might be, or what they want you to think their lives are.

(From someone who's been on Social Media since '95)

---end rant---

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Flipboard Culture Desk

While some athletes have raved about the muffins and others have complained about the cardboard beds, some American Olympians are taking advantage of the free healthcare. Team USA rugby player Ariana Ramsey didn't just get a bronze medal in Paris — she's had a pap smear, X-ray, teeth cleaning, and an eye test. She's posted about this on TikTok, influenced other athletes in the Village to visit medical professionals, and now plans to fight for universal healthcare in the U.S. Here's more from Sports Illustrated.

flip.it/AIB6n7

#Olympics #Sports #USA #Healthcare #UniversalHealthcare

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🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

At some point in the collective minds of people we stopped understanding the difference between attacking ideas, vs attacking the people who hold those ideas. People assume if you hate an idea someone holds by extension you hate the person. If you think an idea is idiotic then you must think people who hold the idea are idiots.

We need to get back to the place where people dont take personally when ideas are attacked.

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barefootstache

My preferred way of making is using a since I use loose grounds/herbs.

Until recently, I could not figure out why when the plunger is all the way done and one tries to pour all the liquid in the beacon, there will always be some underneath the plunger. This made cleaning the soggy herbs more messy than necessary.

I finally noticed that if one pulls up the plunger ever so slightly, the leftover liquid will pour with more ease and thereby make cleanup easier.

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While writing up a reflection of completing the for a year, I realized that my based website is missing data in its head.

The [hugo clarity theme](github.com/chipzoller/hugo-cla) comes with SEO though it is not activated by default and one would only realize it when going through the `layouts/partials/opengraph.html` code. There is the mention of the site param `blogDir` that is not implemented anywhere else within the code.

Thus to activate the SEO over and one needs to add the param `blogDir` and point it to the designated section. Using the exampleSite as a reference it would be `blogDir = "post"` in the `config/_default/params.toml` file.

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The only caveat of the project is that it only works on 16-bit files.

There is a script on how to do it via the

`ffmpeg -i input.mp3 -ar 16000 -ac 1 -c:a pcm_s16le output.wav`

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The 'Quick Start' section in the Readme sufficed for setting up.

The only thing that I had to change in the `./models/download-ggml-model.sh` script (1) is remove the option `--show-progress` on line 105. Seems like GNU Wget2 2.1.0 doesn't have that option.

Alternatively one can replace the option with

`--progress=bar --force-progress`

- 1: github.com/ggerganov/whisper.c

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Instead opted in to using which also works with .

Although Whisper is originally written in there is a project that makes transcribing very fast. It took less than 2min to transcribe the 26 min audio clip.

github.com/ggerganov/whisper.c

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Originally wanted to use to transcribe the . Initially tried it out over and its 'Speech Recognition' tool.

This took quite awhile to setup, since it is not concrete what kind file format, if any, the VOSK model should have. Additionally, the recommendation of setting up a virtual environment didn't work as expect and went with the global approach.

And finally scratched the whole approach, once realizing that transcribing 26 min audio clip is taking longer than 10min.

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Further options exist like (1) or stream via .

Sometimes I wished that creators would mirror their channels on more permissive sites like or that don't hard-lock into watching ads.

- 1: github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

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