Blink Dagon @blinkdagon@qoto.org

For a few years, a few people have been talking about "AI for IA" -- artificial intelligence for intelligence augmentation. It looks like #chatgpt is a powerful candidate for such a tool. What is lacking so far is a guide to how to use it specifically for that purpose

#ToolsForThought #ai #technology

Looks like I stumped it.

A group at Johns Hopkins has created a scrollable, interactive map of the entire universe, from here to the cosmic microwave background.
Extraordinary discoveries at your fingertips for free, unimaginable when I was a kid. https://mapoftheuniverse.net/ #astronomy #space #exploration

Commission for Austen Weitzel from earlier this year!
#pixelart

At 60 degrees north we don't get very many hours of daylight at this time of year but the light we do get can be incredible #Shetland #Scotland #horse #Shetlandpony

何伟在《纽约客》发新文章啦！

这次他向过去教过的学生发放调查问卷（接受调查的现在都在小城当老师），了解他们对于动态清零的看法。

印象比较深的部分：

1. 一位老师的同事在核酸检测前打了疫苗，结果呈阳性，后来再测试呈阴性（也就是假阳性）。然而，她在家隔离了一个学期！学校担心风险也把她开除了。

2. 问疫情有没有明显改变个人的观点、信仰或价值，收到的非常矛盾的回答（见图2）。可能很有代表性？

3. 对于受访者或小城里的人来说，「病毒和抗议者都是幽灵」（those are the ghosts: both the virus and the protesters.）。

4. 「我们应该把抗议活动看作是可能是一个更漫长的过程的一部分，因为中国公民要接受这样一个事实，即他们的制度中的缺陷可能比他们过去所容忍的要大。」

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/what-chinese-people-think-of-their-governments-zero-covid-policy

Photo by Bruce Irwin Nelles of #ChenaRiver in #FairbanksAK
#AlaskaWinter

Some photos come easy , some not so much.. Nugget point is a spectacular area with a great lighthouse but its quite out of the way

I spent a long weekend camping close by and visiting every morning and evening sat on a cliff edge waiting for good light, wind, rain, 200m drop just to my right

Glad to say this time it paid off!

#PhotoMonday #Aotearoa #nz #Photography #Nature #naturephotography #LandscapePhotography #NewZealand #LongExposure #

A magnificent Tree Tunnel in Essen, Germany

That "round up for charity button" at CVS checkout? CVS used it to pay money they already owed to the American Diabetes Association as the result of a previous lawsuit. Basically they tricked customers into paying CVS's debts under the guise of "charity"

https://lawstreetmedia.com/news/health/cvs-sued-over-fraudulent-donations-to-american-diabetes-association/

Where each U.S. state's largest immigrant population was born, from 1850 (usually Germany & Ireland) to 2013 (usually Mexico)

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/10/07/a-shift-from-germany-to-mexico-for-americas-immigrants/ #PewResearch @geography

Some historical precedents for denser ground-oriented housing choices (what I coined #GentleDensity) just make you melt. This is Schnoor Quarter in #Bremen, Germany —“life before the car” via @heuristics. It’s too low density for places that really need & can support well designed higher densities, but it’s an excellent alternative to low density sprawl. Nothing stops us from building something like this today, except our rules, biases and lack of political will. #missingmiddle #cities #urbanism

Samsung’s #Android app-signing key has leaked, is being used to sign Malware

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/12/samsungs-android-app-signing-key-has-leaked-is-being-used-to-sign-malware/

喜欢超市推推车^^

A sleeping elephant family photographed by a drone…

someone tried formatting these windows in a Word doc

里面主要是李老师的长篇自述（希望有友友能翻译成中文），非常动人。简述几点：

李老师在用推特前曾在微博转生过50个号，他的关注者在那时就经常给李老师投稿，炸号后网友甚至主动借手机号给李老师注册新号；

有南京网友专门骑自行车拍照，向李老师投稿报告城市动态，提醒其他抗议者小心「Li: I think that’s a really moving thing.」；

李老师在受到死亡威胁后也害怕，但他看到上海抗议者喊出「习近平下台」后，他说：

「When they shouted out “Xi Jinping, step down,” I suddenly felt it didn’t matter anymore. I can report this thing. I can type these words. If they aren’t afraid to say it, then I’m also not afraid to type it. That’s it.」

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/02/1064075/teacher-li-twitter-china-protests/

李老师，谢谢你！

甲骨文

绫濑不遥_
2022-11-28 https://weibo.com/3525008907/Mh1KmgeZ6

跟楼下的“大白”聊了聊。

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在封控抗争中，我和楼下看守我们的“防疫执行人员”聊了很多次。大哥们的心扉被我端开，和我说了很多心里话。整理在此，算作一个田野调查。
我们已知疾控中心不会划分高风险地区，研判权下放到街道一级。一般在划定后，街道会因基础人力不足，而将小区内的防疫执行工作外包给社会上的安保公司。
这里就出现了我的第一个疑问，这是怎么选定的呢？街道有完善的招标流程供人监督吗？我怎么知道你是不是一边握着判定风险区的权力，一边把防疫安保外包给小舅子呢？
但我知道执行人员回答不出来，所以这个问题我们跳过。
在接到街道的需求后，安保公司会去拉人，一般通过微信群招工。这些“防疫基层执行人员”，也就是大家说的“大白”，一般没有保险，工资日结，因防疫工作感染了新冠，公司也不会管。他们日常就负责两件事，一个是给居民送生物用品，一个是看着居民不要出门。
这里又出现了我的第二个问题。我说那么你们的工资是如何结算的呢？按天还是按项目呢？如果按天数，岂不是封的越久赚的越多啊？
一个大哥开口了，他说，虽然按天结，但是我是吃亏的。我是送外卖的，我的村子7号封了，14号解了，17号又封了，我怕停工没有饭吃，从村里逃出来了。但我没有住的地方，在街上睡了一天，后来我在群里看见这个招工，就过来了。原来我送外卖一天能赚300，干这个一天我熬12小时也赚不了几个子儿，我山西的家里还有个女儿，她上学要用钱的。
另一个大哥说，我村子封了，我是跳窗户逃出来的，因为外卖、快递送不了，餐厅停业不招工，现在唯一能打的零工就是防疫了，我只能来这里
我说，你们在这儿冷吗，这个衣服保暖吗，这里也没有充电宝啊，手机没电怎么办啊，你们能吃上饭吗。
大哥说，熬着呗。饭就是有的吃就吃，也没有人管我们，都自己解决。过了一会儿，大哥跟我说，你现在还被封控，就是因为人太少。人多点呢，你们心一齐，冲出去也没人管。咱们老百姓就想吃口饭啊，我们也睁一只眼闭一只眼。
我说，我有四个苹果放这儿了，你们晚上愿意吃就吃吧。

Aoisuki
2022年11月27日

Started this #audiobook #ourmissinghearts by #celesteng today. Such beautiful prose. It’s about Bird Gardner, who lives in America under laws meant to “protect American culture.” One day he receives a letter covered in cats from his mother, a Chinese American poet missing for years deemed by the state as unpatriotic. The book documents his search for his mom and his efforts to decode the letter. @bookstodon #currentlyreading #books #reading