ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

I love Mastodon and I haven't been on Twitter for months. But I feel like I'm not meeting new people here and frankly a bit bored. I want to discover new voices and see more opinions, which is hard when there are no suggested people to follow. Tips anyone?

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Did you know that a respirator helps with allergies?

If you wear your respirator when you are around pollen or pet dander, you most likely won't get your allergy symptoms.

Also, a properly worn respirator, like a N95 mask, prevents infection and spread of disease from all variants of the flu, as well as COVID-19.

Take care out there.

I just came up with a brilliant idea: ChatCEO.

All the buzzwords with the same amount of actual value, at a fraction of the cost!

Generation 1.d7129562 #aiart #art #ai

when the #train always stops in exactly the same place, the air conditioner always drips in exactly the same place, and a tiny #ecosystem is born <3

Goodnight pretty girls

Not only does the Science story fail to call them on this; its author falls into the one of the oldest and most pernicious traps around algorithmic bias.

The author contrasts the use of "automated methods" with reliance on "human prejudice", entirely overlooking the fact that the automated methods propose here are nothing but the explicit and fully-descirbed instantiation of human prejudice.

It's truly an embarrassment all around.

Intro post: I'm a professor of #Biology at the #UniversityOfWashington. My training is in #EvolutionaryBiology, #BehavioralEcology, #PopulationGenetics, and #Epidemiology. I did lots of work in #Bibliometrics and #NetworkTheory. I teach #DataLiteracy. These days I spend a lot of time thinking about the spread of #Misinformation, the #ScienceOfScience, and #PhilosophyOfScience. I do a lot of #BirdPhotography and love #ravens, #crows, and all #corvids.

For your trouble, here's a perfect crow.

Save the recipes you like that you found online because in a matter of months or weeks they will be drowned out by chat gpt generated recipes that looks plausible but don't work, and have taken up the first 20 pages of search results.

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear. - Judy Blume

Do I as an atheist, think there may be any chance I would ever go back to religion or become religious of any type?

My response, No, I don't see myself believing in non-reality beliefs supported by faith. I don't value faith. Atheism is a lack of belief in gods, so it doesn't mean one can't have other beliefs even religious or spiritual (whatever this loose term spiritual means). I am an atheist, antitheist, and antireligionist. So, I don't enjoy attending any religious services nor follow any religious-themed teaching but understand others who are atheists may. People should do as they feel works for them.

I'm dead serious; and furthermore as someone who has studied fascism, fascists, and the white sumpremacist ideology that binds the together, I can honestly say it was probably a pretty bad idea to tell nazis who think they're invincible that climate catastrophe disproportionately affects all the people they hate the most. They're slowly turning that into a feature, not a bug, in their fantasyland nazi cracker ethos.

A traffic light that only turns green if you’re driving under 30 km/hr … an intriguing experiment underway in Brossard, Quebec bit.ly/3Boicf2
#street #BikeTooter #walking #urbanism #urbanplanning

#flowerreport #photography

This means bugs in secure enclaves can last forever. Worse, if the keys for a secure enclave ever leak, then there's no way to update all the secure enclaves out there in the world - millions or billions of them - to fix it.

Well, it's happened.

The keys for the secure enclaves in #MicroStarInternational (AKA #MSI) computers, a massive manufacturer of work and gaming PCs - have leaked and shown up on the "#ExtortionPortal" of a notorious crime gang:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/leak-of-msi-uefi-signing-keys-stokes-concerns-of-doomsday-supply-chain-attack/

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A local market near me was attacked by some awful people who apparently purposefully rammed their storefront and destroyed half the store, I guess because racism? Not sure why, but these folks are neighborly and no one deserves this. Please consider donating if you can, or sharing where others might be able to help. #Oakland #NorthOakland #fundraiser #SmallBusiness

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-almaida-family-business