ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

Ava, Mo. man delivers flowers to frontline workers around the Ozarks

I reluctantly agreed to this interview because a friend really wanted to do it. She is on weather so this is like extra credit. As you can see, I almost melted down and nobody was asking hard questions.

https://www.ky3.com/2021/09/15/ava-mo-man-delivers-flowers-frontline-workers-around-ozarks/

'The whole thing cost $5': The simple tool that helps my kid through stressful moments

https://www.abc.net.au/everyday/simple-homemade-stories-help-toddler-through-life-transitions/101915140

Future ICS News - Multiple Ransomware Attacks on Artillery Contractors - #futurenews - https://tinyurl.com/uw8n2dkk

Rep. Nancy Mace has done this performance every week with the media, framing herself as a reasonable center and getting all the press... and then she votes with the rest of them every single time.

Mace did it this week with Omar, on the Foreign Affairs Committee I wonder what next weeks performance will be, and how Our Failed Political Press ™ will fall for her again?

@Elizafox Isn't Half Life 2 really just Life 1?

Besides more urgent problems centralized models like #DALLE and #Midjourney winning over open-source-models like #StableDiffusion everyone can further train, merge and generally fork at home would also mean a much sadder more generic far less diverse stage for AI-art in the future.

Nails didn’t turn out as intended.

Instead of cat eye, they’re giving Batman villain whose hands dipped very specifically into a vat of toxic sludge.

I ain’t mad.

The Reconstruction Era Is Not Taught Well in US Schools — Here’s Why That Matters

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/reconstruction-era-not-taught-schools

FRIEND: It's called cauliflower. It's not ghost broccoli.

ME: [taking a long drag on my cigarette] Listen kid, I know what I saw.

The GOP-controlled House Oversight Committee “has disbanded the Subcommittee on #CivilRights and #CivilLiberties, which focused on #VotingRights, freedom of assembly and #CriminalJusticeReform policies….

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) is urging the committee to reinstate the subcommittee, saying that the loss of it sends an ‘unmistakable message to the American people that their civil rights and civil liberties are no longer a priority to the 118th Congress.’” https://t.co/mZIqcQNaaG #Fascism

Harvard is shutting down prominent social media influence scholar Joan Donovan's project at a time when such research is getting both more essential and more difficult. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/02/misinformation-harvard-donovan-close/

Hilarious, a Windows 98 user found a real OpenSSH remote 😂

Imagine all the bugs we can find if we install OS/2 lol #retrocomputing

https://social.treehouse.systems/@grawity/109689295609404907

I mean, I don't know where else people believe a rodent to predict the weather while rejecting evidence-based climate science, but this fits...

Friends or maybe just frenemies in a wetland marsh. The Tricolored Heron hung out with this alligator comfortably while I was there, in fact, an Egret took the hint to fly in shortly thereafter. I guess the gator looked sleepy. Fontainebleau State Park, Louisiana.

#birds #birding #wetlands #World WetlandsDay #tbt #ThrowbackThursday

Hey everyone:

I just want to say thank you. I've been going through some pretty serious & difficult shit for a while now, but since joining mastodon, I feel like I have something positive, kind, friendly, & exciting to see every time I click this app.🥹

Thank you for being you and for welcoming me into the #Asstadon community!

Here are 2 of my #donkeys looking beautiful as always. They're actually quite over the chilly weather, but cute nonetheless 💙

#asstodon #donkey #community

Oh lord, they’ve added GPT-3.5.

“We’ve taken the worst product you’ve ever used, and integrated a supspect AI that will record what you say and tell you what you should do next.”

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2023/02/01/microsoft-teams-premium-cut-costs-and-add-ai-powered-productivity/

#aiart #digitalart #ArtificialIntelligience

Reminder: Considering Hogwarts Legacy is coming out in two weeks (10. February), I recommend checking who of all the super friendly nice gamers and streamers with rainbow flags and all in their bio might not be worth your Youtube sub after all.

JKR said she does not seperate art (her franchise) from the artist (herself) but sees it as approval of her actions instead. So I'd be careful giving let's players a free pass if they go down the "seperate art from the artist" route.

Apart from this: If you seperate the art from the artist, it is still a horrible anti-semitic game in a problematic franchise (see below). If you are a streamer / let's player yourself and you are wondering if you should boycott this because of a possible backlash on social media, maybe ask yourself why liking and playing "Genocide: The Game" is so important for you.

Some reading material and one video:

Dailydot.com: "Hogwarts Legacy accused of using an antisemitic trope with goblin plot"
https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/hogwarts-legacy-goblins-antisemitism/

Kotaku: "Hogwarts Legacy Lead Designer Used To Run Anti-Social Justice YouTube Channel"
https://kotaku.com/hogwarts-legacy-lead-designer-used-to-run-anti-social-j-1846316222

Shaun: In-depth analysis of the books, movies etc. from Harry Potter as a Franchise and its problems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1iaJWSwUZs

(German) Thread of ex HP fan @VeganUndStabil : Reality check of common arguments for playing the game
https://mastodon.social/@VeganUndStabil/109740294091817187

#HogwartsLegacy #HarryPotter #TransRightsAreHumanRights

2/n) Second, it's important to look not just at what this tech can do but also how it was built. See https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13347-020-00405-8 (providing an exploration of AI practices through a decolonial lens)

That being said, we have to understand something before we can intelligently talk about it. So, for the moment goal is explaining #LLMs to #LawProfs

So, here we go...