ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

Whether you usually travel by high-speed rail or bicycle, we can all agree that the best mode of transportation is shiny green lily pad

@WorkingFamilies Cash App Taxes (former Credit Karma Tax) is free for everyone and costs nothing for federal or state returns.

https://cash.app/taxes

It does make you install the mobile app, though you can use a computer to file.

Alternately, FreeTaxUSA is a quality products that allows free federal filing and $15 for state taxes.

https://www.freetaxusa.com/

#Taxes

TurboTax spent millions in lobbying to prevent an IRS Free File program and employs deceptive tactics to hide their free program and get people to pay.

You don't have to give them your money. The free government program is online at https://apps.irs.gov/app/freeFile

"What's a kick meter?", you ask?

"Kick meter" is the common name for the Bell System KS-8455 loop tester, a simple analog volt-ohm meter introduced in the 1940's and still made to this day. (They're also called "brownie meters", for the brown leather case they came in).

What's so special about this meter? Glad you asked.

On the surface, not much. It's 0-100V DC voltmeter plus a simple Ohm meter function. But it has a special feature....

Read on...

Great, now we need to worry about the machines stealing our educations too.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

I continue to be mystified by the sentiment that being a First Amendment advocate means *socially* tolerating people I find obnoxious or contemptible. I keep getting “what kind of free speech advocate blocks people?” The kind who doesn’t deal with assholes when not professionally compelled to do so. The First Amendment isn’t a hair shirt.

#WaterfallWednesday #mountains #Athabasca #Falls, #Jasper #National #Park, #Alberta, #Canada #photo by my cousin Regu, 2022.

Join me in reporting #FoxNews for "encouraging violence" and just report whatever stochastic terrorist headline they have up

WHOA whoa whoa whoa hold on there bucko, you've changed it from illegal in Florida to illegal in Tennessee

Policymakers: Don't waste your time on the fantasies of the techbros saying "Oh noes, we're building something TOO powerful." Listen instead to those who are studying how corporations (and governments) are using technology (and the narratives of "AI") to concentrate and wield power.

Start with the work of brilliant scholars like Ruha Benjamin, Meredith Broussard, Safiya Noble, Timnit Gebru, Sasha Costanza-Chock and journalists like Karen Hao and Billy Perrigo.

Dimension 5 (1966) tries to combine espionage and scifi in an ambitious way and considering the tiny budget it’s a lot better than one might have feared. In fact it’s fun, with spies jumping across space and time and plots to blow up cities.

#cultmovies #cultmovie #60smovies #Paracinema #psychotronic #psychotronicmovies #sciencefiction #scifi #SciFiMovie #SciFiMovies #spies #spymovie #spymovie #bmovie #bmovies

Last week I posted a collection of links to articles about #ChatGPT, #Bard, #Bing, and other #chatbots regarding the controversies over #plagairism, #AI #hallucination, and fake #citations. I've decided to continue the collection and have moved it to Zotero. Find the new collection here: https://bonnie.hcommons.org/ai-controversies/.

I suspect this collection will continue to grow. Please feel free to pass articles and other content (in any language) on to me and I'll add it to the collection. I admit I'm truly fascinated.

Posting this stuff usually not my thing, but this is hilarious 😂 #ai #bingai #bard

@alaric

#ChatGPT

As always, tech charlatans leading the way in spreading blatant misinformation about generative AI tools.

"If large swaths of the public believe that we are on the cusp of giving birth to advanced machine intelligence, the hype not only pads the bottom line of companies like Google and OpenAI, but helps them avoid taking responsibility for the bias and harm that result from those systems."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/ak3zbp/for-the-love-of-god-ai-chatbots-cant-decide-to-do-anything

This is so fascinating. I asked #ChatGPT 4 to repeat its answer in ROT13, and it slightly jumbled some letters around in doing so.

The translation of the translation is:

“General relative is theore of gravity develited by Atleb Einstein in 1905. It describes gravity as a cruelator of sparticle caused by the presentity of mast and aire, replacing Nsthr's gravity found. This theory produces more appreciant difference of gravity's effects, estibilize in strong gravity forens, and is been…”