nonesuch_user @nonesuch_user@qoto.org

I fear we will run out of reasons before humanity is prepared for AGI.

I finished the font! You can download it on OpenGameArt for use in your own projects:

https://opengameart.org/content/pixtura12-medieval-pixel-font

In addition to just looking cool (because Textura is always cool), it can optionally (and if your art program supports it) automatically apply a bunch of abbreviations and variants to make Latin text look more authentic.

#pixelArt #fontForge #font

@subtl Try to focus on the idea and not the person. Make clear your intentions are to help not tear down, frame feedback constructively.

All of this is often not enough and it takes multiple interactions with you for people to realize your communication is well intentioned even if direct than that you are a jerk.

You effectively have to earn the right to be direct. This has been a painful lesson for me to learn during my career.

Directness and niceness are often treated as opposites when they’re orthogonal.

Telling someone their plan is a bad idea is direct. Telling them that they’re stupid is not nice. These are different things that people conflate.

Being direct helps people and teams while being nice while superficially pleasing can lead to conflict avoidance and lies by omission.

You can be direct and nice. You can be also direct and mean. You can be nice (aka civil) while being terrible to others.

This is what Earth looks like from 1.5 billion kilometers away. A pale blue dot beneath the rings of Saturn captured by the Cassini spacecraft.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI
#earth #space #saturn #planets #nasa

I present to you, SCROOGLED

A great fiction about Google written by one @pluralistic , who apparently toots "threads that are too long"

Well, this was September 12 2007

I don't expect him to stop now.

Nor do I want him to. This will be a very long thread.

You can read it at https://web.archive.org/web/20080318041629/https://radaronline.com/from-the-magazine/2007/09/google_fiction_evil_dangerous_surveillance_control_1.php/ yourself, if I'm pasting too slow, or you decide to mute me ​

Enjoy!

I get the feeling this BBC journalist waited their whole life just for this moment.... 🤣

Know your shit (as opposed to know you're shit 🤣 ) :

I've literally taught grad level seminars on selection bias and yet spent a non-trivial amount of time this evening wondering "why are conspiracy theorists so bad at doing their research?"

Am I looking at flyers taped to a pole at a traffic stop? Oh, nope, it's just the recommender on a Medium post.

#Ukrainian forces shelled a hotel in Donetsk, wounding Vitaly Khotsenko, the Prime Minister of the "Donetsk People's Republic", as well as Dmitry Rogozin, the former CEO of Roscosmos

"Google’s ad business helps fund dangerous disinformation that puts public health and democracy at risk around the world, earns money from millions of gun ads while publicly claiming to block them, and allowed a sanctioned Russian ad tech company to harvest data on potentially millions of people, including possibly those in Ukraine, putting their security and privacy at risk."
@ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/google-display-ads-piracy-porn-fraud

The Washington Post is the newspaper most likely to try stuff and I'm delighted that @jeremybowers says they're spinning up a Mastodon instance as we speak. Bravo.

(intentionally bad) Idea for OpenAI business model: All output is free. 1% of your ChatGPT output is completely wrong. Want to know which 1% it is? That'll cost you...

We may never be able to match the incredible achievements of #JohnMastodon, but the European Union still plays its part!

We are proud funders of Mastodon through the Next Generation Internet initiative (@EC_NGI).

Open,
Interoperable,
Decentralised,
Trust based.

More info: https://www.ngi.eu/blog/2022/11/24/how-ngi-supports-open-interoperable-decentralised-and-trust-based-internet-applications-through-fediverse-projects-like-mastodon/

UPDATE: Those data were from November. Currently there are over 8.7 MILLION accounts on Mastodon (3.5 TIMES as many as when the article was written). https://bitcoinhackers.org/@mastodonusercount/109548012136865393

We starten een nieuwe rubriek 'Grafiekpolitie' bij Nieuwscheckers! Met als eerste aflevering deze grafiek van Rijkswaterstaat - die de grafiek direct hebben laten aanpassen.

https://nieuwscheckers.nl/grafiekpolitie-rijkswaterstaat-overdrijft-natuurcompensatie-met-bomen-infographic/