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Joined Aug 2018
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for Godzilla, every city is walkable
Up and at 'em, people! These rhythms aren't going to log themselves!
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Oregon's has plagued for years by big-money attempts to buy state and local government elections. Since 2007, more than 20 people and entities have given individual campaign donations of $1 million or more.
A new law puts strict limits on political contributions and dark money. Unfortunately it won't take effect until 2027, leaving several more elections in which corporations and the wealthy can do as they like.
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#Oregon #elections #CampaignContributions
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2024/04/gov-tina-kotek-signs-historic-campaign-finance-bill.html
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🚨 BOOST CHALLENGE! 🚨Ok #Fediverse and #Mastodon. If I tell my Canadian Member of Parliament, Gord Johns, that he will get 2000 followers within one week of creating a Mastodon account, will you make that happen?
I want him to be able to say when he stands in the House and presents the #e4769 petition for an official Fediverse server that he himself is the first Canadian MP to be on the Fediverse!
Boost for yes! I am going to show him this post! I'm counting on you, literally! 🔥 🙏 2️⃣ 0️⃣ 0️⃣ 0️⃣ 🙏
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UPDATE: In the US, COVID wastewater levels are now low.
If you've been holding off getting healthcare or doing other indoor activities, now is one of the best times of the year to do these things more safely.
Xitter usage, advertising way down since Elongate.
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@mcc Unity is just following Icelandic tradition.
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Another insightful banger from @pluralistic:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/01/human-in-the-loop/#monkey-in-the-middle
This one focuses on LLMs and the idea of the "reverse centaur", where a robot does the fun stuff while a human does the tedious, error-prone work.
I'll note from the periphery that, despite the current hype, AI is more than LLMs. There are other AI systems (e.g., Chess and Go players, VLSI design tools) that *do* have an internal model of the domain about which they are reasoning. Unfortunately, there's a slippery continuum:
- solves the problem perfectly and deterministically
- significantly outperforms any human
- about as good as an expert human, but makes different, weird mistakes
- meh, output looks vaguely plausible
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@hynek there's a bit in my stand-up comedy about how one way you can tell the difference between someone who's been responsible for a complicated system lots of strangers depend on, and someone who hasn't, is whether they ever say "why don't they just....?"
@buzzdee Hmm, I don't see anything for that hashtag. It might be a federation issue.
@buzzdee Are you liking it? Does it seem physically solid? Any particular pros/cons?
Does anyone have experience with Fairphone? #phone #fairphone
Amazon will be replacing "just walk out" with a slightly rebranded version.
Our 7-year-old Samsung phones have served us well, but it's coming up on time to replace them. Any suggestions for a bloatware-free Android option?
(Preemption: we've been somewhat radicalized here, but we also need to play with others, so Linux phones are not an option.)
Overheard at last night's #SavageWorlds sci fi #ttrpg session:
On hearing that they will be travling to the planet Dysnomia:
"Dysnomia? Is that the thing where you can't do math?"
"No, it's where you can't talk to gnomes."
"We're playing mind games here -- and we're losing!"
A player looking over her character's psionic elemental manipulation powers as the party tries to coax their hexapod crawling vehicles across a raging river:
"Well, I don't know if I can Moses this..."
- Siva Afi
- https://tgc.link/siva-afi
- Cascadia 9.0
- https://www.cascadia9game.org/
I have moved to peterdrake@mstdn.social. If you found peterdrake@qoto.org on a website, please let me know at my new account.
Joined Aug 2018
