szescstopni @szescstopni@qoto.org

Dr. Mae Jemison, MD, the first black woman in space and first actual astronaut to appear on a Star Trek show, one of the very few people on this planet of whom two pictures can be posted depicting them doing their job on a spaceship with entirely different contexts.
#StarTrek #BlackHistoryMonth

Enjoyed a peaceful walk along a river yesterday!

#NewEngland #woodlands #landscapes #Nature #hiking #FromMyHikes #Fitness #FromTheField

W ostatnią sobotę 6.02 ugotowaliśmy duży gar kaszy jęczmiennej i jeszcze większy gulaszu warzywnego z grochem. Oprócz tego mieliśmy ogromny termos z gorącą herbatą oraz świeżego chleba więcej niż nasi goście byli w stanie zjeść. W te zimowe dni darmowy ciepły posiłek jest kluczowym wsparciem dla osób w życiowych kryzysach. Wiele z nich nie zaznaje dnia gdzie mają prawdziwy dach nad głową lub prawdziwie ogrzane mieszkanie. Dopóki państwo i społeczeństwo nie potrafi zaopiekować się nami, kiedy wpadamy w te kryzysy, Food Not Bombs będzie protestować gotując.

We knew ultra-processed food was bad for you. Now data from UK Biobank to show it.

Increased cancer risk, especially ovarian.
#MedMastodon #academia #medicine #food #nutrition #junkfood

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(23)00017-2/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_aip_email

Hmmm... I wonder what would happen if a large language model like #ChatGPT started being trained more and more on its own output. 🤔

Because that's exactly what might start happening soon. It *will* be used to generate a shit-ton of bullshit online content (as @mhoye already noted), and it is trained on data coming from the Internet.

"If you liked Garbage In Garbage Out, you're going to love Garbage In Garbage Out And Then Back In Again."

A GPT-Ouroboros, eating it's own crap. 💩

You do have to marvel at how many ways computer languages can say "nothing". I mean just a few...

0
0.0
0000-00-00
""
[]
{}
NaN
((void*)0)
NULL (or null)
specifically set to undefined
missing from containing object

And half of the bugs in my code is around dealing with one of these 🙂

Had a little fresh snow over my ski tracks since I hadn’t been out in a couple days, nice crisp snow out on the frozen tundra tonight though #DogsOfMastodon #Michigan #Skiing

You’re spoilt for choice with today’s ‘Spot the Dog’ - definitely a case of make play while the sun shines.

#quantocks #SpotTheDog #DogsOfMastodon #trees #photography

How does Earth breathes CO2 under different #ClimateChange scenarios?

Have a look at this visualization showing seasonal variations of atmospheric CO2 modulated by anthropogenic emissions and the strength of the ocean and land carbon sinks.

Computed with an #EarthSystemModel #MPI-ESM.
Details at #DKRZ Gallery:
https://www.dkrz.de/en/communication/galerie/Vis/esm/seasonal-variations-of-co2-under-climate-change

We care about your privacy.

Your privacy is delicious to us.

Your privacy is juicy-sweet and crunchy and wine-dark red and breathes a rich, savage musk-like scent, heavy on iron and with notes of truffle and mushroom and old, buried bones in the forest floor.

Your privacy dribbles gently down our lips as we chew, and after long, fragrant, eternities, swallow. Gulping, wolfing it down.

We would do ANYTHING to keep you handing us your precious, precious privacy.

Please click.

O! Okazuje się, że jednak SI nie zastąpi redaktorów i autorów: https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/25/23571082/cnet-ai-written-stories-errors-corrections-red-ventures

I don’t know if “climate activist” is really the right way to put it. Like, if I’m drowning and trying to come up for air, I’m not suddenly an “oxygen activist”—I’m literally just trying to stay alive. Maybe addressing climate change shouldn’t be viewed as an “activist” position.

@monro This is why I ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS crack the DRM on any ebook I purchase (and archive a DRM-free copy in an open file format). And why I've stopped buying new titles from Amazon (they "fixed" the DRM on Kindle files and there's no crack for new titles on sale since 01/01/2023). It's not because I'm a pirate, but because if I've paid for it I don't want to lose access to it due to negligence or malicious restraint of trade by the supplier.

"The biggest reason personal blogs need to make a comeback is a simple one: we should all be in control of our own platforms.

If what is happening on Twitter hasn’t demonstrated it, our relationship with these social media platforms is tenuous at best. The thing we are using to build our popularity today could very well be destroyed and disappear from the internet tomorrow, and then what?

What happens to all the content you have created?"

https://www.theverge.com/23513418/bring-back-personal-blogging

When you want to let folks know that you're holding it together despite *gestures to the world* everything.

https://shopofjudd.threadless.com/designs/im-fine

100% of artist's proceeds go to National Center for Transgender Equality (& Threadless throws in a few more bucks).

#HoldingItTogether #ThisIsFine

First #willow #basket of the season. Harvest, sort, weave. It calms my mind as I merge into my #creative #craft #muse.