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📣 **PSA:**
Most of the disappointment, outrage and fear that #ChatGPT, #Bing, etc are provoking these days can be cured by internalising this very simple idea:
#Chatbots and #DeepLearning models **do NOT produce truth, knowledge or wisdom**, therefore you should NOT trust them with anything important.
That's it.
Being shocked or alarmed because one of those tools gave the wrong answer to a kindergarten-level question or spat out a racist rant is so naive. If you don't trust politicians, salespeople or TV series, why should you trust ChatGPT? Just don't!
> _“Politicians get elected by telling us we can have our cake and eat it, too. The only thing that’s passed for bipartisanship over the past four decades is reckless spending. Democrats want more social spending, Republicans want lower taxes. OK, let’s compromise — do both and fuck over our grandkids.”_
— [Scott Galloway](https://scribe.froth.zone/@profgalloway/no-mercy-no-malice-e31a5bd8436b)
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i've been learning how animation interpolation works in Godot, so I tell my wife "I spent a bunch of time today studying tweens" and now suddenly I"M the monster
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@kairyssdal I looked it up, and a woman is in her prime at ages 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89 and 97.
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A reminder that if you claim something is end-to-end encrypted and there is a vulnerability, it's quite possible that people will die.
E2E systems are safety critical and shouldn't be taken lightly.
Gotta love #TwinShadow's web site!
Our amazing hypocrisy:
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Do you know why you won't find any mention anywhere on the W3C website of #web3? It does not exist. BOOM! There is one web.
Si queréis promover la participación femenina en sub-áreas concretas (p.ej. en ingeniería de minas), o pedir que mejoren los salarios de las mujeres en los campos en los que estén desequilibrados, creo que por coherencia y por justicia, deberíais
* no generalizar hablando de «mujeres» en «la ciencia», porque es una simplificación que ayuda a mantener vivo el mito de que las mujeres, así en general, están en desventaja en la ciencia en España, así en general,
* denunciar también los aspectos en los que son los hombres los peor valorados (p.ej. [a la hora de contratar profesores de STEM](https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1418878112)),
* denunciar a la vez que hay áreas científicas en las que los hombres son la (a veces muy exigua) minoría (en el curso 2020/2021, entre los recién titulados de máster: 48% de fisioterapeutas, 45% de arquitectos, 44% de veterinarios, 35% de biólogos y bioquímicos, 34% de médicos, 32% de dentistas, 29% de farmacéuticos, 27% de nutricionistas, 24% de neurocientíficos, 22% de enfermeros, 16% de psicólogos, 13% de logopedas… [fuente](https://www.universidades.gob.es/estadistica-de-estudiantes/)).
También a nivel europeo, hace ya dos años que, [según Eurostat](https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-eurostat-news/-/ddn-20210511-1), las mujeres son (ligera) mayoría entre todas las personas empleadas en ciencia y tecnología en la UE.
A todos los que están promoviendo en 🇪🇸 España el [Día Internacional de la Mujer y la Niña en la Ciencia](https://www.un.org/es/observances/women-and-girls-in-science-day) quiero recordarles, este año otra vez, que en #España,
* [según Eurostat](https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Human_resources_in_science_and_technology), hace dos años ya había más mujeres que hombres «empleadas en ciencia y tecnología», que
* [según el INE](https://www.ine.es/jaxi/Datos.htm?path=/t00/mujeres_hombres/tablas_1/l0/&file=c02002.px), hace dos años las mujeres ya representaban el 54% de todas las personas «empleadas en ciencia y tecnología», y que,
* también según el INE, hace como mínimo seis años que las mujeres ya son mayoría entre los estudiantes matriculados, y entre los que obtienen titulaciones, en _todas_ las áreas de estudio, y eso incluye «ciencias» y «ciencias de la salud» (única excepción: «ingeniería y arquitectura»).
#InternationalWomenInScienceDay #DiaDeLaMujerYLaNinaEnLaCiencia #11febrero #WomenInScience #IDWGS2023
I heard a mention of #ConorMcGregor, so I went to read a bit about him, and watched a few minutes of a couple #UFC fights — including that knockout 13 seconds into the match.
Change my mind: if you enjoy watching #MMA, there's something wrong with you.
It is brutal. Am I too sensitive?
> _“At the same time as events such as those currently occurring in #Turkey and #Syria, other ‘silent’ catastrophes are taking place worldwide. […] They have always been there. […] One of these silent #catastrophes is the young children dying daily from preventable diseases. **More than 1,300 children die every day from #malaria alone**, which can be prevented by providing simple interventions like mosquito nets. **These deaths are like an #earthquake occurring every day**. And because this suffering goes largely unnoticed by the world, donations in fields like this are low — even though the life of a child can be saved here with just a few thousand dollars, and many more children can be saved from pain and suffering.”_
https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/blog/turkey-syria-earthquake-donation-advice
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What Does It Look Like for the Web to Lose?, by @chriscoyier:
https://chriscoyier.net/2023/01/04/what-does-it-look-like-for-the-web-to-lose/
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Japanese users reported #TwitterAPI-accessed accounts being frozen a day ago. Twitter disabled Movetodon's access about 8 hours ago.
You don't have until next week.
The casualty is not the FediVerse. The casualty is the people who relied upon free-of-charge #Twitter, directly or indirectly, for everything from authentication to robot-posted pictures of possums. They've lost all of that.
They were always the product, not the customer, of course.
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Update: moved this to my new writing site so there’s a new URL.
Every hashtag on every post on every platform should always be pascal case. I wrote this to illustrate how screenreaders read hashtags based on their case.
It’s a small thing that all of us can do to build a more inclusive, accessible internet for all. Please take the time to use pascal case.
https://markwrites.io/hashtag-accessibility-by-everyone-for-everyone
#Accessibility #WebAccessibility #Usability #Readability #Hashtags #SocialNetworking #Blogging #UX
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