Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org
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Software Engineer, mostly in the Pacific Northwest of late
Medical Informatics - Carrier-Grade Network Video Distribution - Real Time Clinical Telemetry
Formerly: Motorola, Tektronix, Intel, HP, Qualcomm, Nintendo; others you're less likely to have heard of.
Will code for pie. 🥧
Joined Dec 2022
To everyone who keeps going on about bluesky: I really don't see how a proprietary social media platform controlled by a techbro is the solution to the problem of proprietary social media platforms controlled by techbros.
"Don't worry, Darlin'
Now baby don't you fret
We're livin' in the future and
none of this has happened yet."
-- Bruce Springsteen
While mastodon isn't remotely as toxic as Twitter, it's a lot bitchier, with a vastly higher proportion of self-appointed policing of others' posts.
I don't know if anyone remembers lawn darts. Just found a vintage set online -- not on eBay, they're probably banned there -- and am laughing my head off at this warning, which is rather like saying "not intended for smoking; do not expose to flame" on a pack of cigarettes.
The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.
-- Garry Kasparov
In the midst of my despair, it must be said that Obama and Biden weren't doing shit about climate change either. This doesn't even rise to the level of cold comfort, but it's true.
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“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.”
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
These geese that cross the road in the marked crossings in Cambridgeshire UK...
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9qv915xwwzo
..remind me of when a few weeks ago, I crossed a busy street in a NW Portland neighborhood, one which had a press-to-activate pedestrian signal. As soon as I started across I realized that a coyote had joined me. Apparently he or she had been lurking nearby waiting for someone to come along and push the button.
Amusing that Trump has been talking about 2000% tariffs right about the time it was noticed that he's charging $60 for bibles he's getting from China for $3.
I wonder if whoever did the arithmetic for him also mentioned that it's not a tariff if it goes in the seller's own pocket?
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In an ideal world, today's putin would be consistent with his past self.
Watch (60 Second) Insta Reel, Source: United 24 Media
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There's an even bigger problem here, which is that at best these are summaries of output stages that are chained together in the model, NOT descriptions of the processes that generated those output stages.
OpenAI should be well aware that LLMs are not able to accurately report *why* they did something. They are only able to make up post-hoc rationalizations based on their context window including their output.
So these are at best guesses, not true descriptions of motivations or processes.
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Whatever improvements ChatGPT o1-preview may have to offer, they've introduced a whole new layer of bullshit with the "status messages" that make up nonsensical tasks that it pretends to be doing.
This matters—a lot—because this particular bullshit is not a limitation of the system.
This is an active choice by OpenAI to mislead people about what the system is doing. It’s Wizard of Oz shit.
The fact that they use their own bullshit generator to do it is icing on the irony cake.
Columbus Day
is when ppl who think immigrants
are thieves, rapists & murderers
get to celebrate an immigrant
who stole, raped & murdered.
- John Fugelsang
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@davidbrin
What I can't figure out is why Biden's secret deep state weather control bureau is now pumping hundreds of times as much energy as the entire US electrical grid produces in order to beef Milton back up to a Category 5 just to hit Bermuda.
I'm still amused by profiles on that other site that read something like "Had enough of Musk, moved to Threads: <link>" and similar.
Yes, fed up with being monetized by an unaccountable oligarch with a less than transparent yet wholly disturbing agenda, therefore...
I'm trying to work out when the MAGA crowd became Socialists. Suddenly they're all about redistribution of wealth. Shouldn't they be berating hurricane victims for not buying enough insurance?
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I've seen insane claims about chemtrails and radar being used to create and direct hurricanes.
Scientific illiteracy is a real problem in this country. The amount of energy in even a moderate hurricane exceeds the total electrical generating capacity of the United States, by at least two orders of magnitude. A hurricane contains as much energy as a nuclear war. The idea that we could secretly be generating them with radar stations is ... words fail.
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Ecocide, another weapon in Russia's war.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/01/ukraine-seim-river-poisoning-chernihiv-ecocide-
The speaker of the house just wrote a letter to Zelenskyy demanding the resignation of his ambassador.
It is in no way appropriate for the speaker to write such a letter. He does not represent the US, that falls to the executive branch He does not even speak for the legislative branch inasmuch as he cannot make representations about its will on any subject it hasn't actually voted on.
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@EugeneMcParland Free expression is all very well, but his belligerence brings it to the level of public disorder.
However, such is the nature of Japanese culture that he's probably doing more good than harm. This kind of public spectacle is not well-regarded there to say the least, and he's doing more to bring disrepute to his own positions than an opponent could ever accomplish.
- Enthusiasms
- 🏍️ 🪂 🚀 🎷 🔬 🔭 🎞️ 🐧 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
- Credit
- A Quinn-Martin Production
Software Engineer, mostly in the Pacific Northwest of late
Medical Informatics - Carrier-Grade Network Video Distribution - Real Time Clinical Telemetry
Formerly: Motorola, Tektronix, Intel, HP, Qualcomm, Nintendo; others you're less likely to have heard of.
Will code for pie. 🥧
Joined Dec 2022
