RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/117074054375308899
For reference, Wyoming is a castle-doctrine ("stand your ground") state, thus demonstrating that "no duty to retreat" applies only to the people law does not bind, and not to the people law does not protect.
RE: https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/117004052393948286
AIBros lecturing us 24x7 on how "ai" is gonna work miracles & then shutting down one of the legitimately helpful machine learning projects is pretty much them saying "you know we're tried of pretending we want to do good."
RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/116988303873129528
It's cliche (though not as much as it should be) that a company as big as Microsoft can take decades to know it's dead.
Meanwhile Microsoft is over here trying to pull a Kodak & speed-run the process.
Headine SHOULD read "To evade liability for criminal negligence, OpenAI claims AI agent went rogue."
Because there's no meaningful sense in which that "AI" "agent" had moral agency.
RE: https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter/116964619978100586
When someone says "opposition is not a principle," what they're telling us is that the folks who oppose specific things as a matter of principle are harshing their buzz.
Periodic reminder that the OG Luddites didn't lose to technology - they lost to the socio-political order of their day.
If you wanna say they were fools, OK, but let's be clear that by saying that, you're also saying they shouldn't have tried to oppose the social order.
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RE: https://researchbuzz.masto.host/@researchbuzz/116606687822384947
I remember when people were sharing screenshot where they used Pizza Hut's chatbot as a coding assistant.
RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116589746099103602
At the same time there's a trend toward guys (not seen this yet from a woman) to dismiss water depletion/contamination, noise pollution, air pollution, heat island effects & grid impacts as "crank science" because there have been a few exaggerated claims w.r.t. heat or water & crank-science about infrasound exists.
These are REAL, WELL-DOCUMENTED PROBLEMS, & that's not changed by the fact that a few cranks have published on infrasound now & then.
A resource to bookmark if you draw illustrations: graphite is a free, open source browser based, 2D vector editor. It’s currently in Alpha version.
It has an amazing non destructive editing workflow feature inspired by VFX compositing. This brings a lot of flexibility, for example: coming back on a specific edit to revert it.
It co-exists with a layer based approach, giving you both ways of working.
The tool: https://graphite.art/
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/116303061606967397
Sam Bankman-Fried's mom helicoptering in to conduct a shadow defense.
RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116058109898983365
I love the way XKCD-927 sounds like a 16th standard.
Today, I want to share a fun 404 page: @e11e's page with a cute little game. The rest of the website is equally fun, don't forget to visit it as well!
RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@brucelawson/115695937221800921
Re. Marco Rubio mandating Times New Roman for all State Department documents. Calibri's 'not businesslike' or some such shit.
This quote-post was done by simply pasting the URL of the post into a new post. Goal is to test what the rendering behavior is. (Seems to be identical to quote-posting using the UI tool.)
https://mastodon.online/@davidaugust/115556748793280825
RE: https://mastodon.online/@davidaugust/115556748793280825
Loving how the thumbnail on the "violent rioters" post is a bunch of well-dressed middle class people just milling around. Like, clearly not violent unemployed people. Is it that they've got a reality-filter installed, or that they want to project a reality filter into the minds of their audience? (Por que no los dos?)
Ravenous Hounds (our band) are on this 50-song-strong compilation raising money for 4-year-old Loxley’s fight against cancer. Some pretty cool artists on there. Good mix of blues, folk, goth. https://thealdorabritainrecords.bandcamp.com/album/young-river-poet-50-songs-in-support-of-4-year-old-loxleys-fight-against-cancer
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You know that situation when you're hesitant to buy a product or service because the brand looks cheap or not trustworthy? Yeah, I've got the same now if it's obvious that the company's using AI generated images or videos in their ads or on social media.
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