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cmiksche ("Christoph Miksche") wrote:

The Evergrande situation https://blog.m5e.de/post/the-evergrande-situation/

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope"):
raye@weirder.earth ("relache ⚗️") wrote:

#PDX is hosting an Anarchist Book Fair on Oct 9-10, 2021.

https://itsgoingdown.org/announcing-the-2021-portland-anarchist-bookfair/

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• A black dragon breathes red fire on a yellow background. Portland 2021 Anarchist Book Fair Free! All Ages! October 9-10, 1-6pm, Buckman Elementary BOOKS! ZINES! FOOD! WORKSHOPS! ANARCHY! FUN! portlandbookfair@riseup.net (remote)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

Today's recommendation algorithm deployments seem more like this to me:

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• A scene from "They Live" looking at the world through glasses that reveal subliminal messages bombarding people as they go through their day. Examples: "Consume. Conform. No Thought. Submit. Watch TV." (remote)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

Recommendation algorithms serve the interests of the corporations deploying them over the people who are bombarded by them while going about their business.

I prefer the voluntary recommendations I get from my fellow (trusted) human beings who want to share something they found interesting, exciting, or edifying. Often spontaneously, but usually only when prompted.

If recommendation algos have to exist, they should only be something a person voluntarily and explicitly goes to for suggestions.

owl@beach.city wrote:

the six words every owl wants to hear: "I had to cancel today's meeting."

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
ceejbot@rafting.io ("sheltering under cats") wrote:

RT @jbtuason
was rereading the little prince last night and i forgot how good this part was at explaining NFTs

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tomayac@toot.cafe ("Thomas Steiner") wrote:

An interesting academic study of In-App Browsers (IABs) on Android and iOS and how they deal with security issues of pages: https://daoyuan14.github.io/papers/RAID21_IABI-Usability.pdf [PDF]. No surprise that IABs based on Chrome Custom Tabs and `SFSafariViewController` performed best.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

My neighbor seemingly operates in two distinct modes:

1. while unemployed, keep the entire house awake at night partying and screaming

2. when employed, wake the entire house by smashing doors at 5am

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

"Listen, nobody fools me five times in a row!"

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope"):
nev@bananachips.club wrote:

demi adejuyigbe goes out on the very highest of high notes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfi9JpgMc2U

https://sept21st.com 🐘

owl@beach.city wrote:

good moon

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• It's the moon, shining through the clouds. (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

I can only feel happy for Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/21/yes-elvira-im-angry-at-someone/

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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope"):
ioa@functional.cafe ("ioanna") wrote:

Today is Igalia's 20th anniversary, celebrating 20 years of contributions to open and free software, as a successful egalitarian worker cooperative.

https://www.igalia.com/2021/09/21/2020-in-2021.html

I joined Igalia almost two years ago, in which I did and continue to learn so many fascinating things, about language specification, about WebAssembly, about JS engines and compilers. But most importantly, about taking common decisions and truly working together as equals.

As I told my dear coworkers:

"Enjoying one's work is a fine thing, but being able to share common goals and such collegiality with you Igalians is certainly a dream come true."

#Igalia20YearsOpen

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

I guess I'm just going to have to write off Tuesdays and Thursdays this semester.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/21/i-hate-tuesdays-and-thursdays/

owl@beach.city wrote:

Just give me the winter off.

owl@beach.city wrote:

Really bad that workdays don't get shorter as the actual days do.

Reblogged by technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see..."):
christinelove ("Christine Love") wrote:

RT @christinelove My lesbian road trip RPG Get in the Car, Loser! is NOW AVAILABLE! Join Sam Anon on a trip to save the world from an ancient evil, flirt in the backseat, and hit every diner along the road.

The main game is free on Steam and Itch…
https://store.steampowered.com/app/938860/Get_In_The_Car_Loser/
https://loveconquersallgames.itch.io/getinthecarloser

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owl@beach.city wrote:

1995: installing a program on your computer
2025: crimeloading "dark apps" onto your phone

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LadyIcepaw@mastodon.art ("Linda") wrote:

Please accept these piles of tsumtsum-shaped Lovewood characters. 🤲

#art #mastoArt #creativeToots #lovewood #cute

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• The six Lovewood main characters are shaped like chunky soft beans and hugging each other in a pile. It looks very comfy and the color palette consists of soft pink-purples. (remote)
• A sketch of Nord laying on top of Atlas. Both are sleepy little cuddle beans. (remote)

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vascorsd wrote:

RT @vascorsd «NEW: Amazon's new AI-powered cameras are penalizing delivery drivers for driving mistakes they didn't make & drivers are losing income.

It's the nightmare scenario that AI experts frequently warn about. I talked to drivers about how AI is punishing them:»

https://www.vice.com/en/article/88npjv/amazons-ai-cameras-are-punishing-drivers-for-mistakes-they-didnt-make

stolen from here: https://twitter.com/LaurenKGurley/status/1439950968574156802

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TerryHancock@mastodon.art ("Terry Hancock") wrote:

This is a video I posted some time ago about our production workflow, using open source software tools "From Conception to Completion".

https://vimeo.com/filmfreedomproject/c2c

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope"):
dantheclamman@scicomm.xyz ("Dr. Dan Killam") wrote:

A new paper discusses a Bronze age city leveled by an asteroid airburst. Abstract reads like a Hollywood script: "A city-wide ~ 1.5-m-thick carbon-and-ash-rich destruction layer contains peak concentrations of shocked quartz (~ 5–10 GPa); melted pottery and mudbricks; diamond-like carbon; soot; Fe- and Si-rich spherules; CaCO3 spherules from melted plaster... Heating experiments indicate temperatures exceeded 2000 °C."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-97778-3

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MicroSFF ("Micro SF/F stories by O Westin") wrote:

RT @MicroSFF Arthur pulled the sword out of the stone, and tossed it aside. Then he sat down, and waited for the sun to set.
When darkness fell, the troll woke up.
"Thank you. That's been bothering me for years."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Lyrilith@mastodon.art wrote:

I just learned that I can export an InDesign file as an IDML file, which I then can open in Scribus! 🤯

I tested it wit a flyer and not all settings are converted correctly, but to work well enough! Things like missing line-spaces and such can be adjusted, but the rest is all there! :star_eyes:

#scribus #indesign #LibreGraphics #LibreOpenSourceSoftware

Anathema wrote:

Can’t decide if it’s more funny or depressing watching Labour completely implode.

Probably depressing.

God I hate England.

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aparrish@friend.camp ("allison") wrote:

the delicious irony: creators of industrial language models are now worried about no longer being able to use the web as their "commons" (i.e. other people's labor that they appropriate and commercialize) because their own outputs are "polluting" it (via https://mailchi.mp/jack-clark/import-ai-266-deepmind-looks-at-toxic-language-models-how-translation-systems-can-pollute-the-internet-why-ai-can-make-local-councils-better)

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• One big problem: Today, we're in the era of text-generating and translation AI systems being deployed. But there's a big potential problem - the outputs of these systems may ultimately damage our ability to train AI systems. This is equivalent to environmental collapse - a load of private actors are taking actions which generate a short-term benefit but in the long-term impoverish and toxify the commons we all use. Uhb oh!. "Our empirical findings also raise concerns regarding the effect of synthetic data on model scaling and evaluation, and how proliferation of machine generated text might hamper the quality of future models trained on web-text." (remote)

owl@beach.city wrote:

slap base

owl@beach.city wrote:

data bass

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope"):
hiscursedness ("Crust Kringle") wrote:

RT @hiscursedness When it's the 21st of September

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Do you pine for the sexism and general regressive attitude of old school, traditional skeptical organizations? Barbara Drescher wants to bring them back, and some people think that's a good idea.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/09/21/i-escaped-in-time/

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