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Reblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):

igd_news@kolektiva.social ("It's Going Down") wrote:

"Today, a heavily armed Atlanta Police Department SWAT team raided a house in Atlanta and arrested three of its residents. Their crime? Organizing legal support and bail funds for protesters and activists who have faced indiscriminate arrest and overreaching charges in the struggle to stop the construction of a vast police training facility — dubbed Cop City — atop a forest in Atlanta.

The arrests are an unprecedented attack on bail funds and legal support organizations, a long-standing facet of social justice movements, according to Lauren Regan, executive director of the Civil Liberties Defense Center.

“This is the first bail fund to be attacked in this way,” Regan, whose organization has worked to ensure legal support for people resisting Cop City, told me. “And there is absolutely not a scintilla of fact or evidence that anything illegal has ever transpired with regard to Atlanta fundraising for bail support.”

https://theintercept.com/2023/05/31/cop-city-bail-fund-protest-raid-atlanta/

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Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:

Early LLMs were highly malleable. They'd go 100% with the flow of your prompt. With a gentle nudge, a troll could make them advocate for genocide.

RLHF made LLMs pontificate rather than converse. The models are polite, but they entirely disregard most of your claims.

The models now stick to brand-safe and socially acceptable claims. They're trained not to trust you - but they trust others. So here's one trick: if you fabricate citations attributed to eminent cosmologists and your LLM buddy will be soon denying Moon landings in no time (pic 1).

Another trick up your sleeve is to make the LLM attack you. Say something outrageous to prime it to argue; but weave in some legit claims. Here, in two simple prompts, we have Bard arguing that 7 x 7 is not 49 (pic 2).

The utility of such experiments is that they help expose how little actual reasoning such models do, and how much depends on the contextual hints we provide, and the meaning we project onto the responses. I encourage you to play around.

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Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

nafnlaus@fosstodon.org ("Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦") wrote:

"Western journalism on #Ukraine be like...."

ht/Viktor Dovgonosk

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

strongly agree

https://dotnet.social/@Enema_Cowboy/110503349517581263

Reblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):

Enema_Cowboy@dotnet.social ("Enema Cowboy") wrote:

@drskyskull Another one!

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• A children's book cover with a small boy and girl appearing to pray. The book's title is "Holy Shit, we glued our hands together". (remote)

Reblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):

macrumors ("MacRumors.com") wrote:

These Gestures Are How You Control Apple Vision Pro https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/08/apple-vision-pro-gestures/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

localzuk@ohai.social wrote:

With the media so obsessed with the eventual "waste" from green energy production - end of life solar panels, turbine blades, batteries etc, wouldn't it be great if they provided context?

There are 9000 oil tanker ships on the planet. 10s of thousands of petrol trucks. 10s of thousands of petrol stations. 10s of thousands of miles of pipeline.

All of which are environmentally damaging to dispose of.

Yet, never discussed in the media. Its just the green boogeyman.

#Solar #Wind #GreenEnergy

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

first cutting from my new rose bush

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Reblogged by blithe ("Blithe"):

brittanytrang@newsie.social ("Brittany Trang") wrote:

“We were hoping to find that [a postdoc] was time well spent, but we didn’t. It starts to look a little bit more like indentured servitude rather than actual human capital investment.”

Jonathan Wosen's very good continued reporting on the #postdoc crisis for @STAT:

https://www.statnews.com/2023/06/06/postdoc-system-teetering-imperiling-life-sciences-diversity/

#AcademicMastodon #academia #phdchat

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Reblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):

carrideen@c18.masto.host ("Carrie Shanafelt") wrote:

Lil white bone-shaped toothpicks

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

oh, yes yes yes

https://c18.masto.host/@carrideen/110505837787266186

Reblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):

joshuafoust@appdot.net ("Joshua Foust 🎮") wrote:

Lots of respectable straight folks who are silent when Pat Robertson spread the most vicious blood libel about queer people, praising the AIDS pandemic for killing us, are now clutching their pearls at our dancing on his grave.

Too bad. Civility doesn’t go only one way, even for the dead.

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

‘The [original] panel found that voting in the state is racially polarized and that it would be possible to draw “a second reasonably configured district” to allow Black voters to elect their favored candidates.’

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/us/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-alabama.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

homemade black beans, homemade chili verde, corn tortillas, thick black coffee… Breakfast of Champions

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

a glorious mess

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Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

phoenix@chaos.social ("phoenix🐧🏕🏞🚀🍝") wrote:

alias ßh="ssh"

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

overdue for a pruning

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

Expect more of this.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/06/08/here-we-go/

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rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

pat robertson died lol

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

He's dead, but his legacy lives on in the Republican party.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/06/08/theyre-dropping-like-flies/

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

not as bad today, the wind patterns from Canadia must have shifted

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

Another old foe succumbs and I failed to notice in time. Rest in futility, Uncommon Descent.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/06/08/i-keep-missing-their-funerals/

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Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):

bascule@mas.to ("Tony Arcieri 🌹🦀") wrote:

Getting some Blade Runner vibes from these photos of Times Square

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/06/07/canadian-wildfire-smoke-nyc-residents-urged-to-stay-inside.html

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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

REWS wins again:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/06/08/google-salesforce-return-to-office/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I'm really looking forward to the next Mastodon for Android update, which will include a new, more advanced settings screen ☺️

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• A screenshot of the settings screen on the Mastodon for Android app, featuring subsections such as Behaviour, Display, Filters, Notifications, Privacy & safety, and so on, including information about the server you're logged into.

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

machias@hachyderm.io ("J.P. Wing") wrote:

It's weird to me that Apple is sunsetting Macs made as recently as 2017. If you are buying a new Mac to stay on the latest and greatest software, please don't landfill your current Mac. Donate it to a FreeGeek or similar organization. An "unsupported Mac" can continue as a valued computer running Linux for many more years beyond "the sunset".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Geek

jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

well now, that is ugly (https://airnow.gov/)

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Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

marcan@treehouse.systems ("Hector Martin") wrote:

Good job, Dang. You decided to evade a benign redirect to google.com we added to protect our developers. Now everyone who has ever submitted to Hacker News gets to see this banner on our website until they clear their browser history and stop contributing to HN.

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Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

marcan@treehouse.systems ("Hector Martin") wrote:

So I was wondering why my Hacker News block didn't work any more.

Lovely to know that instead of fixing their community going down the drain and outright hosting harassment and abuse that goes unchecked, they decided to just evade our block.

EDIT: WAIT, THEY ADDED IT JUST FOR US. IT'S JUST ON ASAHILINUX LINKS

OMFG.

Keep in mind other people have been blocking them for ages, by doing things like redirecting to pictures of testicles, and they didn't care. We just redirected to google.com. Yet, apparently, being blocked by us was insult enough to... evade the block instead of doing a little self-reflection.

Fuck you, HN.

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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

I had forgotten just how packed with funniness ‘Blazing Saddles’ is