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danwentzel@urbanists.social ("Dan Wentzel 🏳️🌈🚉🚇🚲🚌") wrote:
These straights who don't like how gays are being chipper about Pat Robertson's death, after he blamed 9/11 and hurricanes on us, and fiercely campaigned against any and all of our civil rights, remind me of those who remained silent when their bigoted friends and family said, "AIDS is killing all the right people: in the '80s. #LGBTQ
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
strongly agree
From: @kcarruthers
https://mastodon.social/@kcarruthers/110510928216805874
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Crucial to PGA’s acceptance of the merger, according to a knowledgeable insider, was LIV’s commitment to dismember no more than three Golf Digest writers per year.
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theRICHARDexp@queernerds.social wrote:
Just took my new favorite pic of Wicket 😭
She loves rolling around on the ground when we briefly let her out.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):
LadyDragonfly@universeodon.com ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 :verifiedtrans:") wrote:
The year is 1949. You have just walked into the Shalimar Room, a bar with a rather seedy reputation in the logging town of Roseberg, Oregon. The band in the corner is playing jazz standards from the wartime days. "Flying Home". "If I Knew Then." "Sophisticated Swing". You sit and order a beer and listen. The pianist is good. Very good.
The band takes a break and you strike up a conversation with the young man at the piano. He's been touring the circuit now for almost 14 years, playing gigs everywhere from Seattle to Joplin to Houston to Memphis to Topeka. He's excited because this place is recording tonight's performance onto acetate "instant discs" for rebroadcast on the radio later.
The man you just met is Billie Tipton, from Oklahoma City. He lived and worked for over 50 years as a well respected pianist in the jazz scene. He took lovers, adopted children, recorded albums, and played the piano all over the country. Only after his death was it revealed he was a transgender man.
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
yup
From: @bgluckman
https://newsie.social/@bgluckman/110510353433668816
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
color me confused
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tfromnyc@toot.community ("Tommy Mintz") wrote:
This happened during dinner. #catsofmastodon
Mastodon Feed#firstdirect app doesn't immediately crash on iOS 17 beta, which is new for them.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
craigmaloney@octodon.social ("Craig Maloney ☕") wrote:
Google announces that the Torment Nexus has been discontinued in favor of the Torment Pixel.
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Flash@mastodon.world ("Flashdancer") wrote:
Mount Rushmore from the Canadian side.
Mastodon FeedReblogged 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/
Mastodon FeedReblogged 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.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
nafnlaus@fosstodon.org ("Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦") wrote:
"Western journalism on #Ukraine be like...."
ht/Viktor Dovgonosk
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
strongly agree
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Enema_Cowboy@dotnet.social ("Enema Cowboy") wrote:
@drskyskull Another one!
Mastodon FeedReblogged 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
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
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.
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
first cutting from my new rose bush
Mastodon FeedReblogged 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/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):
carrideen@c18.masto.host ("Carrie Shanafelt") wrote:
Lil white bone-shaped toothpicks
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
oh, yes yes yes
Mastodon FeedReblogged 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.
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("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.’
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
homemade black beans, homemade chili verde, corn tortillas, thick black coffee… Breakfast of Champions
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
a glorious mess
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
phoenix@chaos.social ("phoenix🐧🏕🏞🚀🍝") wrote:
alias ßh="ssh"
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
overdue for a pruning
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Expect more of this.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/06/08/here-we-go/
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
pat robertson died lol
