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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Well, that got my morning off to a depressing start.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/06/20/do-not-read-this-article/
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afeinman@wandering.shop ("Alex Feinman") wrote:
HOW TO SPOT A DEEP FAKE:
1. You can't.
Don't think you can. You can spot clumsy ones, but you've already missed a dozen others. We're past the stage where even _expert_ practitioners can have a 100% success rate.
Instead, think about how to avoid taking action, or trusting someone, because of who they seem to be. Holding onto the fantasy that "I can spot 'em!" is harmful, and moves the onus of responsibility from collective to personal.
This is also true for #genAI, of course.
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murphy@troet.cafe ("Murphy") wrote:
I wonder if this is #Munich's smallest house number 😜
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Mastodon FeedEstonia legalized same-gender marriage today. About time!
People getting equal rights, taking nothing away from the others. This is the way.
🏳️🌈🇪🇪
Mastodon FeedReblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
Stickybear Drawing.woz
https://archive.org/details/wozaday_Stickybear_Drawing
Thanks to LoGo for the disk!
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astrid@fedi.astrid.tech ("Astrid (Certified Server Maid)") wrote:
I think it's really funny that Apple's HQ is a literal walled garden
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Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
trying to find a good éclair recipe for the mojibake sale
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I am pessimistic.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/06/19/one-of-our-submarines-is-missing/
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“In 1877, just 12 years after the abolition of American chattel slavery and as part of a political compromise, the U.S. government abandoned its promise to protect newly emancipated Black people and withdrew from defending all statehouses in the South. This decision marked the end of Reconstruction and the brief period of multiracial democracy it had represented. Instead, Black men, women, and children were left vulnerable to racial terror and disenfranchisement...”
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Our friends are either blind to our faults or not faithful enough to tell us of them.”
- Samuel Adams
Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
Today on @oxidecomputer and Friends, @ahl and I will be joined by our colleagues Greg Colombo and @rain to discuss techniques for software verification that they have used at Oxide. Come for the model checking -- stay for the property-based testing! Join us, today, 5p!
https://discord.gg/2ehc2K5B?event=1120434813015425064
As always, recorded and made available as a podcast:
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Just watched #SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse, it was so good! But now we have to wait for the next one 😅 Had no idea it was just part one.
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yassie_j@snowdin.town ("Sega DreamYast :flag_agender:🏳️⚧️") wrote:
I know people have elucidated greatly on why Zucc is bad, but I want to hone onto one specific event.
In 2010, Facebook entered then then-newly-opened country of Myanmar under their “Free Basics” programme. Zucc would underwrite the data costs of the mobile networks. In exchange? Well, Facebook would be ‘free’ for everyone to use in the country.
This had the (un)intended effect that everyone in Myanmar associated Facebook with the Internet.
Facebook, at this point, did not have a Burmese-speaking moderation team. They would not for a while. This is important to note. The Facebook algorithm started amplifying anti-Muslim content. Because that’s what people wanted to see in Myanmar. The military-backed civilian government even spread this content on Facebook. Because of this, such content spread far and wide.
It spread so fast that it catalysed a racial and ethnic genocide in Myanmar of this Muslim minority group. It took Zucc three years into the conflict to appoint a Burmese-speaking moderation team; by which point it was too late.
Facebook willingly, knowingly, and with only their bottom line at the forefront, accelerated one of the most devastating genocides in the world.
We should not give the “benefit of a doubt” to a war criminal.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I have a pair of spiders in vials on my work desk. They just go up and down, spinning a cobweb, all industrious & elegant. It's even more soothing than watching tropical fish.
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Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
I hope reddit's users win soon because I've already started putting "-reddit" on search queries
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
She was utterly ruthless.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/06/19/chess-shark/
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
If my grandson can go, why can't I go to the beach?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/06/19/my-grandson-got-to-go-to-the-beach-and-i-didnt/
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Fuck the rich, whether they're Russian or American.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/06/19/the-rich-are-bad-everywhere/
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
The "lurkers support me in email" excuse writ very large and loud and dangerous.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/06/19/the-right-wing-recipe/
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Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Meanwhile! #CatsOfMastodon
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Maybe we should all stop listening to Michio Kaku.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/06/19/today-i-learned-about-gell-mann-amnesia/
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
the peas seem to be grabbing hold of their strings quite nicely
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Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Dig Dis by Hank Mobley yessssss
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Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Final (Take 2 - Bande originale du film "Ascenseur pour l'échafaud") by Miles Davis
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Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Tea dragons. A #FathersDay gift.
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mzedp@mastodon.energy ("mau") wrote:
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I survived Fathers Day, so far.
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Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
#TheDearHunter at #TheKeyClub now!!
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Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
pics like this are worrisome, give away too many opsec clues for comfort
From: @ErikJonker
https://mastodon.social/@ErikJonker/110565984706627286
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
wow, this is ugly on so very many different levels...
my training said to give your patient, as close as you can, a blank canvas upon which they can project so you can reflect back to them meaningfully. my training said to work hard to keep as much of your own stuff out of the session as you can, which is why you are supposed to always have a supervisor, FFS.
who is the patient? psychotherapists do not treat societies, they treat individuals in societies.
[ end rant ]