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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
spoil sport
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wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:
"Many women and LGBTQ+ veterans have long spoken out about harassment and unique obstacles to care at VA hospitals. A 2019 study found that 1 in 4 women veterans who routinely go to VA primary care clinics reported inappropriate or unwanted comments or behaviors by men veterans or VA employees."
~ Mariel Padilla
#healthcare #discrimination #women #LGBTQ #veterans
https://19thnews.org/2023/08/va-hospitals-women-lgbtq-veterans/
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ErikJonker ("Erik Jonker") wrote:
In daily use of LLMs like ChatGPT,
Google Bard, Bing Chat, i am becoming less and less impressed with their "intelligence". At the same time often they provide better tools then the "normal search". Even with the reliablity issues and possible hallucinations. That should not be forgotten in the polarised discussion about generative AI. As a tool, with known limitations, LLMs are great and useful. Their use will only increase i guess. Problem is risks associated with them also...
#AI #LLM
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Everything You Need To Know About The Ohio Ballot Measure That Could Block Abortion Rights | FiveThirtyEight
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/ohio-issue-1-abortion-ballot-measures/
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
thank you, PVT Palmateer
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Portrait of a Harvard professor and delusional fraud.
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VD15@pl.valkyrie.world (":VD15_0::VD15_1::VD15_2::VD15_3::VD15_4::VD15_5::VD15_6::VD15_7:") wrote:
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xyzzy@mastodon.sandwich.net ("Text Adventure") wrote:
You enter a sweet-smelling, dark blue room. There is a FUNERAL URN on the floor. You see a PHONE here, on the door. There is a POKÉMON TRAINER here, brewing coffee and holding a WAND.
Exits: NORTH NORTH UP
#bot
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annecavicchi@mindly.social ("Anne") wrote:
Sigh ~ sadly this is too often the case!
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joshsternberg@mstdn.social ("Josh Sternberg") wrote:
When you turn 9 and 45 you are allowed to have ice box cake for breakfast. Thems the rules.
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taeluralexis@infosec.exchange ("Tae'lur Alexis") wrote:
Are there any women security researchers you recommend I follow? #cybersecurity
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qrper@mastodon.radio ("Thomas (K4SWL)") wrote:
Survey #2 Results: If you could only have one QRP radio for all of your ham radio activities, which one would it be?
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qrper@mastodon.radio ("Thomas (K4SWL)") wrote:
Philip’s POTA power output survey
Mastodon FeedReblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
Quando qualcuno vi inviterà a una call con Zoom, l'unica risposta da dare è, semplicemente "NO".
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
breadandcircuses@climatejustice.social ("Bread and Circuses") wrote:
A perfect (and perfectly scary) title from Jessica Wildfire (@jessicawildfire) —
"If a Cactus Can't Survive This, Neither Can You"
____________________________You might’ve seen recent headlines about saguaro cacti keeling over in Arizona after spending nearly a month above 110° Fahrenheit (43°C).
Not even a week later, The Washington Post ran this absurd story: “Your body can build up tolerance to heat. Here’s how.”
I’m not linking to it. That’s how bad it is.
It’s not just getting a little hotter. It’s getting so hot that saguaro cacti are deflating in the desert. They evolved roughly 20,000 years ago. They’ve spent millennia adapting to a hot desert environment. They live up to 200 years in the hottest, driest environments on the planet. These cactuses are saying, “I can’t take it anymore,” and sagging over dead.
And we’re being told we can adapt.
I got curious about what temperature the human body can actually withstand, and it’s somewhere around 108°F (42°C). That’s when your proteins start to denature. A wet bulb temperature beyond 95°F (35°C) can kill a person in about six hours. No amount of heat tolerance can save anyone from that.
It strikes me as just a little ridiculous that out here in reality, parts of the world are becoming absolutely uninhabitable, and wellness writers are just now telling us to start building up our heat tolerance.
It feels like we’re being prepared and conditioned to start blaming heat deaths on someone’s “low heat tolerance,” as if it’s just another precondition that helps them rationalize indifference in the face of mass death.
____________________________FULL ARTICLE -- https://jessicawildfire.substack.com/p/if-a-cactus-cant-survive-this-neither
#Arizona #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
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danhon@dan.mastohon.com ("Dan Hon") wrote:
some notes reading zoom's "oh shit we need to explain this" post about their TOS change on training AI:
1. the post talks about "your" consent, but the "you" here is a "customer", not "an end-user of zoom"
2. the person who provides consent is an account owner or administrator (i.e. likely not "you”)
3. "participants" are notified that someone else has consented for themit's very carefully worded: customers aren’t the same as users
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unicorndeburgh@hachyderm.io wrote:
This is HUGE.
"The National Labor Relations Board ruled Tuesday that employers can no longer demand laid-off employees avoid publicly disparaging the company as part of their severance agreements, nor can they stop affected employees from disclosing the terms of their exit packages. Doing so, the federal agency determined, would be a violation of the laid-off employees’ rights under the National Labor Relations Act."
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May your servers be well-configured;
the problems be images and fonts, and until we meet again,
may JS never darken your door.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Improving perf on a site that isn't fundamentally broken by JS is a soothing, almost mechanical process. A sort of meditation on networks and parsers that always resolves in eddies of minor mystery about threading and packet priority.
Calm, serene worlds away from the clamor and din of the main-thread hammer-and-tongs of overpaid, underskilled Reactors.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
'Night, all.
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drh@hackers.town ("Dr Hitchcock") wrote:
Happy #808 Day party peeps! To celebrate I’ve just dropped my latest track “Disco Brutus (F.L.O.)”. It’s an 80s style #synthwave track in the style of the Beverly Hills Cop theme.
You can have a listen at www.drhitchcock.co
#Roland #TR808 #TB303 #303 #ItaloDisco #Synth #synthesizer #TR808Day #Brunswick #Melbourne #Narrm
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
this is nicely done #LearningRust
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trc@social.coop ("Tyng-Ruey Chuang") wrote:
"Are Libraries the Future of Media?"
https://popula.com/2023/08/07/are-libraries-the-future-of-media/
"... the coalition decided to produce original journalism together. A budget of about $100,000 funded the group's collaboration and the production of eight stories. Both the [Albany Public Library] and the Times Union would own the articles, retaining the right to publish them on their own websites and digital channels, free of any paywall, and thus free for all to read."
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jonty@chaos.social ("Jonty Wareing") wrote:
Predictably, I also made stickers
https://elk.zone/chaos.social/@andrew@aeracode.org/110850679904838766
Mastodon FeedHas anybody considered that maybe GPT and other LLMs were really created just so AI researchers would finally have a tool to help them tell their relatives what they do for a living?
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
With A Little Help From My Friends by Joe Cocker on LOUD
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Catch the Wind by Donovan
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I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You by Tom Waits
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
After the Gold Rush by Neil Young
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Wasn't Born to Follow by The Byrds
