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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

There’s a lot of tweets to consider when we think of the all-time greats. But none match the beauty, the truth through art, the je ne sais quo, more than Twitter’s magnum opus by Ice T.

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• Screenshot of Ice T tweet: I do not give a flying FUCK about Fonts... Weirdo shit.

keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:

…and this is all I have to say on the argument. #Neuralink

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• Famous "No Yes" meme. where the "No" is for Neuralink, while the "Yes" is for the old Nintendo Power Glove (remote)

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

A single Sir Mix-a-Lot song contains more swass than a medieval peasant would be exposed to in their whole lifetime.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

"AI doesn't automate jobs, it automates tasks" - Prof. Andrew Ng

[a good thing to remember]

Reblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):

eniko@peoplemaking.games ("Eniko Fox") wrote:

@AlanyG21 there's no easy answer but here's the flowchart:

1. if the game is dirt cheap, buy it on steam, because fixed paypal fees on itch take too much out of cheap games

2. if the game is not dirt cheap, buy it on itch, cause the dev gets way more. if you really wanna help, leave a nice tip cause itch lets you do that

3. if you buy the game on steam, directly for yourself, and leave a positive review, that can be more valuable than the extra revenue generated by an itch sale. so if you really want to support devs and keep your library of games mostly on steam always leave a positive review of indie games you buy there. the actual review text doesn't matter so just "good game 👍" is sufficient. but remember that reviews only count for metrics and store visibility if you buy directly on steam and its not a gift

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“random graphs, which give rise to unexpected behaviors after they meet certain thresholds, could be a way to model the behavior of LLMs”

https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-theory-suggests-chatbots-can-understand-text-20240122/

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

one of my failures at RIT was my inability to get anyone interested in Rust when it was new ;^{

https://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-forms-new-team-to-help-rewrite-core-windows-components-into-rust-from-c-c/

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

ajroach42@retro.social ("Andrew (cold)") wrote:

Are you familiar with Benshi?

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

Benshi were performers who provided live narration for silent films. adding commentary, explanations, and occasionally poetry.

They'd do this to theaters of 1,000 people, with a live orchestra, without amplification.

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

All this warm weather lately has encouraged the spiders to flourish in my house.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/30/spider-season-has-come-early/

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• Attulus fasciger (remote)

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org ("Brewster Kahle") wrote:

new paper on AI: "New Theory Suggests Chatbots Can Understand Text"

Quanta mag writes a layman version of a new paper. Seems important. (I *think* I get it). How LLM's can be 'creative' (novel) and 'understand' (generalize) and demonstrate its true in GPT-4, and better than GPT-3.5.

"Far from being 'stochastic parrots,' the biggest large language models seem to learn enough skills to understand the words they’re processing."

https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-theory-suggests-chatbots-can-understand-text-20240122/

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

SimpleX looks super interesting: usable secure messaging without long-term identifiers! https://simplex.chat/

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

trying the bands, one at a time... so far, 20m & 30m #JS8 are where I get @HB responses

#AmateurRadio 📡

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

Sorry, I guess I'm required to talk about Minnesota all the time now.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/30/we-have-to-talk-about-this/

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• xkcd: Minnesota is shrinking because of post-glacial crust rebound! We have to talk about it! (remote)

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

Ok, who's excited to read 5K words (excluding footnotes) with > 20 charts and tables on the current state of devices and networks and how that impacts what frontend can afford?

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Just had to block my first Mastodon account.

Don't play the semantics game when the topic is modern day slavery in our country? Especially under a Black man's post about said slavery. Is that such a wild concept?

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

I haven't published to fromjason in three weeks. But I'm writing.

I have a lot of big feelings, hard opinions, and half-baked ideas. And in about four thousand words, I haven't been able to bring it home.

But I will. This is more a message from me to me. I WILL. Eventually. Probably. :) #blogging

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• Illustration of a person looking at their reflection, pointing at themselves.

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

paninid@mastodon.world ("Sampath Pāṇini ®") wrote:

“Early Twitter was #punk.

“Threads is Christian rock— where it sounds like rock, but you can't help but feel like they're trying to sell you a narrative.”

- @fromjason

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

What we're seeing on #Threads and to a lesser extent, #Mastodon, feels like this cool two-way communication with our favorite tech pundits, founders, and CEOs.

But it also feels like a massive PR blitz in the wake of government regulation and shrinking faith in the digital platforms that ruled the last decade.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Considering the scope of our issues, and the negative effect #bigtech has on our democracy, I'm questioning whether being an online social media reactionary to the far right is an effective strategy (as one myself).

We give influential tech personalities a pass because they say the right "liberal" things. But behind closed doors they continue creating tools that further inflame our divide and place marginalized people in harms way.

Can't help but think more of our attention should be there.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

"If monopolies don't exist to become even bigger monopolies, then small companies won't exist."

AKA, government should stay out of our business unless it's to pour billions into infrastructure for our business.

The Silicon Valley doctrine is a hot mess.

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• Social media post with comments discussing Amazon abandoning a deal to buy iRobot, and a photo of a Roomba robotic vacuum on a wooden floor. "I'm really skeptical we're at a healthy place in these antitrust conversations from a consumer point of view. If mid-stage companies, especially in hardware, lose this exit path, then fewer will be attempted in the future."

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

It is breathtaking that government websites are still allowed to use #Facebook trackers in two thousand and twenty four, the year of our lord.

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• A smartphone screen displaying a list of websites including "facebook.net" and "columbus.gov" with a 'Back' button and status icons at the top.

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

Daojoan ("Joan Westenberg") wrote:

We have conditioned ourselves to believe that artists, musicians, writers, inventors and creators must orient themselves as entrepreneurial go-getters - monetising their work into startups, small businesses or branded products.

The myth of the creator-entrepreneur radically narrows the complex motivations of creativity and pressures creators to view financial success as the highest marker of their worth.

https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/the-dangerous-myth-of-the-creator-entrepreneur

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

News blogs: why is everyone using ad blockers? 😭

Also news blogs:

🥴 #google #meta #tech #bigtech

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• Screenshot of Safari Privacy Report showing how often the sites I visit try to track me across other websites.
• A screenshot showing a Privacy Report list with various websites and the number of trackers contacted for each.
• Screenshot of a Privacy Report from a device displaying a list of websites with corresponding numbers of trackers, alongside green progress bars.
• Screenshot of a smartphone displaying a Privacy Report with a list of websites and the number of trackers prevented on each.

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

Privacymatters ("@PrivacyMatters") wrote:

Google has just unveiled an AI upgrade for Android. Google’s AI will read and analyze your private messages, going back forever.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2024/01/28/new-details-free-ai-upgrade-for-google-and-samsung-android-users-leaks/?

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

mpesce@arvr.social ("Mark Pesce") wrote:

AI can assist with brainstorming activities when you feel “stuck” and it can serve as a second “set of eyes” at times when another person is not available.

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/01/30/chatgpt-as-a-career-development-tool/

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

Colarusso ("David Colarusso") wrote:

@jsonstein FWIW, you can use the LIT Prompts browser extension I made + LM Studio to create local workflows around reusable prompt template for just such a use case. See https://github.com/SuffolkLITLab/prompts

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

loosenut@genart.social ("sɹɐʎA xɘlA 💻➡🗑") wrote:

Going to tell ChatGPT these are the Duras sisters.

#Rats #StarTrek #AI

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• Tree and Marlene, black and white sister rats, being cute on a black satin sheet in a lightbox with a white background. Tree has one eye closed, and Marlene looks apprehensive. (remote)

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

ldodds@mastodon.me.uk ("Leigh Dodds") wrote:

Turns out you don't get a great frame rate when you try to run Doom on *checks notes* E.coli.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/you-can-play-doom-using-gut-bacteria-but-the-framerate-is-atrocious

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

macrumors ("MacRumors.com") wrote:

CARROT Weather Coming to Apple Vision Pro With Interactive 3D Globe https://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/29/carrot-weather-for-apple-vision-pro/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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• fb76fe76362d0a1e.jpeg

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

christianselig ("Christian Selig") wrote:

I wonder if the Vision Pro's EyeSight feature will work at night. If so my favorite new activity will be walking into the pitch black bedroom with only my glowing eyes visible to terrify your partner

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• A stock photo of a bed shrouded in darkness with only the slight illumination of a man with glowing Apple Vision Pro eyes visible. He has a spooky hat.