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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Can we please have a brokered convention in August, where we select a candidate who won't fugue out on stage?
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/28/joe-must-go/
Mastodon FeedMastodon FeedReblogged by nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi"):
The geriatric debate club is meeting tonight to sway voters on which member’s trembling, diaper changing schedule and memory blackouts are going to cause the least problems to be commander in chief of the world’s largest nuclear weapons arsenal.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
metin@graphics.social ("Metin Seven 🎨") wrote:
A great cartoon by @GuidoKuehn
#cartoon #capitalism #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #TaxTheRich #satire #climate #ClimateCrisis #environment
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org ("Ian Campbell") wrote:
... sigh.
This is the kind of stupid thing hackers have been doing in text files for decades.
No one thought to harden the LLM products against it, apparently.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“During our testing, from April to May 2024, the jailbreak was shown to work on the following base models and hosted models:
Meta Llama3-70b-instruct (base)
Google Gemini Pro (base)
OpenAI GPT 3.5 Turbo (hosted)
OpenAI GPT 4o (hosted)
Mistral Large (hosted)
Anthropic Claude 3 Opus (hosted)
Cohere Commander R Plus (hosted)For each model that we tested, we evaluated a diverse set of tasks across risk and safety content categories, including areas such as …”
Mastodon FeedOTOH this is still the best version of #BadGuy ;)
Mastodon FeedMusical analysis of #BillieEilish Bad Guy — it's over my head (I'm not a musician), but interesting, and I have an extra appreciation for the song.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
quinn@chaos.social ("quinn, still illegally") wrote:
hi fedi, i'm looking for work :BoostOK:
i bring:
- almost two years of experience in compilers & programming language design and research (daily work in Java, C, some Nix)
- more than ten years of working on various open source projects, including maintainer roles (in languages such as C, C++, Python, Go)
- lots of private experience with sysadmin stuff (incl. Nix) for infrastructure
i want: 32 hours/week, remote, free choice of residence within the 🇪🇺
Mastodon FeedReblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
fight@fightforthefuture.org ("Fight for the Future") wrote:
Tomorrow, the @InternetArchive is appealing in court for the right to own and preserve digital books, including half a million books that this suit forced them to remove from their library.
But it’s not book banners they’re up against, it’s Big Publishing. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/06/internet-archive-forced-to-remove-500000-books-after-publishers-court-win/
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rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
For the month of June, Cinelimite has put up a bunch of short films made in the early 80s by queer activists in Paraíba. English subs https://www.cinelimite.com/programs-2/a-onda-de-filmes-queer-em-super-8-da-paraiba
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I give the Verge (deserved) shit for failing to cover the mobile browser and web apps story with any clarity, but damn if they aren't on it with this AI plagiarism coverage:
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/27/24187405/perplexity-ai-twitter-lie-plagiarism
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
renee.diresta@threads.net ("Renee DiResta") wrote:
There’s a debate strategy often used by pseudoscience peddlers known as the Gish Gallop. The debater throws out a barrage of false claims, one after another, far too many for the opponent to ever actually refute them all.
The opponent stalls as he tries to figure out what to respond to first. He starts to explain. And he often looks like he’s rambling as he tries to rebut all the claims, getting in weeds to lay out facts.
This strategy was on display tonight during the PresidentialDebate
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
It's really interesting to me how, even for things AI should be great for on paper, it kinda backfires.
Example: I've noticed some local restaurants using AI to generate images of menu items.
Sounds like a perfect use case; saves you lots of money and time on food photography.
But there's so much AI imagery out there now, I can spot it a mile away. And seeing it on the menu automatically makes me wonder if the dish really looks like that, has those ingredients, or if the place is even legit.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
anildash@threads.net ("Anil Dash") wrote:
I didn’t watch, you shouldn’t watch, most people don’t watch, they have almost no effect, it’s just theater for inept media.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
danhon@dan.mastohon.com ("Dan Hon") wrote:
Can't believe Little Bobby Tables is all grown up and has had their first kid, Ignore All Previous Instructions
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
emilion@infosec.exchange ("Emilion") wrote:
@jsonstein Non paywalled source.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/27/supreme-court-sec-ruling-00165303
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
most excellent… finally figured out (and validated by testing from 2 other machines) that the SSL complaints my little test service is throwing into it’s errors.txt file are about my iPad’s certs, not about any problem with the server’s certs. it took me a while to think of testing from other machines to better understand the problem; at first, I was ready to look for a fault in my code.
vibe.d seems pretty stable & robust so far. I need to set up a stress test next.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
but of course, stress testing demands first talking to a couple of layers of network admins so they don’t freak out at a sudden flood of requests flowing in to my little test server 🙀
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected one of the primary ways the Securities and Exchange Commission enforces rules against securities fraud, likely also making it harder for other regulatory agencies to bring enforcement actions.”
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
HarbingerOfSalem@kolektiva.social ("Harbinger of Salem") wrote:
@seanwithwords @HedgeNewby @AlisonW
All systems derive their existance from the consent of the governed until the governed will no longer tolerate it; by death or voting or any other means
To fail to vote is to consent; not to protest
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
robrey@mastodon.art ("Rob Rey") wrote:
Flow
6 x 8 in, Oil on Yupo, 2021"If I could label each of my atoms at this moment ... some will undoubtedly become parts of other people, particular people. So, we are literally connected to the stars, and we are literally connected to future generations of people. In this way, even in a material universe, we are connected to all things future and past."
-Alan Lightman
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Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
(i first off want to concede it's funny that zero-click is being used in a very different way from its security meaning here)
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
are you familiar with the term "zero-click content," for stuff like email newsletters that don't aim to send you to existing web content? how do you feel about the concept?
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Some geometry.
📷 Canon AE-1 Program
🎞️ Ilford Delta 400
🔭 Canon FD 50mm/1.8
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
kelpana@mastodon.ie ("Alanna") wrote:
This is absolutely fascinating - quartz crystal manufacturing 80 years ago. These processes are the ancestor of modern chip making: https://youtu.be/duZlWWwxIPQ?si=YBjk8nY5fkCdu6x2
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Now you know what it's like to be an atheist on the internet.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/06/27/why-i-left-facebook/
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Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Another case of housing-first / UBI working great https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/denver-gave-people-experiencing-homelessness-1000-a-month-a-year-later-nearly-half-of-participants-had-housing/ar-BB1ouZ1g
With so many, you might wonder why we don't do this everywhere? Because local legislatures are bought out by corporations that use the threat of homelessness to keep employees compliant and heads down on their jobs.
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
I remember this story about the first elected mayor of an Alabama town, who was denied the ability to actually serve as a mayor by a racist council. Apparently, he won: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/27/newbern-alabama-mayor-patrick-braxton
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:
OWA Meetup - London! Join Alex Moore, Stuart Langridge and the OWA crew tonight from 6pm till late. 🎉🪅
See you at the London Hospital Tavern at 176 Whitechapel Road.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Me, last week, driving down the 101: Hmmm...I wonder why Apple's running this thicket of billboards so dense it could be a Burma Shave ad?
Me, today, reading the CMA's takedown of Apple's privacy claims: ooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....
https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/mobile-browsers-and-cloud-gaming#working-papers