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timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her)") wrote:

Today's rendition of the game "is this AI hype from 2024 or 1974"?

"In three to eight years we will have a machine with the general intelligence of an average human being. I mean a machine that will be able to read Shakespeare, grease a car, play office politics tell a joke, have a fight. At that point the machine will begin to educate itself with fantastic speed. In a few months it will be at genius level and a few months after its powers will be incalculable."

Minsky ~1970.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

I think this filament should be dry enough now!

#3dprinting

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• Molten rolls of filament, fresh out of an oven.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

I imagine our brains process hyper-tailored For You Pages as if you were a hunter in the forest and boar kept walking up to you and dying at your feet.

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

lrhodes@merveilles.town ("L. Rhodes") wrote:

"The microbiologist researcher trains bacteria by feeding them samples of the animal collagen glue that is stuck to the paintings. The bacteria then naturally produce enzymes to degrade the glue. […] After three hours, the gel is removed, revealing glue-free paintings." https://www.theage.com.au/world/europe/bacteria-deployed-to-the-rescue-of-precious-church-frescos-20240928-p5ke78.html #bacteriology #artRestoration

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Daojoan ("Joan Westenberg") wrote:

UBBI (universal basic bitch income): $500 a month but you have to post "live laugh love" every day

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

abundance@merveilles.town ("everest") wrote:

__ Handwriting your RSS feed __
A short guide for updating your RSS feed like you update your handmade website

Do you write your HTML by hand? Have you ever wondered if you could keep an RSS feed similarly - no management software, only a webhost and a text editor?

I've written a barebones guide to handwritten RSS. It's so, so, easy.

https://everest-pipkin.com/teaching/handmadeRSS.html

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Unixbigot@aus.social ("Kit Bashir") wrote:

Shocked, *shocked* to hear¹ that OpenAI was three VCs in a nonprofit trenchcoat.

¹ https://arstechnica.com/?p=2052614

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alda@topspicy.social ("Alda Vigdís :topspicy: 🇵🇸") wrote:

Matt Mullenweg is the sort of guy who would join a community theatre and then call the FBI for help once someone says "break a leg" to him.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

21 Theories of The Web

#OpenWeb

https://web3.0sleptwithmywife.com/theories-of-the-web/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

I want to go to Montana. Can I make it before the snow?

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

rinse & repeat:

“Following an ambush by Hezbollah in Israeli territory that left three soldiers dead and two abducted, the 2006 Lebanon War started. During the war Israeli bombardments seeking Hezbollah targets caused damage in many parts of Beirut, especially the poorer and largely Shiite South Beirut, which is controlled by Hezbollah. On 3 August 2006, Hassan Nasrallah vowed to strike Tel Aviv in retaliation for Israel's bombardment of Lebanon's capital.“

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan_Nasrallah#2006_Lebanon_War

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Hot take but I consider Tumblr the #openweb.

I know it's had/has some problematic owners over the years.

But there no other platform that embodies the open web as Tumblr.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Brat Summer is out. Morning Mist Autumn is in, baby!

#Seinfeld #MorningMist #BratSummer

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• George Costanza in a light blue Oxford and brown hat.

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

evmar@inuh.net ("Evan Martin") wrote:

SSH access on Windows 11 recipe, for those who don't know Windows (like me):

1. Settings -> search Optional Features -> Add an optional feature -> search OpenSSH server
2. (If your account is admin) edit \ProgramData\ssh\sshd_config to comment out the block about admin accounts, or face hilarious complex Windows permissions errors attempting to use their setting
3. win+x -> Terminal (Admin) -> `Service-Start sshd` ; `Set-Service -Name sshd -StartupType 'Automatic'`

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endeavorance@astral.camp wrote:

Threads sure has a lot of accounts with default profile pictures replying to everyone and explaining that the Lebanese population is—in fact—happy about the bombings.

#Lebanon #Threads

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

#Meta following Elon's path and blocking links to the JD dossier on all its platforms.

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• A tweet discussing censorship by Threads regarding a link to a substack post about the JD Vance dossier. An alert is displayed stating that the link cannot be opened due to potential harmful content.

Reblogged by fribbledom ("muesli"):

midzer@chaos.social wrote:

#flohmarkt BETA is out now \o/

Come and join us to celebrate at https://meet.ffmuc.net/flohmarkt

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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

A simple technique called “POSSE” offers the best of both worlds: total control over your own work, while still maintaining a presence on third-party social media platforms.

https://www.citationneeded.news/posse/

#POSSE #indieweb

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phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

Apple got denied an extension on document discovery stuff with Epic and the denial from the judge is one of the best things I've ever read.

Absolutely calling them out on their nonsense behaviour for once!

It's 2 pages of perfection.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25177618-govuscourtscand36426510170

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

ritualdust@merveilles.town ("Lizbeth") wrote:

The shadow over innsmouth print is almost ready, hope you like fish people 🐟

#theWorkshop

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• Close up of an ink drawing of a deep one in front of a pier with a town in the distance (remote)

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

If there's one art media I do not like, it's Play Doh. Oh well. It is what it is, and the important part is playing with the kiddo.

(Photos taken on a potato phone without "AI".)

#PlayDoh #yaombaaa

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• My left hand holding a Play Doh sculpt of an exaggerated face: a low brow flowing into broad nose with pronounced ridge, wide cheeks relative to a frowning mouth, and largish, disapproving eyes. (remote)
• Same as the other photo, but from a slightly different angle. (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

More #Bleptember for #Caturday.

#CatsOfMastodon

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• A black cat (Jiji) with his tongue out.

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

The sunchokes are choking out all the sun in our backyard!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/09/28/its-fall-and-everything-is-fading-with-some-exceptions/

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• sunchoke flower (remote)

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

“I Know a Man” by Robert Creeley

As I sd to my
friend, because I am
always talking,—John, I

sd, which was not his
name, the darkness sur-
rounds us, what

can we do against
it, or else, shall we &
why not, buy a goddamn big car,

drive, he sd, for
christ’s sake, look
out where yr going.

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

bruno@patuleia.eu wrote:

meirl
#memes

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• ce8a089ed88819a9.png (remote)

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

and John was right

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• ed0671e05e0f142d.png (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

The one thing about white Twitter spaces that always baffled me was how often their approach to Black liberation was simply to ignore Black liberators.

I don't mean metaphorically. I mean how Academia Twitter, intellectual twitter, journalist Twitter, all, would just straight up ignore Black activists in the comments.

Tell a predominant white academic that their worldview is incomplete, and doesn't consider people of color, and its crickets 🦗. Always.

#Fediverse #IndieWeb

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collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

If USB cables are ever worth money I will rule the world.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

And Twitter? Well, we all know what happened there, right? White supremacy found a crack and exploited it.

Because its never, ever, enough to simply call out cartoonish forms of racism. It’s the insidious kind that always gets us.

It thrives in environments where we falsing believe that our political ideologies exempt us from rasicm. It scans the corners of the web that willfulling ignore the absence of certain people.

The #Fediverse is not exempt. In fact, those cracks are well established.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

And when white supremacy finds a sufficiently sized crack, which is never as big as we’d think, it pushes through until that crack is a gaping chasm of rushing water.

History confirms this narrative— Punks, wellness, cottagecore, furries—all well-meaning, predominantly white spaces that didn’t deal with the hums of anti-Blackness until it was too late.

They chose to get defensive instead of introspective.

#SocialWeb #Fediverse #IndieWeb

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