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mwl@io.mwl.io ("Michael Lucas :flan_set_fire:") wrote:
Today's stupid fun. Sound on, and a few seconds of patience.
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
California’s AG Tells AI Companies Practically Everything They’re Doing Might Be Illegal:
"Notably, AI has been used to mislead consumers, to create new forms of disinformation and propaganda, and to discriminate against certain groups of people. Now, the California Attorney General’s office has issued a legal memo emphasizing the fact that all of that stuff is probably illegal."
I’m sure these companies will ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2025/01/29/californias-ag-tells-ai-companies.html
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I don't have an optimistic perspective on our future.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/01/29/my-depressing-prophecy/
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
raganwald@social.bau-ha.us ("raganwald 🍓") wrote:
"OpenAI complaining DeepSeek stole its training data is just poetic."
Let's call it, "In-companies that are protected by copyright but not bound by it, alongside out-companies that are bound by copyright but not protected by it."
Mastodon FeedReblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
NanoRaptor@bitbang.social ("Nanoraptor") wrote:
The sheer conciseness of this has stuck with me in the week since I first read it.
"We don't even know how many humans an embryo is at conception, we certainly don't know their gender."
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
margodeweerdt ("Margo De Weerdt") wrote:
I became aware today of the concept of #PortfolioDay
I am Margo, a Belgian freelance artist and designer, living in Strasbourg, France. My work includes lino prints, paintings, and drawings. I work for clients, be that individuals or companies. Commissions can include portraits, posters, images for branding, illustrations, etc. On my website, I also have a webshop, on which I plan to post more work this year.
#artistforhire #commissionsopen
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- An illustration for the calendar I made in 2022. A landscape in lavender, indigo and blue shades. It is the countryside in winter. There is a field on the left with trees on its side, there is a with on a branch in one of them. On the right is a forest, with a wolf lurking behind a tree. There is a city with twinkling lights on the horizon. In the middle is a diagonal road, going from the top right to the bottom left corner. On it, in the middle of the illustration, is a cycling woman. Her front light is a yellow beam of light to the left and her tail light a red one.
- An illustration for a poster for Tourism Flanders. The image in dominated by a large linden tree. In which are several scenes, depicting different areas of culture of Flanders. For example: Rubens is painting on a swing, there is a bar at the top and the bottom of the tree, there is a presentation, Bruegel the Elder is painting and WOI soldiers sitting on a branch. In the area around the tree are cyclists, campers and the background shows the landscape of Flanders with several cities.
- An illustration for the Small Technology Foundation for the launch of their app Catts. It shows a city landscape, a mix of fantasy elements and a European city with old buildings and parks. In the foreground is a detail of a roof, on which three cats are sitting and walking: A big pink cat, a small blue kitten and a big green cat.
- An illustration for my calendar of 2021. It is the month of July, depicting a witch in a wooden bathtub outside. She is wearing a big, pointy hat with a red-orange pattern on it, plus there are sunflowers on it. She has wild, blue curly hair. Next to her is a little table with a cocktail on it, containing a purple tentacle.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:
Actor John Cleese, an avid poster on Twitter/X with 5.4 million followers, says he’s quitting the Elon Musk platform for Substack. https://deadline.com/2025/01/john-cleese-leaving-x-twitter-better-class-of-person-on-substack-1236271391/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
gamingonlinux ("Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮") wrote:
Sorry but OpenAI complaining another AI was trained on it is just absolutely hilarious.
Oh no, the AI that pirates the entire web had its homework copied.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CarveHerName@mstdn.social wrote:
#OnThisDay, 29 Jan 1891, Liliʻuokalani is sworn in as Queen of the Hawaiian Kingdom.
She is the first, and only, regnant queen of the country and is deposed in a coup in 1893 that was supported by the US marines.
#RegnantWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
long overdue
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Just in case you didn’t think everything sucks quite enough, this should help. You’re welcome.
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Mastodon FeedPretty much all of the YouTube #3dprinting community discusses the Bambu Firmware situation right now.
But it seems only a handful of people actually understand what they're talking about 😔
If you really think updating your printer's firmware protects Bambu's cloud services from DDOS attacks in any way, shape, or form, maybe stay out of this discussion. It's becoming a bit embarrassing.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
chandlerc@hachyderm.io ("Chandler Carruth") wrote:
The level of rank, direct, and brutal hatred being directed at the trans community by the current US administration is sickening. If you're not actively following it, you may not realize how bad it is. You *need* to educate yourself so you can take action.
Literally, cis-ally actions are one of the only things left saving trans lives right now in the US. And it is very much going to be about saving lives.
This isn't a "culture war" or "identity" politics.
The white house is defining medical procedures with overwhelming support by major medical orgs around the world as *mutilation*. They are trying to classify parents who care for trans kids by moving to states where doing so is legal as *kidnapping*.
This admin is forcing parents of trans kids to choose: do I force my child to suffer, doubling their risk of suicide? or do I risk kidnapping charges by moving to where they can get the medical care they need, with a regret rate lower than LASIK.
They are at least removing all support for adult trans people, from medical support to other forms, and working hard to criminalize their existence.
Trans people have over 7x the risk of suicide as the wider population, and that compounds in many intersectional ways with other risk factors. Immediate access to gender-affirming care reduced suicidality by **50%**. That is an *incredibly* effective treatment compared to other widely accepted medical options.
When we deny trans people, especially children, access to gender affirming care that is pervasively endorsed by all major medical and psychiatric groups, we are killing them. The math is simple and devastating.
We even have peer-reviewed research directly showing that enacting anti-transgender laws has a significant and causal impact on suicide risk among transgender and nonbinary youth.
So you, cis-person reading this, have a choice.
Oppose and shut down all of these anti-transgender legal steps, every one of them a hateful act of systemic violence.
Or let them kill more children.
It is literally life or death for the trans community.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
coastclark@mas.to ("Beach Life😎🏳️🌈") wrote:
Sequoia National Park
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:
If there's one thing we know about American AI companies it's that they have never used unauthorized data in any of their models.
Ever.
Not once.
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ghibli@beep.town ("Studio Gifli Bot") wrote:
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Great resource: HTML for People https://htmlforpeople.com/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
bw@social.lol ("Blake Watson :prami:") wrote:
If you're looking to learn some CSS, my HTML web book has a gentle introduction to it.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
timbray@cosocial.ca ("Tim Bray") wrote:
Wow, Krugman slams the door behind him, much respect. https://contrarian.substack.com/p/departing-the-new-york-times
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Authoritarianism is just domestic abuse writ large. It uses the same tools and the same logic and, honestly, the perpetrators are often the same damn people.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mjgardner@social.sdf.org ("Mark Gardner") wrote:
Do I know any #Perl experts in my #developer network that are open to a contract in Middletown, NJ (suburb of #NYC)?
Please reach out to Ryan Troxtell at #TEKsystems if you’re interested in this position: https://jobs.perl.org/job/22037
If you're not, at least please boost this post for more visibility.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GovTrack ("GovTrack.us") wrote:
Truth sandwich: Most federal civilian employees who work remotely were given the option to keep working remotely if they agreed to resign by September. The media and at least one senator seem to be describing this as a buyout or severance (i.e. be paid to quit) based on early incorrect reporting --- but that's not what happened at all. What happened is that return-to-office is being used as a mechanism to reduce the federal workforce by getting people who have better options to quit voluntarily.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
lavaeolus@fedihum.org ("Henrik Schönemann") wrote:
The website "Racism and Health" from the #CDC is already gone:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250121030412/https://www.cdc.gov/minority-health/racism-health/index.htmlhttps://www.cdc.gov/minority-health/racism-health/index.html
In related news:
We got the whole publicly available part of the CDC-archive backed up - nearly 30.000 files #SafeguardingResearch
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
HourlyOtters@mas.to ("Hourly Otters (New)") wrote:
Hello, here's an #Otter!
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
geerlingguy ("Jeff Geerling") wrote:
OpenAI's nightmare: DeepSeek R1 on a Raspberry Pi 5 ;)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
emb@mastodon.sdf.org ("Flyin’ Toaster") wrote:
Have you contributed financially or materially (i.e. server) to help sustain the Fediverse? (Hosting your own instance counts.)
Please boost (…for science ☺️♥️🙏🏻).
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Donald Trump’s administration has been hit with a lawsuit over allegedly collecting federal employee information and directing it to an employee of Elon Musk.
… Amanda Scales, who, according to LinkedIn, works for xAI, a private corporation of which Musk is the CEO. This would violate federal laws on transparency and put the sensitive information of federal employees into the hands of a private corporation.”
https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/113909194103861718
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Doug_Bostrom@scicomm.xyz ("Doug Bostrom") wrote:
Text just received from NOAA research scientist friend.
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
theropologist@beige.party ("Velocirooster adminensis :bc:") wrote:
Wait, so you're telling me the powerful elites got behind some nutjob that they thought they could control only to find out that they in fact can't? If only there were some kind of historical precedent that could have warned them of this possibility.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
jason@social.lol ("//Jason") wrote:
How long of a fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck scream can you do on this thing?