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

turkey vultures?

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

Never Forget! 🛸

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
vampiress@eigenmagic.net ("Elissa") wrote:

Blog post: Inspired by the video I just boosted - some honest thoughts on my AI remorse from my experiments earlier in the year.

It was bad, and I have SERIOUS regrets.

https://goodnameforablog.com/posts/very-average-prototypes/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right") wrote:

@laemeur I hope you don't mind if I post a link to your patreon here where you give a quick walk through?

https://www.patreon.com/laemeur/posts/pseudographic-v-162751285

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
laemeur@mastodon.sdf.org ("LÆMEUR") wrote:

Needed an editor for making text art with the teletext characters up in the Symbols for Legacy Computing block of Unicode. Didn't find one that I liked, so I started making one.

You can play with it here: https://laemeur.com/psegrapai/

Here is a skull that I made with it today. And I pasted it into Emacs and cycled through a few fonts to see how it changed.

#textgraphics #illustration #nerdistry

Attachments:

• gifv: An image of a skull drawn with Unicode semigraphics characters in a text editor. The image is animated, cycling through different fonts to show how they render it differently.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
Jontofski@mastodon.art ("Jonathan Edwards") wrote:

Gil Scott-Heron. Digital drawing.

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

#AskFedi I came across a study a while ago which had considerable evidence that LLM autocomplete can shift the views of users without users realising their views have shifted. I want to talk about it in my upcoming essay.

I can't find this study; DuckDuckGo and Google Scholar aren't helping. Can anyone help me dig it up?

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
FlohEinstein@chaos.social wrote:

Arthur C. Clarke: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Me: "Therefore, any sufficiently complicated technical problem is indistinguishable from a curse."

#infosec #sysadmin #bofh

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Also, I’m well aware of the writing and debate surrounding the motivation of those making LLMs and working on “AI”. You don’t need to go tell me to read up on “AI” as if I’m some rando who’s completely ignorant of the topic. My realisation was entirely about popularity among end users.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

Congratulations to all my US friends on making it to the end of your epic 250 year experiment with democracy! May the subsequent imperial phase be mercifully brief and the aftermath painless.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

I won't touch these tools for a lot of reasons but one of them is that you turn into the person you practice being, and I am absolutely not going to practice being somebody who talks to anyone the way you have to talk to chatbots to get anything out of them.

https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116860967516480109

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“I agree with you, that’s why I order my chatbot to act less servile,” is not the flex people seem to think it is

Nor is “we’ll fix the servility-related personality in a future version of SlaveBot!”

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

Next week we'll be exploring this lovely little farm. Have a great weekend!

#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #naturephotography #nature #landscapephotography #landscape #decay #abandoned

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

My walks and Grása's have been crossing paths lately #cat #caturday

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

For extremely stupid reasons I am going to need to change the Family Organizer in my Apple Family. This involves disbanding and re-creating the Family, which I suspect may have destructive effects.

Have you experienced this process? What was it like?

(Please do not speculate; I want replies from people who have actually done this. If nobody has, and I get zero replies, that's OK.)

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Shit like this is the reason why desktop linux has the reputation is has

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1565730/nautilus-file-previews-for-selected-files

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

the infowars elf lives in my head rent-free curse you fake alex jones

brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:") wrote:

AI is so unpopular with Kids These Days that clicking on an anti-AI vid makes the "we're not sure you're over 18" popup appear

A damning, damning indictment

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
bluejay@ohai.social ("Bluejay") wrote:

Max was born on July 4 and would have turned 17 today. He came into our lives as a kitten who began purring mightily when our kid picked him up, and he gave us 14 years of love: our sweet fur-child, goofball, little guy, tormentor of Sachi, seeker of heights, sun sponge, breakfast alarm, “fractious cage diver” (a story for later), nonstop rumble engine, constant companion, beloved friend.

Happy Max Day! The only reason to celebrate today.

#photography #caturday #cat #catsofmastodon #july4th

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
ariadne@treehouse.systems ("Ariadne Conill 🐰:therian:") wrote:

@dysfun you see,

this is art,

i'm going to have

 $ git commit -m \
    "Verified with make test."

printed on t-shirts, and sell them

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

My smartest #HomeAutomation: power cycle microwave at midnight.
Now the microwave's clock is set correctly, every day!

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
farah@beige.party ("Farah 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏼") wrote:

Don’t forget to leave cookie and milk out for Black Captain America tonight!

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
brianbilston@mastodon.online ("Brian Bilston") wrote:

I can’t remember whether I’ve mentioned this before but I’m going on tour this autumn: 46 shows across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, plus the last week of the Edinburgh Fringe.

It would be smashing to see you at one of these.

https://brianbilston.com/events/

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
Kroc@oldbytes.space ("Kroc Camen") wrote:

Unless you were largely cognisant during the late 90s, it's very hard to get across to you just _how_ bristling with positive energy computing was back then, just **look** at this opening screen, it screams "ARE YOU READY TO LEARN MOTHERF*CKER?!".

It has dolphins, in the clouds. How many smartphone apps welcome you with dolphins in clouds?

#encarta #90s #retrocomputing

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
twilliability@genart.social ("gábor ugray") wrote:

Brave little engine has been running for a half year straight. There were a few dark spells in the northern hemisphere winter when at one point its reserves didn't last theought the night. But since then, nonstop photon-powered rotation in my window. ☀️✨ #SolarPunk

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Like, every time I read somebody arguing we shouldn't judge people for using chatbots as it's the first time they've had somebody at their constant beck and call I think, no, that actually makes me think less of them

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Only just now realising that the wish fulfilment of having a dedicated slave or polite servant might play a bigger role in the popularity of chatbots than I expected

I can be slow sometimes, but I also always thought the constant signals of servility these systems are made to exude were obviously distasteful, even when experienced second-hand through other people's reports

jwz wrote:

I should never, ever have agreed to allow my bar to accept credit cards.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“Financial Nonsense”

https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/financial-nonsense/

> What looks like a bad investment academically and increasingly like a bad investment politically may also soon be calculated as a bad investment financially as well.

jwz wrote:

100% of the follows I get from mastodon.cloud are from lovely gentlemen who want to sell me seasoned gmail accounts.