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tonymottaz@social.lol ("Tony Mottaz") wrote:
Can anyone recommend good #accessibility and #ux resources for building dense, data-rich web user interfaces? Users tend to be expert power users comfortable with staring at large, dense tables of information and working with complex tools.
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petrillic@hachyderm.io ("Chris Petrilli") wrote:
RE: https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/116924832472791880
A thread.
We cannot just say “AI is wrong” but ask why it is appealing? How is it solving a real/perceived problem, and what are we proposing as an alternative? A legitimate alternative.
AI is appealing here, at least partially, because our health care system is fundamentally broken and unsupportive of individuals. Many doctors would like to be more involved but effectively are punished financially if they do much as try.
And I’ve also had plenty of medical individuals who exhibit near zero level of empathy. Like the pediatric surgeon who didn’t understand why I cared about service industry workers.
You cannot just say “no” but have to engage, understand, and help create alternatives.
I don’t have answers here.
And I see patients using AI to better understand their condition as failure of a system. A doctor using an LLM to do their job, say, diagnose, is a failure of the individual.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
no, just no.
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neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org ("Ian Campbell 🏴") wrote:
"What radicalized you?"
When they DRM'd coffee.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
All Hail Our Snarky @CARROT Overlord
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MetalheadDana@metalhead.club ("There is No Dana") wrote:
100%
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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:
fascinating economic discovery from Fidelity: houses actually are cheaper now than in 2020!*
* if you denominate them in an arbitrary asset that has appreciated over that time frame
next up from Fidelity: groceries aren't getting more expensive!**
** if you denominate their price in World of Warcraft gold
Mastodon FeedBoosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
vv@solarpunk.moe ("vv 💫 [follow my new artist profile!]") wrote:
Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube. Like for example, the video of the fascist requesting funds to carry out your extermination!
Mastodon Feedcwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:
Chatbot: I'm sorry you don't want to speak to the support chatbot!
You: no no no no
Chatbot: It's *so frustrating* when you're talking with a bot that's meant to pacify you and speaks with emulated empathy.
You: oh god oh please don't do this to me
Chatbot: I've marked this issue as resolved. Let me know if you need anything else!
Mastodon Feedcwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:
You: I need some help
Corporation: Well we have good news!
You: No wait
Corporation: Because we have the honor of announcing
You: Please no
Corporation: Our brand new support chatbot
Mastodon Feedbrib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026") wrote:
Am I petty enough to do this? I don't know. I literally don't have the spoons to rip out all of the LLM from my software stack and I don't think purity is an achievable or worthwhile goal.
But Linus making statements like the one here make me wonder about the long-term future of the project, what talented people do we risk driving out by ignoring the social angle?
Mastodon Feedbrib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026") wrote:
how difficult is to migrate your entire workflow to bsd? asking for a friend
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boredzo ("Peter Hosey") wrote:
Convenient as online distribution is, I miss when Mastodon was distributed on physical discs.
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admiralwonderboat ("Admiral Wonderboat") wrote:
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natematias@social.coop ("J. Nathan Matias 🦣") wrote:
HUGE NEWS: This summer, countless scientists & technologists can now travel to hug their families again after a federal court suspended a Trump administration censorship-at-the-border scheme targeting people who work in online safety.
🎉 Many thanks to all who worked on this 🎉
cc @pluralistic
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
there's got to be an onion headline in people pretending to be LLMs to increase their chances of getting work
Mastodon FeedBoosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026"):
fergabell@zeroes.ca ("Fergabell 😷 🌱") wrote:
@AudhdDespiteNoisyAbleism @Cassandra @vlrny
From my reading: Wear an N95 and start having sit-ins at MPs offices. The advice from France is don't do it one time but continue to show up every day or week along with physical mails and phone zaps. You can ask for a physical or zoom meeting with your MP. Doing your homework before to present your evidence-backed concerns in a calm manner is the goal. But this would take organization within each riding and a critical mass of people willing to do this on a rotating basis to give each other a break. You'd have to be prepared to face police etc. as in Britain. There are templates from Minneapolis, Britain and other countries on how to do this while trying to protect physical safety.
Whether enough Canadians are willing to do this in a united front is the question. Vancouver is trying to start organizing against data centres, towns across the U.S. are organizing against municipalities to block data centres in their area. There are many small groups like Water Watchers, Clean Air Alliance, Dogwood, Canada Health Coalition, Council of Canadians and so many more doing activist work, all needing donations and support but acting separately. Just some of my thoughts....
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BeautifulMutantStudio@mastodon.art ("Beautiful Mutant Studio") wrote:
My effing gods I am always ranting about this. I am not "economically viable" by the current ridiculous standards of our capitalist hellscape but I am capable, competent, creative and hella motivated. If we were given a chance to contribute in a meaningful way outside of scraping by with whatever we can manage we would be an incredible asset to society. Every single disabled person I know has so much to give to society but it repeatedly blocked and denied access. 😩
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jmcrookston ("Jonathan") wrote:
"If you call everybody a Nazi then you won't have any words to use when the real Nazis show up" sounds an awful lot like something a Nazi would say to take the heat off Nazis.
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josephcox@infosec.exchange ("Joseph Cox") wrote:
New: the highly controversial AI music generator Suno was hacked. The hacker sent us Suno source code; it shows the company scraped YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius. In all, Suno scraped *decades* worth of music from the internet. Obviously didn't pay artists https://www.404media.co/hack-reveals-suno-ai-music-generator-scraped-youtube-deezer-and-genius/
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Kroc@oldbytes.space ("Kroc Camen") wrote:
It's 2026 -- DOES YOUR HARDWARE ACCELERATED WINDOW MANAGER CAST SHADOWS ACCURATELY?? 1996 for comparison.
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hwang@social.lol ("Dennis") wrote:
Tech bros, “founders”, and crypto guys all have that annoying way of speaking. Not coincidentally, they love AI too, so now it’s seeping into voice assistants and I hate it so much.
Mastodon Feeddysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
There are other questions around AI (like what the economy of it will actually look like in the end), but "is it useful" is no longer one of those questions. Anybody who doubts that clearly hasn't actually used it.
absolutely incredible conclusion, get out more.
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ProPublica@newsie.social wrote:
NEW: Months after FCC Commissioner Olivia Trusty cast a decisive vote approving Paramount’s historic $8 billion merger with Skydance Media, she and a guest accepted Kennedy Center gala tickets from the company worth more than $12,000.
#News #FCC #Entertainment #USPolitics #CBS #Paramount #Business #Ethics
Mastodon FeedRE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@mgorny/116922216150959614
Trying really hard not to come to this conclusion and to focus on the fact that we must cultivate our garden
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iris_meredith ("Iris") wrote:
Some good (if terrifying for me) news: Arca is now in early access. That's right: now you can buy access to my notes on statistics and engineering fundamentals, exercises and access to a community of fellow students where you can ask questions, comment on others' questions and get them answered by me. It's a great opportunity to learn something that will make you better at basically everything you do from someone cool. Take a look!
Mastodon Feedbrib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026") wrote:
I hate being in my brain sometimes
Mastodon Feedbrib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026") wrote:
I kinda think "oh this prep won't take all day" and it won't but managing the anxiety does
Mastodon Feedbrib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary: -> EMF 2026") wrote:
Need to eat, need to get pocked sized toiletries, need to figure out which hobbies I care enough about to take to EMFCamp. Super last minute but I kinda wanna get a chair too if I can procure a cheap one, last time I checked Lidl they had camping stuff in the middle
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PsySal wrote:
I am team upsert. insert / update dichotomy was a terrible, terrible mistake