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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
yomimono@wandering.shop ("yomimono, still on land") wrote:

I had a whole bit I was going to do victim-blaming @emfSpiders , saying that if they were more visible humans wouldn’t get jump-scared and squish them, but honestly that mindset sucks too much to enjoy inhabiting for a joke so instead let’s just enjoy this highly visible seven-legged spider.

I started embroidering this because traveling with a long dowel is annoying. I wanted to make a flag for it so that it would at least be fun. Huge success!

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AmyZenunim@unstable.systems ("✰ Alice D. ✰") wrote:

i use AI as part of my creative process

it's the part that makes me so angry at the fucking world that i am driven to create art entirely by hand as an intellectual rebellion against the horrors of late capitalism

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
owlsintowels@mas.to ("Owls in Towels") wrote:

Kaikōura Wildlife Centre Trust posted a number of Little Owls admitted for injuries due to nest fall, cat predation and vehicle strike. Little Owls were introduced to New Zealand in 1906. Want to donate to KWCT? https://www.kaikourawildlifetrust.org/help-us Source: https://fb.com/1050410820447228 #owlsintowels 💛🦉

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Well played:

https://youtu.be/fE7B8sJTKj8

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quincy@chaos.social ("Oenanthe conioides ⁂") wrote:

Another one with purple leaves (#Apiaceae, what species?)

#Bloomscrolling

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thatgalsilver@zoner.work ("Syl (Sylvia Bun) :enby_inside: :neobun_pan:") wrote:

Some of y’all on here are really driving me nuts with the constant LLM related doomer posting

If you love making things, continue making them, find people who also love making things and share your views, be the change you wanna see

Doomer posting endlessly does nothing productive except cause a death spiral as you demotivate yourself from doing things by endlessly questioning “what’s the point”

There is no point, and there never was

Just

Do

Things

You

Enjoy

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

did you know, you can just drag & drop nodes in the DOM inspector? 🤯

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

it is worth noting that one might make the case that this is just like Github, but even if we fully handwave our way past any problems with dependency on Github, it makes sense and is wildly cost-effective for Github to provide a free, great experience for open source maintainers, who are tastemakers among software developers generally. code hosting is incredibly cheap and scalable infrastructure-wise.

famously, LLMs are not

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I tend to believe that "superintelligence" is a meaningless term and "AGI" is functionally unachievable (certainly with the current generation of technology), but nothing makes me believe in the superintelligent machine-god than Them sending Their time-traveling agents to tell us all, wild-eyed and panicked, that we have a "moral imperative" to use a specific product to achieve a specific goal

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

this is not me saying that the VCs are particularly good at predicting outcomes. this is a "house always wins" situation.

a) it doesn't work, but you get dependent on it for achieving the same result; your skills atrophy, they jack up the price, they make a ton of money, they win

b) it works TOO well; you actually get way out ahead of proprietary alternatives and start harming their bottom line. they jack up the price so much that only proprietary alternatives can afford it, they win

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

why do you think those venture capitalists are subsidizing this thing. do you think that they are hoping that you will just increase the collective social value of the commons, and rejoice? https://mastodon.social/@juliank/116974045503028965

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
jilleduffy wrote:

Open question:

Say a loved one dies and you want to look up information about how to get access to their online accounts and non-physical belongings, like digital photos. What kinds of words or phrases would you enter into a search?

Or if you use AI for search, how would you phrase the question?

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

RE: https://beep.town/@wopr/116974367948435222

Q: What is omg.lol?
A:

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
Elizafox@treehouse.systems ("Elizabeth :therian: :cascadia:") wrote:

@rk @ariadne

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
futzle@old.mermaid.town ("Deborah Pickett") wrote:

Have you ever deliberately introduced a syntax error into a program to check that the code you’re editing is the code you think you’re running?

Boosted by kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

My newest Citation Needed project made an appearance on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver! It’s a work in progress, but you can see the new interactive version of my map of the Trump family’s crypto ventures at https://map.citationneeded.news/.

The map contains hundreds of business entities and links to the Trump family (with more being added!), augmented with data from the president’s most recent financial filings to estimate how much money is flowing in. It will be queryable by other researchers/journalists.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
iris_meredith ("Iris") wrote:

Sometimes it feels as though all the world wants us trans women to do is die beautifully and in a morally correct manner, because it certainly seems as if any way in which we can actually *exist* in the world is considered immoral.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Taking a photo of a postit note instead of taking the note can be perfectly rational.

It's technologically a massive overkill too. Often the same content could be saved as a few ASCII chars needing thousands of times less storage and compute.

And the whole idea was absurd before digital photography. Why would you lug a camera, use one of 36 frames, and then go to a lab and wait 1h+ to get a print of a piece of paper on a more expensive paper, instead of taking the note in front of you!?

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TheOnion@flipboard.com ("The Onion") wrote:

Profits Soar As Taylor Farms Rebrands As Biological Weapons Manufacturer
https://theonion.com/profits-soar-as-taylor-farms-rebrands-as-biological-weapons-manufacturer/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Latest @latest-TheOnion

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik"):
drumsensei@social.lol ("Mike Mathew") wrote:

RE: https://social.lol/@neatnik/116993781902129570

I had missed some ALT text on recent images of our dog Luca, now updated.

It takes only a moment to add a description to an image, which helps everyone out!

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

RE: https://social.lol/@neatnik/116993264793748554

There was a lot of thoughtful and insightful discussion about this throughout the day. My own takeaway is that there are lots of strong, valid, intersecting feelings tied to the use of generative AI, and it would be a challenge to reach any kind of consensus that addresses issues of authorship and attribution with respect to generative AI use.

I think it's a topic worth continuing to explore, but I'm in no rush to impose any changes or to set any new expectations. Ultimately, everyone here continues to have full autonomy over their feeds. You can always block, mute, filter, or unfollow anyone who shares content that you don't like, for any reason, and you don't owe anyone an explanation or apology for that.

kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin") wrote:

It'd be great to one day work at a company that isn't deadset on enshittifying their product 🫤 I hate how we're about to put (more) ads for the sake of profit.

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

Seriously, quote tweeting to dunk on someone is a tool but it's not one you should just use all the time, and it cuts the target pretty good at times.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
gsuberland@chaos.social ("Graham Sutherland / Polynomial") wrote:

it's honestly sort of embarrassing that it costs so much to operate and still generally has a user experience worse than just downloading the video file from a static website.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
gsuberland@chaos.social ("Graham Sutherland / Polynomial") wrote:

predictably, just got my first email from a peertube instance who are moving to a paid operating model because storage is unsustainably expensive.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
silvermoon82@wandering.shop ("Mx. Eddie R") wrote:

RE: https://flipboard.com/@blogto/blogto-8o12e3orz/-/a-VnNts89-SH6hg1e12nI0kg%3Aa%3A3332572087-%2F0

So if we were hung up deciding who to guillotine first...

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

#Claude (& other LLMs?) by default will add itself to #git commit messages with a line like: "Co-Authored-By: Claude".

I originally thought that it was a form of advertising. "Look at all the things that Claude is doing!"

But I realized today there's a saying that probably better encapsulates the reasoning:

"Don't shit where you eat."

#AI #modelcollapse

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

mood

https://www.pandora.com/artist/john-prine/bruised-orange/thats-the-way-that-the-world-goes-round/TR4tP6t9pZqz4K2?part=ug-desktop&corr=8104885

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
robin@gts.icewind.me ("Icewind") wrote:

Bandcamp has the music buying experience figured out.

Like, sure I can save some money if I spend a bunch of time going through every album of an artist to filter out any I don't really vibe with. Or look for overlap in song between albums, singles, etc.

Or, I can just press the big "buy entire discography" button and save me the effort at the cost of the artist getting a bit more money.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
josephcox@infosec.exchange ("Joseph Cox") wrote:

New: a person opposing a data center was arrested for clapping at a city meeting

Read more here: https://www.404media.co/person-opposing-data-center-arrested-for-clapping-at-city-meeting/

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