Frankly all this AI stuff is just a waste of time, which is why I'm going back to the original and having a horse named Clever Hans rewrite my codebase. He knows python AND c++!

Yeah, there’s this. How much of techbros shoving “AI” down our throats is because they don’t want to give up on being able to generate custom porn?

One of the only things I miss about not eating meat is not being able to have a Reuben sandwich 😭

“men are better at this thing that women can’t do” “okay, women can do the thing but men do it better” “okay, women do it better overall, but the real geniuses at it are men” “okay, lots of the real geniuses are women, but the men geniuses have a certain something about them that’s special”

Israel just 'broke' a world record for kidney donors - but where did all the organs come from? Forensic evidence and human rights organisations reveal, beyond doubt, organ theft from Palestinians detained in Israel's prisons. Yet this? www.thecanary.co/global/world...

Hot take, but no one should be using ChatGPT and any AI products in general.

“victims of nazism & other dictatorships never stopped repeating fascism had not died, that it was still lurking, waiting for the moment to resurface. That is why it will be so important to be aware of history. Looking back is the best way to face the present” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Striking paper from researchers at Anthropic using a randomised control trial to look at the effects of AI use on skills acquisition. TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’ www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

Fun fact I learned from this thread. If you block some you're following, you will still show up in the list of people that follow them. So always unfollow and then block.

Whole lot of you following Neil Gaiman, and I assume it's because you forgot you did so and he stopped posting when it was revealed he is a rapist. Since he's trying to make a return, do yourself a favour and check if you're following @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com and if so unfollow and block.

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Hilarious and witty review 😂

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“Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?”

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

"More than half of CEOs report seeing neither increased revenue nor decreased costs from AI, despite massive investments in the technology, according to a PwC survey of 4,454 business leaders."

Does anyone have a good vacuum recommendation that is good for lots of pet hair and can handle hardwood + carpets? I refuse to buy another Dyson - I have the v10 and it's HORRIBLE.

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Always a good time to re-up this!

A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.

" In Vladimir #Putin’s Russia, the state has turned to Patriarch Kirill and the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) to assemble a tranche of religio-legal justifications for the war in Ukraine." #openaccess

CPR in TV/movies should be shown with correct technique and as much accuracy as the rating can afford. There are so many accounts of bystanders mimicking CPR they saw on TV and how quickly resuscitation begins is so important.

I don’t usually do this, but Leigh is good folk and in a bind. I’ve helped out with what I can - which wasn’t much due to circumstances - but if you can help or signal boost, I would be grateful.

I have been working through @parismarx.com ’s guide to getting off US tech, slowly because I am so deep into the Apple world, but today’s events just gave me a big kick in the butt to get it done. disconnect.blog/getting-off-...

The people of Venezuela do not deserve this. Solidarity with the people of Venezuela. May the words of Chavez give them some solace

I'm deeply sorry to the people of Venezuela. There is no opposition party in the United States to counter the fascist regime's actions and the population is easily demagogued.

Anyway, I don't just end up on the discover tab pissing people off. I also write books! I even wrote an entire fantasy series set in Newfoundland (where I'm from). There's so much regional food in it, along with ghosts, and friends, and a lot of eating.

"AI is gonna take our jobs!!"

I hate fireworks. I used to sometimes enjoy them but now, having 3 rescue dogs, it's always just a stressor. The boys are doing better but Cassini is having a hard time. Can we please just do drone shows or fireworks away from neighborhoods? 💔

This perfect good boy just got admitted to the ER overnight so if anyone feels like buying digital albums on Bandcamp this is a great time to do it.

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Will be interesting to see who lionizes the five times convicted for inciting racial hatred Bardot. But hey, she loved animals. www.lemonde.fr/en/obituarie...

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society https://theonion.com/historians-quibbling-over-exact-definition-of-concentration-camp-sign-of-healthy-society/

Netflix subtitles are absolutely horrendous. No, "Sankta Lucia" does not mean "Santa Lucia" FFS. I'm like intermediate level Swedish and I could do better translations than a bunch of these Netflix ones.

Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name. "These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."

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I mean, I DO want to abolish fireworks (except maybe in displays in designated areas that aren't close to residential areas). Fireworks aren't a NEED, they aren't necessary. Who the fuck cares that they're pretty when it traumatizes pets & makes life harder for ppl who have already had a hard life?

100% agree. Also, as a speed reader, reading books quickly sucks. I'm constantly trying to slow myself down. I have my Kobo set to old person text size because it forces me to not speed read as badly. Books are for savoring, not speedy consumption!

I do this for my hobbies, for my work, etc. I love it!! It's like a Wikipedia rabbit hole intensified. 😍

I loved this book! If you're looking for an eerie folkloric fantasy novel, this is IT!

There's a certain demographic - mid-level to senior male devs without the math skills to understand the details of LLMs - that seem to be going hard for genAI. It feels like when male statisticians or physicists think they can solve problems of other fields when they lack the domain knowledge.

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

This is definitely a white American thing. These women would die on Sweden where not only do you take off your shoes in the house, many doctors offices ask you to. Gyms require separate non-outdoor shoes and even many offices have areas to store your shoes or switch to indoor shoes!

Aaaand The Space Poet Dog Cafe is open for business (aka time to feed Cassini, Hubble, and Tennessee)!

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Absolute BS. Humans are full of ideas, especially when they are safe, fed, and given the time/money to pursue them! This is just an excuse to keep silencing human voices, stifling creativity, and replacing our ideas with exploitative AI slop.