Dear @mozilla.org , from your own manifesto: www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/... We are committed to an internet that includes all the peoples of the earth — LLMs are not affordable for all the peoples of the earth.

Resource heavy data centres running models that generated CSAM, assisted suicides and are all trained on stolen material. The boat is already far too long gone for this type of groupthink bullshit. Mozilla could have fully revived themselves in being opposition to AI, but another foot gun it is.

I'm a green card holder. Although this has had a chilling effect on my speech, I'm also of the opinion that if they really want to, they'll find a reason to anyway. Sure, no reason to make it *easier*, but I'd already been vocal from the beginning if not before.

But Visio is made by Microsoft?

Local talk radio host calls her Kristi Noem-pathy.

Between protecting against a tyrannical government and having lobbied and voted for said government the NRA and all those well armed militias must be very confused by now. Schrödinger's second amendment.

Made mac and cheese pizza which is so gross but my kid loved it. He comes to me with food ideas from TikTok and YouTube and we make it. Cooking is the best bonding time.

A database you say? The uncomfortable-with-murder Palantir staff can do that, that’s why they joined. Databases of people; comforting, safe, useful.

I think a lot about Parmy Olson's observation that AI companies actively push everyone to talk about existential risk, because it distracts from more prosaic current day concerns like copyright theft, conditions for data workers, energy & water use, and their financial situation

look how they massacred my boy

Not proud of being part of the high tech version of this

The designer’s happy path is only a fraction of the real experience. On zeroheight’s blog, I share a practical checklist to design components that survive loading, error, empty and offline states, real content, and diverse users. Less Figma fantasy. More reality!

New breach: SoundCloud had 30M email addresses mapped to public profile data last month including name, username, follower count and in some cases, country. 67% were already in @haveibeenpwned.com. Read more: haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Sound...

Forms are better with <fieldset> and <legend> because of accessibility and stuff (adrianroselli.com/2022/07/use-... for details), but did you know that <fieldset> also has a hidden DX feature? You can toggle its disabled attribute to enable or disable whole sets of inputs all at once! #html #webdev

Immigration control is fundamentally dehumanising. You are defining, and controlling, people based on where they were born. You were born in El Paso. Another human was born in Juárez. The world has made up borders inked in blood. Don’t defend that.

This nails the LLM derangement 🛒🎠

I'm not *opposed* to dialogue on secure messaging strategies, but it is INTENSELY pissing me off to see people who aren't actually on the ground telling others not to use Signal during a historic moment in which a VAST amount of vital organizing is taking place on...Signal.

Fun fact; you don’t have to take people who burn billions of dollars for spicy autocomplete seriously even if they are the adults of the grifters. We can just as easily say no to Anthropic as we can to every other AI money-pit corporation.

I’m called from the queue to cashier 3 at our local supermarket. I’ve just spent an hour with a sick dog at the vet; shaving, injections, wound cleaning, finger up the bum. I put down my basket and, being unfailing polite to people working hard jobs, say; Good day sir. Everyone expect she laughs.

USA: We’re investigating video of multiple murders. EU: We’re investigating millions of images of sexualised children. Why aren’t the adults in the room taking abuse and murder for what they are? Why are they “de-escalating” crimes? You can lock up some dudes and the world will keep turning.

"Most of the work of writing regulations ISN'T WRITING THE REGULATIONS," I scream at an uncaring administrator who merrily estimates using this bullshit machine that sucks will save me 45 seconds of typing, at the cost of twenty minutes correcting what it typed, to conclude a six-month task.

The latest marketing trend for these large corporations is to have in-house storytellers who craft narratives designed to transmit ideas relating to the company and its products in a compelling and persuasive manner. Their 'humanizing' of AI is to be expected the more people begin to hate it.

In house philosopher at Anthropic. Effectively patronage. I worry.

Peace in Gaza, the West Bank, and all of Palestine.

For #BlueSkyArtShow a compilation image showing every sculpture in the series "A Catalogue of Shapes". A collection of assemblages constructed to explore compositional, structural, and interpretive similarities between Homeric poetics and sculptural assemblage. #pieces #shapes #ancientbluesky #art

When you know you know.

"For many years, credit card companies and other payment methods were aggressive about policing child sexual abuse material. Then, Elon Musk’s Grok started undressing children on X."

If I ran a print shop out of Dublin with this nonconsensual sexual abuse imagery I’d already be in jail and the “company” shut down. But the world’s richest man gets to keep operating and a pitiful fine is the worst possible outcome. Protect European woman and children better from digital abuse.

Poor puppy. Summer can be hard on dogs. #dogsky

A squirrel chewed through a fibre cable which only affected one of our neighbours. The crew came out to replace the cable and now the whole area has no fibre internet. Lovely.

Made the brioche bun, fries, and smash beef burger myself. Reduced the buns from 100g to 70g in this www.joshuaweissman.com/recipes/best...

Fantastic seeing Brevis converting his brilliance into big scores. Qualifier 1 75* (38) and now 101* (54) in the final. #sa20 #PCvSEC

Even if you had Gemini etc. turned off in Workspace Admin you still need to turn off "Smart" settings in GMail Workspace Settings. bsky.app/profile/paul...

Learner Tien fans 🤣 Just beat Medvedev at the #AO 😱

That a UK far-right male AI generated fantasy, Amelia, was placed in a scene with Irish Father Ted characters is just bizarre. I hear you’re a racist now, father! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

AI isn't just being used to filter your job application. Fake and exaggerated resumes have always existed, but now, thanks to the rise of AI tools, it’s incredibly hard to know who is even real. themarkup.org/hello-world/...

Heading to damascusrestaurant.co.za in Cape Town before the #STOvSHA #URC rugby game. Syrian food, looks delicious. They have a pineapple shisha/hookah :-D www.instagram.com/p/C213supNwwq/

Actually quite well done. The parody, not the actual BOP which is a travesty.

I have been in a cold place; -19 in Kitzbühel, Austria. I have been in a hot place; 48 in Tzaneen, South Africa.

How is your handwriting? Mine is diabolical. I struggle to sign my name consistently. A clutter of spiders are less deranged than me writing a sentence.

The idea of yes/no AI is undermined by “optional AI” in Duck Duck Go. But have at you! duckduckgo.com/vote

Only carelessness makes a bad photograph. 1st, 10,000th, millionth; if you don't care you won't make a good photograph. When you care, when you see, your photographs will be good. www.dpreview.com/opinion/4526...

You can't have a CSS reset without having an opinion as @vale.rocks details. vale.rocks/posts/css-re...

Clever call to understanding not just the syntax of CSS but how it works, how it applies. polypane.app/blog/underst...

"Verify" is imprecise here, but the point is that you need to have people on the ground to sort out what the features in remote sensing output actually are. Elinor Ostrom and Harini Nagendra's uses in commons protection analysis shaped the way I think about it. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

US TikTok will continue to license the algorithm from ByteDance. They can "retrain" and "review" it but will they? That's extra cost. ByteDance will continue to manage "e-commerce, advertising and marketing" on TikTok. Ads usually mean personal data sharing. How is this any better really?

curl open source project ending bug bounty partly due to AI slop. lists.haxx.se/pipermail/da...

Is there a risk that the dynamics of military technology hype enroll us all into a war hype? I argue yes in this piece just published by @techpolicypress.bsky.social. www.techpolicy.press/tech-venture...

bending spoons likes to acquire products that do one thing good and when they decide the product is as good as they can get it, they lay off everyone who worked on it so they can just let it hum along as a money printer until customers jet, money printer stops and the product dies