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Praise Kier.
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[#]mdrlumon #severance 🧇🐐🔢💯
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The handsome dining room of the Hotel Wessex, with its gilded plaster shields and the mural depicting the Green Mountains, had been reserved for the Ladies' Night Dinner of the Fort Beulah Rotary Club.
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[#]Sacramento #California #RetroComputing
https://teh.entar.net/@ckape/113929211880160536
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[#]FPGAs are the #TTL of the 2010s Send Toot
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I am a hard no on the "M**A" snowclone jokes generally, but this level of satire works because it attributes the neo-Nazi slogan to RFK Jr. rather than simply parroting it because making a reference is someone's idea of "humour".
https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/113912289774824380
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https://www.eenews.net/articles/court-papers-link-exxon-to-climate-hacking-ring-for-first-time/ ← Oh, and speaking of cybercrime...
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A lot of the anger comes across the way creationists sound when they try and take down evolutionary biology. They'll attack discredited perspectives like Lysenkoism or eugenics, and pit Darwin against de Vries without acknowledging Gould in any way. They'll appeal to emotion and drown you in anecdote, hoping you'll become exhausted by the O.G. Gish Gallop.
Sure, take down eugenics! Take down Lysenko! The problem isn't evolutionary biology: it's the way that despots advanced pet subtheories in service of advancing their state's status on the world stage. Get mad about ChatGPT or whatever horrible film-generating slophouse is getting the government funding this month. Take those things down, but understand that you're trying to cut a tumour out of a larger body rather than trying to stab that body in the heart.
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A lot of people seem to take their opposition to what tech bros call "AI" these days, and end up turning it into a tribal affiliation rather than a reasoned argument. I understand the topic can be emotional, but appeals to emotion have limitations that may work against you.
One of the most important things to understand right now is that #MachineLearning is a SUBSET of #AI, and #generative systems are a subset of that, and #LLMs are a specific technique within those systems. And #ChatGPT is itself a specific implementation of a specific technique within a subset within a subset within...you get the picture.
It's worth reading this article to get some perspective: https://medium.com/@colin.fraser/generative-ai-is-a-hammer-and-no-one-knows-what-is-and-isnt-a-nail-4c7f3f0911aa
The other thing you have to understand is that people who have never been able to make computers do what they want are finally encountering systems that can. They ask their phones in plain language to edit a photo for them, and it does. They load up a voice box and everything they say over the phone sounds like a well-known celebrity is saying it. It's got terrifying implications, but the actual results in some very specific areas are kind of gobsmacking.
To deny this is to hang a sign around your neck saying "nobody should take me seriously". As technical people, we know exactly the sorts of rakes they're walking onto, but claiming that these systems are 100% useless is going to make you sound like an unrealistic crank to them. The fact that generative video is trash and the best image generators can't do hands even now, and that prompt generation can't reproduce anything it's done before...all that is true, but so are the other things.
I fucking hate these things, but I also know that if I just get mad I'll be ignored. You're all getting mad, and you're going to be ignored.
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Oh hey look, the Guardian Project finally got a Signal build in there. I wonder how long that will last...
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There is a whole genre of youtube channels I sometimes call "Martian Bike Dude". This is usually a white man in the US who is kind of more rugged than your racing bike enthusiast, who maybe does trail riding and mountain biking. He lives in a small city or rural area with decent bike trails and low density, and reviews bicycles for an audience of people who (as Peter Walker once put it) "have opinions about groupsets".
And as a result, he thinks he's kind of outside the mainstream, pushing a newer model of more practical cycling. But he doesn't realise how niche and odd he is to the majority of people who ride bikes.
So he does things like this Brompton review: https://youtu.be/TLg0NNjDBMQ where he's NEVER ENCOUNTERED A GEARED HUB BEFORE, so he has no idea that you're meant to STOP PEDALLING when you shift. He gives it a bad review because he can't work it out, but these are basically the default in parts of the world where everyone cycles.
https://youtu.be/QV88C5ZK0x0 ← Here, he calls a straight hub chain a "BMX" chain because sport and stunts are the only place he's seen a chain that isn't fragile: all he knows is wispy-thin mech gearing that needs constant maintenance. He has no framework for understanding why an upright frame wouldn't have a water bottle cage on the downtube: in his mind you're pumping and sweating and flexible and skilled enough to bend down to take a swig while riding, instead of just pootling to a café for a lemonade later. You used to see this a lot in channels that reviewed e-bikes in the early years: "WhY nO bOtTlE cAgE? Where do you put your Performance Salt Drink and Gels????"
And he wears a giant helmet even when tooling around in circles on his own driveway, because he's just part of this odd Martian idea of cycling that is still recovering from the damage that sport and motoring have done to the US #cycling world in the 20th century. #BikeTooter
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With apologies to @scream, there are some simple rules for sounds and interjections here:
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Proper #InteractiveFiction should have archive item handling training, IMO:
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bjpufa66d36itb5rzn3p6vrn/post/3lgiyujzrtk2k
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After years of hand-coded assembly, @neale has finally condescended to use a compiler:
https://teh.entar.net/@neale/113872759018009520
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https://youtu.be/2-UTxStPSxE?t=1297 ← Always encouraging to get a good review for our @retroadventurers.bsky.social #InteractiveFiction podcast on a #RetroComputing show. You lads keep up the great work, and thank you for the kind words!
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Mocking people who are excited about doing something good, simply because they're "annoying" is fash talk and yes this is a subtoot.
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One of the greatest tragedies of the English language is that the word "brisket" doesn't refer to a pastry.
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So uh, Donald Trump is explicitly misgendering me now? He issued an executive order declaring that everyone is the sex they had AT CONCEPTION, rather than at birth? That shit starts out pretty female and only develops AMAB-type stuff later.
So uh, wait, Donald Trump is declaring himself the first female president????
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Dear @TheWarOnCars: In your recent congestion charge episode, you had a vox pop say that New York was the first city in "the western hemisphere" to add congestion pricing.
While part of London is in the Eastern Hemisphere, the congestion zone is entirely to the west of Greenwich observatory.
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PORTER: Here’s a knocking indeed! If a man were
porter of hell gate, he should have old turning the
key.
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... (Knock.) Knock, knock! Who’s there, in th’
other devil’s name? Faith, here’s an equivocator
that could swear in both the scales against either
scale, who committed treason enough for God’s
sake yet could not equivocate to heaven. O, come in,
equivocator.
— Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 3.
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Well, if you're interested in the latest episode of this #InteractiveFiction podcast, they made me host this one:
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bjpufa66d36itb5rzn3p6vrn/post/3lg52u5thes2k
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