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I’ll let you in on a secret: I love sporadically updated weblogs. I subscribe to over 1200 feeds and most of them are sporadic or even technically “inactive”. Months often pass between updates
It means that every post published was important to the writer
Back in the days of snail mail, letters that began with “It’s been a while since I last wrote to you” were the ones people cherished the most
You don’t need to post every day or even every week to have a blog that matters
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LLM generated text is fascinatingc because there's two groups managing it.
1) I am going to call the SpamAssassin side, now I know that you've likely not has email that wasn't Office365 or Gmail for a decade or more, and those are Category Two email services, but we scrappy underdogs filtering email with SpamAssassin have an effect where LLM generated text looks like garbage, and so if you generate your words or images with a GPT engine, it's gotta be scored as garbage
2) the Google/Facebook/Microsoft stance that you should allow all LLM text and diffusion images! They're great! It's the AI revolution!
The problem with Category 2 is that it rapidly makes all your stuff garbage (people only see spam), because if people can generate stuff no one wants to see, but gets past the filter, they will. Google will literally pay them to do that.
If you block that stuff, people who claim there are ethical uses for LLMs (a lie) will be caught, and those generating human supervised text carefully will be blocked.
The goals of people-who-make-money-on-clicks (read: everyone) are only served if:
We only use category 1 filters
The people making money on clicks create things that pass category 1 filters
And the whole "what is happening to facebook" is just the culmination of this obvious point
@Hypolite Petovan The problem is the phantom concept of AI polluting the decisions.
If you could say:
If a platform allows AI then it will become nothing but spam
If a platform blocks AI then it will block people using Ethical AI
But, part of it is that Ethical AI isn't real, and AI is a problematic branding term.
But part of it is that Google/Microsoft/Facebook are allowing AI posts because that way their AI marketing is easier, but it's ruining platforms.
It's really obvious but it's so hard to put into words.
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Yeah! Exactly! This!
Facebook is boosting fake content and now is a mess of spam, and that's it. Filter it like bot content, or ruin your site.
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Not a fan, at all, of tech talks making generalizations about teachers being "unprepared" instead of amplifying the real experiences of teachers and the real work they're doing in this moment, which is tremendous.
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Here are things my teacher friends have done to take genAI seriously and more importantly take its impact on students seriously:
- developed an entire course project for students to collaboratively "test" and experiment with genAI tools and also see where they replicate misconceptions about scientific knowledge
- spent hours helping students who were on a group project being sabotaged by other students who were insisting on the wrong answers because of relying on genAI
- developed new collaborative classroom exercises helping students learn how to read and triage code that was generated so that they'll be prepared as they encounter it
- held early course ethics and justice discussions where the students were able to surface their concerns and collaboratively think about their values wrt how people's data are used, how artists are treated, how we might think about data surveillance and privacy
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I am so glad to hear that students are learning to think critically about AI in particular and more generally about ethical application development.
I think we have had enough of EdTech telling us that learners will be left behind if educators don't use what they are selling right now.
Our brains got us where we are, let's learn how to use them more effectively
One Ring to Process Isolate Them
One Ring to Allocate Resources
And In The Process Stack Bind Them?
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I need to invent JaaS, pronounced Jazz, which is secretly just Jenkins as a Service, but is the CI everyone is hoping and wishing for.
Everyone out here with their cobbled together hell of YAML and docker containers trying to build the perfect CI system, and Groovy is just sitting there being simple.
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STOP DOING ELECTRON
- WEB PAGES WERE NEVER MEANT TO BE SEPERATE BROWSERS THAT TAKE UP 1GB OF RAM
- MILLIONS OF YEARS OF CHROME EMBEDDED FRAMEWORK AND YET NO REAL WORLD USE FOUND FOR MAKING YOUR MUSIC PLAYER A WEB APP
- "hello yes please take away 1gb of my ram for Discord" statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged
- WANTED TO PUT YOUR WEB APP AS A SHORTCUT ON YOUR DESKTOP? WE HAD A TOOL FOR THAT - WE PUT THE LINK INTO A SHORTCUT FILE
THEY HAVE PLAYED US FOR ABSOLUTE FOOLS
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@txt.file Unhinged Time Cube style ranting is the idiomatic format for this particular meme template.
"where's your tablet? why is it not playing?"
he smiles, I look under his pillow, he's cracked the password and is watching the 1999 Pikachu Shorts
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I'm about to make #Canadian #history. Help make it a positive precedence. The #media NEEDS to run my #story!
#canada #maternityleave #wageslavery #slavery #law #morals #ethics #classwar #oppression #repression #fascism #capitalism #news #media #ausgov #politas
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Wow, this is some MAJOR gaslighting:
“We've made the company decision to terminate your employment. We feel you are not a good fit. I think you'll agree with how things were when you left that it wasn't going well. I don't think you were happy here.” – HR Director Termination phone call
The confidence that tech trainers seem to have that all messaging over Port 80 is unencrypted baffles me
It's just so outside my experience
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CISSP Exam next week
Cat apparently suddenly is quadriplegic or something
Major DB upgrade at work
how this did this fall apart so fast
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The Doctor: The assembled hordes of Genghis Khan couldn't get through that door, and believe me, they've tried.
Voice from outside: This is the Lock Picking Lawyer, and what I have for you today is a Type 40 TARDIS....
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That's a shitty situation!
Maybe you can find some other BT dongle that has an external antenna?
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@rrwo @rkaj Someone else suggested that a better alternative would be a purely semantic markup language with no construct for layout at all, that all presentation should be left to the client. Markdown is adequate for that, obviously, but what seems the most important to me is the latter part.
We have collectively forgotten userstyles, instead we let ourselves be tossed around by whatever is fancy that day or worse whatever is the dark pattern du jour.
Think about it: if styling is entirely client-side there is no way to hide the unsubscribe link as tiny 2pt light grey text on white background, as everyone seems to be doing now. It would force authors to care about structure instead of presentation and hence make everything accessible by default.
I don't think phishing and spam can be solved with a different content-type. Phishing is a about trust, and even my physical mailbox gets unsolicited adverts despite the costs involved.
@rkaj
Often people *want* to control layout. (Various kinds of virual artists and graphic designers and related industries, for example.)
And I don't mind that. Most of it is not dark patterns, it's someone trying to present content in a visual pleasing way.
But for accessibility, yes, clients need to be able to override the appearance.
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CISSP exam in two weeks, and I've no iudea how the exam compares to the practices
I feel like I know all the stuff, but feel like a 4 hour multiple choice exam I have to wake up at 6:30 am for is the least ideal way to test that
Any advice/assurances for someone who really just needs letters that tell well-meaning HR people that I am hirable?
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@silverwizard: if I can pass it, just about anybody can. There is certainly a lot of stuff to take in, but it is learnable.
I should admit that it took me two tries, but i got there 🙃
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I'm curious about OP in the screenshot being in Japanese while the QRT is talking about Chinese.
Edit: what little I can understand of the post is mentioning China and AI Art so maybe it's 2nd hand info in OP
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ME: Stop, this is a nightmare, it's like THE GIVING TREE but with classism.
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Fuck you, Oral-B
I needed a new toothbrush. My gums are a bit screwed up and my wife’s cousin (who is a dentist) recommended I get one of the new Oral B “iO” models, because it would be good for the specific problem I...frabjousdei (Tumblr)
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The Writer Will Do Something by Matthew S Burns
You are the head writer for the third game in the wildly popular ShatterGate™ franchise.itch.io
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yeah i like Dune 2
Dune 2 others as i would have them dune 2 me !!!
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I'm uncomfortable using Bluesky for a very important reason: I don't know how they pay their bills, and despite this, they've taken VC funding. They have no option but to fuck us over at some point.
I'm exhausted by the enshitification cycle. I miss all the friends I've lost from Twitter and I don't want to go through all of this again.
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Bluesky pays it bills with VC money, which of course is not and is not intended to be a long term solution.
Mastodon and the Fediverse pay their bills with volunteer labor and donations. I'm a bit suspicious that is a viable long term solution.
In either case, I thinks it's reasonable to speculate that eventually things will have to change and either performance/quality will degrade or a new source of income will need to be found.
@stpaultim I should have been clearer and said "I don't understand how Bluesky WILL pay its bills". Because as far as I know, they haven't really said. And ultimately their bills are going to be quite high because they need to pay their VC investments back.
Donations and volunteer labor might not seem sustainable but at least it's out in the open.
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