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This week at work I was forced to do a training in which I was strongly encouraged -- coerced, really -- to use #AI.
The training concluded with 22 bullet-point warnings about different ways that AI might mess up, and informed me that if AI might any of these 22 broad categories of mistakes while I was using it, my employer would hold me responsible.
Gaza, Genocide
Nothing screams "ceasefire" quite as loudly as bombers going on a raid, killing 14 people and maiming many more. "Ceasefire" means Israel is allowed to indiscriminately murder the indigenous population, but they're under no circumstances allowed to defend themselves against it.
Servers are safer to use if a setting called "authorized fetch" (also known as "secure mode") is switched on. Ordinary members cannot activate it, it can only be activated by the server's admin.
When it's activated it makes blocks much more effective and greatly reduces unwanted interactions.
You might want to ask your server admin to switch it on. If they're unsure about it, they can find lots more info and step-by-step instructions at https://fedi.tips/authorized-fetch
Congrats @infracost on their Series A raise. That a tool like this is a good / needed idea or that FinOps even exists is an indication of the super high cloud costs.
Small acts of #kindness can have a huge impact. Please remember this as we barrel towards the season of consumerism. The people working and serving you are dealing with extreme circumstances and may be more frustrated than you.
ALBがサポートしたヘルスチェックログをCloudFormationで設定して確認してみた
https://dev.classmethod.jp/articles/alb-health-check-logs-release/
Fucking Democrats. Someone please make a Super PAC so we can primary every single one of these pieces of shit. They all need to go:
“Full List of Democrats Voting to Condemn Socialism as Mamdani Comes to Town”
Democratic socialists in the US don’t exactly want to turn the US into China.
We just want a lite version of the Nordic Model, what the rest of the world might call social democracy.
Universal single payer healthcare would be a great start.
Treating this idea as some sort of horrible boogieman says more about how both parties including the Democrats are owned by their corporate sponsors
A long-overdue privacy upgrade: the sad and powerless Amazon eero was replaced with a Linux-powered router.
As a bonus, I can finally plug in my home server via Ethernet and reduce lag (even SSH lagged!), there's also a ✨web-UI✨ instead of the eero app. One less app!
My question remains: has Copilot been trained on Microsoft's own code for Windows, Office, and the rest? If not, why not?
The fact no tech journalist with access has asked this very basic question speaks volumes about the deplorable state of technology media.
鯖缶のリスト作るのいいなと一瞬思ったけどこのTLにいる人の7割くらいが多分鯖缶なので作ったところで説があるんだよな
My friend seems genuinely baffled that I am an AI researcher who refuses to use AI! Not only that, but I argue against it from theory, not experience. Why don't I just give it a try for a while, and see what it's really about before I judge it?
I guess I see where he's coming from. Part of the problem is the word "AI." LLMs are not my research focus, so it's less of a contradiction than it sounds. But I admit, being a non-user makes my arguments against LLMs less credible.
I just don't understand why I owe it to anybody to give AI a shot. I know how LLMs work in gory detail, and I don't trust them. I've seen the mediocre work they produce. I've read studies about the seductive illusion of competence and caring they create, and how people fall for that. I know it's all built on an incredibly exploitative business model.
I feel entirely justified in not giving them a chance. I guess I'm just as baffled by how badly he wants me to try it, and how sure he seems to be that it would change my mind.
Panik: I pushed secrets to GitHub
Kalm: git-crypt was configured
Panik: git-crypt was never setup for this repo
Kalm: The GitHub repo is private
I have to relearn git-filter-repo now 😭
ME: I feel like I haven't been artistically productive for a long time
MY BRAIN: Make a Virtual Boy game
ME: I've been making stuff, but it's either been things that were never finished, or experimental work that was never meant to leave my computer
MY BRAIN: Make a Virtual Boy game
ME: It's been rewarding, but art with no audience has a hollowness
MY BRAIN: Make a Virtual Boy game
ME: I just feel like I want to make something that has an impact on people
MY BRAIN: Make a Virtual Boy game
Worse than a non-technical boss is one who thinks they are technical
With all the AI garbage out there now, I think it would be a good time to restart Webrings. Humans could vouch for other humans that their writing is authentic.
久々にしゅいろ猫さん描いた #Fujishikipics #しゅいろ猫さん
Servers are safer to use if a setting called "authorized fetch" (also known as "secure mode") is switched on. Ordinary members cannot activate it, it can only be activated by the server's admin.
When it's activated it makes blocks much more effective and greatly reduces unwanted interactions.
You might want to ask your server admin to switch it on. If they're unsure about it, they can find lots more info and step-by-step instructions at https://fedi.tips/authorized-fetch
ひとひら言葉帳 (@kotobamemo_bot) on X
誰が許して誰が許されるのであらう。われらがひとしく風でまた雲で水であるといふのに。/宮沢賢治「竜と詩人」 https://x.com/kotobamemo_bot/status/1991993020829536724?t=mBijMmSzFAGdEhK5AOoGdg&s=09
Remember when those studies came out about Instagram’s affects on mental health for teen girls? It’s like Google read those and said “hold my beer”
https://lgbtqia.space/@alice/115592613474826318
It can’t be said enough how profoundly destructive these generative “AI” technologies are across every facet of our digital lives. We will look back in horror.
So I've been fucking around, testing Google's purity filters some more—seeing what it rejects, what it accepts, and what changes it makes without instruction.
In every case, if I give it a photo with much skin showing, it rejects it.
If I give it a photo with underwear or lingerie showing, it tends to cover me up more (i.e. it zips up jeans, buttons up shirts, makes fishnets opaque, etc).
It almost always makes me look less like a tomboy. Often enlarging breasts (even while hiding them away).
This time it accepted four photos (out of well over a dozen submitted), from three different photoshoots—two with face covered and two with face showing (which is the closest I've done to a face reveal now, I guess 😋). *more details in alt-text.
Conclusion: Google has baked a technology into its default Android photo gallery that (surprise) reinforces unrealistic ideals of beauty while simultaneously treating feminine bodies as inherently sexual and in need of censoring.
Follow-up: I'd like to see folx with other body types, gender presentations, and styles, test the edges of what Google Photos "Remix" and "AI Enhance" features will accept, and what un-requested changes it makes to those images. Does it censor topless men? Does it lean into racist stereotypes? Does it make thinner femme folx more curvy? Does it make curvier folx thinner?
If this tech is going to be crammed into everything, where kids, friends, and corporations are going to be using it, we should understand the potential psychological effects and built-in biases we're likely to encounter with increasing frequency.
青空の抜粋室 (@aozorabasu123) on X
さよなら。もうあわないよ。さよなら。"宮沢賢治『よだかの星』 https://x.com/aozorabasu123/status/1991974908885414279?t=mBijMmSzFAGdEhK5AOoGdg&s=09
よだかの星、好き
百瀬ぴける@USAGAMI DOLL (@curran_PKL) on X
窓辺の白に溶ける 不器用な勇気 https://x.com/curran_PKL/status/1992181617742536820?t=mBijMmSzFAGdEhK5AOoGdg&s=09
ドール、ドール……
Wie mein erster Chef immer so schön gesagt hat:
"Die Friedhöfe sind voller 'unersetzlicher' Menschen".
ko_yu (こゆ)🍀🍵C107￤一日目 西ふ_44b (@ko_yu0312) on X
#いいツインテールの日 https://x.com/ko_yu0312/status/1992173383916896757?t=mBijMmSzFAGdEhK5AOoGdg&s=09
江戸いけど美的
Hot Take: wer sich in welchem Kontext auch immer als "nicht ersetzbar" erachtet, macht entweder grundlegend was falsch oder steht drauf, ein Single Point of Failure zu sein.
Ollie Barder (@Cacophanus) on X
数年前に永野護さんにインタビューする機会がありましたが、たいへん興味深く、洞察に富んだ方でした。
また、イギリス文化についてもいくつか質問してくださり、たとえば「ソブリン硬貨とは何か」といったことにも関心をお持ちでした。 https://x.com/Cacophanus/status/1992057392289440159?t=mBijMmSzFAGdEhK5AOoGdg&s=09
Saying No and refusing to use unethical tools and platforms can be a powerful way to protest.
Do not minimize the power you have in refusing to participate.
Hey
Femmes
Look at this outfit
집더하기나서냥
심더하기 트러플감자칩을 샀다냥
괜찮은 맛이었다냐
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she is resigning from Congress in January
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-says-she-is-resigning-from-congress-in-january?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Headlines 
@headlines-PBSNewsHourHeadlines
This week at work I was forced to do a training in which I was strongly encouraged -- coerced, really -- to use #AI.
The training concluded with 22 bullet-point warnings about different ways that AI might mess up, and informed me that if AI might any of these 22 broad categories of mistakes while I was using it, my employer would hold me responsible.
余白の詩学 (@_____yohaku) on X
月光はいいものです。月光よりいいものはありません。もはや一生、そういう気持ちから出ることはないでしょう。 中原中也 https://x.com/_____yohaku/status/1992067621001294175?t=mBijMmSzFAGdEhK5AOoGdg&s=09
How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA
https://www.heise.de/en/news/How-a-French-judge-was-digitally-cut-off-by-the-USA-11087561.html
Nicolas Guillou has been sanctioned by the USA as a judge of the International Criminal Court. He notices the effects primarily in the digital realm.
画家・絵師 福井安紀 (@xTAyVTtCY9N7uqg) on X
創作者として、捨てた方がよい価値観は、｢いつか、誰かが、売ってくれる｣と希望してしまうこと。
確かに｢売ってくれる人｣はいます。ただし、ずっと同じ作家を推し続けることは、ほぼ無いことです。
｢自分でつくって、自分で売る｣が基本で、そのスタンスを支援してくれる人が登場する。感じです。 https://x.com/xTAyVTtCY9N7uqg/status/1991855142220730417?t=mBijMmSzFAGdEhK5AOoGdg&s=09
자려고 양치하고 세수하고 왔더니 잠 다 날아감;
Remember when those studies came out about Instagram’s affects on mental health for teen girls? It’s like Google read those and said “hold my beer”
https://lgbtqia.space/@alice/115592613474826318
There’s a lot of political commentary about Marjorie Taylor Greene resigning, but one important point is this: she entered Congress in 2021 with an estimated net worth of about $700,000, and is leaving in 2025 with a net worth of roughly $25 million.
ひとひら言葉帳 (@kotobamemo_bot) on X
恋をしていると自由をうばわれる。恋しい人のいない世界では住みづらくなる。でも素晴らしかった。自由でなくてもかまわないというくらい、自由だった。自由であると決めたから、不幸でも孤独でも退屈でも、どうでもよかった。/栗田有起「お縫い子テルミー」 https://x.com/kotobamemo_bot/status/1992099220623606093?t=mBijMmSzFAGdEhK5AOoGdg&s=09
つわけでそろそろ寝ておきますか。明日明後日のおしごとをやれば火曜日水曜日がおやすみなのでの…ぐふふ！
そう言えばマシュー・スウィートって倒れてからどうなったのかな…
skyriver (@wcinp) on X
穿孔テープのリーダーをフルスクラッチで開発中です
センサー周りの調整が終わり安定してデータが読み取れるようになりました
詳細は下記のurlを参照して下さい
https://t.co/UviWeRhqfI
#穿孔テープ #テープリーダー https://x.com/wcinp/status/1991883027413377247?t=mBijMmSzFAGdEhK5AOoGdg&s=09
すご
A little bit norteño, a little bit tejano, a little bit zydeco. It's hard to beat Flaco Jiménez!
メカあかりちゃん
Em 
DevelopersIO 
しゅいろ
Kagami is they/them 🏳️⚧️
