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I mean, LLMs would make perfect CEOs

– Confident
– Persuasive
– Well read
– Never admits a mistake, and will degrade you if you point one out to it
– Can make up reasonable sounding bullshit on the spot to explain their every action
– Relies on exploiting the unpaid labor of thousands of people
– Lives in a reality they invent for themselves
– Fundamentally uncreative

—@malcircuit

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Today’s piece with The Big Picture writer Amelia Mavis Christnot is a must-read… “Autism doesn’t need a cure. It needs empathy and understanding.

I think if we approached ASD from that perspective we could better help individuals who are nonverbal or who have coexisting disabilities.

And mental illness is not an excuse for racism or mass shootings.

There are millions of us with actual diagnoses and we’ve never gone on a bigoted rant or shot up a school, church or movie theater. Stop blaming poor choices on mental illness.”

https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/questions-team-takei-amelia-christnot

—@georgetakei

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I am floored and fascinated by the near-literary quality of many of the descriptions of images that people carefully craft when appending pictures to their posts on Mastodon. Some of them will reveal a detail that had escaped my attention. Others will help me understand a subtle joke I had missed. Others still are true poems. ALT are their own microblogging world that reveals itself as you hover on a picture. And I hover, and hover.

#AltText #inclusivity
#Mastodon #netiquette #tootiquette

—@fheinderyckx

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I had to explain to a 12yo that not long before she was born, you made a computer display by sucking all the air out of an enormous glass box and then painting one side of it with special paint that sometimes glowed and then applying 2000V to a little bit of hot wire so you ripped electrons out of it and using electromagnets to steer the electrons to hit the special paint so that it glowed, and she seemed increasingly suspicious that I was pulling her leg and at the end she just said “that seems.. ..very inefficient?” and now I feel like a walking exhibit at a mediaeval blacksmithing museum

—@doop