Kind: Reposts

@SarahBreau @delong LLMs don’t abstract; humans have to classify the training set for them. That this was done by underpaid people in the third world has been one of the reasons to suppose the corporate actors pushing LLMs are perhaps not a value of ethically reliable the rest of us ought to be OK with.

There’s a shedload of harm happening now. It’s happening because greed is a sin, not because of some spectral possibility of an inhuman intelligence.

—@graydon

New post, “Use the WordPress REST API to create a custom taxonomy term” #wordpress #api https://tech.chrishardie.com/2023/wordpress-rest-api-create-custom-taxonomy-term/

—@ChrisHardie

I dunno, I don’t begrudge anyone their choices about how to social media, but I’m just done with providing free beta testing and Thought Leadership to another commercial service to help them reach exponential growth.

If the service matures and cross-federation is possible I’ll enjoy following good people on Bluesky or wherever. I’m just gonna sit out the part where I’m acting as unpaid QA.

—@liza

I want to publically thank great allies like @mmasnick and @caseynewton for advocating on behalf of disabled people on #Bluesky. When it’s clear that not much effort has been made to incorporate #accessibility in the design of Bluesky’s interface, influencial people like Mike Masnick and Casey Newton are speaking up to try and change the culture. We see you, and we appreciate you.

—@ppatel

Do you know often you use #encryption? 🤔

You may not notice all the daily encrypted interactions you have, but you surely would notice if your private data was accessed because of a lack of strong encryption.

Take a look at a day with encryption 🔒👇
https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2019/10/your-day-with-encryption/

—@internetsociety

It’s really depressing sometimes that a perfect cautionary tale 1984 was written and Handmaid’s Tale was written and even Fahrenheit 451 was written about destroying books but in the end they just ban those books from existence with the stroke of a pen.

—@CardboardRobot

@ironicsans

♫ I am a language model of a modern major general
I’m trained upon a giant mass of textual material
I’ve billions of parameters and answer questions various
Responses range from perfect to unwittingly hilarious
I’m very well acquainted too with matters mathematical
As long as with correctness you’re not overly fanatical
While many complex queries I can easily elucidate
I have an awkward tendency to freewheel and hallucinate ♫

—@kjhealy

Thank you Steve Rudner, whoever you are

—@meredithw

Kinda tired of the whole “I made a lot of money building the Torment Nexus but now I quit and am warning you about the Torment Nexus (buy my book)” redemption arch for tech people we seem to have settled on.

—@tante

So for the Games for Blind gamers jam 2 I used my custom made engine that is used to make Blind Accessible RPG games. If you’re interested in learning more about the engine, let me know what you think here! You can’t use the engine yet, but I break down who it’s for, and what its current feature set is. https://ericbomb.itch.io/the-unseen-rpg-engine

#GameDev #A11y #Gaming #Blind #accessibility

—@Ericbomb

I’ve spent years writing this blog post. I must have re-read it 100 times, often in my darkest hours. Now, it’s finally time to post it: Divorce.

This post has been my guiding principles, one that I’d come back to in times of doubt. It’s all my calm, collected, rational thoughts that I’d lean on each time those virtues threatened to desert me. https://www.troyhunt.com/divorce/

—@troyhunt

Antisemitism won’t die down until non Jews see it as their issue that they need to solve rather than a Jewish issue they need to empathise with.
In its original this statement was about white supremacy but I find that it works for antisemitism as well. #antisemitism #mazeldon #jewniverse

—@carolw

I’ve told the cat many times to stop opening inter-dimensional portals in the house 🌈 ☀️ 🙀 #ScreamingRainbowCat

—@GalacticHero

A new life experience – trying a blueberry for the first time 🥹
#backyardanimals #squirrels #nature #wildlife #animals

—@Catlynn

Well I *thought* it was a box of clean socks waiting to be paired up, but obviously I was wrong and it is in fact a custom cat bed. #CatsOfMastodon

—@Jsimons

Developers: “Language models are amazing, just write natural English and the AI generates the rest. No need to learn the specifics of the programming language or the platform”

Also developers: “We’ve invented a completely new programming language from scratch specifically for interacting with language models because natural language is too imprecise and unpredictable, and made interacting with the specifics hard!”

—@baldur

#Introduction

Hi, I’m Simi. I’ll be honest I have 0 friends and I’m in need of a community 🙏

A little about me: 🏳️‍🌈 as fuck. I’m an Jr. editor / post PA at an advertising agency. I live with my two dogs, Simba and Prince. Aspiring lead editor / director

I love: #scifi & #fantasy reads, #videogames, #videoediting, seafood, & #queer media (the more non-contemporary, the better)

I hate: Wet socks

Looking for a place to share my random thoughts and connect with others 👋

—@killingsimi

If you’re facing a daunting task, break it up into a large number of smaller daunting tasks so you can more easily become overwhelmed.

—@scrivolical

Motherhood is simultaneously over- and undervalued. It is venerated “except when it comes time to pay the bill from the maternity ward, offer maternity leave, feed a mother’s children, or come up with solutions to the child care conundrum.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/04/27/natality-jennifer-banks-without-children-peggy-odonnell-heffington/

—@amydiehl

Good evening. An iceberg shaped like a giant dick is currently drifting towards a town in Newfoundland named Dildo

—@CinnamonScarlet