Flutterby™! From 2023-04-01 to 2023-04-29

Sure, ChatGPT 4 hallucinates features in APIs, and that's bad, but have you looked at Apple's AppKit documentation recently?

[ related topics: Apple Computer ]

Friends who help friends with websites: *Please* make a really obvious "this is how this site was created" file and put it somewhere that another friend can find it after your demise. I'm currently doing forensics, the original creator died, I have found the commercial template from which the site was created, *I* can edit the HTML, but even though the owner of the site remembers editing the text, we cannot figure out how that was happening. Their ancient Windows machine had a copy of the site, and Publii, but I'm trying to figure out how those things might be tied together, and I'm stymied.

[ related topics: Microsoft ]

There is a certain resigned schadenfreude in realizing that ChatGPT is so popular because Google created such a strong set of incentives for polluting the infosphere that it destroyed its own ability to return good results. And now it's better to have ChatGPT make things up about API docs than to return what Google created.

Shared space, where the streets have no rules

Road signs, traffic signals, roundabouts, crossing points and curbs are done away with and replaced by flat, smooth roads without markings, on which cars and people interact regularly. They may feel confused, but that’s exactly the point.

“Introducing ambiguity is central to shared space,” explains Hamilton-Baillie. “If people feel unsafe that’s good because they will then be cautious as they interact with traffic”. Hamilton-Baillie argues that drivers become more aware of their surroundings and respond to human interaction, just like people do in everyday life. “It civilizes and humanizes a city center,” he argues.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Space & Astronomy ]

ProPublica: The True Dangers of Long Trains

I haven't been able to verify the numbers here, but RT Scott Santens @scottsantens@hachyderm.io

In 2019, trains in the US traveled 777 million train-kilometers and experienced 1,338 derailments.

The same year trains in the EU traveled 4.5 billion train-kilometers and experienced 73 derailments.

Japan: 2 billion train-kilometers and 9 derailments.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/30...sota-train-derailment/index.html

Meanwhile, the FRA is pissing about with rules that make passenger rail heavy and energy intensive.

[ related topics: Aviation Machinery Trains ]

Is there a modern widget set that doesn't suck? AppKit is... ugh (and not cross-platform). Qt is sucking down 4% of the CPU for updating a second-hand on a clock because invalidating the view is causing a layout. Web is just super high resource load. Gtk went all web-ish...

[ related topics: Graphic Design ]

And now is the time when we edit the .storyboard file with Emacs, because fuckin' XCode, man...

Brian Krebs toot about efile.com serving malware at https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/110136163317989884 made me try to figure out what it was. And, yeah, a gazillion content farms telling Google that of course it's legit.

I'm trying to figure out how to explain the "IRS E-file" vs "efile dot com" situation to my elderly friend whom I sent the "no, you can use the IRS web site for free" link a few days ago.

[ related topics: Politics Photography Law ]

Man ends his life after an AI chatbot 'encouraged' him to sacrifice himself to stop climate change

Belgian man dies by suicide following exchanges with chatbot

The man became very eco-anxious and found refuge with ELIZA, the name given to a chatbot that uses GPT-J, an open-source artificial intelligence language model developed by EleutherAI. After six weeks of intensive exchanges, he took his own life.

[ related topics: Artificial Intelligence Global Warming ]

This is a fantastic picture, showing how over-pumping of California's central valley aquifer to support businesses that are exporting water in the form of agricultural products to all over the world has caused subsidence as the water table is depleted. It's worth looking at the whole thing to see the 1925 to 1977 progression. And it's further now.

Something to ponder while you hear all of the cries of pain over the re-filling of the Tulare Lake Basin as the snow melts this year... https://www.usgs.gov/media/ima...bsidence-us-levels-1925-and-1977

[ related topics: Journalism and Media California Culture Earthquake Real Estate Furniture ]

Welp, coworker who's been using ChatGPT 4 says that it's hallucinating things that should be in AppKit, but aren't.

On the other hand, in general, he says it's smarter, in general, than StackOverflow respondents in trying to figure out "WTF Apple?"

[ related topics: Apple Computer ]

I have to admit that my own model for the demise of facial recognition privacy was "intern runs OpenCV on local police department mugshot database", not Clearview scrapes 30 billion images off of Facebook, sells search results to FBI and police departments.

If you're a resident of Illinois you can get your face removed from the database by providing them with a picture...

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Privacy Law Enforcement Databases ]

The, uh, second trailer for the new Greta Gertwig Barbie movie just dropped, and they're going all-in on the homoerotic Ken supertext.

First trailer is here.

From the MeFi thread, comes Todrick Hall - Sorry Barbie (Official Video), and Alexander Avila — Overanalyzing the Barbie Movies with Queer Marxist Theory (YouTube).

[ related topics: Movies Invention and Design Video ]

Has Stephen Johnson addressed the aging of "Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter"?

I'd love to see him address his use of The Apprentice, and that the general rise in IQ that he based some of his argument on has reversed...

[ related topics: Sociology California Culture ]

The Cure For Cancer Could Be Found With The Programming Language! — Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language

DISCOVER HOW TO fibonacci WITH a, b, n
RUMOR HAS IT
    WHAT IF n SMALLER THAN 1
        SHOCKING DEVELOPMENT b
    LIES! RUMOR HAS IT
        YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS b
        SHOCKING DEVELOPMENT
            fibonacci OF b, a PLUS b, n MINUS 1
    END OF STORY
END OF STORY

EXPERTS CLAIM limit TO BE 10
YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS 'First 10 Fibonacci numbers'
EXPERTS CLAIM nothing TO BE fibonacci OF 0, 1, limit

PLEASE LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE

Via both Meuon and Tara Calishain.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Software Engineering ]

RT ResearchBuzz @researchbuzz

AMERICA: Losing its collective mind over Renaissance tonkers.

BELGIUM: Belgium’s Biggest Christian Health Funds Turns to Onlyfans to Fight against Disinformation

[ related topics: Religion Health Current Events Aviation - Helicopters ]

Mastodon thread about how Dutch attempts to move to renewable power are being stymied by Microsoft, and others, using those subsidies to suck up all available power for data centers

[ related topics: Humor Microsoft moron ]

RT Simon Willison @simon@simonwillison.net

So many highlights in this paper "Eight Things to Know about Large Language Models" by Sam Bowman

If you've not been staying entirely on top of modern LLM research this might be a great place to start catching up - it's succinct, readable and full of fascinating details

PDF: https://cims.nyu.edu/~sbowman/eightthings.pdf

[ related topics: Interactive Drama ]

RT EVHaste @Haste@mastodon.social

“Help,” cries the journalist, “I’m being held captive by Elon Musk!”

He calls out from the unlocked cage, door wide open, to which he holds the key in his own hands.

“Quickly,” he begs now, “I can’t bear the thought that someone might think I’m paying for this.”

He gestures to the searing blue legacy checkmark, a brand affixed not to his skin, but the cage.

Concerned passerby leave treats at the door, in the hopes he might free himself. But alas, he shall surely starve.

[ related topics: Journalism and Media ]

This is fantastic: Muir Woods park staff annotates own signs with historical corrections for racism, misogyny

Via this Toot

[ related topics: California Culture Race ]

Pondering "If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him" as a restatement of "Come at me, bro!"

[ related topics: Interactive Drama ]

Construct Game Engine: Ashley's Blog: Safari releases are development hell

[ related topics: Games Weblogs Machinery ]

Ended up at Sol Food on Sunday evening, and realized that we wanna pay less than what they charge for bottles of their pique sauce. Brewed up a couple bottles from this recipe for a pique sauce that's supposed to be like Sol Food's, I'll give it a week or two to age and then adjust, but I'm optimistic.

Next up, recreating Sol Food's chicken thighs.

[ related topics: Food ]

RT Dan Wentzel 🏳️‍🌈 @danwentzel@urbanists.social

“My hot take on “15 minute cities” is if you can get to the coffee shop within fifteen minutes, but the barrista who makes your drink can’t afford to live closer than a half-hour away, then you live in a theme park.” - Gareth Klieber #cities #urbanism

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Theater & Plays ]

This kind of courage is what it's going to take to keep this nation from sliding further down the slope of religious extremism and hate. SWAT Police, Bomb-Sniffing Dogs, and Extremists: A Drag Queen Story Hour in America — A church in Ohio was firebombed and threatened by extremists after it announced a Drag Queen Story Hour for children. But they did not back down.

Following that attack, the Chester Township Police Department, Chardon Police Department, and Geauga County Sheriff’s Office put out a joint statement urging the church to cancel their events, citing “all current intelligence information available” and concerns for “potential violence.” But the church had been adamant that canceling the event would be ceding a victory to extremist intimidation.

But holy shit this is harrowing. It's harrowing that the bigots have normalized this kind of violence, that as a nation we're in the place where these assholes are terrorizing us.

[ related topics: Religion Drugs Children and growing up Current Events Law Enforcement Dogs ]

Based on the number of password recovery requests my email is getting, someone is engaging in a concerted attempt to hijack my Facebook account. Should you get a request for assistance from "me" any time in the near future, please view that with more side-eye than you'd view any other request for assistance from me.

Ars Technica: OpenAI threatened with landmark defamation lawsuit over ChatGPT false claims

It was only a matter of time before ChatGPT—an artificial intelligence tool that generates responses based on user text prompts—was threatened with its first defamation lawsuit. That happened last month, Reuters reported today, when an Australian regional mayor, Brian Hood, sent a letter on March 21 to the tool’s developer, OpenAI, announcing his plan to sue the company for ChatGPT’s alleged role in spreading false claims that he had gone to prison for bribery.

WaPo: ChatGPT sometimes makes up facts. For one law prof, it went too far.

The AI chatbot fabricated a sexual harassment scandal involving a law professor — and cited a fake Washington Post article as evidence

Thinking about building a libelous claims generator bot...

[ related topics: Erotic Sexual Culture History Artificial Intelligence Gambling ]

Explains a lot: EPA says Florida has most lead pipes in U.S.

The survey released Tuesday was the first time the agency asked about lead pipes and gave the best count yet of how many are underground. Florida, with an estimated 1.16 million pipes, was a surprise to one expert. Industrial states like Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania are more typically associated with extensive lead pipe issues.

[ related topics: Politics ]

Chronicle of Higher Education: This Questionable Study Caught Fire in Anti-Vaccine Circles. How Did It Get Through Peer Review? (requires registration)

“The maintenance of scientific integrity in journals — the correction and retraction process — is fundamentally ill-equipped to deal with the pandemic,” said Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, an epidemiologist and Ph.D. student at the University of Wollongong, in Australia. Having dug into dozens of shoddy Covid studies, he called the soon-to-be-retracted paper “among the worst things I’ve ever seen published.”

The Chronicle article is mostly about the peer review process and the failures in that. David Gorski has a more complete takedown of the paper itself: Economist Mark Skidmore publishes antivax propaganda disguised as a survey.

[ related topics: Health Nature and environment Current Events Monty Python Pyrotechnics Education Economics ]

Greta was banished from our bedroom because she and Bagheera were squabbling, but night before last she snuck in and they managed to make it for a few hours without incident, in so we let her in last night and she is soaking up the vibe.

[ related topics: Photography ]

Listening to the latest 99% Invisible, a good recounting of the tale we've heard a number of times about how the Netherlands turned away from cars in the '70s, but the post-script, on Nazis confiscating bicycles and the long-time feud with the Germans over bicycles is awesome. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/de-fiets-is-niets/

[ related topics: Pop Culture Bicycling ]

Copied and pasted from a conversation in a private forum where a friend who's on her UU church board was struggling with other members of the board on minister pay:

Charlene and I were talking about how much she wants to give to the UU congregation she occasionally attends, compounded my salary being the household income right now and that I don't find that group personally interesting. Her number was smaller than my proposed number, but when we compared it to some of the other things we enjoy in our life, it was pretty plain that the right leadership, or even the sense that this was the right community in which to pursue several of our interests, was worth a several times difference in annual giving. Not that this is a strictly economic decision, but the right candidate pays for themselves several times over.

I'm also pondering for myself how I was gonna join the UU congregation in Chattanooga, was talked into postponing the decision, and then the board pulled some completely misogynistic bullshit (involving a friend) and a whole bunch of people left, and someone from the board called me up about donating, and mentioned my responsibilities as a member, and I was able to say "Sorry, I'm not". The "Sucks to be you" was left as subtext.

And how that's probably impacting my feeling that I'd rather pursue the vibe that I might seek out from the UU church here as a purchased service than as a member. I don't have any answers, but I wonder how much of the "Bowling Alone" phenomenon comes from the inability of organizations to keep up with individual-led social change.

[ related topics: Religion Work, productivity and environment Chattanooga Community Economics ]

RT Dan Wentzel 🏳️‍🌈 @danwentzel@urbanists.social

“My hot take on “15 minute cities” is if you can get to the coffee shop within fifteen minutes, but the barrista who makes your drink can’t afford to live closer than a half-hour away, then you live in a theme park.” - Gareth Klieber #cities #urbanism

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Theater & Plays ]

free (incredibly bad) idea to a good home, on the possibility of using excess Steam storage allocated to games saves and such as generic cloud storage.

[ related topics: Games ]

Tennessee GOP begins expulsion process for 3 Democrats, House session devolves into chaos

"We had a child molester on the floor for years, they helped him get reelected and did nothing to expel him," Johnson said. "We've had members pee in each other's chairs. We've had members illegally prescribe drugs to their cousin-mistress, and nothing happened. But talk on the floor without permission, and you'll get expelled."

[ related topics: Drugs Politics Sexual Culture Health Sociology Current Events Chattanooga Guns Gambling Real Estate Furniture ]

Normally for lemon season I spend a couple of hundred bucks in shipping to likely violate all sorts of rules meant to prevent the transmission of fruit borne pests to inflict citrus on friends elsewhere, but this year it's frozen juice and zest, literal gallons of marmalade, and, of course, alcohol. Can't wait to use the empties as water bottles.

Normally for lemon season I spend a couple of hundred bucks in shipping to likely violate all sorts of rules meant to prevent the transmission of fruit borne pests to inflict citrus on friends elsewhere, but this year it's frozen juice and zest, literal gallons of marmalade, and, of course, alcohol. Can't wait to use the empties as water bottles. (With picture)

[ related topics: Photography ]

How many of the "30 under 30" are now serving 10 to 20?

From the department of "well, duh": Sex Traffickers Used America's Favorite "Family Safety" App To Control Victims (quotes are mine):

Earlier this year, an 18-year-old Amazon employee brought a tip to the San Diego Police Department: prior to working for the tech giant, she had been forced into sex work when she was 17. Her alleged trafficker told her that she had to work six days a week and earn at least $1,000 a day, according to a search warrant obtained by Forbes. Text messages also showed her alleged trafficker forced her to do something else: install an app called Life360 on her phone.

[ related topics: Quotes Books Erotic Privacy Sexual Culture Sociology Work, productivity and environment Law Enforcement ]

Saw yet another friend's Facebook account get hacked, and they're now rebuilding their friends-list with another new account, and it's kinda interesting how low-value the account actually is. Like, yeah, you can walk away from it and build up another one with a couple of friends posting about what's happening, and in a few days the connections are rebuilt.

As long as they have local backups of pictures, only real thing of value is whatever they've used Facebook to log into (eg: external games). Which is something to consider if you're considering SSO from a service that isn't responsive to account hijacking.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Photography Games Invention and Design Woodworking ]

Listening to Stuart Russell on the Commonwealth Club about the future of AI, and dude is so close to getting it, draws all of the lines, and then goes off in a direction that completely misses it. It's kind of amazing how blindered those given prominent pulpits on this topic are.

https://www.commonwealthclub.o...art-russell-risks-and-rewards-ai

[ related topics: Pop Culture Artificial Intelligence Video ]

So ritual animal sacrifice is a way to destroy purchasing power in order to prevent inflation that might destroy value of entrenched capital holdings.

Hmmmm....

[ related topics: Consumerism and advertising Economics ]

Social media feed right now is a mix between "He is risen" posts and ads for "You Can Beat It" (dot) org (Californnia's Covid info site), and I feel like if these two groups can just get together...

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Journalism and Media ]

I realize posting pictures of people in the blind spots of modern trucks is kinda passe at this point, but holy duck what are we doing with these things in our neighborhoods?

[ related topics: Photography Machinery Handicaps & Disabilities ]

Just making a note of my neighborhood getting all Dukes of Hazzarded up last night. Kinda wish there's been a Nixle message about this rather than just the local scanner listeners. Also not consistent with the slightly later westbound pass across Mission and up Olive...

https://m.facebook.com/story.p...ntstream_source=timeline&paipv=0

Freesound: Preserving the Sunset Editorial Sound Effects Library from the USC Archive, including a very nicely restored version of the Wilhelm Scream.

[ related topics: Language Books Weblogs Archival ]

AP: What does 1870s Comstock Act have to do with abortion pills?

[ related topics: Sexual Culture ]

CNN: 3,000-year-old hairs hold the oldest clues about psychoactive drug use in Europe

Scientific Reports: Direct evidence of the use of multiple drugs in Bronze Age Menorca (Western Mediterranean) from human hair analysis

Abstract Human hair dated to Late Prehistory is exceedingly rare in the Western Mediterranean. Archaeological excavations in the Bronze Age burial and cult cave of Es Càrritx, in Menorca (Balearic Islands) provided some human hair strands involved in a singular funerary rite. This finding offered the opportunity to explore the possible use of drug plants by Late Bronze Age people. Here we show the results of the chemical analyses of a sample of such hair using Ultra-High-Performance Liquid Chromatography-High Resolution Mass Spectrometry (UHPLC-HRMS). The alkaloids ephedrine, atropine and scopolamine were detected, and their concentrations estimated. These results confirm the use of different alkaloid-bearing plants by local communities of this Western Mediterranean island by the beginning of the first millennium cal BCE.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-31064-2

[ related topics: Drugs Health Nature and environment Theater & Plays Community Gardening ]

I couldn't get to Petaluma Coffee Roasters, so I got a bag of cheap beans at Grocery Outlet, and on a whim dropped a little vanilla extract in this morning, and it tastes like being on an all-night road trip, refueling in the middle of nowhere, and I can't tell if this is a good or bad thing.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Travel ]

Denali is not just a mountain in Alaska...

[ related topics: Alaska ]

I wanna make art like American healthcare: not everyone's gonna get it, and those that do are gonna be destroyed by it.

[ related topics: Art & Culture ]

Where's the THPS/RHPS crossover we deserve, you cowards!

Warrant issued for tech exec in the San Francisco stabbing of Cash App founder Bob Lee. Which reinforces what we knew, San Francisco has gotten a lot less safe since the tech boom....

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf...an-francisco-arrest-17895071.php

And Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee — tech exec’s alleged killer also worked in tech :

We are told that police today were dispatched to Emeryville with a warrant to arrest a man named Nima Momeni. The name and Emeryville address SFPD officers traveled to correspond with this man, the owner of a company called Expand IT.

[ related topics: Privacy Bay Area California Culture ]

Really good read on the current political climate, and racism: Maggie Tokuda-Hall: Scholastic, and a Faustian Bargain

Recently, I got an email with an offer from Scholastic’s Educational Division to license Love in the Library for an AANHPI narratives collection, I was thrilled. If you’ve been in kids’ books for more than ten minutes then you are aware of the staggering reach of Scholastic. And since I’m not published by Scholastic this seemed like a thrilling opportunity. But as soon as I cleared the opening paragraph, my heart sank.

[ related topics: Language Children and growing up Interactive Drama Politics Books Weblogs moron Race Global Warming ]

Interesting, I suspect that differences in colorblindness and perceived spectrum are leading to us seeing LED lighting in different ways: LED bulbs, Waveform Lighting:

After last week’s article about LED lighting quality I noticed a lot of posts in the Hacker News discussion were praising bulbs from Waveform Lighting. So I ordered some to try. But they look too blue and I will be returning them. I’m flummoxed by LED lights now and am thinking I need some fancy color-tunable bulb.

[ related topics: Current Events Community ]

Senator Mike McGuire's comments on mental health care land a little different when Peter Chernoff unofficially tried to open the meeting with free form verse...

[ related topics: Health Real Estate ]

Hearing the numbers around people commuting into Marin to work is a hell of an eye opener on what happens when we replace housing with highway lanes.

[ related topics: Bay Area Work, productivity and environment Real Estate ]

"By ’86,’87, pick a year, people are going to spend more time interacting with these machines than they do interacting with automobiles today. People are going to be spending two, three hours a day interacting with these machines— longer than they spend in the car. And so the industrial design, the software design, and how people interact with these things certainly must be given the consideration that we give automobiles today— if not a lot more." Steve Jobs in 1983

[ related topics: Apple Computer Interactive Drama Humor Software Engineering Automobiles Graphic Design ]

As the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department uses the Henry 1 program as a lever to avoid oversight ("you demand oversight, we'll cancel the helicopter"), this is useful: The climate cost of L.A.'s police choppers

For their unnecessary joy rides over L.A., celebrities have been called “climate criminals.” What, then, should we call the L.A. police?

[ related topics: Software Engineering Law Enforcement Aviation - Helicopters Global Warming ]

Streetsblog SF: Not a Surprise: 101 Freeway Widening Shows Negative Results. Induced demand quickly wipes out $600M express lane widening.

Streetsblog readers will recall that the SMCTA gave itself an environmental award for this project, despite the fact that - as was easily predicted - it did nothing to decrease congestion and actually increased pollution by inducing more people to drive. As Swire points out, it's exactly the opposite of what the region is supposed to be pursing now to achieve its emissions goals

[ related topics: Bay Area Television ]

Should have done this via WiFi rather than USB-C cable. Provisioning my new work machine, I'd just manually copy things across except that every attempt to remember my AppleID pushes out the recovery timeline further. Write down your passwords and tape them to your monitors, kids!

[ related topics: Children and growing up Photography Invention and Design Work, productivity and environment ]

The great thing about the boom in LLMs is all of the people pontificating about them having apparently missed the last 4 or 5 decades of specifics fiction writers exploring exactly these topics in much deeper and more nuanced ways.

[ related topics: Writing ]

Reading "Make Something Wonderful", and aside from so much nostalgia for the '90s and noughts, it has me pondering market acquisition vs the hard problems. How early growth involves building the easy things first, which is kinda the opposite of how we'd like to tackle challenges.

[ related topics: Economics ]

Putting a new liner in the swim spa. Spent quite a while today pushing slightly submerged vinyl around while wearing a wetsuit. I am sore.

[ related topics: Invention and Design ]

Huh. Friend's book goes live on Amazon tomorrow, I went to review it, and there's a review attached for an unrelated book, and attempting to post a review gives "This item is not eligible to be reviewed." Amazon is broken.

[ related topics: Books Theater & Plays ]

Read through Steve Jobs "Make Something Wonderful", felt inspired to build awesome things, but as I read through this morning's reports of ransomware and state-sponsored surveillance exploits I wonder if we're just all worn down from trying to stop the shitty rather than building the cool

[ related topics: Apple Computer Interactive Drama Humor ]

The details of the Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News Network settlement are starting to come out. $¾B seems like a slap on the wrist, but it's not clear that Dominion would have gotten more in a trial. Hopefully some of the other outstanding lawsuits over Fox's lies are gonna extract more.

This is just a place to hang a couple of toots: RT CartyBoston @CartyBoston@mastodon.roundpond.net

"I wanted Fox to apologize! On the air!"

That was never going to happen. Welcome to the team:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/248786

Link is to European Child Adolescent Psychiatry: Justice and rejection sensitivity in children and adolescents with ADHD symptoms doi: 10.1007/s00787-014-0560-9

toot from M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows@c.im suggesting that the terms of the settlement look very good for Dominion (which, I think, also suggests that Fox was afraid of more discovery).

[ related topics: Children and growing up Psychology, Psychiatry and Personality broadband Current Events Law Enforcement ]

I have the feeling I may have already retooted this, much like the 15 minute theme park toot, but anyway: Brion Vibber @brion@bikeshed.vibber.net

"technical debt" implies the existence of predatory technical lenders

"hey kid, you wanna write that code using our framework? it'll be easy at first"

RT Max Kennerly @maxkennerly@mstdn.social

🎶 It must be exhausting always doing your due diligence 🎶

“The one person I found that did that was Taylor Swift. In our discovery, Taylor Swift actually asked them, 'Can you can you tell me that these are not unregistered securities?’”

https://www.theblock.co/post/226981/taylor

The Block: Taylor Swift did her homework on FTX, dodged a bullet, says lawyer suing Tom Brady, Shaq

Moskowitz is seeking $5 billion in the lawsuit, he said during an episode of The Scoop podcast with Frank Chaparro. He claims the exchange’s celebrity boosters didn’t do their due diligence to check whether they may be breaking the law before cutting TV and digital ads for FTX. 

“The one person I found that did that was Taylor Swift. In our discovery, Taylor Swift actually asked them, 'Can you tell me that these are not unregistered securities?’” Moskowitz said. Swift reportedly came close to inking a $100 million sponsorship deal with FTX, but the partnership never materialized. Swift did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

[ related topics: Ziffle Technology and Culture Law Television ]

RT Natasha Nox 💙💛 @Natanox@chaos.social

First #RaspberryPi earned a shitstorm by hiring a cop formerly specialized in hidden surveillance.

Now they accept an investment by Sony for their proprietary AI engine to be included in the next Pi. Which "only sends metadata to the cloud".

Here's a fine list of alternatives to that now-garbage company:

- https://pine64.com/

- https://beagleboard.org/

- http://www.orangepi.org/

- https://www.banana-pi.org/

- https://www.hardkernel.com/

- https://www.friendlyelec.com/

#Privacy #Security #SBC

[ related topics: Privacy Machinery Artificial Intelligence Economics ]

Hindawi and Wiley to retract over 500 papers linked to peer review rings.

Other publishers have announced large batches of retractions recently. IOP Publishing earlier this month said it planned to retract nearly 500 articles likely from paper mills, and PLOS in August announced it would retract over 100 papers from its flagship journal over manipulated peer review.

Nature: Publishing: The peer-review scam https://doi.org/10.1038/515480a

Retraction Watch: SAGE Publications busts “peer review and citation ring,” 60 papers retracted

[ related topics: Movies tolkien Nature and environment moron Woodworking ]

Office discussion about modern automobile design: "...like it's 1920 and we're gonna make artificial neighs and pooping".

[ related topics: Automobiles Graphic Design Community ]

Sitting here thinking about how you can participate in a "decentralized" social media platform "if you have an invite", and... Some of those words do not mean what I think they mean...

[ related topics: Interactive Drama Journalism and Media ]

Mike Lindell’s firm told to pay $5 million in ‘Prove Mike Wrong’ election-fraud challenge

In their 23-page decision, the arbitrators said Zeidman proved that Lindell’s material “unequivocally did not reflect November 2020 election data.” They directed Lindell’s firm to pay Zeidman within 30 days.

[ related topics: Skating ]

Somewhere near Yuba Pass from the comfort of the Amtrak Zephyr.

[ related topics: Photography Trains Gambling Public Transportation ]

Dear Nugget Resort Casino in Sparks, I'm not sure what's up with the level of the water in these toilets, but I did not need to dip my dongle in it when I sat down to go to the bathroom.

That was cold.

[ related topics: Gambling ]

Many people, when they envision a literal hell, imagine caverns echoing with the screams of the damned and the flickering of fires in the darkest pits. I see low dimly lit ceilings, with the echoing of fake bell sounds, lit by the flickering of slot machine screens. And cigarette smoke. #Reno

[ related topics: Gambling ]

Asked Google Maps for a restaurant near me that had vegetables, and it delivered... "The vegetables were under cooked and barely warm". Uh....

[ related topics: Photography Food Maps and Mapping ]

I am picky about bike parking, but I will accept a slinky dog bike rack con figuration

[ related topics: Photography Bicycling Dogs ]

Trying to separate out my experience of the Nugget as a conference venue, and my experience of CALLERLAB, but I am going to sleep thinking that square dancing has given me some great experiences and skills, butt the future of my community building does not lie in this direction.

[ related topics: Community Conferences ]

"we are a committee run organization" is not a reason if the organization is not achieving it's goals. Or, is perhaps an acknowledgement that what the organization is accomplishing or isn't accomplishing is actually its mission.

And that influences who feels like the organization is an ally.

[ related topics: Interactive Drama ]

Amtrak notification about a delay informs me that "trains can make up time", and now I'm thinking about what the mechanical equivalent of a social construct is.

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Was gonna say "don't say Reno, say ReYES!", but then I realized we live near Point Reyes, so the positive is already taken...

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Climbing wall on the side of Reno's W Hotel. Thinking about blank walls and even in the land of low buildings what stands between us and a couple of tens of feet of bouldering wall.

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Anyone else reading "Bluesky" and pronouncing the "y" like "ee" like it's pseudo Russian or Polish?

Approaching the tunnel before Dinner Lake, valley and snow capped Sierra peaks off in the distance.

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Donner Lake, kinda, through the trees, while we wait for an eastbound freight train. And dang it, auto-corrupt, it's "Donner", not "Dinner".

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Donner Lake, kinda, through the trees, while we wait for an eastbound freight train. And dang it, auto-corrupt, it's "Donner", not "Dinner". (Now with picture)

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I mean, sure, I could be driving, but....

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Okay, that's feeling a little more granite-y

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Descending, now low enough that there's snow on the north faces, but the south facing is clear

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Even the scenery on the bus ride portion of this trip ain't bad...

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The gaslighting is getting deep: Judge slams Tesla for claiming Musk quotes captured on video may be deepfakes

Among other challenged statements, Tesla refused to admit that in June 2014, Musk said, "I'm confident that—in less than a year—you'll be able to go from onramp to highway exit without touching any controls." This Musk statement, which has been quoted in many news articles, came during a Q&A at Tesla's 2014 shareholder meeting that can be viewed on YouTube.

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I put some notes from my experience at this year's CALLERLAB (International Association of Square Dance Callers) convention in Reno at https://www.flutterby.net/2023-04-28_Notes_from_CALLERLAB

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