Shannon Prickett @Binder@petrous.vislae.town
iso 3166-2 joke
When USians talk about the Fatherland, they mean Pennsylvania; when they talk about the Motherland, that's Massachusetts.
Abbrev. Dan Lyke / comment 0
Shannon Prickett @Binder@petrous.vislae.town
iso 3166-2 joke
When USians talk about the Fatherland, they mean Pennsylvania; when they talk about the Motherland, that's Massachusetts.
Mexico talks about drugs and cartels Dan Lyke / comment 0
"If the flow of illegal weapons from the United States into Mexico were stopped, these groups wouldn't have access to this type of high-powered weaponry to carry out their criminal activities," President Claudia Sheinabum said at her daily news conference, citing a statistic from the U.S. Department of Justice that 75% of guns used by criminal groups in Mexico were smuggled from the United States.
RFC 2119 for millenials Dan Lyke / comment 0
The key words "🥺", "👉🏻👈🏻", "😖", ":3", and "><" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.
skill files Dan Lyke / comment 0
Taggart @mttaggart@infosec.exchange
"If you want to improve the model's output, you can write skill files with more specific instructions!"
"Oh wow so like a file that tells the computer to do exactly what you want?"
"Yep!"
"You're never gonna believe this."
And while I'm bitching about Keynote Dan Lyke / comment 0
And while I'm bitching about Keynote and Zoom, dear Google Drive, yes, I just uploaded this video and you have not yet built a degraded version to show people, but have you considered that I might want to share it?
Who the fuck designs this software?
Similar to my complaint about Keynote Dan Lyke / comment 0
Similar to my complaint about Keynote, why the fuck would Zoom think that when I share my second screen what I really want is for the main interface to fragment and move all my controls around?
LLMs used to fuck up lives Dan Lyke / comment 0
JP @jplebreton@mastodon.social
the school bombing is so vividly colossally evil it's hard to even talk about, but i think when we look back on this period in history it'll be clear that the iconic use case for LLMs in policy was to enable fascists to cancel a random museum in North Carolina's $350k HVAC replacement grant on the basis that it was "DEI".
@jplebreton I'm always drawn back to the 2021 story of a white supremacist "AI" company that fleeced Utah taxpayers with a technology that straight-up did not exist in any form.
Venture Beat from 2021: Government audit of AI with ties to white supremacy finds no AI
Predates the craze for LLMs by a bit, but I think about this pretty much every time I am reminded that Evolv and other such scams exist. Dime a dozen, I'm sure.
Related to this note about punch Dan Lyke / comment 0
Related to this note about "punch up, not down", and systems sabotage: When you finally reach a human, be really nice to them about filing a complaint about how the AI agent wasted your time. The customer rep is on your side on this, and likely loves having more ammo to tell to the dipshits managing them that customers fucking hate interacting with time wasting processes.
There's two types of people on a group Dan Lyke / comment 0
There's two types of people on a group chat: Those who, when the request is to keep this group for event announcements only, shut the fuck up; and those who start new discussion threads talking about what they did or like.
Yes Keynote the thing I want you to Dan Lyke / comment 0
Yes, Keynote, the thing I want you to do in "Play" mode is *definitely* take over *both* screens and block me from alt-tab. There's no reason at all I'd want to access, say, other applications or notes on my laptop screen while playing the presentation on the projector.
Fuckers.
LAPD fishing Dan Lyke / comment 0
LA Ten Four: Fishing With Flashing Lights: New Report Shows Pretextual Stops Still Racially Biased
Recent data shows Black and Latino drivers continue to be disproportionately affected by the practice. Los Angeles City Council President Marqueece Harris-Dawson revealed that he himself has been pulled over four times, and had even missed a meeting that week because of it.
References Catalyst California: Stop the Stops: Ending Racially Biased and Ineffective LAPD Traffic Stops
When the criminals threaten to turn FBI over to the FBI... Dan Lyke / comment 0
Exclusive: Foreign hacker in 2023 compromised Epstein files held by FBI, source and documents show.
The person familiar with the breach said the intrusion was carried out by a foreign hacker who did not appear to realize they had penetrated a law enforcement server. The hacker expressed disgust at the presence of child abuse images on the device and left a message threatening to turn its owner over to the FBI, the person said.
Via that genehack guy from that dead bird site @extremely.website who noted:
This remake of The Cuckoo’s Egg kinda sucks.
Hit ⌘-space to bring up Spotlight Dan Lyke / comment 0
Hit ⌘-space to bring up Spotlight, mistyped "squicktime", and... I'm not sure whether to be bummed or relieved that it gave me no results.
Let's get together and sing! Dan Lyke / comment 0
We've been singing with various local community song circle groups for a while, Marv Zauderer's group down in Marin, Janice Hardy's group here in Petaluma with Janice Hardy (I've been collecting those songs here).
I mentioned that Marv's hosting Riomas was super powerful, and we came home and immediately pre-ordered Gather Your Resilience: Medicine for Liberation by Riomas.
We've seen this movement blossom with the media coverage of the singing resistance in Minneapolis, there's gonna be a lot of song at the next No Kings rally, and seems like in a lot of other places.
Anyway, as awesome as it is to have all of this modern music flowing through song leaders, it's useful to keep track of the history: Elaine Kolb's 1981 Let's Get Together has been published, with her agreement, on Archive.org.
Zen fascists will control you... Dan Lyke / comment 0
Trying to figure out how I feel about this one: Ian Betteridge: Zen fascists will control you..., on how narratives of "the garden"/Eden/unsullied state, and "star people"/being special are mechanisms of control.
And I suspect that a lot of what I'm struggling with in it directly relates to my Waldorf schooling and some of the value and unease I've discovered in "Human Potential Movement" adjacent things.
The US Is Counting Traffic Deaths Wrong Dan Lyke / comment 0
David Zipper in Bloomberg CityLab: The US Is Counting Traffic Deaths Wrong, pointing out that by normalizing to deaths per mile we're missing the sprawl that deaths per capita captures.
Although I think even deaths per mile captures some of our fixation on oversized vehicles.
DOJ attorney used fabricated quotes Dan Lyke / comment 0
Thread of Randy Herman @randyhermanlaw.com live-skeeting about , in which DOJ Attorney Used Fabricated Quotes in Court Filing
“Because of the seriousness of these issues,” senior leaders from the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina must appear at a show cause hearing next week for why the civil litigator responsible shouldn’t be sanctioned and why the entire office shouldn’t be held jointly responsible, US Magistrate Judge Robert Numbers said in a March 2 order.
Randy Herman @randyhermanlaw.com
Judge: there are errors in multiple documents. I think the evidence contradicts your statement that this was not done intentionally. Candidly, I need you to give me a full explanation.
Copilot uptake Dan Lyke / comment 0
Market uptake: Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com
Less than 3% of Microsoft Office's business users pay for Copilot.
AI features Microsoft was so certain of that 2 years ago it pressured OEMs to add a Copilot key to PC keyboards, has no meaningful traction. Frickin NFTs outsold Copilot.
Big Tech CEOs exist in a state of constant and acute hubris.
replacing the oribitoclast Dan Lyke / comment 0
Asa Dotzler @asadotzler.com
In the 40s, doctors began performing lobotomies with off the shelf ice picks. But those would sometimes break off in the patient's head so the orbitoclast was developed, a surgical grade ice pick.
In the 2020s the oribitoclast has been replaced by a newer, more effective tool called generative AI.
Grammarly co-opting reputation Dan Lyke / comment 0
Grammarly introduced "Expert Review", in which they co-opted the good names of prominent people as editorial styles:
Note: References to experts in Expert Review are for informational purposes only and do not indicate any affiliation with Grammarly or endorsement by those individuals or entities.
Leading to many of those experts saying "eeew, gross".
Casey Newton: Grammarly turned me into an AI editor against my will and I hate it (Via).
Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com
A little offended Grammarly didn't make a sloppelganger of me
jennifer uncoolidge @histoftech.bsky.social
So apparently grammarly stole my fuckin identity
Laura Hazard Owen at Nieman Lab: A lot of journalism folks are offering editing advice as Grammarly’s AI “experts” (Via)
Maureen Ryan: An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants (Via Chuck Wendig)
Strongly encourage all academics, novelists, reporters, bloggers, whatever to just email this account and state that you want to opt out of this idiocy.
Overload them with emails and make them regret they ever tried this shit.
Addendum: PRF Law: Class Action Alleges That Grammarly Misappropriated the Names of Journalists and Authors Through its “Expert Review” That Lets Users Get Feedback on Writing From Experts. Go get 'em, Peter Romer-Friedman!
Paid in crypto ... errr ... tokens Dan Lyke / comment 0
Business Insider: Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation
As mhoye @mhoye@cosocial.ca observed:
“We can’t sell it so we’re giving it to you for free” does not sound to me like “compensation”.
Dire Straits of Hormuz Dan Lyke / comment 0
Via a bunch of places, Senator Chris Murphy (Connecticut) BlueSky thread on an Iran briefing.
horny bishop Dan Lyke / comment 0
Details seep out in case against horny bishop who frequented Tijuana mega-brothel
Emanuel Shaleta from Saint Peter’s Chaldean in East County allegedly stole at least $270,000 from his church, which he claimed he gave away to the needy.
I'mma nominate the hardworking women at the Hong Kong Gentleman’s Club in Tijuana’s Zona Norte red-light district as "the needy". Via
🎲🎲🎲🎲🎲 Dan Lyke / comment 0
Volpeon @volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip
I unironically think people would be more careful about the output of LLMs if the go-to icon were 🎲 rather than ✨ .