#langsky #UtLinguaeVitamHabeant "…fins a la dècada de 1970, en el marc d’una política lingüística orientada a la promoció de la llengua estàndard, les altres varietats eren percebudes com a desviacions fonològiques que calia corregir o fins i tot eradicar." www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/el-...

El Japó és un país monolingüe?

El Japó és un país sovint percebut com a monolingüe, però en realitat presenta una diversitat lingüística considerable. Aquesta realitat es va fer especialment visible durant la quarta edició del Cong...

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ATTACKING DEMONS!👹⚔️ #medievalsky #medievalart #medieval #middleages #demon #demonio

I keep seeing some version of this when it comes to AI-generated code related stats being shared and I am just begging people to dig deeper. I saw folks on here share a stat that says, "AI-generated code contains 322% more security vulnerabilities." And I'm like okay, what's the source on this? 🧵

A great talk by @attacus.net from this year's #PyConAU All models are wrong, but some are useful.

"Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Reality" - Lilly Ryan (PyCon AU 2025)

YouTube video by PyCon AU

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My father was supposedly one of the smartest people in the world, and he hated that elitist nonsense. He loathed the idea that intelligence is something you're born with, a single trait that can be measured. It leads to eugenics and bad policy. My latest newsletter: buttondown.com/charliejane/...

You're Not as Smart as You Think You Are

First, some housekeeping! I have written a novel about a trans witch who teaches her broken-hearted mother how to do magic. She also researches a mysterious...

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In food history, we notice how super-refined foods--gelatin, vienna sausage, white bread--lose class and become horrifying once they become industrialized. Suddenly, fingermarks in bread dough demonstrate skill, not clumsiness. Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.

Last weekend I gave a talk at #PyConAU. It’s about quality, scale, LLMs, science, systems thinking, hype, & what happens when the subjective nature of reality meets the assumption that the human experience can be accurately represented to or by machines. You should watch it! youtu.be/GBHGHrlRlKs

"Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Reality" - Lilly Ryan (PyCon AU 2025)

YouTube video by PyCon AU

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nosu, f.n: nose. (NO-zuh / ˈnɔ-zʌ) Image: Bible; France, c. 1270-1290; Bibliothèque d'Agglomération de Saint-Omer, Ms. 5, f. 246r. #OldEnglish #WOTD

Maybe the real Ship of Theseus was the Ship of Theseus we made along the way

important context for headlines like this: Altman also runs a company (Worldcoin) that he claims will solve this problem he also created

CNN@cnn.com · last yr.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the world may be on the precipice of a "fraud crisis" because of how artificial intelligence could enable bad actors to impersonate other people. Read more: cnn.it/3GVwPg7

Melbourne Folks! I will be hosting a book launch to celebrate The Mechanic and the Luddite! Come hear me chat about the book with Lizzie O'Shea and Chris O'Neill — and have a free drink! • August 14th, 6pm, Victorian Trades Hall • Register for free: events.humanitix.com/sadowkski-th...

Book Launch, 'The mechanic and the luddite'

Jathan Sadowski in conversation with Lizzie O'Shea and Chris O'Neill for the launch of 'The Mechanic and the Luddite'.

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We should be putting a gargantuan amount of money into solar and storage. War economy levels. It should be free to have a guy from the government solar your house up. Electricity should basically cost nothing.

Sleep-deprived Effy has proven too much for Zoom's meeting summary AI, which has managed to produce something significantly less coherent than even my babbling. ft @attacus.net

David R. Hagen just solved a small mystery that I mentioned 13 years ago in the mouseover text of a comic drhagen.com/blog/the-mis...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

You counter evil with real life.

Recently I found myself on Antipope Instagram, where there are endless reels of the current Antipope of the Palmarian Catholic Church. This is, of course, extremely my jam, and I started reading up on them hoping to find some wild theology, but instead I found something WAY better...

African workers labeling data and providing content moderation are the invisible backbone of AI development. They perform critical labor under challenging conditions, often for minimal pay, yet remain absent from our conversations about the AI value chain.

Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app · last yr.

"A new dataset, visualized as maps, reveals the extent to which African workers are indirectly employed in the tech sector, doing content moderation, customer service, and data annotation for AI models, among other jobs." restofworld.org/2025/big-tec...

Someone should have called Semple an “inhueëncer” by now, surely www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Just had a sudden mental image of a melting moment shortbread cookie, but they were called “teachable moments” and filled with faux pas and the experience of sticking a fork in a toaster

I don't think that "bikeshedding" is a good name for what it represents, we should discuss alternatives

I was interviewed by @attacus.net for last night's broadcast of Byte into IT on RRR Melbourne Independent Radio. This is such a great conversation about my new book! Honestly one of my favorites so far. Huge thanks to @attacus.net. Listen to the episode here. www.rrr.org.au/explore/prog...

Programs: Byte Into IT – 19 March 2025, Byte Into IT — Triple R 102.7FM, Melbourne Independent Radio

An episode of Byte Into IT on 19 March 2025

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Tonight hear @jathansadowski.com in conversation with @attacus.net on his latest 📕 release ‘The Mechanic and the Luddite’. production by @rowenamurray.bsky.social 👏 Dan and me live from 7pm AEDT tonight for tech news & events too! @3rrrfm.bsky.social 📻 ❤️

If there is one leap that the infosec community consistently fails to make, it is this: people who are not like me, who have different needs and priorities, who have less time or are less technical, STILL DESERVE PRIVACY AND SECURITY.

Also feel bad for Nikolai. Done dirty first by Edison, then by Elon

eve6@eve6.bsky.social · last yr.

I feel bad for the band Tesla

so, I got a bit sick of people asking me about generative AI and @yarnspinner.dev, so I wrote some LinkedIn-style (sorry) thought leadership on the matter hey.paris/posts/genai/

The Empty Promise of AI-Generated Creativity

“Are you going to add AI writing to Yarn Spinner?” It’s a question I hear almost weekly these days. Whether at game development conferences, online, or during meetings, there’s an assumption that ever...

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Amy Kurzweil, daughter of Ray Kurzweil, apparently following into her dad's wild bullshit by mimicking dead people with computers

Jenny Hamilton@readingtheend.bsky.social · last yr.

ahahaha why does every defender of the idea of generative AI chatbots OF THE DEAD start by being like "don't worry, it doesn't have to be a horrifying dystopia!" and then continue by describing a horrifying dystopia

If you've got any interest at all in Australian history, please write a word in support of Tim Sherratt - his API keys for national archives services have been revoked, cutting off years of work building tools around them. Contact info at bottom of post. updates.timsherratt.org/2025/02/24/y...

I finished teaching my Playful Theory class, a seminar for studio artists focused on games. It was my first academic course in the post-ChatGPT era, so I tried out a few strategies to handle students potentially skimming readings and submitting AI-generated response papers. Thread🧵

“…it was possible to view additional registrant information contained within the domain name record (postal address, phone and fax number) […] accessible via developer tools” Inspect Element strikes again! www.auda.org.au/news-insight...