Lanie Treen

@lanietreen.bsky.social

Aspiring polymath. 80s enthusiast. Travelphile. Craft beer adventuress. Occasional vocalist. D&D nerd. She/her. Surrender? Never.

Canada Day 2017 at the Dome watching the @bluejays with my sister. They lost that afternoon, but I only remember what a good day that was. I will cheer on this team no matter where they are in the standings. They continue to deliver thrilling moments and good memories. Happy Canada Day! #bluejays

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A lot of media coverage of the ‘AI’ reading of the Herculaneum scrolls really fails to understand what’s happened here. There’s no language processing happening, the AI/ML is not trained on a corpus of texts or language. It can detect ink to see shapes. HUMAN EXPERTS are then transcribing the text.

A screenshot from here: https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-02-07-inside-herculaneum-scroll-seen-first-time-almost-2000-years

It explains that the machine learning involves only the detection of ink

Look, not everybody needs to be a strawberry, okay? There's room for cranberries in this world too. You can be weird and sour and only tolerated by a handful of people around the holidays. I know you can. You can be fun if mixed with enough vodka. I believe in you. You can live in a bog

I do not like your AI slop I do not like it, make it stop I do not want an AI house I do not want an AI mouse No AI box. No AI fox— That AI slop can go kick rocks I would not AI here or there I would not AI anywhere No AI car, no AI czar Your AI slop is killing trees I do not like it, let me be!