RE: https://techhub.social/@linuxgal/117139759590947676 #USPol #AES #Michigan #MI

say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Emotional Support Dog Days #SelfCareHolidays #HashTagGames

Oktoberfast #SelfCareHolidays #HashTagGames

George Birthington's Washday #SelfCareHolidays #HashTagGames

"The penalty with LLMs is that you eventually run out of people's work to steal"

I read the word all the time on Mastodon, but when I talk with my semi-progressive friends who still live in Instagram or the NYT, I find that they have never heard the term "NerdReich." When I mention it, the typical response involves a gasp as they see the meaning immediately, followed by an […]

Happy 90th birthday to Margaret Hamilton, who led the development of the on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo Guidance Computer. Here she is in 1969, standing next to listings of the Apollo guidance software she and her MIT team produced.

Looking at the resurgence of interest in vinyl records after a mere 40 years of utter obsolescence (not to mention a similar renewed interest in much younger audio CDs) makes it crystal clear what a terrible, unforgivable crime the AI companies have committed by their wholesale destruction of […]

<sarcasm>If you allow #Petaluma to erect buildings six stories tall--and outlaw cars--your gonna end up with something horrible like this:

Hakeem Jeffries is apparently no different from any run-of-the-mill grifting republican.

How is the destruction of vintage books for AI harvesting not in the same category as the parts of the destruction events of the library of Alexandria associated with early Christian fanatics! The destruction of earlier physical artifacts, cultures, praxes, archives and knowledge, to be […]

Back to the Hardware Store #HashtagGames #HomeRepairMovies

There Will Be Blood #HashtagGames #HomeRepairMovies

The Treasure of the Home Depot #HashtagGames #HomeRepairMovies

Singin In the Drain #HashtagGames #HomeRepairMovies

Blade Sharpener #HashtagGames #HomeRepairMovies

The Sanding #HashtagGames #HomeRepairMovies

Mary PopRivets #HashtagGames #HomeRepairMovies

The Wolf of Wall Repair #HashtagGames #HomeRepairMovies

Drill Hard #HashtagGames #HomeRepairMovies

46 years ago today, Sue and I got married. Two kids, three grandkids, and about 4 or 5 companies later, we're still kicking. (I just read this to Sue and she asked "Isn't 'four or five' an exaggeration?", so I started to list the companies we've owned and she said "okay, I guess you're right." […]

I want to remind you: these bastards have spent $1.5 trillion of society's money on this technology. That it's produced *something* should not be surprising. That's 'solve aging', 'cure cancer', 'eliminate all poverty', 'shift climate change into reverse', or 'send a probe to another solar […]

Yo, I'm heading up a brand-new community project. 👥 We write code by hand. 🤚🏽⌨️ It's a growing opt-in directory of software developers who write code by hand. When you hear someone tell you “nobody does that” you can point to this and say “well these folks […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

Back in the early 1970s I subscribed to a strange publication called Strategy and Tactics. It was a magazine but it included a real desktop war game with every issue. Each game consisted of a map printed on heavy paperstock and a slab of printed cardstock die-cut into little playing pieces. Each […]

Bro. People are cool as fuck.

If I were president, I would order that the Secret Service procure an electric presidential limousine. I can't imagine having all the power and influence of the presidency and riding in a vehicle with an internal combustion engine instead of setting the right example (and probably gaining better […]

When my doctor asks if she can use AI to record our meeting I say, with gusto, "It's your funeral!" She laughs loudly and involuntarily. Then she turns on the recorder.

the fact that a billionaire can randomly throw $100,000,000 into a campaign against taxing the rich seems like the best argument yet they can afford it

NEWS: New Study Confirms Medicare for All Would Save 114,000 Lives and more than $1 Trillion a Year » Senator Bernie Sanders https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-new-study-confirms-medicare-for-all-would-save-114000-lives-and-more-than-1-trillion-a-year/