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Old Goggles@old-goggles.bsky.social · 2w ago

Could we get the option to have the trending topics back at the top please where it was convenient easily viewable. This scrolling down and having to click into essentially the explore tab which was already easy to do the old way is a worse user experience. @support@bsky.app

Fuse Washington@fusewashington.org · 2w ago

"[I-638] will drive 1000s of girls out of sports because their parents cannot afford the necessary testing or refuse to submit their daughters to genital inspections. That’s a feature, not a bug, of these laws. Preventing girls from playing sports is the whole point." @nohateinwastate.bsky.social

Anti-Trans Legislation Isn't About "Protecting Girls"—It's About Distracting Us From What Matters

"If we really cared about safety and fairness in sports, we’d be breaking down barriers facing girls at every level," writes Megan Rapinoe.

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Charles Keener@charleskeener.bsky.social · 3mo ago

More than 220 journalists have been killed in Gaza by the Israeli army since October 2023, including at least 70 killed while actively carrying out their journalistic work, making the Israeli army the biggest killer of journalists in the world.

Digital Brain@yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Imagine reducing the need for knee replacements by 62%! A groundbreaking injection could rejuvenate your cartilage using your own cells. What if aging joints could be treated without surgery? This research might just change everything. 🦵✨

Stanford finds the switch for joint aging: an injection could prevent millions of knee replacements - Sinaptica

A team from Stanford University has identified a key protein that controls the aging of joint cartilage and developed an inhibitor capable of reversing it, open

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Koreen Brennan@koreen.bsky.social · 4mo ago

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?

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Kaz@kazlefay.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Just a reminder that the IRS developed free software that was going to be available in every state this year that a majority of taxpayers could use to file taxes alongside their state returns and the regime axed it. You already paid to develop it and they just buried it to profit corporate America.

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 4mo ago

ChatGPT is a website. Claude is a website. I will never respect a website. You cannot convince me to treat LLMs as anything different to any other technology. If a website only gets things right sometimes, it's a bad website. I will not be told otherwise. www.wheresyoured.at/i-will-never...

I think the most enlightening thing about Al is that it shows you how even the most mediocre text inspires some sort of emotion. Soulless Linkedin slop makes you feel frustration with a person for their lack of authenticity, but you can still imagine how they forced it out of their heads. You still connect with them, even if it's in a bad way. Al copy is dead. It is inert. The reason you can spot it is that it sounds hollow. I don't care if a website says stuff on it because I typed in, just like I don't care if it responds in a way that sounds human, because it all feels like nothing to me. I am not here to give a website respect, I will not be impressed by a website, nor will I grant a website any extra credit if it can't do the right thing every time. The computer is meant to work for me. If the computer doesn't do what I want, I change the kind of computer I use. LLMs will always hallucinate, their outputs are not trustworthy as a result, they cannot be deterministic, and any chance of any mistakes of any kind are unforgivable. I don't care how the website made you feel: it's a machine that doesn't always work, and that's not a very good machine. I feel nothing when I see an LLM's output. Tell me thank you or whatever, I don't care. You're a website. Oh you can spit out code? Amazing. Still a website.Truly useful technology isn't described in oblique or hyperbolic terms. For example, last week, IBM's Dave McCann described using a series of "Al agents" to Business Insider The agent — it's actually a collection of Al agents and assistants — scans McCann's calendar for client meetings and drafts a list of 10 things he needs to know for each one. The goal, McCann told Business Insider, was to free up time he and his staff spent preparing for the meetings. Sounds like a website to me. The agent reviews in-house data, what IBM and the client are doing in the market, external data, and account details - such as project status and services sold and purchased, McCann said. It can also identify industry trends and client needs by, for example, reviewing a firm's annual report and identifying a corresponding service IBM could provide. Sounds like a website using an LLM to summarize stuff to me. Why are we making all this effort to talk about what a website does? Digital Dave also saves McCann's team time, he said, because the three or four staffers who used to spend hours pulling together insights for the prep calls are now free to do other work. "It's not just about driving efficiencies, but it's really about transforming how work gets done," McCann said. My friend, this isn't a "series of agents." It's an LLM that looks at stuff and spits out an answer. Chatbots have done this kind of thing forever. These aren't "agents." "Agents" makes it sound like there's some sort of futuristic autonomous presence rather than a chatbot that's looking at documents using technology that's guaranteed to hallucinate incorrect information.
Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 4mo ago

Today's free newsletter is about the dangers of treating AI as being more than it is - a website or app built on expensive technology, with dubious reliability and inherently unsustainable economics. The rhetoric from AI labs has to change. www.wheresyoured.at/i-will-never-respect-a-website/

Buchanty@chopemurray.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This is a government of scofflaws, brigands, privateers, robbers, catchpurses and bandits. They have no care for the nation or its inhabitants, and are more than willing to rape both.

TheCatMan@bigbrohem.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Let Mamdani be the spark that lights the fire. If the party embraced truly progressive policies, all would win in landslides all over the country. It's time is long overdue.

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