jason r. totten
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museum geek, cs, father, husband, ally, believer in equity, guitarist, photography, philosophy, art, lover of love - i don't like bigots. tell me how i can help. he/him indy -> Utrecht
most white men couldn’t bear a small portion of scrutiny and criticism placed on Black and other marginalized people across the board. Jason Arday deserved better.
It's a prompt box into which you type things. The entire point is that it can be used by even a five year old, as indeed it can. There is no magic prompt that will make it only give truth and never lie.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4d agoUnemployed young people to join AI boot camps to get job-ready
* opent Bluesky * Ziet in de tijdlijn alleen maar linkse mensen die elkaar aanvallen en aftroeven in plaats van samenwerken, ophefjes over rechts en andere shit. * doet Bluesky weer dicht en gaat wat anders doen *
an “audit trail” and misuse detection from a company that doesn’t mind (and counts on) the invasive nature of their product isn’t much of a change. apnews.com/article/floc...
Flock announces changes amid backlash over its license plate reader network
A company that operates a vast nationwide network of automated cameras that record the license plate numbers and other characteristics of all passing vehicles every day is making changes to its platfo...
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Oil companies know they’re destroying the planet, but they still choose profit. buff.ly/WViTi9l
For 50 Years the Major Oil Companies Have Known They’re Destroying the Planet
Near the end of the first century AD, in the highlands of northern Spain, the Roman governor, philosopher, and naturalist Pliny the Elder watched as mining cleaved a landscape. “What happens is far…
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Thanks to Ciarán for stopping in! Signed copies of his new collection now in stock 👇
Ciarán O'Rourke@corourke91.bsky.social · 5d agoExciting to be able to pick this up from Louisa and Lily at @ravenbooks.bsky.social today: 'Prophetstown', my 3rd #poetry collection 📚 Thanks to them, to the crew at Irish Pages, & to my family/friends for their support 🌻 Published by @irishpages.bsky.social & distributed by Gill 🍃 ravenbooks.ie
the president is at best a chronic liar, at worst an incompetent buffoon. no one within that range should hold the office. to use the crutch pejorative of “tr*mp derangement syndrome” to attack such comments make you a buffoon or an enabler of idiocy. there really aren’t any up sides here.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Trump: "At one year, you should have 5 separate visits for vaccines rather than getting them all in the same day. I've seen proof of where they have a vaccination thing that looks like the size of a bottle of soda and pour it into a little child's body."
1) Parents would be doing nothing but taking their kids to the pediatrician if this was the case and 2) he's made this "vats" claim repeatedly. The MMR dose is .5 mL.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Trump: "At one year, you should have 5 separate visits for vaccines rather than getting them all in the same day. I've seen proof of where they have a vaccination thing that looks like the size of a bottle of soda and pour it into a little child's body."
the US is on fire structurally and people think it matters if they replace the orange buffoon figurehead. there's so much more work to be done than that, friends. if we succeed we'll need decades to build something better and buttressed against this level of corruption.
If you have so much work to do that you feel you need AI in order to get it all done: you don't. You need a union.
How are you gentlemen!! All your base are belong to us. You are on the way to destruction. You have no chance to survive make your time.
it’s nice to have a chair after camping out in your new place for almost a week. don’t worry, dear viewer, i’m sitting in it as i type this.
It is, btw, a #WITmonth title if you're tired of intense, serious lit-rah-chure
Raven Books@ravenbooks.bsky.social · 2w agoSometimes, when I'm not in the shop, Lili will leave notes in the reference lines of titles she added to our order basket so I'll know they were added intentionally.
Also, btw, and not for nothing — Cornyn’s lying here. He’s an attorney, a former member of the Texas Supreme Court, and was the Texas AG.
Kai Ryssdal@kairyssdal.bsky.social · 2w agoOh for the love of all that is holy...
when you send me vaguely lawyerly-sounding emails in hopes of threatening me to take down my reporting, and demand i "preserve all potentially relevant records, including ... search-engine submissions"
"What is Fascism?" The third lecture in my new online course, "Hitler and Stalin today" A guest lecture by @marcishore.bsky.social re.bsky.social Hosted by the Munk School @utoronto.ca Full lecture here: snyder.substack.com/p/what-is-fa...
i’ve thought for a long time we need to make a tool to help people understand what their labor is worth to their company. perhaps i should try to make it happen soon.
@migas7.bsky.social · 2w agoInteresting take about uses for data centers. Not benign.
"In this world, there are two types of food: ramen and non-ramen." #WITmonth audio book sorted, thanks @libro.fm! Author: Yoon Ina Translator: Chi-Young Kim Narrator: Ioanna Kimbook Publisher: Penguin www.penguin.co.uk/books/471620... Out in the wider world August 27th
Lot of blathering about "AI" today so here's a cat picture in compensation
All of this. My direct ancestor was involved in the Boston Trees l tea party and I am no more a US citizen than someone who became one today. As a matter of fact, I’ve done far less to be a citizen than all the work and expense they went through.
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 2w agoMy dad’s family all got here btwn 1639 & 1750. One was one of MD’s first enslavers. (Not proud, it’s just true.) Mom’s side got here ~1820. The “heritage Americans” I come from fought and DIED for the Union. G-granddad said we made this country so the guy who arrives tmrw has the same rights we do.
Also, of course, this, still bsky.app/profile/scal...
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 4mo agoI don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses