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I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

THIS. People educated enough in the specific subject to pull the data together don’t need LLMs; people without the knowledge to weed data from the bullshit are at the mercy of the LLM. They’re obsequious Dunning-Kruger machines. Designed to flatter midwits and the technologically obsolete.

Ophie Dokie 🌻@ophiedokie.bsky.social · 5d ago

So, ok, a thing about telling yr audience "i use AI for my info gathering/research but then I look over it and fix any errors" is that you unfortunately told me youve outsourced your knowledge base on this subject to the machine, and therefore I have no reason to believe you CAN catch those errors

@erinbiba.bsky.social sorry to tag you directly - are you taking book manuscript FCs at this time? If yes, I occasionally need to pass on work when I’m low on availability & try to suggest other fact-checkers. I would love to point them your way, but I’m not sure how to put them in contact with you.

For Aftermath's Hater Week, I wrote about how Google's conversational AI search results aren't just annoying, but are an offense to everything I hold dear about the process of information searching in the first place

Aftermath@aftermath.site · last wk.

Stop talking to me, Google search aftermath.site/google-search-...

Ze Frank.

Nanoraptor@nanoraptor.danamania.com · 2w ago

You suddenly get a narrator describing your life and there’s no way to turn it off - everyone can hear it. While shopping, at work, at home, with friends - the voice narrating your every move goes on. Who do you hope is the voice of this narrator?

and I wake in the morning and I step outside and I take a deep breath and I get real high and I scream at the top of my lungs

Black Aziz Anansi@blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 2w ago

STOP SHOVING AI IN EVERYTHING!

Horizontal & vertical splooting by gray squirrels ... #Sqrlpix

young witch in the alps looking for her cat approved

Fewer libraries & more surveillance is a helluva sales pitch to potential students / families

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w ago

“MIT is spending over $3 million on more than 500 AI surveillance cameras in academic buildings, residence halls, and outdoor areas along Memorial Drive.”

Hey Seattle and SnoCo folk, bad air is rolling in from the east. East side of the state is already red and purple on the air quality maps. Good time to shut your windows.

Life advice for the ages. Those doing wrong want you tired and hopeless. But stay angry. And when a chance is in front of you: bite back. Digital plans for a real linocut. I'm anxiously awaiting a press to make this stuff possible with my RSI in my hands. #art #tiger #resist #linocut

if you don't have any money, you too can support artists by liking and sharing their work, telling your friends about them, reminding them to eat, taking out their trash, doing their dishes, watering their plants, feeding their pets, please help i need adult supervision—

Hyper-mobility problems: sneezed wrong yesterday while doing chores that took a lot of shoulder extension, now half of my ribcage is screaming. Now to go lace into a historically accurate corset to approximate the ribs heads in the hope the aggravation will calm down and I can function today…

I did a tonne of research so you don't have to. I talk about masking, air filtration, and air quality rating systems, & I give concrete suggestions to help you keep yourself and your loved ones safe. If you don't have this information yet, it's time to get educated. Wildfires don't respect borders.

âpihtawikosisân@apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 3w ago

For folks struggling to figure out how to deal with wildfire smoke, I put together some information a few years ago: apihtawikosisan.com/2023/09/miti...

I’m looking forward to reading this.

Killian McLoughlin@killianmcloughlin.bsky.social · 3w ago

New commentary at @natrevpsychol.nature.com with Alexis Palmer, @natematias.bsky.social, and @mjcrockett.bsky.social: Proprietary LLMs impede scientific transparency and reproducibility. 🧵👇 doi.org/10.1038/s441...

Wildfire smoke clogs filters quickly /and/ N95s. It messes with the charge in meltblown filters as well as just being a physical blockage. If you’re using a mask outside in the smoke, replace it probably daily - and if you’re masking indoors for health reasons, have a separate mask for it.

Geoffrey Cubbage@geoffreycubbage.bsky.social · 3w ago

Update: well that’s wild y’all. Filter on top is a clean, unused one fresh out of its packaging. Filter on bottom was the same when I installed it yesterday evening; this is what it looks like after roughly 24 hours of HVAC in Chicago’s blanket of wildfire smoke.

A year or two I put forward questions about if zoos/sanctuaries had contingency plans for staff and animal health in heavy smoke or other respiratory hazard events like nearby teargas deployment. I was not taken seriously. I wonder what’s happening with animal welfare now in the midwest?

Holy shit. We’re used to bad fire season regularly causing 300+ AQI out here and sometimes up to 600, but this is. Unheard of.

Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby · 3w ago

I don’t even understand this AQI. That’s too many

This rocks.

Rodrigo Ghedin@manualdousuario.net · 3w ago

Meta glasses ad vandalized in London https://manualdousuario.net/en/they-live-meta-glasses-kylie-jenner/

It's not enough to be against AI, you need to be pro art. You need to be a champion of the art you love, you need to share that passion and joy, and do what you can to support the artists who make it, because it's not enough to hate AI, to hate what it's doing to art and media; you gotta love.

"Is Disco Elysium like Homestuck?", asks a friend who knows neither, blissfully unaware of the academia-worthy cognitohazard packed in such a short sentence

This NOT a case of a tourist being stupid and getting the consequences. The article makes that absolutely clear, but people are still saying FAFO. No. Stop it.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 4w ago

A tourist was seriously injured after being thrown 8 feet into the air by a bull bison in Yellowstone National Park. Professional photographer Mike Macleod filmed the incident.

ADHD Women's Summit— a summit specifically for a cohort of people CATEGORICALLY KNOWN to have auditory processing issues— is *Charging A Fee*. For *Subtitles*. What in the ACTUAL FUCK.

Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby · last mo.

Subtitles as paid upgrade? On behalf of everyone with disabilities, fuck you very much

it’s dead guys

Bought it this sale, maybe halfway through? I cannot stop playing it.

Jeremiah McCall (he/him)@gamingthepast.bsky.social · last mo.

@blacksaltgames.com Dredge is on good sale Android + Steam. I really enjoyed it! Was in between games & found myself blah. I dusted off Dredge & found sailing exploration fun + tense (after dark bad shit comes), fishing mechanics fun, and the story solid). Finished game, rare for me. Check it out!

Instead of fireworks, why not scare your neighbors the old fashioned way? Grow out your antlers and fangs, cultivate a thunderous beard of moss, haunt the night, and become a terrifying creature of legend and lore.

the pouch is out the pouch is seen

JaneLane@nyjanelane.bsky.social · 2y ago

I found this game last year from a rec thread and bought it immediately! It is still one of my favorite games. Super cool novel mechanics, good sense of humor, so many puzzles! And a built in card game I still log in just to play a few rounds of almost daily. I cannot recommend this game enough.

Colin Spacetwinks@spacetwinks.bsky.social · last mo.

Cryptmaster ($16.24) - Mavis Beacon Teaches Dungeon Crawling. a playful monochrome RPG with battle and jokes around every corner. do battle, cast spells, solve riddles... all by typing! say anything! ...seriously, type whatever. see what happens. store.steampowered.com/app/1885110/...