ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

Meanwhile, I don't want to give an endorsement, but as an example, Signal, for all its faults (and there are faults), doesn't share chat logs with law enforcement-- because they cant. They don't have them. For information likely to get you arrested, focus on platforms not regularly accessed by government actors.

Something has gone terribly wrong when Fox News can claim a tax write-off for its $787M defamation settlement, yet school teachers only get a measly $300 deduction for buying their own supplies.

𝗘𝗹𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗸 𝗜𝘀 𝗙𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗢𝗳 𝗦𝗵𝗶𝘁, 𝗔𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻.

No, Federal Agencies Did Not Have ‘Full Access’ To DMs - by @mmasnick via techdirt

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/18/elon-musk-is-full-of-shit-again-no-federal-agencies-did-not-have-full-access-to-dms/

Hi mastodon, I'm going to do shipping for my jewelry shop in about an hour! https://www.nora.jewelry/

The idea that you need a gun for protection, because you’re going to save yourself from something or you’re going to save someone else from something, because there’s a good guy with a gun saving lives, needs to end if our country and society are to ever make any progress.

Because this is how they get used the vast majority of the time, or by law enforcement wrongly shooting people to death or to devastating injury.

Too many people with too many guns- this is what you get.

I used last week's rainy days for a much needed break and got some rest. Today the sun has been shining all day, so I've been spending all day outside in the garden mowing grass. In between I got a few very nice looking photos with the calves.

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I guess, after five months and 350 photos, it's time for an introduction. This is me, Bob, and that thing on my shoulder is my first pet.

I'm an amateur photographer who, according to my mother, has no style.

"YOU HAVE NO STYLE, BOB."

She's right. I used to teach photography and Photoshop, so I know a lot of tricks... and yet somehow I have no discipline when it comes to using them.

So shooting and post-processing is like spinning a roulette wheel. Every photo is guaranteed to be different from the last... and nothing will ever hang together as a collection.

I'm just happy when I can make something post-card-worthy.

#introduction #ThrowbackThursday

Meet Arp 220, an an ultra-luminous infrared galaxy (ULIRG) emitting an amount of light equivalent to more than a trillion suns. It is the product of two massive galaxies that are in the process of merging to become one. The six rays or spikes that seem to emerge from its core are artifacts of the telescope's optics, resulting from the fact that the core is extremely bright.

And of course, in the background: galaxies everywhere.

Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/webb-captures-the-spectacular-galactic-merger-arp-220/

The generative AI mania isn't exactly the same as the blockchain mania that we're just starting to recover from, but they sure do rhyme.

“I remember … seeing that there was some regional bill to outlaw L.G.B.T. propaganda and thinking it was ridiculous and wouldn’t apply to me. And then, two years later, I was on the run from Russia, because they were actually coming after my kids.”

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-trans-rights

#AI #ML research/publishing operates in silos - to the detriment of making progress.

Our #IJCAI submission on #OpenWorldLearning #OWL was rejected for good and bad reasons.

The bad reason is: "this is not just planning but also something similar to reinforcement learning".

Guess what - that is the point of our research! We are trying to close the gap between designed #AIPlanning systems and adaptive #Learning systems. It is a super-hard gap to push #AI #ML algorithmic research in.

Shorter Judge Kaplan: “I hear your bullshit and I’m not buying.”

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.590045/gov.uscourts.nysd.590045.125.0_1.pdf

Why is Scientific American talking about Kaktovik numerals just *now*? It's because some linguists working with the Script Encoding Initiative at U.C Berkeley recently got them added to Unicode! See here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaktovik_Numerals_(Unicode_block)

For more on the cool mathematical properties of Kaktovik numerals, try the Wikipedia article on them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaktovik_numerals

I suspect there's more to be said. Maybe someone has worked out all the details somewhere?

Below is an example of long division.

(5/n)

I’ll be returning to #onlineradio with my lovely show Connections to Sound this week! It’s about a space to explore #experimentalmusic #downtempomusic #ambientmusic #electronicmusic #soundscapes and all things that connect us to the world around us. #phenomenology #philosophyofsound I’ve been on hiatus as the original station, worldwide FM, stopped regular broadcasts. But returning via a new station home #resonanceextra

@donkeyherder About 10yrs ago, I started with #NoDig. From a tiny patch this has grown to cover the whole garden (1300m2) + a plot of ~500m2 of neglected agricultural land: https://feinschmeckergarten.de/index.php/2022/05/18/nodig-marktgarten-woche-1/ (in 🇩🇪 with pics)
2017 I covered the lawn in the photo with cardboard and #compost. 2nd picture is today. Less work, more pleasure.
Starting point for me were the videos of #CharlesDowding on Youtube.
Go for it! You'll never go back digging.
Just be aware of compost quality, to not import weed seeds.

Just continuing to document how erasure works!
We've gone from:
@emilymbender cleverly coining term "stochastic parrots" to "maybe Sam Altman" to "maybe
Gary Marcus". No reason to believe it's someone other than Dr Bender, but our biases PUSH PUSH PUSH to credit white men over women.
https://towardsai.net/p/machine-learning/stochastic-parrots-a-novel-look-at-large-language-models-and-their-limitations