ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

👀 #TIL Monopoly wasn't invented by the Parker Brothers, nor the man they gave it credit for. In 1904, Monopoly was originally called The Landlord's Game, and was invented by a radical woman. Elizabeth Magie's original game had not one, but two sets of rules to choose from.
One was called "Prosperity", where every player won money anytime another gained a property. And the game was won by everyone playing only when the person with the least doubled their resources. A game of collaboration and social good.
The second set of rules was called "Monopoly", where players succeeded by taking properties and rent from those with less luck rolling the dice. The winner was the person who used their power to eliminate everyone else.
Magie's mission was to teach us how different we feel when playing Prosperity vs Monopoly, hoping that it would one day change national policies.
When the Parker Bros adopted the game, they erased the "Prosperity" rules and celebrated "Monopoly".
#ElizabethMagie #Monopoly #Landlord
HT Tumblr.com/soberscientistlife

Give a man a fish, and Republicans immediately blame you for inflation. Teach a man to fish, and they call you a woke Marxist and pass a law banning Fishing Studies.

Am I misunderstanding something?

This appears to be a stunningly irresponsible story in Science, claiming that up to 30% of the scientific literature is fake.

https://www.science.org/content/article/fake-scientific-papers-are-alarmingly-common

Below, the first two paragraphs of the story.

h/t @Hoch

Jordan Neely was a person.

Our society left him stranded, and, because of his desperation and our warped priorities, his existence filled people not with sympathy but with fear. Then he was killed, and that is a tragedy, because he was a person.

I’m saying obvious things, because they’re clearly not obvious to everyone.

Not just that Neely’s death was a tragedy, but that he was a person.

These are controversial propositions.

I know, because there is a controversy.

https://armoxon.substack.com/p/jordan-neely-was-a-person

"Some of these systems’ abilities go far beyond what they were trained to do—and even their inventors are baffled as to why." https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-ai-knows-things-no-one-told-it/ #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

Source: https://twitter.com/sciam/status/1656696548435148812

6,000-year-old settlement — full of tools and granite structures — found in France https://newsobserver.com/news/nation-world/world/article274788961.html #Archaeology #History #France #Corsica #histodons @histodons

"Within a few months, things turned very sour. Rousseau wrote hateful letters to Hume accusing him of having plotted for his disgrace and humiliation by way of petty torments." https://www.adamsmithworks.org/speakings/klein-hume-rousseau-affair
#History #Philosophy #histodons @histodons #philosopher

Source: https://twitter.com/adamsmithworks/status/1656329555517358082

"The obstacle is the path" - Zen saying

When they ask you
(and they will ask you)
why you still insist
on taking precautions
now that the emergency
has officially ended
reply by telling them
that you did not need
an emergency declaration
to make you believe
that we have an obligation
to try to protect one another.

The Fediverse is full of creative people. It is incredibly inspiring.
I love it so much!

You creators and dreamers and designers and artists and musicians and poets and beautiful souls.

Have a great weekend!
I love all of you!

Do these little things, and make life better for all of us! 😋

#bicycle #vegan #other #recycling

One of the many things I enjoy tremendously about Mastodon is the sheer mind-boggling variety of reactions to posts. If I post the sentence, "The dirt is very clumpy in my backyard today," people will discuss clumps, favorite backyards, climate change ... and then inevitably, somebody will eventually ask, "What is dirt?" I mean, it's not a bad question. Just not what I'd have expected.

Tonight I spoke at an AAPI event and mentioned America's history of anti-Asian discrimination—including the Chinese Exclusion Act, the Asiatic Exclusion League, & Koramatsu & Japanese Camps.

Afterwards an older gentlemen approached me and said, "Thank you for reminding everyone the US Govt locked Japanese Americans in camps. I know—because I was born in those camps. I carry that with me til this day."

I was left in awe. A reminder—this isn't ancient history folks. It's contemporary reality.

What should I dream about? I will abide by the results of this poll.

#StableDiffusion #AIArt #AIGenerated #AI #GenerativeAI #GenerativeArt

Three Onions #midjourney #AIArt

A scammer made about CA$13K selling AI-generated "leaks" of fake Frank Ocean tracks on Discord, as distinguishing between real and AI music becomes difficult (Joseph Cox/VICE)

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3mn75/scammer-made-thousands-selling-leaked-frank-ocean-tracks-that-were-fake-ai-generated-the-line-steer-it
http://mediagazer.com/230512/p17#a230512p17

I've been kicking around pitching an idea for a course, tentatively titled “Introduction to Legal Writing for Public Consumption."

I'd like to marshal the fedihive mind and borrow the brains of folks much smarter and more experience than I -- does that sound like a law school course, or a journalism school course?

My experience of law school was that sort of writing wasn't even considered. Does that make this idea a feature or a bug?

#lawfedi #lawprofs #fediverse @law

Blender / Blender + Stablediffusion

I'd like to share another case for a good use of #stablediffusion technology, which can enhance and improve the workflow of creating a piece of art. To illustrate this, I'm presenting an artwork I created in #Blender, and two versions of it, one with more detail and texture added by AI using Stablediffusion.

they taught AI to speak like a corporate middle manager and think this means the AI is conscious instead of realizing that corporate middle managers arent

I've been reading the 2016 sci-fi book "Too Like the Lightning", by Ada Palmer -- and loving it so much! Honestly I was hooked by the *title page*, because it just jumped right into the world building with gusto. (The pic is a bit blurry, sorry. But take a look anyway!)