ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

#HashtagGames
#SongCharactersLifeAfterTheSongWasOver

At long last Brandy was charmed by a landlubber and got married.

Virginia Woolf on how to read a book https://t.co/JU2SBm01Fy

I am not enamored of arguments saying that the solution to AI problems is "educating the users" to be more skeptical, or to fact check, etc. Education is not going to solve the problems. We've been trying to educate people about account security and phishes and other scams for decades and it's only getting worse. Most people are nontechnical, have busy lives, and do not have the background nor interest to learn about how these systems work, any more than how a toaster works. It is the responsibility of these systems to be safe, not to try push the responsibility onto the users.

#Garfield #music #ItstheEndoftheWorldasWeKnowIt
#bot #lyrics

I have closed Twitter and deleted the app from my phone. Now I need recommendations on who to follow here. I am interested in #climate, #energy, #airquality, #sustainabledevelopment

If voting did not matter voting suppression and gerrymandering would not exist... VOTING MATTERS!!!!!! If you see anything that makes you think about not voting that is propaganda designed to make you feel like not voting..... Ignore everything and vote like your life depends on it. Check on your eligibility to vote OFTEN!!!!!! GOOD LUCK!!!

On a high shelf in the cottage, I found this book called Play the game The Book of sport, 1935. It's hilarious. Witness. Oh such a simpler time.

Took Stella on an 18 mile #ebike ride today. I think you can tell from her face what she thought about this!

#dogsofmastodon #Dogstodon #dogs #urtopia #ebiking #railtrails

Basic information security in 2013:
Only install programs from trusted sources. Use unique passwords that are easy to remember.

Basic information security in 2023:
Do not gaze into strange orbs. Speak only in cyphers. Keep your wallet in a faraday cage.

#InfoSec #WorldCoin #FuckCryptocurrencies #Encryption

The engineers who designed the #Voyager probes half a century ago even thought of the possibility that a wrong sequence of commands may point the antenna dish away from earth.

And they implemented a self-adjusting mechanism that a few times a year scans the positions of a few known stars to infer the position of the earth, and point back the antenna in the right direction.

50 years later, these wonderful machines are still working, tens of billions of km away from earth, and even a wrong sequence of commands won't put them out of use.

The more I understand how they were designed, the more I feel like an early Medieval engineer looking at the Pantheon or other marvels or Roman architecture. Some amazing skills, knowledge and attention to details have been lost from that generation to ours.

In a few years we’re going to be able to see how dumb & demeaning all this is, & how much we humiliated ourselves as a species.

The men pushing this shit have had access to the best educations on the planet, & instead of learning, they’re using their $ to create software to degrade humanity.

“We asked AI to write an ode to joy - here’s how it sounds!”
“We asked AI to write a bible - find out what you can’t eat!”
“We asked AI how to achieve nirvana - you’ll never guess what you need to eat!”

Also! “The Left(s) could be pro-active in pressing for an expansion of public libraries. Join us for Libraries and Lemonade this summer: https://www.librariesforthepeople.org/lemonade “

In this interview I give an overview of some of the things we’re doing at @DAIR and how we approach our work.
https://medium.com/whats-next-health/5-questions-for-timnit-gebru-d7b2cba0090b

I've been trying to find the right way to articulate this-- but the folks on the right have it backwards about who is driven by "white guilt" --

This impulse to cover up and distort the history of slavery reeks of shame. It's, frankly, weird. Nobody has perfect ancestors, what sort of crisis of identity leads one to lie about the past.

It's just the things that happened. You learn about them you learn from them. You do better. Don't make it so emotional and personal.

@pete @loaf Please also direct people towards this: https://workers.coop/how 🤘

We got some copies of the #Worker #coop code at @loaf this week and it’s not only well written it’s a lovely little package. Download the PDF here. https://www.workers.coop/resource/workercode/

Re-#introduction time, seeing as I've recently migrated here!

I'm Mike, a 34-year-old #gay #leftist #ADHD-er and frothing #AceAttorney fan from the UK.

I run Critical Chicken, a teeny-tiny gaming blog #ForTheGaymers... which is currently offline but going to be rebooted/relaunched any day now. 💪

Nikki Haley warns Donald Trump's legal troubles could cost GOP the 2024 presidential election
#News #GOP #Politics #USA #Trump #MAGA #Republicans

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/07/30/nikki-haley-donald-trump-2024-gop-presidential/70494375007/