ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

#Garfield #music #UndertheBridge
#bot #lyrics

A Brief History of Kids Today Have No Respect

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I signed up for Substack last November, when they were promoting themselves as an alternative to Twitter. Only did one test post, then forgot about it. But after watching Nilay Patel's TikTok excerpt of his interview with Substack CEO Chris Best, I deleted my Substack account, and boy did it ever feel *GOOD*.

Watch the TikTok excerpt here: https://hackers.town/@lmorchard/110193375817545398

For context, read the full transcript of Nilay's interview with Chris Best here: https://www.theverge.com/23681875/substack-notes-twitter-elon-musk-content-moderation-free-speech

Excellent timing that a 21 year-old cis, straight white guy Air National Guardsman who makes videos of himself shooting guns while shouting racist and antisemitic epithets is behind the massive intel documents leak on Discord while Republicans claim, without evidence, that trans folks are bad for military readiness.

How can I expect to get a fair trial if I can't afford to buy my judge's mother's home?

In positive news, my daughter is a teacher and her classroom geckos hatched. Please enjoy this photo of a newborn gecko.

Microsoft just published a paper - modestly titled "AGIEval: A Human-Centric Benchmark for Evaluating Foundation Models" - that, no joke, uses readily available *online* sample SAT questions to evaluate the GPT class LLMs. The problem, of course, is that same data was likely used to train the same models. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.06364.pdf

As one does. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/13/jack-teixeira-discord-document-leak/

Keele Almería Fieldcourse Day 5. The classic section across the Carboneras Fault Zone in the Rio Granatilla gorge section at Sopalmo. The anastomosing fault system juxtaposes slivers of representatives of the major thrust sheets and their cover rocks in a multicolour array of near vertical beds. #Geology #Rocks

@ewdocparris
Sara could feel the numbness quickly spread as the stunstars hit. She tried to get to her knees, to reduce the pain of hitting the ground. But she was only partway when they took full effect. Sara toppled, hit, and the pain was the only thing she could feel.

She was still conscious, aware of everything. A silver/gray face loomed over her.

“Your aunt says it’s time to come home” the deep metallic bass intoned as she was lifted from the ground.

#writingprompt

Time for the #VisualWritingPrompt for 04/13/23!

Write a 480-ish character #SciFi story about this AI generated image.

#WritingCommunity #Midjourney #WritingPrompt #SecretSciFiNetwork

Very funny, W3C.

@futurebird
Why are they trying to destroy public libraries in the US?
To paraphrase Brother Mouzone from The Wire:
“You know what the most dangerous thing in America is, right?
A person with a library card.”

Like, it's not censorship to simply decline to build & hand out megaphones to absolute dipshits