ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

I’m coming to love #Mastodon’s boost culture. Everybody’s all like, “Follow everyone! Boost it all!”

In the Blue Place, it felt like we were all competing for attention. Here, it’s more like we’re cooperating for attention.

At one level, that doesn’t make sense—everyone still has only so much attention to spend. But it *feels* better, and without The Algorithm enforcing power law, winner-take-all dynamics, the boost culture does seem to lift a lot of voices that were drowned out over there.

seems like a reasonable way to interact with conspiracies.

Generation 1.4a8263ab #aiart #art #ai

One of the many things that bothers me about white supremacists is their revisionist history of the Civil War. "Ol Bobby Lee" was a gentleman and wasn't "that bad" on slavery. Well, 160 years TODAY the retreating Confederate Army kidnapped over 1000 Black people in PA and MD and took them to Virginia for enslavement. Few know about this, but it was a war crime on top of the tragedy of Gettysburg.

How Confederates Kidnapped and Enslaved Blacks at Gettysburg - Owlcation

today (and every day) is a good day to follow Indigenous people here & boost their posts

#PrinceValiant by #HalFoster #comicstrips #HistoricalFiction #comics 519

A Bad Supreme Court Decision Based on Ersatz Facts https://mikethemadbiologist.com/2023/07/04/a-bad-supreme-court-decision-based-on-ersatz-facts/

In collaboration with Alison Cole and Ulrich Technau we also mapped the peptidergic #connectome of #Nematostella, by linking peptide-expressing to receptor-expressing cells.
In #Cnidaria, tissues are extensively connected via #neuropeptide signalling.
#neuroscience

"Ninth Dedekind number discovered: Scientists from the Universities of Paderborn and Leuven solve long-known problem in mathematics" https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/993662 #Maths #Math #Mathematics #Science @science

They should have named it Iceice.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

Your reminder that I've written a book on the business risks of generative AI. "The Intelligence Illusion"

https://illusion.baldurbjarnason.com/

Stuff I cover (not exhaustive):

- AGI is not happening any time soon.
- AGI and anthropomorphism will cripple your ability to think clearly about AI
- The AI industry has a long history of snake oil and fraud
- These models copy more than you think
- Hallucinations are still a thing and aren't going away.
- AI "reasoning" is quite broken
- Security is a shit show

So, earlier today I published “The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con”

It explains my theory of of the statistical illusion that makes LLMs feel intelligent to some https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/

I've been a lurker here for ages. Might be time for an #introduction.

In brief: I'm a writer, artist, and occasional coder with a passion for virtual worlds, video games, music, (web)comics, free & open-source software, and lots more. Have mixed feelings about social media in general, but joined Twitter in 2014 (on April Fools' Day) and still cling to it because of #SecondLife and the people there. Been on #Mastodon since July 2017, first via mastodon.technology and then Fosstodon (since 2019).

A short video that I made in #Blender, showing off my terrain model of #SecondLife's Heterocera continent (https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Heterocera), with 433 regions in total.

I gathered the elevation data for each region using a combination of LSL, HTTP, and Python, then used Blender's bpy Python API to generate the mesh. #b3d

The "terrain layer" textures, shown toward the end, are available thanks to @tyche_shepherd's Grid Survey API (http://www.gridsurvey.com/api.php).

This is a remarkable ruling, and not in a good way.

"The judge’s order puts limits on a number of executive agencies with a wide range of responsibilities across the federal government, including the #DOJ, State Department, #HHS, and #CDC. It also names more than a dozen individual officials, including #DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Jen Easterly, who leads #CISA."

#LawFedi

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/04/biden-social-lawsuit-missouri-louisiana/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWJpZCI6IjMwMjI2NDAxIiwicmVhc29uIjoiZ2lmdCIsIm5iZiI6MTY4ODQ0MzIwMCwiaXNzIjoic3Vic2NyaXB0aW9ucyIsImV4cCI6MTY4OTczOTE5OSwiaWF0IjoxNjg4NDQzMjAwLCJqdGkiOiI5NTllY2YyZC1lY2EwLTQzZWUtOGI4NC02YTMxMmZlYWM3OTMiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy53YXNoaW5ndG9ucG9zdC5jb20vdGVjaG5vbG9neS8yMDIzLzA3LzA0L2JpZGVuLXNvY2lhbC1sYXdzdWl0LW1pc3NvdXJpLWxvdWlzaWFuYS8ifQ.CWtVm2TZYi8Nki6yrRYr5yeXUm07h5QHq-h-mVZYY2Q

We're noticing a lot of movement to Mastodon. To get you started, here's a list of #OpenScience folks who are already on Mastodon 🐘 https://germanrepro.github.io/Mastodon-OpenScience/