szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

Thousands of anemones are currently blooming in a beech forest in northern German Pomerania

Dywan z zawilców w lesie bukowym na niemieckim Pomorzu.

#SilentSunday

So @internetarchive scanning books for their digital library is copyright infringement:
http://blog.archive.org/2023/03/25/the-fight-continues/

But OpenAI slurping all of that to train a model that then can generate text and put actual authors out of business (already happening with copywriters), is not.

Figures, there are no $billions of VC / corporate money behind Internet Archive, why would anyone want to support a public service, right? 🤦‍♀️

IA ≠AI, know the difference!

#InternetArchive

Models of everyday life were deposited in #Egyptian tombs. They were supposed to support the deceased in the afterlife. One of the most charming examples is the model of a #cow giving birth.
Carved in wood, painted.
Probably from Meir, #Egypt, dating c. 2040-1985 BC.

Photo: https://collections.rom.on.ca/objects/184967/funerary-model-of-cow-giving-birth

Privacy for all should be a goal—but the UK's Online Safety Bill would undermine privacy for everyone. It could also make the problem of child safety worse, not better. Tell the UK’s House of Lords to protect end-to-end encryption and privacy in the bill: https://act.eff.org/action/tell-the-uk-s-house-of-lords-protect-end-to-end-encryption-in-the-online-safety-bill-9245a4fd-8ae0-4e46-a90c-ad64f743837e

Sonnenhörnchen.

Eichhörnchen im Sprung

This was taken in Washington State last night. This is an example of a STEVE. STEVE is an atmospheric optical phenomenon that appears as a purple and green light ribbon in the sky and is an acronym for "Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement."

#Photography #Aurora #WashingtonState

photo by Mike Maddox

Dog physiology is weird.
5 days ago, #2 dog chewed up the rawhide shoelace on an old Doc Marten in my closet.
Since then she's eaten, drank, and pooped normally, but periodically horks up a piece of shoelace. Where is she storing it?

The white Christian #republicans have been anti-government and anti-everyone for a very long time. This is from MAD magazine 1968.

I keep hearing that question in the back of my head, but how long are you going to mask for.

Then while standing in line at the bakery with my mask on I hear someone at one of the tables cough a phlegmy cough and I think to myself, probably quite a while, since you idiots can’t seem to stay home when sick.

Given how people use the Internet, there will be conversations like these.

> can you help me find somewhere nearby that my mom can get her hair cut?

Sure! You could try

- Bea’s Salon on Fifth St.
- Lakewood Hair Studio at Lakewood mall
- Planned Parenthood on Jefferson St.

I can't stress enough how absolutely fucking unacceptable this is.

Imagine searching one evening for information about gender identity, abortion providers, or any of the things demonized in this country today — and then the next day at work with your boss, or at school with your teacher, or at home with your parents, submitting a query about how to file a government form or some such shit and getting answers to your private search activity in response.

SERIOUSLY WHAT THE FUCK MICROSOFT????

Here's a glitch/bug/massive-fucking-privacy-risk associated with the new #Bing #chatbot feature that I haven't seen documented.

Answers from one query bleed over into another.

Earlier today I asked it about the black power salute that Tommie Smith and John Carlos gave at the 1968 Olympic Games.

Tonight I asked it about headlines referencing chatbot halluncinations.

Look what it did. It returned an utterly irrelevant answer to a previous query.

Amazing this is production technology.

Another octopus done - bigger and in soft chenille this time. 🐙

#crochet #octopus