Looking at the reactions to Bluesky's announcement that they are adding private communities. Interesting to see how many of the negative replies are hidden by Bluesky's AppView. Glad this composible moderation system is in place so I can simply route around these moderation decisions.
"Vill ni ha det som i Sovjet" paraderade Ung Vänster med i FRA-demonstrationerna för snart 20 år sen.
Nej, det vill inte högern, inte när det gäller full sysselsättning, expansiv bostadspolitik och välfinansierad utbildning och sjukvård.
Övervakning och angivarsamhälle däremot, det gillar de.
wakest
pettter, stuff scientist
I think it was maybe 2018 when I said on the pod that the only growth industry Britain really had left was racism
One of the things I noticed when I used to watch Tate live streams (for work!) was that *they* were deeply suspicious about their own male friends. They'd go out bowling and spend the entire time either on their phones, or only talking to each other in the form of monologues
In June 1920, Mussolini sent squadrismo to border towns to "cleanse" them of the Slavic "eternal barbarian." The fascists burned down buildings and attacked any apparent racial "other" for the "health of the nation." This border fascism pioneered other forms of fascist violence
I know Calvin’s dad is already having a moment, but every terrible “outsource precious and fleeting moments with your children to tech so that you can spend more time on your work” pitch makes me think of that one strip I never really cared about as a kid, but care a lot about as an adult.
important on LLMs for academics:
1️⃣ LLMs are usefully seen as lossy content-addressable systems
2️⃣ we can't automatically detect plagiarism
3️⃣ LLMs automate plagiarism & paper mills
4️⃣ we must protect literature from pollution
5️⃣ LLM use is a CoI
6️⃣ prompts do not cause output in authorial sense
Yes, look: these horrible people spent most of the last two decades deliberately rehabilitating as much of the National Front’s politics as possible, while telling audiences that anyone resisting them was a traitor plotting to destroy Britain. *Of course* they are going to stick to that now.
“Despite the outcry from the public and the multiple lawsuits it faces, SpaceX has continued adding unpermitted turbines to its data center sites.”
Their actual point here is: Give us what we want, or else. Nobody knows better than we do that we worked hard to get this outcome; we aren’t sorry and if you don’t pander to us, we will tell people you are to blame, and also a traitor bastard.
