MattHodges

@MattHodges@mastodon.social

Working to elect Democrats | Executive Director of Zinc Labs | Was Joe Biden's Director of Engineering | Built a lot of tech for Hillary Clinton | Rumored to have done a bunch of other computer things | My bot https://botsin.space/@everyDotGov | Austin, TX

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MattHodges, to random

This week I wrote seven groups of bullet points on a fairly complex topic, and then I used a language model to help me rapidly turn those into more formal chunks of a memo. I could tell you that it helped me get that task done a lot more quickly than starting with a blank doc, but plenty of people would tell me that it didn't.

MattHodges,

@seachanger If the objection is that they're bad for the environment, then make that objection. Plenty of people can and do. But instead, other people tell me they don't work after I had it work.

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MattHodges,

@josh I’ve realized so much utility from these models and products despite a chorus of people telling me I haven’t.

MattHodges, to random

my “I didn’t punch Jayson in the face” tshirt sure is raising a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

https://www.denverpost.com/2024/01/07/lauren-boebert-ex-husband-jayson-police-silt-colorado-restaurant/

MattHodges, to random

FSAs are dumb. Just let everyone deduct those eligible expenditures without involving employers or costly infrastructure or annual spend omniscience.

MattHodges, to random

Seems good!

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/05/1222714145/jobs-report-december-labor-wages

MattHodges, to random

stop 👏 doing 👏 square 👏 toilets 👏

MattHodges, to random

remember a couple weeks ago when a bunch of content mills were posting articles like "American Airlines is pulling out of Austin because it's an over-hyped city" when in fact American Airlines was pulling out of Austin because pilot union contracts demanded that flights had to go to Dallas instead, and then a few weeks later Delta was like "hey we're adding a bunch of flights to Austin now that there's more terminal availability" but no one posted about that ... anyway really great discourse

MattHodges, to random

continuing to acquire millennial music on boomer hardware

MattHodges,

That time John Boehner tried to deport Sum 41

https://www.contactmusic.com/sum-41/news/whibley-threatened-with-deportation_1038245

MattHodges, to random

"Then as usual, he left the dirty work to others. He retreated to the White House. As America was attacked from within, Donald Trump watched on TV in the private small dining room off the oval office. The entire nation watched in horror, the whole world watched in disbelief, and Trump did nothing [...] It was among the worst derelictions of duty by a president in American history."

video/mp4

MattHodges, to random
MattHodges, to random

Still no recession.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/01/05/business/jobs-report-december-economy

MattHodges, to random

The inconvenient truth for those of us who pursue a broadly Left worldview is that over the next decade, demographic and economic shifts will drive places like Texas and Florida and Tennessee to gain significant political power while places like California and Illinois and New York are on track to lose significant political power. So you can either anxiously post things like "that place is Handmaid's Tale" as that power slips or you can get off your ass and organize and work to claim that power.

MattHodges, to random

One of the worst features in American culture is geographic hatred of other parts of America.

dimillian, (edited ) to random
@dimillian@mastodon.social avatar

As I thought, it make sense. Nothing will happen but a disclaimer that it can produce stuff similar to copyrighted materials. There is no interest in slowing down AI as a country. It's a race you can't afford to lose. I know it's not a popular opinion here.

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MattHodges,

@jonhendry @dimillian Perhaps you'd be interested in @cathygellis "None of the rights limit how the public can then consume those works once they exist, because [...] Copyright law wouldn’t make sense, and probably not be constitutional per the Progress Clause, if the way it worked constrained that consumption"¹ and, "Copyright law was not intended, or written, to give copyright owners an implicit veto over any or all uses of works"²

¹ https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/03/wherein-the-copia-institute-tells-the-copyright-office-theres-no-place-for-copyright-law-in-ai-training/
² https://www.techdirt.com/2023/12/08/the-copia-institute-tells-the-copyright-office-again-that-copyright-law-has-no-business-obstructing-ai-training/

MattHodges, to random

💻🇺🇸 Community Tech Alliance is hiring a VP/Head of Engineering

https://cta.recruitee.com/o/vp-eng

MattHodges, to random

"Using linked individual-level administrative data on PFD payments and child maltreatment referrals, we show that an additional $1,000 to families in the first few months of a child's life reduces the likelihood that a child is referred to Child Protective Services by age three by 2.0 percentage points, or 10 percent, on average. Estimates indicate that additional cash transfers also reduce child mortality."

https://www.nber.org/papers/w31733

MattHodges,

I had so many conversations with the center-right people in my life during the Child Tax Credit direct payment days of 2021 that they were certain the money would be spent on drugs instead of on children. But time and time again, we see that is not the case.

MattHodges, to random

A funny thing about the fragmentation of TV streaming is a lot of people are reacting like they prefer monopolies.

MattHodges, to random

About once a year someone posts that cool photo of the old Cincinnati library and the replies are filled with people angry that it was demolished … but here’s the thing … that old library, despite its aged photogenic charm, was utterly failing the community. It was never supposed to be a library in the first place. It was too small. It wasn’t accessible. The library that replaced it is brutalist and bland, but it’s FANTASTIC at being a library, even if no one wants to post photos of it.

MattHodges, to random

stop doing Snow Crash

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/images-altered-to-trick-machine-vision-can-influence-humans-too/

MattHodges, to random

> Much of Weird Tales (including the classic 1928 story “The Call of Cthulhu”) is public domain now

https://everybodyslibraries.com/2023/12/06/the-public-domain-welcomes-the-weird-and-mourns-the-missing/

MattHodges, to ai

"But these exclusive rights necessarily all focus on the creation and performance of their works. None of the rights limit how the public can then consume those works once they exist, because, indeed, the whole point of helping ensure they could exist is so that the public can consume them. Copyright law wouldn’t make sense, and probably not be constitutional per the Progress Clause, if the way it worked constrained that consumption" — @cathygellis on and

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/03/wherein-the-copia-institute-tells-the-copyright-office-theres-no-place-for-copyright-law-in-ai-training/

MattHodges,

"Judges so far have been wary of the argument that training an AI model on copyrighted works — the 'input' side — amounts to a violation in itself [...] 'I’m going to take the position, based on precedent, that if the outputs aren’t infringing, then anything that took place before isn’t infringing as well,' Goldman said. 'Show me that the output is infringing. If it’s not, then copyright case over.'"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/01/04/nyt-ai-copyright-lawsuit-fair-use/

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