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renwillis

@renwillis@mstdn.social

life, love, music, art, jrpgs, and a soupçon of existential dread! 💕

  • one of them there they-them bisexuals, dagnabbit!

🌈 bi/pan non-binary
✊ very lefty atheist
🎵 my music: fairy 🧚 eyelashes
🎨 my art (instagram): renwillisart
🦩 baltimore, hon

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jennzycos, to random

What the AI tech-bros seem to miss…

parismarx, to tech
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When Sam Altman was ousted as CEO, Kara Swisher pushed a story that framed him as the victim of a board captured by AI doomers.

But as more detail has emerged about Altman’s lies and “toxic” conduct, it’s become clear she was a conduit for his narrative.

https://disconnect.blog/kara-swishers-story-about-sam-altman-is-falling-apart/

randahl, to random
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You too can buy a Tesla, and support the main share holder Elon Musk, who abuses his social media platform to convince his 185 million followers, that the US justice system is corrupt, because his favorite criminal is brought to justice.

Or you could buy from a different car brand.

Gargron, to random
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It's nice to find out breaking news on Mastodon.

RickiTarr, to random
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Is this what y'all think living with me is like?!

renwillis, to Nintendo
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Oh no! GaMeRs be pissed that Nintendo "went woke" and allowed a trans character to exist in a game.

(Don't read the comments)

https://boundingintocomics.com/2024/05/23/nintendo-changes-dialogue-to-confirm-vivian-as-transgender-in-paper-mario-the-thousand-year-door-remake/

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mdstevens0612,
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@renwillis IIRC this character was always to some degree gender ambiguous, much like Birdo. That's kinda what gets my goose about these moral panics, this wasn’t an issue 20 years ago when the game came out, but because of culture war nonsense we have to deal with people getting upset that a minor character in a remake of a 20 year old spin off Mario game is explicitly made trans, who was never cis to begin with.

It is so fucking tiring.

oneunderscore__, to random

AI is the future.

drewharwell,

Congrats to The Onion on signing that $250 million content-sharing partnership with Google

gwynnion, to random
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This is fucking terrifying.

"We're right and everybody else is wrong" from a key Democratic strategist.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/is-the-biden-campaign-running-on-false-hope

minouette, to random
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Happy birthday to #paleontologist Mary Anning (1799 –1847)! She was the wrong class, sex & religious denomination to gain the education, opportunity to work & communicate her results or garner any respect as a pioneering paleontologist. Further, during her lifetime most people thought Earth was a mere few thousand years old, based on a very literal interpretation of the Bible & found the idea of extinction did not fit in with the story of creation. 🧵1/
#linocut #sciart #womenInSTEM #printmaking

bluerehn,
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@minouette Great details in that linocut!

Whenever I think of Mary Anning, I think fondly of this old comic by Kate Beaton http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=399

CosmicRami, to Astro
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Just catching up on this image of NGC 3783 captured by Hubble and oooooft, the more you look at it, the more is revealed.

First, that majestic grand spiral galaxy, but then, all the OTHER galaxies in the background.

So good!

📸 ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. C. Bentz, D. J. V. Rosario

talia_christine, to random
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When people expect you to actually do your job but it's Monday.

EUCommission, to random
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Our commitment to the fediverse is here to stay.

Today, we launched our new Mastodon instance. It will ensure a privacy-focused space to engage with and get the latest from our Commissioners, departments, and the official voices of the Commission.

We want to thank @Mastodon for stewarding us and helping us make this possible.

Fostering European digital players is vital to our strategy for a stronger .

This is a unique opportunity to grow the community even more. Let's get there!

ricmac, to random
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Whenever I scan X these days, I can’t help but picture the WALL-E humans… e.g. here are highlights from a riveting discussion on X about the OpenAI desktop client. Apparently they are waiting for the “ask and get” era to arrive, including from their overlord’s Neuralink.

renwillis, to generationx
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I have some coworkers and was telling them about how we used to take our car stereo face plates with us when we left the car back in the days when stereos weren't integrated into the dash and you wanted a nice one.

They were very amazed. So I made this meme.

WhyNotZoidberg,
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@renwillis Fun story:
Sis "inherited" dad's baby blue Saab 99 with a POS stereo in it when she went off to Uni.

One morning every single car had been broken into on the parking lot and their stereos taken... except in sis car there was a better one lying on the seat.

Our guess is that the thieves had realized THAT one was worthless, broken into my sis' car, found that one even WORSE and just dumped the better one in her seat.

Dad installed it a week later after the police didn't want it.

renwillis, to JRPG
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Accurate.

Vaniaji, to random
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Wahoo!!!! The next senator from Maryland - Angela Alsobrooks!!!!

https://wtop.com/maryland-election/2024/05/all-eyes-on-crucial-senate-primary-race-has-divided-democrats-hogan-looks-to-make-return/

eniko, to mastodon
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little protip: due to how posts federate there's no guarantee someone will see a link/video preview when they see your post, especially on small servers. this means that you'll probably want to add some kind of relevant description in the post where you're posting the link, like repeating the headline or quoting a relevant excerpt

osma, to random

Sometimes it's still possible to be shocked by a new visualization of the impact of our climate inaction. This chart is such a shocker.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2024/may/08/hopeless-and-broken-why-the-worlds-top-climate-scientists-are-in-despair

renwillis, to ChatGPT
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"Consumer AI is just the new search" anecdote: [1/3]

Casual non-techy coworkers yesterday were talking about using excel reports to analyze data & turns out two of the people use #ChatGPT to know how to do something in excel.

So, before this #AI stuff, if you were like, "how do I do X in Excel" in google, you'd get a bunch of hits and then have to wade through the results to see which link was actually what you were looking for, then test out if their solution works.

#tech #technology

renwillis,
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"Consumer AI is just the new search" anecdote: [2/3]

Now, you do the same thing, but in #ChatGPT, even just upload a photo of what you are trying to do, and instead of a bunch of dubious links, you get an answer that probably works. That probability is just as good as the probability after combing through search results yourself, but without the combing.

#tech #technology #AI

renwillis,
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"Consumer AI is just the new search" anecdote: [3/3]

There are over 1 billion websites with over 30 billion web pages out there on the internet and regular search absolutely sucks now. It's no wonder normies are seeing #ChatGPT as magic when it can take 30 billion+ results and give you one answer that's most likely what you are looking for.

Search 3.0

And whoever wins will be the new Google.

#tech #technology #AI #google #search #openai

ianbetteridge, to random
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Uploading this because I know everyone here will find it useful at some point.

VeryBadLlama, to random
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on second thought, I choose TWO bears

bigzaphod, to random
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Plain, simple, Garak.

(Yes I’m watching Star Trek on Star Wars Day.)

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