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pvonhellermannn, to random
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Half thinking of starting an hashtag here, about the dire, dire state of UK (global?) higher education. Sharing nuggets of senior management decisions, neoliberal language, and overall slow collapse.

Won’t work of course because most of us can’t risk honesty, but honestly: the everyday reality of what is happening deserves recording in all its depressing and damning detail.

rubinjoni,
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@pvonhellermannn This thread would be so much better if Leyland failed over actual coat mismanagement...

rubinjoni,
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@pvonhellermannn Engineers and machinists leaving Leyland because C-suits were hogging all the coats...

rubinjoni,
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@pvonhellermannn (it's a typo, and the thread is about cost mismanagement)

GossiTheDog, to random
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For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.

From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.

video/mp4

rubinjoni,
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@gsuberland @GossiTheDog https://sqlite.org/codeofethics.html

girlonthenet, to random
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A friend of mine just shared this because some random bigot on his FB was kicking off that the Duo owl would be pro-LGBT+ rights ("I'll DELETE THE APP!! OMG"). Obviously this is hilariously tragic and bigots should fuck off but I feel like there's a deeper question that needs answering here.

Namely: why does this owl have tits?

Is the Duolingo owl... a mammal?

rubinjoni,
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@girlonthenet Owls can have little a top surgery, as a treat.

nf3xn, to ChatGPT
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is back but using some ancient model

rubinjoni,
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@nf3xn Someone came up with a prompt so spicy it brought the entire model down?

festal, to random
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It feels like big tech has basically given up and has retreated to indulging in escapist fantasies: space colonization, blockchain, AGI, the network state, metaverse, "hacking death", etc.

None of this solves any problems, or, even works as advertised.

rubinjoni,
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@cstross @guenterhack @festal Biomedical SF about a PA struggling to receive more grants. They already have two postdocs who's only job is to fish for calls and churn grant applications...

In this light: my guess is that grant applications are already churned out by AI, and that slop will lead to hilarious outcomes in the immediate future.

futurebird, to random
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Why is it that the worst tasks: the ones I want to do the least are things that take like 17min tops to complete— but I think about how I haven’t done them — oh no no just can’t bear to do them for 30min a day for two weeks?

For me, at least, a task is odious if it may cause me to find out bad news that produces more tasks, if it involves forms, if it involves talking to people on the phone, especially someone I don’t know (what if they are mean to me? 😫)

It’s not THAT bad. Is it?

rubinjoni,
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@catselbow @futurebird Comprehension quiz should be at random times...

arstechnica, to random
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Big AI companies sign safety pledge

Promise not to deploy AIs if severe risks cannot be addressed and mitigated.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/05/big-ai-companies-sign-safety-pledge/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

rubinjoni,
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@arstechnica Severe risks to their business...

metin, (edited ) to ai
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So… Big Tech is allowed to blatantly steal the work, styles and therewith the job opportunities of thousands of artists and writers without being reprimanded, but it takes similarity to the voice of a famous actor to spark public outrage about AI. 🤔

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/21/scarlett_johansson_openai_accusation/

#AI #ArtificalIntelligence #ML #MachineLearning #DeepLearning #LLM #LLMs #OpenAI #SamAltman

rubinjoni,
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@metin Better late, than never.

cstross, to random
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The only folks for whom house arrest isn't a punishment are those who live in palaces with attached infinity pools and golf courses.

(Silvio Berlusconi fought off the inevitable guilty verdict until he aged past Italy's 70 year old limit for prison: then he served two years under house arrest—in his bunga-bunga mansion.)

Just as fines (with no alternative sentence) are the ticket price of wrongdoing for the wealthy rather than the punishment they are for ordinary folks.
https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/112451843395290411

rubinjoni,
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@cstross I use this opportunity to note that Gaddafi probably had Berlusconi videotaped having sex with minors, and possibly other EU leaders.

rasterweb, to random
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Does suffering precede all greatness?

rubinjoni,
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@rasterweb No, often it's just suffering.

mcc, to random
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I order some Products from the United States.

The cost is $88 CAD.

There's a fixed international shipping cost of $48 CAD. Frustrating, but that is what the shipper has, so okay.

A couple days later, I get an email from UPS asking to pay the import duty fee. The import fee is $51 CAD.

That is more than half the cost of the product itself. I'm overall paying more for shipping+import fees than for the product.

When I moved here I assumed I could buy stuff from USA cheap because of NAFTA :(

rubinjoni,
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@mcc I don't get the "you can no longer press 3" part...

rubinjoni,
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@mcc Major

Lana, to random
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Anyone arguing in favor of arming school teachers needs to first explain to me where in the budget you're going to find the money to buy 27 Glocks when you cheapskates won't even buy us printer toner.

rubinjoni,
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@Lana There's always money to funnel into the military industrial complex.

lzg, to random
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taking a tiny shredder to meetings and a print out of your bad ideas

rubinjoni,
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@lzg Genocide'R'Us, a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman.

arstechnica, to random
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Outdoing the dinosaurs: What we can do if we spot a threatening asteroid

Someday, an NEO will pose a threat to us. Thankfully, we have options.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/outdoing-the-dinosaurs-what-we-could-do-if-we-spot-a-threatening-asteroid/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

rubinjoni,
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@arstechnica We just won't look up.

dangillmor, to random
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Stack Overflow joins Twitter and Reddit in demonstrating control-freak contempt for the people who made the platform what it is.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

The company will probably get away with it, because people seem unable to fight back in effective ways, at least in numbers that make a difference.

rubinjoni,
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@dangillmor Slop Overflow™

mcnees, to random
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Presented without comment.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/us/rfk-jr-brain-health-memory-loss.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qU0.HiQE.i7fZF-oqy297

rubinjoni,
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@mcnees RFK's brain - not even once.

18+ root42, to random
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The BBC investigates links of the German AfD to far right extremists:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68931170

rubinjoni,
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@root42 Mild shock.

arstechnica, to random
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Mercedes’ electric G-Wagon is more capable than the gas version

With four motors, deeper fording, and more power you can forget about the gas version.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/04/mercedess-electric-g-wagon-is-more-capable-than-the-gas-version/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

rubinjoni,
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@arstechnica I doubt gas vehicles will be "forgotten" for any actual off road use in the perceivable future. One doesn't ford rivers to reach the next EV charging station.

ernie, to random
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I made the mistake of pointing out that a new AI app that scrapes YouTube videos was ethically questionable on Hacker News and a dude is just non-stop replying about it.

rubinjoni,
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@ernie I'd subscribe to a service that summarizes youtube videos in full.

Daojoan, to random
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The world doesn't need more conformists and yes-men. It needs more leaders unafraid to march to the sound of their own drum. More innovators determined to do work that matters rather than what's safe and expected.

Will you dare to dance alone?

https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/leadership-and-the-art-of-dancing-alone

rubinjoni,
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@Daojoan I need an army of yes-persons to march to the sound of my drum. And I also need a drummer, because I'm not a good percussionist.

ryanhoulihan, to random
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Always reassuring when you call your bank and they tell you that technically they’re two banks that share a name and a customer service line but for legal reasons they’re totally two banks with the same name, owned by the same people, that share a phone number

rubinjoni,
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@ryanhoulihan They travel together on bank holidays.

whitequark, (edited ) to random
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"This project uses a mini CT-scanner, which is different than the full-size donut scanners used in hospitals. By creating a "fish burrito", we can scan many fish at the same time, and it will only take only a few years to scan all the fishes in the world at our current rate thanks to our novel approach to scanning." https://www.adamsummers.org/scanallfish

rubinjoni,
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@whitequark I've seen a lizard & snake burrito made for the same purpose.

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