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timbray

@timbray@cosocial.ca

Web geek and environmentalist with a camera at the bottom left corner of Canada. He/him.

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davew, to random
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I wonder if reporters know that Wikipedia hallucinates too?? And since they so often consider Wikipedia authoritative, that means reporters and their publications hallucinate as well.

timbray,
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@davew The difference is, errors in Wikipedia tend to get systematically fixed. Sometimes it takes more work than it should, but the vast majority of articles are moving in the right direction a vast majority of the time.

timbray, to photography
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Shy blossom.

For Rose people: This is a “Parkdirektor Riggers”.

cstross, to random
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OMNOMNOM!!!

timbray,
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@cstross Pity about the forgery.

[alt text typo]

timbray, to random
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From @cstross - “Suddenly every PC becomes a target for Discovery during legal proceedings. Lawyers can subpoena your Recall database and search it, no longer being limited to email but being able to search for terms that came up in Teams or Slack or Signal messages, and potentially verbally via Zoom or Skype if speech-to-text is included in Recall data.”
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/06/is-microsoft-trying-to-commit-.html

[But his blog is currently paralyzed by YCombinator.]

timbray,
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@cstross These days, #1 on HN generally produces ~5Hz of traffic for a few hours. I manage to survive it without a CDN by serving static-out-of-the-filesystem only. Not 100% convinced the issue is geographic. Anyhow, no biggie, anyone who cares knows enough to check in later in the day.

timbray,
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@cstross Hmm, interesting. I would have expected it to weather the storm. You do have a heavier comment load than average though, by multiple orders of magnitude…

timbray, to random
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A white-hot extended burst of rage at the health sector’s reckless obliviousness to the persistence of COVID and its continuing dire impact on public health. Intense and impolite but important: https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/hospitals-are-killing-patients-because

timbray, to photography
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Apocalyptic Pacific Northwest rain event in the spring can mean only one thing: Pictures of wet flowers!

Icelandic poppies, dotted with raindrops.

timbray, to photography
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In loving memory.

timbray, to random
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Oh, joy, and now something inside Meta is crawling me. This makes me think that tthe #GenAI overlords are watching YCombinator and crawling everything that gets on the front page. Meta User-Agent: "facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)"

timbray, to random
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1/2 In which we get sofa cushions re-covered and I draw lessons about the malaise of Late Capitalism: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/06/01/Parable-of-the-Sofa

A ratty storefront under a grey sky: A business advertises its name as "Luscious"

timbray, to random
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Bubble bubble toil and trouble: https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/01/vcs-are-selling-shares-of-hot-ai-companies-like-anthropic-and-xai-to-small-investors-in-a-wild-spv-market/?guccounter=1

Would short.

timbray, to random
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Wow, there’s a rare burst of good news: Modi's ethnofascist election campaign fails to secure a majority government in India: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/4/modis-bjp-loses-majority-in-india-election-shock-needs-allies-for

timbray,
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@Madagascar_Sky Hmm I think you're probably right.

timbray, to LLMs
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I see that openai.com/gptbot is crawling my blog, top to bottom, side to side. I’m sure OpenAI has consulted the “Rights” link clearly displayed on every page, invoking a Creative Commons license that freely grants rights to reuse and remix but not for commercial purposes.

raph, to random
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Me: I really care about the hostages but the horrors unfolding in Gaza require all our attention

Rando: you're a pick-me Jew pandering to global antisemites and the Arab Islamist Imperial expansionist project of Pan-Arab hegemonic domination

🫠

timbray,
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@raph The Hasbarabots are still there but the intensity of their swarming has dropped off considerably. I suspect being on Bibi’s side is very fatiguing.

timbray, to random
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The well-funded organized opposition to renewable energy: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/01/opinion/clean-energy-solar-wind.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wU0.ficC.nDCMmr2xzo7s&smid=url-share (gift link)

timbray, to random
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Xi PT, rhymes with GPT: “China has introduced 'Chat Xi PT,' a new AI chatbot trained on President Xi Jinping's political philosophy, as the country seeks to balance AI development with strict content control and compliance with socialist values.”

https://www.perplexity.ai/page/Chinas-Chat-Xi-QyjXwHVZTMS_4wB8PsZb_g

mike_vlasman, to vancouver
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Stopped to look at the exterior glass that is being installed on the apartment building going up at Sen̓áḵw.

timbray,
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@mike_vlasman Am optimistic about Sen̓áḵw… time will tell.

timbray,
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@mike_vlasman Also, that whole stretch of waterfront between Granville Island and Kits beach is sort of a desert, nowhere to get a coffee or a beer or a pair of sunglasses. Urban waterfronts should be busy. If nothing else, Sen̓áḵw will have retail and hospitality businesses.

Alon, to random
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It looks like 293-234-16. The NDA is relying on two regional parties for its majority, both of which are notorious alliance switchers: JD(U) by Bihar's chief minister for life, Nitish Kumar; and TDP by the corrupt N. Chandrababu Naidu. INDIA is reaching out to both, but both have said they'll attend the NDA meeting today. https://www.livemint.com/politics/news/elections-results-2024-yashwant-singh-asks-chandrababu-naidu-nitish-kumar-to-switch-to-india-bloc-nda-pm-modi-11717519502678.html https://www.thehindu.com/elections/lok-sabha/elections-results-2024-nitish-kumar-chandrababu-naidu-emerge-kingmakers/article68252063.ece

timbray,
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@Alon Westminster-style parliaments, where treachery is a built-in facet of the system, are just objectively better. Well, at least in terms of entertainment value.

timbray, to random
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Systems: The Purpose of a System is What It Does - Anil Dash https://www.anildash.com//2024/05/29/systems-the-purpose-of-a-system/

Long_live_rock_n_roll, to music
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Remembering Ronnie Lane who died today 4th June 1997
best known as the bassist and founding member of the rock bands Small Faces and Faces.

📸 Avalon

timbray,
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@Long_live_rock_n_roll For many of us, best known as the co-creator of “Rough Mix”, a beautiful 1977 collaboration with Pete Townshend, some of each man’s finest work.

Black and white photo of Pete Townshend and Ronnie Lane. Two middle-aged white men sitting on a tree stump, facing away from each other at about a 90° angle, both looking cheerful. Townsend (left) has short-ish facial hair, no shaved areas. Both wearing 70s-rocker clothing. Lane (right) has big sideburns and a shaved chin/mustache. Both have medium-length dark hair.

timbray, to China
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Should be posted every year on this day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMKvxJ-Js3A
#china #tienanmen1989

timbray, to random
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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.02109 - “The Effects of Group Sanctions on Participation and Toxicity: Quasi-experimental Evidence from the Fediverse”.

Tl;dr: Defederation works better than the tools available to centralized-network moderators. It doesn’t reduce toxic behavior by those blocked, but who cares? Also, they gathered a really interesting data set.

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