#LLMs are a fucking scourge. Perceiving their training infrastructure as anything but a horrific all-consuming parasite destroying the internet (and wasting real-life resources at a grand scale) is delusional.
#ChatGPT isn't a fun toy or a useful tool, it's a _someone else's_ utility built with complete disregard for human creativity and craft, mixed with malicious intent masquerading as "progress", and should be treated as such.
7 websites +2 to die with pt. 3
je ne suis pas don't click
https://blogroll.club/
http://www.stargrave.org
https://reiddragon.neocities.org
https://82mhz.net
https://ftrv.se
https://crys.site/
https://communitywiki.org/static/SmolNet.html
https://krzysckh.org/
https://kaka.farm/
Keep killing bots.
previously: https://merveilles.town/@prahou/113092484674624564
Remember when Israel bombed ONE Gaza hospital causing outrage & Israeli Govt declared “We don’t bomb hospitals it was actually Hamas.”
UN report confirms Israel has bombed 110 hospitals & medical centers & Hamas was in ZERO of them.
But it’s not genocide
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/un-commission-the-idf-is-raping-killing?r=fyvxf&utm_medium=ios
The latest wastewater surveillance data show that
the COVID-19 pandemic has entered its tenth wave in the United States.
Last week’s spike in wastewater was the highest percentage increase in transmission in almost three years,
though these figures could be revised downwards and the full severity of the wave will only become clear in the coming weeks.
One reason for the rapid jump appears to be a later start for the “winter surge” than is typical,
-- and thus the virus could be quickly rising to a level that has now become typical for this time of year.
⭐️The Pandemic Mitigation Collaborative (PMC) model estimates that
1.6 percent of Americans are presently infected and capable of transmitting the virus to others.
That is 1 in 64 people and represents nearly 750,000 new COVID-19 cases per day.
🆘 That means that on a flight of 100 people, there is an 80 percent chance that at least one person is infectious;
on a flight of 300 people that rises to a 99 percent chance.
In case you missed it, the hackers who reverse-engineered DRM on Polish trains got sued by the train manufacturer…
…multiple times.
You can donate to their defense fund:
https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2024/das-ist-vollig-entgleist
Context:
Their original talk from last year
https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12142-breaking_drm_in_polish_trains
My piece about the first lawsuit against them
https://rys.io/en/175.html
Gee, can you give a really stupid but real example of a Proxy Metric?
https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/26/microsoft-and-openai-have-a-financial-definition-of-agi-report/
This is why actual neuroscientists and cogsci people think computer science folks are dilettantes, clowns, and poseurs.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/26/microsoft-and-openai-have-a-financial-definition-of-agi-report/
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/26464 it could use a good long think through the user safety implications, but i support this feature request for the ability to submit alt text suggestions. it's a more constructive and i suspect more socially effective solution to getting alt text on more images than scolding people.
🧵 This is ableist propaganda. Just because the system has been taking the taxes of disabled people and funneling them to inaccessible things, doesn't mean that LLMs trained on stolen creativity are the solution. When it's free or cheap, institutions like assistive tech. When it requires their own investment, they usually deny assistive tech. Because they're NOT about making things accessible. They could have done that ages ago.
Please don't boost ableist propaganda.
30 years ago today, Compuserve and Unisys tried to give themselves a Christmas gift at the Internet's expense, by charging a $5,000 royalty for using GIF images. #retrocomputing https://dfarq.homeip.net/cashing-in-on-gif-by-charging-royalties/