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"Biggar Penis Woods get the chop after getting blown too much"
https://metro.co.uk/2026/08/19/phallic-shaped-penis-woods-chopped-despite-swell-opposition-29412849/
"Simply put, the potential that any given data center could be cancelled due to local opposition is rising, a sign that organized efforts against data centers are becoming more than the sum of their parts."
https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-data-center-finances-protests-opposition-social-risk
"Stop telling yourself that dreams don't matter, that they are only dreams and that you should be more sensible."
— Julia Cameron
Not exactly shopping for new camera, but when replacing my old camera the new one was better in every specification, but it just didn't feel as intuitive as the (nominally worse) older camera. The older one had everything through buttons and dials, the newer one involved some degree of touchscreen, and fiddling with non-physical on-screen buttons felt like it broke my concentration on the subject. I found myself going back to the old camera even though it was worse in low light etc because the physical button-and-dial interface was just quicker and easier.
@david_chisnall @futurebird this also means that you have know the weights and know the biassing factor to be able read that watermark reliably.
And I am going to bet that Anthropic is not going to release those.
In other words, Anthropic will be the only company offering the slop generator, and the service to tell that something got slop-generated.
That's real power right there. Would they not "tweak" the results if it was useful for them, say, to create a plagiarism scandal around someone?
Yup, that's a legitimate concern. I wouldn't be surprised if they've been doing this for a while anyway to avoid training on their own output, but releasing an API to query gives them a lot of control.
And, of course, you can't detect slop, you can detect slop generated by a specific tool.
Am Montag begeht die #Ukraine ihren 35. Unabhängigkeitstag.
In die viel längere Geschichte der Bestrebungen nach einem ukrainischen Staat führt Historikerin Bozhena Kozakevych von der Europa-Universität Viadrina auf unserem Youtube-Kanal.
Das Video ist Teil eines Glossars von @bpb und ZOiS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKbZkkba2OU
speak window for openEVV tts... https://github.com/Mudb0y/openevv/releases/download/v0.1/openevv-v0.1-windows-x86_64.zip
Freedom News: **Earth First! UK gathering occupies grouse moor**
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2026/08/21/earth-first-uk-gathering-occupies-grouse-moor/
Camping on the edge of Moscar Moor to oppose grouse shooting and peatland destruction, the event was filled with special moments and possibilities …
The post Earth First! UK gathering occupies grouse moor appeared first on Freedom News.
#News #Environment
@unruhe @AnotherJoe @informapirata @aitech Non so bookabook. Io avevo sentito anche gumroad, però, temo che a qualsiasi agenzia o piattaforma centralizzata di vendita ti affidi, sei comunque in mano a un servizio terzo che potrebbe decidere il cambio di politica da un momento all'altro.
@elettrona @AnotherJoe @informapirata @aitech sì, bookabook usa gli stessi servizi che uso io quando mi pubblico però io salto l'intermediario, alla fine senza un certo numero di lettori, senza un proprio seguito è anche inutile pubblicare, anche se io continuo a farlo perché ci sta una regola che dice di farlo ancora, soprattutto se scrivere storie curate piace, al di là di ciò che può venire in termini di ricavi, se tempo e competenza se ne hanno, poi è tutto relativo
@bortzmeyer @sm4llth1ng happy to help with this, but at the moment we don't have a teen specific leaflet :)
This week on Spotlight on Central Asia, Bruce Pannier and Michael Hilliard are joined by Joanna Lillis to look ahead to ten years of Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s presidency in Uzbekistan. https://timesca.com/tune-in-pannier-and-hillards-spotlight-on-central-asia-comes-to-the-times-of-central-asia/ #Uzbekistan #Mirziyoyev #SpotlightOnCentralAsia #Podcast #Politics #CentralAsia #ShavkatMirziyoyev
This data on self-censorship among U.S. academic scientists and engineers -- not even humanities people, this is STEM -- is so disturbing.
theconversation.com/self-censors...
It's about time that I made use of the Collections feature on Mastodon, so have been doing just that!
Here is my list of lists. Or as Bluesky folk would call them, my Starter Packs:
https://oslo.town/@matt/collections
They are all a work in progress, just like life itself. Go follow some accounts!
#mastodon #followfriday #fridayfollow #collections #starterpack
Les 12 fuites de données
#PlaceFuiteDeDonneesDansUnTitre
@framasky Et pour quelques fuite de plus
Wir sollten uns darum gut überlegen, ob es wirklich die Gesellschaft ist, die einen Vorteil davon hat, wenn die KI-generierten Inhalte deklariert werden müssen, oder ob nicht genau das Gegenteil der Fall ist und der Nutzen am Ende vor allem beim dadurch begünstigten KI-Oligopol liegt.
https://andreasvongunten.com/blog/die-dunkle-seite-des-watermarkings/
Worth a watch - and share with those who may not be up to speed on ALPRs.
I still can't believe that Microsoft rebranded "Microsoft Visual Studio" to "Microsoft Visual Studio (Not Responding)"
Truth in advertising.
Hey, remember when the International Criminal Court was locked out of their Microsoft accounts? These people are doing something about that
> […] we are building shared technology infrastructure: distributed storage and computing capacity to preserve, process, and analyze critical human rights files.
Relevant to your interests, @pojntfx
Heard about it on @ludicity’s podcast where he interviewed @pluralistic
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