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I've tried to get as many friends as possible on signal, but I still have some old friends who use meta chat platforms. And the other day I was talking to a friend, she was telling me about how she'd just been hospitalized and what she'd been going through, and instagram fucking prompted me to use "AI" to summarize her messages. I hate it so deeply.
@idzie positively ghoulish. I hate it as well, so very much.
I hope your friend will be well.
#TTRPG #worldbuilding thought: How do religious institutions in your setting finance themselves?
The most common answers seem to be "donations" and "tithes or taxes", because that's what most people today know. But looking at German history, quite a few monasteries actually specialized in some kind of trade. Brewing beer was popular, as was cultivating wine. And some even developed expertise in mining and construction, and hired themselves out as consultants!
So, what else might your temples, churches, monasteries or whatever do in order to generate some extra income?
An idea I have about this are healing herbs and home-made medicine - which might be helpful not only for the inhabitants but also for the neighbour communities of a monastery or temple etc.
Of course this would need people in the monastery etc. who have a respective education for medicine/medical procedures.
One of the weird and wonderful things about the Fediverse is the variance in max characters per instance.
Nonetheless, the norm among the people I follow is 500 characters. This has a kind of cadence to it. And so longer posts have the quality of a kind of cognitive assault. I know that’s not intended. But that is how it lands with me.
It’s not a big deal, but it’s not nothing and it is jarring
Yup, it’s been cheaper for decades to import doctors and nurses than properly fund universities to train them. And, suddenly, a load of them no longer want to come here because who would want to go to Brexit island? And now there’s a shortage domestically.
We saw something similar with Polish plumbers 20 years earlier. A lot came over when we had a big skills shortage, but then other places in Europe looked more attractive and so a huge number left.
Rich countries often treat immigrants as a source of exploitable labour and forget that people who are willing to move countries to get to you because it looks like there are better prospects are also often able to leave your country if somewhere else has better prospects (or if you decided to be a ‘hostile environment’ for them).
Hi blog writers: You don’t have to attach a unique image to every blog post, and you *certainly* don’t need to use #AI to generate an image for every blog post. You may think AI-generated images make your posts more attractive, but you are mistaken; they are doing the opposite: they make your posts more *repulsive* to a good number of potential readers. If I see an AI-generated image in the preview, I won’t click through to read your post, I won’t boost the post that mentions your post, and I certainly won’t read the rest of your blog.
@vaurora there's a hymn (bach or händel) my mother used to sing which goes "jauchzet! frohlocket! auf preiset den herrn!" (jubilee, cheer, praise etc) which I find very suitable. 😉 dancefloor/pop dr alban "singing dancing hallelujah" is also a great choice 😂
@sushee you get me :)
"The standard body language advice isn't just unhelpful, it's actively harmful."
https://psychsafety.com/body-language-and-non-verbal-communication/
Innenminister #Dobrindt bleibt stur und setzt bei Grenzkontrollen auf Gewöhnung. Die Ausnahme ist zur Regel geworden: Kontrollen bei Autos mit „irgendwelchen komischen Figuren drin“ (Merz) https://taz.de/Verlaengerung-der-Grenzkontrollen/!6200966/
@CCC
Das mit den Grenzkontrollen wird von allen falsch eingeschätzt. Es hat wenig bis nichts mit "Stimmenfang" oder Propaganda zu tun. Dazu ist es zu teuer und aufwändig. Es hat einen ganz praktischen Zweck: man will ein neues Grenzregime etablieren, um es zu haben. Es ist eine Kriegsvorbereitung. Im Krieg ist Bewegungskontrolle im eigenen Land enorm wichtig. Das muss geübt sein. Hier wird gerade der Apparat aufgebaut, den man 2028 (2023 + "In fünf Jahren kriegstüchtig!") braucht.
The current world of type theory proof assistants is ruled by the "Pick Your Poison" principle.
1. With Agda, you have something that has the appearance of a reasonable system, but if you dig into how it works, you become very scared and see that it is more bug than functionality.
2. With Rocq, you have something that has a lot of really thoughtful people with a good understanding of type theory working on it, but they are weighed down by decades old design mistakes (founts of soundness bugs) that probably cannot be unwound ever. The old practices are risky in terms of soundness, and doing things right from now might not be enough.
3. With Lean, you have something that's really thoughtfully engineered in some ways, but which (due to hubris) has begun to accumulate so much technical debt and soundness issues that it is unclear whether it can be fixed without new leadership. Current practices are risky in terms of soundness, as we have seen.
I sincerely want us to have more options. I don't think it is healthy for this area to be ruled by one system. I believe that is very risky, and I also believe it is stifling. I am sorry if that upsets you or amuses you. I'm sorry if you find it annoying and vindictive. I find it important.
@zzt Accessibility is the first thing people reach for when trying to convince you that objecting to shit tech is bad actually. Cars? Oh no think of that sliver of disabled people who are served by them and can afford them and somehow wouldn't benefit from access to infra that favours micro-mobility. Perv glasses? Oh but they are helpful to a fraction of disabled people who'd definitely be better served by a similar product that doesn't have all the unnecessary sexual harassment features that are the main selling points and without which the product couldn't exist! It's all for disabled people you see, definitely not the case that they weren't even the afterthought for Apple or Meta or Ford or whatever, but merely an emergent combative marketing opportunity.
If only MAGA voters could eat racism, the cost of living would be $0.
Be good if they could eat each other.
@kolombiken thank you, I did! 😊 Lots of warblers, that I struggled to identify without seeing since I know many of their songs now but often not their calls lol
@idzie Good!
And warblers are so difficult! Especially calls. I’m also still learning.
chinese remainder theorem goes so fucking hard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_remainder_theorem
There are certain things whose number is unknown. If we count them by threes, we have two left over; by fives, we have three left over; and by sevens, two are left over. How many things are there?[3]
there's no fucking way the evil NIST RNG document calls them "leftmost" and "rightmost" bits
@sasutina13 super weird how every single new use case for AI seems to be to facilitate some form of fraud or fakery. Almost like that's designed into the system and a desired outcome.
Hey #Fediverse can I ask you a favor?
Please don’t post URLs that have been shortened. Link-shortening services can not only potentially *track* your interactions and add telemetry to track your behaviors, they can also *break* and make your links unusable.
You can use services like https://urlexpander.net or install an app (I like Link Unshortener (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/link-unshortener/id1506953658)) to find the ultimate destination of a shortened link, and then post that instead.
Remember, all URLs in #Mastodon count as 23 characters, no matter how long the actual URL is, so there really is no benefit to shortening your URLs.
It's been a tough few years for MacStories.
An explanation of why we resumed posting on X, and what comes next:
@viticci Sad, so I’m saying goodbye here.
The info on AI was interesting, since AI is indispensable today.
But the fact that you took such a strong stand against AI, are now promoting it…
Some people try to hold on to their values, while others are only too happy to trade them for money—it's sad.
And now you actively collaborating with Nazis, this is too much.
When will you celebrate ICE and the murder of people? Next year?
in case you missed it, some ex-Apple ex-Nest ex-<some bullshit AI startup> guy decided to reply to my thread about having your LLM do brainfuck with their blog post where they had claude do a json parser in brainfuck, “something that’s never been done before”
and because the brainfuck world is very small, it didn’t take much searching to figure out where claude was plagiarizing from: https://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/194538/json-formatter-in-your-least-favorite-language
it’s the same program except this one was written by a person in 2018 and it doesn’t look like absolute shit. in fact it has a lot of comments, unlike the slop one.
something to consider before you reply to any of my posts with adorable links to your fucking LLM-generated blog spam
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