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RE: https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/117172792450861828
there are no "ethical LLMs", regardless of local models, regardless of open weights, regardless of renewable power,
regardless of country or origin
you cannot have models this large and this "capable" without the accompanying mass abuse of human labour
@NilaJones So there was a civil war in Judea. And the winners were the exiles. And the stories backing their claim to control, those stories required them to be the great sufferers of Persian slavery.
They were not slaves. Their suffering amounted to being deported from Judea.
But they did win.
And we have that idea.
And pretend-slave stories, two thousand years later, became important parts of actual slaves lives.
@NilaJones And there is fucking *art* coming from all of this, well, not quite technically true.
When we ask how far we are from Canaan? We're talking about the Babylonian exile.
Here's a *brilliant* modern take of "how far am I from Canaan".
That explains a lot.
ok daytime, you can have hot. but do not rope in nighttime with your perversions. nighttime needs to have cool. nighttime can't also be 80 degrees.
Is that a dare.
Found in November 1988 issue of Nibble magazine.
Interactive archive.org link in website post.
The project was alerted to the existence of a few text editors and word processors in Nibble magazine by someone on matrix.
What we found was a great wealth of BASIC programs for the Apple II computer. We uncovered several particularly interesting BASIC word processors. Two that are of particular interest are Quickwriter and this one, Nibblewriter.
Si lamentano che i ragazzini stanno sui social, poi chiudono i campetti o li lasciano senza controlli.
Campetti da calcio chiusi, i parroci rispondono al sindaco: «Li apriamo, ma serve qualcuno che controlli i ragazzi» https://www.ilgazzettino.it/nordest/treviso/campetti_parroci_sindaco_ragazzi-9730522.html
While we don’t have as many followers here on Mastodon as we have on Bluesky, the interaction with folks on Bluesky is far lower than the interaction with all of you here on Mastodon! So thank you for being here with us!
@dumpsterqueer I heard GtS uses Tea See Pee (I Pee??)
@annika we pee, comrade o7
@dumpsterqueer I heard GtS uses Tea See Pee (I Pee??)
@dumpsterqueer gottem!!
@Somarasu *360 noscope airhorn noises*
Nepal's flood is a warning of the tragedies to come — climate change will ensure that there are more disasters like this and with increasing frequency. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/editorials/2026/08/29/jt-editorial-nepal-flood/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #editorials
Graphene migration complete! Nearly painless. Biggest issues were self-inflicted by avoiding Google Play like the Google Plague, but by using the Aurora Store and some dev options, I was even able to get Android Auto working.
And Gemini is nowhere to be found. Huge success.
@mttaggart Nice! I've had zero complaints with it on my Pixel 8 using F-Droid. 😀
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