Today in Labor History February 16, 1834: Ernst Haeckel was born. He was a zoologist, physician, artist, and one of the earliest proponents of Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. He discovered and named thousands of organisms. He coined the terms: Ecology, phylum, phylogeny and protista. Haeckel made beautiful drawings of thousands of plant, animal and marine organisms, collected in his book, “Kunstformen der Natur” (Art Forms of Nature). His biological drawings influenced the art nouveau movement. His books were banned by the Nazis, yet he was a eugenicist and a supporter of scientific racism and Social Darwinism, views which contributed to the rise of Nazism.

#art #science #fascism #nazis #eugenics #Ernsthaeckel #evolution

I hope this puffin finds you well.

#Puffin #Iceland #PhotoMonday #Birds #BirdsofMastodon #BirdPhotography #Nature #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography

RE: https://mastodon.macstories.net/@macstories/116081829784142955

Interesting that the macOS version of Apple Podcasts is not part of this. It always seems to be last to get new features.

Oulu jatkaa kritisoitujen tekoälykuvien käyttöä

Valtuustoaloite vaati tekoälykuvista luopumista niiden epäettisyyden vuoksi. Kaupunginhallitus päätyi äänestämään esityksestä.

https://yle.fi/a/74-20210623

#Kunnat #Oulu #Tekoäly #Poliittinenpäätöksenteko #Pohjoispohjanmaa #Kotimaa

#foxesInLove #comic

Source: https://foxes-in-love.tumblr.com/post/808717303799840768
Copyright: https://foxesinlove.net

@TheBreadmonkey
A stirring story.

@cstross I should have noticed that the attribution was mispecunious!

@ChuckMcManis @pluralistic

@Taweret votes for literally everything but Critters 4

@jaapio @webinoly Unfortunately, the corporate funding required to support a single foundation—much less two—doesn’t exist. The PHP Foundation is facing this challenge, and I don’t want to create obstacles that could get in the way of their ability to secure funding. The community needs to encourage companies to donate to the PHPF. Once it is healthy, we can consider expanding its mission to support community efforts (or add a community foundation that that coexist in a healthy ecosystem).

#PHP

It’s time to get some meow meows

Goodnight my dear friends

R.I.P. Robert Duvall. 😔

Billionaires should not exist.

Studying how GeoLith emulates the NeoGeo's rendering of an individual scanline...

Within the visible portion it looks up a backdrop colour & the relevant portions of the frame & sprite buffers, iterates over a line of that framebuffer looking up the colours in the palette falling back to that background colour whilst zeroing out the sprite buffer, zeroes some variables before iterating over & rendering the sprite table 2 lines in advance, & invokes a pre-chosen callback.

1/3?

This morning I got an email from a sender that identified itself as an AI agent.

So - plus for being upfront about it, but... please don't do this.

I get that a lot of people are really, really, really into AI tools. OK. I have my opinions on them, you have yours. I have major qualms about them, some people think they're the best thing ever.

OK. Fine. But when your use of these things spills over into the rest of the world, it's no longer a question of my opinion vs. your opinion, my decisions vs. your decisions.

At this point, things have moved from each person doing their own thing to inflicting your use of AI onto me without my consent.

Before this spirals out of control, which I can see happening *very* quickly, I'd like for us to agree on a piece of netiquette:

- it is rude in the extreme to set loose an AI agent to reach out to people who have not consented to interact with these things.

- it is rude to have an AI agent submit pull requests that human maintainers have to review.

- it is rude to have an AI agent autonomously interact with humans in any way when they have not consented to take part in whatever experiment you are running.

- it is unacceptable to have an AI agent autonomously interact with humans without identifying the person or organization behind the agent. If you're not willing to unmask and have a person reach out to you with their thoughts on this, then don't have an AI agent reach out to me.

Stuff like this really sours me on technology right now. If I didn't have a family and responsibilities, I'd be seriously considering how I could go live off the grid somewhere without having to interact with this stuff.

Again: I'm not demanding that other people not use AI/LLMs, etc. But when your use spills out into my having to have interactions with an agent's output, you need to reconsider. Your ability to spew things out into the universe puts an unwanted burden on other humans who have not consented to this.

#LLMs #AI #AgenticAI #OpenClaw #OpenSource

@timbray I personally believe that something like a 20 hour work week is ideal for humans to flourish, with the condition that anything a person makes outside those hours belong entirely to them. It gives people enough structure to do “organized work” for society to function on some sort of schedule, but leaves more time for them to do unstructured, or communal work, or leisure.

@jeannotpepino @samantha @adelinej

You can change the display name by just editing your profile, but there's no official way to change the username (the one shown below the display name).

The username is used at a deeper technical level so posts mentioning you are sent to you. It's kind of like an email address.

It’s really nice out today, 49F and sunny, not a cloud in the sky. ☀️

@libramoon "overpopulation" reeks of eugenics.

Somehow it only ever pops up in the context of the Global Majority. New York is pretty populous. So is London. But these are not the places that are attached to the "overpopulation" thing.

The problem is not population, it's resource hoarding and waste.

No doubt about education and reproductive autonomy for women, of course! But we should do that because it's the right thing to do, not because of some eugenicist ideas about who gets to procreate.