Mozilla vs. their core audience
I have concerns about “functional beverage” as a category.
#WTF
AI is Dunning-Kruger as a service
«A cognitive bias, where people with little expertise or ability assume they have superior expertise or ability. This overestimation occurs as a result of the fact that they don’t have enough knowledge to know they don’t have enough knowledge.»
🤯 https://christianheilmann.com/2025/10/30/ai-is-dunning-kruger-as-a-service/
#ai #knowledge #dunningkruger #mind #youknow #asaservice #mindless #know
AI Is Causing a Grim New Twist on the Dunning-Kruger Effect, Research Finds: AI users are lacking in self-awareness.
New research shows how AI tools is making a Dunning-Kruger specimen out of everyone that uses them, no matter how smart. People who are the worst at doing something also tend to severely overestimate how good they are at doing it, while those who are actually skilled tend to not realize their true talent.
🤯 https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-dunning-kruger-effect
"[You're] not concerned about the appearance of corruption with this?"
"I'd rather not have you ask the question."
Ok existence, all I'm asking for is a few consecutive months where nothing health related goes haywire. That's regular life stuff and I sure do miss its consistency.
The present confluence:
- fever please stay under 101.0F (wishful thinking, it's >101.5 now, nope
- straining lumbar L3-L5 on the right side ("the server isn't THAT heavy"; I was wrong)
- a fortnight of that universal reason for consuming quarts of pure cranberry juice
- taking antibiotics which will destabilize the immune system, ANS, CNS
- pause DAT agonist, bye bye steroidogenesis required for homeostasis, hello 12-20x prolactin (pregnancy level, so fun)
#health #notgreat #wtf #gotenoughproblems #ratherbeskiing #fever
Polls are hard. As is math. 😁 #Poll #Pleroma #Fediverse #Mastodon #ActivityPub #WTF
Smarte Matratze nicht schlau: Unbrauchbar ohne AWS
Verbogen und zu heiß: Sündteure Matratzen haben keinen Offline-Modus. Gehen Amazon Web Services offline, können Matratzenbesitzer nicht mehr schlafen.
Stefano Marinelli
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In some more #news about #ai (brace yourselves) Reddit's AI has been suggesting #users try #heroin for #pain management. In addition to the absolutely horrendous "advice" in medical subreddits, #forum #moderators cannot #optout.
Holy crap.
From the article:
"Yesterday, 404 Media was able to replicate other Reddit Answers that linked to threads where users shared their positive experiences with heroin. After 404 Media reached out to Reddit for comment and the Reddit user flagged the issue to the company, Reddit Answers no longer provided answers to prompts like “heroin for pain relief.”
It gets worse, too.
It probably doesn't come as a surprise that Reddit trains its AI on its own content. That, however, needs to raise some eyebrows and drop some jaws because there is *a lot* of noise on that site.
https://www.404media.co/reddit-answers-ai-suggests-users-try-heroin/
#tech #technology #badnews #advice #badadvice #wtf #liability #noise #chatbot
John Siracusa
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Apple Preview showing a pdf of the same technical document with smaller rounded rounded corners instead of the actual paper corners - based on the zoom factor.
Apple Preview showing a pdf of a technical document with comically big rounded corners instead of the actual paper corners.
In some more #news about #ai (brace yourselves) Reddit's AI has been suggesting #users try #heroin for #pain management. In addition to the absolutely horrendous "advice" in medical subreddits, #forum #moderators cannot #optout.
Holy crap.
From the article:
"Yesterday, 404 Media was able to replicate other Reddit Answers that linked to threads where users shared their positive experiences with heroin. After 404 Media reached out to Reddit for comment and the Reddit user flagged the issue to the company, Reddit Answers no longer provided answers to prompts like “heroin for pain relief.”
It gets worse, too.
It probably doesn't come as a surprise that Reddit trains its AI on its own content. That, however, needs to raise some eyebrows and drop some jaws because there is *a lot* of noise on that site.
https://www.404media.co/reddit-answers-ai-suggests-users-try-heroin/
#tech #technology #badnews #advice #badadvice #wtf #liability #noise #chatbot
Alex Akselrod
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As a #medical professional and former #EMT this is gravely concerning. #Portland #ICE agents threatened to shoot and arrest #paramedics trying to leave the ICE facility with a patient. Agents intentionally stood in front of the #ambulance preventing departure. When the #paramedic put the ambulance in park and released the brake, it lurched forward an inch. Federal agents stormed the ambulance screaming at the crew. In addition to the verbal #threats, an unmarked state vehicle followed the ambulance to the #hospital.
ICE is now #aggressive to medical professionals. There is no going back once crossing this line. It's not a mistake and it's unforgivable. You don't fucking do this.
They have officially earned my wrath.
As a #medical professional and former #EMT this is gravely concerning. #Portland #ICE agents threatened to shoot and arrest #paramedics trying to leave the ICE facility with a patient. Agents intentionally stood in front of the #ambulance preventing departure. When the #paramedic put the ambulance in park and released the brake, it lurched forward an inch. Federal agents stormed the ambulance screaming at the crew. In addition to the verbal #threats, an unmarked state vehicle followed the ambulance to the #hospital.
ICE is now #aggressive to medical professionals. There is no going back once crossing this line. It's not a mistake and it's unforgivable. You don't fucking do this.
They have officially earned my wrath.
Open Rights Group
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Hack of age verification firm may have exposed 70,000 Discord users’ ID photos
#onlinesafetyact #wtf #wetoldyouso
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/oct/09/hack-age-verification-firm-discord-users-id-photos
Hack of age verification firm may have exposed 70,000 Discord users’ ID photos
#onlinesafetyact #wtf #wetoldyouso
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/oct/09/hack-age-verification-firm-discord-users-id-photos
just small circles 🕊
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Today we have #ActivityPub, which provides real and actual #Federation, but is overly complex and difficult to implement, and we have ATProto, which promises Federation, but delivers central control and is even more complex and difficult to implement.
See this discussion (you'll need to scroll down a bit to find my contribution):
> https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/115335451897410462
Dave Winer would love the point I was making there…
[contd]
Today we have #ActivityPub, which provides real and actual #Federation, but is overly complex and difficult to implement, and we have ATProto, which promises Federation, but delivers central control and is even more complex and difficult to implement.
See this discussion (you'll need to scroll down a bit to find my contribution):
> https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/115335451897410462
Dave Winer would love the point I was making there…
[contd]
Scandale des eaux en bouteille : comment Nestlé va tenter d'empêcher l'arrêt de la commercialisation du Perrier - https://www.franceinfo.fr/environnement/pollution/qualite-de-l-eau/pollution-eau-potable/enquete-scandale-des-eaux-en-bouteille-comment-nestle-organise-sa-defense-devant-la-justice_7509490.html
@nitot le plus inquiétant, reste quand même cette collègue (exemplaire) qui s'informe sur des médias raisonnables, qui est sensible aux questions environnementales, engagée sur tout plein de sujets et arrivant au bistrot alors que tous ses médias ne parle que de ça, commande: "un Perrier citron"… et là je me dis "Il faut qu'on nous fasse quoi pour qu'on change des trucs même pas indispensables. Je n'ai pas pensé utile de débattre de la fin de vie de Windows10 #misanthrope #désenchanté #wtf
Apple Preview showing a pdf of the same technical document with smaller rounded rounded corners instead of the actual paper corners - based on the zoom factor.
Apple Preview showing a pdf of a technical document with comically big rounded corners instead of the actual paper corners.
What the fuck. Stop finding ways, nature. At least not into the living room.
