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Mrs Wainwright, secondary school Geography teacher used to always say "The answer is in the question".
40 years later I see things like this, and can hear Mrs Wainwright's voice clear as day.
"Surprisingly, our results show that women's contributions tend to be accepted more often than men's. However, when a woman's gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless."
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Are you an introvert?
Terrific explainer by https://introverteed.com/blogs/news/an-introduction-to-the-introvert-social-battery #comic #art
People think that introverts are incapable of basic human interaction and emotion, like we are social recluses because we seemingly don't like to talk and hate everyone.Vincent Radford (introverteed)
Talked to a very smart person this afternoon who reminded me: climate fatalism ("it's too late") is a soft form of denialism.
Everything we do from here is worthwhile. It counts, it makes a difference. No matter what damage has been done, we can still make things better than if we had done nothing. We can still look after the world, look after our friends and family. Action has results.
50 billionaire families have already spent $600 million on the 2024 elections.
More than half—$416 million—went to Republicans or conservative groups that want to extend Trump's tax cuts for the rich.
Could there be a clearer example of how big money corrupts our democracy?
The 'godfather of AI' says the government will have to establish UBI to deal with the impact of AI on inequality.
"I was consulted by people in Downing Street and I advised them that universal basic income was a good idea."
—Geoffrey Hinton
He thinks that AI will increase productivity and wealth, but that the money will go to the rich and not the people whose jobs get lost and that’s "going to be very bad for society."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnd607ekl99o
Geoffrey Hinton, known as the godfather of AI, said the technology could leave many without jobs.Faisal Islam (BBC News)
Tom the fox and his loyal friend and crew chief, Ace, always there to pursuit his dreams. Under a specially impressive starry night sky. Sitting on the hood of his beloved Opella PR 35 racing car, with the big race just hours away.
A picture for Ace Barker, as a gift for SleeperShep, and his character Tom Overdrive
Digital. Procreate.
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if you hate google's shitty ai web search changes and you've been wanting to try a new search engine out... how about all of them at once???
#searxng is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from 70+ search services, and you can run it yourself! there are a TON of instances and it's engineered to respect your privacy and hide your search history!
you can use an instance listed at https://searx.space or use one that i run, https://search.birdcat.cafe ! i have been using it for months now and i don't see myself going back to other search engines :3
#search #google #duckduckgo #bing #searx
What has your experience been thus far? I definitely wanna avoid search engines that have AI at the helm.
However, since Searx looks at many of the search engines to form it's own results... how will a Searx instance perform since the large search engines are already favoring pages/sites that have LLM generated content?
I don't mean to be combative in this questioning. I just wonder how fucked the Internet (at large) is just from the prioritization of LLM generated website/website content in search results.
I feel the same way about AI that I did about crypto when it started becoming a thing:
• All of the moral practices that make it possible are fucked beyond repair.
• It’s spawning some of the worst companies, and enriching some of the worst billionaires in the world.
• While there are some genuinely useful, practical applications for it, there are so few of them, and they have had so little positive impact so far, that it doesn’t even seem like it’s going to be worth it anytime soon.
a totally normal video game console except the “start” button is labeled “snart”
VIDEO GAME TITLE SCREEN!
Press SNART
"R-G-B"
"C-M-Y"... no K
Suit: Clockwork Creatures
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David Nutt was right, but that didn't stop the government from sacking him for pointing out that alcohol was doing more harm than ecstacy
Exclusive: Experts call for higher taxes and tougher regulation as research shows cost to NHS, other public services and economyAnna Bawden (The Guardian)
"Excuse me, may I take a photo...?"
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“By the end of the century people may well be 50% poorer than they would’ve been if it wasn’t for climate change,” said Harvard economist Adrien Bilal.
“I think everyone could imagine what they would do with an income that is twice as large as it is now. It would change people’s lives.”
Bilal said that purchasing power, which is how much people are able to buy with their money, would already be 37% higher than it is now without global heating seen over the past 50 years.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/17/economic-damage-climate-change-report
A 1C increase in global temperature leads to a 12% decline in world gross domestic product, researchers have foundOliver Milman (The Guardian)
From Midwest Furfest 2022 featuring Sarakazi and @manukoa.bsky.social who took these photos (Forebucks took the last one). This was my FurrHappens suit's 10th birthday and last outing. She's retired now.
#FursuitFriday #Fursuit #FurrHappens #MFF2022
Motion sets out worldwide target in alignment with Paris agreement to limit global heating to 1.5CSandra Laville (The Guardian)
Please keep signing and sharing this petition against the banning of masks in North Carolina. It’s helping to get more media attention on the issue!
You can sign here: https://www.change.org/p/halt-the-passage-of-nc-bill-237-banning-masks-in-public?recruited_by_id=0e43e830-125b-11ef-b999-6dfe8a4a6443
LB: It's hard to believe same-sex marriage only first became legal anywhere in the United States twenty years ago today. It would take another 11 years for it to become the law of the land.
There are still those who want roll back those rights (see also: Project 2025). It's exhausting and unthinkable that we have to keep fighting this fight, but it is absolutely worth it.
🌟 Last week, an intriguing auction hit eBay — the badge of Apple Employee No. 10. There was just one small problem — it was a total forgery.
Enjoy: https://cabel.com/2024/05/16/the-forged-apple-employee-badge/
Here’s a quick and cautionary tale. This eBay auction, spotted by Eric Vitiello, immediately caught my eye: Wow. Someone was selling Apple Employee #10’s employee badge?! What an incred…cabel.com
Have you seen the northern lights last weekend?
Now you have.
Happy #FursuitFriday!
Background: @Areksim came knocking at my door at around 2:00AM telling me about the phenomenon. I got up, into suit and into the car for a 5 minute drive. I can't remember any details about the night, 2AM is waaay past my bed time. Buut it was well worth it.
📸&🪡 @Areksim (Vino Studios)
Deciding it’s too late to do anything about #ClimateBreakdown, you are giving yourself permission to do nothing about the situation…hence denialism.
But how does it make you feel driving a diesel car everyday, sat in traffic, wearing your disposable fast fashion, heating your home with fossil fuels, buying plastic crap that will soon be in landfill.
If you believe in climate change, you feel personal guilt. Better mentally to do something and persuade others.