When I'm president, I'm gonna institute Universal BASIC Income.

It'll be a stipend everyone gets, but it can only be used to purchase BASIC programming books or 8-bit computers.

Queen Linda.

#Ronstadt
#HarrisWalz2024

Trickster Tom is an ex-archaeologist kobold with a passion for finding (and stealing) hidden treasures and ancient secrets in excavations, proficient with the use of traps and crossbows. He is an expert in history and in avoiding traps. His knowledge of ancient civilizations and artifacts is deep, making him an invaluable companion for any expedition. He is accompanied by his friend Brick, a rat he found in the swamps while fleeing from his excavation. He was about to eat her when he discovered that instead of a meal he could make a friend. After all, kobolds eat anything, even stones and branches soup.

He's a sidekick character I made for my D&D campaign, at first he was just a passing character that my players would interact with and give them directions on how to proceed, but I grew so fond of his background story that I ended up developing him a lot more, and, successfully, my players also liked him that much that they ended up inviting him on the adventure and now he helps them with an important quest.

If he ends up being a character with much more relevance than he had in the last session, I'll draw him more, and even color him. (Such a shame that our next session will be until November, everyone will be so busy on the upcoming months, boo)

So recently OpenAI has been stomping around my (silly, personal, non-commercial) website using GBs of bandwidth in a rather rude, arrogant & brutish manner.

We were going to block it, but Mr Tech pointed out that it had got caught in the Riddle-o-Matic, some silliness that we made about 25 years ago (for reasons unremembered) & it is consuming never-ending nonsense.

"It's basically ChatGPT poison" he said. "Shall we leave it?"

"Aye, may as well"

Bloody cheek though.

https://eclectech.co.uk/words?word=Zktgm&seed=158126

“When the AI provided an incorrect result, researchers found inexperienced and moderately experienced radiologists dropped their cancer-detecting accuracy from around 80% to about 22%. Very experienced radiologists’ accuracy dropped from nearly 80% to 45%.”

https://www.brainfacts.org/neuroscience-in-society/tech-and-the-brain/2024/why-ai-can-push-you-to-make-the-wrong-decision-at-work-090324

Why AI Can Push You to Make the Wrong Decision at Work

Automation bias is the tendency to be less vigilant when a process is automated. But can we effectively check ourselves against AI before making a wrong decision?

^{www.brainfacts.org}

Please don't ask children to 'get into pairs (or groups)', without grouping them yourself or setting ground rules to include everyone.

This is traumatising each time, to the rejected or invisible children who get left out.

#Education #School #Teaching #ActuallyAutistic

Knight

#pixelart #mastoart #fediart #art #knight

this eh, article, written by an apprently very upset oil baron - is the most glowing review of Biden/Harris and a potential Harris presidency I've seen. It outlines how she's going to use sneaky political tricks to abolish oil and fund the energy transition while detailing the mechanisms. Anything that make guys like these be very upset makes me very happy. His hatred shines off the page and bathes me in the light of the Valar.

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Kamala-Harris-Real-Stance-on-Fracking.html

Kamala Harris' Real Stance on Fracking

U.S. Presidential hopeful Kamala Harris has voiced support for fracking, but despite her rhetoric, a Harris presidency would not favor the U.S. oil and gas industry.

^{Dan Doyle (OilPrice.com)}

To correct the common misunderstanding:
Eve (they/them), Alice (she/her), and Bob (he/him) are in a consensual, BDSM relationship, featuring Eve as service top, Alice as the bratty bottom, and Bob, who just likes to watch.

Their safe word is "indistinguishability obfuscation"

Eve only "breaks" Alice's encryption because she's super into it, not to cause harm.

Way more bats this year at the hummingbird feeder than I've ever seen. I shot this through the window with my phone, zoomed in.

If I sit out on the porch long enough, they'll come back but I have other things to do tonight.
They'll have both feeders drained in a few more minutes.

#Bats #SonoranDesert

Publication in Norway actually printed that more young people are dying of illness and that scientists fear covid is the reason.

It’s about time this made headlines - and I sincerely hope people are paying attention.

Cumulative infections are doing untold amounts of damage. They increase your risk of Long Covid - but it’s also a vascular virus which means you could be a at risk for clots, heart attacks, strokes and more.

We need to start mitigating before it’s too late. We don’t know what will happen in 5 or 10 more years. We don’t yet know what the true long term effects of repeat infections will be.

What we DO know is pretty scary. Why aren’t we applying the precautionary principle? Why aren’t we willing to be humble and admit this is a novel virus that we shouldn’t be treating as though it were “nothing.”?

Mask up. Clean the air. Test. Isolate. It’s not that hard. And demand more from your government and public health authorities.

Link to full article here: https://www.nrk.no/buskerud/flere-unge-dode-av-sykdom_-forskere-slar-alarm-1.16926584

#CovidIsAirborne #CovidCautious #CovidIsNotOver #CleanAir #WearaMask #Disability #LongCovid #Ableism #Denial #CleanAir #Pandemic #PublicHealth #InfectionControl #Eugenics #SafeHealthcare #N95 #Respirators #MasksWork #MaskUp #Spoonie #Discrimination #Dysautonomia #mecfs #pots #mcas #communitycare #wearamask #chronicillness #keepmasksinhealthcare #MaskBans #NoMaskBans

If you're thinking about buying a new car, and privacy means anything to you at all, you should be aware that every new car is basically rolling spyware.

The only answer to this right now, is to buy an older car.

https://youtu.be/7kUJhWUm3JA?si=E17ldU14VCDKbt44

Why Automakers Are Invading Your Privacy

Cars are collectively a ‘privacy nightmare’ that has gone unaddressed for far too long, according to the Mozilla Foundation. A 2023 report from the group say...

^YouTube

I found a great reality check was "tell me five fun facts about Charlie Stross" (me, visible on wikipedia). First five facts were broadly accurate. But then I asked for "five more fun facts about …" a couple of times. The truthiness of the answers degraded steadily and seamlessly and by the fourth round Google's bot was spouting total nonsense.

LLMs have no theory of mind to support a concept of truth and so deliver utter rubbish with absolute certainty.
https://wandering.shop/@susankayequinn/112254338887715909

Susan Kaye Quinn 🌱(she/her) (@susankayequinn@wandering.shop)

Attached: 1 image SOLID TIP @kfury@mstdn.social

^{The Wandering Shop}

thinking about kink gear... fursuits... watches..... things things things

to be fair latex can be had for MUCH cheaper than that

you can struggle all you want...

#furry #vrchat #pupplay

Any request a browser initiates without the (explicit or implied) consent of the user is a privacy breach.

If your definition of privacy rejects that axiom, then it needs updating.

Question: has anyone else here heard of this movie? Somehow the first I heard of it was today (despite having trailers for the past six months)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUCNBAmse04

The Wild Robot | Final Trailer

The Wild Robot - In Theaters September 27From DreamWorks Animation comes a new adaptation of a literary sensation, Peter Brown’s beloved, award-winning, #1 N...

^YouTube

Content warning: Our Modern Dystopia Reveal/hide

Everything leaks eventually. You know how your navigation software warns you of traffic jams? It recognises that all the phones it's tracking in real time are bunched up closer together in the jammed area than in the normal flow.

With a copy of the last twenty years of location data, and a throbbing sense of curiosity, I ask my query agent: correlate locations of serving polititicans with locations of people with prostitution charges where spatial and temporal overlap occurs in a hotel room.

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

ahem.

Capturing the browser's back button/gesture to "wait before you go" a visitor is absolutely hostile and will never result in any volume of positive "conversions" you absolute fuckwads so knock it the hell off.

thank.

Another piece for the regular #EF28 ArtShow ! ✨

A colourful proto-buddy ! 👾

Original art will be for auction ; will you consider adopting this li'l guy ? 💕

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#furryart #furryartist #mastoartist

VAT laws be like:

is zero-rated, but woozies are standard rated (e.g. and ), except googly-woozies (e.g. ) but only for those that have two (2) googly eyes.

but for any that is served hot you need to charge standard rate unless there’s also a being served at the same occasion, unless either or are used as cake decorations, then they are zero rated