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An AI thing I'm watching play out at another org:
1: Expert A, with a deep understanding of a nuanced and difficult problem answers a question they've been given, offering several options.
2: Director B, recipient, uses an AI to summarize it and then runs it up to leadership saying, "A says this." That generated summary is subtly and very wrong.
3: A is now being held responsible for plans made based on B's AI-generated and very wrong rewriting of his recommendations.
Fun times.
Other countries acknowledge the needs of young kids - great examples here being Finland, Japan, Czech Republic and Switzerland. They want their families to be able to travel them on public transport because this is cheaper and greener for all. In making provision for kids, they no doubt make the journey experience better for all.
But here in the UK we’re making do with plans to have buggies unfolded in a compartment…this is progress I guess!
https://familyfriendlytrains.com/case-studies/
Austria The family zone on ÖBB Railjets are “designed specifically for fun and games”. There is a children’s cinema as well as tables with decorated with board games. Compartment …Campaign for Family-Friendly Trains
In the Coyotic Justice System, the yappers are represented by two separate, yet equally important groups. The yotes who create all the mischief, and the public defenders that shield them from prosecution. These are their stories.
*Gavel noise*
#furry #furryfandom #fursuit #fursuiter #fursuitphotography #fursuiteveryday
“Today, I am making a genuine and direct appeal to Sir Keir Starmer to think again and commit again to £28bn of investment to achieve green growth and reach net zero.
We believe that anything that falls below that level of ambition and investment will fail to meet the scale of this challenge and fail to grasp the opportunity of the emerging green economy.”
John Swinney, leader of SNP
Whatever the political games being played here, this is also a truthful acknowledgment of what needs to happen
I keep wanting this. It's definitely a feature I've wanted (needed) plenty of times. Just a few days ago I had to pick an upcoming stop, guess how long the bus would take to get there and use that to plan the rest of my route.
Worst part of updating my talk: looking up how fucking many more Starlink satellites there were than last time I gave a version of this talk. 200 more than a month ago. Fuck.
There are now 6,209 Starlinks in orbit, fully 62% of the 10,009 active satellites in orbit.
All of these "fully demisable" Starlinks are planned to burn up and deposit their metal in Earth's atmosphere. I just saw multiple 100-pound pieces of another SpaceX "fully demisable" rocket, so I'm sure it'll be just fine.
Thinking.... thinking... thinking... still nothing. head empty
#fursuit #kemonofursuit #fursuiteveryday #kemono #furry #furryfandom #fursuiter #fursuiting #kemonosuit #fursuitphotography #furrycommunity #catfurry #catfursuit #fursuits #ef27 #eurofurence
Omg that's amazing!
Someone made a tool for windows that makes it appear as if your pc is a malware research pc. So a lot of viruses won't even run when they are tricked into thinking they're on a research pc, cause they don't want to get caught.
It creates blank processes that don't do anything but just have the names of common research tools and such
Somehow in our 24hr news churn, this story about #Farage and Sandy Hook has been lost today.
‘The Reform UK leader was interviewed by Alex Jones on his Infowars platform in 2018, just after the parents began legal action against the radio show host for claiming that the massacre was faked. Farage did not dispute Jones’s assertion that he was being targeted by “frauds”.’
In a 2018 interview with US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Reform UK leader said liberals were ‘the very fascists they criticise’Peter Walker (The Guardian)
Had a girl ( a friend NOT GF)
ICU nurse Emergency room at Hospital (CRASH RN)
night shifts were a nightmare.. then
Weekends 10x worse.
Lunatics on full moon nights, they kept track lookout her comes the crazies 😟🤪🤪🤪🤪
First responder have their moments as well, just ER. it's ALL the time
unruly patients... got so bad that have the LAWS ( statures) posted to deter harassment in the Hospital
( it is a felony!) -they got so fed up they started *prosecuting* like airlines
Netflix can now serve 100Gbit/s of video (so something like 12,500 individual 4K streams) with an appliance using 100 watts of power. That’s 8 milliwatts for each 4K stream.
Remember that number the next time someone tells you that watching a Netflix show is as bad as driving an SUV or some shit.
☀️🐕 Reminder for all creatures whose hemisphere is summer and have a feral animal companion who needs regular walks:
🕐 Before your companion goes outside with you, go outside alone and place your bare hand or paw on the ground for five seconds where sunlight falls directly, especially asphalt or stone.
🔥 
🔥If your hand or paw burns, definitely any other paw will. So you two will have to walk strictly in the shade or wait for the sun to go down if that is not possible. 
Instafops.net is now IPv6 enabled!
Well it already was able to connect to other servers over IPv6, but now users can also access Instafops.net over an IPv6 only connection.
People: "Free/Open Source software can't be used for making professional content on the internet."
Me: [looks up from making popular YouTube videos with FOSS] "what?"
Source: learningsuccessblog.com
(Ironically, too much text to fit the alt tag, will post in a reply.)
#ADHD
@einalex Yeah, here is Scotland what is devolved has meaningful differences to UK policy, and is generally progressive in a way I’m happy to contribute towards. It’s just the rest is a bit… shit
Had heard about that new tax in Massachusetts and it seems great. Who knew good policy was a good idea!?
"linux is free if you don't value your time"
"uh huh", i say as i watch teams freeze and the entire windows audio driver crash and disappear because i joined a meeting and it failed to switch my headset to hands free mode, forcing me to reboot my computer and wait several minutes until everything opened back up
The Belgian version of chat control is nothing but mass surveillance. It’s what the Going Dark initiative call “setting the right narrative”. But the consequences are the same. It’s client-side scanning (state spyware in your phone) of European citizens’ private communication.
Chat control is a corrupt proposal pushed forward through undemocratic methods. The Belgian version is no different. The European Council should follow the European Parliament’s lead and reject it
https://mullvad.net/why-privacy-matters/going-dark
Under the slogan ‘Think of the children’, the European Commission tried to introduce total surveillance of all EU citizens.Mullvad VPN
I'm barely on FB but opted out of Meta's using my content to train their generative AI.
You have until June 26 to do so.
This 11-step process by Deborah Copaken, is a godsend.
Because of course Meta makes the opt out process intentionally obtuse + hostile in the hopes you quit from attrition.
Including burying the lede, the links, and even adding non-mandatory steps in the process to confuse you into thinking you need them.
It quite reminded me of Douglas Adams.
https://deborahcopaken.substack.com/p/11-steps-to-opt-out-of-metas-data
You only have until June 26, 2024 to say no to Meta taking your personal photos and words and using them to train their generative AI. Here are step-by-step directions for opting out.Deborah Copaken (Ladyparts)
The hotel security was curious why I’m taking photos of hidden stairwell placards.
“This engraving font is named Gorton and is well over 100 years old! It was originally made for camera lenses in the U.K. It’s everywhere around you, usually in places like these.”
Then there is that little issue of ‘tax avoidance’…they invariably pay proportionally less tax on their income that say a teacher, nurse or construction worker will pay. Why is that?
I don’l mind paying my taxes. I don’t want a tax cut.
I just want the richest to pay their fair share instead of paying advisors handsomely to discover tax loopholes for them.
Oven repairman has come, taken it apart, and advised that it'll cost half what a new one would cost to repair. He also advised that, with it being 15 years old, other parts are likely to break soon if we keep using it, and new parts aren't made any more. We've decided to not repair and just keep using it as-is for now - it still works well enough for most things.
Dishwasher repair is still in progress (waiting for the next replacement part to arrive...)
So much broken.
