Notices by pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se), page 13

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@dahukanna @adapalmer used these conventions to great effect in her Terra Ignota series to indicate which language a quoted character is currently speaking.

I thought a bit about what Google's "25% of our code is AI generated" actually tells us: I am afraid not much.

https://tante.cc/2024/11/01/what-do-25-mean/

@anarchiv @mrundkvist I mean, I agree there's probably going to be a lot of fucking, though I don't think that the goodness or badness of norwegian men really comes into it. Rather that 'meeting for a short period of time and then probably never again' is a good recipe for people to loosen some social inhibitions.

@anarchiv @mrundkvist And you think not only american men, but specifically Navy men are significantly better?

Star Wars lore is so goofy. Like, Tatooine is supposed to have a _planetary population_ of roughly 200 000 (do the Jawas count? Do the Sand people?), and meanwhile the stands at the pod race arena holds _over 100 000_. Like. Come on.

@eris I can watch videos in a private window after rejecting cookies at least? Could be an EU thing though?

Sudan: Following the UN's passing of a resolution last year to investigate atrocities in Sudan's ongoing civil war, the UN's fact finding mission published a lengthy 80 page report on Wednesday.

Both the Sudanese Army & the Rapid Support Force paramilitary are accused of war crimes.

The UAE backed RSF are accused of the majority of the weaponized sexual violence, and targeted killings of non Arab ethnic groups, a pattern HRW has already described as potentially genocidal.

Årets första snö i #Umeå

Folks who want to ask advice from ChatGPT should instead consult the I Ching.

@parismarx Quick reaction to your first paragraph: The story of "Weizenbaums secretary" should maybe be taken with a grain of salt, or at least his interpretation of it. People have tried to track down the actual person to ask some actual questions as to why she wanted some alone time with the chatbot, and unfortunately come up empty, see: https://theconversation.com/my-search-for-the-mysterious-missing-secretary-who-shaped-chatbot-history-225602

@brad262run @straphanger Good!

@fof > Det är ju såklart en gåta varför folk inte bryr sig mer, och varför samhället inte har tagit den typen av initiativ.

Det är inte mycket av en gåta alls, faktiskt: Precis som all annan infrstruktur så påstods det från marknadsliberalt och nyliberalt håll att "marknaden kommer lösa det", och snart sagt hela media i väst drev den linjen stenhårt.

@fof "kan bli"?

"in the first quarter of 2023, when researchers used satellite imagery to count all of the solar installations in the country, they estimated that solar was producing a combined 5,700 megawatts of energy—only 55 percent of which had been declared to the government."

Illicit solarpunk is the new illicit swimming pool.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/10/solar-power-energy-revolution-global-south/680351/

(the swimming pool story: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/08/france-reveals-hidden-swimming-pools-with-ai-taxes-them/ )

#listening to some hard fucking scrap metal out of france: https://killjester.fr/ #nowplaying

@tripleman Right!

one argument i hear in favor of ai generated text is »i’m not a writer, this will make it sound better/professional« and i get it. there is a reason i’m not sharing sketches i draw on the internet. they look like shit. but honestly: i’d much, much, much rather read something »imperfect« but that sounds like a human with an actual personality and emotions wrote it than the wall of beige that falls out of chat gpt. my shitty drawings are more interesting than midjourney images. embrace humanity.

There's really nothing like having thought you'd already done all the complex and horrible work of advocating for yourself and your health needs and then having people just straight up forget or fail to document it and having to do it all over again.

Feels like being put on trial about some of the worst experiences you've ever had to go through.

@cstross EU/UK seems like the most obvious explanation?