Notices by Mike McCaffrey (mikemccaffrey@wandering.shop)

@skinnylatte Might they also be bigoted against immigrants?

For fuck sakes, #Democrats. If nominees say the 2020 election could have been compromised due to #ElectionFraud, ASK THEM IF THE 2024 ELECTION WAS COMPRIMISED DUE TO ELECTION FRAUD.

@AeonCypher On an entirely unrelated note, it has been fascinating seeing how Ukraine is using drones with graphite bombs to short circuit transformers.

https://en.defence-ua.com/weapon_and_tech/russian_forces_claim_ukraine_is_using_drones_with_graphite_bombs_what_these_weapons_are_why_they_matter-18082.html

RE: https://mas.to/@kakape/116054339177325824

Amazing seeing scientists find the most unlikely side effects of #vaccines and then refuse to stop exploring them until they find out the cause. Really highlights the gulf between public perception of vaccine safety and the actual analysis and testing being done.

"Your universe will be undergoing scheduled maintenance beginning at 13,800,000,000 ABB. We expect the service to be available again at 14,200,000,000 ABB. During this time, space will be unavailable for existing. Please plan accordingly."

#Microfiction #SciFi

@skinnylatte You might want to consider getting a heating pad which has less of a chance of lighting her fur on fire.

I love how a woman had to give birth alone in a #Waymo and the media somehow spins it as happy news about our #dystopian society.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/san-francisco-woman-birth-waymo-driving-taxi-128287190

#AutonomousVehicles #Robotaxis

I like seeing how @pluralistic is refining his anti #AI arguments over time. In this interview, I love the idea of reframing "hallucinations" as "defects", the analogy that trying to get #AGI out of #LLMs is like breeding faster horses and expecting one to give birth to a locomotive, and ridiculing the premise that "if you teach enough words to the word-guessing machine it will become God."

https://youtu.be/9LgLg0zlbJQ

#AIBubble

@cstross I love how even the stories of massive fraud in the #AI market can't help but push the same stupid machine learning hype that created the #AIBubble in the first place, as if 18 hours isn't enough time for human experts to find fishy numbers in a company report that everyone knows must contain fishy numbers.

https://substack.com/inbox/post/179453867

How positively #retrofuturist it is to create a gas-powered AI. And dumb. Extraordinarily dumb.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91334846/meta-is-building-a-new-data-center-in-louisiana-and-this-senate-committee-wants-to-know-why-its-being-powered-by-gas-exclusive

#AIBubble #AIBS #Meta

Horrific to have a family member missing for a month, only to discover that he's been sent to a Salvadoran death camp.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/venezuelan-brother-deported-el-salvador-family-looking-rcna202279

#CECOT

@JeffC1956 @aral I would also like less nanoplastics in my brain please!

Goddamnit, now #ElonMusk is making me support #NeilDeGrasseTyson's side of an argument.

https://www.thewrap.com/elon-musk-neil-degrasse-tyson-mars-colonization/

It seems that absolutely no one has seen #RaisedByWolves (which I guess explains why the cancelled it).

https://screenrant.com/travis-fimmel-dune-prophecy-vikings-show-ragnar-lothbrok-replacement/

@notclacke I totally didn't notice that pun until Brother Love explicitly said that they want to fill more graves.

I'm sorry, but you can't say #Sliders aged poorly just because there have been a couple of really good #multiverse stories since, especially since none of them have been episodic shows that take time to explore the implications of each alternate reality.

https://collider.com/sci-fi-shows-aged-poorly

I will admit that the first two seasons of Sliders are really the charming ones, before the pivot to try to make the show more dramatic for a general audience.

I must say that if I could wish to get a modern reboot of a classic show, this would be at the top of the list.

@az It wasn't terrible, but they moved production from Vancouver to LA and everything got a lot more cliche. Over half the episodes featured the same reality-jumping baddies and a bunch of scenes in those Star Trek desert bluffs.

This is one of the biggest reasons that I am so anti-AI, at least in its current incarnation. All of its promises to make work/life a little easier for people come at the expense of literally burning the world, and we were already doing far too much of that before these tools were released.

https://www.brusselstimes.com/world-all-news/1042696/chatgpt-consumes-25-times-more-energy-than-google

#AI #ChatGPT #GlobalWarming

So far #Fallout is a bit on the gruesome side (to the point where it gave me weird dreams about drug-dealing zombies last night), but they certainly created a rich and vivid world and I simply can never get enough #WaltonGoggins. Nice that they found a way to have so many scenes of him without all the makeup and CGI nose removal.