Notices by Ooze 𓁟 (ooze@aus.social)

"Each man thought: one of the others is bound to say something soon, some protest and then I will murmur agreement, not actually say anything. I am not as stupid as that, but definitely murmur very firmly, so that the others will be in no doubt that I thoroughly disapprove, because at a time like this it behooves all decent men to nearly stand up and be almost heard. But no one said anything. The cowards, each man thought."

Terry Pratchett - Guards, Guards.

@Viss @nixCraft Good.

@riskybusiness You do cybersecurity but you are using Adobe products?

@cnx 🫂

@juergen_hubert When I did my PhD they expected us to do marking for free.

@azonenberg And it could have a life force meter that slowly drops until by the time you have a PhD you have no will to live.

@bhalpin It is almost as if you train people to kill and send them off to actually kill people then when they come home they still kill people.

@aral This is the kind of sweeping statement that only serves to reveal your ignorance of religion as a phenomena.

@TheSauce @razhael @pluralistic WP should be that but it hasn't been for ages. Especially so since they allowed paid editors.

@krig 100% Fear.

@SeaFury Using AI to write is 100% plagiarism. It is also dumb because it is paying for something to do the job that academics are trained to do but which is worse at it than they are. And it's a great way to male the next generation of academics worse.

@CStamp @MisuseCase @mekkaokereke @tob @wendinoakland The concept of a preacher is limited to a very small set of religions so you are mistaken.

@bedast Just another reason why using Discord for your instances' moderation is a big mistake.

@bedast Some mastodon instances use discord to run their moderation process. There is a bot on the server that sends a message to a discord channel to alert the mods to view reports.This is a bad choice for a number of reasons.

Why did I spend five hours on my tractor today so that I now ache like a motherfucker? Because it is awesome fun and way better than spraying poison on weeds! I will regret this tomorrow. Pray for me.

https://www.choice.com.au/consumers-and-data/data-collection-and-use/who-has-your-data/articles/connected-cars-tracking-your-data Excellent work from Choice yet again.

#privacy #enshittification

@HistoPol @resilienceSci "One of the most common patterns that has jumped out is how extreme inequality shows up in nearly every case of major crisis. When big gaps exist between the haves and have-nots, not just in material wealth but also access to positions of power, this breeds frustration, dissent and turmoil."

@tokyo_0 Deleting your account will stop it entirely.

@tayledras @johncarlosbaez What you call balkanised I call diversified. Calling Mastodon a mess when Twitter is as it is is completely unjustified.

So Academia.edu is using an AI to alledgedly summarise academic works. I was able to see part of the summary for my PhD thesis in the source of the page where they were trying to get me to pay them for this nightmare. I cannot speak more clearly than this about the trash that their abomination had output. THAT IS NOT WHAT I SAID AT ALL!!!!!

Today I contacted them to ask them to remove this feature or to make it opt in only. If they are unwilling to do either I shall be morally obliged to remove all my work uploaded there.

#AcademicChatter #AI #LLM