Notices by Asta [AMP] (aud@fire.asta.lgbt)

@dpk@chaos.social @ireneista@adhd.irenes.space "we can't take... a jug of collected blood. That's dangerous and might taint our entire operation. Plus our lawyers say it opens us up to legal liabilities."

"okay, WOW. WOW. Here I am with more blood than I could donate in a single week and you're rejecting it? People NEED blood. This fills a need! And you're taking the word of your lawyers over ME? I didn't have to be honest, you know. I could have just stuffed my body full of this blood and then had you extract it back out of me."

"..."

@dpk@chaos.social @ireneista@adhd.irenes.space "hi, I hear you're doing a blood drive? I'd like to donate some blood."

"Great! That's awesome. Take a seat!"

"Oh, no, I'm just dropping off."

"Dropping off?"

"Yeah! Here!" hands over a jug of blood "no need to take it from me, I collected it on my own!"

"... you... collected it?"

"Yeah, from a bunch of people! It's all ready to go! Don't worry, I've verified that it's good."

"..."

@ireneista@adhd.irenes.space @dpk@chaos.social "I'd like to donate these stolen cans of food to your food bank. I know you're doing a drive right now and I can't wait to brag about how much I donated!"

"Sorry, did you say they were stolen?"

"Yeah! I stole them from a lot of places. Look how much I have, and how useful that will be!"

"... we can't accept stolen food. Our lawyers won't allow it and we'll lose all sorts of legal protections."

"wow, okay, wow. first of all, I'm not a lawyer? But I can't believe you're just taking the word of your lawyers. Second of all, you're rejecting me because I was HONEST about stealing the food? I could have just not said they were stolen!!"

@ireneista@adhd.irenes.space @dpk@chaos.social that blog post was... painful to read, as well

(very, very glad it was rejected)

@mcc@mastodon.social @cwebber@social.coop the Red Delicious of Apple computers, if you will?

"we are releasing a phone where all you can do is receive calls" ah, but you see, talking on the phone is the thing I like the least about my pocket supercomputer

sick of signing leases, paying rent, and not having control over my own living space and no way out of it because of abusive ex partners and just life in general

terrible fucking system and it makes me angry. Credit reports are such a fucking scam. Oh, sorry, you were in different circumstances less than a decade ago? Guess you better not hope to stop paying rent anytime soon.

as I just saw an ad for "epic USA patriotic t-shirt" pop up, it occurs to me that no wonder tech companies are going so hard on LLMs, software that literally doesn't work: because all the ad surveillance they made bank on also doesn't fucking work.

how in the fuck do you track me and think "yeah, I'll sell her a patriotic shirt and use the word 'EPIC' like she's on fucking reddit"

christ

I find whenever I'm in a musical rut, all I have to do is start listening to music from another region/culture/language/country and bam, tons of new fucking bangers and earworms.

@lapis@elekk.xyz @cam@efdn.club

me: "why do I feel like I'm going to get Misato"

the result: "You are the most like Misato Katsuragi (90%)."

fuuuuuuuuu

I'm not really into linking or reading ars, so this is just me taking aim at the post here and its use of the term "AI search industry". Does that exist? Yeah. SHOULD IT? NO. FUCK NO.

The use of the term "industry" is wild because "AI search", in regards to generative "AI" models, is literally not search; it's an oxymoron. But because of Capital, it can become an industry.

Tulips weren't fucking fake, at least.

RE: https://mastodon.social/users/arstechnica/statuses/116726961728397799

I can't remember whether it was Dr. Timnit Gebru and Dr. Emily Bender who wrote the specific paper on why a language model IS NOT a search engine or whether it was one of them in combination with another author, but... well, it was known, a long time ago, that an LLM is not a replacement for a search engine.

"AI search industry" break google up

@jonny@neuromatch.social it should have been one of the most obvious and salient points, and yet people still argued that he was "doing active harm" (despite zero evidence of any actual code deletions even happening) and "breaking trust" and... the whole thing makes me want to scream with rage. Those "points" were so ridiculous (they boiled down to, basically, the notion of direct action or speaking up should be ILLEGAL) I just... how do you even respond to that?

@xgranade@wandering.shop @SnoopJ@hachyderm.io

it would be really cool if home ownership was a thing that was possible

because I would install solar panels so fucking fast

aaaanyway I ordered some tea and that shit is locked up tight at customs, apparently

what do they even think tea is

My firing of the “AI ethics team” is raising a lot of questions already answered by my firing of the “AI ethics team”

@lzg@mastodon.social voiceover : is this... you?

panicking leftist dropping books: "Ahhh! Someone is asking me questions about Foucalt but I haven't done the reading and they might not think I'm a real leftist! If only there was an on-the-go solution to this problem!"

voiceover: Well, worry no more! Now, with the private/not-private local LM from the one of the guys who was involved with Occupy Wall Street, you'll never panic at this situation again!

panicking leftist: "What do I do, Leftist Language Model?!"

leftist language model: "Foucalt once said, 'To know a fascist is to become a fascist; therefore, one must never attribute that to a prominent thinker which is due unto others, lest the abyss gaze back.'"

no longer panicking leftist: "Thanks, Leftist Language Model! The guy just backed away from me slowly. Problem solved!"

former google CEO, serving children a literal shit sandwich he made for them "I just don't get why you fucking serfs are so ungrateful"

commencement speaker "I'm so honored to be here, at the apex of you all spending 4 years and tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of dollars and delaying your dreams for a chance to get into the job market! I'm proud to announce that soon, there will be no job market, because AI is going to take all of it! But don't worry, the only jobs we'll let you have will be boring, mindless, depressing work that will only serve to further my power over you. It's alright, though: we've also made sure there's no social safety net. Medicare, social security? Those are gone, don't worry! You'll be drowning in debt, unable to get medical care, and you won't even be able to google your symptoms anymore because we've flooded the internet with lies! Why are you all booing me?! It's fine, you won't have water to drink and you won't be able to afford the electricity needed to turn the AC on in your overpriced, turn of the century house that was built to withstand intense winters that won't ever happen again! STOP WITH THE BOOING, LET ME FINISH! We'll harvest your bones to make our bread, and that's the most amazing thing since the industrial revolution kickstarted this slide into complete shit, and you should feel grateful that you're now educated to know just how bollocks it all really is! What is your problem?! I'm a GUEST, let me FINISH SPEAKING..."