Notices by Athena (athena@chaosfem.tw)

I’ll believe the “AI hacks” are more than marketing when someone catches charges under the CFAA for one and it keeps happening

RE: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117226938743085364

The PR: we use LLMs for code review ONLY. Look at our process.

Okay. Let’s take a look at the process.

The Agents.md:

Never add a commit co-author unless the user explicitly asks.

Human Emacs, an initiative to keep emacs free of LLM code, via a fork if necessary, is looking for more folks to sign on in support. If you use emacs and have strong feelings about language models, I encourage you to check it out at https://human-emacs.org/

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/116829364259230813

Having been on the hiring side in every job I’ve had in my software career,

this is absolutely accurate and you should basically ignore “requirements” sections in job listings. the actual listing itself is mostly noise; the same sort of corpo-brained information-free content as investor presentations, performance reviews, banner ads, and ceo keynotes. factuality and indeed any connection to reality are regularly jettisoned in favor of giving off the sort of vibes the creator wants you to take away.

@evan or you could try like

not making accounts for hashtags in posts from accounts that haven’t opted in to that behavior

you’ve made it clear you don’t think getting that kind of consent is compatible with the growth you want to see tho, so the consent gets trashed to enable the growth. that reprehensible behavior is what I’m on the fediverse to get away from.

@evan this is absolutely hilarious considering the absolute mockery of consent you made with your godawful bot instance.

@evan why do we have to go to extra effort to block your shitty bot you never got permission to run on our posts? take this shit offline and rethink it from scratch.

tell me you’re a coward without telling me

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https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-forge/pull/1040

So someone threw a Molotov at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s house, followed a day or two later by someone doing a drive-by there. Now his house is listed as a barbecue restaurant open 24 hours.

@rnd last I looked a year or two ago the top-end Common Lisp implementation (SBCL) was roughly competitive with Java and Go in benchmark games. Racket was somewhere like halfway between that and Python, IIRC.

@cwebber

Hello Fedi, I am looking for a B&W PRINTABLE ZINE explaining HOW TRANS HEALTH CARE ACTUALLY WORKS aimed primarily at INFORMING CIS PEOPLE. I am okay paying for it as long as I can print it and give it away in bulk.

I dunno who needs to hear this today, but: “don’t look away” is metaphorical. It means don’t pretend it’s not happening. You’re allowed to not watch the videos.

No, will not shut up about “AI” being a meaningless term, and I am once again begging you to say language models or diffusion models

how does anyone have the energy to give one single fuck about this shit

Trans activists honestly need to start demanding stuff that’s not in the Overton window. Give me those ideas that should be reality but feel unhinged to even suggest:

HRT over the counter and free
Puberty blockers free at every school nurse
All transition surgeries and hair removal free
Prosecute “conversion therapy” torturers
Strip nonprofit status from any org which refuses to allow trans people to use the correct facilities

Hit me with your best shot

apparently there is a meme going around that “somebody needs to do it” and really I do not agree

if you are considering doing it, please instead: not

good to print off a few copies in case your ISP has an outage and you need to send some packets in an emergency

You may hear discussions about trans kids in schools and the ways teachers are required to treat them. When thinking about and discussing this, please understand:

The presence of 1 (one) accepting adult in a trans kid’s life - literally any adult, not just family - reduces their risk of suicide attempts by roughly 40%.

You know how it feels when you walk through a spiderweb and you catch it right in the face? You get the immediate, visceral disgust reaction and try to GET IT OFF as quick as possible.

But like, nobody can really see it. You can’t see it well, so you kind of flail around trying to catch enough of it to get it off of you, and everyone just sees you flailing around is like “what’s up with them??” cause they can’t see it either.

And then even after you get off (which is such a relief!!) it still sometimes feels like there’s some caught in your hair (even if there isn’t) or something crawling on you (even if there isn’t), which makes you mess around even more trying to get rid of it.

Anyway, gender dysphoria is like having a spiderweb on your face your entire life and transition is flailing around trying to get it off.

Thanks to my transmasc friend Ty who has no public online presence for this analogy.

Gov’t tries to drive as many trans kids as possible to suicide: i sleep

Gov’t kidnaps people from their homes and sends them to concentration camps: i sleep

Govt disregards every restriction and regulation about the treatment of people’s data: i sleep

Gov’t accidentally texts war plans to a reporter: REAL SHIT