Notices by A.L. Blacklyn (shadowsminder@mas.to)

@TonyStark

When my parents were little, they were rarely allowed outside for school recess because of the smog.

Decades of environmental advocacy improved the air. When I was little, the air in that same area was frequently smoggy yet better.

On my last visit there, the air was so clear when it wasn't raining that I could view surrounding hills and wind farms.

I don't want everyone living in that area to again be smothered by pollutants every day. For some reason, the GOP does.

Scary.

@goatsarah I had to explain the meaning of the holiday to a child once. We needed recoup time afterward.

The experience changed how both of look at the Bible.

@semitones @thomasfuchs

I'm not familiar enough with Reddit to understand why an automated summary of an article is needed. Whether it's appreciated or not, that sounds by the description like a bad use, with a high risk of contextual collapse that goes uncorrected in discussion.

As for auto-generated captions, I agree those are better than nothing. I'm not sure, though, that the pre-ChatGPT speech-to-text generators are the same type of automation as "AI". That tech has existed for decades.

@thomasfuchs the quote is one of the many arguments for prompt-to-text generators that doesn't make sense to me. How does the prompter know it's a good summary if they don't know how to make summaries?

Summarizing a story is also one of the most efficient ways for a writer to understand what they wrote. The actual summary doesn't do that as much as the process of condensing passages does. They're missing that process. That brings me back to thinking they don't know if the result is any good.