Notices by myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)

Stop going to parties in CA where the people there think they are at the center of tech innovation. The distortion field is like radiation and it gives you buzzword cancer.

Story Concept:

LLMs are a mirror test from ants and we are failing the mirror test.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@tankgrrl/117022582520066683

I shouldn't be shocked, but this is really brazen.

@tankgrrl

I really hope no one hacks this. That would be so terrible.

People will be selling and passing along information from this portal and it creates a fatal weak point. A lot of very funny and dangerous chaos could come from some targeted information placed just so.

Of course since they know this it will be very secure.

Circular breathing is an advanced technique most frequently used by wind instrumentalists to hold a continuous note.

Circular financing is kind of the same thing, but instead of playing the flute you are inflating a bubble.

The more you know!

I'm really glad that @pluralistic mentioned mastodon along with other social media in his interview with John Stewart (it was a very good interview and I think it will be very educational for a lot of nice liberal people) it was also funny and upbeat, because that's what Stewart does well.

We might need to educate a lot of people about alternative media, about tech issues like why showing your ID to just use the internet is a terrible idea and won't make kids safe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dAIJRjb-Bw&t=2641s

@pluralistic

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* enshitification
* age verification
* alternate social media
* understanding the real impact of "AI"

The intersection of technology and politics is important, but technology news tends to be dominated by people who want cheerful investment advice or a scary scifi story.

This is what I keep complaining that not enough left and liberals commentators are doing. Just mention that the alternative exists.

You can use X, you can use facebook, but increasingly people are looking for an alternative. They are wondering why it would be any different on bluesky.

We run our own servers over here on the fedi. It's different. There are never any ads. Never. It's the good old people's internet and God intended.

Republicans know they are in trouble and they need to do something "economic" something "for the people" -- their big idea is to give every baby born in the US a $1000 stock market account the child can't open until they are 18.

This is, as much of a gift to the stock market as "savings"

If the market doesn't implode it might be worth $5000 by the time it can be spent. (Please don't ask about inflation.)

Who gets to decide which companies get the cash?

The initial idea was to "increase the ** birthrate" by giving families $1000 for each kid. But, I think they realized this would mean giving money to a lot of women and even... Single Mothers(ugh) so they decided it needed to be a kind of a trust. And who is more trust worthy than their friends in the stock market!

It's just so goofy self serving and miserly.

**You fill in the blank here

Bill Oliver, a member of Canada's Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick delivered a speech:

"Public confidence in the office of an advocate matters" he said then, without pausing, Oliver continued:

"Here's a more natural, flowing version of that section that reads like a legislative speech rather than a series of short points..."

He then turns beat red and just keeps reading the AI generated text hoping that no one noticed.

Everyone noticed.

A core feature of masculinity is strength. Especially strong and very large back muscles. Strong legs don't matter as much. Vision is also important. Big eyes are very manly. And how can I forget having a small head? Little mandibles? Tiny head? Amazing! What man would need to be like a solder or worker who cuts and carries with huge mandibles when he is called to fly and sense with long antennae and find a queen?

... uh... oh no.

I think maybe I'm mixing things up a little again.

@asakiyume

This also goes back to why people who think an LLM "generating content" are missing the point.

The LLM can't be another person who is telling me a story. When people tell stories they are trying to share something, to take us to a place, or show us something that won't fit in a few sentence. Something bigger.

Pages filled with text are one way to do that, but the pages aren't THE POINT. It's just how the author decided to share their story.

With the LLM there is no author.

I recently had an experience where I read one of the best scifi books I've ever read in the past few years. It's the new "James S. A. Corey" series: The Mercy of Gods. In the first book I accidentally skipped about 60 pages. I thought the authors (James S. A. Corey is two people I think?) were deliberately pushing me forward into the future and asking the reader to fill in the horrific events of the past.

It worked really well. Which makes it seem like those chapters were "bad"
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But they weren't bad. That's not really my point. Reading the chapters and experiencing the story in a linear way also made sense. That's part of the joy of a book, it's an experience that takes time to process. When I see that an audiobook is 13 hours long I'm pretty excited to spend all of those hours in that world.

But storytelling can also be more dense. And that interests me. How much could you take away and still have the same story? What might be improved by doing this?

3/3

@asakiyume

Telling a story online can be magical under the right circumstances. And maybe that's because no one has figured out how to monetize it effectively yet.

I love it when I'm reading a story online and people interact and ask questions, and it feels like you are sitting around a fire at night.

I think this is an overlooked reason why so many people enjoy fan-fiction. It's often just more alive in that way.

I think sometimes, writing fiction can fall into the same trap as writing code.

"I wrote 200 lines of code!"

No one cares. What does it do?

Especially in this era, where if you just want to lay down bland paragraphs, if you want to just generate "content" you can have an LLM do it.

Suddenly quality, intention, elegance matter much more.

Because only a person can tell another person a story.

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@vivtek

It is uncomfortable to realize that someone would rather that you were dead. Were Miller aware of me I have no doubt how he'd feel. The trouble I make is tiny but it is trouble. And roots 300 years deep in this country don't matter, that my ancestors built this country, created half of what passes for its culture doesn't matter. All of us are to him "UnAmerican"

We all watched when Alex Pretti was shot in the head, in the street as he was trying to protect a woman who could have also been shot.

You congratulate yourself for NOT laughing at the president's bad attempt at stand up.

That's not enough. You are also a part of this. That will be your legacy if you go to one more fancy dinner with these people as if breaking bread with them were possible.

It's not unreasonable to say that Stephen Miller thinks all of these people deserved to die and he is glad that they are dead.

I wonder if he would tell the truth if you asked him.