Notices by Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io), page 9

@billgoats What about .loser or .anguish

This is what Weizenbaum wrote about the dawn of the computer age, that it was used as an excuse to not even try to make society better. The same thing is happening with “AI” now.

We know what would make society better.

One example is UBI (which Weizenbaum mentions in the same book in passing as “negative income tax”).

But I course we don’t have universal healthcare or UBI; instead trillions of dollars are invested into software that tells us to bomb schools; for the sole reason to say it was the computers’ fault, not ours.

This book* was written 50 years ago.

*Computer Power and Human Reason

#AI #society

Timeline cleanser, some photons I caught on my driveway.

This is Cederblad 214, part of the "Question Mark" nebula in Cepheus (I can't fit the whole question mark on my field of view with my telescope!).

#astrophotography

Star Wars began principal filming 50 years ago today

@europlus @billgoats that's what they want you to think

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116274710441692621

(There things with "science" in the name that are actual sciences, e.g. planetary science.)

@bonzoesc @cabel if they wanted to make it user-friendly they should always show the idk last three used cards so you can quickly pick the one you want in the dialog ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@cabel so you don’t switch away from the Apple Card, just add a little sand into the UI to make it a tiny bit harder, at scale this this makes a difference

this is the same company who shipped this friendly reminder

Computer science: not a science
Race science: not a science
Scientific method: not a science
Science Fiction: not a science
Scientology: not a science

Each for different reasons

@cabel it’s an intentional dark pattern

@nucholab such a good movie I need to watch Tucker again

Basically these rakes use heavy-gauge metal spiral-wound wire to grab on to pet hair, it's kind of magical to see your rug change color lol.

Get one with a long handle so you don't need to bend over.

Note: can't use them on some types of of rugs, like wool or silk; so read the instructions/warnings!

@joshsusser however much it is, it's a lot 😅

If you have a pet and a carpet or rugs you should have a metal carpet rake for pet hair.

I just removed what seems to be an entire dog from our living room rug.

@dosnostalgic the Pentium ad really makes this complete

Looking forward to viral videos of agents pepper spraying crying children at airport security

@caseyjlaw yay 💩

We had the first over 100°F (38°C) here almost TWO MONTHS before it normally happens, while it was still WINTER. Topping out at 108°F (42°C).

Wonder when they’ll shift from “there’s no climate change” to “climate change is caused by the woke”.

@Migueldeicaza donkey slander

@Migueldeicaza @steve “to bray” in English