Notices by emilygorcenski (emilygorcenski@indieweb.social)

The Time of Cowards

A poem of our times originally written as a Bluesky thread

https://emilygorcenski.com/post/the-time-of-cowards/

Hi Mastodon, I've launched a new project called Left✊ to Our Own Devices.

It's a blog and newsletter about preparedness and survival in times of fascism. Unlike "prepper" content that focuses on being the last man standing alone in the wilderness, this focuses on practical, modern tips like digital safety and community-focused resilience.

Please check it out and sign up!

https://lefttoourowndevices.blog/

Announcement:

This account is shifting to a largely automated relay. Don’t expect live posts or interactions, content here will be auto-harvested from my blog’s RSS feed, from my link sharing relay, or other automations.

I won’t see replies or DMs. Posts will auto-delete after a week.

Live posts can be found on Bluesky at @emily.gorcen.ski.

„Das BSW wird die AfD spalten!”

Das BSW:

Recall and Copilot+ is also coming to ASUS systems, including AMD, in a deal with Microsoft.

ASUS Announces Complete Portfolio of AI-Powered Copilot+ PCs https://www.asus.com/us/news/pnm9tg6qccql6ern/

Nvidia announced they are bringing Copilot+ and Recall to PCs, in a deal with Microsoft: https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/2/24169568/microsoft-copilot-plus-gaming-pc-nvidia-amd

What I find most interesting isn't the image itself, but that someone selling expert guidance on "prompt engineering" felt it was fine to use it in that context.

I gave Jira AI a try. So I typed this into AI to see what would happen. Was not disappointed. Well alright I was. Haven't found it give a useful or correct answer yet.

Vi havde konspirationsteoretikere med i vores rapport fra 2020 om køn og ekstremisme i Danmark, fordi vi observerede interaktion mellem de konspiracistiske miljøer, manosfæren og de forskellige højreradikale miljøer der havde ekstreme syn på køn, men også fordi mange antifeministiske forestillinger grundlæggende er konspiracistiske. Fra rapportens mapping, læs den hele her https://cybernauterne.dk/blog/under-indflydelse-rapport-ekstreme-digitale-faellesskaber/

English writer & humourist Jerome K. Jerome was born #OTD in 1859.

He is best known for his comic masterpiece, Three Men in a Boat, which continues to be celebrated for its vivid depiction of pre-World War I Britain and its light-hearted & humorous examination of the British temperament. Other works include the essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, Three Men on the Bummel.

Books by Jerome K. Jerome @ PG
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/173

#books #literature

Cool links thread. Possibly better than just pasting random links as posts all the time lol

LB: if you are a founder of an actually useful business that uses "AI" technology in some defensible way, you should be glad that everyone viscerally hates it so much in public. the sooner we can get out of this "AI" hype cycle, the sooner your investors will stop demanding that you slather "AI" branding all over everything, the sooner you can talk about what your product specifically does and what value it provides and stop blathering about "AI" vaguely.

Here's Alvin and the Chipmunks singing "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" ... except slowed down to 16 RPM:

https://soundcloud.com/alvin-thechipmunkson16sp/have-yourself-a-merry-little-christmas

Make sure to read all the listener annotations on the song's timeline 😅

Dass dieser Jesus auch noch zwei Tausend Jahre später für einen mehrtägigen Generalstreik sorgt 🙄

For those who just need a newsletter with no paid options, Mailerlite might be good. (Please gods *don’t* use Mailchimp though.) Personally I prefer SendFox and got an AppSumo deal on it, but you do you.

SCOTUS granted five other cases for review this morning as well. Here is the orders list: https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/121323zr_f204.pdf

Do you want to read almost 9,000 words on AI, manifest destiny, millenarian cults, evangelical christianity, the singularity, and how we have stopped trying to play God and now are trying to build God? Well here's your chance.

https://emilygorcenski.com/post/making-god/

Last week I was in a book club conversation about Going Infinite, Michael Lewis' new book about Sam Bankman-Fried, and so have already been just stewing over effective altruism for the last week.

For background at Law Dork:

1. My Q&A with Abha Khanna, one of the lawyers who argued the Alabama case successfully at SCOTUS: https://www.lawdork.com/p/law-dork-qa-with-abha-khanna

2. My report on the SCOTUS ruling this past June: https://www.lawdork.com/p/surprising-voting-rights-victory-at-scotus

Just today, I was on the Justice Department’s press release page. It gives you a keyword search, but returns the results in a random chronological order with no way to sort. Why??

I was trying to search for a course to prep for the SC-900 exam on Udemy through my work account. I got dozens of results for things that weren’t the SC-900 exam even when I used the exact title for the course copied from another tab I had open