Notices by Bill, organizer of stuff (wcbdata@vis.social)

@selzero The Maker. Can add squares to the board in any direction by moving to the non-existent space. Moves two existing spaces in any one direction per turn, or one space per turn if creating new squares.

@carnage4life Interesting statement, but meaningless. LLMs fundamentally cannot work that way. To "know the truth," you need a deterministic, rules-based system - very different from (and wildly more complex and expensive than) an LLM. There was an excellent mathematical proof of this a few years ago, but I can't be bothered to go find it at this hour. To oversimplify a bit, it's like saying that to make fire safe we need it to stop when it's burning something.

@dalias I say we go back to gasoline headlights. Add more moral hazard to head-on collisions!

@cwebber @aeva CRT monitor of Damocles.

Our recycling dumpster repair guy stopped by, and he's got a workshop BUILT INTO A DUMPSTER on the back of a dumpster hauler truck!

@wendynather @kims O gawd yes.

@futurebird @cbarbermd

1987

https://www.timesheraldonline.com/2012/05/27/golden-gate-bridges-75th-anniversary-comes-with-legacy-of-dreams-hope-despair/

@fm2279 @CartyBoston @evan In this case, it means we read Montesquieu pretty literally. 😉

@evan what, no "never?"

I just crushed several carpenter ants in the kitchen (it's the time of year when they come exploring), and they leaked concentrated bright blue ink/dye! It cleaned up like food coloring does. I've never seen anything like it. Are they eating something blue? Has anyone seen this with #ants before?

@DebErupts EdX courses here:
https://pll.harvard.edu/subject/social-sciences

@annika @skykiss Is it? I was having a hard time figuring that out...

@skykiss Original-ish image without the watermark that obscured the artist's signature

https://www.reddit.com/r/NYStateOfMind/comments/1kf9ne9/the_richest_1_captured_approximately_63_of_all/?rdt=46239

@Taweret @apLundell Just remember: it's doing the same thing when you ask it a medical question.

@munin @ra6bit malicious compliance is incredibly effective

@jasonkoebler This and the Google product manager for the Pixel image manipulation tools saying you have to "clean up" your photos (remove people, erase incidental objects, change lighting) so that the image records the "true memory" of the moment (meaning, of course, the false memory of it).

(Source: On Point interview today)

@Mer__edith It's like saying photocopiers in libraries are threats to national security. 🙄

@pluralistic horror, though?

@rwklose @TheGuardian Plz don't use link shorteners on Masto. The tracking is a bit invasive, and Masto shortens links internally already.

Three Sisters plantings in the ground and rain on the way this AM. Good timing! Think we'll make it to "knee high by the fourth of July?"

#gardening