@Spadge lol, yes. It's rare to see it advertised so openly :)

Lost in the bruhaha of AI and ChatGPT is the foundation of it all: it only tries to predict the next word of what it should say, over and over.

ChatGPT is an unreliable infant of a system masking itself as a "source of knowledge and truth". But just like The Wizard, it is a terrible liar if you're willing to look behind the curtain.

Read More at TimeMachiner: https://aaroncrocco.medium.com/chatgpt-is-an-infant-attempting-to-lie-to-adults-f11537c04ddb?sk=9e8404d33d8407db2882193fca6d0f2c

NEW COMMANDMENT:
Thou shalt not use your religion to take away other people’s rights.

Please store your kittens correctly or they get all crumpled. #toebeans

I love old science fiction. They have stories that begin "IT'S THE DISTANT YEAR 2003 AND HUMANS ARE EXPLORING THE DEEP CORNERS OF THE UNIVERSE" God bless vou old sci-fi.
You had such high hopes for us.
Galactic Hitchhikers

So Donald Trump shreds the rail safety rules that would have prevented the East Palestine disaster, then he goes to East Palestine and brings them Trump Water that might actually be at least 13 years old (the business went under in 2010)? Got it.

Twitter: "Hi, we're run by a cryptofascist who reinstates the accounts of literal nazis while suspending those of press. We'll keep randomly taking away features with no notice and limiting your visibility until you pay us a monthly fee, which you can only do in a handful of countries. Vaccines are bad, the election was rigged, and we love Putin!"

Mastodon: "Hi! You need to choose a server and our DM UX is a little iffy."

Users: "NEVER BEFORE HAVE I FACED A CHOICE THIS HARD"

Would you prefer a 4-day workweek?

Last year, 61 companies in UK tested a 4-day week with 20% fewer hours. Results:

65% fewer sick days taken & 57% drop in departures to competitors.

39% of employees had less #stress; 71% had less #burnout.

Revenues rose 1.4% on average.

“Many questioned whether we would see an increase in productivity to offset the reduction in working time – but this is exactly what we found,” a study team member said.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/979991

#jobs #workplace #health

Super stoked that I have a piece in the quarterly Andromeda Spaceways Magazine! If you've ever had a courier lose a package, then 'Negative Stars' will resonate with you. #writing #writingcommunity #writinglife #scifi #sciencefiction https://andromedaspaceways.com/product/asm-89/

If you wanted to spend just one minute talking to every person on the planet, it would take you more than 200 lifetimes to do so*.

So don’t waste even a minute on some cynical troll or sea lion.

Block and move on.

Life’s too short and there are countless people out there more worthy of your time.

💕

* 8,000,000,000 people * 1 minute / 60 minutes / 24 hours / 30 days / 12 months / 73.4 years average life expectancy in 2019 according to WHO data.

Meanwhile in #academia
#AcademicMastodon #university #AcademicChatter #IndianaJones

Privatization in Australia:

Canberra Airport, leased for 99 years by the Commonwealth to a property developer for $44m a couple of decades ago.

According to an AOPA FOI request: Between June 2020 and June 2022 the leaseholder billed the ADF $28 m per annum in rent for Fairbairn Air Force Base, and about $4m per annum in parking charges for the RAAF's aircraft.

So a property developer is billing the taxpayer tens of millions of dollars to rent an airport they own and already paid to develop.

The thing about delaying gratification is that it’s my entire personality type yet a lot of times I end up forgetting about the gratification part

Top 50 Worst dishes in the World.

Meet my new robotic housemate, Herbert. He's a bit of a neat freak. #robots #cleaning #Hoover

@timrichards @kate for sure. Its pretty hard to put a positive spin on spending acres of time, money and effort travelling in traffic/packed trains to work!

@kate @ScottSteensma really stretching credibility with that one

its awesome to watch the consent machine try like 900 different ways to make this argument on behalf of commercial real estate

ancient elm water pipes eroding out of the Thames foreshore in London. not sure how old these particular pipes are, but bored elm pipes have been used in London since as early as the 13th century. all the water companies that appeared between the 16th and 18th century used bored elm pipes for distributing water. some were in use into the 20th century

Research from Europe has shown large #solar farms can enhance the diversity and abundance of plants, grasses, #butterflies, #bees and #birds.

What’s more, vegetation between solar panel rows can also provide travel corridors, nesting sites and shelter for #wildlife. Management strategies are key to maximizing these benefits of solar farms.

https://theconversation.com/win-win-how-solar-farms-can-double-as-havens-for-our-wildlife-194920

#Biodiversity #WildlifeCorridors #Nesting #Frogs #Habitat #Shelter #Agriculture #LandUse #WildlifeHaven #SolarFarms