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man life sure hits hard. it feels like i havent started life yet and yet i can barely catch up to it

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phrase left reverberating in my head upon waking: you can't lose anything in a dream but you might find something

@vilmibm what a queen

ill leave whether you or the server being a queen to be intentionally vague/ambiguous and not actually make much sense, leaving even more room for interpretation okay this explanation has went on too long

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As someone who works in higher-ed and also has taught middle school and high school aged kids, my opinion is not that LLM use is exploding among students because they're lazy or stupid or anything else

it's because our educational system has prioritized a very transactional "do this bullshit, and you get the credentials you need to have a life" approach for

well

maybe forever, really

and no one should be surprised that adversarial approaches by teachers and administrators are being met with an adversarial approach by students

@archenoth hahahha thats extra hilarious. to be honest, ive only heard southern ontario people talk like that lol.

lol i feel like when i see a funny video of an "alberta accent", it should just be renamed to "rural canadian accent" cause 100% thats how everyone talks in my (small -- around 2000 people) hometown and all the small towns adjacent to it and im certainly not living in alberta

maybe even "bushwacker accent" or "bushwaccent" lol

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like last year, we're not doing a pride logo. If you have to change your logo in June, you're not being gay enough throughout the year

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@alilly @m455 i couldn't come up with a funny wrong answer and instead fell down a tyrannical wikipedia hole where i learned that they're called saltines for the baking salt (i.e. baking powder) that gives the dough its bubbles, not for the salt sprinkled on them, which probably has something to do with the fact that all the low sodium versions call themselves "unsalted tops" saltines lest you think there's no salt within or on the bottom i guess

an assortment of brands of the unsalted variety of their soda crackers all of which are very careful to state "unsalted *tops*"

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@WEATHERISHAPPENING fuck where we all gathering i got my mug

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NIGHT COFFEE

dont talk to me until you have fed me 48 premium plus saltine crackers

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You may ask, why are you still doing fundraisers?

Because we don’t do this with Venture Capital. We have gotten this far…Punk AF, one T-shirt as a time.

We don’t accept enshittified dollars. Yes, there have been offers.

We do this grassroots and how we see as righteous. No sellout.

The revolution will not be monetized.

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Getting our people out to talk and spread the word and community of Veilid costs money.

We want to keep doing this work, and want to spread the word of a a safer more privacy centric network experience.

But we need your help.

Veilid exists, and new tools keep coming online, but getting the word out is critical.

Here is our fundraiser. Every dollar made will go directly to Veilid Foundation.

Help us continue to get the word out globally.

https://www.customink.com/fundraising/veilid-aint-came-to-lose

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A common argument I come across when talking about ethics in AI is that it's just a tool, and like any tool it can be used for good or for evil. One familiar declaration is this one: "It's really no different from a hammer". I was compelled to make a poster to address these claims. Steal it, share it, print it and use it where you see fit.

https://axbom.com/hammer-ai/

#AiEthics #DigitalEthics

Poster: If a hammer was like AI.

Illustration of a hammer (a line drawing) and the quote "It's just a tool". Various topics surround the hammer and have lines drawn to the hammer, as if explaining what it is made of.

Obscured data theft.
It copies the design of most constructions in the western, industrialised world without consent and strives to mimic the most average one of those.

Bias & injustice.
By design, the hammer will most often just hit the thumb of Black, Brown and underserved people.

Carbon cost.
The energy use is about 100 times greater than achieving a similar result with other tools.

Monoculture and power concentration.
The hammer is made by a small, western and wealthy subset of humanity – creating costly barriers to entry.

Invisible decision-making.
Computations will “estimate” your aim, tend to miss the nail and push for a different design. Often unnoticeably.

Accountability projection.
If the hammer breaks and hurts someone, the manufacturer will claim the hammer has “a mind of its own” and they can’t help you.

Jerry-building (Misinformation).
Optimised for building elaborate structures that don’t hold up to scrutiny.

Data/privacy breaches.
May reveal blueprints from other people using a hammer from the same manufacturer, or other personal data that happened to be part of its development.

Moderator trauma.
Low-wage moderators work around the clock watching filth and violence to ensure the hammer can’t be used to build brothels or tort

PUP - DVP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVuB1ZASrGw

@tildetown @insom @vilmibm you guys kick fuckin ass

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ok i heard a whispered "oh thank god" from @insom we're good

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OKAY we are nearing the finish line.

just gotta do a remote reboot to pick up a new driver for the NIC and also make sure it reboots ok

if not we're driving to the data center

|>R4Y 4 70\/\/|\|

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