@newscientist um... how about not training on data randomly extracted from a known-toxic media?

Then again, if the data is to be vetted, who gets to do the vetting? Clergy? Lawyers? Politicians? Academics? Mom?

Better idea: instead of building sociopathic superstition machines, let's build reasoning that recognizes probable consequences of utterances before uttering?

Mind you, the Age of Enlightenment didn't have a great track record at this either...

#ai #ethics #gatekeepers

Something I wrote 8 years ago (updated today to add a description) about the several reasons why March 14 is not a good choice for #PiDay.
http://wok.oblomov.eu/mathesis/pi-day/
See you on July 22.

Pi Day is a fake holiday that exploits a universally beloved mathematical constant to promote US-style date formats.

Meta just laid off 10,000 people.

This follows 11,000 job cuts back in November—now totalling 21,000 people within a year.

Additionally, 5,000 jobs will now go unfilled.

While I heavily dislike Meta and everything it stands for, it gives me no pleasure when people lose their livelihoods.

While Twitter's difficulties gets more press, Meta's disarray is worth paying attention to—especially since they hope to eventually join the Fediverse.

https://apnews.com/article/meta-facebook-job-cuts-f193ca0e67078c04a8433f6c74a83187

@fediversenews

📬 Special Delivery!

On Sept. 24, 2023, the #OSIRISREx spacecraft will deliver a capsule of precious asteroid material to Earth and @USPS just announced there will be a stamp to mark the occasion! http://nasa.gov/osirisrex
#ToBennuAndBack
#NASASolarSystem

#sundaysermon #lifehack

@debs @pluralistic @bencaudron If I've said it a thousand times, it is now 1001: #ScaleIsTheProblem

We all use DNA, even tardigrades, yet the world's largest organism is still only 600 hectares.

"We seek to hold the sky, but we cannot."

@bethsawin Bucky Fuller feared that, rather than clean up our environment, we would instead engineer ourselves to be more tolerant of the pollutions. Is this why we now have "Health Food / Super Food / Power Bowl" shops with free parking?

As Amy Goodman reminds us, when Martin Luther King gave his famous sermon "Beyond Vietnam" at Riverside church in New York in April 1967, calling for the US to stop the war in Vietnam and undergo a "revolution" of values, he was denounced by Life magazine as a demagogue and the Washington Post as undermining his civil rights cause.

But Dr. King turned out to be right about the war, and the media turned out to be wrong.

#MartinLutherKing #media #journalists

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https://www.democracynow.org/2023/1/16/mlk_day_special_dr_martin_luther

@rpmr Perfected to a useful speech jamming appliance by Kazutaka Kurihara (winning an #Ignobel in 2012) 😊

By popular demand, they released a free app that lets you experience the speech-inhibiting effect using your own computer.

https://sites.google.com/site/qurihara/top-english/speechjammer

posting an UBU link just to see how it shows up on here - and also to share awesome art of course. Nancy Holt & Richard Serra - Boomerang:

...'is a tape which analyzes its own discourse and processes as it is being formulated. The language of Boomerang, and the relation between the description and what is being described, is not arbitrary. Language and image are being formed and revealed as they are organized.'

https://ubu.com/film/serra_boomerang.html

@sflorg Doesn't look like #Joplin exports to #orgmode, but on the plus side, it does look feasible to code a translator

#science #genetics ah well, that's going to mean a run on epigenetics research --this could be interesting!

https://www.bcm.edu/news/oops-after-ten-years-and-1000-studies-epigeneticists-uncover-trouble-in-their-tool-box

@internetarchive archive.org is back online.

It is soggy in San Francisco, I bet the infrastructure folks (e.g. electrical) are having big headaches.

🇬🇧 On @France24@twitter.com I discussed #Twitter, #Mastodon, interoperability, surveillance capitalism and the implementation of the #DigitalServicesAct #DSA with Rapporteur @SchaldemoseMEP@twitter.com.

Watch the show: https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/talking-europe/20230113-eu-regulation-of-big-tech-is-free-speech-at-risk

#cats!

@mmasnick that time John Mastodon rode down market st in SF on an elephant

It is the sum, the overlaying of the successive performances which establishes and defines the compositional process. As these recorded performances were approached as a compositional process, this is also how it needs to be listened to.
— David Tudor
▶️ https://youtu.be/v5R8r-iTp6M

@JamesGleick

Since there are previous few Congress or Senate members here vs there, also national news services, etc etc, journalists would be blocked from following a great deal of their source material.

The German government has only just started to converse on Fediverse, are there any others?

@leo