@Klaatu_Veratta_Nectarine
Dunno, agree there's weird goings on.
Do know that our awareness of such things is heightened by social media -- feeds on hype -- and mainstream media chasing SM.
Reporters were always hungry for content; everyone is now potentially a reporter deranged with mostly imagined starvation.

When I taught it my first rule of information literacy was: Get good at filtering.
Corollary of this, get good at suppressing FOMO.
Ignorance ain't bliss but it's a start.

Is there a trick to taking (car running) voltage measurement at the battery? I got wild numbers, up to 375vdc and then several times got 20-ishvdc. Expected maybe 16vdc.

Battery is constantly low, want to rule out the alternator.

Pig cooker or parts washer, $75.

¿Por Qué No Los Dos?

Stunning photos.

The New Big 5: A Global Photography Project for Endangered Wildlife

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2023/apr/04/world-of-wildlife-by-worlds-top-photographers-new-big-5-aoe

neighborhood used book store wants us to get better habits.

yeah here we go, didn't have to wait long.

"Using AI to Develop Realistic Sock Puppet Accounts"

Get out the digital gasoline and matches, gonna burn it all down.

#chatgpt #ftw

OMG firefox get a grip.

*RESTART*

Hop in your means of transportation and move your corporeal essence to these coordinates: -78.70092, 35.81031

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nosanitize

IRS says: "No costs relating to a solar panel or other property installed as a roof (or portion thereof) will fail to qualify solely because the property constitutes a structural component of the structure on which it is installed."

So... All costs relating to a solar panel, including roof improvements DO qualify?

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CoSo now has a copy of a paper Silicon Valley & Wall Street should read about risks brought by large language models.

Spoiler: they don't include the Singularity. Definitely include spam and abuse.

I think it's pretty approachable for all audiences. Enjoy!

E. M. Bender, T. Gebru, A. McMillan-Major, and S. Shmitchell, “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜”

ACM, Mar. 2021, pp. 610–623. doi: 10.1145/3442188.3445922.

#CS #LLM

https://share.counter.social/s/89b9a0

Gebru et al's response to the AI pause letter is super interesting.
"While there are a number of recommendations in the letter that we agree with (and proposed in our 2021 peer-reviewed paper known informally as "Stochastic Parrots"), such as "provenance and watermarking systems to help distinguish real from synthetic" media, these are overshadowed by fearmongering and AI hype...letter addresses none of the ongoing harms from these systems"

https://www.dair-institute.org/blog/letter-statement-March2023

Q:Can you recall the scariest day?

When Bucha was de-occupied, we saw that the devil was not somewhere out there but on the ground. The heinous truth about what was happening in the temporarily occupied territories was revealed to the world.

We will never forget the victims of this war, and we will certainly bring all Russian murderers to justice.
--Zelenskyy

#Ukraine #politics
https://share.counter.social/s/f7c291

NATO planes say hi

Boring but important:
Turkey ratifies Finland's NATO accession

Putin's 5 dimensional chess game going well. We only _think_ NATO's getting bigger&stronger

#politics

Loading Microsoft Teams....

(still)

(hang on, pretty soon)

(this _is_ taking a while)

(seems like other options are quicker)

(counting sick days)

(brewing coffee)

(sick day calculation complete)

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This festive coffee bowl requires a darkened room.

... Okay Joy of Cooking I will hear you out. 🔥 🧐

#coffee

Although to be honest celebrity means diddly all to me, but ymmv.

Okay let's see... taking notes.... So we don't want to drive out expertise, scare away celebrities, bully reporters and — on the flip side — reward the bad actors, spammers and sycophants who thrive in the opposite environment: An information vacuum.

Got all that @th3j35t3r ?

https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/28/twitter-is-dying/