@UP8@mastodon.social2025-09-06 16:10:23
𝕮𝖆𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖉𝖆𝖞 𝕾𝖕𝖊𝖈𝖎𝖆𝖑 𝕰𝖉𝖎𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓: Three adorbs cats in my neighborhood (sounds like I'm posting to NextDoor!)
#cats #photo #photography
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-08-06 08:52:48
A precautionary warning about the @… Mastodon account at https://mas.to/@doaaalbaz0 that claims to be a journalist in Gaza.
The account followed me and immediately sent a DM. It appe…
@carloshr@lile.cl2025-06-07 00:39:02
Before this #LetterboxdFriday ends, I share my #LastFourWatched
The Greatest Hits (3½★)
Despicable Me 2 (3★)
Despicable Me (3½★)
Sing (1½★)
🔗 https://…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-07-07 01:38:13
Even if “AI” worked (it doesn’t), there’s many reasons why you shouldn’t use it:
1. It’s destroying Internet sites that you love as you use chat bots instead of actually going to sources of information—this will cause them to be less active and eventually shut down.
2. Pollution and water use from server farms cause immediate harm; often—just like other heavy industry—these are built in underprivileged communities and harming poor people. Without any benefits as the big tech companies get tax breaks and don’t pay for power, while workers aren’t from the community but commute in.
3. The basic underlying models of any LLM rely on stolen data, even when specific extra data is obtained legally. Chatbots can’t learn to speak English just by reading open source code.
4. You’re fueling a speculation bubble that is costing many people their jobs—because the illusion of “efficiency” is kept up by firing people and counting that as profit.
5. Whenever you use the great cheat machine in the cloud you’re robbing yourself from doing real research, writing or coding—literally atrophying your brain and making you stupider.
It’s a grift, through and through.
@hashtaggames@oldfriends.live2025-07-07 00:58:00
Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
#FilmCharactersViralPost
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-08-06 00:56:01
Sources: AI video startup Runway is looking to raise ~$500M at a $5B pre-money valuation; rival Luma AI aims to raise $1.1B at a $3.2B pre-money valuation (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/runway-luma-talks-mul…
@timbray@cosocial.ca2025-07-06 19:16:08
In which I argue that arguments about whether #genAI is useful or not are the wrong arguments. The important issues are what it’s for and what it costs.
Having very unkind feelings about the people pushing it.
https://www.
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2025-08-05 16:44:33
@samsabin.bsky.social has the scoop on Jen Easterly's new gig. And huge shout out to Huntress.
https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-fu
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-07-06 21:41:55
I share a lot of @…’s feelings here. (He doesn’t mention training data sourcing, but that’s on my mind too.)
There’s a layer of ethics and social impact that hangs, as Tim put it, as a stench over all the thinking about whether and how the tech is useful. I am actually willing to discuss the utility questions, but they are secondary.
https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/114807889514002925
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-08-05 20:35:54
Filing: in its ChatGPT lawsuit, the NYT asked OpenAI to produce 120M user chats to analyze how often ChatGPT regurgitates its articles, after OpenAI offered 20M (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20
