@hex@kolektiva.socialI've always just really hated the framing of LLMs "stealing" culture. That's such a capitalist framing.
But maybe I'm making a connection that's too abstract or doesn't feel aligned for people who have more direct experience. So if you have a more direct experience and this feels off, please let me know.
@aardrian@toot.cafe“Figure, video, figcaption, and accessibility”
https://schalkneethling.com/posts/figure-figcaption-video-and-accessibility/
Does a nice job of distilling other sources (some of them mine), testing, and framing.
@hex@kolektiva.socialThe thing about training an #LLM on human culture and then renting that culture back isn't that it's "Intellectual Property Theft." There's nothing wrong with sharing. There is something wrong with framing LLMs as piracy. That's a completely different concept.
When a powerful group of people takes the writing, the art, the music, various parts of a culture and then make some bland reproduction that lacks all the meaning and essence in the original, then those powerful people profit off that mess while the people who made the original stuff are erased, marginalized, and made to suffer, there is a different term for that.
The term everyone is looking for is "appropriation."
I'm not saying this is the same as other forms of cultural appropriation, but there are definitely enough shared elements that we should revisit that conversation. Perhaps some folks who thought the idea was silly when the idea first came up may feel differently now.
@arXiv_mathAT_bot@mastoxiv.pageA structural reduction for the symmetric hit problem in four variables
Dang Vo Phuc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.02626 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.02626 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.02626
arXiv:2606.02626v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Let $\mathcal{A}$ be the mod $2$ Steenrod algebra, and $P(n) = \mathbb{F}_2[x_1, \dots, x_n]$ be the polynomial algebra viewed as an unstable module over $\mathcal{A}$. The symmetric hit conjecture asks whether the symmetrization of a hit monomial in $P(n)$ is always hit in the symmetric invariant subalgebra $B(n) = P(n)^{\Sigma_n}$. While resolved for $n \leq 3$, the case $n=4$ presents significant obstructions due to combinatorial complexity, orbit cancellations intrinsically tied to $\Sigma_4$-stabilizers, and the emergence of strongly spike-free survivor modules. This paper introduces a conditional structural reduction to overcome these obstructions in the domain where the numerical weight satisfies $\mu(d) \leq 4$. By integrating Walker-Wood duality with a new $\Sigma_4$-stabilizer parity analysis, we reduce the global conjecture to localized algebraic conditions: a symmetric lower-spike reduction and a strengthened four-row digital-engineering hypothesis. Assuming these inputs, the conjecture follows by lexicographic induction on the column-sum and row-sum sequences of the binary exponent matrices.
Our approach isolates the four-variable repeated-row anomaly into exact local identities, utilizing global Steenrod-kernel functionals lifted from local spike-free quotients to detect potential survivor elements. Finally, we provide explicit monomial-level computations in degrees $8$, $12$, and $14$, explicitly illustrating the stabilizer mechanism in practice and framing the precise algebraic identities required for a future unconditional proof.
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@hex@kolektiva.socialThere is more to #SolarPunk than solar panels and bikes. What we are talking about is being part of a living world. The hegemonic culture is one of hierarchical domination.
But many of the the cultures that hegemony suppresses bring a vibrancy to life. I don't buy yeast from the store, sealed in a plastic packet, a coffin for a living thing. I feed my sourdough. I am obligated to it, in a relationship with it, as the culture is reliant on me for it's survival. It speaks to me, with smell and color. I must pay attention. I have to learn it's nature, how it grows and eats at different temperatures informed by different times of the year. Mushrooms, yeast, kiefer, plants, independent things, things I can't control, life that is intertwined with my own.
But even my #bicycle speaks to me, which is something I hadn't considered until reading this and thinking about that framing.
It is not simply that "we need a different economic system." What we are talking about is a fundamentally different interpretation and experience of the world, from the hierarchical structure of death to a web of life, where even "inanimate" things become imbued with agency.
https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=2936873&post_id=151655646
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Factcheck: No, Europe’s heatwaves are not being ‘caused’ by declining air pollution"
#Europe #Heatwave #AirPollution
@markhburton@mstdn.socialCorrect framing from the Morning Star.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/nepal-tibet-flash-floods-himalayas-climate-crisis-glacier-mudslides-disaster
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialEarth's futures can be divided into two categories: futures which support human life and those that don't.
The IPCC reports have avoided framing things this way, but burn enough fossil fuels quickly enough and you tip over into the later.
Note that this logic applies to any sub-region of the Earth too: some unknown number of years ago, thanks to ExxonMobil's sales of oil and duplicity about the known risks, the tipping point into "unlivable future" was crossed with respect to a segment of the Trishuli river in Nepal, and just this year that future was realized quite suddenly. In individual apartments across North America and Europe this summer thousands of people found themselves in unlivable futures due to heat waves, and millions more avoided that fate narrowly through the use of air conditioning which could well fail in future heat waves...
What the IPCC reports have been detailing for literally more than three decades is what it would take to tip things the other way. They report this in various forms, but usually at the level of how much CO2 emissions can be permitted on what schedule in order to prevent (locally-)unlivable futures (abstracted as a number of degrees of warming relative to a baseline).
The IPCC reports of emissions and mitigations can be translated into actions: what kind of policy would have to be enacted when by which government in order to avoid an unlivable future. In general however, hierarchical nation-states have proven collectively incapable of meeting *any* of these targets, and so indeed, translating emissions targets into policy actions is increasingly impossible, and has always been an improbable path towards survival. The longer nation states fail to meet the necessary emissions goals (or even accelerate oil drilling), the more drastic action is necessary. We can continue to talk about what kind of national policies might avoid unlivable futures, even as those futures are realized for more and more people, but national policies are not the only kinds of actions that can change the future. Fire example, a national policy shutting down an oil pipeline might avert a certain amount of emissions, but the pipeline owner could also shut it down themselves, or an activist could sabotage it, and the effect would be the same. Lots of different actors have different kinds of actions they can take to create similar effects, and it's the effects that are necessary to avoid unlivable futures.
Effectively, assuming that we will not wind up in a totally unlivable future, this leads to a principle of action substitution. We know what effects are necessary, and if nation states refuse to enact those via policies and companies likewise refuse to make any voluntary changes, then the only actions that remain to be taken are drastic direct actions. Simply put: the longer nations and corporations refuse to do anything to create livable futures, the more people will simply take direct action to achieve the needed carbon emissions reductions, because the alternative for them is death and that alternative is becoming clearer with each climate casualty, so it will be increasingly impossible to threaten them into giving up their lives for corporate profits.
#ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioI rarely link to videos that convey information that could have been a few paragraphs of written text, but this one is good enough that I’m linking to it. Lots of good thoughts in here that add to what I wrote upthread, expressed in a very accessible way.
One worth nothing: the remarks at 4:30 about how the “alignment” framing obscures things we’d normally call “unreliable” or “broken.”
https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/117032480870736138
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngSäuling Scherenschnitt (2026)
#MonochromeMonday #LandscapePhotography #Photography #BlackAndWhite
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeUpdating the ngscopeclient manual in advance of the upcoming v0.2 release and decided to add this note in hopes that it will save someone else hours of debugging in the future.
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@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialMark Ruffalo says Paramount's framing of his criticism of the WBD deal as "antisemitic" is "appalling and fundamentally dishonest" and deal scrutiny is needed (Zachary Leeman/mediaite.com)
https://www.
@elduvelle@neuromatch.socialI also forgot to post a photo of the magnificent view of a walk I did a few weeks ago next to #Balquhidder, the "Creag-an-tuirc" viewpoint
https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/lochlomond
@cdarwin@c.imSemantic Sleight of Hand Behind Hormuz Fund's Framing
An Iranian official described the proposed mechanism to the New York Times as a 'reconstruction programme' that would be promised to Iran upon the signing of a final agreement.
Two diplomats briefed on the latest draft used different language,
calling it an international 'investment fund' that the United States would facilitate.
The divergence in terminology is deliberate.
The domestic c…
@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ieFraming an empirical story about numbers (in effect) as a culture war is a bonkers starting point anyway.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5ebaazqa3ghohwlelj7jmt5o/post/3mnm4uybpz22n
@shriramk@mastodon.socialThis sign (in Braga) is looking *awfully* dated now…
(Worse, it's a program to teach programming to kids, so the whole framing was terrible to begin with.)
@tokensane@mastodon.me.ukOne of the hazards of photographing a much-photographed thing is that, after careful consideration of viewpoint, composition and framing, you take exactly the same pictures as everyone else who has carefully considered viewpoint, composition and framing.
Here are two photographs I took of the Atlas Fountain at Castle Howard, along with the two illustrations from its Wikipedia entry. Years apart in time, inches apart in space.
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialEnd of a Trip IV ✈️
旅行结束 IV ✈️
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@seeingwithsound@mas.to[OT] Net benefit of #AI and the trillions of dollars being invested in it? Woke?
ECB's Lagarde says AI could trigger financial crises and calls for Cold War-style non-proliferation governance https://thene…
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@bencurthoys@mastodon.socialStop framing it as a law to ban social media for under 16s when what it is is a law to require everyone over the age of 16 to hand over their ID before they are allowed on the internet.
"Social media ban for under 16s" doesn't sound like it will affect adults. It will.
@jby@ecoevo.socialAmerican robin, Turdus migratorius, in nice fresh plumage at Amigo Centre, outside Sturgis, Michigan
#naturalist #bird #wildlife
@nic@geno.social"Heating up the headlines: How tabloid framing reshaped Germany's Buildings Energy Act"
In diesem Paper wird untersucht, wie die „BILD“ (Deutschlands größte Boulevardzeitung) die Reform des Gebäudeenergiegesetzes (GEG)
2023 zu einer der polarisierendsten politischen Kontroversen der jüngeren deutschen Geschichte gemacht hat:
@lapizistik@social.tchncs.deKlimapolitik wird¹ als Kulturkampf inszeniert.
Das heißt auch, die Lösung eines² Sachproblems ist in diesem Diskurs nachrangig.
Solang wir das nicht verstehen, glauben in der Sache argumentieren zu können, rennen wir gegen eine Gummiwand. Wir brauchen Strategien, das Framing als kulturelle Frage³ aufzubrechen. Solange es ein Ingroup/Outgroup, d.h. „wir“ gegen „die“ bleibt, können Sachargumente nur wirken, wenn sie diese Grenze unterlaufen. Erst wenn die Wärmepumpe nicht mehr Symb…
@gwire@mastodon.socialHow fast would the LLM, attempting to decipher "Truths" into something legible, have to operate in order for this API to provide usable investment information?
(As someone occasionally involved in the publishing of market-affecting information, this article's framing does make this service feel, y'know, corrupt.)
@cdarwin@c.imRight-wing activist Gary Bauer
opened his daily email newsletter Tuesday afternoon with the headline,
“Democrats Hate Police.”
That inflammatory framing was followed by a lot of false information about the killing of a 26-year-old father by ICE agents in Biddeford, Maine, on Monday:
"Yesterday morning, federal immigration police attempted to enforce an existing deportation order for 26-year-old Joan Sebastian Guerrero, an illegal alien in Biddeford, Maine. The Co…
@cosmicray@mastodon.socialToday I made a little bike tour from Amsterdam out to Broek in Waterland and back.
Not pictured: the goats, sheep, cattle, chickens, cats, ducks and fruit trees along the way. (It's a framing region.)
#Nederland
@der_raddler@dresden.networkDie Bildkampagne zum Heizungsgesetz war nur erfolgreich, weil die anderen Medien das Framing ungeprüft übernommen haben. Ein gigantisches Medienversagen, was jetzt noch einmal wissenschaftlich aufgearbeitet wurde.
Danke für das Interview @…!
@…
@waidler@bayerwald.socialAiwanger deutet das Münchner IS-Urteil zu „Grooming Gangs" und „migrantischen Tätergruppen" um, die der Staat angeblich deckt.
Nur: Es war ein Völkermord-Urteil (§ 6 VStGB). IS-Verbrechen an Jesidinnen, per Weltrechtsprinzip verfolgt – das Gegenteil von Vertuschung. Und „Völkermord" steht sogar in dem BR-Artikel, den er selbst verlinkt.
Er hat seine eigene Quelle nicht gelesen – oder ignoriert, weil Genozid nicht ins Framing passt.
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@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgAmazon, Google, and Microsoft are “all engaged in a combination of multiple outright price increases and changing their core subscriptions to force AI features on them as a means of boosting revenues and conning the street into believing that ‘AI is paying off’ every time they non-consensually thrust it on their customers, framing higher prices as ‘better value’ in a way that fucks the user to appease Wall Street.”
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgAmazon, Google, and Microsoft are “all engaged in a combination of multiple outright price increases and changing their core subscriptions to force AI features on them as a means of boosting revenues and conning the street into believing that ‘AI is paying off’ every time they non-consensually thrust it on their customers, framing higher prices as ‘better value’ in a way that fucks the user to appease Wall Street.”
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgAmazon, Google, and Microsoft are “all engaged in a combination of multiple outright price increases and changing their core subscriptions to force AI features on them as a means of boosting revenues and conning the street into believing that ‘AI is paying off’ every time they non-consensually thrust it on their customers, framing higher prices as ‘better value’ in a way that fucks the user to appease Wall Street.”
@niqdanger@social.linux.pizzaThis goes to the quilter tomorrow. The biggest one I've done and no way I could quilt it myself. Near impossible for me to even get it kinda square (Hint: Its not) Moss kept walking on it and it kept sliding on the floor. Pattern is Big Island Sky by Whole Circle Studios #quilting
@jby@ecoevo.socialNew Jersey tea, Ceanothus americanus — a new-to-me Ceanothus! — in the woods around Amigo Centre, outside Sturgis, Michigan
#naturalist #wildflower #photography
@teledyn@mstdn.cathis is everything you need to know about AI
(beautifully typeset and suitable for framing)
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialInside Outside V 🔲
中间 V 🔲
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@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioWrt to Codeberg kicking out slop:
“How may the compulsive programmer be distinguished from a merely dedicated, hard-working professional programmer? First, by the fact that the ordinary professional programmer addresses himself to the problem to be solved, whereas the compulsive programmer sees the problem mainly as an opportunity to interact with the computer.
The ordinary computer programmer will usually discuss both his substantive and his technical programming problem with others. He will generally do lengthy preparatory work, [...] He develops his program slowly and systematically. When something doesn't work, he may spend considerable time away from the computer, framing careful hypotheses to account for the malfunction and designing crucial experiments to test them.
[...]
When he has finally composed the program he set out to produce, he is able to complete a sensible description of it and to turn his attention to other things.
The professional regards programming as a means toward an end, not as an end in itself. His satisfaction comes from having solved a substantive problem, not from having bent a computer to his.”
—Joseph Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason, 1976
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialPerfection Because It Doesn’t Exist 🗿
完美因为完美不存在 🗿
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@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialRed City 🌆
红色城市 🌆
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@adulau@infosec.exchangeThe Radio Image Framing Protocol (RIFP) 1.0 is an experimental, extensible standard for sending images over low-rate radio links.
The default rifp-cpfsk-4800 profile uses binary continuous-phase FSK and can be deployed around 433.92 MHz where local regulation permits it. RIFP itself is not tied to 433 MHz or to FSK and can be used in any frequency bands.
I'm still exploring various low-cost options for a device that can receive and display images on an e-ink screen in emergency areas or similar environments.
Python implementation #radio #fax #433mhz #opensource
