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Ahaha, nach meinem "Dude 1 & Dude 2"-Rant hatte ich gar nicht auf LinkedIn geschaut und deswegen ist mir die Dudeception der fragilen Männlichkeit dort gar nicht aufgefallen.
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:733231169199…

Oh, and I forgot the disclaimer about the business recording my call for half a dozen reasons. Sheesh!!

RIVM rioolwaarden update.
Met een nog wat sterkere daling dan afgelopen woensdag te zien was.
De dagwaarden (disclaimer: incompleet) zitten net boven de 140 en dat is zelfs al iets minder dan de helft van de hoogste waarden tot nu toe in deze golf, die zaten tegen de 290.
Twee nieuwe dagen in de data: 30 juni en 1 juli, met resp. 40% en 35% van de meetstations.
#qp2t

Si no te gusta la pornografía, no la veas. A mi no me gusta la religión y no voy a ningún tipo de rito religioso de ninguna de las muchas únicas religiones verdaderas.
Disclaimer: a las que sí sigo es a las mústiples religiones falsas.

I'm always wary about using environmental (or health) arguments in favor of going #vegan, mostly because veganism is about animal rights, not about benefits for us and thus you can only go plant-based for those reasons, not vegan, though for some veganism may follow more easily after having abstained from the use of animals.
Apart from this disclaimer, an amazing 10min talk.
OXFORD UNIVER…

[disclaimer: not a political scientist, talking out of my ass]
For the two parties are going to divide up the electorate, if one is the fascist party, maybe the other •has• to be the anti-fascist party — not just philosophically, but for practical reasons. Maybe you just can’t maintain a viable coalition to oppose a fascist party without bringing everyone who opposes fascism into your coalition. Sure feels that way now.
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Tom Lehrer made all of his music 100% public domain
so if seeing people sad about his death makes you want to check them out…
it’s free.
he wanted you to share them.
https://tomlehrersongs.com

"Disclaimer: Der Text wurde teilweise von einem Menschen geschrieben." - https://www.vshn.ch/blog/was-ist-kubernetes-der-motor-der-digitalen-welt-einfach-erklaert/
Vielen Dank @…

Was ist Kubernetes? Der Motor der digitalen Welt einfach erklärt – VSHN AG
1. Für alle Neugierigen ohne Technik-Background – Was sind Container und was ist Kubernetes? Stell dir das weltberühmte Schweizer Logistiksystem […]

Time to air some grievances: I hate it when someone answers with: 'Great question' in a written medium like a comment.
I get it when you want to stall for time in a conversation, it gives you pause to think about an answer, but it's useless in written form.You have all the time you want to formulate a response, and no, the question was not exceptional but rather mundane.
Disclaimer: I might be on some kind of

Ihr lieben Leute, die auch Nachts gerne normal schnell Auto fahren und auch überholen.
Die Erinnerung an was das bedeuten kann, lag in vielen Autoteilen verstreut und einem Auto auf dem Dach im Feld herum.
Disclaimer: Fahrt bitte defensiv. Immer.
Allen Beteiligten geht es gut.

Ah fuck, people are using LLMs for kernel code. They really are going to fuck over everything, aren't they?
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1026558/9f3079fb392c4a9a/

Me this morning:
(Unfortunately necessary disclaimer: this has nothing to do with world events)

Hello kids. Cheggers here. Let's Play Pop!
#TOTP
Disclaimer: Not an actual Cheggers. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. This toot was not tested on animals. The value of your pop investment may go down as well as up and you may not get back all the music invested.

[disclaimer: not a political scientist, just riffing here]
Plurality voting forces a two-party system. There will always be two parties (or if a third forms, the system will rapidly collapse back to two; this happened twice in US history).
The role of the two parties can change, however. Parties are coalitions, and coalitions are heterogeneous. There are lots of ways to draw lines through the myriad political interests to form two coalitions of roughly equal size. And those lines can shift.
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Now in Kleine spoel at @… Marcel van der Velde presenting a talk on "Social Engineering".
#tdose

Should you consider printing? Check out this video from Simon Baxter.
Disclaimer: I also print at home but only in A4. But holding a photo in your hands is REALLY different than seeing it on any screen.
https://youtu.be/_xOGHjR16Fc?si=SzlMk-MfcWRHRfxE

DISCLAIMER: Ich brauche weiterhin niemanden, der mich über das deutsche Atomprojekt aufklärt, liebe Dudes im Internet. Versucht euch einmal zurückzuhalten, ja? Danke!
Meine Antwort zur deutschen Atombombe & die Reaktionen darauf oder "The Gift That Keeps on Giving".
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Just saw this:
#AI can mean a lot of things these days, but lots of the popular meanings imply a bevy of harms that I definitely wouldn't feel are worth a cute fish game. In fact, these harms are so acute that even "just" playing into the AI hype becomes its own kind of harm (it's similar to blockchain in that way).
@… noticed that the authors claim the code base is 80% AI generated, which is a red flag because people with sound moral compasses wouldn't be using AI to "help" write code in the first place. The authors aren't by some miracle people who couldn't build this app without help, in case that influences your thinking about it: they have the skills to write the code themselves, although it likely would have taken longer (but also been better).
I was more interested in the fish-classification AI, and how much it might be dependent on datacenters. Thankfully, a quick glance at the code confirms they're using ONNX and running a self-trained neural network on your device. While the exponentially-increasing energy & water demands of datacenters to support billion-parameter models are a real concern, this is not that. Even a non-AI game can burn a lot of cycles on someone's phone, and I don't think there's anything to complain about energy-wise if we're just using cycles on the end user's device as long as we're not having them keep it on for hours crunching numbers like blockchain stuff does. Running whatever stuff locally while the user is playing a game is a negligible environmental concern, unlike, say, calling out to ChatGPT where you're directly feeding datacenter demand. Since they claimed to have trained the network themselves, and since it's actually totally reasonable to make your own dataset for this and get good-enough-for-a-silly-game results with just a few hundred examples, I don't have any ethical objections to the data sourcing or training processes either. Hooray! This is finally an example of "ethical use of neutral networks" that I can hold up as an example of what people should be doing instead of the BS they are doing.
But wait... Remember what I said about feeding the AI hype being its own form of harm? Yeah, between using AI tools for coding and calling their classifier "AI" in a way that makes it seem like the same kind of thing as ChatGPT et al., they're leaning into the hype rather than helping restrain it. And that means they're causing harm. Big AI companies can point to them and say "look AI enables cute things you like" when AI didn't actually enable it. So I'm feeling meh about this cute game and won't be sharing it aside from this post. If you love the cute fish, you don't really have to feel bad for playing with it, but I'd feel bad for advertising it without a disclaimer.

OH: IANYL (I Am Not Your Lawyer); the IANAL disclaimer that lawyers [can] use.
#tdose

This Thursday the moving truck arrives and the following Tuesday we move into our new home. Therefore, it's time for a new alias, and this poll offers some possible alternatives. Please boost for maximum meaningless results.
Some background:
- we are moving to the Barrie area.
- officially, within the Town of Innisfil
- easy walking distance to Belle Aire Beach
- within Innisfil, we are in the community of Belle Ewart
Disclaimer - I am not legally bound by the results of this survey.
Barrie Beach Bum
Innocuous In Innisfil
Prince of Belle Aire
Ewartian Era