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nice to meet and greet people before tomorrow's #fediforum - excited to talk about all sorts of stuff!

Since I just used the #DWebYVR hashtag, a reminder to #CoSocialCa members and anyone else in #Vancouver that we're doing afternoon coworking 2 - 5pm and evening tech social tonight, Thurs, Feb 15th, 5pm - …

Tech Social @ PWB (February 2024) · Luma
Come out for an after work community social and meet other people in tech in Vancouver. No agenda, no speeches, just come out and meet other interesting people. Bring some out of town visitors...

‘Humanity’s remaining timeline? It looks more like five years than 50’:
Meet the neo-luddites warning of an AI apocalypse
Eliezer Yudkowsky, a 44-year-old academic wearing a grey polo shirt, rocks slowly on his office chair and explains with real patience – taking things slowly for a novice like me – that every single person we know and love will soon be dead.
They will be murdered by rebellious self-aware machines.
“The difficulty is, people do not realise,” Yudkows…

The #SocialCoop Tech Working Group's [[Open House]] is starting in five minutes! Hope you can join :)
We'll meet at https://meet.evolix.org/twg
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nice to meet and greet people before tomorrow's #fediforum - excited to talk about all sorts of stuff!

Meet the people who keep the Internet going:
"subsea cables are also part—a foundational part—of the tech industry… You’re dealing with the most hostile environment on the planet, eight kilometers deep in the oceans, working with some pretty high technology, traveling all over the world. You’re on the forefront of geopolitics, and it’s critical for the whole way the world operates now.”

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.10882 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_…

Optimizing Language Augmentation for Multilingual Large Language Models: A Case Study on Korean
Large language models (LLMs) use pretraining to predict the subsequent word; however, their expansion requires significant computing resources. Numerous big tech companies and research institutes have developed multilingual LLMs (MLLMs) to meet current demands, overlooking less-resourced languages (LRLs). This study proposed three strategies to enhance the performance of LRLs based on the publicly available MLLMs. First, the MLLM vocabularies of LRLs were expanded to enhance expressiveness. Sec…

The next #DWebYVR Tech Social is coming up Thursday, Feb 15th, from 5pm - 7pm.
You're welcome to join early for coworking, otherwise come meet new people & local Vancouver meetups, discuss tech you're interested in, and enjoy Pretend Wine Bar @ The Permanent
Register to join us

Tech Social @ PWB (February 2024) · Luma
Come out for an after work community social and meet other people in tech in Vancouver. No agenda, no speeches, just come out and meet other interesting people. Bring some out of town visitors...

From @NYTGuildTech@twitter.com:
On Friday, we shared a letter with NYT leadership demanding protection for trans and gender-nonconforming workers in the NYT Tech Guild union. We invite you to read the full list of demands and sign our public petition at https://bit.ly/nyt-respect-trans-worke

Tell The New York Times to Respect Trans* Workers
Join us in telling CEO Meredith Levien: meet the Times Tech Guild union in good faith at the bargaining table so that together we can provide contractual support and protection for Trans* employees.

A look at Udio, which was founded by four former DeepMind employees in December 2023 and launched a product on April 11 that generates songs from text prompts (Brian Hiatt/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/udi…

AI-Music Arms Race: Meet Udio, the Other ChatGPT for Music
A new Suno rival, Udio, is here, backed by tech and music heavyweights. It has powerful capabilities —  and a whabit of generating Tom Petty's voice

The Tech Working Group [[Open House]] is coming up on Saturday 13 April @ 1600-1800 UTC:
https://www.loomio.com/d/oPHKpefm/tech-working-group-open-house-saturday-13-april-1600-1800
Join us if you are interested in what w…

The problem is that the far right parties such as the PVV (the largest in the Dutch parliament) and the farmers party BBB – currently trying to form a government – lack the intellectual calibre among their membership and electoral supporters to see the larger picture and to be able to even come close to taking the right decisions.

meeting people in person again has been nice.
I've been super isolationist and I'm glad that in this new town I can finally meet folks... after a year of not doing so.
like the mental hit of no in-person queer events :/

A look at Udio, which was founded by four former DeepMind employees in December 2023 and launched a product on April 11 that generates songs from text prompts (Brian Hiatt/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/udi…

AI-Music Arms Race: Meet Udio, the Other ChatGPT for Music
A new Suno rival, Udio, is here, backed by tech and music heavyweights. It has powerful capabilities —  and a whabit of generating Tom Petty's voice

Meet the Women Taking On Big Tech in Europe
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-03-08/europe-s-female-data-regulators-keeping-meta-google-and-apple-reined-in

This a good story about how mass layoffs happened across the Tech industry the past year, and specifically at Microsoft:
tl;dr: Pandemic started, work from home productivity went up, demand for remote work products shot up, projections were revised upwards, mass hiring happened to meet expected demand. Demand suddenly flatlined, but companies were still on the hook for massive payroll and hiring incentives. Major shareholders demanded downward pressure on wages. Mass layoffs happened.<…

This is precisely the crap that comes from the latest disgusting nativist politics in the #NL. Curtesy of Wilders, et al. one of the most important companies on the planet, and one of the largest European companies (in market value) is seriously considering to move elsewhere as NL moves to make itself an unattractive place to work in.

is it possible to meet Mary Anne Warren's criteria of personhood in less complicated forms of simulated life?
(sentience, emotionality, reason, communication, self-awareness, moral agency)
(vision, proprioception, hearing, pain, pleasure/instinct, motivation/burnout, social emotional communication/reception (recognizing other's pain or priority), trust metrics, fluctuating/forgiving emotions, new problems, complex problems, memory, high-level learning or instruction transference, self-state, social state, moral ideas (perma-emotional biases or new instincts/motivations built out of your experiences)

A look at Udio, which was founded by four former DeepMind employees in December 2023 and launched a product on April 11 that generates songs from text prompts (Brian Hiatt/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/udi…

AI-Music Arms Race: Meet Udio, the Other ChatGPT for Music
A new Suno rival, Udio, is here, backed by tech and music heavyweights. It has powerful capabilities —  and a whabit of generating Tom Petty's voice

Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State, by Byron Tau, to be published February 27, 2024 sounds like a blast to read, here's an excerpt: https://www.wired.com/story/how-pentagon-l

there are more progressives in utah than you'd think
just when you meet them they feel alone

Hi everybody, sharing our trans* worker demands petition again. We really need your help on this, so please visit #Labor

Tell The New York Times to Respect Trans* Workers
Join us in telling CEO Meredith Levien: meet the Times Tech Guild union in good faith at the bargaining table so that together we can provide contractual support and protection for Trans* employees.

Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State, by Byron Tau, to be published February 27, 2024 sounds like a blast to read, here's an excerpt: https://www.wired.com/story/how-pentagon-l

It was great to meet Toki Akhand today. He’s building #Vancouver tech.
It’s great to see this energy growing locally.
Classic center of lots of comm…

A look at some government contractors that are helping US intelligence agencies and others use targeted mobile ads to track down people (Byron Tau/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/how-pentagon-learned-targeted-ads-to-find-targets…

How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets—and Vladimir Putin
Meet the guy who taught US intelligence agencies how to make the most of the ad tech ecosystem, "the largest information-gathering enterprise ever conceived by man."

A look at some government contractors that are helping US intelligence agencies and others use targeted mobile ads to track down people (Byron Tau/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/how-pentagon-learned-targeted-ads-to-find-targets…

How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets—and Vladimir Putin
Meet the guy who taught US intelligence agencies how to make the most of the ad tech ecosystem, "the largest information-gathering enterprise ever conceived by man."

Hi everybody, sharing our trans* worker demands petition again. We really need your help on this, so please visit #Labor

Tell The New York Times to Respect Trans* Workers
Join us in telling CEO Meredith Levien: meet the Times Tech Guild union in good faith at the bargaining table so that together we can provide contractual support and protection for Trans* employees.