Hello everyone!
The HelloQuitX Project is searching for translators of its free software platform that allows everyone to migrate from twitter to Mastodon (& Bluesky).

If you can help translating it from English to anything (French translation not needed: it's written in English & French) feel free to help here:

https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/helloquitx/helloquitx-app/

just create a weblate account and join us 🚀

retoot is datalove 😘

‘There’s no greys, only white that’s got grubby. And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things, including yourself. That’s what sin is.’

‘It’s a lot more complicated than that—’

‘No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re getting worried they won’t like the truth. People as things, that’s where it starts.’

‘Oh, I’m sure there are worse crimes—’

‘But they STARTS with thinking about people as things ...’

#Books
#TerryPratchett

LLMs will not get us to AGI because you can’t prompt engineer and autocomplete your way to Data from Star Trek or C3PO.

This is fairly self evident but leads to multiple paths of false thinking.

1. LLMs are a scam or overhyped: We can and are getting a lot of value from this technology even if it’s not artificial general intelligence.

2. We can’t achieve AGI: LLMs are just one of many AI approaches and simply the most popular today. OpenAI already has smarter models using different approaches

There is a #copyright war, but it's not between left and right, or those for and against corporations. It's between maximalists and minimalists.
https://www.technollama.co.uk/a-short-guide-to-the-copyright-wars

@technollama does a good job defining maximalism and minimalism and showing how they cut across left and right, pro- and anti-corporation.

I have nothing against #Bluesky per se and am glad some folks are finding it useful as a drop-in replacement for the site that would like to use a swastika as its logo but settled on "X" for now.

But if we want to face the challenges ahead (climate change, fascism, and the daily weaponization of hate and fear), we need to imagine and try out new ways of doing things, not just replicate old ones.

The fediverse gives us a unique opportunity to do that. Bluesky doesn't.