Mastodawn

@Binks @mo @vagina_museum yeah I really want to know the full context between that exchange that folks love to dunk on. Yes many men have zero clue about anything related to a uterus, but I could absolutely see it as some engineer calculating the mass budget for the question of "do we have sufficient payload budget for any menstrual products this astronaut may need?" And the answer being a half-joking "well is 100 tampons sufficient?"

There's so many ways that often-reported quote could have been entirely reasonable and not entirely based in poor understanding of women's anatomy. There's also the distinct possibity that it was in fact an incredible level of misunderstanding uterus-havers

Binks 3d ago

Ben 3d ago

This has been a long time coming.

https://theonion.com/international-chess-federation-adds-race-car-piece/

#chess

International Chess Federation Adds Race Car Piece

LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND—In what scholars have called the largest shake-up of the game’s rule set in centuries, the International Chess Federation announced Tuesday that it was adding a race car piece to the playing board. “In all officially sanctioned matches played from today forward, the pawn immediately in front of a player’s king will be replaced with […]

The Onion

Binks 3d ago

Z(achary) Yaro 3d ago

RT @[email protected]

NASA employee: oh hey u guys are back early

Astronaut: Office 365 in spaceship

NASA employee: what?

Astronaut: *loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship* Office 365 in spaceship

Binks 5d ago

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abadidea 5d ago

reader, the patch management system appears to have forcibly installed the vulnerable software in order to patch it.

thank gods! that was a close one

Binks 5d ago

Mastodon Migration 5d ago

This one takes the cake.🤷

Seems like a new scam is AI companies making infringement claims against the musicians they scraped for sounding like themselves.

Turns out it works because the claims are adjudicated by, you guessed it, AI agents.

"Because YouTube’s copyright claim system operates without individual human review of each dispute, Campbell’s channel was effectively handed over [to the AI company.]"

https://rudevulture.com/ai-company-clones-musicians-voice-then-copyright-strikes-her-own-songs/

h/t @jeeynet https://framapiaf.org/@jeeynet/116359059101502550

AI Company Clones Musician’s Voice, Then Copyright-Strikes Her Own Songs

Folk musician Murphy Campbell found herself at the center of a major ordeal when an entity called Timeless Sounds IR uploaded AI-generated imitations of her music to every major music platform, then used her recordings to strip her of her own income. According to sources, the scheme worked like this: someone fed YouTube videos of ... Read more

Rude Vulture

Binks Apr 5

Joe Sondow

Apr 5

Heads up GitHub users. You have less than a month left to opt out of "Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training".

"On April 24 we'll start using GitHub Copilot interaction data for AI model training unless you opt out." https://github.com/settings/copilot/features

Build software better, together

GitHub is where people build software. More than 150 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects.

GitHub

#3227 - Creation

idk who needs to hear this but [⁠incoherent screeching⁠]

Binks Mar 23

Peter Gleick Mar 23

There's a lot going on, but today is World Water Day #worldwaterday.
If you have safe drinking #water and decent sanitation, please understand how fortunate you are, and give a thought to the billions of people who don't.
Solutions to our water problems are possible.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-three-ages-of-water-prehistoric-past-imperiled-present-and-a-hope-for-the-future-peter-gleick/34011e23365bb3b7

Binks Mar 20

I love this, so I Mar 19

Dear computer companies,

This -> ✨

Is now the Mark Of Cain. I will never ever click any button that features it.

Regards,

Approximately everyone