ConsoleWitch

@ConsoleWitch@pdx.social
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I believe in radical kindness. I don't always succeed but I always try.

Hacking is weaponized critical thinking.

I'm the partner of a brilliant professor of botany, a pilot, and a dancer. I'm interested in social justice, and politics. Warning, I live an evidence based life so your wacky theory about elderberries will be met with skepticism. Oh, and I have cats.

I'm NOT interested in *men* or violence of any kind.

Yes that is really a picture of me.

If your story was written by AI, you didn’t actually write it, and that’s why I don’t want it or think it should be eligible for awards.

If your story was assisted by AI, you used tools that are built on plagiarism, and that’s why I don’t want it or think it should be eligible for awards.

I am so stubborn about not using AI.
You have no idea.

I will even go as far as writing my own texts, drawing my own images, writing my own code, and reading the whole article or email just by myself. Crazy stuff.

#NoAI

DC Public Library going hard 🔥 🔥

@ReferenceDesk @scalzi

As @pluralistic says: "An app is just a web site that we have wrapped in a correct DRM [digital rights management] to make it a felony to protect your privacy while you use it"

It’s time! Blackout Friday!

Please join unions 💪 & organizers 🤝 worldwide and BUY NOTHING 💸🙅from big chain stores this weekend (especially Amazon, Whole Foods, Starbucks, Home Depot, Target, Apple, Walmart). Instead support small & local businesses 💵 🙌 while sending the message:

the People Will Not Tolerate Corporate Complicity With Authoritarianism & Worker Oppression!

(And remember: studies show most “Black Friday Deals” really aren’t the lowest prices of the year, just most advertised.)

Asking for a friend: Do you know any scientific evidence that #OpenSource and #OpenResearchSoftware lead to more software innovation and/or scientific evidence than #ClosedSource?

Common sense (transparency, reproducibility..) is clear. But there are certainly studies that have also dealt with this scientifically. Recommendations?

Boosts are welcome!

#Academic #Science #FediHelp #OpenScience #ResearchSoftware #FAIR

That said, the main reason we're spending so much money on "AI" and data centers isn't because we think we're going to invent "Superintelligence" but because it's a pump and dump scheme that will massively profit a handful of people.
It’s not about protecting anyone. It’s about full transparency and justice for the victims.

And a happy FUCK OFF to AI from Emma Thompson. 😌

#FuckAI #EmmaThompson #StephenColbert

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