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Doodles May 15

OpenMedia May 14

RE: https://mastodon.social/@OpenMediaOrg/116517516303137157

As of today, we've sent more than 9,600 emails to MPs calling on them to STOP #BillC22!

But with Signal confirming they'll pull out of 🇨🇦 if the bill passes, we desperately need more people to speak up to prevent catastrophic consequences for Canadian privacy.

Please spread the word! #cdnpoli

Doodles May 5

The Gneech! Awww Yeah May 5

8 Ways to Detect AI Slop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ziH6kamJl4

8 Ways to Detect AI Slop

YouTube

Doodles May 3

IFTAS Apr 18

RE: https://union.place/@tim/116426691453325273

SW-ISAC Alert

The Russian botnet is now using account invites to evade various mitigations in place.

Please review your invite codes, and who's allowed to use them.

#MastoAdmin #FediAdmin #SW_ISAC_ADVISORY

ref: https://about.iftas.org/library/suspected-portal-kombat-accounts/

Doodles May 1

Mark Dominus May 1

A COMPUTER CANNOT FIND OUT

THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER BE ALLOWED TO FUCK AROUND

Doodles Apr 29

jazz mickle Apr 28

posting this here too: if you're trans and used ai to make ur website or python script or whatever bc u dont know how to code i will personally teach u for free instead.

Doodles Apr 27

That Frisian Girl-ish Apr 27

"Autistic people don't understand hierarchies."

Ho, ho, hold the fuck up, I understand hierarchies and their uses, I just don't see what you fuckmuppet with the skills and spine of a wet sponge do all the way up there, and the people working their asses off knowing their shit are doing down there.

I also don't see why the person responsible with their decisions isn't the one taking the consequences for their decisions if they're bad - like, isn't that 95% of your fucking job description, carrying the risk and responsibility?

Maybe YOU don't understand hierarchies, actually?

Doodles Apr 16

Huh. I see that BlueSky's been down for a bit. I wonder if it has anything to do with the bragging by some of their devs that generative algorithms* wrote some of their code. >_<

*I absolutely refuse to refer to it as any form of intelligence.

Doodles Mar 27

Third spruce tree on the left Mar 26

"An ad blocker is preventing this page from loading."

No, my #adblocker is preventing your #ADs from loading. The fact that the REST of your page refuses to load if the ads dont load, well that sounds like a YOU problem.

Doodles Mar 19

Trans Icon Rachel, Feminist Mar 18

a handful of years back, I briefly started messing around with the early generative AI models. I quickly concluded that they're more-or-less a novelty - a toy - and then grew bored and moved on.

then rich techbros started pushing that novelty toy on us in a million different ways, claiming that it could replace creatives and programmers, that it could act as our therapist and our support system, as our friend and romantic partner.

that toy infiltrated our work lives. it started sucking up energy and water. it made personal computing expensive as shit. it showed up on my phone and in my web browser without my consent. people who should be resistant to the allure of a glorified novelty started hyping it as essential to their process. people even started claiming the toy was sentient.

and the thing is, the toy hasn't got much better. it still produces garbage art, it still gets shit wrong all the time, and it still spits out text in the most bland, customer-service-y tone imaginable.

when I look at not just the people hyping "AI," but the people saying the equivalent of "AI sucks except for X and Y use cases," what I see them doing is taking a baby rattle and trying to convince me that it's actually a hammer, because both of them make noise when you strike something with them.