Mostly posting #USPolitics, #StarTrek, occasionally gaming or music and a bit of personal panic and madness.
I'm not consistent with tags, and the idea of writing alt-text gives me anxiety so I don't post pics. I've got aphantasia anyway, so it's all words.
Leftist - both economic and cultural
Pete Hegseth Ex-Wife At Time Of Sexual Assault Allegation Rebuffed By FBI In Week Before Confirmation Hearing: Report
#ExWifeSamanthaHegseth #SenateConfirmationHearing #PeteHegseth #MediaiteReport #TrumpPentagonPick
"On Saturday, Triplegangers CEO Oleksandr Tomchuk was alerted that his company’s e-commerce site was down. It looked to be some kind of distributed denial-of-service attack.
He soon discovered the culprit was a bot from OpenAI that was relentlessly attempting to scrape his entire, enormous site.
“We have over 65,000 products, each product has a page,” Tomchuk told TechCrunch. “Each page has at least three photos.”
OpenAI was sending “tens of thousands” of server requests trying to download all of it, hundreds of thousands of photos, along with their detailed descriptions.
“OpenAI used 600 IPs to scrape data, and we are still analyzing logs from last week, perhaps it’s way more,” he said of the IP addresses the bot used to attempt to consume his site.
“Their crawlers were crushing our site,” he said “It was basically a DDoS attack.”
Triplegangers’ website is its business. The seven-employee company has spent over a decade assembling what it calls the largest database of “human digital doubles” on the web, meaning 3D image files scanned from actual human models.
It sells the 3D object files, as well as photos — everything from hands to hair, skin, and full bodies — to 3D artists, video game makers, anyone who needs to digitally recreate authentic human characteristics."
#CyberSecurity #AI #GenerativeAI #OpenAI #WebScraping #DDoS #AITraining
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South Carolina's proposed Bill H3537 would allow the state to execute women who get an abortion.
My article below has exceeded 100K reads—& it includes the direct numbers of the 6 MAGAs who co-sponsored the bill—so I'm hoping that means they've received thousands of calls already.
Please make it 200K reads, and call them & let them know how you feel about their barbaric legislation:
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/s-carolina-intros-bill-to-execute
LA Times billionaire owner killed op-ed that was critical of Trump’s cabinet picks, report says
#GratefulDead TEXAS ’72 - Austin, Dallas, San Antonio - November 22-26, 1972.
The second half of 1972 may be my Grateful GOAT.
This mix features 2.5 hours of improv-centric material from the final three shows of the band’s four city Texas run. Unreleased.
Superb versions of all the big jam numbers, via solid SBD mixes.
Streaming:
https://archive.org/details/grateful-dead-save-your-face-texas-72-improvisation-november-22-26
Notes and MP3s:
https://saveyourface.posthaven.com/grateful-dead-texas-72-improvisation-november-22-26
Grateful Dead Save Your Face: Texas ’72 Improvisation (November 22-26) By John Hilgart...
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