Overheard at a conference about #AI in #Medicine:

Speaker: "I hear neurologists prefer we say that generative AI systems 'confabulate' and not that they 'hallucinate'."

Neurologist [shouting from the back of the room]: "CORRECT!"

#psychiatry #neuroscience #sciComm #edu

It's up!! It's up!!

First off, BIG shout-out to everyone who got involved! The very rare and hard to find movie adaptation of William Gibson's "New Rose Hotel" is on the Internet Archive for all to enjoy!!

For everyone who's got this movie seeding on torrents or available on Usenet... keep those flows going; you're doing a great service! Don't let movies fall into obscurity again like this!

I'm so grateful for the community coming together to help find this movie! This is for all of you to enjoy!

Have fun, Chooms, and #KeepCirculatingTheTapes! 📼

https://archive.org/details/new-rose-hotel-1998-film

#WilliamGibson #Cyberpunk

The Archive is back! (In read only mode). Get to the things you love, and we will continue our quest to be dependable, clean up the mess left behind, and be there for you.

https://archive.org

President (@POTUS) Joe Biden (@joebiden) sure loves to tell stories!

HOPE XV will take place from July 12-14, 2024 at St. John's University in Queens, New York City

Tickets still available at https://www.hope.net #hope #hackers #hacking #2600

So folks, don't forget to check if your Ikea chair is compatible with your screen. I'm not kidding. A thread 🧵.

I've had the problem with my new screen for several weeks now, that every now and then the screen goes black for a few seconds.

Today I had enough and wanted to investigate the problem. So I started changing all the cables, plugging the screen into a different socket, and and and. Nothing helped.

#ikea #chair #hardware #weird

"nerd immunity"

brilliant

This is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself.

The Twitter home feed's been down for most of this morning. Even though nothing loads, the Twitter website never stops trying and trying.

In the first video, notice the error message that I'm being rate limited. Then notice the jiggling scrollbar on the right.

The second video shows why it's jiggling. Twitter is firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives because Elon's latest genius innovation is to block people from being able to read Twitter without logging in.

This likely created some hellish conditions that the engineers never envisioned and so we get this comedy of errors resulting in the most epic of self-owns, the self-DDOS.

Unbelievable. It's amateur hour.

#TwitterDown #MastodonMigration #DDOS #TwitterFail #SelfDDOS

Wait wait wait wait

Let me get this straight...

LinkedIn wants to generate crappy AI content and then invite me to fix it, for free, under some guise of flattery calling out my "expertise"

Really?