@Wraithe

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Old-timey Internet user, social justice, he/him/🤷🏻‍♀️(any)/femme, motorcycles, kayaks, RPGs, gaming, clearly flustered when asked to describe myself. #tfr
A morning person, but only if you mean “it’s still night”
https://bsky.app/profile/wraithe.bsky.socialhttps://twitter.com/wraithe (locked)
Quote:Crichton: “Hey, D’Argo, how come I’m not afraid?” D’Argo: “Fear accompanies the possibility of death. Calm shepherds its certainty.” Crichton: “I love hangin’ with you, man.”
Quote:“Jeremy Bearimy baby, we’ll get through this” - Chidi Anagonye “The Good Place - ‘Pandemonium’”
Quote:Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart. - Lois McMaster Bujold
Well, Market Basket is doing a K-Tel “hits of the 70s” party over the loudspeakers today
@janeishly Found some prior art

So let me get this straight. Companies having replaced their human customer support staff with an AI chatbot (an insult to both their customers and employees in so many ways) can be forced to pay massively over the odds for said AI by people asking it to do things like "reverse a linked list in Python"?

I wonder what other examples could be used to do such a thing? Just so I can avoid doing it, obviously.

https://www.cio.com/article/4155404/ai-token-freeloaders-are-coming-for-your-customer-support-chatbot.html

AI token freeloaders are coming for your customer support chatbot

Users are tricking enterprise chatbots into performing complex AI computations unrelated to customer support, with potentially costly governance and ROI ramifications.

CIO

@vaurora @EUCommission Helpful reminder that children are *also people*

They have human rights, including the rights to privacy, self-expression, and education.

Free and anonymous Internet access is sometimes their only social outlet, or access to comprehensive, unbiased information not filtered by an abusive, controlling or extremist parent.

Their children should not suffer, but nor should they be walled off from the greatest free and open source of information the world has ever known.

The hurdy-gurdy is a string instrument that produces sound by means of a hand-cranked rosined wheel which rubs against the strings. The wheel functions much like a violin (or nyckelharpa) bow, and single notes played on the instrument sound similar to those of a violin. Melodies are played on a keyboard that presses tangents—small wedges, typically made of wood or metal—against one or more of the strings to change their pitch. Like most other acoustic stringed instruments, it has a sound board and hollow cavity to make the vibration of the strings audible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurdy-gurdy

Rosalind Franklin’s research was crucial to discovering DNA’s double helix structure 🧬 but it was James Watson & Francis Crick who received the credit & Nobel Prize.

Unknown to Franklin, the pair saw her unpublished data & X-ray diffraction images, inspiring their model. They never acknowledged her contribution until after her death.

How many discoveries & innovations of #women do we attribute to the men who took credit for their ideas?

https://theconversation.com/sexism-pushed-rosalind-franklin-toward-the-scientific-sidelines-during-her-short-life-but-her-work-still-shines-on-her-100th-birthday-139249 #history #science #HistoryRemix

Sexism pushed Rosalind Franklin toward the scientific sidelines during her short life, but her work still shines on her 100th birthday

Franklin was born a century ago, and her X-ray crystallography work crucially contributed to determining the structure of DNA.

The Conversation
it seems someone decided to prove you really can just publish any nonsense protocol draft with the IETF https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-meow-mrrp-00.html
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if you have no idea what this is about: a very official-looking "IPv8" draft appeared that was an absolute fever dream of and-a-pony wishlist features for a censorious regime, down to using json web tokens at the hardware level for some reason

“The people who categorically do not live in New York City are fleeing New York City”

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3mjndwesomc2z

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

Trump finally turns on Mamdani, screeching that he's "DESTROYING New York!" and "the United States of America should not contribute to its failure"

Bluesky Social
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
April 16,1949