Blake C. Stacey

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Theoretical physicist in the Boston area. I have a blag at my wobsite, https://www.sunclipse.org.
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I was just in a meeting where someone used a thing called Fathom to get an 'AI' summary of the meeting. Aside from some understandable typos arising from not understanding terms of art and replacing them with common English words, one of the key points that it concluded was that A was faster than B. It reached this conclusion because it missed one of the digits in the time for A. This completely inverted the key takeaway from one important section of the meeting.

Do not use plausible-nonsense generators for anything important.

... The last committee hearing for Hawaii's ban-teens-from-most-of-the-Internet bill is this Wednesday:

https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=SB&billnumber=2761&year=2026

Measure Status Details for SB 2761

Proud dad today.

Kiddo's school put up posters with genAI images for some event, and kiddo was part of the campaign to get them replaced with human art.

Part of the argument was "good for me is good for thee", as genAI is strictly forbidden in school work.

Just submitted my personal Reflect Orbital reply comment to the FCC. And I managed to not throw my laptop out a window.

Reflect Orbital is a fucking terrible idea that will cause real physical harm with no benefit whatsoever.

Your semi-regular reminder to check for terrible social-media laws progressing in your area:

https://dw-advocacy.dreamwidth.org/1493.html

Many of these could affect the fediverse quite negatively.

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People frequently ask us about whether their specific US state is trying to enact a social media age verification law so they can call their state representatives and yell at them about it! I have had "build a system that will let me easily update this without having to do so manually, categorizing

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Turns out with a 30$ charcoal grill and an air mattress pump can heat steel to forging temps

And they fucked off into the end credits, hooray!

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OK, "for your listening pleasure" is a bit directly out of Dark Star

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Protip: remember how these characters acted in any of the previous movies to make this scene 220% more hilarious

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Mentos: the freshmaker

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