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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there is a thread on the krita-artists forum asking about an llm policy, i think it would be good that we make our voices heard that there is no place for genai anywhere, and especially not in a program for artists

make sure to stay polite and civil!

krita-artists.org/t/policy-on-llm-code/178248

as this is a very important issue, tell like-minded people about it

edit: keep in mind that halla is only one maintainer, and there are multiple. some are more positive on genai, sadly. monitor the situation, share your views and stay vigilant
Policy on LLM code?

Speaking as the Krita maintainer, I don’t want us to accept any LLM-generated code into Krita. Some may say, as long as the contributor understands the code it’s fine, but that’s a fallacy. No programmer really fully understands the code they are working with (otherwise bugzilla would be empty); but with LLM-generated code they haven’t even put any thought into it. That code will be unmaintainable. And that’s even completely apart from the fact that using LLM’s to generate code lowers your co...

Krita Artists

Supernova are such energetic events they often outshine their host galaxy.

See if you can spot the supernova that happened in M101 in 2011 in the image on the left. An image of M101 without the supernova is on the right.

The last of 3 committees in the Hawaii state house of representatives just decided to *defer* their ban-teens-from-social-media bill, citing "real Constitutionality concerns", with one representative calling it "very flawed".

https://www.youtube.com/live/0Qa81c-_gT4?si=8-AcSV1jNyYtxZPf&t=12341

"Deferring a bill may allow the committee more time to consider it, gain consensus, or prepare an amended draft for the future vote by the committee. If a bill is deferred, the committee must bring the bill back for public decision-making to pass it."

https://lrb.hawaii.gov/par/overview-of-the-legislative-process/committees-the-public-hearing-process/

JHA Public Hearing - Wed Apr 1, 2026 @ 2:00 PM HST

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The best single list of these things I know about that is presently public:

https://dw-advocacy.dreamwidth.org/1493.html#cutid1

Rule of thumb: if a law would affect Dreamwidth, it would affect the fediverse.

The List of Shame

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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Happy Poetry Month to all who celebrate.
The most scandalous thing about the updates on our local strip club's website is that based on the prose I think they were written by an LLM

Beethoven: Are you ready for some smoking hot symphonies??!

Crowd: YEAH!!!

Beethoven: I can’t hear you!

The last of 3 committees in the Hawaii state house of representatives just decided to *defer* their ban-teens-from-social-media bill, citing "real Constitutionality concerns", with one representative calling it "very flawed".

https://www.youtube.com/live/0Qa81c-_gT4?si=8-AcSV1jNyYtxZPf&t=12341

"Deferring a bill may allow the committee more time to consider it, gain consensus, or prepare an amended draft for the future vote by the committee. If a bill is deferred, the committee must bring the bill back for public decision-making to pass it."

https://lrb.hawaii.gov/par/overview-of-the-legislative-process/committees-the-public-hearing-process/

JHA Public Hearing - Wed Apr 1, 2026 @ 2:00 PM HST

YouTube
you can TELL that this technology REALLY WORKS by how the people that made it and presumably know how to use it the best out of everyone CANT EVEN USE IT TO EDIT A FUCKING FILE RELIABLY and have to resort to multiple stern allcaps reminders to the robot that "you must not change the fucking header metadata you scoundrel" which for the rest of ALL OF COMPUTING is not even an afterthought because literally all it requires is "split the first line off and don't change that one" because ALL OF THE REST OF COMPUTING can make use of the power of INTEGERS.

"Why is my subject search for 'Gender expression' turning up so many titles on aerodynamics?" I was wondering just now, until I realized the most likely explanation was some catalog update process had done a pattern search-and-replace on "Drag" as a subject without checking the results.

(Seen in a HathiTrust subject search. Most likely not their fault, as they take records from partner libraries pretty much as they get them.)