Mastodawn

An attorney couldn't stop using Grok (?!) to help draft filings, producing "a flood of tainted filings" & apparently triggering the implosion of a law firm & 3 lawyers' careers 🤖😵 The court called her misconduct "particularly egregious & prolific"

https://cases.justia.com/federal/district-courts/mississippi/msndce/1:2024cv00074/49169/79/0.pdf

dasgrueneblatt 1m ago

mhoye 3d ago

To spell this out clearly, the reason RAM has quadrupled in price is that a huge quantity of RAM that hasn't been produced yet has been bought with money that doesn't exist to populate GPUs that also haven't been produced to go in datacenters that haven't been built powered by infrastructure that may never exist to meet a demand that doesn't exist at all to make profit margins that mathematically can't exist while economists talk about this thing they call the "rational markets hypothesis".

dasgrueneblatt 1m ago

Scar

18h ago

I don’t want to lose another person. Not after the HIV epidemic, not after witnessing suicides. Not again.

Christmas hits really hard for a lot of people, especially queer, trans, neurodivergent folks, people with disabilities, or anyone who’s alone. And in places where the cultural or political climate is hostile, it gets even heavier. The exact reasons don’t matter.
What matters is that you’re here.

I want to help you stay.

dasgrueneblatt 2m ago

SILVER BACALLS 2h ago

Reduce
Reuse
Recycle
Repurpose
Repair
Revise
Reincarnate
Renew

dasgrueneblatt 2m ago

Kieran Healy 13h ago

If your artifact’s rather obtuse
With a purpose you can’t quite deduce
You’ll always be able
To write on the label
“Most likely for ritual use”

dasgrueneblatt 3m ago

Official Kakistocracy Jester 🪓Dec 9

A few years ago, I sat in a room with a bunch of other track inspectors for annual training. During a break, the instructor asked for a show of hands from everyone who felt they had found and repaired a track defect that had prevented a derailment.

All hands went up.

Then, he asked who felt that the cost of that derailment that never happened would pay for the wages of their entire career.

All hands went up.

What kind of idiot would want to get rid of those people?

https://apnews.com/article/automated-railroad-track-inspections-waiver-derailments-fra-d3c4b0f313585303e305e84fb4c03aef

Agency will allow railroads to reduce human track inspections and rely more on technology

The nation’s freight railroads are going to be able to try relying more on technology and inspect their tracks less often after the federal government approved their waiver request on Friday. The Association of American Railroads trade group asked for the relief from the inspection requirements because railroads believe the automated track inspection technology they use is so good at spotting problems early that human inspections aren’t needed as frequently. The union that represents track inspectors had said that any reduction in human inspections would raise the risk of derailments because there is a long list of things these machines can’t detect.

AP News

dasgrueneblatt 4m ago

Open Source Gardens 56m ago

Türchen -5 des #39c3-Kalenders: Winterobst
Schon im Mittelalter gab es im tiefsten Winter frisches, heimisches Obst: Mispeln. Sie wachsen an Sträuchern und werden erst nach dem Frost genießbar. Man konnte sie auch im November schon ernten und ein paar Wochen lagern. Statt zu verderben, bauten sie ihre Gerbstoffe ab und wurden essbar.
So beliebt die #Mispel war, so schnell geriet sie aus der Mode, als dank Kühltransporter ganzjährig Südfrüchte importiert werden konnten.

https://www.bzfe.de/presse/pressemeldungen-archiv/comeback-fuer-die-mispel

Comeback für die Mispel | Bundeszentrum für Ernährung (BZfE)

Schon im Mittelalter schätzte man die aromatische Verwandte von Apfel und Birne. Im Spätherbst ist die Mispel bei uns erntereif.

dasgrueneblatt 4m ago

oleschri@chaos.social 2d ago

"[…] von der Caritas gegründete 'Plaudernetz' ist ein weiteres Angebot, rund um die Feiertage mit anderen in Kontakt zu treten. Die Initiative verbindet Menschen, die reden wollen, mit solchen, die ein offenes Ohr haben. Die Nummer ist täglich von 10.00 bis 22.00 Uhr unter 05 1776 100 zu erreichen."

https://orf.at/stories/3413334/

Feiertage: Angebote gegen die Einsamkeit

Hunderttausende Menschen im Land fühlen sich regelmäßig einsam – und das insbesondere zu Weihnachten und Silvester. Die Weihnachtszeit sei mit „erhöhten sozialen Erwartungen“ verbunden, so die Psychiaterin Karin Gutierrez-Lobos gegenüber ORF.at. Dabei gibt es auch für jene, die rund um die Feiertage ungewollt allein sind, Möglichkeiten, um Nähe und Gemeinschaft zu erleben.

ORF.at

dasgrueneblatt 2h ago