Mastodawn

Daniel V.2h ago

Taggart

4h ago

Over here writing code line by line, comment by comment. You know, like someone who "hates technology."

Daniel V.May 29

I like how we went from “Claude won’t release Mythos because it is so dangerous 😱😱😱😱” to suddenly they are releasing “Mythos-Class models”

Like for chrissake, are we really just wrapping their marketing directly into classification? What do you mean “mythos class”? How is that defined or measured? Oh you mean you’re just making shit up? Of the thing only shared with a handful of close partners? And the only “measurable” difference is a marketing white paper and a bunch of jackasses automatically attributing crafted harnesses with manual validation to “Mythos” as a knee-jerk response to stuff for a month?

I’m at a point where I want things collapse enough that we hold tribunals for big tech leadership

Daniel V.May 22

We gonna have the realization about Google’s AI Summary being as funky as it has been recently to deliberate drive up “AI” interactions after their recent keynote or nah?

It has felt like everyone is unintentionally driving people to engage with Google’s overview while showing the failures but this feels like one of those “Do wacky things to drive engagement to push interaction rates up” things and maybe I am just overly suspicious about that type of behavior but idk. We are in a super disingenuous era in corporate behavior and my guards are up

Daniel V.May 10

Dinchen May 10

and that's why we prototype 😊
#pixelart #dinchenix #ドット絵

Daniel V.May 2

I went to the hardware store today and while I was there, one of the cats there apparently looked at me, said “This is some good vibes”, and walked right up to me and headbutt my leg, followed by her giving me the crunchiest of meows.

She then went and cat in a patio chair like a tubby ol man, propped up and leaning against the arm.

Absolutely darling little thing. I wish I got a photo, but alas: my hands were full.

Daniel V.Apr 19

Eniko Fox Apr 18

Imagine being a coder but thinking there's no artistry to writing code. What an empty existence

Daniel V.Apr 5

Hailey Apr 5

There's a particular strawman response to the concerns that LLMs damage literacy, impair learning, etc that goes like "well people said the same thing about the calculator!" "Socrates said writing would make people dumb!" and the reason it's a shit take is it pretends that pedagogy just doesn't exist. We _do_ study the effect of various technologies and methods used in teaching. We _know_ that certain methods of teaching reading are ineffective and damaging, three-cueing for example.

It is in fact anti-science to believe that all concerns about new technologies and methods being damaging are automatically invalid, especially in the face of mounting evidence supporting those concerns.

Daniel V.Mar 25

Lina Mar 25

Boost plz!

Looking for critical scholarship on the use of "AI" by library/archive workers. University libraries in particular, but adjacent and tangentially-relevant-at-best stuff is welcome too. Any format is fine: books, papers, blogposts, whatever. If it's good, gimme all you've got!

Looks like we're gonna have a department-wide conversation about people using LLMs, and it's being framed as "we're all using it, but we're not talking about it, so let's make sure we're all on the same page about using it responsibly" ... I'll of course be pushing the "there's basically no way to use it responsibly" position, and I'd like to arm myself and others with some critical analyses of issues related to its use in library/archive spaces.

#llm #LLMs #ai #libraries #archives

Daniel V.Mar 20

Lucretia Rage

Mar 20

Rumours of Chuck Norris' invulnerability have been greatly exaggerated.

Daniel V.Mar 12

𝔰𝔥𝔦𝔟𝔠𝔬 Mar 11

In 2015 I was on a beach in Hawai'i helping build the prototype of what became Signal. I argued that the app needed pseudonyms because abusers know their victims' phone numbers. I lost the fight that day. History proved me right, and Signal would move to usernames under @Mer__edith's stewardship.

In this new essay, I trace the line from Barlow's Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace through smart-home forensics, metadata killings, and Archive Team's non-consensual Tumblr scrape to ask: when did we decide that a jpeg is a photograph, that a profile is a person, that storage is memory?

The answer involves a boat off Honolulu, the early days of Signal, Iran's missiles over Amazon's Dubai AWS facilities, and the communities already building for a world where the server goes dark. This is an essay about infrastructure, memory, archiving without consent, and what we lose when we mistake the filesystem for memory.

It is also the angriest and most personal text I've ever written. I'm furious, and you should be too. We bet an entire civilisation on a brutal and unreliable stack. Now, fate has come to collect that wager.

California has a lot to fucking answer for.

https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/who-will-remember-us-when-the-servers-go-dark/

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