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Another Angry WomanTraditional ides of march dinner
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GatoJardin
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She, her. I like cats, gardens, arts & crafts, indieweb, webdev, gamedev and read a lot about climate change and tech.
Christine Lemmer-WebberSlay The Spire 2's placeholder art should be a lesson to all the developers caught up in AI-generated nonsense https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/slay-the-spire-2s-placeholder-art-should-be-a-lesson-to-all-the-developers-caught-up-in-ai-generated-nonsense
Yesssssss
Chris PirilloI just spent the last 24 hours building... a free tool to create your very own handwriting font quickly within the browser (no logins, all local processing):
https://arcade.pirillo.com/fontcrafter.html
Having tested it extensively on my own manuscript, I can definitely say that it works. ;) Download the OTF and/or TTF when done!
Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂The first ten minutes I spent on social media this morning made me feel all kinds of things. Why is it that people who routinely use LLMs are so loud and brash and proud, making these tools appear as essential and inevitable?
A post by a dev whose app I use said something along the lines of: "no use exercising your coding skills, AI is too good now, you can't compete with it anyway".
Another post by a user on an instance I try to engage with wrote - literally: "tired of overthinking every decision?" and then disclosed he had created an AI that will "run a weighted decision matrix so you don't have to." In all seriousness.
What is this dystopian world where human qualities are devalued, critical thinking is discarded and surveillance capitalism is ignored at the altar of AI worship?
If they are loud and proud, maybe so I can be too... but in the opposite direction.
This weekend I will start the MIT's Missing Semester class (the 2020 Lectures, so pre-AI) because in this brave new world hyping up techno-fascist LLMs, knowing the basics of code are essential IMHO.
So my March "project" will be a deep dive in MIT's Missing Semester and my April project will be off-grid mesh radio communication.
What about you, what are you doing to resist?
Special props to @emilymbender @cwebber and @tante for being outspoken on these issues... you're my beacons of hope
#NoAI
A post by a dev whose app I use said something along the lines of: "no use exercising your coding skills, AI is too good now, you can't compete with it anyway".
Another post by a user on an instance I try to engage with wrote - literally: "tired of overthinking every decision?" and then disclosed he had created an AI that will "run a weighted decision matrix so you don't have to." In all seriousness.
What is this dystopian world where human qualities are devalued, critical thinking is discarded and surveillance capitalism is ignored at the altar of AI worship?
If they are loud and proud, maybe so I can be too... but in the opposite direction.
This weekend I will start the MIT's Missing Semester class (the 2020 Lectures, so pre-AI) because in this brave new world hyping up techno-fascist LLMs, knowing the basics of code are essential IMHO.
So my March "project" will be a deep dive in MIT's Missing Semester and my April project will be off-grid mesh radio communication.
What about you, what are you doing to resist?
Special props to @emilymbender @cwebber and @tante for being outspoken on these issues... you're my beacons of hope
#NoAI
Max Glenister
Djamila Knopf @LBM B304I painted herons in flight. medium: Nicker poster colour on Arches watercolour paper #Art #TraditionalArt #Nature #Animals #Landscape #Environment
AI6YR BenLOL true Mastodon verification:
YOU MUST VERIFY YOURSELF ON MASTODON BY:
- Posting a picture of a cat in your lap
- Random photos of flowers
- Wax poetic about your favorite episode of Star Trek TNG (or your hate of the series)
- Random, undecipherable technical blabbering about ham radio electronics
- Mention something about your favorite Linux command line
- Say hello to your many LGBTQ followers/friends here, just because you're glad they're here
- Toot a picture of some mushroom you ran into while walking in the forst
- Something something astronomy
- Random gadget/device/bicycle post
- Post a random picture of a tree or window
- Photo of your sewing/mending project!
- Hand drawn art post
Bubotomy
Annelies Kamran, Ph.D.This might explain why young people are so anxious, etc. It's the phones, but also the laptops -- they don't use their hands for anything. We don't require them to write anything by hand, they don't have to learn to tie a knot, food comes ready to serve, and so on. They spend hours on devices for school and for fun, never developing fine motor skills or neurological connections. https://mastodon.art/@inarticulatequilter/116137163430670207
InarticulateQuilter (@[email protected])
“We’re getting used to the idea that we can do things to improve our long-term brain health. But so much attention has gone to what I think of as bro culture things: extreme exercise, fasting, cold water immersion, expensive supplements… What if we took a different approach? [Studies show] you make things with your hands, you are nearly half as likely to have cognitive decline by the time you’re 85.” https://www.snapdragonlife.com/news/blog/the-neuroscience-of-making-why-your-hands-matter-more-than-you-think/