Grant McWilliams

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@Nedwilcox1 @Catmama @nus @Lind I don't think a manual should be necessary to follow people.
@johnwehrle Change the job if different applicants are desirable.

The stages of playing with GPT-3:

- OMG this can do anything
- There goes my job
- I should start a business around this
- Some of the responses aren’t too good
- Actually, some of these responses are just awful
- This isn’t really intelligence
- This is just spicy autocomplete

(as was forwarded to me w/no attribution)

"A handful of companies own the #patents on virtually every #seed planted in the US. Now, a new crop of unowned seeds is bringing #biodiversity back to #farming."
https://worldsensorium.com/open-source-seeds-loosen-big-ags-grip-on-farmers/

#agriculture #food #monopoly #ossi (Open Source Seed Initiative)

FYI, I link to two earlier reports on this problem (2017 and 2019) in a tweet from 2020.
https://twitter.com/petersuber/status/1317831041055399936

“Open Source” Seeds Loosen Big Ag’s Grip on Farmers – World Sensorium / Conservancy

🇪🇪 Estonia plans to close the Gulf of Finland to the #RussianFederation. (United24Media)
According to Foreign Minister Reinsalu, the government is going to introduce a coastal "adjacent" zone where the country can inspect ships within the territorial sea, in this case 24 nautical miles from the baseline.
By closing the #GulfofFinland, #Estonia will can conduct inspections of ships and vessels leaving the #Leningrad region and prohibit passage through the Gulf in case of refusal of inspection.
Boost this toot if you're planning on sticking around Mastodon whether or not it becomes more popular than the birdsite.
Hashtags that are hot for me right now. What prompted that?

George Santos, who stole from a small businessman, will be on Small Business Committee.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, who incited Jan 6, will be on Homeland Security Committee.

Scott Perry, who's being investigated by the FBI, might investigate the investigators investigating him.

@johnwehrle @carnage4life I'd win because I'd take 365 days!
@carnage4life And what do people think will happen if they actually take unlimited vacation? I think we may have to add another definition of unlimited to the dictionary. That is if it isn't already there due to telecommunication companies and their unlimited Internet plans.