lizbian

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polyamorous trans butch fresh-starting social media. Something with feminism, radical politics, queer activism, computers, and bad jokes.

Toots in de and en.

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lizbian1d ago
Show threadColin MDec 16
No, you’re not a “prompt engineer”, you’re a sloperator.
lizbian1d ago
Show threadDaniel Baird2d ago
@brunogirin @lizbian @greem @flangey @benjojo reminds me of this classic post https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names | Kalzumeus Software

Classic essay about how software routinely bumbles human names.

lizbian6d ago
Show threadschratzeMar 13

Michael Geoffrey Asia: "I worked on Meta-related projects under Sama and later took on roles at CloudFactory, TELUS International, TransPerfect DataForce, Appen, and NMS Philippines. In much of this work, I was tasked with impersonating and training AI companions—performing emotional labor that required intense psychological presence while remaining entirely invisible to the users who interacted with these systems."

https://data-workers.org/michael/

The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy, by Michael Geoffrey Asia.

Imagine confiding your most private fantasies to what you believe is an unfeeling algorithm that cannot judge or remember. Now imagine that on the other side of that conversation is a man sitting in a one-room home in Nairobi, working through the night while his wife and children sleep. That man is Michael, and this is his story.

Data Workers' Inquiry
lizbianMar 10
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦Mar 10

Ig Nobels to move awards to Europe due to concern over US travel visas
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/mar/09/ig-nobel-prize-europe

> The annual Ig Nobels, a satirical award for scientific achievement, are shifting for the first time from the US to Europe due to concerns about attendees getting visas, organizers announced on Monday.

That story again:

Even parody Nobel committee recognizes how dangerous it is to travel to the USA these days. If your conference doesn't, your conference is less serious than parody Nobels. 🤡

#USpol

Ig Nobels to move awards to Europe due to concern over US travel visas

Scientific awards – which honor research that makes people laugh and then think – to move away from ‘unsafe’ US

The Guardian
lizbianMar 9
Show threadBaldur BjarnasonMar 9

And they are right. LLMs make it easier for devs to do work that doesn't matter in an industry that doesn't care, where the only thing that's measured is some bullshit measure that's disconnected from actual outcomes

Many of those most vocal about the dysfunctions of LLM-coding were ALREADY WARNING ABOUT THE DYSFUNCTIONS OF THE SOFTWARE INDUSTRY BEFORE "AI". The dysfunctions predate this particular bubble and many in software have been concerned about them for years.

lizbianMar 9
aevaMar 9
"prompt engineers" are living in the past. they're gonna be replaced by "prompt agents". you won't even be allowed to write the copyrightable words "large breasts trending on art station in the style of someone else's life's work" you'll just drool the word "horny" or "app" into the saas and the cloud will dispense the most statistically probable approximation of your most statistically probable desires and praise you on the above average quality of your drool.
lizbianMar 9
inconvergentMar 8
an LLM is a compiler in the same way that a slot machine is an ATM
lizbianMar 8
Anne RothMar 8
Mit Social-Media-Verboten hätte es Fridays For Future nicht gegeben.
lizbianMar 6

Ich formuliere diese Headline mal anders: etwa 5 von 6 IT-Unternehmen in Deutschland kennen entweder nicht die Regulierungen, denen sie unterliegen, oder ignorieren diese bewusst.

https://www.heise.de/news/Ab-jetzt-Bussgelder-moeglich-Stichtag-fuer-NIS2-Registrierungspflicht-11201817.html

Ab jetzt Bußgelder möglich: Stichtag für NIS2-Registrierungspflicht

Heute endet die Frist für Unternehmen und Behörden, sich zu registrieren, wenn sie unter die NIS2-Regeln fallen. Erste Zahlen lösen politische Irritationen aus.

heise online
lizbianMar 6
Anne RothMar 6

„Ich fürchte, wir erleben gerade auf vielen Ebenen ein Phänomen, das man symbolische Gesetzgebung nennt: Wenn die Politik ein komplexes Problem nicht lösen kann, demonstriert sie mit einer vermeintlich einfachen Lösung Handlungsfähigkeit.

Die Ursachen des Problems werden damit aber nicht angegangen. Im Falle der sozialen Medien wäre es sinnvoller, sichere digitale Räume für Kinder und Jugendliche zu gestalten – besser noch für alle Menschen.“

@verfassungsblog

https://verfassungsblog.de/nur-die-illusion-von-schutz/

„Nur die Illusion von Schutz“

 

Verfassungsblog