Seeing usually smart folks getting rope-a-doped into arguing for LLM utility like there's a moral justice zero-sum trolley-problem slider between "useful" and "ethical" and we're just arguing about the best setting

But the real problem is even dumber

-is its mere use a climate disaster? Yes
-is its data provenance founded on theft? Also yes
-will it be used to ruin ordinary workers' lives? Yup
-will it ruin countless organizations who think they're buying their way to cheap labor? That too

just checking in on the financial revolution that was meant to sidestep banks, tech giants, and the state

#crypto #cryptocurrency

Studio Ghibli Puts Online 400 Images from Eight Classic Films, and Lets You Download Them for Free

https://www.openculture.com/2020/09/studio-ghibli-puts-online-400-images-from-eight-classic-films.html

At the time I got married, 13 years ago, I lived in a flat. I liked it cos it was a short walk from the train station. Good for getting home after late nights out.

My wife moved in. One day she said, "The only problem with this flat is that it's a long walk from the station."

Long?

Turns out it's short if you go thru the woods & by the dark underpass, a route a woman would never think of taking.

And that was my 1st lesson in how we inhabit the same space but live in different worlds.

Relevant as the days get shorter. All credit goes to @tomflood and @TheBikingLawyer (Not yet on Mastodon)

#CycleTO #BikeTooter #Urbanism #SafeStreets #TheBikingLawyer