Mastodawn

When we posted this a couple of weeks ago, we had some AI enthusiasts insist that this diagram was the result of poor prompting, or that the prompt that the original poster made was to generate a funny, bad diagram. So we decided to test ChatGPT's capability... https://masto.ai/@vagina_museum/115100134755954006

Vagina Museum (@vagina_museum@masto.ai)

Attached: 1 image Today in AI Is Not A Good Source For Learning About The World's Most Misunderstood Body Part, meet this ChatGPT gem. Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.

Mastodon

Richard Ayres Sep 13

Anon Opin Sep 13

I'm totally against trespass and vandalism, but if a bit of spray paint on a military aircraft causes £7m of damage is it really fit for the rigours of warfare?

Richard Ayres Sep 13

Emeritus Prof Christopher May Sep 13

Jonathan Freedland makes an important point about the current political situation in which we find ourselves:

'a culture war inherently favours those willing to disregard the rules. It is a lesson that liberals & the left are, rightly, reluctant to learn – but that reluctance comes at an increasingly high price'....

But, equally the cost of 'disregarding the rules' especially as they relate to actually telling the truth, also exact a major social cost!

#politics

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/12/us-era-political-violence-donald-trump-charlie-kirk

The US is on the brink of another era of political violence – and Donald Trump ‘couldn’t care less’

In their humane responses to the killing of Charlie Kirk, Democrats are observing the old norms. Things are different now: anger and division rule, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The Guardian

Richard Ayres Sep 2

Kate Morley Sep 2

Delighted to see Zack Polanski easily winning the Green Party leadership contest (by 20,411 votes to 3,705) and then using the press conference to defend immigration and trans rights. Britain needs unapologetically progressive parties.

Richard Ayres Aug 26

Joshua Strobl

Aug 26

Fuck Google.

Remember folks, there are other options to Android besides just iOS. Sailfish OS exists. Plasma Mobile exists. PureOS exists.

They aren't going to provide the same level of experience. You won't be able to install apps that require more and more egregious attestation. You might even have to switch how you communicate and down the line as more developers bend the knee and turn on shit like Play Protect, change who you bank with or the services you buy.

And you know what? That's okay. I'm not a personal liberty absolutist by any means, but lines have to be drawn somewhere. It's my fucking device, I will use it how I want.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/google-will-block-sideloading-of-unverified-android-apps-starting-next-year/

Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year

Google says it’s no different than checking IDs at the airport.

Ars Technica

Richard Ayres Aug 26

Eugen Rochko Aug 26

"Sideloading" is the rentseeker word for "being able to run software of your choosing on a computing device you purchased". There is no reasonable case for an operating system developer having a say over what programs you run on your hardware.

#Android #Google

Richard Ayres Aug 25

Aral Balkan Aug 25

The reason we keep building the Torment Nexus is because all we have are Torment Nexus factories in a system designed by and for Torment Nexus factory owners.

#capitalism

Richard Ayres Aug 20

Zoe Gardner Aug 20

Day in, day out, I speak to ordinary people who are organising to welcome the asylum seekers accommodated in their towns. They befriend, support them, reach out to them as fellow human beings. That's the Britain I know, the one I see around me & we never get told about on TV.

Richard Ayres Aug 20

Jamie Osborne Aug 20

Surely it’s not the position of the UN that land illegally occupied should stymie all international law, especially with that being its intentional and stated purpose.

— ‘Israel’s top planning committee approved plans for the so-called E1 settlement in an area of land east of Jerusalem …
…
António Guterres, the UN secretary general, warned that constructing Israeli homes there would “put an end to” hopes for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.’

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/20/israel-is-killing-prospect-of-peace-in-the-middle-east-says-jordans-foreign-minister