Chris Stroupe

22 Followers
287 Following
133 Posts
He/him/his. Retired biochemist. Cooking, gardening, urban forestry, wilderness first aid, music. Piedmont Master Gardeners, Charlottesville Area Tree Stewards, Blue Ridge Mountain Rescue Group.
Websitehttps://www.stroupe.net/

This just in:

Prime Day is not a news story and linking to affiliate deals is not journalism.

seems like a reasonable way to interact with those peddling conspiracy theories.
We just joined Mastodon, please follow us. Still more posts to come soon.

Dear developers: I don't want to use your app on my phone. I want a mobile web version, and you can do that.

Thanks kindly.

THIS IS A JWST IMAGE OF A NEARBY PLANET-FOMRING SYSTEM

LOOK AT IT

LOOOOOK AT IIIIIIIITTTTTTT

(also click the link please)

https://badastronomy.substack.com/p/jwst-sees-an-asteroid-belt-around

JWST sees an asteroid belt around the star Fomalhaut!

Three huge dusty structures surround the nearby naked-eye star

Bad Astronomy Newsletter
I'm not TOO worried about bad AI generated writing making us all stupider. I'm more worried about losing new voices because no on reads stuff from people they've never heard of.
(gift article)
He wrote a book on a rare subject. Then a ChatGPT replica appeared on Amazon. https://wapo.st/3VGYF2v
He wrote a book on a rare subject. Then a ChatGPT replica appeared on Amazon.

The web has long been full of spammy content. AI is on the verge of making it much worse.

The Washington Post
@mattblaze We definitely need more electronic devices built into briefcases.
@froomkin "Just askin' questions!"

(Apologies for the periodic reupping of the Never Work In Theory conference I'm running. One consequence of walking away from the Twitter meltdown is that in those few times I want that Explosive Growth tool on the table, it's not around. So it's gotta be a steady grind. Support empirical engineering with a repost!)

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/it-will-never-work-in-theory-tickets-527743173037

It Will Never Work in Theory

Want to learn what we actually know about software engineering? These lightning talks will tell you what researchers have discovered.

Eventbrite
We don't need a national data-privacy and transparency law that would set rules for all apps, we just need American apps with American people and American values