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@semitones I know better than most, but this is very contained in the strip of land between my foundation and my walkway. It’s been there since my family bought this house in 1983 and probably much longer than that. I’ve got a lot of natives elsewhere on my property an even have purple coneflower in that very strip.
Record some vocal harmonies on your phone.
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The goal is to make corporate data less profitable.

Even stuff as simple as setting your birthdate to 1970-01-01 everywhere, adding [TEST] or [DELETED] as your name or account notes anywhere you don't need them to know your name.

Using plugins like AdNauseam to poison ad trackers (and cost them marketing dollars).

Using VPNs set to different locations.

Signing into data broker sites to "correct" outdated info (they'll often let you do that with little-to-no proof of identity, but will require your passport or state ID in order to delete your info). Bonus points if you correct it to someone else's info on their site that's similar to yours.

Only fill in required fields when you sign up for anything, but only provide correct info if it matters for you to use the service, otherwise provide plausible, but incorrect, data.

If you use LLMs anywhere, use the free tier and always vote thumbs up for bad answers and down for good ones. It wastes their resources and drives up their costs while making their training data worse.

@cainmark thank you! #BikeNite is one of the best parts of the social medias.

My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"

Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models/RfC

Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models/RfC - Wikipedia

The dainty Pied-billed Grebe has many awesome regional names: American dabchick, Carolina grebe, devil-diver, dive-dapper, dipper, hell-diver, pied-billed dabchick, pied-bill, thick-billed grebe, and water witch.
#nature #photo #grebe #PiedBilledGrebe #NaturePhotography
#photography #birds #birders #BirdWatching #BirdWatchers #California #LosAngeles #BirdPhoto #GriffithPark #DailyBird #BirdsOfPixelfed #BirdADay #DailyBird #BirdIfTheDay #LARiver #LosAngelesRiver #BirdsOfMastodon #Cute #NaturePhotos #LAWildlife
An eternity of ferns. A fernternity.
#ferniverse

Happy First of Spring from the Tuta Team! 🌞🐝🌸

We've beeeeeeen waiting for the blue skies, sunshine, & team ice cream outings - & now it's finally here. 🥰

1/ Today, we overwhelmingly voted to authorize a STRIKE as we fight for a fair contract with @ProPublica.