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God, people get so enraged when you try to politely tell them “I would have reposted that but it didn’t have alt text”. So I won’t tell this guy; he’ll never see this. But I didn’t. And it’s a shame because otherwise it was a banger of a post.

I’m posting this instead to still promote the general idea that alt text is rad and makes everything better. We’ll keep building good culture here anyways.

@Athena I am suddenly less interested in their policy on LLMs and more interested in their policy on ethics. Excluding ethical concerns as a basis for policy is what you do when you know your preferred policies are unethical. Any project which accepts such an exclusion should be treated as a threat.
This year’s true #Eurovision winners are the countries that decided not to participate.
Congratulations to them all.

Congress House Speaker Mike Johnson says we should have sympathy because Congress isn’t paid enough — so we should “allow” insider trading just so they can take care of their families.

Fuck you, Mike Johnson, and every so-called “public servant” who thinks public service is a get-rich-quick scheme.

#Corruption #Government #Congress

@flpvsk @jwz they couldn’t reach a consensus while including ethical concerns, so they decided to exclude ethical concerns and write a policy without considering whether or not that policy is unethical. Their willingness to accept an unethical policy is quite bad
BREAKING: GitHub switching status page default language to German in order to return to five neins.

2/ Meanwhile, renewables met 100% of global demand growth for electricity last year. The rest of the world is racing ahead on clean energy, building the economy of the future. The Liberal government is taking us backwards, locking us into more pipelines, more fossil fuel dependence, and more handouts for some of the richest corporations on earth. 

An industry expected to make $90 billion in profits this year alone does not need more gifts from the public.

#cdnpoli #climate #NDP

@ajh @NanoRaptor change your name to O'something and watch as either you cause database failures or your choice of punctuation is totally ignored.

“Get rid of the police? But what about domestic abusers?”

I guess they’ll have to get new jobs