steve crandall

@stevecrandall
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Physicist with a variety of interests. Curious, but I still have my eyebrows and all of my fingers. - + + + mostly, sometimes + - - -

Volleyball and (especially) beach volleyball fan.

usually located 8178 pc from Sgr A* in New Jersey, USA

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So Grammarly foisted bad "advice" from AI-generated impersonations of real people on its users, without bothering to ask the people it's impersonating whether they had any issue with this rancid fakery.

https://www.platformer.news/grammarly-expert-review-reviewed/?ref=platformer-newsletter

Grammarly turned me into an AI editor against my will and I hate it

The company tells Platformer it will let experts opt out of the controversial feature — but how different is it than what every other AI company is doing?

Platformer

Dave Farber, R.I.P.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_J._Farber

More information will be forthcoming.

David J. Farber - Wikipedia

Daughter of Discord (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Mr Rogers was a republican. He was a white christian cis het man. He prayed and read the Bible every day. He created a children's TV show with taxpayer money in which he promoted his "christian views" to a secular audience through secular media. He studied other religions and other cultures to improve on his reach and connection. He never preached or quoted scripture--yet, we all got the message he intended for us. He appealed to President Nixon and Congress to continue to fund the creation of PBS with a persuasive speech that is one of the most studied for public speaking and PR. A gentle but powerful speaker. While white people were pouring concrete into public pools rather than share with black neighrbors, Fred Rogers broadcast himself sharing a quiet conversation in a pool with African-American music and co-worker, Francios Clemmons. The softest act of defiance against White Supremacy. He was the most demanded speaker on college campuses--he did not have to con his way onto campus to speak and nazis and counter-protesters did not follow his appearances---You know, despite the fact that he was a white christian man promoting christian values to the general public. Every generation since the 1968 has been positively impacted by Mr Rogers. Even children in the past 20 years are benefiting from his legacy at PBS --his methods and messages are STILL used in children's programming around the world. No one had to mandate mourning his death because we all actually felt a genuine loss when he passed away. Even grown adults, who had not watched his show for 10 years by the time he passed, felt a piece of genuine goodness leave the planet. We did not have to be Christian with Mr Rogers for him to do so much for us. He never asked us to be Christian with him. He only asked us to be his neighbor. So... If you find that the general public is rejecting your brand of Christianity, it might because you are a horrible fucking person with a 2000 yr old book of shitty excuses that no one is buying into. It might be because you are a filthy grifter looking to capitalize off end-times hysteria and seniors with end-of-life anxieties. It might be cause you are a disgusting bigot trying to reap superiority while evading moral accountability. It probably has nothing to do at all with you actually "being a christian". Cause we all fucking loved Mr Rogers. -- Patchie Dee

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who will be first to hack alaska phone voting? halderman? bellovin? one of the matts?

NEW: The bipartisan Senate Appropriations Committee has rejected Trump’s proposed $18 billion, 40% cut to the National Institutes of Health budget and endorsed a $400 million increase.

DO NOT GIVE UP! Our advocacy is working. Keep speaking up and calling your elected officials.

Underlining the point here: the fundamental argument of the pro-AI crowd in coding is that it makes you go faster and, after you’ve gone faster, you can go slower a little bit to catch the errors caused by going faster.

This has two problems

Because it’s harder to catch defects in code you didn’t write, the only realistic way of ensuring that you really do “go faster” is to let more defects through, unintentionally or no.

the very phrase "calculator for words" tells you everything you need to know about why the STEM-obsessed set should be kept far far far away from the humanities. words are not numbers! people are not numbers! I say this as a scientist myself: learning how to write often inspires critical thinking...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tgw3d4hvw3x5ijrxax7lg26u/post/3lolir73mwc2l
Nathan Kalman-Lamb (@nkalamb.bsky.social)

Sam Altman describes ChatGPT as merely “a calculator for words” the man responsible for destroying education doesn't understand writing, thinking, or math, although, to be fair, he certainly does understand capital

Bluesky Social
dentist is going to add a $10 surcharge to all visits soon to partly cover increasing costs from the Trump/GOP 'consumer tax'.. he's really pissed as he supported T in the past election.

I am under a DDoS attack. Not my server, not my service. Me.

And like everything these days, it has to do with #AI.

This is going to be a thread because I'm annoyed and have much to say. It should be called something like "How I wasted a good part of the last 7 years having to react to a dubious technology instead of doing my job". Or perhaps "How a science disappeared". You can decide. /0

Wall Street Journal's investigation into Musk's baby-making machine is jaw-dropping. Free link below:

https://www.wsj.com/politics/elon-musk-children-mothers-ashley-st-clair-grimes-dc7ba05c?st=NYbpEK&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink