CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@alice

Any "benefits" disappear once someone is on HRT.

The IOC said there may be "rare exceptions" for DSD athletes who do not benefit from the performance-enhancing effects of testosterone.

Fuck them and their disengenous bullshit.

@AAKL @nature

I don't know.

But this?

“We’re not going to be able to remove the power to generate AI scientific papers,” says Aaron Schein, a data scientist at the University of Chicago and one of the ICBINB workshop organizers. “This technology is only going to get better.* I don’t think there’s anything to do about that.”

(Emphasis mine)

Is a delusion pushed by tech bros trying to keep the bubble from popping.

@AAKL @nature

This is the goal right here:

There was one metric, though, where the AI Scientist did outperform human researchers by a huge margin: it produced a formally passable paper on machine learning within 15 hours at a cost Clune estimated to be around $140. Compare that with the capability of a graduate student, who might take a full semester to write their first accepted workshop paper, according to Schneider.

Devalue the human and reduce the novel work of actually thinking and being creative to the only thing MBAs understand: time and money.

The problem? A graduate student working on their first paper is learning and will become a more effective scientist and perhaps a productive member of society. A genAI regurgitator will always be an unthinking, power hungry black hole. It will not get "smarter". It will never not confabulate because it's all confabulation that just happens to sometimes match reality.

@JessTheUnstill saaaaaaaaaame

@futurebird

My handwriting is borderline illegible but at least Microsoft can't use my spiral notebooks to train its Copilot models.

@futurebird

I occasionally write in cursive just to remember how. I do sometimes have to look up how to do a few of the capital letters.

A capital "Q" in cursive looks like a number 2 for some reason.

@Heliograph @RealGene thank you for posting the image. I hadn't seen it from anyone else.

@marjolica @azonenberg @danslimmon

I imagine if a business is only going to maintain a few reverse lookups anyway, they will prioritize their MX records over the A records. I am used to looking at all the DNS requests and responses, not just those for email.

@RealGene @Heliograph
Thanks. The OP didn't recognize a Alien xenomorph and facehugger apparently.

Edit: I was kind of an asshole. I apologize for my behavior.

@marjolica @azonenberg @danslimmon

If we blocked no reverse DNS, I'm not sure there would be anything left.

@mattblaze
After dismantling the task force investigating Salt Typhoon.

@Willow

I didn't know "transgender" existed until I was 30. My egg didn't fully crack for another five years.

For me, I had to do some weapons-grade introspection just to admit to myself that I was trans even though it checked every box and explained all the shit I'd been through and almost every uncomfortable thought I'd ever had.

I was like, "is there something you can give me to make it go away?"

"Yes, HRT."

@moshidon

Welcome back.

@jeffowski

They do rule the world.

FOR NOW

@FinchHaven @KathyLK @heidilifeldman

Democrats were so concerned with decorum that they let a traitor get away with treason / sedition and then he got elected President.

They deserve to accept some responsibility for where we are right now.

@hbons

"Look, I only took to scamming part time, but I found it really accelerated my ability to feel powerful, like I accomplished something to boost my own ego without actually accomplishing anything except wasting other people's time. So, clearly you are the asshole if you don't let me scam you so I can continue to feel powerful and waste your time."

@emilymbender

I've heard of other people becoming ChatGPT disciples because they were able to get it to spit out medical advice that led to them getting an accurate diagnosis or to getting a treatment they otherwise wouldn't have known about.

When I ask questions like "is genAI worth the exploitation, the environmental damage, the concentration of wealth, the erosion of our rights, the intentional weakening of our ability to think for ourselves" they might say, "yes, because no doctor took me seriously or listened to me. No one was interested in helping me or even acknowledging I needed help. But ChatGPT listened. ChatGPT helped."

What does that say about the world we've created around ourselves? About what our cultures and our leaders have forced us to prioritize? They created the problem and are here to sell us the cure.

@futurebird

The best reaction my wife and I had to telling someone I was transgender was a heartfelt "is that all?"

I just found out my wife raw dogged IRC in college. No wrapper or macros, no mIRC once that was a thing. She had a notebook with the commands written down.

Respect.

She got a fist bump for that.

I mostly did MUD for chat and I used TinTin.

Still, after nearly thirty years I'm still learning new things about the woman I love.

Neither of us got to use BBSes.

#IRC #MUD #GoodOldDays

@glyph @SnoopJ @aud @tante

Before our old CEO retired, he opined that turning agentic AI loose was like giving a toddler admin access.