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Mansplaining, Gatekeeping, Neophobia… there ought to be a better word for nerds reflexively shit-testing other people on the basis of professional prejudice
I posted a question to Reddit seeking advice on “How best to connect my Dishwasher to the hot water supply” and (as expected) the first three responses were people saying (paraphrase) “that’s crazy, why would you want to do that?” Answer: because the manufacturer says it’s a good idea, and the math checks out. I
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Do you remember before so many people understood Trust & Safety, back when you could get a major newspaper “FACEBOOK IS BLOCKING ME!” outrage-karma boost from a single tweet?
“Good times, good times…” https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/kansas-reflector-meta-facebook-column-censored
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How To Use NotebookLM As A Research Tool | by Steven Johnson | Feb, 2024 | stevenberlinjohnson
This sounds like fun, but it is …so I shall just soldier on with Emacs and Pandoc. https://stevenberlinjohnson.com/how-to-use-notebooklm-as-a-research-tool-6ad5c3a227cc
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“There Is No General First Amendment Right to Distribute Machine-Learning Model Weights” | Lawfare | Poppycock…
Prediction: ML model weights to be printed on t-shirts by 2026 https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/there-is-no-general-first-amendment-right-to-distribute-machine-learning-model-weights
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Neovim
%s/vim/emacs/g %s/lua/elisp/g Still, looks like fun… https://neovim.io/
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US FTC (temporarily) declines to approve “Age Estimation” as a proxy for parental consent; @GetYoti “disappointed”
Various peers are reporting, even crowing about this as a “take the win”-kind of victory, but I am not going to celebrate yet: reading between the lines, the FTC has basically kicked the ball of approving AI-based “Age Estimation” technologies for use in the USA into the long grass, awaiting a likely positive report from
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Visit Sunny San Serriffe!
This is awesome: https://everythingisamazing.substack.com/p/week-2-1-charting-nonsense-land
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Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Easter Egg in Numberblocks
Watching series four of Numberblocks with the toddler this morning, and in the finale song I finally spotted how they represented 42: Simon Jones as Arthur Dent, with towel and tea