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[MerelyGifted]

Random Silly Grins

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[SallyM]

You can call me AI

Update: I’ve spent a significant portion of the afternoon with ChatGPT trying to gaslight me about what it sees in a clock face and it is amazing. This alone should indict the whole concept of generative AI making decisions based on input and model.

Highlights

[image] Based on direct visual analysis of the uploaded image: Clock Hands Interpretation Main Clock Face (Outer Dial) Hour Hand (shorter): Pointing almost exactly at X (10) Minute Hand (longer): Pointing exactl…

[MerelyGifted]

Thank you, SallyM. That entire subthread? which got started by my post re: ai’s being moronic about time and calendars is incredible. I wanted to put all of Waz’s posts here, couldn’t decide what to do, so in true ADHD form, I “walked away” from it.

Thank you once again.

[wazroth]

The first thing I did when my work gave me a ChatGPT license was to see how badly I could fuck with it. As far as I’m concerned, this is well within my remit, since one of my roles is to support information literacy instruction.

[MerelyGifted]

…and thank you so V much for those great posts. They should have ahem like 5000 likes each.

[SallyM]

Climate change and climate justice

We already have a mechanism for widespread and efficient direct air capture. It takes the atmospheric CO₂ and locks it into a stable, useful even, solid matrix. It even frees up oxygen as a byproduct of the process. They’re called “trees”.

[SallyM]

Something, something, billionaires

Everyone should be able to afford their own senator.

[SallyM]

The goddamn Trump Administration (Part 2)

I’m guessing it will be a quantum parade, simultaneously for Trump and not for Trump, sometimes even within the same unintelligible statement.

[SallyM]

Fall of the Fourth Estate: A Critique of Mass Media

Again, I’d have much less problem with people thinking there’s a right and a wrong if they didn’t somehow decide the concentration-camps-for-kids guy is in the right. The problem with Trump supporters isn’t simply that they don’t see shades of gray, it’s that they have made cruelty into their morality.

[MerelyGifted]

"Motors" - revving up again

Teslas do not fail; they can only be failed! /s

[MagicFox]

Unicorn Chasers

If all the achievements of our species disappear completely and only this video remains and if an alien archaeologist finds it, the entire universe will mourn our end.

[SallyM]

It's perfectly cromulent to say font

My wife was a legal secretary (and later a paralegal) for many years. Her law office used WordPerfect, but she had to use Office for some city- and county-mandated things. After a particularly frustrating struggle with an Office document, she summed up the problem pretty well, I thought: “WordPerfect lets you do what you want to do; Office lets you do what it wants you to do.”

[Murgatroyd]

[mindysan33]

The problems of the Democratic party

I’m a day ot two late responding to this… but “normal” is a pet peeve of mine, for a long time now. What’s “normal”? It depends largely on who defines it. “Normal” for neurotypical folks isn’t the same as “normal” for neurodivergent types. “Normal” for color-blind people wouldn’t be the same as “normal” for average-sighted people, which is again going to differ from those of us who are near-sighted, far-sighted, astigmatic, or a combination of two or more… While certain standards (like 20/20 …

[SallyM]

The goddamn Trump Administration (Part 2)

In my list of right-wing fools not understanding that work doesn’t happen unless someone does it, I should probably have added centrist Democrats not realizing democratic safeguards do nothing if they aren’t applied.

[SallyM]

C'mon Guys (Toxic Masculinity)

There are three basic responses to an autism diagnosis, that I’ve seen. (And combinations and permutations, of course.) I’m autistic, huh. So, you know, that’s a thing. (this is information which may be relevant at some point, but most of the time I’m just trying to get by.) I’m autistic, which means I have to work harder for the same result. (I recognise that I have difficulties with some things, but that means I need to put more effort in if I want them. No-one’s going to do it for me,…

[SallyM]

You can call me AI

Why can’t they make A.I. to take away my fears and anxiety instead of my dreams and livelihood?

[chgoliz]

Well this is interesting

Ok, I get the whole disappointment with our species, but I really don’t think it’s fair to simply declare us stupid and cruel and leave it there. We are – but we’re also brilliant and loving. People will suffer any agony to ruin someone’s life, and they will devote their whole life to helping someone they’ve never met. We invent medicines and poisons, we make poems and pyramid schemes, we launch bombs and raise butterflies, we tell lies for the most banal motives and we investigate the universe …

[Axolotl]

Um.... what.... aka, this is the dumbest thing I've ever read

From the article: After months of Musk acting as Donald Trump’s chainsaw-wielding right-hand man, Democrats are conflicted about Musk’s pivot Thursday to criticizing the House-passed megabill and its gutting of clean energy tax credits. But they’re slowly starting to realize that they should use him to their advantage. “Musk and I have had deep disagreements on his approach at DOGE, but on this issue he is correct,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), one of Musk’s chief antagonists in the House, said…

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Just because a broken clock is right twice a day doesn’t mean I should toss my perfectly functioning clock out the window and replace it with the broken one

[SallyM]

The goddamn Trump Administration (Part 2)

Not to wax too pedantic (or off-topic) but the two primary categories of coffee brewing are “percolation” (i.e., water passes through the ground coffee under gravity or pressure and extracts solutes from the coffee as it passes through) and “infusion” (i.e., the coffee is immersed in the water and the time under immersion is what extracts the solutes). There are some hybrid techniques that have both an infusion and a percolation phase. Drip coffee and machine espresso are percolation technique…