Ingrid Burrington @ingrid@everything.happens.horse
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Took a bunch of teenagers doing summer camp at the New York Times (????) on an internet walking tour and bless the one teenager who thought the whole thing was so incredible and didn't try to act too cool
Would I prefer Bernie Sanders hold the mantle of most cantankerous "give me a break" president? Sure. But the Biden "give me a break" is undeniable
It is possible to disagree with many of Joe Biden's political choices and also admit few presidents have said the phrase "give me a break" with greater disdainful conviction
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USB-C is so eco friendly, it stops all of those chargers ending up in landfills don't you know!
Meanwhile: People are filling landfills with otherwise perfectly fine laptops and Nintendo Switches and phones because said USB-C ports aren't on flyleads internally and require advanced level soldering skills and a fuck-ton of equipment and countless different ports to hand to use as replacement because they're only the same connector externally.
This is one of my biggest greenwashing tech grumbles
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Another reason to call and email your reps. They need to hear from us now that trans rights are not a bargaining chip.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/national-anti-trans-bans-loom-will
@SarahBreau totally not meant as a scold and sorry it came across that way! The comparison is more based in observing that capitalist corporations are basically a form of sentient AI that already do harm and AGI is more likely than not a hypothetical talked up by rich tech people who want to draw attention away from practical regulatory issues. It's not one is "worse" so much as one isn't real.
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Organised atoms: electronics from the earth ⛏️
We're really excited to have received a Flamm commission for a brand new project that is all about grounded approaches to exploring technology. This project has come about in response to a growth in a kind of tech mysticism, fuelled by a belief that the solution to our problems is to relinquish understanding to imagined higher powers.
https://thentrythis.org/notes/2023/07/20/organised-atoms-electronics-from-the-earth/
https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/25/germany_climate_fund/ feeling some kind of way about money from a state climate fund being diverted toward building out a manufacturing sector reliant on petrochemicals, heavy metals, and lots of water!!
The other night someone told me their 5 year old was obsessed with spray paint markings for a while because of my book and "fueling a child's hyper fixation" is probably my favorite creative legacy
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"With a software death date baked into each model, older versions of these inexpensive computers are set to expire three to six years after their release. Despite having fully functioning hardware, an expired Chromebook will no longer receive the software updates it needs, blocking basic websites and applications from use…
[Pictured] A pile of Chromebooks with expired software sit in a classroom at Montera Middle School in Oakland, Calif"
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This is like reading a modern day version of the madness of King George III
Should I go get ice cream
I always feel much more chuffed when I "do numbers" on fedi than the other web sites because it takes so much more effort for people to find stuff on here
What if he'd renamed it Cool S, better or worse I think worse bc the Cool S doesn't deserve that
@immibis I mean, what is an LLM if not the consequence of thousands of people engaged in tedious labor? The gap between labeling and emails seems small to me. (I'm mostly joking but do kind of think adding "digital" is superfluous)
@immibis the "but digital" part
@immibis huh I'm familiar with AGI is just corporations but not the second half
truly incredible to be more afraid of a potential AI superintelligence than of actually existing ExxonMobil
I assume the TV show Girls is a lot like this conversation
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