Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Do you live in Napa county and have fruit trees with more fruit than you can use?

St. Helena High School's Environmental Club has been active in the local fruit gleaning effort, helping harvest fruit which would otherwise go unused. The fruit is donated to the St. Helena Food Pantry.

If you'd like to participate in the fruit gleaning program, call 707-696-0530.

Like I'm pretty savvy. I'm also tired as hell today, and damn near clicked the big glowy button to make shit go away. I try to be vigilant, but it's emotionally exhausting to always have to treat every part of being online with such weariness.

Again, I hate what the web has become.

Welp here we fuckin go. GPT-4 is launched.

Back in the run-up to this release, four whole days ago, a bunch of people were talking over on the birdsite about their reactions to the pronouncements of those who'd gotten beta access, and MSFT's own discussions of what they believed it was going to be like.

Everybody in the gpt-4 trend was talking about how much faster it's reported to be, how many more things it can supposedly be applied to, all while blithely glossing over the fact that MSFT itself said that it is *Still Very Often Wrong* (https://www.rockingrobots.com/gpt-4-to-be-released-this-week/).

And that? That is the problem with our technoculture, in a nutshell.

And today, as seen in the image below, we have have these just… incredible scenes, live from OpenAI's GPT-4, where, when Chris Nicholson asked GPT-4 to give him a syllabus and mnemonics for learning Spanish pronunciation, not only did GPT-4 *Get Most Of The Pronunciations Wrong*, but— and I genuinely do not know which of these is worse— *the New York Times Reprinted The Exchange Without Calling This Out*.

I just… Holy shit y'all.

And then add to ALL of that the fact that MSFT just laid off their entire "Ethical A.I." team, in favour of their increasing the workload and making increasingly nebulous the remit of their "Office of Responsible A.I." And they did this right before this the GPT-4 release announcement went wide, specifically citing the pace of development as the reason they were laying their ethicists off (https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-ai-ethical-ai-bing-chatgpt-layoffs-1850223358).

Let me say that again:

Microsoft is laying off their whole "ethical A.I." team specifically BECAUSE they are increasing the range of integrations of their "A.I." tool throughout their *Widely-Used-By-The-U.S.-Government* product ecosystem.

…Which tells me they woefully misunderstand both "Ethics" and "A.I."

I mean this is damn near beyond parody at this point. If I were going to craft a list of shit to absolutely NOT DO in a time like this, it would look pretty much exactly like what OpenAI and MSFT are doing, right now.

Things are about to get real bad, real fast, and you can feel free to quote me on that.

Recommended resolution: delete Reddit.

facebook, medium, and cloudflare: we're going to join the fediverse!

me:

Ok so I joke but actually it's asinine that we don't just use fractions for common angular measurements.

"Alright kids today we're gonna learn about angles! They're just like fractions, but for Reasons you always have to either multiply the fraction by 360 or by 6.2831853072 depending on arbitrary context."

for your consideration

Police are an absolute menace.

How I got arrested for being a pedestrian. | by HarryTheTallCyclist | Mar, 2023
https://medium.com/@harrythetallcyclist/how-i-got-arrested-for-being-a-pedestrian-a66bd3c86472

Just did part one of three of a Big Important Thing™ and the stress of it all, as well as facing the issue itself, has made me incredibly anxious.

However, I am leaning into stimming and it's making dealing with these difficult feelings less scary and I'm calming down easier.

Before knowing I was autistic, I would have tried to suppress my urge to stim because rocking my body and waving my arms around was deemed as "strange" and like a poor coping mechanism. Now I know it's the opposite, I feel able to freely stim and use it to help me.

It means that I'm now able to feel proud I did the scary task, rather than have these uncomfortable emotions build up inside of me, ruining a moment I should be happy about 🙂

#ActuallyAutistic

I only use metric angles. A circle is 1 metric angle. What you call "1⋅π⋅r" in the imperial system is simply 5 deciangles. It's way more logical. #piday

i feel like this is not the most efficient way to browse my installed font families

I'm non-binary which means I have to compile my gender from source

A friend of mine is urgently looking for an apartment in #Berlin, does anybody know of something that's 650€ per month max with decent transit connectivity that's not on the ground floor?

Eine Freundin von mir sucht dringend eine #Wohnung in Berlin. Kennt jemand eine Wohnung, die maximal 650€ pro Monat kosted und eine gute Anbindung an den ÓPNV hat, und nicht im Erdgeschoss liegt?

Boosts == <3