Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

only in portland: the organizers of the annual “portland world naked bike ride” decided to take a year off

so another group decided to run a “world naked bike ride” in portland, instead

now the “portland world naked bike ride” folks are mad at the “world naked bike ride” folks and they’re duking it out in local blogs

Dear , why does this bus exist? An hourly bus doing a very large round through every corner of Wasmes, a village of 11.632 inhabitants without a train station. Why is there not a direct bus to Mons?

logging on to work in the mornings

seeing pushback against procedural generation as a result of alleged "AI" and that's really fucking sad

good procedural generation is hard. good procedural generation is bespoke and intentional. good procedural generation is artistic and creative. please don't lump it in with the slop generated through machine learning 😞

EDIT: procgen is not AI, it's a 40+ year old game design technique, see: https://peoplemaking.games/@eniko/113158903401769257

in case it's not clear: procedural generation is a term used in game design whereby a human-authored algorithm takes a random seed value (a big random number like 123908516 for example) and deterministically generates game content from that. this does not involve training a neural network, these algorithms are painstakingly crafted by hand to create the desired output, do not require anyone else's content to make, and this technique is over 40 years old

it's used in games like nethack (1987) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetHack, elite (1984) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(video_game), minecraft (2011), dwarf fortress (2006) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_Fortress, rimworld (2018) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RimWorld and many, many more

the fact that people are conflating procedural generation in game design which has a long and treasured history with "AI" slop is fucking tragic

Twink death this, twink death that - take care of yourself and age gracefully. You'll transcend the boundaries of body archetypes and stay beautiful.

This is glorious.The best time to burn a bridge is when you never, ever want to cross it again. #genai (Edit: This is a notice explaining why somebody is shutting down a long-running project to measure word frequencies.) https://github.com/rspeer/wordfreq/blob/master/SUNSET.md

The fun part of the "A.I." hype cycle is watching it slowly dawn on businesses that none of it's true, and they're gonna need those people they aren't hiring and/or training after all.

I'm not a Mozilla insider or anything but I took a look at their bylaws and afaict they have a self-perpetuating board, which means they're not formally accountable to anyone.

I prefer a member elected board (like the PSF has). It's hard for leadership to stray too far from member values when they're elected by members.

I know too many self-perpetuating boards who destroyed what they were supposed to be safeguarding, or even enabled abuse.

Governance matters.

Here's a headline:

"Gatwick train cancelled after squirrels board and 'refuse to leave'"

https://news.sky.com/story/gatwick-train-cancelled-after-squirrels-board-and-refuse-to-leave-13217117

Gevonden op een verkeerslicht in Rotterdam.

Mozilla deciding to put an end to its Fediverse investments while simultaneously going all in on AI tells you everything you need to know about what it has become.