I just launched a blog section on my website!
Here's the first article: an animated tour through various types of netcode, notably ROLLBACK NETCODE, and the challenges they try to solve!
Fascism not Creeping so much as Taking a Brisk Walk
Huntsville TX - The local library had a Pride display so city official sent in the cops and then privatized the entire fucking library
https://bookriot.com/huntsville-public-library-privatization/
So OpenAI just released a detector of AI-generated text, I assume because of concerns in education / homework.
https://openai.com/blog/new-ai-classifier-for-indicating-ai-written-text/
Maybe this is good?
No, it's very bad.
They claim 26% true positives, 9% false positives. Assume 10% of submitted homework is chatgpt generated, you get the classic counterintuitive outcome of poor predictive power: if a homework is flagged, there's a 3:1 chance it's *human* generated.
This is going to cause a lot of harm. It should be immediately recalled.
Cutting out ableist language
Words like 'idiot, nuts, crazy, insane, mad, stupid' etc. are ableist and have been used as slurs. Just because *you* might not be offended by them, or your friends might not be offended by them, doesn't mean that they haven't been used to harass and abuse people.
Make an effort to cut them out of your language. 'Wild' is a good all-purpose replacement word, but there are many. Find your own flavour of non-ableist language to replace these words.
In April of 2015, almost eight years ago now, I posted a long thread on Twitter about American privilege, a unique form of Western privilege that applies to the United States of America.
Since very little has changed since then, and any discussion around US-centrism in online circles are still notoriously difficult to have, especially when a space is dominated by Americans, it's time to revisit this.
Let's define what I mean by American privilege, first.
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@punkonbus1701 @GTLC This actually bothers me, as it does something the US "left" lets the right do all the time.
"Woke" was NOT a derogatory term made by the right, it came from the black community, and was then adopted by white people before the conservatives started using it as an insult.
For the love of all that's good, stop letting the conservatives dictate your language. They already did it with pro-life/pro-choice, and so many other things, and it's poisoning discourse.
The Rollercoaster Built by British Rail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GADUjgMXwk
I don't always encounter alt text for images on Mastodon. But when I do, I notice the alt text descriptions are higher quality than they were on Twitter. In general, I feel like describers are sharing the intent of images more and sharing their visual interpretations more often. When describers do this, the pictures come alive in my mind. In short, alt text feels less robotic on Mastodon and more like my sighted friends narrating their lives and observations to me. It's really awesome and special to watch. Keep up the great work, describers!
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Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.