Sven Slootweg (🔜 WHY2025) @joepie91@pixie.town

I really love mastodon's private account notes feature, since (among other uses) it lets me keep track of why I blocked or perma-muted someone. This helps me reassess if someone should remain blocked later on once enough time has passed.

As generative algorithms put content farms on steroids and make search results even lower quality than they already are:

There's nothing more powerful and informative than finding community.

I've always sourced a lot of information directly from people, and that's becoming extra important as the web fills up with garbage content.

So, uh, seriously: thank you all for being a part of my life. Y'all make good living possible 💖

Delenn is home. At the moment she is getting out of socialising by pretending to be a book.

#caturday #cats #CatsOfMastodon #ShelterCats

These machines can do neither. They produce strings of tokens that statistically appear like they were produced by a human.

To an LLM the statements “Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon” and “Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on Mars” are differentiated only in that more people have written the former than the latter.

That’s it.

AI doesn’t exist and companies letting what we DO have make decisions is just a way to avoid culpability for the results.

3/3

david tennant wearing a pride pin ever since one of his kids came out as nonbinary and saying cis people need to step up to make sure we stop a slide into fascism and loss of human rights is making him my fav doctor for the week

Onderzoek na onderzoek laat zien dat mensen graag stemmen voor linkse standpunten, maar linkse partijen doen er niets aan om dat te verzilveren. Het is tijd om alle tegengestelde belangen op tafel te leggen, want niet iedereen wordt een beetje armer. Mensen met een laag inkomen, die hardwerkende Nederlanders, sterven gewoon jaren eerder, en in slechtere gezondheid dan zij met een hoog inkomen. Hoog tijd om te stoppen met pappen en nathouden, hoog tijd voor politiseren en polariseren.

https://www.vn.nl/links-klassenpolitiek/

Cute queers in my computer, why are none of you here right now to snuggle me?

OK, a bit less subtoot this time: quantum computing as a field inherits the toxic culture of both academic physics research and 10x SWE techbros. As a result, harassment in general and sexual harassment in particular are absolutely pervasive in the field.

If you do not 100% take a proactive stance against that from the get-go, your space *will* be home to harassers. That's not a possibility, it's a certainty.

That didn't stop being true once the hellsite imploded and people noticed the fediverse. So yes, you need a code of conduct, and you need a moderation policy, and you need both in place *before* you admit a single fucking user.

Think about it like this.

We’ve never seen a show that speculates what the world would look like if Natives defeated the colonizers and kept their land but have several projects fantasizing about what if the Nazis won.

That’s not by accident.