To celebrate Transgender Day of Visibility, Blahaj.zone has commissioned brand new Blobhaj emoji from the amazing @heatherhorns@plush.city!
Our little blobby friends are waving a brand new style of pride flag.
As well as several pride flags to celebrate our wonderful gender diverse community, there are many more pride flags available in the new style!
They have been released under a creative commons license, and if you would like to use them on your own instance, you can grab them from Heatherhorn's emoji page!
You know the saying about how a specialist doesn't get paid for putting an X somewhere, but for being the one to know *where* to put the X, with all the learning that that entails?
It works the same way for responsibility. "They can't be held responsible because someone else could have built the same harmful thing" is a bad excuse - because it's not about building the thing, it's about being the one to use your expertise for it.
The most important personal principle you have to decide for your life is whether you are pro-authoritarian, pro-oppression, or instead are anti-authoritarian, anti-oppression.
Once you have decided on that core principle, everything else will follow, as long as you actually do follow that principle.
drugs, important US PSA
This medicine reverses opioid overdoses. FDA has now approved for OTC. If you think you might need to treat an overdose--yours or a friend's--keep some of this around.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/fda-approves-counter-narcan-means-98203662
Okay, so that AI letter signed by lots of AI researchers calling for a "Pause [on] Giant AI Experiments"? It's just dripping with AI hype. Here's a quick rundown.
First, for context, note that URL? The Future of Life Institute is a longtermist operation. You know, the people who are focused on maximizing the happiness of billions of future beings who live in computer simulations.
https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/
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The risk to large language models isn't that they'll become sentient in ways that are inconvenient to capitalists, it's that capitalists continue to use LLMs without considering how they've been trained, what biases and hatreds they launder, what the climate impacts of their use are, or how to fairly compensate people who create the stuff that they're trained on.
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
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.