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

This is extremely bad news. Basically, the US supreme court decided that unions can be held accountable for damages caused by strikes. This means that strikes become somewhat useless, since the whole idea is to inflict losses to demonstrate the importance of the workers for the company.

It's also extremely disappointing that the purportedly progressive judge Sotomayor appears to have sided with the company suing the union in this case.

Union power was one of the few remaining remedies we still had to the rule of the wealthy, so it's not a surprise that moneyed interests are trying to break it.

Supreme Court rules against union in labor dispute, will ‘erode’ right to strike warns dissent | PBS NewsHour

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/447533

In practical terms LLMs turn out to be a kind of idea reinforcement device. The more often an idea is expressed in the corpus, the more likely it is to be expressed by the model.

"Stochastic parrot" is a good shorthand, but parrots repeat verbatim. LLMs are more like a convert, something indoctrinated. Like a wind-up evangelist.

This is the ideal entryway

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"But the harm-reduction model holds that we should keep reviving people who overdose and then do nothing more than hope they come to their senses and opt into treatment."

"nothing more"

who told you this is what the harm-reduction model holds and what was his badge number

why does everyone want to own the libs

as an open source developer i own multiple libs

i would happily pay people to take them from me

you do not want to own libs. its so much work

Reddit is experiencing the VC dilemma.... Your startup is allowed to have core features and limited growth, and the end user experience is generally better that way in the long term...

VCs require infinite growth and that's unsustainable, so once the users run out.. they look to find cash any way they can like the privatisation of the APIs.

Patreon had the same problem. It had one job, then it suddenly started posting about microloans.

VC money, not even once.

#HappyPrideMonth #Pride #LGBTQI

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Hard drive seeds have sprouted. They should add a platter every few weeks, and the outer shell usually forms by late September.

can we just collectively agree that any primarily obfuscated code is just malware and should be considered such

hearing that someone's writing an ads plugin for Mastodon

and I gotta say

any instance that runs that, I will defederate immediately.

Edit: Adding some clarification on what I think "ads" means, and why I have this stance, in replies.

Gigabyte been selling motherboard with hidden backdoors that can download and execute software, more than 270 models affected https://www.wired.com/story/gigabyte-motherboard-firmware-backdoor/

the existence of casual dining implies the existence of hardcore dining

Hi, I'm a professional storyteller, and here's today's PSA:

Unless the storyteller complains, your kids didn't do anything wrong. We are fine with wriggling, giggling, lying down, and whispering. If you tell them off after the performance, you kill the magic right there.

Kids wiggle. They ask questions, and comment on the stories. It's part of storytelling. Don't discipline them unless I ask for help.

#StorytellingPSA #storytelling #children

For my book on neurodiversity-affirming therapy for autistic people, I want to include some information for providers about the medical issues autistic people are more likely to have. NONE of my training talked about this, and it could help people to know what they might want to ask their doctor to test for.

Anyway please @actuallyautistic let me know what to include on that list?

#ActuallyAutistic #AskingAutistics

capitalists will be the death of the fediverse and i DON'T mean the big players like Facebook, i mean the shitty little FOSSbro capitalists who can't conceive of anything that doesn't need to be monetised.