Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Are your smoke detectors installed and functional? Is your fire extinguisher readily accessible?

No reply needed but y'know, consider it.

If someone from the museum community wants to come to Mastodon, what‘s the best instance to join?
#digitalmuseums #culturalheritage #mastodon #opendata #openaccess 🐘

whenever i play basically any open world game i think about how tiny their towns are, like a town of less than ten buildings and i'm like that's not a real society, there are so many buildings in a city. and i kind of want to know how small a comfortably self-sufficient social unit CAN be. like i guess subsistence farming is a thing but what do societies look like that are a step up in scale from The Humble Yeoman Farmer

Stumbled upon an excellent resource on Google Sites: "Why our family is covid cautious"

https://sites.google.com/view/why-we-are-covid-cautious/home

#covid #covid19 #SARSCoV2 #pandemic #PublicHealth #CovidIsNotOver

"So if you are a family member of ours that has been critical of our cautiousness, rest assured that we will willingly relax our precautions if you can provide evidence that we should. Hurry up."

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Science is political. Politics affects who does science, what kind of science we do, and who benefits from it. Just because you may have the privilege to be able to ignore politics in science, doesn't mean that it isn't there.

Scientists worry that admitting science is political means that the public will not trust science.

But just because something is political doesn’t mean that you can’t trust it.

We can build trust in science through accountability, transparency, and accessible communication.

If you want to know whether someone is a genuine security expert, ask yourself: *whose* security are they arguing for?

If the answer isn't "the most vulnerable and disadvantaged party involved in the system", then you're not talking to a security expert, you're talking to a defense contractor.

That point where you have put so many things one after the other on Kleinanzeigen (to sell before moving house) that Kleinanzeigen shows you a Captcha because it thinks you're some kind of bot 🤣

This is like the second- or third-pettiest take I have about AI, I'll warrant, but can we just collectively and as a society fuck right off with the idea of "open source AI"? The ideas of "source" and "binaries" don't neatly map onto LLM weights, but to the extent that they do, weights look a lot more like binaries than anything else.

At the very least, open source should in principle be reproducible, but without training data, there's no hope of reproducing LLM weights.

When I couldn’t find the positive terminal on the battery, I was nonplussed

"10 years of Dear ImGui" by @ocornut is great. And a lot of great wisdom that is generally applicable outside of imgui. https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/7892

lotta comments like “but amazon dot us dot gov is a bad idea”

yeah. it is. and that’s not what i’m suggesting. but you think it is, because “nationalize” implies seizure by a westphalian nation-state characterized by regressive constructs like borders and state diktat. you read me wrong because english itself is barbaric, full of awful thorny words that could mean something worthy if not for the rivers of blood they’ve been steeped in.

i’ve been reading a lot about plurinationalism, and indigenous restoration through communalism — a sort of “communism of the americas” chiefly bent on transforming a neocolonial basis — but i’m left hurting for words. nation means the wrong things; state means the wrong things; even community approaches mere taxonomy. so you misunderstand me, because there is no simple way to impart faith in utopia.