Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

"What kind of normal person would make these kinds of errors?" is a useful question but also a dangerous question.

Especially if you value the very kind of abnormal people who might not make normal errors.

It warms my soul that there are people who *care* about obscure things. People who know every kind of lego brick, people who have studied the gaps between train arrival times. It's not *just* their expertise that I value it's THEM, the person! I love them.

But, wasting that love on a decoy made to attract me for the purposes of marketing and SEO is an indignity I don't want to risk. So, I've become judgemental and cautious in exactly the way that might harm the very people I love.

The reason I love the internet has always been the ability to connect with other people through our shared enthusiasm for learning, especially about obscure topics.

In addition to polluting search results with garbage. Polluting AI answer services with twice-regurgitated AI garbage one of the worst things about the proliferation of AI text and images is how is has made me skeptical of the work of amateurs.

Is their voice "stilted"?
Is the writing repetitive?
Are there little factual errors?
Do they struggle to "get to the point?"

Accusing a real person of being AI is so hurtful and rude, but also inevitable.

Our Pride flag was torn off the house and trashed while we were away. Again.

So, a new one has been ordered. PLUS some flashy, extremely gay coloured floodlights to shine brightly on said new flag.

Tear it down, it comes back three times more queer.

YOU SURE YOU WANT TO PLAY THIS GAME WITH ME, MOTHERFUCKERS?! 😂

#lgbtq #lgbt #pride #queer

Het is zo raar, ík slaap een keer slecht en de hele wereld wordt dom, irritant en zeikerig. Wat een verantwoordelijkheid eigenlijk.

https://www.cyclingeu.com/485360/firefighter-bike-equiped-with-fire-hose-axe-crowbar-helmet-headlamp-and-friction-siren-at-the-fron-model-circa-1905/ Firefighter bike equiped with, fire hose, axe, crowbar, helmet, headlamp and friction siren at the fron. Model circa 1905. #AdventureBiking #AdventureOnABike #Bicycling #Biking #Cycling #xbiking

ISBN 0070342490 is for the book "ISDN: Concepts, Facilities, and Services"

So it's the ISDN ISBN.

You know that part of game development where you make, say, the player model better, and now the backgrounds look bad, so you make them better and now the effects are bad, so you fix them and now the player model is bad again?

I'm doing that right now, but with low-level systems

help

my name is `adduser`
and my brother's `useradd`
one of us is good
and one of us is bad!

which of us is which?
there is no way to know
we change names sometimes
to keep you on your toes!

Imagine walking up to someone 15 years ago and going
​​ "Hey, in the future Google will just flat out make shit up sometimes"
​​ "What"
​​ "Yeah, like there will be a time where you can search for a movie that doesn't exist, and it'll show you trailers, articles discussing it, who's directing it, interviews from the actors, and all of it will just be completely fake and presented as real"
​​ "What the hell are you talking about"
​​ "Yeah and it won't just be Google either, Microsoft and other big companies will be touting it as a revolution worth billions of dollars, as their products make shit up on the spot thousands of times a day"
​​ "Dude, are you high"
​​ "Entire product lines will be rebranded around their lightning fast make-shit-up technology, and they'll even try to sell this making shit up as a creativity tool for writers and artists"
​​ "Get the fuck away from me, I'm calling the police"

Creating a new social network called Paternostr. The posts are constantly moving back and forth on the timeline and you just have to hop on an empty post as it goes by.

Kleine Warnung für alle mit #Rollstuhl , die in Hamburg Hbf vorbeikommen:

Das rolligerechte WC war gestern von Sanifair doppelt abgeschlossen. Ein Schloss ist mit dem Euroschlüssel zu öffnen, aber das andere kann nur jemand von Sanifair aufschließen. Da kommt aber z.T. stundenlang niemand, wenn mensch klingelt, und es lassen sich nirgendwo Mitarbeitende auftreiben.

Laut Touri-Info passiert das öfter. Heißt, das rolligerechte WC am Hbf ist gerade nicht sicher zugänglich. Die Bahn ruht sich natürlich drauf aus, dass sie nicht zuständig sind.

#Behinderung #Hamburg #Bahn

As a technical person, I usually critique generative AI from a technical perspective - its use of unsustainable amounts of electricity, its lack of world model meaning its output is never going to be correct, the business models not adding up, training material getting harder to find now that much text on the Internet is AI slop, how its purported connections to AGI are impossible sci-fi smoke screens, etc.

However, we forget the humanities at our own peril. I found this latest video by @acegikmo to be worth watching for a critique from a social and artistic perspective.

And also for a reminder of how much barely coherent AI slop is out there when you actually count it, instead of almost subconsciously discarding it out of hand. Finding information in a field you have no prior knowledge of must be a horrifying experience nowadays.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@acegikmo/113763950485888985