Open source culture developed an allergy to gatekeeping that made sense when the risk was excluding talented people. It makes less sense when the risk is thousands of LLM-generated PRs that change variable names to slightly worse variable names.
@Daojoan There is something--beyond the foundational utility of it--charmingly satisfying about this idea. It would also put a "signed" person within a lineage of respect. That kindof cuts both ways and the potential exclusionary results you comment on, but the medieval/Renaissance theme definitely goes deeper than master/apprentice and guilds.
(similarly-but-differently, there's the concept of musical genealogy w/r/t pianists and their teachers reaching back to e.g. Chopin or Liszt)
"[Ars Technica] asked Cruz's office to explain why a senator pressuring Wikipedia is appropriate while an FCC chair pressuring ABC is not and will update this article if we get a response."
@molly0xfff "Cruz acknowledged that the organization took action on the allegations of biased editing, but questioned its motives. "The Wikimedia Foundation has said it is taking steps to combat this editing campaign, raising further questions about the extent to which it is intervening in editorial decisions and to what end," Cruz wrote."
Cruz: "Look! Bad agents tried to bias an article."
WM: "We stopped them."
Cruz: "Ohhhhh, so we're suppressing free speech now..."
"Low effort, unhelpful AI generated work is having a significant impact on collaboration at work. Approximately half of the people we surveyed viewed colleagues who sent workslop as less creative, capable, and reliable than they did before receiving the output. Forty-two percent saw them as less trustworthy, "
(Original title: AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity)
@tante "Here's what I found regarding issue X: [insert wall of text with a 20-bullet-point list, each item a paragraph in itself with various mixes of bold and italic headings and further sublists]".
@randahl I hope I'm not spoiling the ending for anyone, but Brian Kilmeade ends with "involuntary lethal injection". This from a program broadcast in the morning whose title sounds like it's a children's cartoon. I don't know where the United States goes from here.
It’s barely 9am and I can already tell this is going to be the stupidest fucking shit I’ve read all day
Alt text: A quote in black serif text on a white background. It reads: “We believe that in the near future half the people on the planet will be AI, and we are the company that’s bringing those people to life,” said CEO Jeanine Wright, who was previously chief operating officer of podcasting company Wondery, which has recently had to reorganize under the changing podcast landscape. The word “Wondery” is highlighted in red.
BBC Breakfast this morning had a long segment about the 30th anniversary of Windows 95. So what vintage computer did they put in the studio as a handy prop?
@gerrymcgovern Of all of the missed predictions that sci-fi has made/missed, this feels like a big one: the unsustainable energy it takes to sustain a hyper-digital existence. I remember a William Gibson novel that discussed the cost of a popular star's post-upload career and how the value of her popularity paid for her server bills (Idoru, maybe?). But that didn't address the class discrepancy of basic human existence which sci-fi is generally good at.
New, at KrebsOnSecurity.com: Marko Elez, a 25-year-old employee at Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has been granted access to sensitive databases at the U.S. Social Security Administration, the Treasury and Justice departments, and the Department of Homeland Security. So it should fill all Americans with a deep sense of confidence to learn that Mr. Elez over the weekend inadvertently published a private key that allowed anyone to interact directly with more than four dozen large language models (LLMs) developed by Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI.
La notte Evelyn uscì della tomba (1971). Good mix of giallo and gothic horror. Some beautiful shots and a twisty ending. Also some classic, groovy 70s furniture and art.
That was a wild night. That was history happening in real time.
Apologies for everyone outside of Australia for the torrent of toots.
We just kicked into oblivion the most fasci party leadership in Australian political history. It felt good to watch a decent number of voters push back against what they saw being imported from America. Gotta celebrate the wins. They happen far too infrequently.
Good summary.
"We cannot overstate what has just happened. It took just 71 days for Donald Trump to wreck the American economy, mortally wound NATO, and destroy the American-led world order.
He did this with the enthusiastic support of the entire Republican party and conservative movement.
He did it with the support of a plurality of American voters." https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-american-age-is-over #USA#Trump#EU#NATO#economy#geopoliticsgeopolitics group
@ErikJonkergeopolitics group Finally we can correctly update the Wikipedia entry for "American exceptionalism" with the categories "Delusional disorders" and "Fringe theory".
Fuck Trump. And fuck the US. Who the fuck do these assholes think they are to treat another head of state this way? Zelensky has more class in the last shit he took than Trump has managed to muster in his whole sorry life.
I hope every head of state in the EU is watching this right now.
