in other 📰 nothing new I still remember when svastika trended on google Bad Actors are Grooming LLMs to Produce Falsehoods americansunlight.substack.com/…
It's my birthday!! If you wanna support me today and help me have an awesome birthday the best thing you can do is make an order for some beadwork. Financial security during this move is the best gift I can ask for right now. Mvto!!!
one day they'll make an LLM specially to tell people off for swearing. Because there's no circumstances imaginable that you shouldn't be forced to use an LLM
A few days ago, I was using my Android phone to take a short video of a power tool defect at close range. I must have accidentally bumped a button on the screen, when up popped a closed-caption utility. I said something like "you piece of shit," after which Google Assistant started scolding me for using profanity. Unfortunately, I couldn't remove Assistant from my phone, although I did completely disable it with no regrets.
You don't have to add spurious keywords to every search. You can also just use tenbluelinks.org/. It adds an entry to your search engines that goes directly to the web search tab without the AI bs (by adding `&udm=14` to the search URL). And you can also select that entry as the default search engine if you want.
unfortunately, I'm not sure that using profanity still works. I did a search for "What the fuck is <actual query>" and the sparkling autocarrot snippet started with something like "In spite of your colorful language <actual query> is ..."
I will, however, try the fucking flag. (So many ways to parse that last sentence.)
Paruoštukės platinimas politicalcompass.org/test dėl apgalvojimo veiksmų nėra ko jaudintis, kiekvienam po saldainį už dalyvavimą, viskas bus gerai bet kuriuo atveju? Ar ne?🧨
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
can you elaborate? where is the money coming from?
*edit: so they updated their post; let's see.. "The Web Monetization API allows websites to automatically and passively receive payments from Web Monetization-enabled visitors."
So I guess that's a bit like Patron, but integrated directly into Pixelfed?
I guess it could work, but I'm always a bit wary when money is involved in anything..
@bazkie the reason I ask is because one of the mentioned wallets is explicitly a crypto wallet and I haven't had time to check how the others actually work
omfg WHY???!? we are supposed to be free from that capitalist-monetize-everything mindset on fedi, don't fuck that up... we gotta be different than that shit.
We are NOT "content creators" we are CULTURE BEARERS. NO PAYWALLS. NO MONETIZATION. NO CAPITALIST BULLSHIT.
what does this mean? You'll be blocked for sure if you start allowing ads
Edit: it doesn't seem to be about ads, here is more info directly from @dansup saying the money will come from "the people" via the "web monetization" platform: mastodon.social/@dansup/114817…
Is this the start of the enshittification of the fediverse? Personally I'd rather keep money out if it altogether
@Steel_Virgin Good point, its powered by webmonetization.org/ so it's the people that will be paying, I meant that I need more time to work out the finer details, but I will be more transparent about this going forward.
@froufox Sure, but aren't there ways to do this already, outside of the fediverse? Do we need the fediverse to do everything? I feel that as soon as money is involved, things start to be exploited by companies and will quickly degenerate into enshittification world
Are the mutual aid posts an example of what you want to do with Pixelfed? I thought you were suggesting something more integrated. I don't think you can directly pay a mutual aid poster from the fedi?
But I guess it's a good example, as we've recently seen waves of mutual aid spam: this is definitely being exploited, even though the payment is not direct. So with direct payment it will probably be worse.
What I prefer is when artists have a link to their website in their profile or in their posts, where I can go if I want to buy things from them.
I applaud pixelfed for trying something, if it doesn't work, I have full confidence they'll correct course, but we have to make these services financially sustainable or else we will end up with corporations doing it again.
Seems like an interesting experiment to me. I don't know why so many people instantly assume the worst. I was a fan of the past attempts to let people directly give a little bit for what others have created too, such as Peter Sunde's Flattr. It's not like the fediverse runs for free either, I see lots of instances who are asking users to cover their bills so if you think there isn't any money involved now you must be deliberately ignoring that.
direct monetization is something that as an artist I've tried to set up on Pixelfed before, and a working system would be a big deal. Thanks for trying to work on it ❤
My question is unfortunately the same that it has to be for every payment system - will NSFW artists and creators be able to participate, or will we be locked out like we usually are from these things?
Privacy-wise, while the recipient does not get your details, do the "wallet providers" then know all your web history?
Ultimately there is no privacy respecting way to make payments online right now (except some cryptos & maybe gnu Taler) so how does KYC and other legal requirements work with webmonetization ? I found nothing about it in their doc
I just added a new visualization to my climate indicators page. This one shows monthly global mean surface air temperatures from 1950 to present, with shading corresponding to the approximate state of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). I hope it is useful.
All data are referenced at My visualizations: Arctic Climate Seasonality and Variability Arctic Sea Ice Extent and Concentration Arctic Sea Ice Volume and Thickness Arctic Temperatures Antarctic Se…
#Gaza We watched this last night. It was the most traumatic thing I hsve ever seen. It shows how systematically Israel has destroyed Gaza’s healthcare system and killed doctors. This is ongoing - just yesterday many killed at Indonesian hospital.
I feel irrevocably alienated from all the lovely people around me who choose to just ignore all this. Not watch, not see. For almost two years the most barbaric slaughter, aided by our governments here.
But still not mentioning the origin of the problem, which is obvious trade. And no solutions to the problem, because origin of the problem is unknown. It is just emotional satisfaction.
People are shocked to discover they need to fact-check ChatGPT and I'm having the uncomfortable realization that they never fact-checked their uncle's Facebook posts, their friend's medical advice, or literally anything Google's top result told them, and suddenly the last decade makes sense...
in the early 2000s, my mom was sending me nonsense emails and I was replying with snopes links. In the 2010s, that basically changed to her posting nonsense on Facebook.
it´s like people believe what they see in advertisting and take that as information....
also your post reminded me of people who were annoyed when they had to wash hands because of covid. and I was really shocked that this seemed something new to them.
What also worries me is that Chatbots give different answers when you ask the same question in different languages. Even the sources GPT mentioned were different.
Lmaoo right?? They’re shocked ChatGPT needs fact-checking but didn’t blink when Cousin Dave said rubbing garlic on your feet cures the flu 💀 The internet’s been wildin’ for YEARS.
a person very close to me doesn't trust Wikipedia because "anybody can write there" (in spite of it being one of the few big multi-party curated media), but will happily take as truth any random conspiracy theory someone relays on social media, even if it doesn't make any sense at all once you apply a drop of logic to it...
People feel first, and _maybe_ think after. No guarantee on that second part, however. But when people do think, their gut reaction is to think in line with what supports their feeling. It takes a lot of training to not do that, and still it will be done quite a lot.
This is but one reason why humans have always been gullible.
I still think about the story a colleague (younger than me, so no boomer!) shared on Facebook about a six year old girl supposedly a survivor of Sandy Hook, running the Boston Marathon who was killed in the bombing at the Marathon. Like, you don't even need to fact check that, dude. How could a six year old be running a marathon you have to be 18 to enter? And finishing with adults? And running a marathon at all when she's SIX?! Just use your brain for like ten seconds! Gah!
had a "Do Xr interaction toolkit have an XRPokeInteractive class?" question two hours ago. There is no such thing, but ChatGPT dreamed it up on the spot! I was looking for the XRPokeFilter class, but the eagerness to invent stuff on the fly unnerves me. I'll review every line of code it provides.
ChatGPT is nothing more than the game of "someone said something wrong on the internet", but as-a-service. Sometimes it finds some legit information, sometimes it takes stuff out of context or screws information from a pdf because columns are difficult. Then it repeatedly claims it's right. Sane humans won't win against this firehose.
My manager at work — a liberal, marketing executive — remarked to me about “the litter box in that high school for the girl who identified as a cat.” I searched it in front of her. It took ten seconds. This happens all the time in my office with multiple people. Shit’s bad.
All the #AI haters out there, note what this post says: that humans who fail to use their intellect and uncritically rely on *any* #technology to think for them are hallucinating themselves, doesn't matter if it's #ChatGPT or a #Google search or the conspiracy theory your uncle posted on #Facebook.
If you or someone you know have ever started a sentence "On TikTok..." then the robots have already taken over your/their brain and I couldn't care less what you think about AI! @pheonix
And its not like its made any information any more accessible. If something wasn't already readily available by Web search (even if you had to know where to look) then it's not going to be available to ChatGPT (or any other LLM, for that matter).
It doesn't even list sources (like Wikipedia, or most good bloggers) so there's no way to know where it's getting the information when it gives you something wild.
And the time 'saved' by not doing one's own reading is probably not going to be helpful, especially if it's spent having to undo the problems that relying too much on ChatGPT caused.
(With that being said, there's also a lot of fantastic sources on all sorts of subjects that have either vanished from the Web, been deliberately removed - either by creators or through copyright strikes and the like - or have vanished behind paywalls. And that seems to have been happening more and more. Not sure why, maybe it's just me noticing it, but - on some topics it's definitely gotten more difficult to fact check unless you've got a good base of (saved or off-line) resources already.)
one time in a sociology class (about 20 years ago), someone brought in a printout of a website that claimed that there had been a successful male pregnancy by transplanting a uterus. It had a bunch of fake citations and everything. Even the teacher concluded it was probably real, there were only a couple of us pointing out that anyone could make a web page that said anything.
they stopped teaching critical thinking in public schools in the 90s (assuming since I had my first kid at 18 and had to teach him critical thinking skills once he started reading)
Once when pointing out to a Facebook friend that a political post they shared contained false info, they replied that it didn't matter because it made Trump look bad.
I followed a training yesterday on AI basics. It was admitted during the presentation that text that are used to train stuff like ChatGTP is full of fake news. LOL. And I don't believe factchecking is reliable neither.
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Arguing facts with someone and then they just happen to mention they use chatgpt as their source of their (proven wrong) claim (it gave them results from 2023 and we're discussing 2024) and ugh, this is what we gotta deal with the…
sadly true. And kind of anticipated; even in the 1980s, there were issues with people thinking of computers as basically infallible. Both Hackers and The Net even used this tendency to overly trust what’s on a computer as plot points; those were released in 1995, reflecting on tendencies that already existed becoming more problematic as computing became more widely adopted.
I was one of the few male members of a Canadian forum with global reach, dedicated to Lucy Maud Montgomery. From 1999 till 2010. The IT-level was very high, many posts from the female majority how to protect your presence on the net. Double-googling , anti-googling , and limit the amount of contacts to trusted persons. I was IT-rookie, but the instinct was woken up. It also works in real life. < De-googling continuous >
Some weeks ago, I had a look at NOAA main page. It displayed conspiracy-inspired content warnings next to all links to their own laboratories! There was no reason to feel optimistic about NOAA future. So sorry.
When virtual reality becomes reality. When your wealth makes you believe your are insulated and invulnerable. When tax cuts for the wealthiest are you end goal. These cuts result to the detriment of our children, our planet, and our future.
Long ago I heard a truism that stuck with me. The circumstances were oddly relevant. It rose up in my mind today:
“There is no news. There is only the truth of the signal. What I see. And, there's the puppet theater the Parliament jesters foist on the somnambulant public."
I have a new 'climate viz of the month' blog posted, which dives into a visualization and description of future Arctic sea ice cover: zacklabe.com/climate-viz-of-th…
On a temporary pause – sorry! More blog changes soon. Archives of my older blogs can be found below. Other Blogs (Monthly): Blog Archive – 2025 Blog Archive – 2024 Blog Archive …
I can't scroll up, some of the accounts/instances in the thread seem to be defederated by my instance.
Edit : or since I'm unable to scroll the thread even while being unlogged, it seems that someone with a restricted account answered somewhere in the thread.
@orange_lux I see. Well, this discussion started with me posting this Imbattable/Invincible comic in response to a comic posted by @selzero . So that's rather funny. @Zotmeister
Capture the Atlas project published their anual collection of the Milky Way photos from the enthusiatic photographers from all around the world 😍 Look at this beauty!
Capture the Atlas is a project that is aiming to provide guidance, knowledge and adventures to the photographers around the world to elevate their picture-taking skills, travel the jaw-dropping locations on Earth, build long lasting communities and friendships to learn, being amazed and grow together.
@Tio haha, one day man, I’ll send mine own photo to them too, hopefully 😄 Sorry, had to repost it again, because it became private post for some reason 🤷♂️
Well the “NOAA Climate” and “NASA Climate” social media feeds - a key tool to communicate the massive challenge of climate change to the world - are now gone.
The fossil fuel industry spent $445 million dollars to buy a frying planet, a corrupt Supreme Court, & a fascist movement. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
Donald Trump promised the world it would get colder soon and doubting him means your funding gets cut, so I guess there's no need to have expensive organizations check on his promises every day.
Hi #fediverse ! We’re the European Southern Observatory, and we design, build and operate ground-based telescopes.
One of them is our Extremely Large Telescope, currently under construction in #Chile. It will have a 39 m mirror, and its rotating enclosure will weigh 6100 tonnes, or about 700 mastodons!
We’re looking forward to chatting with all of you about #astronomy
And many thanks to @sebinthestars for running our former instance!
I'm so old, I remember when the transport of the Mt. Palomar's Hale Telescope's 1.2m mirror was one of the wonders of technology. It's transport up the mountain had photos in most newspapers.
This project is far more than 32.5x more amazing!!!!!
@Benhm3 We feel you! Our first telescope at La Silla Observatory had a 1 m mirror. The ELT will have 798 hexagonal segments, each 1.5 m wide, working together as a huge single mirror.
Do the mirrors move in absolute synchrony (to remove the twinkle) or is each mirror moving itself to put whatever wavelength in-phase at the instrument?
Or some other thing I know nothing about...not an astronomer.
@Benhm3 Atmospheric turbulence will be corrected with two other mirrors: the M4, which is a flexible mirror that can deform 1000 times per second, and the M5, a flat mirror that will tip & tilt to stabilise the image (also against vibrations due to wind or the telescope itself). You can find more details here: elt.eso.org/telescope/adaptive…
ESO is the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere. It operates the La Silla Paranal Observatory in Chile and has its headquarters in Garching, near Munich, Germany.
Perhaps you know this already, but if not then, Mastodon has the ability for accounts to verify who they are by way of their domains (in your case esa.org). Think of this as Mastodon's version of the blue checkmark from other platforms.
It is easy to set up, and would signal to everyone that your account is in fact the official ESA account.
Seirdy
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