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AnarchistArtificer ,

It's an outfit from a particular episode where she sings a song that's one of the first overt gay hints

Edit: https://youtu.be/h28xpNvW9Yw
it's a bop

AnarchistArtificer ,

Your comment reminded me of this
https://pixelastic.github.io/pokemonorbigdata/

AnarchistArtificer ,

Yup. We're least safe when we most think we're safe. Architects of self fulfilling prophecies

AnarchistArtificer ,

I mean, racism has as much reason to exist now as it ever did. "I'll protect me and what's mine" has been the dividing line between species for thousands of years, and we have to choose whether we'll continue it. A "Kill or be killed" mindset might keep you safe, but you'll never know if the person you killed did indeed mean you harm, or if you could've instead lived without killing, and broke bread with a rival. The logic still applies

AnarchistArtificer ,

The trick is that you don't actually need to be willing to burn down your house, you just have to make other people believe that you would.

AnarchistArtificer ,

Thanks for mentioning it. I also saw the meme and was a bit hmm, and I'm glad to see OP clarify where the format is from.

AnarchistArtificer ,

That's a point I hadn't considered, thank you for highlighting it. People who knowingly make and spread antisemitic and bigoted memes leverage ambiguity and plausible deniability to facilitate their reach; it's necessary to be ever mindful of nuances in the memes we share if we don't want to unwittingly spread harmful content.

AnarchistArtificer ,

I personally don't have nearly as much of a problem with that than I do with Reddit making AI deals. I'm still not keen on the idea of having anything I interact with being scraped for training AI, but aside from only interacting in closed wall spaces that I or someone I trust controls, I can't change that. That'a not great for actually interacting with the world though, so it seems that I need to accept that scraping is going to happen. Given that, I'd definitely rather be on Lemmy than Reddit.

And this way, who knows, maybe we're on our way to the almost utopian "open digital commons"

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The words it chooses to capitalise is funny. For all the training on online stuff, it doesn't get that it should be calling you a fucking IDIOT for even asking such a BASIC question about grilled cheese!

AnarchistArtificer ,

I have a friend who's pretty wealthy and they feel pretty guilty about it. They're looking at buying a house, spending the vast majority of their inherited wealth in the process. My belief is that whilst being able to do this is in a huge level of privilege, they're much more likely to be dining than on the menu at an "eat the rich" party. And honestly, that baffles me somewhat — it highlights just how obscenely wealthy the ultra rich are if my wealthy friend is nowhere in the same ballpark

AnarchistArtificer ,

If you're thinking about a particular encampment that's near you, consider reaching out to ask, because this'll be highly situational. If they are, as you say, well supplied, then getting something they already have plenty of might make their supplies management harder (which ofc, you know, or you wouldn't be asking this question).

Depending on how open your nearest encampment is and your comfort levels in dropping by, going in person to ask is one way. Dropping a message on social media may also be possible: a few of the encampments that I know of would be contactable via social media - even if most of the organising is done on more secure mediums such as signal, there's usually some level of Instagram or similar going on.

AnarchistArtificer ,

I was talking to a friend recently about this. They studied medieval English and aren't especially techy, besides being a Millennial with techy friends; I said that merely knowing and using the term LLM correctly puts their AI knowledge above the vast majority of people (including a decent chunk of people trying to make a quick buck off of AI hype)

AnarchistArtificer ,

I love REFind. I spent ages faffing around with a fedora/arch dual boot when I was trying to learn how it all worked; when I got sick of learning things the hard way, REFind had my back and gave me a straightforward solution

AnarchistArtificer ,

Thank you.

AnarchistArtificer ,

Are you familiar with acoup.blog? If not, you might like it. It's a blog by a historian named Brett Devereaux and there's a decent amount of interesting Ancient Greek content on there. I particularly enjoyed his series on the pop culture understanding of Sparta Vs actual history: (https://acoup.blog/2019/08/16/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-i-spartan-school/)

AnarchistArtificer ,

Truly cutting edge stuff, we're on the forefront of culture here on Lemmy.

AnarchistArtificer ,

Sometimes my heart wants to resent people like you for having supportive parents, but that's coming from an hurt and irrational part of me that's valid, but not useful to listen to. I'm glad that people like you and your parents exist, and I'm glad for your comment here, because even though I'm a long way away from my parents, it's useful to be reminded that my experience was not normal and it wasn't okay. Thanks for helping remind me and hopefully others that we deserve(d) a safe family home

AnarchistArtificer ,

I hadn't thought about it this way. Even more reason to hate this stupid, hateful, legislation.

AnarchistArtificer ,

I like your examples, you really capture how the definition of a "good" slide is context and audience dependent, and yet despite this, a "bad" slide is something that can be understood fairly objectively.

AnarchistArtificer ,

My friend died before he was able to get a vaccine dose. He was young and fit and healthy, enough so that his death was covered in a local newspaper. He'd have probably have gotten his first vaccine dose if we'd caught COVID a couple weeks later, and that might have been enough to save him. I'll never know, and maybe he'd have still died, but I'll always resent people who have/had the choice to be vaccinated but choose not to.

AnarchistArtificer ,

You comment gives me vibes of "I don't do heroin because I know I'd get addicted". I say this as someone who is currently flirting with distro hopping. I wouldn't call myself a distro-hopper yet, but I'm certainly en route to that

AnarchistArtificer ,

"analyse your scan for content to suggest a file name"

That's a 'Yikes' from me

AnarchistArtificer ,

I agree. I've been trying to move towards open source software for ideological reasons, and I'm astounded by how much my quality of life has been improved. I end up sounding like an evangelist for software that I love because I'm so shocked it's not more well known.

AnarchistArtificer ,

I learned about this a while ago and meant to check it out, but forgot to. Thanks for the reminder!

AnarchistArtificer ,

Yeah, the stress is key. I'm reminded of how Cory Doctorow recently wrote about how a scammer got him because of lucky (for the scammer) timing because Doctorow was travelling and in a rush, or something similar.

I'm also reminded of how irl predators utilise a similar pressure to the scammers - they leverage our instinct to be polite and avoid violating social norms, in order to keep pushing boundaries. Often the key to avoiding risky situations is to recognise and validate an uncomfy feeling as soon as possible, and get yourself out of that situation rather than talking yourself out of your discomfort.

AnarchistArtificer ,

I really like your hypertension/doctor example, it's a useful way to frame things. Thanks for sharing.

AnarchistArtificer ,

I actually had to go and reread the post because I didn't get a scare quote vibe from it and had to double check what part you were referencing. My interpretation of that was more critiquing/mocking views that treat science as a monolith, especially Established Science(TM). Of course, there are areas of science that are considered to be "settled matters" (or at least, more settled than most), but it's more productive to think of science as an ongoing process rather than an established body of knowledge. Like, I think the useful part is the way we consider what we consider to be established knowledge and learn from that. This is especially true in fields where new technology can place established knowledge in a new light.

I think that Twitter OP was more poking at people who use science in their appeal to authority arguments. Often what these people call science, I would call Scientism. Now that I reread it though, I can see the possible scare quote vibes

AnarchistArtificer ,

This is awful, I hate it

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AnarchistArtificer ,

It's a long video, but this video by Philosophy Tube explains why it's definitely a trans rights problem, not just the broken NHS. The long wait times across the board is what makes the trans healthcare side of it so outrageous, because it's structured in a way that takes an already bad problem (shortage of services) and makes it so much worse through gatekeeping and bureaucracy.

Your comment also inadvertently highlights one of the especially insidious aspects of UK trans healthcare being broken and nonsense — it's fairly common knowledge that the NHS is on its knees, so activism aimed at making trans healthcare less shit is often perceived as an attempt to "jump the queue" so to speak, which feeds into anti-trans sentiment. (To be clear, no negativity is intended towards you here, I think that unless you have direct experience of trans healthcare in the UK, it's hard to know just how bad it is).

I was going to give a couple of examples of the kind of gatekeeping I mean, but I'm bad at brevity; if you're someone who watches video essays, I would strongly recommend the Philosophy Tube one above. It's even pretty entertaining, for such a grim topic.

AnarchistArtificer ,

I read your comment and desperately wanted to reply with something reassuring, but you're right, it's utterly fucked and it's terrifying. It makes it hard to be hopeful. This is probably the opposite of "reassuring", but I'd rather acknowledge how awful things are and be here with you for a moment than to scroll by. I'm cis, but being in community with trans folk in the UK has made it clearer than ever that none of us are free until all of us are free. Sympathy and solidarity to you, and the strength to keep resisting.

AnarchistArtificer ,

Yeah, my sentiment too.

AnarchistArtificer ,

I got a manic vibe, like a similar energy to when you've been modding a game for 20x longer than you've actually played it, except in this case, it's not a choice.

AnarchistArtificer ,

That reminds me of a fairly recent article about research around visualisation systems to aid with interpretable or explainable AI systems (XAI). The idea was that if we can make AI systems that explain their reasonings, then they can be a useful tool, especially in the hands of domain experts.

Turns out that actually, the fancy visualisations that made it easier to understand how the model had come to a conclusion actually made subject matter experts less accurate in catching errors. This surprised researchers and when they later tried to make sense of it, they realised that they had inadvertently dialled up people's likelihood to trust the model because it looked legit.

One of my favourite aphorisms is "all models are wrong, some are useful." Seems that the tricky part is figuring out how wrong and how useful.

AnarchistArtificer ,

Music taste has expanded a whole bunch but I'll always have a nostalgic soft spot for My Chemical Romance.

AnarchistArtificer ,

Thanks for sharing that. I've only watched the first bit of it for now, but I look forward to coming back to it later.

AnarchistArtificer ,

Yeah, that's my sense too, as someone within low-level academia. Bibliometrics and other attempts to quantify research output have been big in the last few decades, but I think that they have made the problem worse if anything.

It's especially messy when we consider the kind of progress and contribution that Nobel prizes can't account for, like education and outreach. I really like how Dr Fatima explores this in her video How Science Pretends to be Meritocratic(duration: 37:04)

AnarchistArtificer ,

I'm a little stressed

I'm a bit worried

I'm a lot better today

AnarchistArtificer ,

I agree, this is great. I really liked:

"Most user interfaces are terrible. When people make mistakes it's usually the fault of the interface. You've forgotten how many ways you've learned to adapt to bad interfaces."

and

"Whenever they start to blame themselves, respond by blaming the computer. Then keep on blaming the computer, no matter how many times it takes, in a calm, authoritative tone of voice. If you need to show off, show off your ability to criticize bad design. "

AnarchistArtificer ,

I honestly find it impressive how Reddit continues to find new ways to enshittify the platform

AnarchistArtificer ,

I was talking to a friend recently about how the mechanisms of surveillance capitalism reminds me of a dark and a hollow version of how communities work. Earlier in the conversation, she used the phrase "communities are when 1+1 = 3", i.e. when the collective output and capacity is greater than the sum of its parts. Data works a lot like that — you're completely right that overemphasis on the value of individuals' data misses the point

AnarchistArtificer ,

Though I wonder if even besides adding an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) (writing acronym out for anyone else who would've had to Google it), this might be a useful exercise recovering from outages in general. This is coming from someone who hasn't actually done any self hosting of my own, but you saying you're still finding down services reminds me of when I learned the benefit of testing system backups as part of making them.

I was lucky in that I didn't have any data loss, but restoring from my backup took a lot more manual work than I'd anticipated, and it came at an awkward time. Since then, my restoring from backup process is way more streamlined.

AnarchistArtificer ,

I think what's key here is that you used to be able to do this. I used to use Google assistant regularly and I feel like I've discovered dropped features through frustrated exchanges like this. It's easy to miss that it specifically asked for time when you're in autopilot mode and expecting that if there's an error, it just misheard you

AnarchistArtificer ,

Nothing in the community's info talks about this being for solarpunk specific memes. It's just for memes in general. The instance choice is more about what kind of moderation policies and overall culture one would expect to be enforced from a top-down, admin level.

AnarchistArtificer ,

I think that what ryathal was getting at is that there's a distinction between the kind of shouting that happens in the arguments one expects in a regular relationship, vs the kind of shouting where its one person shouting at the other for a long time. I don't even know if I'd count that latter one as "an argument".

The distinction can get muddy and it's not always clear where the line is, but some people grow up without any sense of that line existing at all. Because of my childhood, for example, in my first relationship, I was terrified of any conflict, because I had internalised that "argument" meant "screaming obscenities at each other". I had to learn how to have arguments, a key part of which was learning how to disagree on an emotionally fraught subject without having to shout, plus developing a sense of when some shouting may be justified).

I agree with your sentiment that people who think of love as being a perfect, clear sailing thing are setting unreasonable expectations, but I don't think I'm on board with the idea of a person being "perfect for you", or that love means accepting them as they are. I think there's a bit of that, sure, but I also think that there's a lot of learning to grow together, and actively putting work into the love that exists between two people.

AnarchistArtificer ,

I think a big obstacle to meaningfully using AI is going to be public perception. Understanding the difference between CHAT-GPT and open source models means that people like us will probably continue to find ways of using AI as it continues to improve, but what I keep seeing is botched applications, where neither the consumers nor the investors who are pushing AI really understand what it is or what it's useful for. It's like trying to dig a grave with a fork - people are going to throw away the fork and say it's useless, not realising that that's not how it's meant to be used.

I'm concerned about the way the hype behaves because I wouldn't be surprised if people got so sick of hearing about AI at all, let alone broken AI nonsense, that it hastens the next AI winter. I worry that legitimate development may be held back by all the nonsense.

AnarchistArtificer ,

I've seen a weird aspect of it from the science side, where people writing grant applications or writing papers feel compelled to incorporate AI into it, because even if they know that their sub-field has no reliable use-cases for AI yet, they're feeling the pressure of the hype.

Specifically, when I say the pressure of the hype, I mean that some of the best scientists I have known were pretty bad at the academic schmoozing that facilitates better funding and more prestige. In practice, businessmen in boardrooms are often the ones holding the purse strings and sometimes it's easier to try to speak their language than to "translate" one's research to something they'll understand.

AnarchistArtificer ,

Using Google products is starting to feel like watching season 1 of a Netflix produced show - I don't want to invest energy into something that'll just get cancelled.

Are there any genuine benefits to AI?

I can see some minor benefits - I use it for the odd bit of mundane writing and some of the image creation stuff is interesting,, and I knew that a lot of people use it for coding etc - but mostly it seems to be about making more cash for corporations and stuffing the internet with bots and fake content. Am I missing something...

AnarchistArtificer ,

An interesting point that I saw about a trail on one of the small, London Tube stations:

  • most of the features involved a human who could come and assist or review the footage. The AI being able to flag wheelchair users was good because the station doesn't have wheelchair access with assistance.

  • when they tried to make a heuristic for automatically flagging aggressing people, they found that people with the arms up tend to be aggressive. This flagging system led to the unexpected feature that if a Transport For London (TFL) staff member needed assistance (i.e. if medical assistance was necessary, or if someone was being aggressive towards them, the TFL staff member could put their arms up to bring the attention onto them.

That last one especially seems neat. It seems like the kind of use case where AI has the most power when it's used as a tool to augment human systems, rather than taking humans out of stuff.

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