Anyone can become disabled at any time. It’s one of the few minority groups you can always join.
Even if you do everything “right”. Even if you’re young and healthy. Even if you “try hard”
It’s not a moral failing. It’s a part of life.
If more people would accept that and work with us, we would all be better off.
Got asked to review a book proposal for "A Guide to Prompt Engineering".
More accurate title: "A Guide to Poking at the Environmentally Disastrous Racist Pile of Linear Algebra Trained on Stolen Data and Exploitative Labor Practices to Produce Outputs You're Too Lazy to Learn to Evaluate"
This felt too valuable not to share. Braille-labeled maps of washrooms to help people find and use facilities in the washroom. Everyone deserves to get in, do their business, wash their hands, and get out in peace and safety.
This seems valuable for all public spaces.
🚨Heute veröffentlichen wir erstmals alle Prüfgutachten des Bundes zu digitaler Barrierefreiheit bei staatlichen Angeboten! Das Ergebnis: 0 % gesetzeskonform.
Die Veröffentlichung markiert einen Wendepunkt bei der Durchsetzung von Teilhabe für behinderte Menschen. Die Berichte sind das erste Werkzeug für Betroffene, um echten Druck auf die Bundesverwaltung auszuüben, die der Veröffentlichung widerspricht.
Zum Portal: https://barrieren-gutachten.de
Pressemitteilung: https://steady.page/de/bye-bye-barrieren/posts/cbafc143-3d20-484b-8bb6-dc0b4d10e3c3
Watching my friend who is fluent in Japanese play ffxiv in that language only to randomly go "What even IS this kanji, I've never seen this in my entire life. Fucking Urianger" is a highlight
The solarpunk thread I posted yesterday (https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/114670279088355579) elicited some interesting reactions, with at least one commenter suggesting that punks and anarchists can’t *possibly* contribute anything constructive or beneficial to civilized society.
So today this cartoon seems appropriate…
#History #Economics #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Degrowth #SolarPunk
Imagine a digital space that aggregates, organizes, and empowers you to act on any activity published across the fediverse.
With Bonfire, you can now add an "Events" feed to your sidebar—pulling in all events from users you follow on #Mobilizon and #Gancio, unified in one place.
That's just a glimpse of what our modular architecture enables.
Now imagine the possibilities...
reposting here because someone sent this to me and i realised how much i needed it actually
Super well done fediverse! Will post my next Greenland video this evening ...
Onwards to the next goal then ...
https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/114649617953987370
Since I first shared this link on Friday, the amount raised has shot up by more than € 6000, not taking credit for that but well done #fediverse
If we get to the €35000 target this week, I promise to post a couple of new #Greenland #science vids on my @tilvids channel. @icesheets_climate
Who else is in? 8 days to go.
https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/114641673922538397 - Apropos @peertube the french developer collective @Framasoft are currently trying to raise the (for #bigTech derisory) amount of EUR 75,000 to develop the opensource #fediverse competitor app to Youtube. Maybe chuck 'em a few euros if you think it useful?
https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/
Found my Jlahaj to show any trans people who would rather sew with a free pattern than buy a stuffie from IKEA https://freesewing.org/designs/hi/
#blahaj #trans #shark #sewing
“Being gay is like being left-handed—some people are, most people aren’t, and nobody really knows exactly why. It’s not right or wrong; it’s just one of the many natural ways to be. The world works best when everyone gets to live as they truly are. So if you ever feel out of place, remember: you're not broken, you're just beautifully different—and that’s something the world needs.”
Jodi Foster
🔥 Bonfire Social 1.0 release candidate has landed!
Curious about what the fediverse could look like with real community control?
Try out features like custom feeds, nested discussions, shared profiles, circles, and boundary-based permissions — then let us know what breaks or needs improvement.
More details and video demos: https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfire_social_1_0_rc/
#BonfireSocial #FediForum #FOSS #ActivityPub #DigitalAutonomy
I think the LLM problem mostly stems from an insufficiency in our own language when we describe "intelligence" or "knowledge". We generally think of intelligence as a singular concept that exists on a scale. Of course intelligence is more nuanced than that, and many folks have talked about how people have "different types of intelligence". But I think that there's even more to it than that.
To attempt to be more precise, I believe the information storage and retrieval process that LLMs undertake is accomplishing some sort of facet of cognition, maybe you could call it "linguistic sequence processing". But they do not have any other sort of intelligence.
I think the problem we are having with our societal reaction to LLMs is that we haven't encountered something that exists with only this capability, so we don't have a model for it and its limitations. We just expect it to act more and more like a human because that's the only thing that it is similar to.
Probably the best comparison I can think of is early chemistry and how it relates to alchemy. Certain things could be done that looked incredible and you could extrapolate given those results that you could do anything with this technology, and it would even make the concept of value obsolete because you could turn lead into gold.
Or photography. You can capture a perfectly realistic depiction of reality onto a piece of paper. That sounds like it would make art obsolete, it sounds like it might be a threat to reality if it can exist on paper as well as in real life. People might start only looking at photos instead of going out and experiencing real life.
But technology generally isn't that simple, and hopefully we will eventually have a more nuanced understanding of its limitations and stop trying to use it everywhere as if it was, or ever will be, an "AGI", and scale it down so it isn't so resource intensive. I'm convinced that there's no need for it to have as much training data as it does, if it's used more effectively as a small component of a system. I also really don't think it will significantly replace people's jobs, once people realize how limited it is (and that's already starting to happen as employers realize that firing people for AI doesn't work). Hopefully, it can instead be a tool that helps us interact with computers more effectively. But that will take a pretty big change in how we perceive this technology as a society.
Bringing a little more rainbow joy to my homepage to show my support and allyship for the LGBTQ+ community.
https://www.peppercarrot.com/
Was Radler*innen so in einer Stadt alles passieren kann...ein Film von #Extra3
#Fedibikes #fahrradbubble #fahrradalltag
Es ist nun raus: ab Mitte August werden wir von Bing keine Suchergebnisse mehr erhalten. Bing fällt also bei unserer Metasuche raus. Hier ein paar Gedanken dazu:
https://suma-ev.de/bald-kein-zugriff-mehr-auf-den-bing-index-was-bedeutet-das-fuer-metager/