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Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · Sep 8

Of course that doesn't excuse the abuse but it feels like people NEED to have somebody shitty abusing the system & proclaim everybody and everything indistinguishable, regardless of the fact that usually the people who actually do the work are the strongest critics of the shit behaviour.

Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · Sep 8

If one cared about these topics, they would know, thet info is available. We are drowning in information. People CHOOSE to ignore the actual work and pretzel themselves into objections and their source is PETA or something equally ascientific and ridiculous.

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Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · Sep 8

"For profit zoos exist and suck". True. Zoos who are not for profit do a lot for conservation and many are doing so much and going above and beyond. While receiving shit funding, I might add, and are dismissed.

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Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · Sep 8

Because the last 20 years so many people I admire who work to protect and care about nature, science, so many things, are instantly dismissed as making money out of that care, while I know first hand that most of them are working for shit pay.

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Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · Sep 8

Струва ми се, че има хора, които имат НУЖДА всичко да е ужасно. Ако някой прави нещо, то задължително е по негативни причини или е само заради изгода. Дори да няма никакви доказателства, че е нещо такова, това е първата стъпка...

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Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · Sep 8

If they could tell if somebody is actually doing something or only pretending they would not be insisting how being present in the office would boost productivity. 😂😂😂

Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · Sep 8

Sometimes the most annoying group of people are those who care about something but confuse their interest for being the same as actually having relevant education and understanding of the topic. It's kind of annoying.

Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · Sep 8

The same "big money" people constantly claim those who try to do any conservation of the environment are getting? Being dismissive & wrong is a choice. You are invited to get a degree in something relevant then argue with conversations and zoologists how you know better. Until then fucking zip It.

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Kathleen Cottontail 🏳️‍⚧️♿️🖖🏻🐰 @kathleengmaz.bsky.social · Sep 6

Next they'll outlaw playing hopscotch. 🏳️‍🌈

The lettering is done in simulated sidewalk chalk.

Next time you think art doesn't matter, consider how scared the fascist are of sidewalk chalk.

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Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · Sep 8

Okay, so you don't think that. Just calling it "conversion bs".

Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · Sep 8

You know, we are veering into a conversation which will go nowhere. You are convinced that it's bs and that every biologist, zoologist and people involved is a liar or against it. So let's end it here.

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Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · Sep 7

"are llms affected by being sold as if they are magic when there is no such thing as ai or are you just bad at interpreting the information that is unreliable because LLMs can't do the things but it's your fault somehow?" - the article.

Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · Sep 7

This is a good post on how to get better at using AI. It's the product of pretty intensive research on what consistently works although I don't surface that research directly in it.

Bluesky and AI, so obviously comments on this are off. mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/is-the-llm...

Is the LLM response wrong, or have you just failed to iterate it?

Many "errors" in search-assisted LLMs are not errors at all, but the result of an investigation aborted too soon. Here's how to up your LLM-based verification game by going to round two.

mikecaulfield.substack.com

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Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · Sep 7

You know that zoos exist for a reason and it is not "unnecessary", right? This is not just animals in cages for the fun of It.

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Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · Sep 7

Okay, that genuinely sounds great. I didn't know that this was done and is a thing that actually happens.

Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · Sep 7

Разселили*
Като цяло се справя отлично, обаче е разписано от 80те насам, някои неща са съвсем леко морално остарели, като цяло, издържа добре на времето.

Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · Sep 7

На мен лично ми е една от любимите научни фантасти, защото И научния аспект е адресиран И фантастиката. Поредицата е, хората са се разделили към звездите. И основния фокус е планета на име Бараяр. Която е населена от хора от нашия район. Балканци, гърци, руснаци. :) Адски увлекателно.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Sep 7

Oh hey.

“As the proverbial Godot, robots are the bearers of a messianic promise that is always postponed. Instead of bringing prosperity for all, they discipline the workforce, so we don’t dream of a world without drudgery and exploitation.”

Waiting for Robots

An essential investigation that pulls back the curtain on automation, like AI, to show human workers’ hidden labor. Artificial Intelligence fuels both enthusiasm and panic. Technologists are incline...

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Jordan Calhoun @jordanmcalhoun.com · Sep 7

This is my favorite thing I've read in the past week. We typically discuss the job market as it relates to those searching to land a job. But even those *with* jobs feel unsettled and disillusioned, and are planning a raft for when our ship sinks

The Futile Search for the Bullsh*t-Less Job

Total Control + Totalizing Fear

annehelen.substack.com

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Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · Sep 7

Хъх, ок.

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Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · Sep 7

I think "white nationalists and religious nutjobs" is a better description of the situation.

Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · Sep 7

None. VR is stupid.

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The Broken Spine @thebrokenspine.co.uk · Sep 7

f this lit something in you — a rage, a recognition, a refusal — don’t sit with it. Share it. Cite it. Stand with it.
Lexi Pelle interviewed by @alanparrywriter.co.uk
Read it:

Girlhood, Diet Coke, and the Gospel of Detail: Lexi Pelle on Writing Toward the Wild - The Broken Spine

Lexi Pelle’s debut collection Let Go With The Lights On is not a nostalgia project. It’s a poetic excavation of girlhood, equal parts glamour, junk, shame,

thebrokenspine.co.uk

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · Sep 7

"In signing this waiver, I agree that this technology is immensely valuable not just to my child, but to her classroom, the tech giant that sold it to our school, and its billionaire owner."

I Assume All Responsibility If My Child Jams a Bic Pen into Her School-Issued Chromebook

I understand I am responsible if my child renders her Chromebook a paper weight by mercilessly and giddily jamming a Bic pen into the power jack, c...

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · Sep 7

Great list of bullshit excuses.

I would simply not burn fossil fuels if I had the choice, and the reason I don’t have a choice is fossil fuel companies lobbying.

Penny Tangey @pennytangey.bsky.social · Sep 6

The WA Museum Director's letter to staff defending the Woodside partnership contains a grab bag of climate action delaying arguments.

He goes: we all burn fossil fuels after all.

Classic blame shifting away from companies. Blaming people for existing in a world they want to change.

WA museum tells staff ‘almost all of us are guilty’ of burning fossil fuels in email defending Woodside partnership

Exclusive: Climate advocates reject CEO’s claim he is ‘not qualified’ to comment on risks of gas firm’s plan to extend production to 2070

www.theguardian.com

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Hemlock Autumn @hemlockautumn.bsky.social · Sep 7

Okay, I have to admit, while I am annoyed with her anti science nonsense, it is impressive that she managed to admit she was wrong and she is trying to help. This is hard, for everybody and anybody.

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