Jules @afewbugs@librem.one

I don’t understand non-billionaires who don’t support taxing billionaires because they hope to one day become one. If you have the confidence to believe you’ll one day make a billion dollars, you should have the confidence to believe you’ll figure out how to dodge taxes, too.

Some #sacred #moss traces the words carved into this recumbent gravestone outside #SelbyAbbey #Church in #EastYorkshire. I suppose that the moisture held in the carved depressions that form the letters has encouraged the moss to do its stuff. #Mosstodon #gravestone #memory #writing

@afewbugs I was going to post this very question yesterday. At the very least, when an image is uploaded the edit dialogue should appear. There are soooo many excellent posts on Mastodon that I'd like to boost but I refuse to do so if there isn't a good description.

So one of the major problems with #ChatGPT is that it's deliberately opaque about the basis for the claims it makes. What happens if you explicitly ask it to cite its sources?

Turns out the answer is - it will just spit out citations for non-existent papers and falsely attribute scientific discoveries to people who didn't make them!

(local differentially private mechanisms have existed since at least the 60s, and have been studied by that name since at least 2008: https://arxiv.org/pdf/0803.0924.pdf)

#OnThisDay, 28 Nov 1967, PhD student Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovers the existence of pulsars.

Not included in the 1974 Nobel prize for the discovery, Bell received a £3m prize for her work in 2018. She's using it to set up a foundation to improve diversity in STEM.

#WomenInSTEM #Histodons #ScienceHistory

Did you know you can tell the age of a fake Christmas tree by counting the rings of tape?

@kjhealy Next generation of GPT bot rumored to be so realistic that when you ask it how the writing is going it bursts into tears

Next generation of GPT bot rumored to so realistic that when you ask it to write something important to meet a deadline it goes ahead and cleans your house.

To be honest, this seems worse than having the road blocked by #climate #activists for a few minutes.

This explains the ongoing degradation of the West Pier, Brighton UK. Giant seagulls pecking it at dusk.

I follow back, and really appreciate boosters.

#WestPier #Seascape #Seaside #Brighton #Sunset #WestPierBrighton #Silhouette #Beach #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #Sussex #BeautifulEngland #pebbles #PhotoOfTheDay #PicOfTheDay #ImageOfTheDay #Photgraphy #Landscape #Pier #Coastal #Seaside #Boardwalk #BrightonPier #Seagull #Moment

From top to bottom, the media is laser focused not on the threat of a growing fascist movement but on debating whether that movement's targets and enemies, LGBT+ and trans people specifically, should even be allowed to exist alongside "normal" people.

Seasonal Reminder !

The #SalvationArmy is not a #charity. They are an evangelical protestant church that uses donations to oppose #LGBTQ rights.

Give them NOTHING.