Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@dangillmor
Cheating against what standard? The old educational model of memorization versus using tools well to find accurate information? The old model of parroting lectures with one right answer rather than creative thinking? The old model of meeting one standard for literacy? I think there are ways to use LLMs to expand education, including teaching students how they--thanks to us--are biased and often wrong. https://medium.com/whither-news/writing-and-exclusion-16d4d98a27a

Boosting a homecoming fundraiser for a beloved comrade and abolitionist organizer who is coming home on parole! Please boost and share with your networks!

cashapp: $Allegheniesab
paypal: @ AllegheniesA

#solidarity

Great @propublica reporting on "exquisite timing" of execs' stock trading -- of competitors' shares. https://www.propublica.org/article/secret-irs-files-trading-competitors-stock

The simplest explanation, of course, is corruption. But will law enforcement investigate to find out? Stop laughing...

Again #Atlanta showing the levels they’ll go to

Attention #StopCopCity comrades: there are reports of a prosecutor misrepresenting himself to forest defenders #CopCity
Thank you to @NLGnews for coming forward with this

More info below on how to protect yourself:

Folks, I encourage you to not work for @OpenAI for free:

Don't do their testing
Don't do their PR
Don't provide them training data

https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/110029104362666915

Open AI wants us to believe its shift from nonprofit and open to for-profit and black box is just a natural progression, not a bait and switch of epic proportions. The company genuinely believes we are stupid and naive.

So much for "Open" AI: https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/15/23640180/openai-gpt-4-launch-closed-research-ilya-sutskever-interview

Anyone in the #Aotearoa #Fedisphere found a place to source Dayton Audio DAX88s? Wanting to set up a Home Assistant-enabled musical household.

Glad to see considerable progress in Thunderbird, the email stepchild that is finally getting the attention it -- and its users -- deserve. https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/02/the-future-of-thunderbird-why-were-rebuilding-from-the-ground-up/

Microsoft Azure's @medium page just published this guide on how to deploy Mastodon on Azure.

https://medium.com/microsoftazure/simple-mastodon-node-deployment-on-azure-f79f40114d74

Now the fellow who wrote this doesn't directly work for Microsoft.

But clearly, Microsoft wants to use Mastodon to sell Azure. Otherwise they wouldn't publish this article on their official Azure Medium page.

I've been predicting this for months.

In fact, Microsoft has been telegraphing more and more involvement with the Fediverse.

See also: @dotnet

@fediversenews

Quite a few people with whom I communicate frequently are folks I wouldn't recognise if I saw them in public, and I wouldn't have the foggiest of where they live. In many cases, I don't even know their gender. And it doesn't matter. We can still exchange ideas and respect one another as humans. So cool. Love the Fediverse.

This outrageous threat against librarians is just the latest evidence that the extremist right is on the attack everywhere we look.

https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/michigan-prosecutor-mulls-charging-lapeer-library-over-lgbtq-book

The rational, tolerant center and left are mired on the defense -- and often, in this era of Republican-rigged elections and packed courts, losing.

But Big Journalism continues with business as usual, normalizing the extremists and refusing to take a stand to protect basic rights, and democracy. It's disheartening.

Cory @doctorow's incendiary piece today on the Silicon Valley Bro Bank Bailout will make you want to pick up a pitchfork: https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/15/mon-dieu-les-guillotines/

But don't just be angry. Get active. Help people vote, and have their votes counted, from your neighborhood on up.

It's time to demand #DigitalRightsForLibraries—sign the pledge, join the online rally by posting or changing your profile pic, and share why the #InternetArchive is important to you.

Take action and spread the word at http://BattleForLibraries.com

BREAKING: 🐦InternetArchive supporters are planning a digital rally 3/20 in support of the digital rights of libraries at https://www.battleforlibraries.com/

That's when a judge will hear oral arguments in big publishers' suit to end the ability of libraries to own+preserve digital books.

The problem is not that "AI" will replace coders.

The problem is that leadership *thinks* that "AI" can replace coders.

A “courtesy” request to not publicize a hearing is a gag order by another name. Lawyers won’t risk upsetting the judge deciding their case. We’re glad to see today's hearing getting plenty publicity despite the judge’s unconstitutional efforts. https://apnews.com/article/abortion-pill-mifepristone-transparency-fda-roe-wade-48c389dd3c892aa9bbc553e0b3de5360

What's the main difference (apart from scale) between the Saudi "gifts" to Brazil's Bolsonaro and the regime's "investments" in Trump family?

Bolsonaro's successor is going to investigate the corruption.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/bolsonaro-denies-illegal-acts-bringing-saudi-jewels-brazil-report-2023-03-04/

Docker Inc would like to thank the open source community for making registry successful.

As a token of appreciation open source organizations are invited to subscribe to the paid version in the next month, or their data will be deleted.