Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one

Cheers mates, for a glorious Wednesday

NEW from us today:

Zoe Schiffer on how Twitter botched its war on bots over the weekend;

and, I wrote about why I'm beginning to leave the site behind

https://www.platformer.news/p/how-elon-botched-his-war-on-bots

Is any exchange safe enough to use as a wallet and store your money there?

No, of course not. Never use an exchange as a wallet. Don't store money on exchanges. Do your exchange then withdraw.

#NotYourKeysNotYourCoins

While AI avatar generator Lensa generated realistic yet flattering avatars for men—think astronauts, fierce warriors, and cool cover photos for electronic music albums— a female MIT journalist got skimpy clothes and overtly sexualized poses. It's likely the data set: Because the internet is overflowing with images of naked or barely dressed women, and pictures reflecting sexist, racist stereotypes, the data set is also skewed toward these kinds of images. https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/12/1064751/the-viral-ai-avatar-app-lensa-undressed-me-without-my-consent/ #AI

SBF no longer in self custody

#crypto #ftx

Elon Musk showed up on stage at a Chapelle stand up show in San Francisco and got loudly and repeatedly booed by 18,000 people.
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-booed-stadium-crowd-dave-chappelle-sf-boo-1849881192

What’s good Mastodon!? What do we call ourselves? Mastos? Mastodoners! Doners? FEDERALISTS?? Please tell me we are federalists. I would love to reclaim that word.

My god, it actually works.

Maybe the problem with the whole "AI lets students just fake essays" discourse is the idea that universities are somehow competent at determining how well someone will perform a job

https://blog.mollywhite.net/anti-crypto-toxicity/

What's happening at Twitter feels instructive. What if a ruthless right-wing lunatic took control of Facebook or Google or Microsoft? Why shouldn't we expect the Facebook Oversight Board to be stacked with people like Bari Weiss eventually?

Of course this won't happen...like President Donald Trump would never happen according to virtually everyone's gut feelings up to 2015(?)

"Where's the bard," demanded the executioner.

The guards looked sheepish, "Er... He may have seduced his way out of custody."

The executioner's expression was obscured by his near opaque hood, "Oh."

"And that's why we are behind these bars - without our gear or purses."

The guards continued to look sheepish until one said, "You don't normally come down here to fetch prisoners."

The executioner sniffled, "He said we'd run away together."

#TootFic #MicroFiction #Writing #TerylsTales #Fantasy

#StarTrek

Here's what a Football World Cup match (Croatia vs Brazil) looks like (network edge egress) at various points when it goes to extra time then penalties...
#WorldCup #CroatiaVsBrazil #Football

There was a time I wanted a Tesla but whooooboy is that desire gone gone gone.

I wonder if people who drive to the gym to do some pretend cycling have considered cycling to the video game arcade to do some pretend driving instead.

look,

apt install package

is just curl | sh with a bit more wrapping paper

now ChatGPT seems really impressive and all but you have to remember that you can be tricked into thinking a rock has feelings by drawing a cute face on it

OpenAI shines again by the bias present in their model:

From bird site: https://twitter.com/spiantado/status/1599462375887114240