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Man, LLMs really drive home the lesson that people differ *greatly* in how much the care whether the statements they make are true.

A new bill from Sen. Wyden and Rep. Balint would give real teeth to an important federal law meant to protect journalists from searches and raids.

We’re proud to endorse this update to the Privacy Protection Act.

https://freedom.press/issues/new-bill-would-fix-law-thats-failing-journalists/

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug comic
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SUPER-FUN-PAK COMIX, feat. Man-Spider, Dandy Muckles, Actually-Man, AND MORE!
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“I’m running for US Senate. If elected, the first bill I introduce will draft Lindsey Graham into any conflict he publicly supports while in office,” Tom Jandron wrote in a post on the social platform X on Wednesday.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5803536-montana-libertarian-candidate-graham-draft/

What if there was an Erasmus programme for people who just entered retirement?
The #EU funds #RailTravel passes for 18 year olds with the #discoverEU programme, what if it did something similar for people entering retirement?
Or, what if there was a pendant to the #EuropeanSolidarityCorps organised by municipalities that brought older people from twin cities together in projects?

Probably my favourite idea that ever came out of one of our workshops 💜

We’re all about to have more opportunities to exercise our first amendment rights with every greenback we touch. How exciting to have all of these new first amendment opportunities!

New post:

"A newbie's guide to self-hosting with #YunoHost. Part 5: Upgrades & Maintenance"

Not exactly the most exciting post I have ever written, but system maintenance is so essential.

And spoiler alert: thanks to a botched #PeerTube upgrade I discovered the wonders of #tmux (thank you @teapot_ben and @drfyzziks for recommending it!)

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost-part-5-upgrades-maintenance/

#SelfHosting #MySoCalledSudoLife #DigitalSovereignty

so just to be totally clear AI is "democratizing" programming by taking something that used to free to do and making it so you pay a subscription fee to an American corporation to do it while being barred from ever actually understanding how it works, am I getting that right?

"when we say a machine ‘learned’ to recognize a cat, what actually happened is this: a worker in Lebanon clicked on 10,000 images, marking which ones contained cats. Another worker in Kenya wrote text descriptions: ‘orange cat sleeping’, ‘black cat on fence’, ‘white cat playing’. The machine did not learn what a cat is. It learned that certain pixel arrangements correlate with the label ‘cat’ because humans taught it. The machine will fail the moment it encounters something its trainers never labelled."

This latest special issue from @newint is well worth checking out. https://newint.org/issues/ai-people-behind-machine

That quote is from The Janitors of the Internet:
https://newint.org/science-and-technology/2026/janitors-internet (£)

#AI #technology #tech #newinternationalistmagazine

yes let's take everything beautiful and human and actually requiring skill out of schools and give our children STEM and discount laptops and a joyless culture free robot future

sure

sure!

this is why America has a drug problem

jfc

(YES CHILDREN SHOULD LEARN CURSIVE, hand to god this is just one of the MANY things wrong with this country BUT GODDAMN it's REALLY WRONG)

/rant

does anyone know if it's possible to flash an Amazon Kindle with a completely different OS (non-Amazon) so that it will display EPUB format ebooks?

#flash #customOS #kindle #Amazon

Something a bit worrying to note about using Ai in healthcare.

I’ve had two specialist appointments recently, both using ai to transcribe. Both sent report letters with inaccuracies about my diagnoses and past medical history. Even my GP was like, “huh, that directly contradicts what I put in the referrals.”

I have followed up both and requested amendments (which were done) but if I hadn’t, these inaccuracies could have significantly damaged ongoing care, further treatment or insurance claims.

Human error has always been a factor, but both doctors were clearly using the ai software and assuming what it spat out was correct. They made no other notes during the appointments to cross-reference and double check. This is how Very Bad Things can happen.

CALLING OUT DIY PUNK ARTISTS

DIY Conspiracy is looking for artists to collaborate on visuals for an upcoming long-form article series.

One of our far-flung writers had been working on a book about a specific hardcore punk scene, but for various reasons, the project never came together. Now parts of that work will find a new life as a series of articles on the site.

We’d love to find someone who can help make consistent visuals across the series.

There’s no time constraint. These pieces will be published slowly, with months between them, so this isn’t a high-pressure or deadline-heavy thing.

We’ve been lucky to get help from friends and great people on artwork over the years, but for this series it would be nice to bring someone new, especially someone from the Fediverse.

If you're interested, drop us a line at diyconspiracy@riseup.net

#punk #art #artwork #hardcorepunk #crust

Why mathematicians are boycotting their biggest conference: More than 1,500 mathematicians are demanding that their field’s most prestigious meeting be moved from the U.S.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-mathematicians-are-boycotting-their-biggest-conference/

(While unfortunate, this needs to happen. Everyone should move their meet-ups away from the US for now) #uspol

Based on not just one but three ongoing discussions I want to write down a few things I, based on my professional and other experience, consider truths. Relevant background: I am a child psychiatrist working in children and youth community level mental health services. I hold a PhD in data analysis. I've dabbled in practical epidemiology. I am a parent. My values can be described as left liberal. I am NOT a psychotherapist. Welcome to my not-TED talk that will go on for some hours probably. 0/🧵

6/🧵: You might have noticed that I have refrained from using diagnostic words in this thread I will continue to do so.

Medical diagnoses have their uses in medical contexts. Outside of it, categorization of humans into medical groups almost always does more harm than good. Categorical groups are strict and narrow and fail to capture the true variety and the true similarities of human beings.

It makes sense to decide how to treat you based on your diagnosis only if you are my patient.