Xeno Danger Evil @XenoDangerEvil@dpw.social

The stages of playing with GPT-3:

- OMG this can do anything
- There goes my job
- I should start a business around this
- Some of the responses aren’t too good
- Actually, some of these responses are just awful
- This isn’t really intelligence
- This is just spicy autocomplete

(as was forwarded to me w/no attribution)

I hate to say “this is me” about a web comic, but this is me

I try not to let the little things in life bother me, but their mom says it’s my duty as their father to at least acknowledge the little shits once in a while.

Remember, if you recommend anything (a restaurant, a movie, a tv series, music) then you are totally responsible for it, and if it sucks, you suck.

Not to brag but I was ghosted before it was cool.

Stranger in an unmarked van: Hey kid, want some candy?

Kid, skeptical: That depends, are you a cop?

[inventing cheese, day 1]

*retching*

[day 2]

*more retching*

...

[day 327]

“actually...”

So, Google gained 6% stock value when they fired 12000 people for no obvious reasons, and has now lost 7% after a mediocre AI demo, so I guess all the invisible hand of the free market does these days is make vague jerking-off motions.

Romance scammers' favorite lies cost victims $1.3B last year https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/10/romance_scammers_cost_victims_13b/

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Tar dagens andra kopp kaffe för att vakna till och ber Midjourney illustrera "A coffee-based lifeform". Måste nog dra ner lite... #kaffe

What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

- Carl Sagan

#quotes

New folks on the Mastodon seem to be surprised when, after a day or two, no one has been a gratuitous dick to them. It's one of the beauties of the federated structure that gratuitous dicks get reported to their admins. Servers ban their habitual dicks. Those servers that don't ban their gratuitous dicks get blocked by the rest.

Servers that get blocked off by too many others, lose users to other servers that are still well-connected.

This is the immune system of the Fediverse acting to isolate and exclude bad actors.

For a good example of this in action, did you hear about the time the alt-right social media platform Gab set up a Mastodon instance and was instantly the largest site in the Fediverse? They're not around anymore. The how and why is an interesting story. See here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZoASOyfvGQ

#Fediverse #Moderation

If you tried Mastodon before, and are back because Twitter is freaking out. Welcome back. Hopefully, you find a home this time around.

A thing I love on computers are notifications that pop in and I only notice because they have a sliding motion when they self-dismiss. But I don't notice them well enough to have actually seen what it was about.

I'm left with just a vague foreboding sense of having been stalked by something and I missed it

Back on my BBS bullshit

Fact: Everyone uses Linux one way or another, but most of the time, they just don't know about it.