Laura Lis Scott

SFF writer, editor, designer, publisher
#Disabled #LongCovid #MECFS 🏳️‍🌈 she/her

#SFF #ScienceFiction #science #books #design #CSS #tech #LGBTQ #healthcare

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Last Notes

2024-09-11 14:26:00

not The Onion https://hackers.town/@snipe/113119239575146823

2024-09-11 14:14:37

it’s a start
“automakers will have to test their vehicles using crash test dummies representing adult and child pedestrians for the first time. NHTSA says the changes could save up to 67 lives every year.” https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/113118769427203582

2024-09-03 04:54:22

“CMG did not cop to how it acquires its alleged voice data, instead saying only that it can identify users who are "ready-to-buy" and create targeted ad lists based on their interests.”
https://futurism.com/the-byte/facebook-partner-phones-listening-microphone

2024-09-02 20:28:58

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As an editor, I can say there is no way applying generative slop would make editing easier or better. At its most basic, editing requires *understanding* the intended meaning(s) of the text. But “AI” doesn’t understand anything. It matches patterns and extrudes results.

2024-09-01 13:57:07

#writersCoffeeClub 9/1: What have been your writing-related achievements in the last year?
Unable to sit at my desk on the regular (thx to Long Covid ME/CFS), I put pen to paper while lying down, filling 3 notebooks w the WIP. It’s been good to get away from the screen again.
I recently got a basic over-bed table so I can type on my laptop. My lapdesks have been awkward & hot and my wee bed table is too wide for the couch. So now I’m starting to type up what I wrote.
#LongCovid #MEcfs #SFF

2024-09-01 03:45:01

“Most concerning is the illusion that LLMs are retrieving information rather than constructing word associations within a broad corpus. LLM responses are statistically likely rather than factually accurate. Sometimes these things correspond, but often they do not.”
#AI is not intelligence
https://techpolicy.press/challenging-the-myths-of-generative-ai

2024-08-29 22:22:33

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As if the last decade of enfascistication hasn’t happened

2024-08-29 20:13:39

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everything has exceptions, and fakers have always existed, just not with such capacity to fake at scale

2024-08-29 20:12:23

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I’d have added “reasonable options” if there were any being hyped to the general public. Of course “AI” can help w things like large scale pattern recognition, but that’s not what we consumers get. No, we get new ways generative slop can fuck with our emails, our photos, our news, our searches, our art, making it all shittier and more removed from us as people. It’s not intelligent. It has no understanding of concepts. A barking dog understands more.

2024-08-29 03:23:40

Best use of “AI”

2024-08-29 02:27:25

How do I turn this off? No, I don’t have to use it, shut up, I don’t want “AI” even scanning my shit
#NoAI
https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/28/apple-introduces-ai-powered-object-removal-with-the-latest-ios-update/

2024-08-27 00:06:43

love how YouTube goes down and they’re all “Your offline”
no tube everything works except you

2024-08-26 03:03:34

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Who cares? Everyone who got sick, for starters

2024-08-20 14:57:18

“They are clinging to a status quo, their status quo, that has not matched our reality since Barack Obama was elected president in 2008 and the Tea Party emerged as the energized manifestation of Ronald Reagan’s 1980s fever dreams. Their rules, their conventional wisdom, their savvy takes become more stale, more detached from normal life, and more cartoonish with every passing day.”
https://newrepublic.com/article/184990/pundit-brained-media-democratic-convention

2024-08-20 03:38:20

“Finally, to kick off their third day in space, the Polaris Dawn crew will open the Crew Dragon’s hatch as they’re about 435 miles (700 kilometers) above Earth. All four of the crew members and the entirety of the spacecraft’s interior will be exposed to the expansive void.”
See you, Space Cowboy…
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/19/science/spacex-polaris-dawn-jared-isaacman-spacewalk/index.html

2024-08-14 04:29:16

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In terms of anti-trust, what makes computer/internet monopolistic megacorporations different from other monopolistic megacorporations? Calling the breakup of one of the largest monopolistic megacorporations “unprecedented” is so misleading. America has been doing this off and on for well over a century. It’s not radical or new. We just haven’t seen much of it since Reaganism took over our political culture.

2024-08-14 04:21:48

Describe “AI” without saying “AI” https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/112956541732609455

2024-08-14 04:13:19

Every day, so many image posts I’d boost … if only they had alt text

2024-08-14 04:02:18

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Precedents exist. Standard Oil, AT&T, Hollywood studios… it happens, just not recently

2024-08-12 03:53:52

Congrats to this year’s #HugoAwards winners and nominees!
https://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2024-hugo-awards/

2024-08-09 19:04:19

“I commonly hear things like ‘you’re in a hospital - that’s the safest place you can be.’ These comments may be well-intentioned but they display a shocking lack of understanding about the disabled experience. Unfortunately hospitals are one of the LEAST safe places we can be.”
#disabled #Healthcare #MECFS https://disabled.social/@tomkindlon/112933578357917163

2024-08-08 02:12:23

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This photo has holding-up-the-Leaning-Tower-of-Pisa vibes

2024-08-07 02:15:24

why #AltText https://mas.to/@ChanceyFleet/112906727542341272

2024-08-03 18:34:00

My #Worldcon schedule is … nothing. I may never be able to go to Worldcon, or any con
Because Long Covid has left me disabled. Can’t travel. Can’t even walk more than a few steps. Reinfection could kill me
ffs ppl mask up! Your next “cold” could really fuck you up. You don’t want this
#CovidIsNotOver #LongCovid #MECFS

2024-08-02 15:57:27

“Rather than be directed to their state’s voter registration page, they instead are…prompted to enter their address, cell phone number, and age.
“If they agree to submit all that, the system still does not steer them to a voter registration page. Instead, it shows them a “thank you” page.
“So that person who wanted help registering to vote? In the end, they got no help at all registering. But they did hand over priceless personal data to a political operation.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/02/elon-musk-pac-voter-data-trump-harris.html

2024-08-02 01:02:15

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The (traditionally racist) media face a pivotal moment…

2024-07-30 23:33:09

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Always. And for decades. I’d stream coverage by anyone, in any language to avoid the inanity of NBC’s Olympics coverage

2024-07-30 04:23:39

and if you don’t think that’s weird, I don’t know what https://mastodon.social/@JuliusGoat/112872825661638634

2024-07-07 21:24:57

The Litany For Fear
(mainstream media edition)
I must spread fear.
Fear is the ratings winner.
Fear is the clickbait that brings total domination.
I will give them fear.
I will spew it to spread out of me and into them.
And once it has spread, I will turn the inner eye to count my profits.
Where the fear has gone there will be despair.
Only I will be a star.

2024-07-07 21:07:32

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A little refresher on the “nazi bar”:
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/112/747/246/477/221/376/original/743e214bbb8a270d.png

2024-07-07 20:06:55

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That works only if you already have a CoC in place. Because men dominating conversations, talking over women, harassing women is political. Able-bodied people tossing accessibility on the back burner is optical. Not inviting women, queer folks, POC to speak at events is political. All in the name of “no politics”
It happens. Pushback against even the slightest efforts to change the status quo garners outrage about “politics”!

2024-07-07 19:52:43

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Those sound like prime candidates for nazi bars

2024-07-07 18:23:20

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What a load of denialist gaslighting horseshit

2024-07-07 14:59:59

re #OI & #MECFS
watched this video by the Bateman Horne Center on ways to assess and treat Orthostatic Intolerance in patients with ME/CFS. It’s directed toward healthcare providers, much of it way over my head.
Yet some specifics re treatment are easy to understand and useful … including wearing compression garments, which encouraged me to wear my leggings. I’m even trying an exercise waist cincher thing I had bc goddammit I’m desperate! No pix sry not sry
https://youtu.be/2KkYcA5zbNQ

2024-07-07 13:31:54

Which movie/show genre is your favorite?

2024-07-03 02:02:35

Nothing to see here, folks, move along, move along…
“we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be”
https://www.mediamatters.org/project-2025/heritage-foundation-president-celebrates-supreme-court-immunity-decision-we-are

2024-07-02 18:46:32

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Reverse engineered exploits hitting on (US) Independence Day feels pretty on brand actually :eyeroll:

2024-07-02 13:26:29

“All the news that’s fit to print” means “shitposts in complete sentences”

2024-07-01 13:51:56

doing my best to enjoy* the next 8 minutes of the dumpster fire status quo
*heh

2024-06-28 18:20:27

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discovered this last night featured in “The Bear” season 3 ❤️

2024-06-28 04:37:55

One thing we’ve had burned into us over the past 8 years of our dumpster fire politics is that each and every day delivers a new reality that buries all the yesterdays. November is a lifetime away and despite what the grifters, hacks and bobble heads say, no single day can define what voters will or won’t do then

2024-06-27 23:06:16

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I figure S3 of The Bear will be more calming

2024-06-27 20:56:19

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Ironically…
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/112/690/579/264/370/272/original/e08f080480e5aa2e.jpeg

2024-06-25 22:55:36

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"I contributed to a lot of the garbage that's filling the internet and destroying it," he said. "Nobody was even reading this stuff by the time I left because it's just trash."
Lovely. Why the hell would anyone want to inject LLM slop into personal communications? To make sure nobody will read it?

2024-06-23 14:02:11

In Safari’s “reader mode” so many websites are confusing, esp newspapers, magazines & journals
Disable reader mode & see the problem: headings, blockquotes & image captions styled visually only, without basic semantic markup
wtf webdevs?
Essential #accessibility STARTS w #SemanticMarkup that designates what’s a heading, what’s a block quote, what’s an image caption…
Semantic #HTML is not new. Even #HTML5 is 16 YEARS old! Use the tools handed to you
/me stops shaking fist, gets off soapbox

2024-06-23 13:13:00

Years ago we saw The Nutcracker at an arts theater w 3000+ seats, w coffee, snacks & full bar in the lobby
At intermission, people flocked to the restrooms in the lobby. Women had to wait in a growing line while men bopped in and out of the men’s. Time running out, women split off to use the men’s
And just like that the men’s became unisex
This happened ALL THE TIME in all sorts of venues, no fuss, just people needing to use the toilet without freaking out about who’s in the other stall(s)

2024-06-23 00:49:09

Hoping maybe a bed table will help me be a little productive on days I have the spoons since I can’t sit up at my desk anymore
#LongCOVID #MECFS #POTS

2024-06-21 19:48:04

alas the rest of the world won’t be spared https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112656306847214968

2024-06-21 03:57:47

Between 2010 and 2019, how many times did you get sick?
Now, how many times have you been sick from the start of 2020 until today?
#CovidIsNotOver

2024-06-21 03:50:22

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I have a Magic Mouse, no buttons, but I voted R->L bc I click the right side of the mouse surface and then click the left side on selection
and I realize that after doing this for so many years, I now hate whenever I must use a mouse with actual buttons, bc I’m old and cranky and like what I’m used to

2024-06-20 00:26:13

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“Adobe is too good a company to push dark-pattern subscription schemes like this
This is sarcasm, right?

2024-06-19 00:52:33

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alas no “generative slop + surveillance” option, but there should be so ppl can not select it

2024-06-18 22:51:44

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autotune
ai songwriter
ai lyrics
ai singer

2024-06-18 22:31:05

“To shore up collective denial, we often do more than revise the present; we also rewrite the past … we claim things were never that bad. This sort of “forgetting work,” or contesting the past to remove unwanted memories, produces a cultural amnesia about the pandemic. And in burying the past, we sidestep accountability for what went wrong and preserve the status quo by failing to implement lessons learned from our own history.”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/weve-hit-peak-denial-heres-why-we-cant-turn-away-from-reality/

2024-06-16 22:44:58

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to those jumping in to claim such a feature is impossible and/or unreasonable in a federated system, this feature already exists in Bluesky, which is ostensibly architected for federation. It’s a different protocol so the technical challenges may differ, sure. But the use case seems pretty obvious, federated or not

2024-06-15 17:11:30

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I’ll suffer even that as long as bot slop as a service isn’t involved

2024-06-15 17:09:52

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my question is what social media platforms have actually secure private messaging? I mean secure beyond “trust us, we won’t peek on purpose”

2024-06-15 17:07:59

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fwiw here’s the Mastodon roadmap
https://joinmastodon.org/roadmap
idk perhaps private messaging falls outside of the ActivityPub protocol
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/

2024-06-14 21:31:49

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I see that and hear “On program!”

2024-06-14 17:06:37

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…as a primary antagonist.

2024-06-14 01:35:12

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It takes a community

2024-06-14 00:25:21

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alas that’s more likely than actually ending pay discrimination

2024-06-13 15:13:53

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Andor is quite the opposite
The Acolyte? idk so far the Jedi are casually creepy rapey but maybe that’s the point, have to see where they take the show

2024-06-13 14:54:21

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No idea how the US stats are calculated but I’m guessing they don’t include ppl who’d been working in the gig economy & thus didn’t qualify for unemployment, nor all the disabled folks who aren’t able or willing to face the draconian application process to maybe get disability benefits

2024-06-12 18:50:01

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…
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/112/605/147/693/204/691/original/12804f437391b761.mp4

2024-06-12 16:38:29

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The dystopian title reference is almost too perfect, all the way down to a character retrieving his lost memories from a company called … Rekal 👀
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Can_Remember_It_for_You_Wholesale

2024-06-12 15:06:16

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I mean even if I had the spoons to attend a public event, there’s no way I can risk winding up in a stuffy room with a bunch of unmasked people
There’s a reason so many events have people going home complaining about having caught a “cold” or “flu”
Same problem with stores, restaurants, and especially business workspaces and offices where ppl are subjected to prolonged exposure risk throughout the day
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/112/604/267/938/554/383/original/c7e7ef7a2c05d191.mp4

2024-06-12 14:26:24

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Proactive measures/policies to prevent spread of airborne infectious diseases like #Covid are a MUST for at-risk ppl
Individual masking is NOT enough. Everyone masking is much better
MOST EFFECTIVE is having proper air ventilation with filtration and fresh air exchange so aerosolized viruses don’t linger and CO2 levels are kept low
Combining masking AND ventilation is best
This not only serves the needs of at-risk ppl but benefits everyone

2024-06-12 13:58:05

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Places to sit in common area spaces.
Not just lobbies, but also in concourses, corridors, courtyards, etc.
So many places require long walks to get from A to B. Without chairs or benches to rest on along the way, covering that distance can be simply impossible for people with limited mobility.

2024-06-12 04:14:58

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the clowns of the House are proof age isn’t the problem

2024-06-11 21:53:22

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goodbye Fermi Paradox … or hello new dogwhistle

2024-06-11 16:18:58

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So … when I see bicycles “publicly available” parked outside a store, this means I can take them unless their owners have already told me I can’t, right?

2024-06-11 04:16:31

disabling auto-update on all my devices
#noAI

2024-06-11 03:46:49

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It could be worse…
“Google could be a partner, too.”
…or not.

2024-06-11 00:07:08

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I can’t get myself to give a shit. What a sad obsession to have

2024-06-10 21:12:53

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yet human generated content has, you know, actual content, even if it might be poorly expressed, half baked, vapid, whatever
whereas “AI” generated slop (not my word actually) isn’t actually content — it doesn’t understand anything, a barking dog understands infinitely more of what it’s saying — it’s just statistically hashed pattern matched variables generated as output that we are expected to ascribe meaning to

2024-06-10 19:35:06

Imagine the mindset that races to take everything in human relationships—
what we say to each other
what we learn from each other
how we see each other
how we explore understanding ourselves
—and bury it all under generative slop
What problems do they think people have that this noise solves? Why do this?
I mean besides cynically and obsessively extracting capital while burning up the planet
#AI #WWDC

2024-06-10 18:56:29

splashy new features for problems I don’t have, please pass the smelling salts
#AppleWWDC #WWDC24

2024-06-10 18:32:24

waiting for the TL;dr re “AI” (however they want to spin it) and privacy
#wwdc24

2024-06-10 13:28:28

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congrats!

2024-06-09 18:26:13

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Beeh Bear eating nekter

2024-06-09 05:29:00

Congratulations to all the Nebula Award winners and nominees!
My reading list just grew a bit more
https://locusmag.com/2024/06/2023-nebula-awards-winners/

2024-06-09 02:36:17

you find taped to your door a notification from The Corporation:
“Great news! We’ve given your home an exciting upgrade with amazing new surveillance cameras and microphones everywhere in your house to record everything you do. And you don’t need to worry about privacy. We promise not to spy on you unless you ask us to. Or by accident. Or when we change our minds without notice. We know you’ll learn to love this upgrade because what are you gonna do about it? Be seeing you!”

2024-06-07 23:37:27

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The problem is that most of these tasks require comprehension to do effectively, and LLMs don’t actually comprehend anything. “AI” can be great at parsing out patterns in large or difficult data, but it sucks at correcting language and content generation bc to it they’re just patterns to match, remix and extrude.

2024-06-07 18:45:19

serious question
what is the use case for “AI” chatbots?

2024-06-07 18:17:14

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Adobe already has been dragging customers so far down the trust thermocline, as if daring them to drop through, that it doesn’t take much to lose what buoyancy has been keeping them in Adobe’s waters. “Freaking out” seems appropriate when gasping for air, wondering where it’s safe to swim now.

2024-06-07 17:22:13

“According to the report, a limited number of older devices will also be able to run the system, including iPads and Macs running an M1 chip or higher and the iPhone 15 Pro.”
So Macs not running an M chip remain safe? I hope so!
#noAI on my #Mac https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/112576459514167753

2024-06-07 16:17:10

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The point is that people were misled into thinking Covid is spread by droplets and someone would basically have to sneeze on you, but that was all based on erroneous assumptions that have since been proven incorrect. No, ofc Covid is not smoke. But Covid gets aerosolized and can travel great distances as smoke can. Transmission can and does happen outside. The aerosolized virus can linger in poorly ventilated spaces for HOURS.

2024-06-07 16:11:21

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It’s on my list.

2024-06-07 14:58:39

Long ago I disabled automatic app updates on my phone bc of surprise “upgrades” that stripped out functionality I’d paid for but now require monthly/yearly subscriptions.
Now there are better reasons…
#Copilot #spyware #Microsoft #noAI #enshitification
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/112/575/926/635/034/476/original/ad24a4fcd0d00898.jpeg
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/112/575/926/702/972/274/original/e4517350fe6c5597.jpeg

2024-06-07 04:52:34

missing when a year’s dystopian news items could fit on a bingo card

2024-06-07 04:47:47

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😂

2024-06-07 04:31:28

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I’m looking at Affinity Publisher again, hoping it’s reached adequate.
But the WWDC next week and I’m half-expecting the other shoe (third shoe? fourth shoe? what shoe are we on?) to drop. In which case I’ll be looking at moving to Linux.

2024-06-07 04:19:04

You know how far you can smell a cigarette someone’s smoking far away, across the room, or after they left, or even outside across a yard, or up a sidewalk, or on a restaurant patio, or even not even know where it’s coming from, but you can smell it?
Covid is aerosolized, it spreads across distances like that too. But you can’t smell it.
Think about that next time you smell cigarette smoke. Think about it next time you get that “just a cold” again.
#CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver

2024-06-07 02:07:08

Sometimes I procrastinate
1/x

2024-06-06 22:33:12

“Apple has a hard-earned reputation for putting privacy at the forefront of its technological proposition. It has long stated it is a hardware company and not a data firm and has practices in place to ensure your data is not to be exploited. That vow is largely trusted by its vast customer base.”
TBD now
https://www.trustedreviews.com/opinion/openai-deal-for-ios-18-is-a-red-flag-and-apple-knows-it-4532861

2024-06-06 21:57:35

D-Day, June 6, 1944
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/112/571/911/680/392/444/original/56800c5e4010f333.jpeg

2024-06-06 18:32:22

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Not calculated: error factor due to fact that many people score terribly on multiple choice tests, even on subjects they’re expert in — especially when the questions are phrased in the negative, where 👍 means “no, I don’t do that”
#grumblegrumble
(this comment has been brought to you by the lawful good)

2024-06-06 18:15:04

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Orca will just LOVE that!

2024-06-06 13:51:15

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but meatballs!
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/112/569/999/332/792/617/original/a3c6d2f919ed9afb.jpeg