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@rom.kape.xyz

Geek. Educator. University of the Philippines. Member, Cult of Privacy Proud Filipino 🇵🇭 ** personal account on self-hosted PDS **

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@rom.kape.xyz

Foursquare is now part of an adtech company - now am on the lookout for an alternative to its Places API, preferably one with global reach. Help.

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Tim Carmody
@tcarmody.bsky.social

People will say it’s bad that Mayer couldn’t answer this herself, and they’re right. They’ll say it’s bad she asked AI, and they’re right. But I am here to say that it’s bad that she looked at this wack ass output and called it “perfect”

David Gura@davidgura.bsky.social

cool, cool

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HappyProto
@happyproto.at

atproto is public by default... which is great until your app needs a private group, or an invite list, or a draft. HappyProto comes with atproto spaces already enabled. You can have permissioned data for your users, even if their PDS doesn't support it yet. #atproto

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@rom.kape.xyz

Apple, please create an iSight camera that works with Macs, Apple TV, iPads and iPhones please. Use the original design, that kicks ass!

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Jed Brown
@jedbrown.org

This remains true: it is not an engineering discipline. It's just deploying shoddy systems in inappropriate contexts, ignorant of (or sometimes reveling in) the externalized harms. What would it take to start doing engineering? Construct validity, adversarial audits, robust governance, and more.

Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app

While we're on the topic of the machine learning Michael Jordan and his interview calling this hysteria around fictional machine gods for what it is, let me share with you this essay he wrote in 2018 where he was similarly spot on. medium.com/@mijordan3/a...

medium.comArtificial Intelligence — The Revolution Hasn’t Happened YetArtificial Intelligence (AI) is the mantra of the current era. The phrase is intoned by technologists, academicians, journalists and…
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ai-naku.pckt.blogIs this the start? I believe soCharacter.ai’s bankruptcy is the one of the first dominos to fall in the long-foreseen AI bubble. The circumstances of its bankruptcy are exactly what critics of AI have been saying would happen: Character.ai lit a huge amount of money on fire running its product, did not bring in a lot of revenue, and faced enormous legal fees after causing harm to its users. Enshittifying its product to try to make its expenses cheaper did not work, according to a narrative filed in bankruptcy court Tuesday. C...

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Mike Masnick
@masnick.com

Was debating calling out some of the problems with this study (even as I greatly respect the one author on the study whose work I'm familiar with) but I see Carl already did so. This study does not prove what the headline says...

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com

In our course and book _Calling Bullshit_, we posit that If something seems too good, or too bad, to be true, it probably is. Now as a college professor I'm pretty confident that overreliance can AI can harm our thinking ability, but just ten minutes of use? Let's dig into this this study a bit.

news.berkeley.eduUsing AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley NewsA UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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@rom.kape.xyz

Scraped the glaze off of a plain Krispy Kreme donut and ended up with more a teaspoon of sugar!

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@rom.kape.xyz

Game day tomorrow — UP Men’s Basketball goes against DLSU and UP Men’s Football goes against Ateneo. #UAAP #UAAPSeason89 #UPFIGHT

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@rom.kape.xyz

These GenAI companies really need to think about the day after — after their funding dries up

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Mark Hamill
@markhamillofficial.bsky.social

ONE WEEK FROM TODAY IS NO KINGS #4 (Details at: nokings.org) We must turn up in MASSIVE numbers to show the world we don't support this Administration or a criminal president who has enriched himself to an obscene level at the expense of everyday hardworking Americans! #GettingReadyToDump-tRUMP 🟠💩 👎

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@rom.kape.xyz

No, dumbf*! AI does not feel anything. AI is not conscious. If you think these things are, then maybe you are brain dead.

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Three Scary Rogue Agents in a Trenchcoat
@alexhanna.bsky.social

Social media companies have spent millions of dollars and subjected countless content moderators to horrifying content to remove graphics of political violence from the internet Meanwhile, this administration wants to put them on cable

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@rom.kape.xyz

Been using nocodb simply as a spreadsheet. let's see how this performs as a relational database.

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Timnit Gebru
@timnitgebru.blacksky.app

Please read my comments to this. The NERVE to call those of us with peer reviewed empirical work as conspiracy theorists and not those doing seances for the AGI god (e.g. Hinton's students). But I have more things to say in the comments.

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Timnit Gebru
@timnitgebru.blacksky.app

Replying to @timnitgebru.blacksky.app

BTW when I say "seances for the AGI god" I'm not speaking in metaphors or exaggerating. Ilya Sutskever did these at OpenAI, you can read Karen Hao's Empire of AI for details.

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@rom.kape.xyz

Dear Apple, please add an indicator if our contact is using a third-party application in processing our iMessage, so we can opt whether or not to block them. :)

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@rom.kape.xyz

Rewrote some of my Shortcuts that use the Reminders app to store data - now with native storage support, no need for the Reminders app. LOL.