Drehbuchautor und Filmproduzent Tyler Perry inszeniert das Gesellschaftsdrama „Straw“, in dem eine alleinerziehende Mutter eine verzweifelte Entscheidung trifft.
Maybe there are others of you out there who are still ruminating on your PyCon US experience (you animals 😁 )... Among other things, I've been pondering the concept of "twiddling" from Doctorow's keynote (@pluralistic).
Since I'm not sure I'll quite have the bandwidth to travel to the bay for ehat[.]fyi, I decided to "have a take" via my blog...
Proceed with caution, as my uninformed opinion abounds...
Fotoausstellung von Hingerichteten im Iran > Solidarität mit dem iranischen Volk und dem heldenhaften Aufstand des iranischen Volkes ... Nein zur Todesstrafe im Iran >> Solidarität mit politischen Gefangenen, die sich gegen die Diktatur stellen und für Demokratie und Freiheit im Iran
Ort: Platz des 18. März, 10117 #Berlin Beginn: 7.6. 11:00 Uhr
Neofeud is a Dystopic Cyberpunk adventure game in the vein of Blade Runner, but with an overlay of Game of Thrones-like political intrigue, and 1366x768, hand-painted, stylized visuals.
My wife uses those tools, too. Experienced birder since she was little (not to mention PhD in ornith) so she can tell when merlin is full of guano, but I worry that someone of my skill level (married to above-mentioned PhD since late ‘80s - i.e., not much) would not be able to.
@VE2UWY Oh yeah, it's definitely not 100% accurate, but it's really great for my level of beginner birder to learn lots of new bird sounds! (And to relearn, and relearn, and relearn)
I guess I'm disappointed that the app doesn't flag guesses that are clearly suspect since the app knows where in time and space the user is located. A lot of Dunning–Kruger birders will swear they "heard" some species that is at best suspect if not just impossible. "But Merlin said it was a Ivory-billed Woodpecker!"
@jubei Semi-natural. It appeared after a really wet year about ~20 years ago (before we owned this farm). Before that it was woods and pasture, it's been slowly evaporating over the past 6 years. Birds LOVE it.
Can anyone help me find a comic I saw a while back? It had a manager talking to a worker, "how long to do X project?", worker says "2 months", manager: "what if I hired more workers and doubled your staff?" worker: "10 months." Anyone remember a comic to that effect?
When people bring up ethical problems with generative AI, I think one fairly common response is to point out that most of us eat meat, use cars (whether or not we drive them ourselves), buy devices that were made by underpaid workers in cruel conditions, or otherwise benefit from modern conveniences with ethical problems. Guilty as charged. But that doesn't mean we have to floor the accelerator on adoption of the next such thing. We can slow down, question, and possibly abstain this time.
Personally, I've decided that, at least as long as no one is pressuring me personally to do otherwise, I will abstain from using LLMs, especially for coding. As for that caveat, I admit I don't know if I'll have the fortitude to hold the line under pressure.
And I might go vegan, use Uber less, and refrain from buying a new phone a little longer too.
On the specific subject of disabled people using generative AI for accessibility purposes, e.g. using a vision-language model to describe or answer questions about images, I think that's a personal decision, and won't tell anyone what they should or shouldn't do. I can get by without such uses of generative AI, but I know that's partly down to personal privilege, specifically, having some usable vision and being able to afford a high amount of human assistance e.g. from Aira.
For me, the ethical problems with generative AI that I'm most certain about are those around the training data and process.
These models are trained on huge amounts of people's work, without their consent. True, this work (or at least some of it) was made available free of charge on the public Internet. But people did so with assumptions about how the work would be used.
As far as I know, nobody who published their writing or their open-source code consented to it being collected en masse, indiscriminantly, and thrown into a blender to develop a system whose purpose, as defined by its developers (or at least their financial backers), is explicitly to replace human work for the profit of those developers and backers.
Regardless of whether generative models produce output that counts as plagiarism, I think the lack of consent is itself a problem.
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Fünf nach der Erstürmung des Kapitols festgenommene Mitglieder der rechtsextremen Proud Boys verklagen die US-Regierung. Mindestens einen von ihnen hatte Trump begnadigt.
Ich verstehe es nicht. Warum ist das kein Notfall? Warum sind über 600.000 Menschen mit ME in D, darunter viele schwer- und schwerstbetroffen, ohne jede Therapie, Versorgung, Teilhabe, kein Notfall? Hinzu kommen noch all die pflegenden Angehörigen, für die sich auch alles verändert hat. Ich kenne Betroffene, die liegen seit Jahren in dunklen Zimmern. Die können nicht mehr sprechen, nicht mehr essen, nichts. Why is this not an emergency?
Ein vertraulicher Bericht des Wirtschaftsministeriums warnt vor dem Betrieb von Nord Stream 2, das Projekt ließe sich schnell final beenden. Doch es gibt Befürworter.
A belated #FrescoFriday with this beautiful golden hued fragment that depicts Urania, the muse of astronomy. This gorgeous fragment comes from the House of Julia Felix in Pompeii and is now held in Louvre Museum, Paris.
Statt KI-Bild einfach der Prompt dazu: Marienbildnis in frühneuzeitlichem Stil. Die Jungfrau Maria hält mit konzentriertem Blick und schiefgelegtem Kopf ein Maßband an einer brennenden Kerze hoch.
Wow, David Crisafulli has done something Campbell Newman couldn't. He's truly upset the Qld nurses & midwives.
All across Qld they pick us up when we're down, time we gave a little back in support. Pay them & don't take away their right to strike. Shearers' Strike 1891. #qldpol
Wintereinbruch am Flughafen - bei Passagieren sind dann oft Geduld und Nerven gefragt. Künftig könnten Robo-Schneepflüge für freie Start- und Landebahnen sorgen. Doch nicht alle sind davon überzeugt.
Nachdem das Verwaltungsgericht Berlin im Fall von drei Somaliern die neue Asylpolitik des Bundes für rechtswidrig erklärt hat, teilt der Vorsitzende der CSU im Bundestag heftig aus.
Der Dresdner Zwinger ist weltberühmt. Früher ein Hotspot fürstlicher Lustbarkeiten, besuchen jährlich Menschen aus aller Welt das barocke Juwel - das sich bald wieder in gewohnter Pracht präsentiert.
The current Auschwitz maintainers do not care about holocaust victims - in particular in case of toots containing in-captivity-photos - that do not get a lot of boosts anyway.
Gegen Invasoren! gestern – heute – morgen Miteinander Reden! Wir suchen das Gespräch mit den Passanten über den russischen Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine.
Mietpreisbremsen sind in der Bevölkerung beliebt. Das wundert Ökonomen. Denn sie halten es für wissenschaftlich erwiesen, dass Mietpreisbremsen schädlich sind – die Zustimmung zu ihnen müsse also auf Vorurteilen beruhen.
Hindsia violacea is a plant in the family Rubiaceae introduced to Britain in 1844, with petals of a fleshy consistency and having a rich velvety-looking surface
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