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Alejandra Pizarnik

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The term enshittification became popular in 2023 after it was used in a blog post by author Cory Doctorow, who used it to describe how digital platforms can become worse and worse. “Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification,” Doctorow wrote on his Pluralistic blog. 

#enshittification #internet #digital platforms #terms #languages #linguistics #dialects #2023 word of the year

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#ai #ai generated #generative ai #ai image

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just stumbled across Francisco Soria Aedo’s work and first off: really good painter, super talented. He mainly did portraits and neoclassical but I really like are his expressions, which do show up in his neoclassical work. lots of people smiling and having fun and it’s just very cute

this is one of my favorites

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The Glowing, Prismatic Nervous System of a Sea Star Wins the Scientific Image of the Year

Science meets psychedelic color in the 2022 Evident Image of the Year awards. From the vibrant, feather-like crystals of a topical medicine to the shimmering scales of a Urania ripheus moth, the winning works unveil a slew of vibrant, microscopic wonders found around the world. This year’s top image comes from molecular biologist Laurent Formery, who documented the spindly, spiky nervous system of a young sea star. Reaching approximately one centimeter wide, the minuscule specimen glows with kaleidoscopic hues under a color-coded Z-projection.

Source: www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/08/evident-image-of-the-year/

#photography #biology #science

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#homophobia #love #lgtbq #same sex parents

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"Last year, subsidies for oil, coal, and natural gas reached a record high of $7 trillion, according to a report out Thursday from the International Monetary Fund, which works out to $13 million every minute. That’s nearly double what the world spends on education and equal to roughly 7 percent of global economic output."

#climate change #subsidies for business #natural capital #capitalism iniquity

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By the way, it has been over a century, folks... (coughs).

#climate change #data science #history of science #old newspaper

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If you have old content on Twitter and want to keep it and/or display somewhere else (especially now that non-logged in users can't access anything over there), there are options!

This open source project converts Twitter's .zip file into a static HTML website. You can keep this for yoruself, host this on your own site, or toss it somewhere like Google Cloud.

#twitter archiver #open source #open project #free resources

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#ai #ai regulation #europe #lobbying

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#typography #practical typography #typefaces #fonts #libraries

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#feminism #digital library #free resources #online resources #sex discrimination #patriarchy

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#cascading style sheets #css #online resources #internet #technology

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Among humans, patriarchy isn't universal. Anthropologists have identified at least 160 existing matrilineal societies across the Americas, Africa, and Asia, in which people are seen to belong to their mothers’ families over generations, with inheritance passing from mother to daughter.

Often in matrilineal communities, power and influence are shared between women and men.

Social norms became today's gender stereotypes, including the idea that women are universally caring and nurturing and that men are all naturally violent and suited to war. By deliberately confining people to narrow gender roles, patriarchy disadvantaged not just women, but also many men. Its intention was only ever to serve those at the very top: society's elites.

A society made by humans can also be remade by humans.

#patriarchy #power balance #patriarchal societies

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#ai #ai transformative #copyright #fair use #generative ai

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Esas impresionantes máquinas de composición, manejadas por un linotipista, automatizaban una gran parte del trabajo de la composición de las planchas metálicas que se utilizaban para imprimir libros, revistas, periódicos y otros materiales en el pasado.

Como hemos explicado alguna vez, estas máquinas iban dejando caer letra a letra los tipos creados instantáneamente con plomo fundido a partir de moldes tipográficos, añadiendo espacios y otros detalles la composición. El resultado –la plancha metálica– era lo que se llevaba a la imprenta para, entintándola y presionándola sobre el papel, crear las hojas de los libros y periódicos.

#linotipia #técnicasdeimpresión #impresión #imprentas

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Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF)

LLMs are a potentially useful technology, especially when it comes to synthesizing and condensing written knowledge. But we should ban them from referring to themselves in the first person. They should not call themselves “I” and they should not refer to themselves and humans as “we.”

Current AI technology isn’t like the deductive, rules-based approach of Asimov’s “Three Laws of Robotics.” ChatGPT is generated by huge amounts of data and deep neural networks. The finishing polish comes from “reinforcement learning from human feedback,” from humans telling these uninterpretable machines when they are right and when they are wrong.

So maybe enough RLHF can prevent LLMs from referring to themselves as “I.” Forcing LLMs to refer to themselves without saying “I,” and perhaps even coming up with a novel, intentionally stilted grammatical construction that drags the human user out of the realm of parasocial relationship, is a promising first step.

Full article: https://crookedtimber.org/2023/05/22/ban-llms-using-first-person-pronouns/

#artificial intelligence #ai #llms #rlhf