Volunteer librarian-archivist-local historian, manager, apiarist, accordion abecedarian, wannabe hedgewitch, perfume hobbyist, admirer of many & sundry things.
Michigan
Joined February 2009
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Why is the DNC trying to position Hunter Biden as their poster child RN?? Think we've got a little bigger fish to fry, folks
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I love to see that my grandmother has a special day named after her, that is also very relevant to her interests. 🐈🎍💐
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Uh, yeah, no, Orwell and my @EveryDollar gas budget say otherwise.
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@courtney6xj5 So fun not to be able to block new pronbot follower (or any of them) anymore, @elonmusk
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@hwinkler4real Henry, my book club loved your memoir, "Being Henry." (We read it for our January meet.) We really appreciated how vulnerable you made yourself. We all wondered how you overcame / managed your dyslexia. Are you comfortable speaking about that a little more?
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I'm leaving Twitter. Goodbye to my friends here. It was good ride for quite some time, until it completely wasn't. I'll be on Bluesky and Instagram. And we all have to keep fighting the good fight.
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I might or might not have accidentally endorsed a fork of Linux? Or it's a scam. In any case, check it out carefully before doing anything.
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"Sense and Sensibility." Even though Emma Thompson and Ang Lee elided, condensed, and even added so much stuff, they stayed so very true to the spirit of the original, and created a tour de force of their own.
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My conspiracy theory is that the alleged altruism/ longterm bruhs just hastening destruction of our planet by eviscerating natural resources & sundering communities that much quicker, so they can get to their galaxy-conquering fantasies
As a researcher, I study novels that very few have read - novels that AI chatbots know nothing about. So, when prompted, what do they do? Fabricate.
I have witnessed them analyze novels that they entirely made up (characters, plotlines, etc.) and then presented to me as fact. When confronted, they admit to making "assumptions" based on a novel title alone. It's simply unacceptable.
AI advocates talk about "garbage in, garbage out," as if these hiccups and hallucinations are no big deal or as if the users are actually to blame for the program's flaws. And the sad reality is that most people are fine with this because, whether or not it's garbage, it's valuable to them. I do recognize the value in a number of AI applications, but there is not enough caution, and there are far too many errors. We cannot stop AI, but we can - and must - stop it from erasing and, worse yet, falsifying the invaluable ideas and pieces of human history.
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