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Fragment of - The Wrestlers. 18th.century. Juan Adan Morlan Spanish 1741-1816. terracotta. http://hadrian6.tumblr.com
Tuesday Riddell — Insects Feasting on Apple (gold leaf, silver leaf, gold powder, pigment and paint on japanned board, 2019)
Nobody should be using GPT detectors for anything important.
This is from a recent study that found that GPT detectors were misclassifying writing by non-native English speakers as AI-generated 48-76% of the time (!!!), compared to 0%-12% for native speakers.
It is irresponsible to use AI-generated text detectors as evidence of academic misconduct, and that's putting it mildly.
Sleeping Satyr, or the Barberini Faun. Marble copy of a bronze original, circa 220 BCE. Glyptothek, Munich
The domination of sports by big capital resulting in every level of play becoming structred in reference to how the best players pay the game is how anti-trans rhetoric has been able to beclme so solidified in it. Sport should be games that we play with our friends not not simply measurements of the human body taken in vivo
anticapitalist special interest dump incoming
capitalism corrupts everything it touches, even weather forecasting
US private media companies like AccuWeather and The Weather Channel take publicly available forecasting information provided by the National Weather Service, a publicly funded government service, and repackages it into their own forecast and disseminates the info.
In 2005, AccuWeather lobbied to attempt to ban The National Weather Service from sharing predictions with anyone besides commercial entities. In 2012 they successfully blocked the NWS from producing a free app for the public.
This allows there to be an inaccessible filter on free, timely, and accurate weather information and forces it to be distributed through for profit apps. Even free apps are bogged with ads and delayed alerts.
The G Word with Adam Conover covers this extensively and I highly recommend watching that episode or reading the transcript here [x] but I will sum it up, starting with an episode quote:
"Imagine a future where extreme weather warnings live behind a pay wall." In 2015, AccuWeather received warnings from the NWS that a tornado was heading towards Moore, OK, a city that has been decimated by F5/EF5 tornadoes twice. They only notified users that were paying for the app.
So what can you do about it?
- Get your local forecast directly from The National Weather Service's official site weather.gov !
- Follow your local meteorologists on social media, especially if you're in an active weather area.
- If you're in tornado prone areas, follow storm chasers on social media and check the Convective Outlook during your tornado season.
- Get a NOAA weather radio or tune to your local NWR station! They are the most reliable source of weather information in the event of a power outage and the coverage area is extensive. They cover all hazards including severe weather, wildfires, dust storms/haboobs, heat/cold warnings, and any other warnings the NWS would put out. Here is information specifically for Deaf/HOH accessibility.
This is a cinematic masterpiece
Appropriately, the song used in the beginning is originally from the soundtrack of a spaghetti western movie, Django, Prepare a Coffin.
The song is called "Last Men Standing", by Gianfranco Reverberi and Gian Piero Reverberi.
Then when he starts dancing it transitions to "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley, which samples and is inspired by "Last men Standing"
This story starts — but certainly doesn't end — in 19th century Maryland, when John Townshend updated his will. Townshend grew convinced at the end of his life that God would punish him if he did not free the enslaved people he owned and give them all of his property. But Townshend's relatives challenged his final wishes in court, arguing that his decision had been the result of a delusion. That 1848 case was the first U.S. appearance of what became known as the "insane delusion rule," which remains grounds for contesting wills to this day. And Townshend v. Townshend itself has been cited in at least 70 other cases across the country — from New Hampshire to California — over the years, as recently as 2007. It's one of thousands of cases involving enslaved people that lawyers and judges continue to cite as good precedent, more than a century after the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the U.S. Justin Simard, an assistant professor at Michigan State University's College of Law, estimates there are about 11,000 such cases out there — and about one million more that use them to back up their arguments. "I've done some analysis just with a sample of cases and concluded that 18% of all published American cases are within two steps of a slave case, so they either cite the slave case or cite a case that cites a slave case," Simard tells NPR. "The influence is really, really extensive." Simard has spent years documenting them, with the help of some two dozen law students. The result is the Citing Slavery Project, a comprehensive online database (and map) of slave cases and the modern cases that cite them as precedent. They expect to add the last of their nearly 9,000 collected cases to the website this summer. The project aims to push the legal profession to grapple with its links to slavery, an overdue reckoning that Simard hopes will start with lawyers and judges acknowledging their use of the troubling precedents.
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A lot of folks are responding to the whole Reddit situation by calling for the return of decentralised forums, and I think it's important to remember that, contrary to certain popular narratives, the reason early 2000s forum culture has fallen by the wayside is not because people are Just Lazy. Certainly, ease of use is part of it, but a much larger part of it is how vulnerable self-hosted forums are.
Basically, the problem is that even the largest and most carefully managed self-hosted forums can be rendered unusable more or less indefinitely by a single sufficiently determined hostile actor. This can take the form of both attacks on the forum's social infrastructure (i.e., via sock-puppet accounts, botting, organised "raids", etc.) and attacks on its technical infrastructure (i.e., via hacking, DDoS, etc.). In either case, a self-hosted forum has no real defence, and the majority of decentralised forum communities survive only by virtue of their relative obscurity; once a self-hosted forum manages to attract the attention of That One Guy who's willing to devote his life to shitting the place up over some microscopic slight, it's effectively game over.
Right now, there are essentially only two mitigation strategies:
- Gathering huge numbers of communities under a single, massively centralised technical infrastructure that's simply too large and robust for any one hostile actor to bring down; and
- Hardening the community's social infrastructure either by going private and invite only (i.e., the Discord approach), or by making use of a vast centralised pool of volunteer labour to aggressively enforce community standards (i.e., the Reddit approach).
To be clear, these are not intractable problems; other solutions may well exist. However, any proposed plan for bringing decentralised public forums back needs to address them. If you're going in operating under the assumption that forums have become marginalised simply because corporations are evil and people are lazy, you're setting yourself up to learn the hard way why self-hosted forums no longer seem to be capable of growing beyond a certain point.
On this day, 17 June 1971, construction workers in New South Wales initiated a “green ban”, refusing to build luxury houses over Kelly’s Bush, the last open space in a suburb. Local women had been campaigning to save the park. Despite a management threat to use scabs (replacement workers), the builders and residents won, and Kelly’s Bush remains an open public reserve today. A wave of green bans subsequently began which stopped billions of dollars of harmful development over the next four years. Wildlife and historic buildings were protected, as was working class and Aboriginal housing, and bans also took place in defence of women’s and LGBT+ rights. We tell the inspiring story of the green bans in our podcast episodes 47-48: https://workingclasshistory.com/2020/10/30/e47-48-green-bans/ https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=645876170918935&set=a.602588028581083&type=3
dude my dentist. im at my fucking limit. I raised the $400 they asked for and called to set up an appointment and they were like "??? wym. your next step is the permanent crown and that costs $1187." also told me my insurance won't cover cleanings and fillings until I've had it for 6 months. also got a call from medical debt collections looking for $550. I checked it out and it's legit. I'm at my limit im at my kimit im at my limit. started crying at work. at my fucking limit.
have no choice but to just ignore collections, I've got enough debts to focus on. now I have to raise another $600 for my dental crown. I'm so exhausted.
since people reblogged this I'll just add my links. I'm a nonbinary person with chronic pain who works two jobs and needs a lot of dental work.
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this is the weapon they killed Shinzo Nyabe with
