I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.
State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.
www.wired.com/story/gramma...
I got her digits, and they are base 60! 🙃
Twelve Angry Folx
I don't think grammarly should just get to do "sorry deleting now" after ventriloquizing living and dead people without their consent to make money
who wants to buy a 2012 nissan leaf that's covered in stickers of jar jar binks
Watching the CT legislature quietly eliminate free bus fares for high school kids after it passed last year(a few million $) as the governor casually talks about using $500 million on a temporary gas tax holiday is pretty radicalizing
www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/...
"Sloppelganger" is one for the ages
Putting this out there for the #STS and #astronomy folks:
If anyone knows great readings on space telescope and Mars rover images, how they're constructed and how we make meaning of them, I would love to add those to my research! (I already have Seeing Like a Rover and Picturing the Cosmos)
fascinating thread about how big satellites are laid to rest
Just nap for the rest of the year
I love a chronological timeline... except when I am hoping to get a post seen by more than the people who are online the exact moment I post it???
(and pls RT, reaching strangers is so much harder on this app!)
Putting this out there for the #STS and #astronomy folks:
If anyone knows great readings on space telescope and Mars rover images, how they're constructed and how we make meaning of them, I would love to add those to my research! (I already have Seeing Like a Rover and Picturing the Cosmos)
I just cannot handle this AI bullshit from the times today, I’m sorry
Both of the options here are human writers. The first option is unprocessed human writing and the second option is human writing run through a language model to reproduce the same outputs with different words
If it couldn't have existed without training data, it isn't creating anything at all.
From an ignorant outsider perspective, NASA making the cuts before the budget passed (which it never did) felt so insane to me
It fascinates me that humans want this connection so much. It's SETI on planet Earth.
And that there's an openness to consciousness in machines, but less so* to identifying it in most sentient, intelligent, socially complex non-human animals.
*I'm talking public, not researchers in either case
Is this not just... inflation?
Springtime angle of the sun reveals a LOT of dust on my computer monitor
This Saturday! And if you can't make it then, the class will be recorded, too! jaimegreen.net/classes
This is great (and lots to think about in terms of creativity for anyone)
1. Le Guin was lowkey such a brilliant romance writer 2. I gotta read Tehanu
Hey this isn’t a dunk at all, if you’re a writer this is the energy I genuinely need you to bring to your own work. You have to believe in yourself at least as hard you expect anyone else to.
NO NO NO YOU DON’T
GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA
federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL
tell everyone you know
www.freetaxusa.com
Bay Area! 3/12! Me and the legendary Cindy Cohn! Don't miss this amazing opportunity to hear from a veteran of the privacy wars ... and learn new ways to keep yourself safe from the prying eyes of government.
His mom is the Global Head of Parental Advocacy at Roblox
The trite reply to this is “quite well, thank you” or “It’s when a human being is conscious”. I actually think a wilfully ignorant answer guards us from grifts; we have little idea how it works, so little chance of correctly identifying it in non-humans, including that pet rock you just put a hat on
this behind-the-scenes on Howard, the fat character on this season of The Pitt, made me cry and cry www.vulture.com/article/the-...
I just did this. It's not effortless, but it took me less than ten minutes.
The American Astronomical Society has a page with more info and how you can submit comments to the FCC to stop this travesty. Hurry though; submissions end today.
aas.org/action-alert...
