Gene Locicero (he/they)

In video games, I have been able to afford multiple houses.

In video games, health care can be found by breaking boxes.

In video games, I can save money without inflation being an issue.

In video games, people with ! over the head just hand our jobs after a brief interview process.

It's a UK link, but its an international thingy. Go nuts!

r/ChatGPTPro u/vurto • 28d If ChatGPT is not consistently dependable, how are we suppose to use it for actual work? Discussion It's behavior and results can randomly change due to some OpenAl tweaking that's opaque. On some days it can't even keep track of a fresh chat, it can't do calculations, it can't sort through a chat to extract relevant information, and when it's suppose to refer to source material in a PDF, it doesn't. All because OpenAl trained it for fluency and basically to simulate whatever it can for user satisfaction. I can use it for general chats, philosophical stuff, therapy, but nothing serious. I'm pro Al, but I approach it with skepticism knowing it's undependable (as I do with anything I read). And prompts can be interpreted/executed differently across users' own interaction with their Als so it's not truly scalable. How does the business world / leaders expect staff to adopt Al if it's not consistently dependable? It doesn't even calculate like a calculator. If the internet start claiming 2+2=5, that's what it'll answer with. I'd use it for hobbies and pet projects but I can't imagine using it for anything "mission critical".

You're so close

She Got an Abortion. So A Texas Cop Used 83,000 Cameras to Track Her Down. We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: Lawmakers who support reproductive rights must recognize that abortion access and mass surveillance are incompatible. The systems built to track stolen ca...

anyway I'm not an expert I just don't trust the cops, I am glad these things keep people safe but I wish there were a way to safeguard against it being used to track down one woman who had a abortion

Trump administration moves quietly to eliminate life-saving abortions for veterans The policy would prevent veterans and their dependents from accessing abortions following rape, incest, or life-threatening emergencies.

New @motherjones.com: The Department of Veterans Affairs quietly published a proposed rule on Friday to eliminate VA coverage for limited & lifesaving abortions for vets & their dependents.

Advocates say it could become one of the strictest abortion bans nationwide.

Co-signed.

And experimenting with different lengths may help you find your strengths as well.

Word. Reminder that you ARE whatever gender your mind/spirit says it is, no matter what meat parts you currently have on.

Dysphoria is a lying sack of shit

Calling all enbies and folks outside the gender binary! Survey only took me a couple minutes

Hot dog spill shuts down highway in Pennsylvania commuters' wurst nightmare By Associated Press UPDATED: August 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM ET SHREWSBURY, Pa. (AP) - A truckload of hot dogs spilled across a Pennsylvania interstate Friday after a crash that briefly clogged the heavily traveled artery in both directions.

A writer waits a lifetime for a moment like this.

Calling all enbies and folks outside the gender binary! Survey only took me a couple minutes

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

The most striking demographic difference, simply descriptively in terms of size, was not gender (although gender diffs were present, but complex), but for Racially Minoritized devs who were significantly more negative about the quality of AI output. We think this is very worth future study

fwiw, in the one observational study I did about developers' beliefs about AI coding tools we also had people give their ratings of the QUALITY of AI output (specifically in the context of programming tasks) and it was a really useful measure and we found demo differences for every group on this

I'd also add here that women (and other minorities) often might have to clean up the messes that their men colleagues make through using AI. Using AI sours on you when you're the one cleaning up after it when it inevitably craps

- 1 jumper at a time
- No somersaults

Yeah. This is how you do it.

It's only cancel culture if it comes from the democratic regions of the U.S. Otherwise it's sparkling authoritarianism.

Between janky lane assist and the overly aggressive regenerative braking, it’s absolutely awful

(Luckily I’ve ridden in other nicer EVs from other manufacturers. The newer and nicer ones are better for this)

It reminds me of how women are more prone to ill effects from VR 🙃

ITS FLAT FUCK FRIDAY

ROLL THE CLIP

Screenshot of article that reads: When looking beyond just Harvard and Columbia, one thing becomes clear, said Dominique Baker, an associate professor of education and public policy at the University of Delaware, the president is inciting an “outright attack” on higher education, and he has no plans of slowing down. From the political ousting of University of Virginia president James Ryan to the legislative termination of countless academic programs in Indiana with little to no faculty input, Baker identified one defining thread: curtailing the power of democratic institutions. “We are in a very dangerous time, both for U.S. higher education, but more importantly for our country,” she explained. “These types of outright attacks on colleges and universities are typically the moves of autocrats and dictators, often seen as signs of authoritarian takeovers.” She later added, “if one wanted to overthrow our constitutional republic, these are the types of moves you would make.”

Reporter: How do you feel about the Columbia settlement?

Dominique: Let me tell you about public universities in Republican-led states...

I appreciate that I get the kicker on a lot of these stories because I'm the most grim

www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Why does this look like a live Looney Toons cartoon?? 👀😅🤣

itch is SO small and I have known the site long enough to trust that this isn't them acting maliciously, but itch is SO small and I can't really resent them acting defensively so much as be furious that like two US payment processors get to determine what gets to be made worldwide.

Car stuck on Green Line tracks at BC

Trolley tracks are so confusing
universalhub.com/2025/trolley...
#Boston #MBTA #GreenLine #BC #CommAve

which feels to me like a dead end.

But also, I'd rather people be in the movement than not, even if they're using strategies I think are a dead end - who am I to decide what strategies anyone else should use?

Correct! Every Friday at 1pm we throw open the doors & invite people in for a public tour at 300 Funston in San Francisco. Stop by!

Our community gathered today to support Perfect 10 salon and our LGBTQ+ community in West Roxbury. Over 70 people there. Thanks to @ben4district6.bsky.social and Rep. MacGregor for organizing, and @juliaforboston.bsky.social and Councilor Murphy for attending too. #bospoli

And now this

AOSP is full of bugs. It's open source, so you can file bugs and provide fixes, right? RIIIIIIIIIIGHT?

In 2021 I filed a bug that was introduced in 2018: issuetracker.google.com/issues/18856...

And I offered a fix: android-review.googlesource.com/c/platform/f...

2022: close, OBSOLETE

#AndroidDev

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