Ruth

Ruth

@duckduckf.bsky.social

Writer and ASL interpreter in western Massachusetts. Pushcart nominated poet. Screenwriter. Author of YA novel, BEING FISHKILL #mglit #yalit #mapoli

1,881 Followers 1,733 Following 2,901 Posts Joined Jul 2023
6 minutes ago

sounds bad to me

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57 minutes ago
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This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.

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7 hours ago

Company scrip was always a scam, and paying workers in company scrip has been illegal in the US since 1938

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1 day ago
Screenshot of a Tweet by @TheChiefNerd inclusing an interview with Sam Altman.

The text in the Tweet says:
SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”

The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.

It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.

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17 hours ago
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Folks, 📅 2026 primaries are coming up fast.

Check your state’s date.
Make sure you’re registered.
Make a plan to vote.

Too much is riding on people sitting this one out. Stay ready so nobody decides the future for you.
iwillvote.com

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1 day ago

huh i didn’t know this

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1 day ago
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This is about the population of Iowa.

Imagine every resident of Iowa being displaced within the span of a few weeks.

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1 day ago

I had a Dr once who if I was one pound over some BMI line would hassle me about my weight, but if i was 1 lb under wouldn’t say anything. Senseless

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1 day ago

i guess? but it’s not like they have the equipment to intercept

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2 days ago

umm and what can the police do about that?

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2 days ago
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Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

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...

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2 days ago

I could have read it at that age but god not in school. It took the other english class ALL YEAR to read it. Enough to kill the joy out of anything

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2 days ago

but maybe not in high school lol

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2 days ago

In high school I rearranged my schedule to get out of a bad english teacher’s class. They spent ALL year reading Moby Dick and I thanked my stars I wasn’t there. But hey, it’s been a few decades, I think I can let go of a grudge 😀

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2 days ago

surfaces??? Maybe AI made that word up to use instead of “steals”

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2 days ago

I’ve been avoiding it all these years but now I’m convinced I should go read Moby Dick …

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2 days ago

Umm what about it could kill people?

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2 days ago

Everyone needs to lose their shit like this …

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2 days ago

For those keeping score at home:

I informed Grammarly via email precisely what I thought of their appropriation of my name and reputation and received an email from their head of litigation promising a full response by the end of the week.

To be continued...

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2 days ago

Interpreter here - No, LLMs don’t interpret well. A technology that can’t understand emotion, culture, subtext, or future implications doesn’t cut it, ESPECIALLY in a legal situations

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2 days ago

hmm I can see a Gilbert and Sullivan opera out of this

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2 days ago

PRETTY

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2 days ago

somehow I didn’t realize people PAY for it. Good god why

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2 days ago

❤️

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2 days ago

NO

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3 days ago

call him now and rant

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3 days ago

18 Senate Dems just voted to confirm Trump's NSA director:

Baldwin
Coons
Cortez Masto
Fetterman
Gillibrand
Hassan
Heinrich
Hirono
Kelly
King
Peters
Reed
Rosen
Schiff
Shaheen
Slotkin
Warner
Whitehouse

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3 days ago

my Rep Richie Neal’s staff don’t even pretend to care if he has town halls

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3 days ago

Same. Not signing up. If you have this cursed thing and you see me, could you tell me?

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AI’s writing after it has stolen human writing and doesn’t credit it when used

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