For today only (Dec 14) All Systems Red (1st book in The Murderbot Diaries) is on sale across all US ebook retailers for $2.99 (published by Tordotcom, edited by @leeharris.net cover art by Jaime Jones) www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
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the second room will always be filled with spiders
i would not put commercial genai output in anything i made because that shit is 10000% going to be legally radioactive in 15 years
An LGBTQ+ pride flag formatted in the layout of the SMPTE "color bars" test pattern used for broadcast television. The first set of columns use the colors of the gay pride flag, with the addition of the original SMPTE color on the final column. The second set of columns contains two pride flags - the pansexual flag horizontally, and the asexual flag flipped and horizontal. The final set of columns contains the three colors of the transgender flag and the two POC-inclusive colors, followed by the original bar gradient from the SMPTE ECR-1-1978 pattern.
since it's the last day of pride month I figured I'd at least make one thing for it...
i now unveil to you my greatest invention:
color bars pride flag
I'm considering finishing playing System Shock, after all this time. I've probably only ever played the first bits, or barely at all (it's a wee bit hard to recall).
this technology that i cant even get my own employees to use without literally threatening them is definitely going to be profitable one day
![don’t have much room to ponder over the result.” Even when time
was not constrained, knowledge workers often lacked incentives to
engage in critical thinking when it is perceived as not part of their
job responsibilities (11/319). P232, who used ChatGPT to write
the company’s marketing campaigns: “verification and rewriting is
handled by another part of the team. The team is able to verify, sense
check and modify the content of the landing pages as they see fit.”
Ability barriers. Participants face obstacles to enacting critical
thinking, specifically in verifying and improving GenAI output,
even if they are otherwise motivated to do so. Participants report
barriers to inspect AI responses (58/319), such as not possessing
enough domain knowledge. As P290 noted: “in cases where you
don’t know the specific topic [e.g., translation and math problems],
it’s hard to determine whether the AI is giving the correct answer or
not.”
Even if knowledge workers identify limitations in the GenAI
output, they encounter barriers in revising queries and improving the response (72/319). For example, P239 received negative
feedback from colleagues for a document that ChatGPT helped
her write, but “I’m not sure how I could have improved the text that
ChatGPT wrote.” Also, GenAI tools can be “stubborn” and do not
follow through with users’ revised prompts, as P208 shared when
asking GenAI to fix an error in his code: “it repeatedly recommended
the wrong solution despite asking for a different suggestion.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:66lbtw2porscqpmair6mir37/bafkreieftxm3guillezg7poxpfj64qadrcg72rhyttu7nro3ws6ydu5vli)
don’t have much room to ponder over the result.” Even when time was not constrained, knowledge workers often lacked incentives to engage in critical thinking when it is perceived as not part of their job responsibilities (11/319). P232, who used ChatGPT to write the company’s marketing campaigns: “verification and rewriting is handled by another part of the team. The team is able to verify, sense check and modify the content of the landing pages as they see fit.” Ability barriers. Participants face obstacles to enacting critical thinking, specifically in verifying and improving GenAI output, even if they are otherwise motivated to do so. Participants report barriers to inspect AI responses (58/319), such as not possessing enough domain knowledge. As P290 noted: “in cases where you don’t know the specific topic [e.g., translation and math problems], it’s hard to determine whether the AI is giving the correct answer or not.” Even if knowledge workers identify limitations in the GenAI output, they encounter barriers in revising queries and improving the response (72/319). For example, P239 received negative feedback from colleagues for a document that ChatGPT helped her write, but “I’m not sure how I could have improved the text that ChatGPT wrote.” Also, GenAI tools can be “stubborn” and do not follow through with users’ revised prompts, as P208 shared when asking GenAI to fix an error in his code: “it repeatedly recommended the wrong solution despite asking for a different suggestion.”
I really don't think I've ever seen a technology that is so singularly effective at taking a pre-existing form of rot or brokenness in institutions and lighting it on fire.
We are in so much trouble
advait.org/files/lee_20...
Anybody positing that the problem with the games industry is that devs are too expensive is gonna get an instant block. For the cost of one EA CEO you could afford 213 devs making $120k apiece.
Read the room, my dudes; a LOT of very skilled people are out of work right now. Profits are trickling up
It's a shame the game just doesn't leave mechanics for opinionated choices. Agent 47 only shows emotion within cutscenes. That's even more obvious during Death of the Family (the pale attempt at Columbo).
Sigh. I love these games, but this is the most imperfect side of them.
There are a few exceptions to the "always a piece of shit" but the onus is on the player to digest that (No dialogue from Agent 47). One that comes to mind is Ljudmila Vetrova's motivation in The Last Resort can be revealed (overheard convos) as self-preservation from a violent husband.
I kid you not, @itch.io has been taken down by Funko of "Funko Pop" because they use some trash "AI Powered" Brand Protection Software called Brand Shield that created some bogus Phishing report to our registrar, iwantmyname, who ignored our response and just disabled the domain
Party like it's 1999.
Dreamcast++
Damn. I miss my Neo Geo Pocket Color.
I'm hoping this place gets good traction, at least more than that other site it's intending to replace.
And be friendly. Significantly friendlier than that other unmentionably-mentioned site.
Well I'm here.
I don't know about here yet, but people send me links which would be nice to open sometimes.
Mastodon will probably remain my primary social-network home but everyone in all sorts of places still makes sense to me.