@wednesday
In grades 2-5 I attended an American school in Saudi Arabia. That's where my accent cemented itself đ
After that I attended a British international school in Tanzania and got teased for my American accent.
Ever since I started podcasting with @Beantin my accent can jump all over the place though. Especially fun is when I use British words with American friends, like "whinge", and they have no idea what I mean. đ
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@atomicpoet
Honestly, if I wasn't running my own Akkoma instance I don't think I would be enjoying myself as much here.
By talking about the many different flavors of software I believe we can help more people find a way to feel at home.
Which reminds me I haven't shared my infographic of the Fediverse in a while.
https://axbom.com/fediverse
@LeoR1010
Den skulle jag köpa, appen dÀr det finns ett streck och texten
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@lmas
Yes, this is a pretty good walkthrough of at least the climate crisis part of the equation.
https://rabble.ca/columnists/billionaires-are-far-from-harmless-theyre-among-the-most-dangerous-people/
@mmitchell_ai Made me spit out my drink... đ
@autiomaa @laurenshof
Yes, this is outlined in my original blog post đ
https://axbom.com/world-map/
@laurenshof
It is fascinating isn't it? Another wonderful example that we could likely contribute to organisational silos:
The team working on Russia is likely not the same team as the one working on Africa. By one way of measuring the figure for Africa is correct (for the land mass continent straight across at the longest point). And for another way of measuring Russia it is correct (if you go across all bodies of water, including ocean and allow for a slanted measurement than a strictly horizontal one.) Both can be verified in their own way (almost) but there appears to be no standard for these types of measurements,
The interesting thing about the community notes though is that they did not set out to measure the lines in the image, they just went after answers in text and made an assumption. I can see how this is appealing... and likely also feels obviously correct because of the Mercator distortion.
But yes, I do wonder about the 9,000km figure for Russia and how that really got approved for Britannica.
Great way of illustrating how one distortion sticks and then the distortion supports further false assumptions. The high status of Britannica ensures that many simply won't believe the truth...
@Loukas @Mabande
Gah vad frustrerande. Och det finns ju dessutom ett till konsumentperspektiv: sÀkerhet. Hur svÄrt kan det vara nÀr man till och med i flygblad gÄr ut och talar om exakt vad problemen Àr:
* ResenÀrer med funktionsnedsÀttning kan inte resa spontant eftersom rampservice nu mÄste förbokas.
⹠ResenÀrer klÀms i dörrarna eftersom kamerabilderna Àr dÄliga.
⹠Förseningarna ökar markant nÀr föraren ska ÄtgÀrda alla störningar sjÀlv, eller vÀnta pÄ att assisterande personal kommer Äkande i bil.
⹠Ingen hjÀlp finns att fÄ ombord, och trafikinformationen vid störningar uteblir helt nÀr föraren har annat att prioritera.
Bara att lĂ€sa upp för lyssnarna! LĂ€gger in dem hĂ€r för alla andra som lĂ€ser i trĂ„den. đ
https://vildstrejkpendeln.blogg.se/2023/april/flygblad.html
@lukaisunlucky
You can get an overview in @annaleen 's thread I think:
https://wandering.shop/@annaleen/110199740713221658
@jtrem
Here is a guide by @jamesmontemagno on how to accomplish this with IFTTT and Mastodon:
https://montemagno.com/automate-posting-to-mastodon-via-web-requests/amp/
I know I've seen other services that can be set up to do this as well.
#RSS2AP
@Scmbradley
Inside Out, definitely.
@daniel Haha đ
@dailygrail Haha, that would have been something.
@Homebrewandhacking @Mabande
We also must not forget her portrayal of Albert Nobbs.
https://slate.com/culture/2012/01/albert-nobbs-glenn-close-plays-a-woman-playing-a-man.html
@kev
That is seriously cool. Now I have to start a separate blog just to try this đ
@vinnatron
@LeoR1010 Tack, verkar ha gÄtt bra. Jag vet inte om jag lyckades med uppdateringen för det Àr inget som ser annorlunda ut, men inget gick i alla fall sönder och det Àr ju alltid nÄgot att vara glad för.
@carl @anders
You should have been tagged in our continued conversation about domain knowledge Carl :)
One thing (of many things*) that makes me wary of using ChatGPT is because I donât know how well I can judge my own autonomy within the use of the system. I feel like I am trapped within someone elseâs imagination of what is important, rational or mathematically likely. And there is a clear risk of trusting quick responses in a desire to move along and get something âdoneâ.
If I for example would use it to trigger new plausible thoughts based on an input I would feel that I have skipped important steps that would either (a) allow me to see weaknesses in the new idea or (b) provide understanding so I can use the idea in the best possible way.
My favorite way of moving my thinking along is these types of conversations with you both and others who like to take their time to look at something from any and every perspective before moving forward too quickly. đ
One area I truly am intrigued by is using these tools to write code. In my mind this could be very useful in moving power away from centralised and monocultural ways of manufacturing software.
*Other concerns of mine of course relate to ethics, energy-use, the expressed values of the organisations providing the tool, colonialist tendencies, power concentration, unaccountability and more. But Iâve written more about this elsewhere :) I am aware that this makes me biased to discredit. I have also realised that these new tools likely have created a need for me to add one or two elements to The Elements of Digital Ethics, related to machine-generated content: https://axbom.com/elements/
@anders
Yes, Iâm also critical of all the familiarity being built into these designs (such as using âIâ, âmeâ and emojis). Or the certainty with which responses are expressed.
@anders This I certainly agree on. I had this in the back of my mind as well as I was writing. I have for example saved all my emails since 1998. And lots of other writing of course as well, including my blog. Being able to source this material using a language model could provide useful. Almost like being able to retrieve data from a diary to make note of shifts in ideas, culture and values over time. So within a limited scope and source material that I am failiar with it makes a lot of sense.
@anders
This is fair, and relatable to telescopes. I still need domain knowledge to understand what it is I am seeing through my telescope. And this is also what give me a healthy amount of skepticism.
And I think this is key to these tools, how important it is to have a certain domain knowledge before using it.
One specific problem could then be described as putting this tool in everyoneâs hands without the domain knowledge to understand or judge what they are seeing in the other end of it.