Commander,
I received an oddly worded distress call from a Nigerian prince. Nigeria is no longer a monarchy. What are your orders?
Worf
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Oh, come on. What will happen to big tech now? I am not shocked people oppose building these big data centers. Why would they hate it? Gee, I don't know.... maybe because their bosses want to take away all jobs, ruin our clean environments, take away basic things like water/electic suppy, and worst they want to bring back a controlled version of the web, and help build a surveillance engine. Yeah, 7/10 is a low number. We need a 10/10 number thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/how…
RE: thepit.social/users/peter/stat…
How America Turned Against AI According to the Poll Data: A (Very Big) Compilation
Every poll, pollster, and methodology converges on the same thingAlberto Romero (The Algorithmic Bridge)
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I genuinely believe that the Fediverse offers the best chance of recapturing the friendly, optimistic Internet I loved as a kid.
We've got flaws, sure. I've been critical of aspects of fedi culture, and will continue to do so.
But this place represents hope, and hope is where we start.
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Beavis and Butt-Paste
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hmm 🍵 is calling me, i think
oh mercy! work day is over and looking forward to 3 days of no work later on. #Gratitude
so tired from this no good, very bad day.
tiktok? no. no, that's a big no.
what a terrible, no good, very bad day this is.
You gorbellied, muddy-mottled, spur-galled, malt-horse!
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There is a video game called
"The Oregon Trail"
I always read that as "the organ trail" and yeah... No guts no g(l)ory? XD
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Pizza Hut's AI system caused 'cascading' problems and $100M in damages, franchisee alleges in new suit
businessinsider.com/pizza-hut-…
> A top Pizza Hut franchisee says the chain's rollout of an AI-powered delivery system turned once-speedy pizza orders into a cold, late-arriving mess — and cratered a business that had been outperforming nearly every other operator in the system.
Pizza Hut franchisee says delivery drivers gamed its new AI system
Pizza Hut's AI-powered Dragontail system led to $100M in lost business, a franchisee says in a lawsuit over delivery delays.Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert (Business Insider)
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The way this fuckup happened, reminds of a funny but true story.
When I was student (half a century ago), I participated in a programming competition. (PCs didn't exist back then; we wrote programs in FORTRAN for a mainframe.) The task was to write an algorithm for a machine that returns change. The input data was how many coins and banknotes of each denomination the machine had, and a list of values it had to return. The algorithm had to be clever enough so that if it couldn't use the minimal amount of coins and banknotes, it had to switch to other amounts, using the available quantities. The condition said "process as many transactions as possible", obviously meaning the above level of cleverness.
Well, one chap took the condition way too literally. His program buffered all the change requests until there were no more and *then* re-ordered them, in order to fulfill as many as possible with the available money/denominations.
While it clearly "optimized" things, in real life it would have lead to idiotic delays, just like this case with drivers waiting for all the pizzas to be ready.
Pizza Hut was supposed to be the sole survivor of the franchise wars, not the looser! You can’t even trust the historical documents any more.
(Okay, this is Demolition Man and Galaxy Quest)
Count Dracula was 412 when he moved to England in search of new blood.
Sauron was 54,000 years old when he forged The One Ring.
Cthulhu had seen galaxies flare
into life and fade to darkness before he put madness in the minds of men.
It's never too late to follow your dreams!
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if all goes as planned, i'll start moving @Sencha Wizard 🍵🧙♂️ over here once a certain level of comfort is achieved. from the looks of things, it might be really soon.
been doing solo TTRPG sessions since 0830 UTC (0330 here) because i woke up waaaaaay too early thanks to a page out. it's pretty keen, sometimes, to do it, especially in circumstances when nobody is available for a session.
right now, the character is trying to hunt down the big bad mob boss. no combat. just letting the imagination run wild like in my childhood when i'd daydream.
giving #Friendica another go! i keep going back to it. something pleasing about it, making for a happy brain!
Epistatacadam
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🌈
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •Completely agree. It's not 'perfect', but very few things are. And 'perfect' can be the enemy of 'good', if one isn't careful.
I *like* it here, and I hope it gets better. We certainly don't have to ditch what we have already.
The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •I feel like the Fediverse is where a lot of the late 2000s/early 2010s forum culture wound up, or are rediscovering as they flee from the walled gardens of big social..
This and, ya know, Tumblr, which is sort of it's own thing. In the words of Tommy Shriggly, they found $100,000, invested it, and turned it into 16 THOUSAND dollars.
(youtube.com/watch?v=RYiI-RSmkC… if you've never been exposed to VIP on Dropout)
Dropout Tommy Shriggly Invests 10000 Dollars
Kermit Meme Templates (YouTube)Truth Or Consequences ✅ 🇺🇦
in reply to The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙 • • •On Mastodon YOU control your personal algorithm. It's a far more informative and relaxed community.
Sassinake! ᑐ ∪ ∩ ⊂
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •Wherever we move to, predators will follow.
They need us, to prey upon and feed them
Sophia 🎶☃️🩵✨
in reply to Sassinake! ᑐ ∪ ∩ ⊂ • • •Sassinake! ᑐ ∪ ∩ ⊂
in reply to Sophia 🎶☃️🩵✨ • • •Truth Or Consequences ✅ 🇺🇦
in reply to Sassinake! ᑐ ∪ ∩ ⊂ • • •Sassinake! ᑐ ∪ ∩ ⊂
in reply to Truth Or Consequences ✅ 🇺🇦 • • •Light
in reply to Sassinake! ᑐ ∪ ∩ ⊂ • • •@veronica
S.R. Weaver
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •And no assymetric privacy trades like needing a government ID just to protect yourself from deep fakery.
I think I may slowly remove the few videos I have on YT.
Luke
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •Amro has been
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •Thank you, Veronica for your kind words and hope
🄯 CarlOS
in reply to Amro has been • • •Veronica Explains
in reply to 🄯 CarlOS • • •fraggLe!
in reply to 🄯 CarlOS • • •Favourite: "thank you for posting this"
Boost: "I need to help make sure all my friends see this as well."
Favorites are still useful, even on fedi.
🄯 CarlOS
in reply to fraggLe! • • •ARGVMI~1.PIF
in reply to Veronica Explains • • •The Internet of our childhood wasn't without its flaws, either. Flame wars aplenty.
Didn't stop us from loving it, though.
Light
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Em
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