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valend

Yahhh I have to build Rome. Yup it’s due tomorrow.. noo I haven’t started yet haha is that bad?

burnout so bad he llorado de camino al trabajo por *checks notes*:

- una madre intentaba que su hija adolescente se riera con ella

- una trabajadora me ha sonreído and i definitely do not deserve that

noradaydreams

got a job because apparently "wandering the forest collecting herbs and rocks" isn't a recognized career path

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julykings

dreaming of you

jingerpi

while I do acknowledge data centers are putting strain on a lot of very vulnerable communities it's also important to note that this too is a product of finance capital planning for infinite growth and disregarding safety to do so. AI itself can be run economically (in terms of power) and that much has been demonstrated repeatedly but it's not, because like every other industry, it's being controlled by and for capital, competitively, with wanton waste and destruction as a result. the harm is not stored in the math, nor even data centers themselves, nor queries, it's entirely preventable, and that's worse

jingerpi

while I do acknowledge data centers are putting strain on a lot of very vulnerable communities it's also important to note that this too is a product of finance capital planning for infinite growth and disregarding safety to do so. AI itself can be run economically (in terms of power) and that much has been demonstrated repeatedly but it's not, because like every other industry, it's being controlled by and for capital, competitively, with wanton waste and destruction as a result. the harm is not stored in the math, nor even data centers themselves, nor queries, it's entirely preventable, and that's worse

flareonfloof

it's so hard to be socially conscious and also maintain a friendly relationship with people i work with

flareonfloof

like there's only so many times you can say "hey don't say that, that's rude/bigoted/a dogwhistle" before everyone just stops talking to you. nothing changes except you're alone now. ask how i know.

flareonfloof

it's easier to ignore the slightly offputting tranny than to actually change how you act dontchaknow

flareonfloof

right, I'm not supposed to blog about anything serious or I'll get censored or deleted or whatever. how about that world cup, huh

glorious-spoon

spent forty-five minutes today helping an 87yo woman who does not own a computer or a cell phone try to set up an email account so that she could then set up a second account in order to access benefits. went with protonmail, because they don't require 2fa, but it turns out that while you can still make a protonmail account without authentication you can no longer use it to create OTHER accounts without it, and the benefits page she needed to get to required both an email and a cell phone to create an account anyway. asked if she wanted to try going in person to see if someone there could help her, and she said that she had, and they'd directed her to the website. she tried signing up with her landline, but of course that didn't work because you can't do SMS authentication that way. finally ended up writing up detailed instructions for how to log in and authenticate her account so she can drive to her severely disabled daughter's house forty minutes away because that's the only person she knows and trusts who has both a cell phone and a computer.

anyway i fucking hate mandatory 2fa and i think the people responsible for it should have to spend a year navigating their lives with no cell phone and no internet access beyond the public library pcs. fuck.

beaft

common advice for social anxiety is to tell yourself "people aren't going to think less of you just because you said something a bit daft" but the thing is. sometimes they will. and you just have to learn to be cool with that and to treat it as a dnd random encounter rather than letting it ruin your whole day

beaft

recent example. lady at my careers appointment had a post-it with her name on it stuck to the monitor, so i introduced myself by saying "hello, i'm eliot! you must be [name], it's nice to meet you!" and she stared at me as if i was the stupidest person alive and said icily, "yeah, i'm [name]. congratulations, you can read."

in bygone times this would have reduced me to a sort of quivering blancmange. thankfully i am now in a place where i was able to pull back, calmly evaluate this interaction, and say to myself "this woman should probably not be working in a customer-facing job"

beaft

important additions!!!!

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reinforcement learning is so fun. you'll be staring at the tensorboard while it trains and see a sudden huge spike in the reward and will think "yes!! it got it!!" and then you look at what it does and it's just. total bullshit. that just happens to game your reward function. so you have to go back to tweaking the reward function because you've been bested by the machine yet again

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