ScottinSoCal 🇺🇦 🕊 🏳‍🌈 @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es

Just read an article about chatgpt "lying" about someone being dead and it's like "I asked it for the link to the obituary but it doubled down on the lie and provided a fake link instead" and I'm begging people to understand that it's a statistical model, it doesn't know it's lying so it can't "double down". The statistically probably answer to "where is the link" is not "I'm sorry I made it all up", it's a link. It doesn't even know what a link is, it just knows vaguely what one looks like so you're basically asking it "generate a plausible looking link to an obituary in the guardian" and it did

The AI isn't malevolent, it's just NOT AI

My paternal grandmother was born in Berlin, Germany in 1900. She was, as was her whole family, Jewish. She was smart and driven. Had her own dressmaking shop by the time she was 25. But, the handwriting was on the wall, and she left home for New York in 1925. She learned English and worked as a dressmaker until she got married to an Italian immigrant she met in English language class. Some of her siblings stayed in Germany. Perished in the camps. Her youngest sister survived and came to America. But she was mentally damaged from that horror, attempted suicide at least once (had a scar around her neck) until she succeeded in drowning herself.

People talk about the horrors of fascism in the abstract. But for my family, it is very real. I think that we all need to speak about it.My generation, the grandchildren of the victims of the Nazis, is old now. I try to tell this story as often as I can.

The attention #tiktok is getting by the federal government seems a little silly to me 🤷🏾‍♂️

On International Women's Day, a perpetual reminder that Trans Women are Women, and embracing them in your feminist space in no way limits or harms it. On the contrary: it grows and enriches it, and shows that you are women who will not allow cruelty and fascism to divide you in your quest for equal rights.

#InternationalWomensDay
#Trans
#transrights

I might not know all the facts, but I really don't understand how people can support CRT in schools. I mean the power draw is high and the resolution is low. They are also really heavy and take up a lot of space. IMHO they should be replaced by LCDs.

"You can be anything you want to be when you grow up" they told me.

"Except yourself", they clarified when I tried to do exactly that.

I try not to talk about this much cause I’m very private not cause I’m ashamed.

After years of being ashamed & made to feel like something was wrong with me & that it was a sin or burn in hell for being attracted to women, just like I’m attracted to men, I no longer give a flying f*ck what anyone says or thinks about me being a bisexual woman.

That’s your problem not mine.

I’m living my truth & it has set me free & made me feel like I am 💯 me.

Two days of watching France protest the raise of retirement age makes me wish the US could come together long enough to protest half the issues we have

It is now and in Ukraine that the future of the UN is being decided - Volodymyr Zelenskyy following the meeting with António Guterres in Kyiv

Welcoming António Guterres, the Head of State emphasized that Ukraine was now at the forefront of a real war for the principles underlying international law.

Read more here🔗 https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/same-zaraz-i-same-v-ukrayini-virishuyetsya-yakim-bude-majbut-81505

#Ukraine 🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
#СлаваУкраїні! #StandWithUkraine
#UN

Hello world! Elon Musk picking a twitter fight with Icelandic philanthropist and man of the year 2022 Haraldur Thorleifsson ended up being the final push that we needed, so now we are here on Mastodon. We don't know how any of this works, but follow us for posts on vision science, cognitive psychology, cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, and stupid memes.

beware diet advice that recommends "eating light," for that is most certainly the way you become a black hole

happy gender pay gap bot day to all who celebrate

#internationalwomensday #IWD2023

I stand with my trans brothers & sisters.

I stand with my fabulous drag queens.

I stand with my fantastic gay brothers.

I stand with my defiant lesbian sisters.

I stand with my fellow bisexual brothers & sisters.

I stand with everyone in the #lgbtqcommunity.

I see you.

You’re validated.

You’re strong.

Even if I don’t know you, I love you.

#internationalwomensday

ughhh got misgendered on the phone by 3 people. Not their fault, my voice is on the high end, they're from another country and likely don't know that "Kevin" is almost exclusively a man's name. I didn't bother correcting them, that leads to confusion and additional identity verification and I'm never going to talk to them again.

While getting focus set on the hummingbird feeder, caught a bee stealing some nectar

#InternetPictureShow
#FromTheArchives
#NikonD5200
#SnapSeed
#Hummingbird

BOSS: you're late

ME: *grabs cup out of his hand* it's pronounced "latte" but thanks

Drag queens and trans men/women are not hurting children.
Gay men/women are not hurting children.
You know what’s/who’s hurting children?
Guns
Trusted adults
Bullies
Poverty
Hunger
Lack of access to healthcare
No one to talk to about problems
Opiate overdoses
The list goes on.

Stop trying to play with people’s emotions by hiding your prejudice behind the guise of protecting children.

This is exactly why I'm such a staunch advocate for #TheOxfordComma.


(It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.)

#Humor #Humour #FunnyMeme #Writing #Jokestodon #Punctuation #OxfordComma #WritingCommunity #Writers #Editors #Editing

It's kind of funny, in a dark way, when you think about the right's greatest fear: a vaccinated, trans drag queen wearing a mask and wielding a history book, teaching kids about black history.