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AI ethics good and bad thread 

Bad: All of this, and in the end the best we can hope for is
rikkipoynter.com/

It's possibly even worse to have inaccurate captions than no captions at all. These tools often get words, grammar, and punctuation wrong. They don't understand acronyms or the names of products. They will misspell someone's name or not understand neopronouns. Sometimes they even attribute what was said to the wrong person. This hurts everyone consuming the transcript.

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What an innocuous way to conclude over a decade of waiting. I got up just before dawn to get a drink and discovered that a new Boards of Canada song is out

I love ultra running but I feel like this season might be my last for a bit. Assuming I finish the 50-miler in Squamish in August, it would be nice to reclaim the hours that training requires. I could feel like makeup and nice outfits weren’t wasted because I have to get dressed for a run later.

I created the groversub in BeamNG.drive and it started making collision sounds and smoking all on its own, before anything interacted with it

It looks like they found a way to make me like Mario even less

Trans men fucking kick ass. I love my brothers so much.

ancient selfies 

@cpi Early 2010 for sure – my coworkers and I left work early to go watch the Vancouver Olympics torch procession go up Cambie Street, and I remember being way overdressed in a heavy coat and a wig. 2010-2012 was me figuring out my style (with massive help from my wide), and I spent 2013-2016 trying to get comfortable in my body through nutrition and exercise. It helped but didn't solve the dysphoria, so I started HRT in November 2017.

Me, explaining all of the social media sites I'm on and their differences

in two months i'll be in Vancouver. i can't fucking wait. that stupid beautiful little rotten pockmark glittering on the west coast's cheek. all i love about that city is built on inequity and debt; all worth loving was there 10,000 years ago & will endure long after the city slides into the ocean

@mavica_again some artifacts aren't for using, they're for appreciating. kudos on your find, and may its radiation shielding still be intact.

@mavica_again oh my god!!! what condition is it in? does it have all its hinge pins?

ancient selfies 

[whispering through time] in 3 months your wife will be back in the country. in 6 months she'll be a permanent resident. in 2 years people at work will call you "Angela". in 8 years you'll have run your first marathon. in 9 years you'll be on HRT. now go have dinner at Sawadee.

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ancient selfies 

A photo storage site from the mid-2000s just emailed me to ask for money to preserve the photos I put on there 15 years ago and then forgot. I downloaded them before deleting the account. What a weird time capsule. Who was this guy from July 2008

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