arborelia @arborelia@computerfairi.es

@SecurityWriter

Laurie Penny, still relevant https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/peace-is-still-weirder-than-war

#eurovision as a peace project; national competition re-envisaged as something gloriously silly, irreverent, irrelevant, fun, camp and democratic.

Happy #Mothra ‘s Day to those who celebrate.

As a student of workplace gender dynamics you've heard of the Glass Ceiling and the Glass Cliff, of course. Now it's time for the Glass Well Actually It's Not So Much Glass As An Avalanche Of Shit Landing On Your Head All At Once And OK Also It Is Filled With Bits Of Broken Glass

I have now uploaded the 83遊戯機械総合年鑑 (1983 Amusement Machine Yearbook)
http://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2023/05/1983-83-1983-amusement-machine-yearbook.html

#retroarcade #Japan #videogame #eremeka #slotmachine #amusementpark #medalgame #gamecenter #pinball

Almost forgot about this little meme I made last year:

It's funny how this (the TRS-80 MC-10) is a "forgotten computer" to most people, but it's actually what I thought people meant by "trs-80" or "trash-80" for a bunch of my life. It was the first computer that I "owned" myself, though it was a hand-me-down and I was very young. I have a lot of fond memories of doing nothing very useful with it.

For clarification, folks, this means that Calckey is the first ActivityPub platform (AFAIK) that will let you migrate your entire social graph (followers AND followings) from one ActivityPub instance (whether Mastodon, Calckey, Misskey, or other). You still have to export from one and import to the other, but that's a simple thing (and will probably be automated soon)..

cc @Tchambers @atomicpoet @mmasnick @jeffjarvis @davetroy @scafaria @davidslifka @elipariser @dangillmor

The ways cartoons handle characters' aging

https://www.diversetechgeek.com/ways-cartoons-handle-characters-aging/

#continuity #comics #animation

People have been posting glaring examples of ChatGPT’s gender bias, like arguing that attorneys can't be pregnant. So @sayashk and I tested ChatGPT on WinoBias, a standard gender bias benchmark. Both GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 are about 3 times as likely to answer incorrectly if the correct answer defies gender stereotypes — despite the benchmark dataset likely being included in the training data. https://aisnakeoil.substack.com/p/quantifying-chatgpts-gender-bias

Shinigami Eyes still is categorically one of the absolutely worst, and dodgiest things ever to be presented to the trans community that people for some reason still use and trust.

What the absolute hell.

Why the damn hell would anyone ever think it be a good idea to crowdsource a giant data set of all the trans and pro-trans social media accounts on the internet for an "anonymous developer" that isnt either opt-in or opt-out.

(A related, separate problem: The black community has never felt comfortable "here", in the Greater Mastodon bubble, and has repeatedly told us so, and this place remains very white. I would rather fix this by just fixing what needs to be fixed here. But that hasn't happened yet and culture is hard to change, so regardless of what I want this MIGHT ultimately only happen by "Black Twitter", if that still exists, migrating somewhere else and then that somewhere else merging with "our" Fediverse.)

@Wolven it gets worse.