Budsofstone @budsofstone@computerfairi.es

What makes LLMs work isn't deep neural networks or attention mechanisms or vector databases or anything like that.

What makes LLMs work is our tendency to see faces on toast.

Now THIS is how ya be a good ally!

#Pride #PrideMonth

#NewSpecies!
Pleurothallis matrisilvae
A newly discovered orchid from #costarica!

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C0944F9F-B518-5453-9722-7835ABC5B2ED
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.256.140316
#PhytoKeys #PleurothallisMatrisilvae

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #ecology #taxonomy #nature #biodiversity #conservation #botany #wildflowers #flowers #wildplants #plants #wildlife #orchidaceae #orchids

#NewSpecies!
New squat lobster from #japan just surfaced:

Munidopsis juxtapallida

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C98939-873C-FFCB-15C6-7E60B00888EB
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5633.3.4
#Zootaxa #MunidopsisJuxtapallida

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #arthropods #crustacea #lobster #squatlobster #squat

what if we kissed in the smouldering ruins of the ruling class

This is really cool! A paper from Italy https://rmdopen.bmj.com/content/11/2/e005469
has found that people with Long COVID (C and D) can be distinguished from healthy controls (A) and people who had COVID-19 infections but not Long COVID (B) by sticking patients' hands under microscopes and looking at the capillaries in the fingernail! Fast, cheap, easy, and useful!

h/t @tomkindlon

#Dredge: #pixelart by /u/pyromaggot

New otter

#art #otter #woodcarving

Good morning / afternoon / evening / night dear birds of a feather! 🏴

"best country on earth" has the highest prison population both total and per capita, unsafe drinking water, slave labor, militarized police, no public infrastructure, the largest wealth disparity in history, the biggest military on the planet that somehow keeps losing. whats good dude. whats good there.

By Allison Bechdel (of Dykes To Watch Out For and also The Bechdel Test) - first published 1996

Things changed since then: apparently not a damn thing?

This comic is 30 years old and evergreen.

On this 5th anniversary of his passing, I reflect on how America is such a different place before and after George Floyd's death.

Before, most white people claimed not to know how cops mistreat and kill us, as they demanded that cops do more of it.

Now, they still demand more of it, but with full knowledge.🤡

And again, don't try to "Red State, Blue State," this. Don't try to make it about Trump.

Biden killed any and all hope for lasting change after George Floyd. Biden demanded more killer cop units that don't work. Biden presided over the most murderous year in US policing history.

Boston has worse police racism than Birmingham Alabama.

That's not saying that Birmingham Alabama policing is good or equitable for Black people. That's saying that the bar is on the floor.

And white folk in the US know that it's on the floor. They know it's racist.

And most of them don't care.🤷🏿‍♂️

Most white Biden voters want to go back to an America where the government hurt Black people without consequence, but not white people.

But it's never going back.

That America is gone. We need a new path forward.

You can start caring about how Black people are treated, or share in our treatment.

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#gamedev #indiedev #pixelart