Budsofstone @budsofstone@computerfairi.es

I don't know how to explain to some people that the fact that the predatory billionaire and the reprehensibly corrupt politician use drugs sometimes is not the fucking problem you should have with them.

You know you can just not use AI, right?

You can make a choice not to be part of this.

Even if your job uses it, YOU don’t have to in your normal life. You don’t have to let your kids use it.

You didn’t have it three years ago. You can just…be on Team Human. You can choose.

#NewSpecies!
New bathydemersal fish from off western #madagascar just surfaced:

Pycnocraspedum africanum

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DC87D1-901B-FFC3-FF77-FF6F8C16AB03
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5636.3.2
#Zootaxa #PycnocraspedumAfricanum

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #fish #TeamFish #fishfriday #ichthyology #bathydemersalfish

#NewSpecies!
New mantis shrimp from #vanuatu just hit us:

Pullosquilla decocki

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/035D1B37-0C6D-FFCE-FF69-6F97FD68FD31
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5621.5.6
#Zootaxa #PullosquillaDecocki

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #arthropods #crustacea #shrimp #mantis #mantisshrimp #reef

#NewSpecies!
New necklace worm from #japan just surfaced:

Paraopisthosyllis rufa

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038A9201-E412-FFD6-FF7E-8EB4725D5193
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5632.1.3
#Zootaxa #ParaopisthosyllisRufa

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #annelida #worms #marineworm #polychaetworms #necklace

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.