FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

Alaska's education commissioner drafted a proposal banning students from using cellphones at school, citing multiple studies linking cellphone distractions to poor academic achievement. The state Board of Education voted to approve the ban.

Just one problem: most of the studies cited in the policy don't exist; they were hallucinated by bullshit-generator machines ("AI"). This crap is now guiding public policy!

https://alaskabeacon.com/2024/10/28/alaska-education-department-published-false-ai-generated-academic-citations-in-cell-policy-document/
#ai #alaska #policy #tech #generativeAI

Turns out the way to close the popup without enrolling is to *squints* click this barely visible white [x] button surrounded by a cloudy blue-ish background.

Fuck you, Atlassian.

For fuck’s sake. My customer got some kind of a “Keep up to date with status changes!” popup in Jira, and the only visible action button automatically enrolled us in a Confluence trial. Good thing I got a “Welcome to your trial, you will automatically be upgraded to a paid account in one month” email so I can cancel it before those chucklefucks charge us.

"Oxfam’s research found that the world’s fifty richest billionaires produce on average more carbon emissions in under three hours than the average British person does in their entire lifetime. On average, they take 184 private jet flights in a single year, spending 425 hours in the air. This produced as much carbon as the average person in the world would in 300 years.""

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/28/carbon-emissions-of-richest-1-increase-hunger-poverty-and-deaths-says-oxfam

YOU MUST TOUCH SOMETHING SOFT TO HAVE STRENGTH TO WIN A RIGHTEOUS BATTLE.

I had to deal with a freshly unboxed Android phone, and the flipping *clock* app, that was installed by default, came with a privacy policy.

I discovered this because the clock started crying that it couldn't work properly without Google Play Services.

I don't care what the privacy policy was for. I am tired. A clock app does not be into a position to have any privacy policy more involved than "we collect and report no data".

The clock is now disabled.

I am so tired of this.

sunset 🌅

#PixelArt #Art #MastoArt

“[with online text-based communication] you are always in a superposition of being alone and in infinite company“

goddamn

Best superpower? You can summon a planet killer asteroid that everyone thinks will destroy Earth, but it's actually guaranteed to miss. Or, you can summon a booming voice from the sky that everybody on Earth will hear in their own language (regardless hearing ability). But you can only make it speak two words of your choice, once.

Marry that person

Hey! Are you publishing an academic text?

MAKE IT AVAILABLE FOR EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HEY! Are you a University Student? Do you have access to databases of published papers?

SAVE THEM! WHEN YOU GRADUATE YOU WON'T HAVE ACCESS ANYMORE! SAVE EVERYTHING YOU'VE EVER LOOKED AT - SAVE MORE IF YOU CAN!

Generalizing a bit, but rolling girl (vocaloid song) was the first instance of me experiencing this lol. A song i like a lot that also follows this is "Say it" by yorushika

Best game ever

#zeldaechoesofwisdom

A new study has found that nobody is currently OK