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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic : Companies like Tesla, Amazon and Cruise that claim to have replaced human workers with AI are often outright lying. Often, they’re instead replacing local employees with remote workers paid peanuts in India and other developing countries.

“So much AI turns out to be low-waged people in a call center in the Global South pretending to be robots that Indian techies have a joke about it: ‘AI stands for “absent Indian.”’”

pluralistic.net/2024/01/31/neu

Oh no! I’m crushing!!!

Sharkler from “B-Robo Kabutack” is a REALLY cute shark robot!!!!

robot girl with "this machine kills fascists" painted on her chassis

Oh no! I’m crushing!!!

Sharkler from “B-Robo Kabutack” is a REALLY cute shark robot!!!!

The MATV/cable headend gear arrived last week and it wasn’t in a great state; it had been packed in situ so some stuff broke in transit. It’s not a huge deal to repair though, just some plastic pieces.

Gonna try looking into the software over the next couple of days. Tried to work on it last night but for some reason I couldn’t get the Pi I wanted to use connected to the WiFi.

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Okay! Here's the secret project, all finished now!

There are a few rough spots here and there, but it's the first animation project I've actually finished!

#art #MastoArt #animation

just invented a new genre, dubska. first you drop the bass then you pick it up pick it up pick it up

... Can we keep him? Pleeeeeease? :3

With the good boy Leso during the Aschaffenburg suitwalk!

#fursuit #fursuitwalk
✂️ @crittercsuits.bsky.social

First #RaspberryPi earned a shitstorm by hiring a cop formerly specialized in hidden surveillance.

Now they accept an investment by Sony for their proprietary AI engine to be included in the next Pi. Which "only sends metadata to the cloud".

Here's a fine list of alternatives to that now-garbage company:

- pine64.com/
- beagleboard.org/
- orangepi.org/
- banana-pi.org/
- hardkernel.com/
- friendlyelec.com/

#Privacy #Security #SBC

secret transfem advantage of :zatzhing: yingletification: all your old tshirts and jumpers are instantly dress-sized

This is your reminider that the first batch of tickets to EMF 2024 will go on sale at 14:00 UTC today (that's in about 2.5 hours) at https://www.emfcamp.org/tickets

When I was younger and desperate to form meaningful lasting relationships, whenever I discovered people who seemed friendly, mature, witty and interesting, I did everything & anything I could to be the perfect friend and meet and develop friendships with all of them.

Eventually I learned that wasn't realistic, but what was possible (and wiser) was just to try to be the kind of person I'd always wanted to be friends with, but just as important, be myself.

I hope you're doing okay, friends.

burnt_sonic's girl Ezra decided to take Myr out on a trip to see Uluru, only for the couple to suffer a breakdown on the way there as some rocks got kicked up into the engine, probably shouldn't be taking sports cars off road genius

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