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Cake day: December 18th, 2025
  • strypey@piefed.socialtoDegrowth@slrpnk.net•This is your brain on CapitalismEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    A good headline is a short summary of an article’s content. What it doesn’t supply is a hell of a lot in the way of context.

    Seibel might be arguing that it’s a good thing 1000s of people got killed in the Middle East by the rogue heads of 2 nuclear-armed, failed democracies, because it’s likely to make the global economy grow. He might be arguing that it’s a terrible thing, and the available data suggesting it will lead to growth in the global economy exposes a perverse incentive that the global community needs to address. Has anyone sought out the article to check what his actual point is, or are we all just throwing darts at his face based on decontextualised screenshots of a headline he probably didn’t write himself (editors usually do that)?

  • strypey@piefed.socialtoFediverse@piefed.social•Inkwell - a multi-tenant long-form writing platform for the fediverse (open source, FEP-b2b8)English
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    4 days ago

    Me:

    what if you’re wrong?

    @rimu@piefed.social

    He admitted to using AI to write the original post, for some of his comments and for his code.

    In context, I was asking what if you’re wrong about there not being a human being behind this Trained MOLE, reading all these disproportionately negative replies.

    Did you not read the whole thread?

    I certainly did, why did you think I got so incensed about it? But as I just said to you from my Mastodon account;

    My apologies again for unloading on you with both barrels last night. I stand by my objection to the way Stanton was being dogpiled, but in hindsight I was just as merciless to you as I saw people being to him. Which was not only hypocritical, but not good de-escalation on my part, quite the opposite.

    I’ve got some intense stuff going on of late, and struggling with sleep dep. But that’s my problem and my responsibility, not yours, or anyone else’s. I hope you can accept my apology.

    In future I plan to restrict my online posting activities to mornings and afternoons, along with my caffeine intake, and improve my sleep hygiene. Working from my bed must stop.

    I’m hoping that this will help me keep a cooler head, and avoid a repeat of this nasty posting behaviour on my part. If there’s anything else I can do to repair our relationship as fellow green-left activist and fediverse devs, please do let me know : )

  • strypey@piefed.socialtoFediverse@piefed.social•Inkwell - a multi-tenant long-form writing platform for the fediverse (open source, FEP-b2b8)English
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    4 days ago

    @rimu@piefed.social

    From ‘his’ github profile pic

    Do you know how zerogpt.com detects a Trained #MOLE? output By using a Trained MOLE!

    we employ a comprehensive deep learning methodology, trained on extensive text collections from the internet, educational datasets, and our proprietary synthetic AI datasets produced using various language models

    Which means that like all the output a Trained MOLE vomits up, there’s absolutely no way to know how accurate this is (whatever the truth of whether there’s a human behind these texts of not). Maybe this is a real photo of Stanton. Maybe it’s been heavily altered by automated filters in GIMP. Maybe it’s been auto-generated, because like many of us, Stanton likes his privacy and doesn’t want to doxx himself (a privilege reversed for middle class people in the middle of the social diversity bell curve). The Trained MOLE you just weaponized against him doesn’t know, and neither do you.

    You know who now deserves exactly the same dogpile from you that Stanton got for using a Trained MOLE to prove a concept? I’ll give you 3 guesses ; )

  • strypey@piefed.socialtoFediverse@piefed.social•Inkwell - a multi-tenant long-form writing platform for the fediverse (open source, FEP-b2b8)English
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    5 days ago

    @evan@activitypub.space

    I’m really sorry for all this dogpile. You shouldn’t be getting this kind of flack when you took the time to implement ActivityPub

    You took the words right out of my mouth. I have no bones about dismissing #MOLE Training as a technology for most purposes; https://disintermedia.net.nz/invasion-of-the-mole-trainers/

    I might argue the toss with someone using a Trained MOLE, outside of the narrow range of applications it’s suitable for (eg digging holes in data). In fact, it’s pretty damn likely. But I don’t bully hobby developers for making technical choices I disagree with. Some of the comments I’ve seen directed at Stanton here are worse than the Mastodon HOA. Which is usually at least about some kind of substantive issue with the project (eg not respecting posting scopes when displaying replies), even if the overreaction is nuclear scale.

    @rimu@piefed.social @julian@activitypub.space If you really believe you’re talking to a Trained #MOLE, do you expect it to take offence and withdraw its participation if you’re sufficiently mean to it? Why would it do that? If you are talking to a chatbot, you’re just hurling all this toxic negativity into the fediverse for no reason. It’s a special case of flooding the zone with shit.

    But take a breath, touch some grass, and consider this; what if you’re wrong? Which is a possibility a rational person must always stay open to. Have you considered how you would feel if somebody judged your AP implementations and your fediverse replies to be the work of a MOLE, and treated you this way? What if this is an unusually prompt and calm person (maybe they meditate regularly or something)? Or they have a disability and they’re using a MOLE to help them reply promptly, but there is a thinking, feeling human being reading these replies. Honestly guys, pull your woolly head in.

    Sorry to be so blunt, but I absolutely cannot abide bullying, of any kind, for any reason.

  • strypey@piefed.socialtoNZ Politics@lemmy.nz•During yet another climate disaster, the govt is moving to abolish the Ministry for the EnvironmentEnglish
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    28 days ago

    @Me:

    Is this really your best bet for voting out the CoC?

    @absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz

    the ability to work with both sides is a key driver

    So … no. TOP, like Winston First, or United Future, or Māori Party 2005-2017, will prop up any government that allows them to sit under the table and get thrown the odd bone. That hasn’t changed. Good to know.

    The Greens are willing to work with both sides too, where there is policy alignment, and have done, even in the current term. For example, Chloe’s work with Matt Doocey on the Mental Health and Addiction Wellbeing cross-party group, which has led to significant changes to the availability of ADHD diagnosis and medication, and free up scarce psychiatrist time for other work.

    The Greens would consider forming a government with National if they weren’t pushing obviously ecocidal policy on every front, for example, making plans to can the Ministry for the Environment. If it was Labour pushing that policy, and National opposed it, do you really think the Greens would go into coalition with Labour out of some kind of tribal allegiance? Whereas TOP were and are willing to work with a National party that is profoundly opposed to their entire policy framework, to ‘get a seat at the table’.

  • strypey@piefed.socialtoNZ Politics@lemmy.nz•Why not spend $2.7b on solar & batteries instead?English
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    29 days ago

    I don’t see an explicit mention of solar. The only bit that mentions renewables says;

    “Other options, including renewable projects, were considered but not advanced due to a range of
    factors such as expected time to construct, feasibility of generating power reliably on the required scale, and effects on electricity market incentives.”

    Would be nice to see some details of these comparisons, and exactly what they mean by “effects on electricity market incentives”. That sounds like a great place to hide a bunch of shady reasoning …