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ScottMGS

ScottMGS@justme.masto.host

<p>I am *practicing* Unitarian Universalist. I am exploring identity. I play ttrpg with my family. I dwell in climate anxiety. I may post in 𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯 for fun.</p><p>I live on unceded Kumeyaay land. Black/Indigenous/Trans lives matter. Defund cops. </p><p>One or They pronouns</p><p>More in pinned introduction posts.</p><p>If I&#39;m lucky, I&#39;ll age out of employment in the next few years. It&#39;ll probably still come as a surprise.</p><p>This is now my permanent account. I&#39;ve moved here from <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://universeodon.com/@ScottMGS" class="u-url mention">@<span>ScottMGS</span></a></span>.</p>

Posts

  • Post #4299282

    @jnl A masterclass in motivation!

  • Post #4299281

    Do not trust Google Earth screen shots any longer (if you ever did). https://www.404media.co/google-earths-new-ai-lets-anyone-fabricate-completely-bullshit-satellite-images/ #AISlop #AIChurn

  • Post #2782984

    RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@gregeganSF/116606390500783662 The training data *always* includes the biases of the developers, trainers, and training data of the base model. Always. Imagine using an &amp;quot;AI&amp;quot; &amp;quot;therapist&amp;quot; trained on 20 years of MySpace personality quizzes. #LLM #AI #GarbageInGarbageOut

  • Post #2782982

    Individualism and scolding your potential allies isn&amp;#39;t the same as politics. Or, at least, it doesn&amp;#39;t serve *your* ends. Check out this article by @pluralistic . Some political catch-phrases may not be as effective as you&amp;#39;d like to believe. For instance, &amp;quot;vote with your wallet&amp;quot; may *literally* be the least you can do. https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/21/purity-culture/#stop-fucking-that-chicken (Not sure why the internal link in that URL is so different...

  • Post #2361993

    Nero&amp;#39;s fiddle is a cell phone this time &amp;#39;round.

  • Post #2361992

    Wonderful turns of phrase by @pluralistic - I&amp;#39;m going to have to read Solnit&amp;#39;s book, Truth, Consequences, Climate, and Demand Destruction. &amp;quot;This is the defective reasoning that caused Comrade Trump to hormuz the world into the full Gretacene.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;That&amp;#39;s Comrade Trump&amp;#39;s three-part mobilization: human rights, finance, and national security, all insisting that the enemy gets a vote, and voting unanimously for a post-American world.&amp;quot...

  • Post #2361991

    Mockingbirds: The late-night infomercial multi-tone car alarm of the bird world. #mockingbird

  • Post #2361990

    RE: https://fediverse.zachleat.com/@zachleat/116534277384407110 I&amp;#39;d be wary of *anything* that can be *convincingly wrong* regardless of age bracket. Since an LLM is not a person, it cannot be &amp;quot;confident&amp;quot;. If, however, the output convinces a person to accept the LLM output as true, it&amp;#39;s the *person* who makes the mistake. And the blame must be split between the people who lied to convince the user that the LLM could be reliable (even while hedging the UI with...

  • Post #2361988

    Is it just me or are most social media posts just basically sub-tooting the real world? #subtoot

  • Post #2073303

    Sometimes you&amp;#39;ve got to hold your nose to build a coalition but that&amp;#39;s how big-bads get taken down. Read more from @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/05/three-is-a-magic-number/#coalitions #coalition

  • Post #1898789

    Tired: rooster crowing Wired: mockingbird, hyped up on industrial strength espresso, running through an aftermarket car alarm&amp;#39;s litany of siren songs Not complaining! I like it. #MockingBird #MorningSong

  • Post #1898788

    RE: https://mastodon.social/@eunews/116489028835999706 Hey, @McPatrick ...

  • Post #1898787

    &amp;quot;Despair is not wisdom.&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;The algorithm does not amplify wisdom.&amp;quot; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pTjwWTQZqs

  • Post #1898783

    RE: https://mastodon.social/@clayfoot/116504930770840979 Fluffy &amp;quot;Tasty Toes&amp;quot; Johnson has no idea who committed this theft.

  • Post #1898782

    This set of proposals from @pluralistic is the first sweeping denazification program that seems to me to have a chance of working. Who&amp;#39;s got the wiki with the list of indictments for all the Trumpist collaborators? https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/02/denazification/#no-more-mx-nice-lib #uspol #denazification #DemocraticSpines #reform

  • Post #1690965

    I was asleep at the switch when this came out a few days ago. It is *very* worth reading what @pluralistic@mamot.fr has to say. What Trump is doing is horrendous but some things might *inadvertently* change in a positive way - more quickly - because he&#39;s doing them. https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/20/praxis/#acceleration #trump #EnergyTransition #solar #renewables