Look at this precious baby

#Cats
#CatsOfMastodon

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repair win, what you want to fix next,
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You’re never alone in the forest.

Knowingly using a piece of software that *BY DESIGN* fabricates text is not "hallucination" - it is fraud. I'd be prosecuted if I sat down and invented references for submissions in a court case. I'd lose my job as an academic if I did the same for a paper. Someone explain why automating fraud has somehow made it completely fine and consequence-free?

The very tiny remaining few of us who still give a crap about "not lying" need to fight to bring back real consequences for fraud, fabrication

RE: https://thecanadian.social/@ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty/116370161566042908

Later today, after I shake off the lingering effects of a vacation, we will be announcing a contest where you can win your very own #Plushtodon AND 2 excellent books from #Fediverse champions. Yes, there is effort required to adopt one of these peach coloured cuties because this incredible value is worth working for.

Stay tuned...

#DigitalSovereignty #MastodonCanada

Wir schulden euch noch eine Auflösung in Sachen #Geoguessing! 🏆

Para und Graf sind zu unseren #Redakteurys Julian und Katharina ins Schleswig-Holsteinische #Verwaltungsgericht gezogen und schalten und walten nun von dort aus. Als #Willkommensgruß gab es einen lila #Glitzervorhang für die Bürotür. 💫 Beweisbild anbei.

#GerichteSH #Plushtodon #Beamtodon #SchleswigHolstein

HRH Juan Gabriel, National Portrait Gallery 🐾

Polite young man

#cat #cats #catsofMastodon

Honestly, this guy sat on my chest for five minutes and purred after I got home for work and it gave me the will to live for another day.

#catsofMastodon

The thing that kills me about all this is that after years of building up kind/human/caring community around me, ppl I appreciated because of those traits suddenly drop all semblance of caring about them because.... they have the perception of coding a bit better/faster. That's all it took.

I'll say it straight: you can't voluntarily and willingly use LLMs in a way that's aligned with respect for marginalized folks, with respect for the environment, with respect for labor issues and rights, with respect for art, and with respect for the community aspects of things like open source.

It is simply impossible. Pretending you can is the deepest form of cognitive dissonance and I'm just beyond disturbed to see it happening all around me.

I've already unfollowed so many folks I once respected, blocked some others, and just generally withdrawn from a community that used to be so personally fulfilling to be a part of. It's really sad.

I don't know how much of a #comics audience is here, but the only way to encourage one is to post like there's one here already, so: I’m opening my pre-convention commissions list for Comic Con Oakland!

DM for details, or write me at slieber(at)gee-mayle-dot-com

Listening to 2014 albums today, and I am reminded how sad I am that Casualties of Cool turned out to be a one-and-done project. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTW0Uf-34BA

#Music #Country #Ambient #CheAimeeDorval #DevinTownsend

#DevinTownsend - Home At Night (Official Music Video). A new piece from #TheMoth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ft-oXVpP4I

#NP #NowPlaying

Waffles is doing one of his special Snoozeday Tuesday acrobatic sleeps

#cat #CatsOfMastodon #cats #mastocats #tripawed #ThreeLeggedCat #catstodon #fedicats #SnoozedayTuesday

Scooby sleeps in the strangest ways
#cats #catsofmastodon

Four years with you in the fediverse today, what a journey!

THANK YOU to the OGs who’ve been with us since day one, and to all who’ve joined along the way. Your engagement keeps the conversation going.

We’ll continue sharing news and updates from the Commission, stay tuned for more.

Big love to our community 💙

See you around,
EC

Will you stop stalking me, human? I'm trying to build a nest here! Penduline tit (Remiz pendulinus, 🇩🇪 Beutelmeise, 🇵🇱 remiz).

#birds #birdphotography #birdsofmastodon #birdwatching #nature #naturephotography #vogelflausch #ptaki #VogelVonVorne