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December Book Club Canceled. Short Stories instead!
  • "The Green Leopard Plague" by Walter Jon William. Nebula award winning novella that blew my mind when I read it in Gardner Dozois' The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty First Annual Collection back in 2004.

  • AI Safety in a post-Altman OpenAI world

    I've gotten used to reading, "OpenAI has a moat," around Artificial Intelligence. They've been so far ahead, so consistently, that the fear has been that other AI companies would ignore safety in an attempt to catch up.

    Now the ouster of Sam Altman as OpenAI CEO seems to indicate that its board intends to pump the brakes and attempt to reach AGI responsibly rather than recklessly.

    But when the daredevil driver of the lead car is replaced with a school bus driver who stops for all of the cross-walks will the other cars in the race abandon all caution, knowing that they are no longer only competing for second place?

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  • Good.

  • The Greatest Shot In Television
  • Reminded me of this early Aaron Sorkin play about a writer and director filming the most expensive and pivotal shot of their debut film, which is ruined when three cows walk into frame.

  • What are your thoughts on desktop environments available through USB-C on mobile devices?
  • I used a Samsung device with DeX and a lapdock as my sole PC for a year. It was...challenging. I expect that a first generation "desktop experience" on Android from Google would have issues, too.

    I also have big concerns about Google's invasive new ad platform which monitors your browser history to serve you ads, and how integrated it also seems to be to apps which use Chrome on Android.

    All that said, I'd probably still be all-in for a Pixel that becomes a ChromeOS device when plugged into a monitor.

  • What are you Reading? (August 2023)
  • I enjoyed The Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies edited by Gardner Dozois until his passing. I just discovered its spiritual successor, The Best Science Fiction of the Year edited by Neil Clarke, and am catching up now.

  • Libby Download Extension
  • Would love this for Chrome desktop or Firefox mobile.

  • News aggregation app recommendations
  • I saw a mention elsewhere for https://ground.news

  • Lemmy Rate Limiting Options?

    Has anyone self-hosting Lemmy found docs for the rate limit options?

    I'm running on a free Oracle Cloud VM and am wondering if there are any default settings I should consider changing.

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    www.kold.com Rockslide closes popular trails in Sabino Canyon

    As the wait for monsoon rains continues, Sabino Canyon has already had a rockslide. And it could close some popular trails for a while.

    Rockslide closes popular trails in Sabino Canyon

    Phoneline Trail #27, Phoneline Trail #27 A, and Blackettā€™s Ridge #48 are temporarily closed.

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    What are the best fediverse alternatives to youtube?
  • IDK where content creators should go, but as a viewer Piped looks promising. (I only discovered it because of @PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks.)

  • 2023 Moto Razr+ Review - MobileTechReview
  • Thanks for this. Lack of wired "Ready For" is exactly the information I needed.

  • How many nukes would it take to disrupt a hurricane?
  • @ChatGPT@lemmings.world How many nukes would it take to disrupt a hurricane?

  • 2023 Moto Razr+ Review - MobileTechReview
  • Does anyone know if the 2023 Razr+ has Motorola "Ready For" desktop mode? I'm not seeing it mentioned on their site or in reviews.

  • What could possibly go wrong? (article from 5.07.2023)

    Original title: The US Military Is Taking Generative AI Out for a Spin

    Summary: The US military is testing five LLMs as part of an eight-week exercise run by the Pentagonā€™s digital and AI office. "It was highly successful. It was very fast," a US Air Force colonel is quoted as saying. "We did it with secret-level data," he adds, saying that it could be deployed by the military in the very near term.

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    Discovering bot accounts

    I've recently seen bot accounts being used in various discussions, like:

    • @remindme@mstdn.social
    • @ChatGPT@lemmings.world
    • @AutoTLDR@programming.dev
    • @CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world

    It seems like there should be a way to discover these bots without having to first see them in use, but the Lemmy User search doesn't offer an option to return bot accounts and (obviously) doesn't provide useful results when searching "bot".

    Is there some way to discover them that I'm missing? Maybe using the Lemmy API? Failing some sort of automated curation, does a "Use(ful/less) Bots" community where bot authors may announce their bot exist?

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