Erin Paget Dees @undees@witches.live

Blåhaj Waterfox

That Eliza beats ChatGPT in a Turing Test is all you need to know about current #AI.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/12/real-humans-appeared-human-63-of-the-time-in-recent-turing-test-ai-study/

FINALLY! Just in time for the winter COVID surge, the CDC now has a useful wastewater dashboard.

It indicates that nationally COVID wastewater levels are HIGH and rising further.

You can access the dashboard here: https://cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVID19-nationaltrend.html

Came across articles discussing “dependency injection” in React, based on JavaScript, a prototype-based language that has no explicit class structure, like Java and inheritance is through a runtime, prototype property.
Being a prototype-based language means everything thing can inherit from everything, at runtime! “Decency injection” is a meaningless statement.

Your semi-regular #synthwave #PSA!

Hey you.

Yes, YOU.

The person reading this post.

You matter.

I’m glad you’re here.

My new test of even having basic engagement with anyone on any level is: Do you think Trans women should be in sports? Do you believe in vaccines? Do you think genocide is bad?

Any discussion on those topics at all and you are more than likely going to be an enormous waste of effort for me to even engage in small talk with.

I hope you get well soon. Bye

We managed to get the world off of Internet Explorer, and it had the OS maker behind it. We can do it again with Chrome.

TIL that the moons of Uranus are named for characters from Shakespeare, including many from Midsummer Night’s Dream.

On this note, why on earth is one of the moons of Uranus not simply called “Bottom”?

😂😂😂

One of the things some leaders have forgotten with the end of the Great Resignation and all the layoffs in tech is that you still need to work to retain people.

Making moves where you assume people will stick with you no matter what is a fatal mistake.

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January 27 at the Royal Canadian Curling Club is our first Learn to Curl for Queer Women & Trans Folks!

Join us for this free event! Details to follow but feel free to message riverdale@pridecurl.ca and reserve your spot, we only have a limited number of spaces.

Allies, as always, we appreciate your love and support but please leave these spaces open for Queer women and Trans folks.

#Curling #LGBTQsports #TransSports #Toronto

(Please boost + add hashtags!)

If your shower was like a car wash.

Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs

The Trolley "problem". Put on the brakes, save everyone.

Don't accept the framing. Break the "rules". That's how you solve the problem.

That's the toot.

#lateralThinking

Voters Across Party Lines Agree...U.S. Should Call for a Ceasefire

"The U.S. should call for a ceasefire & a de-escalation of violence in Gaza. The U.S. should leverage its close diplomatic relationship with Israel to prevent further violence & civilian deaths."

All likely voters — Agree: 66%, Disagree: 25%
Democrat — Agree: 80%, Disagree: 12
Independent / Third party — Agree: 57%, Disagree: 31%
Republican — Agree: 56%, Disagree: 34%
October 18–19, 2023

https://dataforprogress.org/blog/2023/10/19/voters-agree-the-us-should-call-for-a-ceasefire-and-de-escalation-of-violence-in-gaza

When I grew up, bombing hospitals and killing children was wrong.

It did not matter whose hospital or children it was.

It was just wrong.

"Now you live in a world of hate & fear, & the people who hate & fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God.

The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way."