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  RE: https://gruene.social/@coba/116701945132977954 This is why I don’t want “AI” to be put in *any* kinds of processes in administration or management! It looks like people might more likely wave through a stupid idea (that outwardly looks attractive and shiny) than come up with one themselves. Also, uncritical “AI" admiration and things.

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  RE: https://hci.social/@peterpur/116692851974884104 Reminds me of Drew McDermott’s “Artificial intelligence meets natural stupidity.” Well, just the title. It is over 30 years ago I read it, no way I remember anything *in* the article any more. But the title sure is snappy, and fits *so* well here.

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  RE: https://norden.social/@MissJonesTravel/116531972074399744 "Es gibt nur einen Gott: Arbeitsschutz!" Sehr gut und richtig. Ein konsequent vertretener Arbeitnehmerstandpunkt ist wichtig zur Wahrnehmung der eigenen *Rechte*.

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  Dieser Artikel über Indigene Kulturen und die Kolonialisierung von @MissJonesTravel hat mir einige neue Einsichten vermittelt. Sehr zu empfehlen! Beispiele: • auch die “Wilden im Busch” passen ihre Umwelt ihren Bedürfnissen an • manche von Ihnen sind vor der Eroberung durch die Weißen in den Regenwald geflüchtet • sie zu kontaktieren hat ein hohes Risiko, sie umzubringen (durch Krankheiten, gegen die sie nicht immun sind) und das wissen sie https://www.miss-jones.de/2024/06/07/nein-die-wild...

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  My favourite bird is the hooded crow (corvus cornix) that is very common where I live. Some weeks ago one pair started nesting in a tree across the street. They are not pretty birds, but they are very intelligent and seem to have a kind of no-nonsense confidence that I like. They avoid danger, but they never appear to be afraid. It looks like I can still see something of their dinosaur nature.

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  @yetiinabox @quixoticgeek In the 90s I borrowed a cube with '040 from a friend and wrote large parts of my diploma (Masters eqv.) thesis on it. That was a gorgeous machine. I loved that greyscale monitor, so crisp.

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  Turns out when I am at work, the music of Rage Against the Machine is usually a good match for my mood.

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  That reminds me... When my wife (to be) moved into her previous flat, two strong people, one a carpenter, the other a Tae Kwon Do champion, carried a big and really heavy oaken chest of hers four flights up. Impressive! They had to rest a bit afterwards, understandably. (1/2) @JustaJason007 https://beige.party/@JustaJason007/116440292812793336

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  Found out why my GitLab instance is so slow: Facebook has been scraping my repositories for 3 weeks now, apparently at the top of what GitLab could deliver on that small VM with just 2 CPUs and 1 thread each. And more, but all others are small fry in comparison. Well, not any more. For now, no access any more except for a very few select addresses. I'll be thinking of something more measured shortly. So long, and a happy Fuck You, Crawlers!

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  RE: https://det.social/@lostgen/116440911374333138 I can see the quoted "Google effect" (no longer keeping lots of details on one's head; although with other search engines in my case) in myself, and I am not totally happy with that. It is not that different from the past with online manuals at your fingertips, though. But an LLM effect, by outsourcing cognitive tasks like writing to LLMs, where people cannot remember what they "wrote", and feel no o...