Posts by ravenbait@mastodon.scot
(DIR) Post #AXvnKSbXyqdHpthXSy by ravenbait@mastodon.scot
2023-07-21T09:01:19Z
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#WrongSnack face.#DogsOfMastodon #husky
(DIR) Post #AYEBCRkmhPfj2st4me by ravenbait@mastodon.scot
2023-07-30T10:55:20Z
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She is supremely dissatisfied that third breakfast is not segueing neatly into dinner. It is not even noon. #DogsOfMastodon #husky
(DIR) Post #AbCvw0tSBiedUhiUXw by ravenbait@mastodon.scot
2023-10-27T12:02:44Z
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It is one year to the day since I was rudely awoken by a man on our roof. A day starting with 3 hours of sleep followed by a police interview in which you say, "And then the screaming started," is not auspicious. And the Floofbeast did not even bork. Not once. She had ONE job. #DogsOfMastodon #husky #BorklessBorkBeast
(DIR) Post #AdPpJgUbajXeC5SXGi by ravenbait@mastodon.scot
2024-01-01T21:41:31Z
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First chin deployment of 2024. #DogsOfMastodon #husky #PleaseCanIHaveSomeMore #HappyNewYear
(DIR) Post #Ao6IZlgxGW69YFmrui by ravenbait@mastodon.scot
2024-11-16T12:44:13Z
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@LordWoolamaloo Some perfumes are designed to have a throw (that's the technical term) that's frankly obnoxious.
(DIR) Post #AoMqKbvbn1nTtfwav2 by ravenbait@mastodon.scot
2024-11-24T12:17:49Z
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@LordWoolamaloo @RunalongWomble You should follow that up with Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis.
(DIR) Post #AqN9f3zr0WruXLmQ9w by ravenbait@mastodon.scot
2025-01-23T11:38:38Z
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@LordWoolamaloo @JackTheCat Reporting on poll results is meaningless without the wording of the questions on the poll.
(DIR) Post #AvZH5YVuUoGBUwju3k by ravenbait@mastodon.scot
2025-06-27T14:12:14Z
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@HarriettMB @essjayjay It's bloody preposterous. All of this is predicated on a false assumption that they will know whether someone is trans or not. Lawmakers need to get their act together and update the Equality Act and related legislation so that it accurately reflects the intent behind it.
(DIR) Post #Awiw76wHpn8KbON8BE by ravenbait@mastodon.scot
2025-07-31T23:13:37Z
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“They’re trying to convince people they can’t do the things they’ve been doing easily for years – to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies – to write that for you.” We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, “that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else."https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/03/creatives-academics-rejecting-ai-at-home-work
(DIR) Post #Awiw77qeSEDhQCk92G by ravenbait@mastodon.scot
2025-08-01T08:53:33Z
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I posted this late (very late) last night, but it summarises my main problems with LLMs and how "AI" is being marketed. In addition to how environmentally destructive it is, it tells people that they're too lazy to do things that are well within the capability of most people. I'm reminded of that line from Ripley in Alien3."Do we have the capacity to make fire? Most humans have enjoyed that privilege since the stone age."
(DIR) Post #Awiw7EhgxwDEgRbaXg by ravenbait@mastodon.scot
2025-08-01T08:57:01Z
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Humans are a species of storytellers and artists. It is arguably the main thing that sets humans apart. Tool using? Apes and corvids do that. So do some species of marine mammal, and they don't even have thumbs. Language? Orca. Maybe whales also have art -- they certainly have songs. But humans are unique in how they use story, and in how much communities have always valued storytellers.https://www.forbes.com/sites/willburns/2017/12/07/research-proves-that-the-storyteller-is-valued-more-than-anyone-in-a-society/Why would we let a machine take that away from us?
(DIR) Post #Awiw7Ja4pg5loH54ro by ravenbait@mastodon.scot
2025-08-01T09:18:30Z
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I should really put my hand up here and say we don't know if humans are unique in this respect. I have my suspicions about Orca, as they are the only other known species where the female members survive past menopause. The knowledge and experience they offer is so valuable. If story is an evolved method for transmission of knowledge and shared cultural norms, I see no reason why it would not exist in similarly long-lived, knowledge-dependent species.