Posts by tomlowenthal@mastodon.social
 (DIR) Post #2233715 by tomlowenthal@mastodon.social
       2018-10-11T22:53:58Z
       
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       I have just been injected with a serum which should render me temporarily immune to one of the deadliest and most disruptive infectious diseases in the world.Our civilization is capable of engineering and distributing this serum to almost everyone, every year. This is an incredible achievement.Some people don't take it because their healing crystals will protect them from harm.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATrMHyAuxwhKnFdzvc by tomlowenthal@mastodon.social
       2023-03-22T02:21:20Z
       
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       @simon @glyph The Necromancy Act (Prohibition of,) 1736 was passed by Parliament and ratified by the crown. Contemporary sources consider it the posthumous capstone of John Dee’s mystical regulation regime, though it gained force of law more than a century after his official death. The Act was later stricken from the record & classified under the state secrets act following the foundation of Q Division’s special operations executive, now better known as Capital Laundry Services.
       
 (DIR) Post #AUanzPOKMeKzxprsRs by tomlowenthal@mastodon.social
       2023-04-13T00:14:43Z
       
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       Does machine learning launder bias? Yes.Does it make bureaucracy opaque and unintelligible? Of course.Will it make those with power less accountable and further insulated from having to justify their actions? Absolutely.But generative models also let trans people see what they might look like with some transition interventions, so who can say if they benefit or harm society.
       
 (DIR) Post #AUanzRGxN1d7nYR1Em by tomlowenthal@mastodon.social
       2023-04-13T00:21:12Z
       
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       I've been using Midjourney to generate self-portraits and it is giving me such good gender feels.I think I've gotten a pretty good handle on which aspects of these prompts give me what I want to see. Trans friends: if you want to chat about prompt engineering for gender-affirming fake selfies, I'm happy to tell you what I've learned.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVnPoGnFvKYUuBZWcr by tomlowenthal@mastodon.social
       2023-05-19T00:26:34Z
       
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       @mjg59 He did freaking what?!?