Cawcaw
@scavenger333.bsky.social
Picking up the pieces in the country of last things
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Seen a few folks astonished by my lack of support for ChatGPT and similar. Because AI, right?
Yeah, no. What we have right now is glorified autocorrect. Glorified autocorrect that takes the energy of an entire city to do what it does, plus half of Lake Erie to cool down while it's doing it.
Yeah, no. What we have right now is glorified autocorrect. Glorified autocorrect that takes the energy of an entire city to do what it does, plus half of Lake Erie to cool down while it's doing it.
December 27, 2024 at 4:46 PM
Seen a few folks astonished by my lack of support for ChatGPT and similar. Because AI, right?
Yeah, no. What we have right now is glorified autocorrect. Glorified autocorrect that takes the energy of an entire city to do what it does, plus half of Lake Erie to cool down while it's doing it.
Yeah, no. What we have right now is glorified autocorrect. Glorified autocorrect that takes the energy of an entire city to do what it does, plus half of Lake Erie to cool down while it's doing it.
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I've shared this quote before but I'll share it again, as it's one I've been thinking about a lot as I've watched how our oligarchs have been behaving over the past few months.
December 27, 2024 at 11:07 PM
I've shared this quote before but I'll share it again, as it's one I've been thinking about a lot as I've watched how our oligarchs have been behaving over the past few months.
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Gen ai is poisoning our power grid, stealing intellectual property, using precious water, and ruining the internet with unreliable information and garbage imagery. Don't use it, and don't normalize it, even for laughs.
New evidence shows AI's thirst for power may be distorting the flow of power to US consumers (gift link):
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
AI Needs So Much Power, It’s Making Yours Worse
There’s a strong link between proximity to AI data centers and higher levels of distorted power in residential areas
www.bloomberg.com
December 27, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Gen ai is poisoning our power grid, stealing intellectual property, using precious water, and ruining the internet with unreliable information and garbage imagery. Don't use it, and don't normalize it, even for laughs.
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Updated CDC technical report on the Louisiana case is out.
There are low frequency mutations in HA that indicate adaptation in a human host—specifically this human host.
But this doesn’t really change much in terms of estimating pandemic risk.
www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/spo...
There are low frequency mutations in HA that indicate adaptation in a human host—specifically this human host.
But this doesn’t really change much in terms of estimating pandemic risk.
www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/spo...
Genetic Sequences of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Viruses Identified in a Person in Louisiana
CDC has sequenced the influenza viruses in specimens collected from the patient in Louisiana who was
www.cdc.gov
December 27, 2024 at 1:27 AM
Updated CDC technical report on the Louisiana case is out.
There are low frequency mutations in HA that indicate adaptation in a human host—specifically this human host.
But this doesn’t really change much in terms of estimating pandemic risk.
www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/spo...
There are low frequency mutations in HA that indicate adaptation in a human host—specifically this human host.
But this doesn’t really change much in terms of estimating pandemic risk.
www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/spo...
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More info on H5N1 in cats.
TLDR: this is *very* bad for cats. Keep them inside, and don’t feed them raw food.
TLDR: this is *very* bad for cats. Keep them inside, and don’t feed them raw food.
Thanks for sharing. We have updated our results to include studies published through the year end, and have calculated a case fatality rate greater than the 67% we calculated in May. For H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b in domestic cats, specifically, the CFR is closer to 90%.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Avian Influenza Virus Infections in Felines: A Systematic Review of Two Decades of Literature
As an avian influenza virus (AIV) panzootic is underway, the threat of a human pandemic is emerging. Infections among mammalian species in frequent contact with humans should be closely monitored. One...
www.medrxiv.org
December 27, 2024 at 6:12 PM
More info on H5N1 in cats.
TLDR: this is *very* bad for cats. Keep them inside, and don’t feed them raw food.
TLDR: this is *very* bad for cats. Keep them inside, and don’t feed them raw food.
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Happy Winter Solstice!
December 21, 2024 at 7:33 PM
Happy Winter Solstice!
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Mongol emperor Genghis Khan killed over 30 million people in Asia while siring as many as 1000 children. Could tech entrepreneur Elon Musk do the same thing in the United States?
December 20, 2024 at 3:10 AM
Mongol emperor Genghis Khan killed over 30 million people in Asia while siring as many as 1000 children. Could tech entrepreneur Elon Musk do the same thing in the United States?
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Blue Sky is nothing but a liberal echo chamber. So as a non-partisan American journalist I have no choice but to stay on a platform that has become a propaganda channel for a ketamine-addicted, right-wing South African billionaire.
December 20, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Blue Sky is nothing but a liberal echo chamber. So as a non-partisan American journalist I have no choice but to stay on a platform that has become a propaganda channel for a ketamine-addicted, right-wing South African billionaire.
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Started….going….going
December 20, 2024 at 7:54 PM
Started….going….going
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Opinion | If an immigrant can take my job, imagine what they could do to yours.
by Donald Trump
by Donald Trump
December 21, 2024 at 5:35 AM
Opinion | If an immigrant can take my job, imagine what they could do to yours.
by Donald Trump
by Donald Trump
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Opinion | I will always stand against Nazis. But I’m keeping an open mind about neo-Nazis.
December 21, 2024 at 5:31 AM
Opinion | I will always stand against Nazis. But I’m keeping an open mind about neo-Nazis.
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Whether it's Republicans refusing to accept the legitimacy of Joe Biden's presidency or Democrats refusing to accept the legitimacy of Elon Musk's presidency, both sides have thrown our government into a legitimacy crisis.
December 21, 2024 at 3:42 PM
Whether it's Republicans refusing to accept the legitimacy of Joe Biden's presidency or Democrats refusing to accept the legitimacy of Elon Musk's presidency, both sides have thrown our government into a legitimacy crisis.
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(Finger to earpiece) after my enjoyable visit to a reeducation resort I am happy to share that having houses full of money makes you good
December 21, 2024 at 8:22 PM
(Finger to earpiece) after my enjoyable visit to a reeducation resort I am happy to share that having houses full of money makes you good
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December 20, 2024 at 5:23 AM