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Bookmarked Dogsheep | dogsheep.github.io.
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It has been a couple months since Threads launched. Any real news from them regarding joining the fediverse?
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Covid definitely messed up my sense of taste. Very little tastes right to me this week.
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At this phase of life, if something isn’t dishwasher safe I don’t want it.
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If you are making cinnamon syrup, don’t use regular grocery store cinnamon sticks (usually Ceylon or Sri Lankan). Seek out Cassia bark. It makes a big difference in the final flavor.
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Frank Lantz makes some good points on the βAI deep fakes are going to doom societyβ handwringing.
This quality of language, its infinite plasticity and our capacity to navigate its mercurial meanings, is one of the reasons Iβm not all that worried about the impact of deep fakes. Our world is heavily mediated by language, it governs our social, practical, institutional, and personal interactions, and it isΒ trivially easilyΒ forΒ anyoneΒ to use it to generate illusions that areΒ perfectly indistinguishable from reality. I can make up something from whole cloth and tell you that I saw it with my own eyes, or heard it from a friend, or read it in a paper, and there is absolutely no way to tell, from the text itself, that it is fake. I can put quotation marks around any statement and tell the world you said it, and this illusion will have perfect fidelity – there are no possible forensic tools that could ever, simply by looking at the text itself, show it to be fake. This is the world we already live in, and we do OK.
Another reason that deep fakes wonβt, in my opinion, cause that much trouble is the fact that, for the most part, humans donβt reason by looking at evidence and drawing conclusions from it. Mostly, we start with conclusions, based on what feels right, and then use our reason to construct plausible explanations for our beliefs and actions. The idea that we would look at a really convincing, high-res picture of William Shatner shoplifting and then conclude that he was a thief is based on a naΓ―ve theory of how our minds work that doesnβt bear close scrutiny. We are far more likely to arrive at that conclusion if a good friend mentions it casually as a well-known fact.
Even then, imagine hearing that statement. Donβt imagine a hypothetical βpoor helpless stupid internet personβ hearing it; picture famous smart person you, yourself, hearing a friend say βWilliam Shatner is a thiefβ, and think about what your reaction might beβ¦
When you think about it, the whole system is a real mess, but it sort of works. It could definitely be improved, but overall itβs probably working better now than it was a few thousand years ago when complete nonsense was even more rampant. And even those dark times were probably better than 150 thousand years ago, when, limited to pointing and grunting, we couldnβt lie at all.
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This is a great idea. I set one up here: https://cagrimmett.com/.well-known/feeds/
I use a managed host and do not have access to nginx, so I used a quick and dirty mu-plugin: https://gist.github.com/cagrimmett/2d1af12e8f95677394ac319c998c8d9c
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I build boats with my friend Jon at the Hudson Boat Company. I’ve built three kayaks and two Adirondack guide boats.
I do a lot of other woodworking besides boat building, too. My next projects: Making wooden toys for my son, turning bowls on the lathe, and making stick chairs.














I’m exploring and creating code-based art. It is a recent interest and I’m still trying to find my style.
I’ve been into photography since 2006. You can see some of my work in the Photography category, on Flickr, and in the WordPress.org Photo Directory.






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