Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

She married Giuliano Mattioli in 1945. (He served in 1 Special Force as Julian Mathews, British Army.) They had 2 children. After the war, she worked as a TV producer. She was awarded 3 British Medals January 2015: The Italy Star, Victory Medal, 1939-45 Medal. She died on October 5, 2021 at the age of 96. (4/4)

#WW2 #SOE #antifa #Italy

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/rossana-banti-wwii-radio-operator-receives-3-british-service-medals

via @65dBnoise (https://mas.to/@65dBnoise@mastodon.social/113793126427536566, retooting to add CW)

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman accused of sexual abuse by sister, in lawsuit

"[…] the abuse began when Ann Altman was three and Sam Altman was 12. The filing alleges that the last instance of abuse took place when he was an adult but his sister, known as Annie, was still a child."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/08/openai-chief-executive-sam-altman-accused-of-sexual-abuse-by-sister-in-lawsuit

#sexualAbuse #SamAltman

It's always "you need to build up a tolerance to crop failures" and never "billionaires should build up a tolerance to not having yachts".

If you enjoy using Mastodon for Android, please consider leaving a positive rating or review on the Play Store, because a lot of people who do leave reviews are like this:

This is how idiotic American Putin supporters are:

Picture 1: American right wing influencer Jackson Hinkle tries to portray Putin's violent takeover of Georgia as if it somehow aligns with traditional Georgian values, by posting a video of the Georgian folk group Trio Mandili.

Picture 2: Meanwhile, the actual Trio Mandili is on the Georgian Freedom Square supporting the democratic revolution, because Georgians do not want to live under Putin's tyranny.

ok, kurš jau paspēja?

Being #blind is fun. Just encountered a visual captcha with no audio option. So I used JAWS Picture Smart to get AI to read me the text of the visual clue, which I typed in and got through. So basically I'm a human who needs a robot to prove to another robot that I am not a robot. Without my robot, the other robot would have thought I was a robot. Also I was trying to make a payment on my PAP machine, which really should in itself indicate that I am not a robot. #Disability #Disabled

I turned off #Apple #Intelligence because not only did it write things resembling "My grandfather fell out of one of those things and died when he was a baby," they made it so that if you press the space bar twice (which used to insert a period) now will insert that frequently used phrase or sentence ending instead. If you're typing and not reading what you're typing, chances are you're gonna say some very strange things.

I could probably go up on a rant on this, but when did people decide that #writing ought to be dumbed down to what everybody else is saying, rather than using your brain to come up with something eloquent to move your audience? Are we really that lazy?

Yeah, I see the root causes: Greedy corporations wanting to jump onto the next big thing, Gullible #programmers racing to #code the killer feature and bonuses rather than judging the worthiness of the feature. It's a little bit like radium and watch dials, which I brought back for one of my stories with a twist. Madam Curie died because science didn't understand something essential about radioactivity, yet, and who knows how many cases of lung cancer resulted from the glow in the dark watches.

The problem with #AI and ethics is training, the source. A good writer takes training, and that includes willing teachers, reading, experience writing, and feedback. A good AI requires the same thing, they call the feedback "curation." That's "educating" it what is crap and what is gold. Moreover, the training ought be done on the writing of the person using the AI, or by willing and well paid teachers, and I really don't get why Apple didn't take this tack and create something truly useful to that writer.

My best guess why not? The psychology of their perceived user: The need for instant gratification. If we train each AI the way we train each human student, where's the ability to cut out the labor and mass produce writers?

I want the personally trained #AI that can fill in the missing word that's at the tip of my tongue, that can reliably flag my recurring grammar errors, that can complete my sentences with the accuracy of my spouse of decades. As an SF writer or as an essayist, it should recognize my idiosyncratic vocabulary and not autocorrect it, to the point of accepting new words or phrases. It astounds me that AI contribution isn't color-coded in a ADA safe way during composition to show where the writer might want to verify the generated contributions. That all auto correct auto complete doesn't do this is a serious set back to the technology.

Okay, I ranted.

A big thank you to @vextaur for the discussion I sourced this from.

#BoostingIsSharing #writer #writing #author #fiction #SF #sciencefiction #WritingCommunity #writersOfMaston #greed #economics #genai #chatgpt #openai

Hi everyone 👋

For the last month, I've been working on a hobby project, shaping years of my ideas into implementing minimalistic config language -- **ccl: Categorical Configuration Language**.

You can read the motivation and a tutorial in my latest article:

https://chshersh.com/blog/2025-01-06-the-most-elegant-configuration-language.htm

In my quest of solving #AdventOfCode problems in interesting ways, this time I solved the 2020 problem "Seating System" with comonads and stencils in #Haskell. Read my latest #blog post about it: https://abhinavsarkar.net/posts/solving-aoc20-seating-system/

#FunctionalProgramming #Programming

i don't think i've ever seen a wikipedia page cite itself before

Yeah, I know how Capitalism works.

Ftfy, #London

#merkel #putin #freedom

As part of the 20th anniversary of the BBS Documentary's release, I've ripped the 3 DVDs that were included in the project and have them hosted at Internet Archive. These ISO files can be played in the VLC player like DVDs, and include all bonus features, subtitles, director's commentary, etc.

https://archive.org/details/BBS_Documentary_DVD_Set

“I’ve worked for the Washington Post since 2008 as an editorial cartoonist. … I’ve never had a cartoon killed because of who or what I chose to aim my pen at. Until now.” https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitting-the-washington-post?utm_campaign=post&triedRedirect=true

Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias.

He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.

https://propub.li/4gF50W0

#News #Militia #Jan6 #Insurrection #Trump #USPolitics #Journalism