Flutterby™! (short)

This whole thread is a good reminder that one in a million long shots come up 9 times out of 10.

https://fedi.copyleft.org/@bkuhn/114836592502018531

Dept of "No Shit", # too high to count: AI therapy bots fuel delusions and give dangerous advice, Stanford study finds

Stanford Report: New study warns of risks in AI mental health tools

Expressing stigma and inappropriate responses prevents LLMs from safely replacing mental health providers Jared Moore, Declan Grabb, William Agnew, Kevin Klyman, Stevie Chancellor, Desmond C. Ong, Nick Haber

Haven't had an application where I needed to account for lens distortion and chromatic abberation and whatnot in a long time, but this is cool: Node Mill LensNode — DaVinci Resolve plugin for macOS and Windows

Fast, fun and accurate emulation of real-world lens characteristics.
Fully GPU powered, it's simple to use and quick to apply.
Get creative, get technical, and tinker as much as you want.

...a pleasant rascal @Nead@vivaldi.net

Please stop swallowing the AI pill. It is now officially a drug and unregulated.

United Farm Workers ‪@ufw.bsky.social‬

UPDATE: we tragically can confirm that a farm worker has died of injuries they sustained as a result of yesterday’s immigration enforcement action.

As The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv)‬ ‪@theserfstv.bsky.social‬ said:

If this was reported on in any other country headline would be like:

Masked Paramilitary Unit Unlawfully Slaughters Innocent Civilian As Authoritarian Crackdown Pushes Crumbling Empire Closer To Complete Dictatorship

Why "chain of custody" discussions and disclosure around evidence are super super important: Wired: Metadata Shows the FBI’s ‘Raw’ Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Was Likely Modified

There is no evidence the footage was deceptively manipulated, but ambiguities around how the video was processed may further fuel conspiracy theories about Epstein’s death.

So I can find it again: Commentary: Opponents of new Petaluma hotel forget city’s once-bold spirit — “A boutique hotel of architectural quality and economic promise is not a threat to our heritage – it’s an investment in it,” write downtown Petaluma business owners.

Elisa Weber owns downtown bakery Della Fattoria, Nancy Leoni owns downtown culinary wares shop iLeoni, and Naomi Crawford owns downtown restaurant Lunchette and is an Argus-Courier food columnist.

I appreciate that, in the face of calls for boycotts and general hostility and abuse, these downtown business owners are willing to step forward.

Big challenge in today's Timdle for me was the timing of canning.

https://www.timdle.com/daily

Got some jicama with the leaves still on it from Lola's, and... yeah, that's the way I'm buying jicama in the future. Love that I'm being exposed to not just new produce, but better versions of existing produce.

And now I need to learn Spanish to communicate with the cashiers.

Yowzers. I've been trying to buy through companies that have retail presences in my town. Petco really doesn't want my money. Their site doesn't work with Firefox, they list a product that may or may not be the one that I want, even the online version doesn't have it in stock...