https://pinboard.in/u:jm/public/ recent bookmarks from jm 2025-12-04T13:07:52+00:00 https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/1pbt4m0/unauthorized_edit_to_ukraines_frontline_maps/ jmA live map that tracks frontlines of the war in Ukraine was edited to show a fake Russian advance on the city of Myrnohrad on November 15. The edit coincided with the resolution of a bet on Polymarket, a site where users can bet on anything from basketball games to presidential election and ongoing conflicts. If Russia captured Myrnohrad by the middle of November, then some gamblers would make money. According to the map that Polymarket relies on, they secured the town just before 10:48 UTC on November 15. The bet resolved and then, mysteriously, the map was edited again and the Russian advance vanished. ]]> polymarket betting war future cyberpunk fraud ukraine russia https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4ac3effec1f2/ 2024-07-10T17:30:07+00:00 https://bruces.medium.com/preliminary-notes-on-the-delvish-dialect-by-bruce-sterling-ce68a476247b jmI’m inventing a handy neologism (as is my wont), and I’m calling all of these Large Language Model dialects “Delvish.” [...] Delvish is a language of struggle. Humans struggle to identify and sometimes to weed out texts composed in “Delvish.” Why? Because humans can deploy fast-and-cheap Delvish and then falsely claim to have laboriously written these texts with human effort, all the while demanding some expensive human credit-and-reward for this machine-generated content. Obviously this native 21st-century high-tech/lowlife misdeed is a novel form of wickedness, somehow related to plagiarism, or impersonation, or false-witness, or classroom-cheating, or “fake news,” or even dirt-simple lies and frauds, but newly chrome-plated with AI machine-jargon. These newfangled crimes need a whole set of neologisms, but in the meantime, the frowned-upon Delvish dialect is commonly Considered-Bad and is under active linguistic repression. Unwanted, spammy Delvish content has already acquired many pejorative neologisms, such as “fluff,” “machine slop,” “botshit” and “ChatGPTese.” Apparently good or bad, they’re all Delvish, though. Some “Delvish” is pretty easy to recognize, because of how it feels to the reader. The emotional affect of LLM consumer-chatbots has the tone of a servile, cringing, oddly scatterbrained university professor. This approach to the human reader is a feature, not a bug, because it is inhumanly and conspicuously “honest, helpful and harmless.” ]]> commentary cyberpunk language llms delvish bruce-sterling neologisms dialects https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:949838af2a1d/ 2022-12-13T10:52:06+00:00 https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/12/unsafe-at-any-speed/#this-is-literally-your-brain-on-capitalism jmWhat about when the [bricked] device is inside your body? Earlier this year, many people with Argus optical implants – which allow blind people to see – lost their vision when the manufacturer, Second Sight, went bust. Nano Precision Medical, the company's new owners, aren't interested in maintaining the implants, so that's the end of the road for everyone with one of Argus's "bionic" eyes. The $150,000 per eye that those people paid is gone, and they have failing hardware permanently wired into their nervous systems. Having a bricked eye implant doesn't just rob you of your sight – many Argus users experience crippling vertigo and other side effects of nonfunctional implants. The company has promised to "do our best to provide virtual support" to people whose Argus implants fail – but no more parts and no more patches." ]]> health implants cyberpunk future grim neurotechnology brain right-to-repair open-hardware open-source medicine capitalism ip ethics https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:811f3469d1f9/ 2014-03-24T23:37:19+00:00 http://kidmograph.tumblr.com/ jm anigifs animated gif retro cyberpunk gustavo-torres kidmograph fx video-art via:mlkshk https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:622f416781c4/ 2011-11-23T21:17:10+00:00 http://hplusmagazine.com/2010/02/11/scrapheap-transhumanism/ jm diy augmentation cybernetics transhumanism lepht-anonym grinders biohacking cyberpunk medicine https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c8d9dc9a4881/ 2010-08-10T10:51:27+00:00 http://www.theonion.com/articles/man-lives-in-futuristic-scifi-world-where-all-his,17858/ jm the-onion funny future futurism humour internet sf via:walter journalism cyberpunk 1990s cyberspace https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:2d9ebf9483cd/