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Brian Dang 🍥 @mrdang

Former Microsoftie. Artist.

Joined April 2017
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Sakura-Con now has an Accessibility webpage thanks to our petition! Please share far and wide--today is a day for celebration! 🥳 sakuracon.org/accessibility/

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I am petitioning #sakuracon to resolve some accessibility and privacy issues. One of our demands is simply to post their accessibility info on their website. Disabled people can't viably attend an event if they don't know the ADA services. Sign here: bit.ly/fightbacksakpetition

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Everyone benefits from an event being accessible. Any one of us can become disabled if we're not already. But someone with existing disabilities cannot commit to buying a membership to Sakura-Con unless they know what accommodations are available.
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A decade ago, the discourse was about 'big data'. I could see the value to humanity in crowdsourcing traffic incidents and things for waze and Google Maps. I fail to see the value in generative AI except to concentrate wealth to corporations by devaluing artists and their art.
Reid Southen
@Rahll
3 Nov 2024
Artists, professionals and novices alike, would you ever consider licensing your work for AI training? I'm interested where people stand on this based on another poll.
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Aniwaza
@aniwazaofficial
15 Oct 2024
Thank you so much @NWIdolFest for having us this year! It’s always great to see the growth of the community and we hope everyone else had as much of a blast as we did. We look forward to what you have in store for next year 😊 📸 : @PeoniAstera 📸 : @mrdang #NWIF2024
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Defunding the police means undoing the excessive spending they do that takes taxpayer dollars away from other services like education and affordable housing.
BNO News Live
@BNODesk
8 Oct 2024
Irvine, California unveils first Cybertruck police car in the U.S.
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The 'move fast or get left behind' mentality in tech will guarantee that more egregious stories like this are on their way. If they had paused to ask themselves 'what if's, they would not have released these 'AI' chatbots in the wild. THERE'S A BLACK MIRROR EPISODE ON THIS JFC.
Brian Crecente@crecenteb
2 Oct 2024
This is fucking disgusting: @character_ai is using my murdered niece as the face of a video game AI without her dad's permission. He is very upset right now. I can't imagine what he's going through. Please help us stop this sort of terrible practice. character.ai/character/Dv4nS…
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Google, Meta, others: "Ya you should regulate AI" California: *puts forth AI safety bill* AI corps: "but not like that" Newsom: *vetoes bill*
Brian Merchant@bcmerchant
1 Oct 2024
The AI safety bill may have been divisive and imperfect—but that it was vetoed, like so many others meant to rein in big tech, after passing with wide, bipartisan support, means we have a big problem in California. Silicon Valley has far too much power. bloodinthemachine.com/p/in-c…
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Opt out patterns are a UX sin.
Jason Koebler@jason_koebler
30 Sep 2024
Replying to @jason_koebler
This is a really wild story in part because Udemy is being more transparent than other companies, and is saying: It is too expensive for us to delete your data once it's already been scraped. So what are the other companies doing?
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Sebastian Aaltonen
@SebAaltonen
29 Sep 2024
Using AI to write production code is similar to outsourcing. You are no longer doing the fun stuff: designing and writing high quality code. Instead you: Review bad code N times to make it somewhat acceptable, panic fix bugs in production, maintain ever growing messy code base.
David Nix
@david_nix
28 Sep 2024
My experience with Cursor. "Write this code for me." Lookin good bro! Look at all this time saved! Run it. Wait... doesn't work. Wrong in subtle ways. Spend more time debugging than if I wrote the code. Who likes debugging more than writing?
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Today Nintendo released Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom a game whose trailer I was sold on right away. They would never waste their time with AI when they have timeless, beloved character design including Zelda, Super Mario bros, and Pokemon on their platform.
IGN
@IGN
25 Sep 2024
Shigeru Miyamoto has said Nintendo would rather go in a “different direction” than the rest of the video game industry when it comes to generative AI. bit.ly/3ZEff7h
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Can we go back to the old days of AI and ML? Back then you brought your own data that you had permission to use instead of plagiarizing all the world's media. Tech didn't guzzle excess water and electricity because it was scoped to specific tasks you designed with *INTENTION*.
Abeba Birhane@Abebab
22 Sep 2024
they lied
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1️⃣ Provide permanent housing to the unhoused 2️⃣ Crack down on rent fixing schemes 3️⃣ Build affordable housing in walkable neighborhoods You don't need a plagiarism machine to plagiarize answers from experts who have been ignored by elected officials.
Governor Gavin Newsom
@CAgovernor
5 Sep 2024
California is exploring how GenAI may give locals more tools to address the homelessness crisis. We’re inviting developers to present innovative solutions for some of our most challenging issues, using transformative tech to better serve Californians. gov.ca.gov/2024/09/05/govern…
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Dear tech industry, READ THE FUCKING ROOM. Artists, writers, small businesses, and people who support all of the above do NOT want your 'AI'.
Ellipsus@ellipsus_writes
3 Sep 2024
We're stepping down as a #NaNoWriMo sponsor. Here's why: bit.ly/4dK53yc
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Tech companies have a diversity problem. It's on full display whenever they show off what their 'AI' can do without realizing it's making things worse. ProWritingAid couldn't even hire a goddamn writer to review their ad. Go fuck yourself, @NaNoWriMo, for selling out.
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Not only will 'AI' companies poison themselves by eating their own erroneous outputs, but they will slow down everyone else when stealing from them.
banquet@bigbootybanquet
4 Sep 2024
Replying to @EddCoates
Makes me wonder how many of their crawlers are out there just slowing down the internet and adding nothing of value.
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I had my subscription to @canva refunded because they pushed their 'magic AI' as a way to 'skip the studio' even though photographers are their customers. Then later I purchased @affinitybyserif as a Photoshop alternative. I got that refunded when I learned canva acquired them.
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Sometimes I make video games and keep them to myself. The joy of teaching myself what gamedevs of the past must have done for historic games is my recreation. But prompting a game? Nobody would want to play it AND there isn't even the satisfaction of coding it yourself. WHY?
Benjamin De Kraker
@BenjaminDEKR
28 Aug 2024
P(doom): AI models can now GENERATE Doom in real time... "GameNGen can interactively simulate the classic game DOOM at over 20 frames per second on a single TPU." This is a 3D interactive world being "dreamed" by the AI and explorable as a game...
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"We're doing plagiarism now?"
Craig Gallagher@ProfKreg
28 Aug 2024
today I learned that the Big Three (APA, Chicago, MLA) have all established a citation standard for ChatGPT generated text. They say putting the company behind the generator (e.g. OpenAI) and the date you generated it counts, even though the text is not replicable or searchable
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