@mttaggart my main concern is while its awesome imo, it's how much data mining that might be going on behind the scenes that I'm unaware of.

@mttaggart "I'd rather have a gun in my mouth."
--David Simon

@mttaggart I get some friends saying that the same stuff was said about computers, internet, even the printing press. But AI feels quite different to me. I resent the unpaid plunder of people's work for training data for machines that belong to billionaires. That has strong echos of colonial appropriation of art and knowledge, except we're all now in the colony being appropriated by a small class of essentially stateless billionaires. 1/2

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https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5

@mttaggart also interesting is that the kids were smart enough to recognize how stupid it was. Many adults are not.

@mttaggart drunk people and kids speak the truth (old Dutch saying)

Looks like @buttplugio needs a new domain.

ONE QUIBBLE and this is not semantics: the "new owners" of the island are the indigenous people of those islands; many of them forcefully repatriated by the Brits.

they are not new, nor owners. they are the peoples for whom those islands are their ancestral homeland.

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@mttaggart the funniest possible result is browser vendors implement a work-around and put IANA in the same dustbin as the W3C

@mttaggart very @kcarruthers topic

@mttaggart Honestly I don’t trust Google to run anything anymore, including even Gmail. The latter marked emails from its own registrar service as spam, lol https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/06/16/google-domains

@mttaggart DNS is already federated! It just costs a little bit too much to get yourself a personal TLD.

@mttaggart: have you tried a user-agent spoofer?

@mttaggart: nevermind