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 i know this has been said and will be said no fewer than infinitely many times forever, but i do wonder how much of an effect twitter/X had when something like a third of all people in the US access basic information about the world via a platform bought and solely owned by a billionaire for the explicit purpose of advancing fascism.
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 @jonny it'll be interesting to see how fast this will all unravel. I was kind of expecting them to be a bit more stealthy for a while longer before showing their hand, but maybe not.  @jonny "Telegram says it will now share IP addresses and phone numbers to authorities in response to valid orders" oopsie. I guess this makes a lot of sense coming soon after the CEOs arrest
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@jonny thanks for sharing. ActivityPub is a protocol like TCP, where you have to check packet hits and misses rather than REST API over HTTPS 1.1.  @jonny sounds like something pretty essential that should be rolled into base Masto if it's good enough with resources. I'm aware people have very different ideas of what Masto should be (and changes/projects often end up in a half-way house that please neither). This should please everyone - it solves a long-standing moderation problem *and* makes Masto look more lively. So well done.  @jonny@neuromatch.social thank you, this will surely other platforms not just mastodon Mozilla holding everyone for ransom and saying they will post everyones bookmarks and browser history in public unless we all paid $50 to fund Firefox development forever would genuinely be a better business decision than giving in to adtech. Literally the only thing anyone who uses it wants from them is an uncompromised browser. Value goes to zero otherwise  @jonny There's no such thing as an uncompromised browser. And PPA actually will allow advertisers to get specific click through information -without- tracking users, which they are currently doing, with or without the browser's help. In other words suggesting this is 'giving in to adtech' is incorrect. This is offering advertisers a capability to get some meaningful data without having to track users. You wont believe the number of stormtroopers theyre deploying against unarmed students unless you see it. This is just one side: at least 7 police departments with at least two layers at every point of egress, with several layers in back for rear control and rotation. They've got the army out against your kids for having the audacity to do whatever they can to stop a genocide
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 @jonny ...okay but in my experience this is close to literally true, they bite when they start getting sensory/emotional overload  @jonny that over my head, but all I need to know about blsky is it is designed as wrongly as is possible on purpose. which I suspect is another way of saying what u said.
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 Thanks for your post and a special thank for calling out the gatekeeping (in the edit).  @jonny My evaluation has ultimately been that the fundamental problem with these LLMs, at least in terms of the output the give, is that they are designed to give a satisfying answer to whatever is posed to them, even if they can't. So rather than say "I can't answer that" it will instead just invent something that sounds good. Because it may not know the answer, but it damn well knows what an answer *looks like*, and appearing to answer is preferable to giving a disappointing result. Hey any journalists on here plz turn your public post indexing on, because most of you haven't and thats why people looking for public information cant find you. Go to settings > public profile > privacy and reach, select "include public posts in search results" Not all the fedi wants to be a public space, and thats fine, but some parts should be right now.
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@jonny Thanks for the info! I'm not a journalist but didn't realize that was not on by default. Going to my podcast accounts and updating those, too!  @jonny I've seen a couple of people do this previously, if I remember C. Titus Brown did so, and took a lot of flack from some corners for it at the time. I'd hope that attitudes have changed, especially around software. But yeah, in general we need to be more open about offering authorship for any kind of contribution to the project. @jonny 100% to the general sentiment, but like every lazy system, this incentivizes unwanted behavior, i.e. to maximize coauthorship through mundane contributions that perfectly follow protocol. Academics: stop being coy about #SciHub and start treating it like basic research infrastructure. If you dont include it in your syllabus already as a normal way to access research, you should start. No more winks and nods, just link directly to it and accept no criticism for doing so from the researchers that necessitate its continued existence by their publishing practices
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@jonny  tip for new fedis: the way the fediverse works is there is a chipmunk that comes by and puts all the posts in his mouth and goes and stashes them in his tree and only some of them hatch but that is the cost of federation I'm not saying LLMs are magic and can do all the things they promise to investors, I'm saying these companies don't care about whether the bots can think. they won't work and that's worse: what they certainly will do is deepen the logic of surveillance that drives their application in advertising and provide a lot of flimsy, bias ridden, nonfunctional LLMs as platforms to data consumers like governments, cops, and insurance companies to make use of surveillance data under the cloak of LLM datawashing. apparently you can check where the browser window is relative to the screen that it's on, so I had this very cursed idea and that is to make a webpage that has a fixed position on your screen (rather than in the browser window) and the browser window is like a magnifying glass that you have to decrease the size of to bring the page in focus, and then you have to move the window around to find the different sections of the page like a point and click adventure. |
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we thought surveillance capitalism was bad before but i imagine we are in for a different kind of adversary when infocapitalists go mask off in lockstep with an avowedly fascist government