I’m probably out of the loop or daft on something. Is there any reason in particular why it’s gonna live rent free or why the comment about screenshots strikes so hard?
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This statement is going to live rent-free in my head for a long time to come, I suspect. #ActivityPub -
New: Video, audio and blogging: Japanese #Bluesky is building in the ATmosphere@laurenshof @seanbala @fediversereport
In the remote chance that it’s interesting, I ranted along similar lines here (on another now deleted account): https://hachyderm.io/@maegul@akkomane.social/112278407165110460
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I'm slowly realising that I probably have some mild #LongCovid@Frieke72 @coronavirus @longcovid
Thank you!
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I'm slowly realising that I probably have some mild #LongCovid@cwicseolfor @tobi82 @coronavirus @longcovid
Well yea. The responsibilities we take for our actions are obviously important (and should be addressed more IMO), but blaming the sick for not protecting themselves rather than focusing on those negligent in preventing infection and in not taking care of others … is a choice.
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New: Video, audio and blogging: Japanese #Bluesky is building in the ATmosphereThere are problems here too. I suspect this is a fundamental issue that decentralised social media hasn’t taken seriously enough. It’s a bit like back and front end people not working together well. Protocol people can be inclined to underestimate the importance of what happens in the client, which IMO is where federation actually happens, as it’s there that platforms and UIs need to get stitched together.
I’ve ranted about this before (eg: https://hachyderm.io/@maegul/112319245679533802)
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I'm slowly realising that I probably have some mild #LongCovid@tobi82 @coronavirus @longcovid
I wasn’t looking for sympathy, just sharing an experience.
You have no idea what my background is or for what reasons I’ve been infected in the past.
What’s more you’re completely neglecting the importance of the social dimensions that lead to widespread infection of an airborn virus while trumping up absolute individualism as the sole basis of responsibility and blame.
All of which is a rather flawed outlook IMO, along with a poor demeanour TBH.
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Deleted my Reddit account ️It's obviously no reddit in size, very far from it, but it's by no means empty either.
The "threadiverse" is the current "growth" area of the fediverse IMO, especially if you include blogs like WP and Ghost. See eg: https://community.nodebb.org/post/99736
Getting involved and supporting that kind of platform on the fediverse is IMO a good idea. The fediverse needs more "community building" tools, and forums/reddits are good for that. Lemmy even has private sub-lemmies on the road map.
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@deadsuperheroYep! I've commented on the same as UI/UX friction that is inevitable in a multi-platform ecosystem (I think I linked to a thread in my prior post).
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I'm slowly realising that I probably have some mild #LongCovidI'm slowly realising that I probably have some mild #LongCovid
Since having covid (now had it twice since 2022): iron deficiencies, breathing problems, constant asthma, and now a sudden allergy to some foods apparently.
My partner and I have been careful throughout the pandemic but clearly not careful enough at times (twice each) since "opening up".
And though it could be far far worse, I feel pretty violated right now TBH.
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We've all been played for fools.We've all been played for fools.
The whole "if it's free you're the product" thing has metastasized into "you're a feudal serf whether it's free or not".
https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/112453073300903901 (by @GossiTheDog )
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Slack have decided to start training AI on enterprise customer data, including DMs, private workspaces and files.@chetwisniewski @GossiTheDog @Quinnypig
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/743/
"The worlds tiniest open-source violin"
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It occurred to me this evening that society’s atttitude to AI is like that thing about believing every story in a newspaper except the one on your area of expertise, which is full of flaws. Society seems to believe uncritically that AI can/will do all ...Nice connection!
Crichton named it "Gell-Mann Amnesia" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect)
It makes perfect sense to extend this to AI accuracy.
Notably on point explanation from Crichton 20 years later:
"and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read."
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If Google makes its money through contextual ads on search results pages now, in an AI-driven world it’ll make its money through sponsored answers (or just contextual ads related to the answers). The way sites will continue to get traffic is through bu...Yea, that's part of what I'm saying. Google **is** search. To transition their user base onto their own AI, they don't need the best AI, just one that's good enough and better than the current SEO shit show.
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If Google makes its money through contextual ads on search results pages now, in an AI-driven world it’ll make its money through sponsored answers (or just contextual ads related to the answers). The way sites will continue to get traffic is through bu...Yea, I said more or less the same the other day: https://hachyderm.io/@maegul/112442514504667645
My guess is that Google’s plan is to leverage their ads dominance to be the first to sustainably monetise AI and keep it “up to date”
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Some good old internet style shit in hereSome good old internet style shit in here
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So it was recently pointed out to me that Justine Tunney's projects "Cosmopolitan libc" and "APE (Actually Portable Executable)" (github: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan) ...So it was recently pointed out to me that Justine Tunney's projects "Cosmopolitan libc" and "APE (Actually Portable Executable)" (github: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan) ...
are actually technofacist racism dog whistles.
And I was like huh. Not knowing anything about her or her space ... does anyone have any insight on this?
My initial feeling was she's just coming from a kinda edge-lord tech-trolling vibe, but I'm all shrugs and the "whistles" are pretty clear.
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Google's play on Search, Ads and AI feels obvious to me.That search/SEO is broken seems to be part of the game plan here.
It's probably like Russia burning Moscow against Napoleon and a hell of a privilege Google enjoy with their monopoly.
I've seen people opt for chatGPT/AI precisely because it's clean, simple and spam free, because it isn't Google Search.
And as @caseynewton said ... the web is now in managed decline.
For those of us who like it, it's up to us to build what we need for ourselves. Big tech has moved on
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Google's play on Search, Ads and AI feels obvious to me.Google's play on Search, Ads and AI feels obvious to me.
* They know search is broken.
* And that people use AI in part because it takes the ads and SEO crap out.
* IE, AI is now what Google was in 2000. A simple window onto the internet.
* Ads/SEO profits will fall with AI.
* But Google will then just insert shit into AI "answers" for money.
* Ads managed + up-to-date AI will be their new mote and golden goose.See @caseynewton 's blog post: https://mastodon.social/@caseynewton/112442253435702607
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I can only stay mad at my students for so long for stealing their classmates' work and running it through LLM-based auto-thesaurus-ers, when this is the kind of shit that is happening at the largest, most prestigious journals in the entire academy.Now, university is extended university at the undergraduate level. And researchers burdened with the babysitting work that entails. Which means real education doesn’t start until post grad masters or PhD, which is privileged but also burdened by the product ionisation of research such that the air allowed for actual education gets thinned out compared to what one would expect/hope.
The results are superficial degrees or burnt out cynical post-grads or “success stories”
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