Decided to mostly stay off socials yesterday because I knew I'd be glued to my screens today. Focused on work, meditation, and keeping my mind off *flails hands* everything external.

Feeling ready for today 🧘‍️

Can't believe y'all just call these language models large without considering their feelings smh

@thenexusofprivacy @snarfed.org Very much aligned! And yeah, I'm on all three, and I've extended my visibility across all of them (turned on Fedi for Threads, AT-bridged my Mastodon account, and AP-bridged my Bluesky account). I want to find the folks who have similar interests to me and help me refine my thinking around ideas / opinions I have. I don't want to have to care what client, platform, or protocols they use.

People, not platforms.

"These kinds of mistakes are the sorts of things you’d expect to see in a brand new startup run by two dudes in a coffee shop, who hacked together some free-off-GitHub code to handle moderation. Not a company worth $1.5 trillion." - @mmasnick

Threads Bans Anyone For Mentioning Hitler, Even To Criticize

Quick test: should saying “Hitler, not a good guy” cause you to be banned from your social media account? Seems simple enough. But apparently not for Meta, the largest social media company on the planet. I’ve talked about the Masnick Impossibility Theorem and the idea that content moderation is impossible to do well at scale.…

Techdirt (www.techdirt.com)

Hey guys, good news - the Big Tech earnings are all in and they are all still very Big.

Happy Diwali 🪔

@jake4480 we're literally *begging* for it (‍️)

Happy Diwaloween! 🪔

@lachlan

“We're going to add a whole new category of content which is AI generated [...] And I think that that’s gonna be very exciting for Facebook and Instagram and maybe Threads, or other kinds of feed experiences over time.” - Zuck

Mark Zuckerberg says a lot more AI generated content is coming to fill up your Facebook and Instagram feeds

First we had friends in our social media feeds, then we had influencers. The next natural phase of the evolution is a feed full of AI-created content, says Zuckerberg.

Fortune (fortune.com)

From now on you have to call him Illegal Immigrant Elon Musk, it's the law

@cumulonimbus oh, I think you're right! I'll fix it - thank you!

Wow, I didn't realize @theverge did a whole package on the election. Y'all really crushed it, @nilaypatel

You can find all the pieces here https://www.theverge.com/24279527/2024-presidential-election-guide-tech-policy

As someone who spent *far* too much of my time playing Overwatch for a few years, I was excited about the prospect of another high-quality hero shooter. But one trailer in and I knew this was going to bust so badly.

You can tell the devs put their heart into it and got screwed by the suits

I need someone to write a book about this, if only to let the folks who worked on this game vent

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/29/24282900/sony-shutting-down-concord-firewalk-studios

If you're wondering how he could say this, it's because he thinks every brown person is a t*rr*r*st, and he knows enough people agree with him that there will be no consequences. Hope this helps.

Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@[email protected])

MAGA pundit Ryan Girdusky spewed to Hasan “I hope your beeper doesn’t go off.” He calls it a “joke” but his racist comment isn’t isolated. He’s a Project 2025 advisor, runs a racist PAC, & previously wrote for a Nazi—yet CNN invited him on anyway. Why?🤔 https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/maga-pundit-maligns-journalist-mehdi

Mastodon (mastodon.social)

"tech billionaires have decided it would be easier if they were simply in charge of remaking society and have fallen in line behind a man they clearly despise because it’s easier for them to get what they want by manipulating the addled mind of a narcissistic monster than by winning people’s dollars in the market or votes in the ballot box" - @reckless

A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for school shootings and measles

Donald Trump simply will not engage with democracy. A vote for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election is a vote for solving collective action problems, together.

The Verge (www.theverge.com)

@Daojoan Dude doesn't even have the mobility to actually pull it off

@ricmac @johnonolan @taylorlorenz The world needs to see that there's a better way forward!

@malte Just that it's a policy violation. When I appeal, it gets approved, but if I repost, it gets taken down again. So...I don't even think they know the reason lol