This is glorious.The best time to burn a bridge is when you never, ever want to cross it again. #genai (Edit: This is a notice explaining why somebody is shutting down a long-running project to measure word frequencies.) https://github.com/rspeer/wordfreq/blob/master/SUNSET.md
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This is glorious.The best time to burn a bridge is when you never, ever want to cross it again. #genai (Edit: This is a notice explaining why somebody is shutting down a long-running project to measure word frequencies.) https://github.com/rspeer/word... -
This is why billionaires must be ended. They are terrified of everyone else and will do anything to control us.@freakazoid @onepict To be honest, I'm not totally serious here. If the rest of us could surveil those with outsized power, that would be great, but as you say, they won't allow it. I mean it mainly as a narrative counter to their proposals. Every single time somebody proposes mass surveillance, I think people should say, "Great idea, let's start with those with the most power." It sounds (and is) reasonable, but would help align the powerful against broad surveillance.
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This is why billionaires must be ended. They are terrified of everyone else and will do anything to control us.@onepict @freakazoid Maybe we can compromise? How about we start with total automated surveillance of everybody with a net worth over $100m? plus every elected official. Oh, and every cop.
Maybe we can sell it as "With great power comes great responsibility". We all know that prototyping with a small set of users work best, and there are only like 30k people with $100m. It'll make the necessary human review manageable, too. Heck, I'd volunteer for an hour a week to keep an eye on Ellison in his volcanic-island lair.
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Excited to announce that I will be at #fediforum today speed demo-ing my latest project: an ActivityPub data observatory!@darius I'd say it's fine since it's not collecting user data. However, given how much jerks have caused sensitivity here I'd suggest an explanation page that uses some of your own posts as examples, with detailed explanations. And for usability/accessibility reasons, it should be in text, and with much higher contrast. Machine representations look forbidding to non-technical people anyhow, but especially so when dark and hard to read.
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Wow, truly remarkable history project here (ht @nightdream).@inthehands @nightdream For anybody interested in this, I think Loewen's book "Sundown Towns" is very much worth reading. The way he weaves together hard census data with history and anecdote really changed my understanding of America.
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Does anybody need a terrabyte of historical ship movement data that I'm about to delete?Does anybody need a terrabyte of historical ship movement data that I'm about to delete? It's from aishub.net, circa 2016-2023. I'm done with the project I was collecting it for, but thought I'd check in case anybody else wants it. Yours for the cost of getting it out of AWS.
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Okay Mastomind, got a movie question.@nathanlovestrees @superball Ooh, good idea. Was it like this?
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Was talking to someone about #BlueSky the other day, and how they apparently used some sort of #AI for #moderation.@Raccoon Having worked on this professionally, I think that's wildly optimistic. Mastodon itself isn't "entirely different" than pre-Musk Twitter; it's mildly better in some ways, notably worse than others. And mostly just the same.
I'll particularly note the lack of diversity here. Even as a white guy, or perhaps especially as one, I'm skeptical that the privileged-white-guy-technologist-heavy Mastodon culture could build good tools for detecting racism and sexism.
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If you see somebody described as "he's just like that" or "he can't help himself", ask if he's like that when he might be held accountable. E.g., in front of his boss, his mom, at church, when a video camera is recording.If you see somebody described as "he's just like that" or "he can't help himself", ask if he's like that when he might be held accountable. E.g., in front of his boss, his mom, at church, when a video camera is recording.
Occasionally, he really can't help himself. But it usually turns out that he can, and that there's a pattern to when he can't. E.g., he's a jerk to juniors and peer women, but perfectly controlled in front of his male boss. That's when you know it's not illness, it's abuse.