From @cstross - “Suddenly every PC becomes a target for Discovery during legal proceedings. Lawyers can subpoena your Recall database and search it, no longer being limited to email but being able to search for terms that came up in Teams or Slack or Signal messages, and potentially verbally via Zoom or Skype if speech-to-text is included in Recall data.” http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/06/is-microsoft-trying-to-commit-.html
[But his blog is currently paralyzed by YCombinator.]
@cstross Hmm, interesting. I would have expected it to weather the storm. You do have a heavier comment load than average though, by multiple orders of magnitude…
@timbray it's interesting that "bill maher" called modi out and said he wasn't afraid of potential reprisals, when it is known that modi is connected to at least two international assassinations. Didn't mention that aspect at all on his show, "Real Time With Bill Maher", either.
Xi PT, rhymes with GPT: “China has introduced 'Chat Xi PT,' a new AI chatbot trained on President Xi Jinping's political philosophy, as the country seeks to balance AI development with strict content control and compliance with socialist values.”
Oh, joy, and now something inside Meta is crawling me. This makes me think that tthe #GenAI overlords are watching YCombinator and crawling everything that gets on the front page. Meta User-Agent: "facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)"
Hmm, in the dim dark past there was a "Facebook API" and people would write "Facebook Apps", is that still a thing? Because this could be that… it really looks like a systematic (but very slow) scrape.
@timbray@me@michaelrussell Their API would allow someone to automatically post every link on your site to FB, and that would trigger the link previewer. Why someone would do that is a mystery. Maybe the bot writer is also incompetent? I get so many hits on my site that are clearly from "Baby's First Bot". Like loading URLs with their code's $variable_names non-expanded.
I see that openai.com/gptbot is crawling my blog, top to bottom, side to side. I’m sure OpenAI has consulted the “Rights” link clearly displayed on every page, invoking a Creative Commons license that freely grants rights to reuse and remix but not for commercial purposes.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.02109 - “The Effects of Group Sanctions on Participation and Toxicity: Quasi-experimental Evidence from the Fediverse”.
Tl;dr: Defederation works better than the tools available to centralized-network moderators. It doesn’t reduce toxic behavior by those blocked, but who cares? Also, they gathered a really interesting data set.
What's particularly interesting is the assertion that this case probably has no route to the Supreme Court, since no federal laws or constitutional issues are involved. I’ll be interested to hear other opinions on that claim. Since America’s corrupt Supreme Court would obviously bend over backward to throw out the conviction, that’s a big deal.
@timbray The obvious route is for the USSC to observe that, OK, a New York Court has held that there was a fraud related to the conduct of the 2016 presidential election. And the fraud was perpetrated by and to benefit the person who was inaugurated as a result of that election. Thing is, states return electors, and New York's electors went for Clinton in 2016. So the New York court is really saying that some OTHER state's electors were modified by the fraud. That's a federal issue.
@graydon Except for, under the US constitution the running of elections is explicitly a matter left to the states. Election issues still get to SCOTUS when things like racial discrimination are alleged. But anyhow IANAL and will defer to them.