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TNLNYC

@TNLNYC@mastodon.social

#Optimist #builder #instigator #entrepreneur #writer #father #NewYorker

I've contributed a few things, instigated others, and still believe in the positive potential of technology. If the internet is broken, I probably had a hand in it (mea culpa). I still believe we can fix it.

Believer in the good in people, in the power of communal action, in personal responsibility, and in reaching out to the other side to find common grounds.

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Gargron, to threads
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I was on @mike's Dot Social podcast to talk about Mastodon, (not the 1984 movie), and the social web. If you've got questions about any of those things, maybe we've covered them!

https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/eugen-rochko/

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@Gargron @mike great Job from both of you on this. One of the questions not posed but useful would be advice on how we, users, can help further evangelize the social web to the masses. Is there any particular way we can help?

TNLNYC, (edited ) to random
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As far as I'm concerned, the best explaination of came from @cwebber :

"ChatGPT is Mansplaining as a Service"

https://octodon.social/@cwebber/109462369670144568

The more I think about the statement, the more it strikes me as correct for most LLMs: confidently asserting truthiness on every topic without having any expertise in any.

TNLNYC, to mastodon
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This is important: if doesn't fix its CSAM problem, it will hurt the whole enterprise's reputation and set all of this back for years:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/24/twitter-rival-mastodon-rife-with-child-abuse-material-study-finds/

TNLNYC, to random
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I have no word for how this makes me feel:

https://macmillaneducation.secure.force.com/help/bg_FAQArticle?id=kA04H0000005kwWSAQ&language=en

TNLNYC, to random
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Over 400 cities; almost 150km of highways: The Mayans were clearly a very organized society:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ancient-mesoamerica/article/lidar-analyses-in-the-contiguous-miradorcalakmul-karst-basin-guatemala-an-introduction-to-new-perspectives-on-regional-early-maya-socioeconomic-and-political-organization/31075DFA8ADBAA5E7C7320CA6DB93E5E

The fall of the Mayan empire has a lot to tell us about what we should be careful about. For them, it started with moving the pendulum from science towards religion to maintain power. Much to be learned from that.

TNLNYC, to random
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Google "cha cha slide" on your phone then click on the microphone (🎤) icon and all the others that follow.

Great easter egg!

TNLNYC, to random
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Henry Kissinger dies and KISS is giving its last concert. Are we heading towards an end to human suffering?

TNLNYC, to ai
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"Technology is not a noun. It is a verb. It is always moving" - @stephenfry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZfS8uk70Zc

This is a must watch for anyone interested in the future (or present) and how is shaping it.

TNLNYC, to nyc
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Here's an idea: since it takes $36k to add a parking spot in New York, any new parking spot should generate $12k of revenue per year. If a given parking area (defined as 4 adjacent parking spaces) fails that for 3 years in a row, the space should be turned into a human usable space (park, sidewalk, etc...)

TNLNYC, to Russia
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If current military forces in Rostov give up and join , what will the impact on the Ukraine offensive be? Does it lower the resistance from on Ukrainian ground?
I've heard Rostov was where planning was happening. Does this impair the Russian effort?

TNLNYC, to random
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Remembering the victims of the January 6 insurrection: American democracy; the belief that presidential transitions were smooth; the sense that both parties believed in the rule of law; the people who died and got hurt protecting the idea of America.

TNLNYC, to ai
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When I was a child in France, adults warned about the "nivellement par le bas" or a gradual lowering of standards. This editorial takes this theory to the danger current generative AI represents: https://time.com/6337835/ai-mediocrity-essay/

TNLNYC, to bluesky
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Went to check out out of curiosity: it looks like Twitter and made me realize how much better is: edit button, content filters, hashtags, content warnings... there's just so much more functionality in this open world.

TNLNYC, to random
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So here's a crazy idea: require that ANY write-off by a corporation be forced to create a clear public benefit. For example, a tax write off on creative work (like what WBD is doing with movies) would require that the work be released in the public domain; a tax write-off on research would require that patent rights on said research expire; a tax write-off on assets would require a drop on the price of said assets to the public.

TNLNYC, to random
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I hope that @NPR is paying attention to the @BBC_News_Labs effort and preparing to launch its own instance.

TNLNYC, (edited ) to reddit
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Twitter: I'm going to make the experience worse for my users

: Hold my beer

again: Oh, yeah?

: Anyone want to try Threads?

TNLNYC, to random
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Updated Post: “The Vision Thing” https://tnl.net/2023/06/05/the-vision-thing

TNLNYC, (edited ) to random
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Good article by @Bloonface on
https://blog.bloonface.com/2023/07/03/meta-and-the-fediverse-sorting-heat-from-light/#comment-88

My comments below

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TNLNYC, to MetaQuest
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Attention XR/VR/AR developers: be careful of the experiences you created and what impact they may have on society.

Alone Together https://tnl.net/2023/06/12/alone-together

TNLNYC, to random
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As relevant today as it was 12 years ago: A declaration of interdependence:

https://tnl.net/2011/07/04/a-declaration-of-interdependence/

@fediverse

TNLNYC, to apple
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There are times when 500 characters isn't enough... Here's my takeaway from release yesterday at : https://tnl.net/2023/06/05/the-vision-thing/

TNLNYC, to random
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13 years ago, I presented the declaration of independence as tweets. Read them as toots:

https://tnl.net/2010/07/02/140-independence/

TNLNYC, (edited ) to ai
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The environment
Nuclear bombs
A.I.

Imagine you can only pick 2. Which ones do you look to fix first? Which one second?

Pick the top priority in the poll and comment for your second priority or justification.

TNLNYC, to random
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If you are comfortable with YOU being a pronoun for both singular and plural counts, then you have no reason not to be OK with THEY being a pronoun for singular and plural presentation of a person.

TNLNYC, to threads
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Well, I've tried #Threads today and what I can say is that it makes me even happier to be on #Mastodon. With every subsequent new service ( #Bluesky too), it becomes clearer that the #Fediverse is where my tribe is.

You may all be weird but you're my kind of weird.

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