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MissingThePt, 7 months ago to random

Twitter’s new business model:
(1) Reduce fee from $8/month to $1/year
(2) Sign up 44 billion users

harsh, 7 months ago to random

Just finished reading "The Internet Con: How to seize the means of computation" by @pluralistic . Surprisingly, a lot of the book is about interoperability and making it happen legally. For me, this hit really hard because of how involved my work is around both. Key takeaway for me is that if we want to create a better tech society, we need to open up stuff with interoperability to drive innovation and competition rather than just regulate big tech expecting them to behave.

carnage4life, 7 months ago to random

One problem we’re going to have with generative AI is that the practical use cases are going to be so valuable that customers are going to be the ones ignoring the AI ethicists not the big tech companies

https://www.thecity.nyc/2023/10/16/adams-taps-ai-robocalls-languages-he-doesnt-speak/

carnage4life, 7 months ago to random

$44 billion to become the most popular user on Twitter. My condolences to all the banks who thought they were investing in a business but actually invested in a billionaire’s midlife crisis.

carnage4life, 7 months ago to random

What I love about Silicon Valley venture capitalists is that that they love being loud and wrong. If I had spent the last few years shilling crypto as the next big thing in tech only for a bunch of my portfolio companies to turn out to be Ponzi schemes & grifts, I’d never write publicly again.

I definitely wouldn’t write Bond villain style speeches about how AI ethics and trust & safety teams at tech companies are the enemy preventing you from colonizing the stars. 😬
https://fortune.com/2023/10/16/marc-andreessen-techno-optimist-manifesto-ai-50-billion-people-billionaire-vc/

carnage4life, 7 months ago to random

Marc Andreessen as he was writing his Techno-Optimist Manifesto.

kevinmgill, 7 months ago to space

Jupiter's moon Io as it appeared to the Juno spacecraft on yesterday's Perijove 55.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

#Jupiter #Io #Juno #JunoCam #Space #Science

MattHodges, 7 months ago to random

"'The Techno-Optimist Manifesto,' which cites everyone from Friedrich Nietzsche to anonymous Twitter shitposters, boils down to a mostly tame, libertarian argument that is often reinvigorated in this manner whenever a startup founder who read The Fountainhead in high school finds himself newly rich."

https://www.404media.co/marc-andreesen-manifesto-says-ai-regulation-is-a-form-of-murder/

hrheingold, 7 months ago to languagelearning

Seven Principles of Learning from Institute for Research on #Learning

IRL's Seven Principles of Learning

Learning is fundamentally social.
Knowledge is integrated in the life of communities.
Learning is an act of membership.
Knowing depends on engagement in practice.
Engagement is inseparable from empowerment.
“Failure to Learn” is the normal result of exclusion from participation.
We already have a society of lifelong learners.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Research_on_Learning#IRL's_Seven_Principles_of_Learning

arstechnica, 7 months ago to random

Actively exploited Cisco 0-day with maximum 10 severity gives full network control

An unknown threat actor is exploiting the vulnerability to create admin accounts.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/actively-exploited-cisco-0-day-with-maximum-10-severity-gives-full-network-control/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

carnage4life, 7 months ago to random

I’m convinced every week your money is in Binance is another week where you are failing an IQ test.

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/10/17/binanceus-halts-direct-dollar-withdrawals/

w3c, 7 months ago to random

Proposed W3C Charter: Private Advertising Technology Working Group (public comments welcome until 2023-11-13/14)
The mission of the Private Advertising Technology Working Group, motivated by the W3C TAG Ethical Web Principles, is to specify web features and APIs that support advertising while acting in the interests of users, in particular providing strong privacy assurances using predominantly technical means.
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2023Oct/0013.html

mamday, 7 months ago to random

VCs will literally say "Neither science or humanities/data literacy are valuable for society, only producing successful companies" and then point to things like Epic Games and X/Twitter

slightlyoff, 7 months ago to random

In 2023, the frontend hiring pro-move is to zero your budget for additive JS and spend it on hiring and/or retraining for modern CSS, HTML, and SVG skills.

fnordkollektiv, 7 months ago to fediverse

We are looking for new (paid) projects. Our service range:

• #WorkAdventure and technology for online events. WorkAdventure is also our partner. Therefore we are able to offer you the whole package from setup to developing new features.
• setting up open source services (#Jitsi, #Nextcloud, Websites, #Peertube...) etc.
• programming (open source) software
• Data protection and IT-Sec for companies

Unfortunately we are still too unknown for people to approach us.

#followerpower
#boost

kevinmgill, 7 months ago to space

Io and Jupiter, yesterday during the Juno Mission Perijove 55.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

#Jupiter #Io #Juno #JunoCam #Space #Science

mattly, 7 months ago to random

it’s been 5 months since I was laid off as part of my previous employer’s bankruptcy shutdown. I’ve taken to part-time consulting work, & have fractional availability in early Nov

what I do really well is design/architect/prototype solutions for incredibly nuanced problems involving human interaction, particularly involving mistake-proofing. The tools I have helped build have saved time, frustration, money, & lives

carnage4life, 7 months ago to random

AI image detectors are labeling real images from the conflict between Israel and Hamas as faked which some people are calling a second layer of disinformation.

This cuts across two of my regular themes. First of all, systems that claim to detect AI generated text or images are snake oil. They are guessing and will often guess wrong.

Secondly, it’s difficult to figure out what the facts are in the middle of a war. Treating it as a tech or moderation problem isn’t enough

https://www.404media.co/ai-images-detectors-are-being-used-to-discredit-the-real-horrors-of-war/

boris, 7 months ago to random

Caught up with @jessmartin and he's going to start doing some monthly meetings again.

The #ToolsForThoughtRocks Luma calendar is the one to subscribe to -> https://lu.ma/toolsforthought

And in fact, we've had 407 of you attend / subscribe / join since July 2021!

We're also going to shuffle around some other services like the Mastodon server. More details soon!

malwaretech, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

I think this might actually be the first time in my life I've been more horrified by some of the left than the right. The Ukraine war came close-ish, with some factions of the left siding with Russia due to distrust of the US (which, fair enough), and then tankies apparently being confused as to whether Russia is still socialist or not. But all of that was balanced out by the right trying to undermine Ukraine funding in favor of the most stupid shit ever.

But this week a lot of leftists who support Palestine somehow stumbled past the point and went straight for glorifying one of the most horrific massacres in recent history, openly supporting Hamas, and even straight up calling for the elimination of Israel. I always thought the right had a monopoly on overt racism and unjust violence, but apparently if you substitute in words like "decolonization" you can get some of the left to go full Nazi too.

sponsorblock, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

Stop using random anti-adblock fixes you find on the internet, these are almost always out of date and interfere with the actual anti-adblock features in uBlock Origin. YouTube is changing their anti-adblock code multiple times per day.

Simply do the following:

1. Use uBlock Origin and no other adblocker. This includes disabling adblocking in "Enhancer for YouTube", and any built in browser blocker
2. In uBlock's settings, purge caches and update filters

More info: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/19976

charliejane, 7 months ago to random

My crankiest opinion: I hate apps.

Most apps are just clingy bitches. They want to collect too much info, they take up too much space, they want to notify you of trivial bullshit. Most apps should just be websites.

deborahh, 7 months ago to ai

Very disturbing:

TL;DR: Hotline workers unionise, get replaced by AI, within weeks helpline is shut down for safety reasons. A client says "I would have died, had I had that advice early in my illness".

"the National Eating Disorders Association helpline, which tried to replace human volunteers with a chatbot--and why the datafication & automation of mental health services are an injustice that will disproportionately affect the already vulnerable."

@JB611 #AI #chatbot https://dair-community.social/@JB611/111237905570862404

mathewi, 7 months ago to random

Today's terrifying news is that hundreds or even thousands of jet aircraft engines around the world could have fake parts in them https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-10-11/fake-parts-found-on-boeing-airbus-jets-plague-airlines

Powerfromspace1, 7 months ago to space

#NASA considering budget cuts for Hubble and Chandra space telescopes! Why can’t #NASA just admit #SLS is too expensive and that half the launches have to be commercial 🙄 https://spacenews.com/nasa-considering-budget-cuts-for-hubble-and-chandra-space-telescopes/