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drimplausible

@drimplausible@mastodon.online

Digital emigre, researcher standing at the intersection of arts, tech, and pop culture

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ct_bergstrom, to random
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Why is AI research so much sexier than education research? Sure it’s cool to study how machines learn but wait until you hear about PEOPLE.

drimplausible,
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@ct_bergstrom https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yL9Y24ciNWs&t=24s

arstechnica, to random
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To defeat hackers, Google wants employees to work without Internet access

You can't get hacked if you aren't on the Internet.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/to-defeat-hackers-google-wants-employees-to-work-without-internet-access/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

drimplausible,
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@arstechnica Why do I reflexively have to check the date on so many news stories in this dark timeline?

drimplausible, to fediverse
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I guess is a better name than (cute logo anyways) as I thought the latter was a social version of

It seemed odd that the needed a way to share equations, but I guessed things worked differently there. Who am I to judge anyways?

But I still have no idea what it does? Sharing your bookmarks or something? No idea.

helenczerski, to ai
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What if AI really is taking over, but instead of grand wars or job losses, it’s just control via weird spellcheck corrections, re-directions of non-junk-mail into the junk folder so it’s unseen, failure to let us into rooms we have access to and other similar interventions? What if it’s just sneaking round the back, cunningly disguised as the basic incompetence that we’re all entirely resigned to? There’s so much of that about that surely it’s the perfect camouflage.

drimplausible,
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@helenczerski Instead of Roko's Basilisk, we'll just call it Czerski's Bureaucrat and I think we're good.

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drimplausible,
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@jacobward @histodons @academicchatter @thesiswhisperer Never stopped using it, really? Manage a couple different groups if folders within Thunderbird, Academic Journals, Pods, Blogs and Newssites, and a couple update threads.

Just keeps on rolling.

I'd like to move a few more things there, and wished a couple other things integrated well. But we'll see what the New brings.

evan, to random
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An ActivityPub client that automatically polls your mutuals to see if your toot is ill-advised before posting

drimplausible,
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@evan Honestly just a drafts function would be swell.

Jyoti, to Musicproduction
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And, in general, I think there's more than a whiff of / around music gear and software that ease of use is equated with being non-pro or somehow kiddified.

No.

Music gear needs to get out of the way of the artists using it. We have ideas in our heads we want to realise, we haven't come to worship at your temple of arbitrary inconvenience.

I HATE all this macho bullshit. I want music creation to be FAR more accessible in every way.

drimplausible,
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@composergreg @Jyoti @mr_daemon FWIW, I find TikTok and the short form focus there more useful in this regard.

"I press this button and make this sound..." (IYKYK)

You can get rid of the filler pumping up the length, and then get right to it.

Might not work for everything, obvs, but it can adapt quickly too.

Radical_EgoCom, to random

A Future Without Work - Fully Automated Luxury Communism (FALC) could free us from the capitalist shackles of useless toil.

https://antoniomelonio.substack.com/p/a-future-without-work

drimplausible,
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@Radical_EgoCom oh yeah. This one came up in my search about a month ago while I was doing some research on The Culture. Great read.

drimplausible, to random
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A wonderful as some new arrivals to were waiting patiently including The Gutenberg Parenthesis from @jeffjarvis Can't wait to dig in! /1

drimplausible,
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@jeffjarvis "Having been presented with a new technology, contemporary actors voice their concerns about how the new medium will change their lives, and in so doing they reveal their vulnerabilities..."

AI, or Radio? 2023, or 1924?

(It's the later.)

(Jackway, 1995, p.154 in Jarvis 2023, p. 126)

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I'm finding marvelous associations like this within it on a first glance.

I like it. 😁

drimplausible,
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@jeffjarvis Oh nice! We have a whole chapter on Elizabeth Eisenstein! (Chapter 16).

"She cared much more about the use of the technology than the technology itself... eventually, we will understand [the story of the internet] better as the story of society's use of it." (Jarvis, 2023, p. 133).

Yeah, definitely. It feels difficult to describe the waters of the digital ocean from the POV of a cybernetic fish, but sometimes, sometimes, I feel like this is knowable in the here and now.

evan, to random
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This is my post during a CBC interview. Everyone say hi!

drimplausible,
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@evan Howdy 🤠

flockofnazguls, to GenX
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    drimplausible,
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    @Robotron @blogdiva @mrcompletely @seitz @alisynthesis @kevin @thompsonize @flockofnazguls Sigh... Yeah.

    SirTapTap, to random
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    "it's so great threads has no ads!"

    Entire home feed:

    Wendy's

    Sports team

    Sports team

    KFC

    Famous for being famous guy

    Sports team

    Someone you never heard of with a blue check

    Wendy's again

    drimplausible,
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    @SirTapTap Ayup. When everything is a brand, every post is an ad.

    This is what I was talking about last Tuesday. 😆

    LeviKornelsen, to random
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    This is probably obvious to many, but:

    Threads, by fully centering algorithmically chosen content and making blocking slightly more of a hassle, has committed to rewarding heavy virality, and facilitating celebrity (both existing and attempted).

    And it's tilted towards the most popular users of Instagram. Who may not be well practiced at a short-text medium, but they'll learn fast.

    What kind of atmosphere do you THINK it'll have in a month or two?

    My bet: Reality TV, the social network.

    drimplausible,
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    @LeviKornelsen Reality TV: TSN is already taken by though.

    Hmmm... 🤔

    CultureDesk, to IndianaJones
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    A lot has been made of a de-aged Harrison Ford in “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.” After all, Ford, 80, first portrayed the whip-cracking hero in 1981. “We knew we would have to use all of the tools we already had and develop some new ones,” said Andrew Whitehurst, the film’s visual effects supervisor. Variety shares more: https://variety.com/2023/artisans/news/indiana-jones-5-deaging-harrison-ford-1235663264/#article-comments

    drimplausible,
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    @CultureDesk There's a vibe to it; the notion that "stars", will be once again tied to a studio system, and upon signing the Contract, they realize that they've agreed to be filmed, continually, as they age, but that the images used for any film they are in may be drawn from any point along their life, algorithmically enhanced to suit the whims of the Director, the Studio, or :shudder: Test Audiences.

    Or they'll just download all their selfies off of and . Same-same

    J12t, to fediverse
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    Who, other than me, is pondering Geoff Moore Crossing-the-Chasm-style technology adoption cycles for the right now?

    Want to compare notes? I have some thoughts and could use some feedback.

    drimplausible,
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    @J12t Sure, I looked a lot at Roger's stuff during grad school, and Moore came into the discussion too. I'd have to check some old conference papers, but drop me a line.

    chiefgyk3d, to mastodon
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    1/ So I have a question because I keep seeing a lot of fear mongering regarding Meta even on my own TikTok’s. What information do you perceive meta to be able to take from your to the point you want to defederate? How is any of that data you are already publishing on ActivityPub and already making public on a server really that private? Because honestly it feels similar to how people get upset that you can film a building in public when you’re on the sidewalk.

    drimplausible,
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    @chiefgyk3d It's not one thing, per se, but it's a lot of little things, and given the past (and current?) practices of the company with respect to data, it's how they'd use that information in the aggregate to build a profile on you.

    I'll follow-up with a couple links here: :thread:

    eniko, to random
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    i don't know how people keep their house immaculately clean. i'm happy when i manage to keep myself fed and the dishes done

    drimplausible,
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    @eniko I try to manage it by the square footage.

    Somewhere in this house there is a square foot that is immaculately clean.

    It's not where you're looking.

    There either.

    drimplausible, to HashtagGames
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    The Vector


    drimplausible, to fediverse
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    With looming introduction of and the subsequent integration with the I thought a quick summary of a key piece of literature is in order. Likely too late, but perhaps not.

    Basically, what is or business model?

    The production of the

    🧵

    (This is from 1977, by Dallas W. Smythe, so some of it may seem obvious in retrospect. Please read it through.)

    (Also I'm posting as I go, so it might take a bit).

    drimplausible,
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    4/ So if the trad, orthodox, normal view of gets it wrong, what do they produce?

    What is the form of sponsored comms under ?

    and readerships

    The

    Here the work, the of the workers is resold to the

    This is nominally the "consciousness industry".

    Remember: TV stations and walled on the internet are factories that produce audiences for advertisers

    drimplausible,
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    5/ So that's a lot of the overarching stuff. let's get into the specifics. Smythe has 8 main points. We'll cover these quickly then move on to how it connects to and the

    Q1) What do the advertisers buy with their money?
    A) There services of audiences in predictable numbers.

    It's a and we're the ones providing the service.

    (We're also the ones being served up. Ironic!)

    The commodity is the collective.

    drimplausible,
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    Q2) How do advertisers know they're getting what they paid for?
    A) various ratings agencies, bitd, and the analysis which has largely moved in-house for and s.

    This would be the Nielsen's and a whole host of stuff under the umbrella of "market research".

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    7/ (Forgot to number 6)
    Q3): What institutions produce the commodity that advertisers want?
    A) Principally, and traditionally, it's the owners of Tv and radio stations, and newspaper and magazine publishers. You can add most web platforms to this nowadays.

    Of course, there's a host of secondary producers, and industries that provide for the principal market, obviously, but this is the main outlet.

    drimplausible,
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    Q4) what is the nature of in terms under ?
    A) it's an inducement. It's the that attracts the in the door, and encourages them to stay.

    This speaks nothing to cost, "quality", or format. In fact, the cheaper this can be procured, the better. A free lunch isn't free, obvs, but someone is providing the bread and meat.

    If the users bring their own, even better.

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