Can anyone give me examples of Western media that manage to both avoid white savior narratives and tell a story in which the more-than-human world is valued as something actually more-than human?
Just saw a promotion for an interactive fiction exposition that was described as "a huge collaborative text adventure interactive fiction location", and I initially misparsed it as being about a "huge collaborative text adventure interactive fiction", and I had a moment of imagining that this was referring to a Minecraft-style collaborative world that was all text based.
@dynamic yes. In the early 1990's I ran one of the largest Mucks (HoloMuck) which is almost exactly this - unlike a MUD (which typically had more an RPG flavor with attacks/stats etc) a MuCK was generally almost entirely user-generated content. In our case we literally used a varient of Forth to write the MuCk and some users after they proved their ability had the permission to not just write content but to actually write code that other players could interact with - all text based
Is there a consensus among #AI experts about whether #LLM models can reliably summarize specific text without introducing weird extraneous information?
My assumption has been that the models can't really do this, and I can't imagine a way that they could reliably avoid omitting important details or even add information, but I'm not sure I've seen much discussion of this aspect of what they can and can't do.
Quote (from Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll):
"The most curious part of the thing was, that the trees and the other things round them never changed their places at all: however fast they went, they never seemed to pass anything. βI wonder if all the things move along with us?β thought poor puzzled Alice. And the Queen seemed to guess her thoughts, for she cried, βFaster! Donβt try to talk!β"
@dynamic What a load of self-indulgent crap. If you had actually bothered to do some basic reading, you would know that Sanders was a Russian asset, a useful idiot. He talks the talk but has NEVER walked the walk. Even Medicare For All was an idea he STOLE from John Conyers, who first introduced it in 2003, and every subsequent year. Bernie stole the idea and never gave Conyers credit, bc stealing from POC is all he's really good at.
@dynamic right, I understand that direction of thinking I think; but I'm unconvinced it's enough to sway me. There'll still be a character count display, and people could presumably use clients that let them self-impose arbitrary limits (indeed, you could make the argument Mastodon should provide such setting -- alongside making the character limit itself a setting).
Also, note that Mastodon's UX should (IIUC) already provide a 'show more' link over a certain threshold when reading.
I love the premise of Codidact (https://www.codidact.com/), but I'm profoundly frustrated at their insistence that communities exist for discussing particular topics before people can start posting questions and answers.
What I'd like to see instead is someone doing the exact same project but with the ability to ask and answer questions on anything, and topics organized by user-curated tags.
For sighted people with things to say about the idea of whether or not Mastodon instances disabling images for #WorldSightDay is useful activism, maybe we could start a separate thread here for that, rather than my previous toot?
Yes, I understand why you added the context, and I think that as author of the original post your reply made sense. I think leave the existing replies in place but don't add more?
Either way, my eyesight is fortunately very good right now, but as someone who works with computers, I expect it to degrade as I age, so, it would be nice if by the time I do rely on assistive technologies, folks do take this more seriously.
@dynamic@stefan I am not visually impaired but I do have a slightly related story.
My uncle passed away due to ALS just before the ALS Ice Bucket challenge took over America.
In the beginning many in our family thought the whole challenge was crass because it was often just symbolic and not everyone donated or even knew that is was for ALS.
"Do you see the problems in your country and know how to fix them?
"If only you had the power to do so. Well. You've come to the right place.
"But, before we begin this lesson in political power, ask yourself, why don't rulers see as clearly as you, instead acting in such selfish, self-destructive, short-sighted ways?
"Are they stupid? ...Or, is it something else?
"The throne looks omnipotent from afar, but it is not as it seems."
It's just intrinsic to #ActivityPub that you can't share old locked (followers only, select list only, etc.) content with new followers / people newly added to your circles (etc.), isn't it?
Like, I think this isn't just a Mastodon problem, but I'd like confirmation.
Yesterday I did a quick test drive of a #Hubzilla instance. It was a somewhat mindtwisting experience for me as a Mastodon user, in a similar way to how Mastodon/Twitter was mind-twisting for me coming from a Livejournal/Dreamwidth/Facebook background.
But it has some really nice features and might be exactly the thing that some folks are looking for.
I'd been under the impression that Hubzilla runs on ActivityPub, but evidently that isn't quite correct. As I understand it, Hubzilla runs on a protocol called Zot.
If you want to federate with accounts on ActivityPub, you need to install the ActivityPub app on your Hubzilla account.
This was fairly straightforward to do, but realizing that this was necessary was not straightforward.
When I say that the organization of comments on Hubzilla feels "bloggy", what I mean is that it's structured for all comments to be replies to the top-level post.
There doesn't seem to be an interface for replying to other people's comments, so I think there's no capacity for nested threading. I was able to use Mastodon to reply to comments, but on Hubzilla these just showed up as more recent comments.