erlend

erlend, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to opensource

https://blog.erlend.sh/big-ai-commons

"They’ve already laid claim to our collective land, labor and attention. With AI, they want to own our thoughts and the last shred of agency that comes with them. If we fail to defend our personal sovereignty at this juncture, a dark age of the corporate singularity awaits us."

"To land a real blow, look for where the machines are at their most materialized. Take aim at their massive bodies of data and strike there with conviction."

#opensource #ai #openweb

erlend, 5 months ago to politics

Do not misconceive of a ‘social construct’ as something that isn’t real.

Make the mistake of disregarding our social reality as a way to circumvent it, and you will find yourself banging your head against the very real walls of sociality until you go mad.

Once you accept the reality of our social constructs you will see they can only be deconstructed and made anew by the collective imagination of our socialized power.

#politics #philosophy #SocialWeb

erlend, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

Back in high school, I made some kind of mistake that a teacher scolded me for.

(It’s also quite possible that it wasn’t me who got scolded in this particular instance, but rather I was just empathizing with a fellow student.)

The teacher said “Do you know why I was so hard on you just now? Because this way, the shock of this harsh lesson will make you remember it forever.”

Well, it’s been almost two decades and all that remains with me is the feeling of being yelled at for getting it wrong.

erlend, 5 months ago to random

Partially in response to the excellent juxtaposition of Effective Altruism/Accelerationism by @molly0xfff, @pluralistic writes:

“But the superintelligence true-believers and their criti-hyping critics keep dragging us away from these important questions [about pro-social automation] and into fanciful and pointless discussions of whether and how to appease the godlike computers we will create when we disassemble the solar system and turn it into computronium.”

Amen! 🙏

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/27/10-types-of-people/

erlend, 6 months ago to opensource

Thank you @NGIZero! 🙏

https://blog.commune.sh/grant-from-nlnet/

#OpenSource #Matrix #Fediverse

timnitGebru, 6 months ago to random

You know I was resenting every second of the time I had to read anything written by the TESCREAL bundle but it really did help me clarify how they’re getting so many young people into their cults and the ways in which what I want from technology is the complete opposite of them.

chriscoyier, 6 months ago to random

Combined Messaging Apps: https://chriscoyier.net/2023/11/16/combined-messaging-apps/

noybeu, 6 months ago to random

⚠ noyb filed a complaint against the EU Commission

👉 The EU Commission used unlawful micro-targeting on X to promote its chat control legislation

👉 This violated the EU GDPR and undermined established democratic procedures between EU institutions

read more:

https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-files-complaint-against-eu-commission-over-targeted-chat-control-ads

erlend, 6 months ago to opensource

@photomatt & co have talked about making Tumblr fully open source for a long time. In light of Tumblr’s downsizing, this is the time to do so!

Since it’s failing to make a profit they may as well release it for the wider internet community to go nuts with it.

Better yet, spin Tumblr out as a standalone co-op venture to succeed or fail on its own merits.

https://www.tumblr.com/photomatt/733551497286172672/translation-of-internalspeak-to-externalspeak

#OpenSource #coop #tumblr

J12t, 6 months ago to threads

There are quite a few people on #threads who post something along the lines of:

“Dear algorithm, please help me find people who …” with some topics they are interested in.

Usually, everyone complains about “the algorithm”, but in this case, people are seeking it out.

/kbin RTR#7 Summary of the week, preview of the kbin.social update

It's been almost a week since I started describing my work in the devlog. I'm okay with the progress and the pace I've set for myself. But what matters most to me is that developing the project has once again brought me immense joy and satisfaction. The tasks I've completed so far will allow for a more organized life on the...

erlend, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to fediverse

There’s a major convergence of OAuth/OIDC support across #fediverse applications, #Matrix is going all-in on it as its root default, and other social web protocols are tagging along as well.

Like the separation of church and state, it seems prudent to keep the management of our digital identities separate from our social network servers.

Domain-based OIDC accounts with web sign-in, especially when self-hosted, serve the function of a minimum-viable #nomadicidentity

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/autonomous-identity-for-the-pluriverse-based-on-oauth-oidc/3675?u=erlend_sh

mastodonmigration, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

The awesome new media organization 404 Media is crushing it, and here on Mastodon @404mediaco

This week's podcast, on "refund scam gangs" that advertise on Telegram and have stolen millions of dollars of merchandise from big retailers:

https://www.404media.co/artemis-refund-group-stole-700-000-from-amazon/

Support independent journalism on Mastodon. Follow @404mediaco the account for https://www.404media.co a journalist-founded digital media company exploring the ways technology is shaping–and is shaped by–our world.

#404Media

strypey, 6 months ago to random

Hi @grafcube, I saw your intro on matrix where you mentioned #WordForge;

https://codeberg.org/grafcube/wordforge

This is an intriguing project. Reminds me of an idea I made some notes on a few years ago for using Git as the back-end for a decentralised policy collaboration platform.

Are you familiar with the #ForgeFed extensions to AP, for federating software forges?

https://forgefed.org/

igalia, 6 months ago to random

Tech unions are a hot topic at the moment, and rightly so! In this Igalia Chats episode, we talk about a closely related kind of organization, the co-operative. Igalia is a co-op, so we asked fellow Igalian Valerie Young to talk about what a co-op is and how they offer another path to worker power. https://www.igalia.com/chats/val

andrew, 6 months ago to random

New blog post: Life Critical Side Projects https://aeracode.org/2023/11/06/life-critical-side-projects/

In which I discuss how working on a social media server no longer brings me joy, look at ways to find others to help run it, and ponder on the good and bad of the Fediverse itself. (boosts are more than OK on this one!)

0x0, 6 months ago to random

The week barely started and I already feel absolutely terrible

erlend, 6 months ago to fediverse

If only we had the tools necessary to measure the likes of Common Sense, Basic Decency and Democratic Speech in discourse at scale

(say, top 1 million most signal-boosted posts per week),

I have no doubt the #fediverse would handily outscore every other social network out there, especially Twitter/X.

We’re by no means saints here, but unlike the big-corp platforms we can quite reliably demonstrate our network’s non-complicity in genocides and fascist uprisings.

Let’s keep it that way.

gabor, 6 months ago to random

I wrote this Medium post reflecting on the journey with T2 and Pebble, and the lessons learned along the way: https://medium.com/gabor/from-t2-to-pebble-the-rise-challenges-and-lessons-of-building-a-twitter-alternative-553652f1d1e7