kjr

@kjr@qoto.org

Freelancing in Natural Language Processing / Machine Learning / Data Science. Interested and working also in Archives, Libraries and Data Integration.
Based in Israel, central area.

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flexghost, to random
@flexghost@mastodon.social avatar

Russia is in a coup

Meanwhile in America, conservative pundits are complaining they have no new followers

Coincidence?

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kev, to Futurology
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    georgetakei, to random

    I thought Musk challenging Zuck to a cage match was a new level of absurd. But wait! From a dank, Romanian prison, an alleged rapist and human trafficker just had to weigh in.

    cra1g, to random
    @cra1g@sciences.social avatar

    Two of my colleagues and I opined on how AI will continue to change how people work and the work we do.
    https://www.uc.edu/news/articles/2023/05/the-future-of-work--how-will-ai-and-automation-affect-work.html

    tazgetroete, to random German
    @tazgetroete@mastodon.social avatar

    Mit dem neuen Recht für die LGBTQ+- Community stößt Estland eine Entwicklung an, die nicht mehr aufzuhalten ist. Das birgt auch Herausforderungen. https://taz.de/Ehe-fuer-alle-in-Estland/!5939074/

    EU_Commission, to ai
    @EU_Commission@social.network.europa.eu avatar

    AI sparks countless questions – social, ethical, economic, and even culinary!

    Our proposed law classifies technologies based on risk:

    ⚠️ Ban on AI systems that threaten citizens, like social scoring or specific facial recognition.
    ⚠️ Strict regulations for high-risk AI in healthcare, education, and critical infrastructure.
    ⚠️ Additional transparency requirements for generative AI such as chatbots and image generators.

    The proposal is in its final stage. Agreement is expected by year-end.

    atomicpoet, to internet

    Just bought the domain notmeta.social.

    It will likely run as a server.

    As the domain implies, it will not federate with .

    atomicpoet,

    Practically speaking, notmeta.social will need to federate with servers that federate with Meta -- but not Meta.

    Why is that?

    So that people on Meta-federated servers can easily migrate their accounts to notmeta.social. You see, if we don't federate with those servers, account migration won't be possible. And I want to make it easy for people to migrate over to a server that doesn't federate with Meta.

    Nevertheless, notmeta.social will not federate with any Meta-owned servers.

    null, to internet

    I think instance admins should leave it to their users to block (or not). All the tooling is already there; it's very easy for a user to block an entire domain.

    As a user, I will definitely block.

    darius,
    @darius@friend.camp avatar

    @null if a server is configured to be higher security (aka AUTHORIZED_FETCH is turned on) then an instance level block does offer specific privacy protections that a user level block does not

    ophiocephalic, to internet
    @ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social avatar

    The most enraging of the Zuckerbros is actually Gargron, exactly because he's so quiet. Say what you will about the others, they're at least in the discourse. About the only thing Gargron tooted on the day of the NDA betrayal was a snap from a concert he attended. The federation is burning because of him, but he's having a ball.

    It's a complete failure of leadership - and he has claimed leadership, even calling himself a "benevolent dictator". But there's actually no such thing, and these techbros who talk up decentralization, while sneaking around with a corporation which has spent 15 years trying to singularly enclose the internet, have ceded their claim to lead.

    However, this is actually a golden opportunity for the fediverse to route around the damage of these Mastodon megaservers. What galls most is the spectacle of 3 mediocre white guys unilaterally deciding the destiny of hundreds of thousands, extolling the virtues of open standards and interoperability while dragging everyone else in the community around by the hair.

    We don't need "new leaders", what we need is to horizontally distribute leadership so that everyone has some of it, and all network participants possess agency and an active stake in their own community.

    Some have waved away the Anti-Meta Pact, noting that most of the participating instances are very small. That's not a bug, it's a feature. It's exactly what the fediverse should become - a network of countless small communities, distinct yet together. By default, Pixelfed limits instance user count to 1000. It's a good idea, and whatever we replace Mastodon with should implement something similar.

    The will look back some day and see the megaservers, and the Zuckerbros that dominated them, as a aberration on the path to actual decentralization and democratization.

    The fediverse is dead, long live the fediverse!

    (edit: revised comment about Pixelfed user limit, I need to follow up on that)

    (edit 2: received clarification about Pixelfed, sorry to boosters)

    mho, to internet

    At least a part of the this whole debate about and the seems to boil down to the most persistent argument on : People saying, well I have all the connections I want here, so why are you complaining about missing people or communities?
    Meta is so so many people that could get to know and embrace the like many did after the .

    aral,
    @aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

    @mho They are a publicly-traded trillion-dollar Silicon Valley surveillance machine that exploits your behaviour for profit. We know what their business model is. We know they see success as a zero-sum game. None of that is going to change. What exactly are we waiting to see?

    It’s like sheep inviting a wolf to dinner to see what it’s going to do. It’s going to have dinner, of course. You’re just not going to like what it eats.

    TheEuropeanNetwork, to spain

    Spain takes the helm of the EU Council with a recent win under its belt, namely persuading the European Commission and member countries to budge on its demand to reform the bloc’s wholesale power market.

    Spain successfully pushed for reform of the EU’s energy markets, to decouple wholesale electricity prices from natural gas, but must now play the honest broker as it takes over the presidency.

    https://www.politico.eu/article/spain-way-power-market-reform-eu-council-commission-energy-prices/

    stefanf28, to internet

    It shouldn’t be an issue that some admins are taking a strong, pre-emptive stance to whilst others play a waiting game.

    The great thing about the Fediverse is that we can decide to move and join an instance that aligns with our own position and values. We should celebrate this flexibility.

    The one thing that will serve ’s interest is if we
    instead divided ourselves to wage a destructive war of words over its plans.

    It would be great if we could avoid that.

    dangillmor, to random
    @dangillmor@mastodon.social avatar

    Google ended moderation of 2020 election lies on YouTube.

    Facebook/Instagram restored Trump's deceitful, violence-promoting accounts.

    Spotify stopped pretending to exercise editorial oversight over the increasingly vile Joe Rogan.

    And of course, Twitter is now run by a right-wing extremist who uses the platform to promote right-wing extremism.

    This is the social-media trendline as we head into an election that will decide the fate of democracy.

    TheEuropeanNetwork, to space

    In just a few weeks a remarkable European probe will be blasted into space in a bid to explore the dark side of the cosmos.

    Scientists hope the Euclid telescope will reveal mysteries of dark matter.

    The €1bn mission will investigate the universe’s two most baffling components: dark energy and dark matter. It will capture images that will provide insights about what the universe is made of.

    https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jun/18/scientists-hope-euclid-telescope-will-reveal-mysteries-of-dark-matter

    techno_news_IL, to Israel

    Intel to invest 'unprecedented' $25 billion in chip manufacturing plant in Israel

    Prime Minister Netanyahu hails investment as largest ever by a global private company in the country; chip plant to hire thousands of employees

    @israel

    https://www.timesofisrael.com/intel-to-invest-unprecedented-25-billion-in-chip-manufacturing-plant-in-israel/

    Spez to Zuckerberg? - Out of the frying pan, into the fire (fedia.io)

    It would be the cruelest of ironies if folks who are falling out of Reddit and trying to build a new community here on a community-controlled, non-corporate network were to find themselves getting sucked right back into invasive techbro-capitalism through a backdoor. But that's exactly what might happen....

    CitizenWald, to Ukraine
    @CitizenWald@historians.social avatar

    : Cultural sites damaged after dam burst:

    Churches, monuments & museums are submerged....Archaeological sites dating back to the Scythians—a nomadic people...in the 8th century BC—& a Greek settlement from around 400 BC have been damaged or irretrievably destroyed
    "The damage affects culturally & historically significant properties from different centuries. In terms of archaeological sites, Ukraine is one of the first places of discovery in the world"

    https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-cultural-heritage-sites-damaged-after-dam-burst/a-65904943?maca=en-newsletter_en_bulletin-2097-xml-newsletter&r=3726257861351267&lid=2576167&pm_ln=206194

    ScienceDesk, to climate
    @ScienceDesk@flipboard.social avatar

    Why is the North Atlantic breaking heat records?

    Science News reports: "Some spots are nearly 4 degrees Celsius above normal for this time of year."

    https://www.sciencenews.org/article/north-atlantic-heat-record-sea-surface-temperature

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