Like many other technologists, I gave my time and expertise for free to #StackOverflow because the content was licensed CC-BY-SA - meaning that it was a public good. It brought me joy to help people figure out why their #ASR code wasn't working, or assist with a #CUDA bug.
Now that a deal has been struck with #OpenAI to scrape all the questions and answers in Stack Overflow, to train #GenerativeAI models, like #LLMs, without attribution to authors (as required under the CC-BY-SA license under which Stack Overflow content is licensed), to be sold back to us (the SA clause requires derivative works to be shared under the same license), I have issued a Data Deletion request to Stack Overflow to disassociate my username from my Stack Overflow username, and am closing my account, just like I did with Reddit, Inc.
The data I helped create is going to be bundled in an #LLM and sold back to me.
In a single move, Stack Overflow has alienated its community - which is also its main source of competitive advantage, in exchange for token lucre.
Stack Exchange, Stack Overflow's former instantiation, used to fulfill a psychological contract - help others out when you can, for the expectation that others may in turn assist you in the future. Now it's not an exchange, it's #enshittification.
Programmers now join artists and copywriters, whose works have been snaffled up to create #GenAI solutions.
The silver lining I see is that once OpenAI creates LLMs that generate code - like Microsoft has done with Copilot on GitHub - where will they go to get help with the bugs that the generative AI models introduce, particularly, given the recent GitClear report, of the "downward pressure on code quality" caused by these tools?
While this is just one more example of #enshittification, it's also a salient lesson for #DevRel folks - if your community is your source of advantage, don't upset them.
#TrumpTrial starts HERE. #Trump#legal
Please remember I don’t reply while live-posting. Plz use NFL (Not For Laffy, but no hashtag) so I can ignore those replies.
1/… Bower:
Trump enters the courtroom. Before arriving, he lingered for a moment in the doorway, talking to his lawyers, Emile Bove and Todd Blanche. He had a piece of paper in his hand, which he waved around as he spoke.
Biden gave a speech on remembering the Holocaust. Trump fell asleep listening to a porn star testify about having unprotected sex with him while he was married with a young child at home.
This is rich coming from Peter Baker, the principle person at the New York Times, with the possible exception of Maggie Haberman, to capitalize on trading normalizing, humanizing, coverage of Trump for access.
“Billions of people are using different kinds of energy each day and 2023 was a record-breaking year for renewable energy sources — ones that don’t emit planet-warming pollutants like carbon dioxide and methane…
Democrats support should be interpreted as support of normal order, not of Mike Johnson. Unfortunately, the media seems to deliberately misconstrue these things.
“This is news but it’s hardly unexpected..." Joyce Vance wrote. “Judge Cannon seems desperate to avoid trying this case. This isn’t justice. defendants aren’t the only ones with speedy trial act rights, we the people have them too.”
“After the election,” professor of law and former chief White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter commented, “if Trump wins Jack Smith gets fired, the case gets dismissed, and Judge Cannon is ready for SCOTUS.”
Not surprising. He's a total ass, and if he were still in power he would likely bow to the ring, but it is a measure of how thoroughly reprehensible Trump is, that even Paul Ryan won't support him.
Perhaps this is the lesson these platforms have learned from Elon Musk's actions with Twitter. Once the base is sufficiently invested in the platform, they will endure most any deprivations and not leave.
Ruth Ben-Ghiat: "To normalize extreme ideas, you get them circulating through institutions and the public sphere, aiming for prestigious platforms that offer maximum legitimacy. Enter the Supreme Court, which is making itself the tool of bad actors who want issues that should be settled in a democracy seen as up for discussion–including whether a head of state can order an assassination of a political rival and pay no consequence." #SCOTUS https://lucid.substack.com/p/information-warfare-and-the-supreme
Brilliant piece. These are the stakes in this election. This is emblematic of the fascist insurgency we need to overpower with our votes. It is not just one element. It is a confluence of corruption that must be defeated.
For those losing their heads over today's actions by Judge Cannon, take a deep breath. This was always going to happen. The writing has been on the wall since Judge Cannon was drawn for the case. Getting all worked up about it is only going to make you crazy and desperate. The way we will rid ourselves of this menace is at the polls in November.
For a sober discussion on this topic this exchange today between @Teri_Kanefield and @JonChevreau is highly recommended:
If it makes you feel better to mischaracterize the post and then refute your own strawman go ahead, but the substance of the discussion is lost when you do so.
It certainly is a mess. Lots of work to do to even begin to clean it up. But we can do it. We have to do it if we want our children and grandchildren to live in a free country. Failure is not an option.
Glenn Kirschner:
Stormy Daniels testifies at Trump's criminal trial about details of intimate encounter with Trump
“What did...Trump's defense attorneys highlight by... arguing that Stormy Daniels' testimony was so bad, so harmful… ? they were highlighting the motive in the case, ...that Donald Trump really had a reason to make hush money payments... so it wouldn't hurt his chances of being elected in the 2016 presidential election.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EpSe5oA4dw
Was wondering about this too. Everything they were freaking out about just drives to motive to keep the information from the American people both now, before this election, and in 2016.