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molly0xfff

@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io

crypto researcher & critic, software engineer, wikipedian • https://indieweb.social/@web3isgreat creator • subscribe to my newsletter at http://citationneeded.news/
she/her • :QueerCat_Bisexual:

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ben, to random
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Stack Overflow announced that they are partnering with OpenAI, so I tried to delete my highest-rated answers.

Stack Overflow does not let you delete questions that have accepted answers and many upvotes because it would remove knowledge from the community.

So instead I changed my highest-rated answers to a protest message.

Within an hour mods had changed the questions back and suspended my account for 7 days.

Diff view of a stack overflow question showing it being changed from the original text to a protest message, then being changed back again by a mod. Protest text reads: Why does OpenAI get to profit from our work? I have removed this question in protest of Stack Overflow's decision to partner with OpenAI. This move steals the labour of everyone who contributed to Stack Overflow with no way to opt-out. OpenAI has a history of flooding the web with inaccurate information and have explicitly stated that they will never pay creators for their work.

ben,
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It's just a reminder that anything you post on any of these platforms can and will be used for profit. It's just a matter of time until all your messages on Discord, Twitter etc. are scraped, fed into a model and sold back to you.

molly0xfff, (edited ) to crypto
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I have a new article out today in Businessweek: "The State of Crypto Is Anything But Strong"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-05-02/crypto-is-anything-but-strong-right-now (paywall)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-05-02/crypto-is-anything-but-strong-right-now?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTcxNDc3MDkzMCwiZXhwIjoxNzE1Mzc1NzMwLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTQ1VQMFREV1JHRzAwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJBQjc4QTNBMDc1N0U0OTI0ODFCRUU5RDRCRjBDNERDNSJ9.q7mx4CRLXnaPaRk03IohbYerjFc5httVYyrugxZ5TE4 (gift link, good for seven days)

angusm, to random
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This excellent article by @molly0xfff reminded me of the sci-fi trope where everyone in the future lives in a domed bunker & gets told not to go outside because it's a wasteland filled with Bad People.

Of course the protagonists leave the dome & find that the reality is a bit different: outside can be scary, but it's not the hellscape they were told.

Big Tech walled gardens are the dome; outside them is a risky wonderland that’s ours for the taking.

Leave the dome.

https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/

mikeolson, to random
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@molly0xfff is one of my favorite cryptocurrency reporters -- insightful, timely and an excellent writer. Her new piece in Bloomberg is typically great:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-05-02/crypto-is-anything-but-strong-right-now?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTcxNDY2MzU0MSwiZXhwIjoxNzE1MjY4MzQxLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTQ1VQMFREV1JHRzAwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJBNUFCQzU4QkE0OEQ0RTQwQTVFNTYyRUVFMENFQThFNiJ9.J71mUeP37p8CUytI8s_WntmxxdzdrjkId4KBPBbeG3Q

(Long URL because it's a gift link with a seven-day fuse.)

Much of it is quotable, but I'll just pull this out:

"Crypto firms and their lobbyists love to threaten that a crackdown on the industry would stifle innovation. But what innovation has the sector produced?"

Indeed.

hannah, to accessibility
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Hi friends,

The http://alt-text.org alt text library project needs a new leader, because I have brain cancer.

I would like to connect with the dev community, something I have never figured out, probably in part for neurodivergence reasons. I want to hand the project off to a team or a leader if anyone is willing to take it over.

Github: https://github.com/alt-text-org
WIP MVP: a site designed for writing alt text with a private library: https://my.alt-text.org

Boosts appreciated

karabaic, to random
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Hey! US folks! Those noncompete clauses you signed? Just banned.

Celebrate!

Go work for a competitor. Go found your own competition.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/ftc-announces-rule-banning-noncompetes

rmondello, to random
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may TikTok radicalize an order of magnitude more people into demanding a more just world

nocontexttrek, to StarTrek
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Flipboard, to threads
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We've got new Dot Social podcast episodes coming with fediverse leaders, starting with @mike's conversation with Meta's @rklambo and @pcottle, two key people building . That one releases on Monday, followed by episodes with @snarfed.org@snarfed.org and @molly0xfff. Be sure to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Here's more info:

https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/dot-social-new-episodes/

pluralistic, to ai
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> I find my feelings about are actually pretty similar to my feelings about : they do a poor job of much of what people try to do with them, they can't do the things their creators claim they one day might, and many of the things they are well suited to do may not be altogether that beneficial. And while I do think that AI tools are more broadly useful than blockchains, they also come with similarly monstrous costs.

https://www.citationneeded.news/ai-isnt-useless-2/

pluralistic, to ai
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"The reality is you can't build a $100b industry around techn that's kind of useful, mostly in mundane ways, and that boasts perhaps small increases in productivity if and only if the people who use it fully understand its limitations.You certainly can't justify the kind of exploitation, extraction, and environmental cost the industry has been mostly getting away with, in part because people have believed lofty promises of someday changing the world."

https://www.citationneeded.news/ai-isnt-useless-2/

Sadsquatch, to random
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Honestly I owe Defector a subscription for this headline alone

https://defector.com/cybertruck-deliveries-halted-due-to-car-being-a-big-piece-of-shit-that-doesnt-work

themarkup, to random
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NEW TOOL: Students can connect to school Wi-Fi and monitor their #school’s #censorship in just a few clicks.

Share with a K-12 student in your life ⬇️
https://themarkup.org/digital-book-banning/2024/04/13/does-your-school-block-these-sites

wikipedia, to random
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nyaa~

anderseknert, to random
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"Solutions architect" no, I'm a problems architect.

ckoerner, to Wikipedia
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Great interview with @molly0xfff on how Wikipedia works and where it fits into our world. Top notch job! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wikipedia-is-all-the-web-has-left-ft-molly-white/id1730587238?i=1000651261895

erikcieslewicz, to random
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I think it was @molly0xfff that said eventually every tech sector idea will be revealed to be mechanical Turk, and well, here we are yet again: https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-1851381116

bolson, to random
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I was thinking about sending a few dollars to @molly0xfff like I do for NPR, and then I realized I want a "Web3 is Going Just Great" tote bag.

vosje62, to crypto Dutch
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Sam Bankman-Fried is going to prison. The crypto industry isn’t any better for it - The Guardian @molly0xfff
https://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/2024/mar/28/sam-bankman-fried-prison-crypto-regulation

Waiting for the next Crypto king to fall...

infobeautiful, to random
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It’s the 25th birthday of RSS today March 15th. 🎂 Here’s our feed: https://feeds.feedburner.com/InformationIsBeautiful

It's still the best way to consume the web. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS

annierau, to random
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in honor of women's day, here is an extremely incomplete list of fellow women on Wikipedia who are iconic to me

annierau,
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I could list dozens more off the top of my head. It is basically impossible to express how amazing gorillawarfare is. Same with Emily Temple Wood and Jess Wade and Rosiestep, who write biographies of women. Also shoutout to the anonymous lady who spent five hours straight writing about hamsters from her phone last weekend. Oh, and i love the California mom Jengod who unearths fascinating forgotten historical events from newspaper archives and puts them on Wikipedia. I could go on and on!!

theluddite, to random
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Reddit signed a deal with Google to use its data to train LLMs. To celebrate, we made a firefox extension that lets you replace all your comments with any text of your choosing. All we ask is that you not choose something copyrighted. The New York Times is currently suing OpenAI for training ChatGPT on its copyrighted material, and we wouldn't want Reddit's uniquely valuable data to become hopelessly intermingled with that of litigious copyright-holders.

https://theluddite.org/#!post/reddit-extension

Freyja, (edited ) to random
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-- English Version --

Hi everyone,

In case you're not aware, French-speaking Wikipedians are pushing some highly transphobic rules approved to ensure that all bios of trans people include their deadnames, even if they were unknown before their transition.
These rules have been approved by very few people, which shows a distinct lack of respect. Any voices that disagreed with them were silenced to such an extent that Wikipedian contributors were banned.

For example, in the case of Andrea Furet (French actress and Miss France contestant), who wasn't known before her transition, they published her deadname on French Wikipedia and refuse to remove it.

In any case, it is very dangerous for trans people to have their private information (the fact that they are trans and their deadnames are private information according to French law) exposed on the internet.
We don't want Wikipedia to be a doxxing site targeting trans people like Kiwifarms is. We want to protect trans people from harassment.

They are even pushing to misgender trans people in a future poll!

We tried to get Wikipedians to understand that this is not acceptable because it puts all trans people at risk.
We failed.

Now, we want to push this information to the Wikimedia Foundation and we need your help.
We believe that one email won't be enough for the Wikimedia Foundation to take a stand against what is happening in French Wikipedia.

You can use the template below to send an email to legal@wikimedia.org (legal department of the Wikimedia Foundation).

The email below is a suggestion, but feel free to adapt it to your needs.

Please help us reach the Wikimedia Foundation and make sure they are aware of the situation.

Many thanks to all trans people and allies who are willing to help us against the transphobia in Wikipedia

Retoots are sweat and please spread this message as much as possible (even on other social network platforms)

#WikipediaIsTransphobic

-- French Version follow / Version Française dans le prochain toot --

dangillmor, (edited ) to random
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An astounding Humble Bundle deal on @pluralistic books -- https://www.humblebundle.com/books/cory-doctorow-novel-collection-tor-books-books

Bonus: supports a great cause, the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

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