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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/
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molly0xfff, to Bitcoin
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finally, the runes project has brought memecoins to the blockchain. at long last, we can finally buy PEPE•WIT•HONKERS

BrilliantIdiot, to random
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@molly0xfff

Oh, one last thing I just thought of. I promise I'll shut up.

I'm listening to the article while looking over the screenshots and stuff. I'm enjoying interacting with the article this way, but I know I might be in the minority.

My only minor gripe is that if I want to stop and really read over something, I have to scroll all the way to the top of the page to pause the audio, then scroll back down to find my place, read, then scroll up again to restart it.

Floating media player?

molly0xfff,
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@BrilliantIdiot thanks for the suggestion, and i'm glad you're enjoying it! in the meantime the audio versions are also available in podcast players if it would be easier to have it open there for listening (or you could also have two tabs)

https://www.citationneeded.news/podcast/

molly0xfff, to Bitcoin
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happy halving to all who celebrate

molly0xfff, to random
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it is extremely funny to me that a lot of the people who want to slash or repeal are the same people condemning 's Katherine Maher for her past comments they think are "anti-First Amendment"

molly0xfff,
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in those comments she is actually describing the free speech protections afforded by Section 230 (although Rufo et al have ignored where she said those protections were "very important" and instead spun her comments as though she was criticizing it)

slashing or repealing 230 is the real anti-free speech issue here; certainly not Maher's comments supporting it

molly0xfff, (edited ) to Wikipedia
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In this video, I also go into the idea of "verifiability, not truth" — a philosophy that is controversial both on- and off-wiki.

https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/112295872084954257

molly0xfff,
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@Ooze you'd think by now i might be able to thread a post properly....

https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/112295872084954257

molly0xfff, to random
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A campaign against 's new CEO, ex- Foundation Katherine Maher, is trying to portray her as "anti-truth" and "anti-First Amendment" by taking quotes out of context from her past talks about Wikimedia. As a longtime Wikipedian, I think I can give a little more context about these statements — but I recognize that the people behind this campaign are, ironically, not looking for the facts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFkL4ME-8dQ

molly0xfff,
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@LALegault @trabern who wanted journalists to work for free?

molly0xfff, to random
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just dug up a book i made when i was five. not too much has changed.

molly0xfff,
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@doug i was on that grind

molly0xfff,
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@sashin vaguely! i remember the little kit to make it, which had pages where you had to draw within the bleed lines. then you sent it off and they printed it up. i think it was a birthday gift or something

molly0xfff,
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@halfbyte molly is love, molly is life

molly0xfff,
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@oxi the former, although the idea of a five year old who loves poe is a fun one

molly0xfff,
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@deflockcom my kindergarten teacher used to have me do her typing 😅

molly0xfff,
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@funcrunch the first computer i remember was an early macintosh. i distinctly remember playing "tink!tonk! castle clobber", which points to it having been an Apple II

molly0xfff,
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@Mewness I think I wrote it!

molly0xfff, to random
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was briefly baffled by this CAPTCHA until i realized it was asking me to identify the animal that was bigger than the other animals in the picture, not the animal that, in real life, is bigger than roughly 1cm

we are rapidly approaching the point at which CAPTCHAs clever enough to keep the bots out are too confusing for the humans

molly0xfff,
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@ke7zum i was confused because all of these animals are bigger than ~1cm in real life

molly0xfff,
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@mysignal my VPN was off, but i was using incognito mode

molly0xfff, to ArtificialIntelligence
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I spent a long time experimenting with AI before finally writing about it in depth. It can be pretty useful — but is it worth it?

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

molly0xfff,
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@krinkle my first thought was "oh god, someone's going to clip this and use it out of context for god knows what" 😂

molly0xfff,
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@virtualinanity 100%

molly0xfff,
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@mjack there has been some of that! but generally not with LLMs

https://www.sciencealert.com/machine-learning-uncovers-new-ways-to-kill-bacteria-with-non-antibiotic-drugs

molly0xfff,
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@TimWardCam indeed, and i have a footnote in the first sentence clarifying the terminology i use throughout the piece

molly0xfff,
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@craiggrannell I've found Claude to be far better than ChatGPT at proofreading. Not perfect, but it doesn't try to point out "errors" that don't exist in the original as much as ChatGPT.

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