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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 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, to random
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really upsetting to see former Wikimedia Foundation director and CEO Katherine Maher getting targeted by the rightwing outrage machine in her new role as NPR CEO. she's wonderful, and NPR is lucky to have her. i hope they stand behind her.

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in a better world, this would prompt some self-reflection at the new york times

molly0xfff, to random
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it's interesting how the "let the markets decide" guys so often seem to think critics shouldn't factor into that decisionmaking at all

molly0xfff,
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throwback to the time Anthony Scaramucci said this about me lol

molly0xfff,
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@mike Daniel Vassallo is the guy who got mad at a YouTuber for panning the Humane AI pin

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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When I boil it down, I find my feelings about AI are actually pretty similar to my feelings about blockchains.

molly0xfff,
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But the reality is that you can't build a hundred-billion-dollar industry around a technology 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. And you certainly can't justify the kind of exploitation, extraction, and environmental cost that the industry has been mostly getting away with, in part because people have believed their lofty promises of someday changing the world.

molly0xfff,
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molly0xfff,
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@tinyrabbit only when i forget to hit the publish button 😅 up now.

molly0xfff,
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@LeoRJorge yeah, you may have noticed the instructions I gave around proofreading had to include very explicit instructions to just proofread, not rewrite it in that godawful GPT "voice". i imagine something similar is necessary when trying to get it to help with English

molly0xfff,
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@BartWronski thanks for the link, looking forward to reading it

molly0xfff,
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@Dr_Von2 hi! shoot me an email with the tier you're hoping for and i can give you a GBP payment link. molly@mollywhite.net

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%

tessala, to random
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Can I ask you a personal question @molly0xfff — ?

How do you manage your cross posting across mastodon and twitter? Is there a tool that does this for you that you endorse? Or are you manually cross posting (surely not) or did you build your own tool (seems possible) to do it?

molly0xfff,
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@tessala mostly a tool i built: https://www.mollywhite.net/feed

though i do occasionally manually crosspost if needed (the tool is new and i haven't worked out all the bugs yet)

molly0xfff,
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@tessala correct!

kellogh, to random
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who among you goes by “cyber boss” as a job title? https://www.axios.com/2024/04/16/joe-sullivan-breachrx-security-executives

molly0xfff,
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@kellogh me

molly0xfff, to random
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i am so over the web design trend where every piece of text on the page has to animate in

A webpage for a "Noble" crypto project, where each piece of text slides into view on scroll

molly0xfff,
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no difference, btw

molly0xfff,
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@ggpsv https://github.com/molly/web3-is-going-great/blob/53cdeeb5feb3605041791cf1e49738811361b46a/src/styles/_fixed-at-bottom.sass#L94 😉

molly0xfff,
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@tmr232 :blobfoxrage:

molly0xfff,
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@wooliex yeah, my sites might look overly simple and perhaps a little retro but they work without javascript, won't make you motion sick, and are accessible!

molly0xfff,
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@bujiraso wacky waving inflatable arm flailing web-content is my new term for this, thank you

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