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crowgirl@hachyderm.io ("Kim Crawley (she/her) 😷") wrote:
"If nine experts in privacy can't understand what Microsoft does with your data, what chance does the average person have? That's why we're asking Microsoft to say if they're going to use our personal data to train its AI."
Please sign and share. #infosec
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
[AI.com](https://ai.com) now forwards to a Youtube video by tech journalist Marques Brownlee (MKBHD). The video is about Open AI's new text-to-video service Sora.
The domain might be owned by Elon Musk? But its hard to say? Reports on ownership are unclear, and rely on the fact that AI.com once forwarded to X.ai.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
I hope one day we can recontextualize social media away from the "Marketplace of Ideas" paradigm.
Not every digital space needs to be a market. Not every person on the web needs to be a point of extraction for a corporate balance sheet.
Long live the #SmallWeb 🎉
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
xandra@tilde.zone ("alexandra") wrote:
my stupid mastodon app was not working as i was out of town, but the 32-bit cafe is expanding our #smallweb community into another platform as well as discord. keeping our community in a walled garden is not what we wanted to do.
so 4 days ago, we launched https://discourse.32bit.cafe!
took a lot of work and planning, but we got it done thanks to the help of our amazing staff and beta testers! if you've wanted to interact with us or the community and didn't really want to hop on discord, we totally understand and had you in mind for this. hope to see you there, if you're interested in joining a group of hobbyists who want to build up the independent web in a positive and encouraging environment :)
#indieweb #webdev #webcommunity #community #internet #webdesign #web #openweb #cozyweb #personalweb
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
vegetablegremlin@jorts.horse ("Vegetable Gremlin ⍼👻") wrote:
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Me: Doc I'm suspicious of compliments
Therapist: do you not think you're worthy of compliments? Because you are.
Me: the fuck is that supposed to mean
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
Really really enjoyed this 2016 @aparrish talk on "Lossy text compression" which packs a lot of fascinating insights into 12 minutes https://youtube.com/watch?v=meovx9OqWJc
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange ("The Nexus of Privacy") wrote:
If you're an admin or a moderator, have you seen any spam as a report?
That's right, another poll in the series starting here! The first two polls were for everybody, this one's just for admins and moderators who are having to deal with the spam.
Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
No Oxide and Friends today, but @ahl and I will be back next week with -- as one of our fans on HN put it -- "a ton of rambling at times"
Mastodon Feedrust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:
The results of the Annual Rust Survey of 2023 are now available!
Check out the results in the blog post: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/02/19/2023-Rust-Annual-Survey-2023-results.html
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
The year is 2034. You're playing your favorite VR game, Ditch Diggers.
#Meta CEO announces a new android that digs ditches faster and cheaper than humans.
"No one could've predicted this," exclaims the glowing orb that follows you everywhere and logs your movements.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Three high school girls murdered this person. There needs to be justice here.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/19/a-death-in-a-high-school-restroom/
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
It me
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Apparently, Frontiers journals don't actually review the papers they are sent.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Reddit Is Said to Sign AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO https://archive.ph/caW1Y:
> The San Francisco-based firm told prospective investors in its IPO that it had signed the deal, worth about $60 million on an annualized basis, earlier this year, the people said. Reddit’s agreement with an unnamed large AI company could be a model for future contracts of a similar nature, ...
Regardless of the order we publish, we do not own our content if it lives on for-profit platforms. #SmallWeb
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
somcak@cutie.city ("somcak :cat_sleep: :cat_ooh:") wrote:
I have had skin cancer surgeries in 2 countries: the U.S., with "hope you can afford the deductible" insurance, and Portugal with single-payer/universal/socialized medicine.
In the U.S. (in 2001): Notice growth on ear. Call to see primary care. Get into appointment 2 days later. Get a referral to a dermatologist. Wait 2 weeks for the insurance company to approve referral. Get into dermatologist 1 week later and have a biopsy. The biopsy showed it was squamous cell carcinoma, a type of cancer usually found in folks over 60 (I was 23 or 24). Dermatologist puts in for an approval for surgery which is denied twice over 3 weeks because “the biopsy was wrong.” Get in 2 days later for another biopsy, which, surprise!, shows it really is squamous cell carcinoma. After another week of wrangling with the insurance company, we finally get approval for surgery. Surgery is scheduled for 1 week later. So, from noticing the growth to surgery about 8 weeks.
In Portugal (5 years later): Notice growth on ear. I call primary care and am transferred to the dermatologist. Get same day appointment. Dermatologist looks at it, picks up the phone and calls the plastic surgeon. We walk down the hall to the plastic surgeon. Both doctors consult their schedules, and I’m scheduled for surgery 2 days later. So, from noticing the growth on the ear to surgery about 2 days.
Again, to show you the difference: In the U.S. without universal healthcare, about $1000 out-of-pocket and 8 weeks until surgery. In Portugal with universal healthcare, about $60 out-of-pocket and 2 days until surgery.
When Congress says we can’t afford universal healthcare, they are saying, “We can’t afford to not make the insurance companies money because they fund our campaigns.” It isn’t about the best interest of Americans, it’s about their own best interest.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
dthompson@toot.cat ("dave") wrote:
Haunt 0.3.0 is out! first release in 2 years! https://dthompson.us/posts/haunt-0-3-0-released.html
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Dutch evangelicals invade Texas, get spanked. Don't mess with Texas.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
MnemosyneSinger@kolektiva.social ("the happy leftist") wrote:
Today in the USA we celebrate the Presidents of the United States of America, who in 1996 gave us millions of peaches, peaches for free.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Creationists hate being "woke".
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/19/martyn-iles-clarifies-a-few-things/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
brianbilston@mastodon.online ("Brian Bilston") wrote:
Today’s poem is a love poem.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
enkiv2@eldritch.cafe ("𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][e") wrote:
A week of not using a search engine https://neilzone.co.uk/2024/01/a-week-of-not-using-a-search-engine/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:
She dutifully gave the talk on the project as is, complete with the rug pull at the end: “Here’s our results! They’re so broken! Look, it learned the bias in our dataset! Surprise!“ It got an audible reaction from the audience. People •loved• her talk.
I wish there had been some HR folks at her talk.
Train an AI on your discriminatory hiring practices, and guess what it learns? That should be a rhetorical question, but I’ll spell it out: it learns how to infer the gender of applicants.
5/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
ThermiteBeGiants@aus.social ("Thermite Be Giants") wrote:
Americans wondering how on earth all the Taylor Swift fans got to last week’s concert at the Melbourne Cricket Ground when there’s no sea of car parking next to the stadium:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
Little bit of the Geek Social Fallacies, too. @fromjason
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/growth-at-any-cost-top-facebook-executive-defended-data
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Oh shit is #microblog down?
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
babe@glitterkitten.co.uk ("tiddy roosevelt") wrote:
I can see the current spam attack taking out a lot of hobbyist instances for good. I've seen mentions of it already
Reputational damage and defedations lead to people giving up as it is, for less than this, but with potential to be impacted by increased costs because of it is insult to injury, and that could be pretty hefty if they only log in occasionally.
I've always been a champion for the little guys on here, I think we need more tiny communities, so it's really sad to see all this
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
jalcine@todon.eu ("jacky") wrote:
This is applicable for any and every online group: FediForum, the IndieWeb, SmallWeb, Gemini, all of them. They suffer from a (imo) libertarian sense that if you know the problem then you must solve it. And that shit is so fucking entitled. I've been rattling around on something in a more pointed and cited way but God knows if I will have the willpower to finish it because truly: what does it matter in the grand scheme of shit?
Like AP/AT all still have hard ties to systems that require higher access to capital, obsess over Western systems of thought (and language and discourse) and I'm aggressively bored of it. If I wanted that, I wouldn't have deleted my Twitter account.
