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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

“I’m not sure why some of you are getting worked up or worried about this. It’s totally legal, and sharing it publicly is perfectly fine since it’s right there in the terms & conditions. So, go ahead and spread the word as much as you can with your friends and tech journalists, it’s totally fine.”

What's happening here? Did all the open web tech bros take the same class in gaslighting?

#Fediverse #OpenWeb #SmallWeb

https://www.404media.co/tumblr-and-wordpress-to-sell-users-data-to-train-ai-tools/

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noellemitchell@mstdn.social ("Noelle :verified:") wrote:

Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools

"Tumblr and Wordpress are preparing to sell user data to Midjourney and OpenAI, according to a source with internal knowledge about the deals and internal documentation referring to the deals."

#tech #news #AI #OpenAI #WordPress #Tumblr #Midjourney #data

https://www.404media.co/tumblr-and-wordpress-to-sell-users-data-to-train-ai-tools/

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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

tristansnell@mstdn.social ("Tristan Snell") wrote:

In Alabama, a roofing company illegally hired a 15-year-old.

On his first day, he fell 50 feet down, fractured his skull, and died.

All per US Department of Labor proceedings — fining the company $117,175.

It should be 10 times that.

THIS is why we need child labor laws.

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

So, we as regular people who write and make content, have to suck it up when our work is scraped, analyzed, and synthesized.

But somehow, magically, the companies that provide our blogging platforms have enough leverage to sell our work to OpenAI.

Oh, the gaslighting just around the corner will be fun.

From: @404mediaco
https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/112004850884204466

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404mediaco ("404 Media") wrote:

NEW: Tumblr and Wordpress are preparing to sell user data to Midjourney and OpenAI, according to internal documentation we've reviewed

https://www.404media.co/tumblr-and-wordpress-to-sell-users-data-to-train-ai-tools/

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aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Assholes gonna asshole.

#SiliconValley #AI #surveillance #capitalism #PeopleFarming https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/112004850884204466

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

I know #DataPortability seems like a win for the consumer. And it can be, so long as the cloud computing oligopoly aren't the ones writing the spec. But they are. They have.

Google and Meta need the "open web" so that AWS customers can port themselves over to their respective future offerings.

Once the power shifts, #Google and #Meta will change the rules again. This story is as old as time.

Stop entering into good faith negotiations with the scorpion.

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Wake me up when Meta and Google advocate for our ability to port purchased media from one platform to the next.

Until then, #DataPortability is a self-serving initiative for 2 of the Big Four cloud computing behemoths. It's a red herring that helps loosen Amazon's grip on the cloud market.

Right now, #Amazon maintains its dominance by making it hard and expensive to use competing cloud services.

#Google's fate is wrapped in its ability to dominate the cloud. #Meta has its own interests.

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ieure@retro.social ("cop ululation") wrote:

What I’m listening to today: "Diana Ross - Fool For Your Love."

It’s Diana Ross. Lead singer of The Supremes, a Motown band that broke through to the mainstream and paved the way for countless other Black musicians to do the same. Extraordinarily successful solo artist, for decades. An absolute icon.

Guessing you can name several songs of hers, from either or both of her solo career or her time in The Supremes, but you’ve probably never heard her like this before. This is "Fool For Your Love," off her 1982 "Silk Electric" album. This is a very eclectic album, much more than you might expect, and is a great showcase of her range. It touches on pop-R&B, as you might expect, but also doo-wop ("So Close"), ambient/experimental ("Turn Me Over," the last song on the A-side, which prompts the listener to flip the record), disco ("Who"), reggae ("I Am Me"), and this song, which is hard rock bordering on heavy metal. It’s so unexpected, and it rocks super hard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhKBQ7wkHxs

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Me when

From: @pooh
https://botsin.space/@pooh/112004570467096217

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“video game” design & development is about to take a really interesting turn

“Our results suggest that scaling video generation models is a promising path towards building general purpose simulators of the physical world.”

https://openai.com/research/video-generation-models-as-world-simulators

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lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com ("Lili Saintcrow") wrote:

Fuck’s sake, stop being shitheels and just love your kids. That’s your only job, so fucking do it.

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Attached to Technology and Paying a Price - The NYT (2010) https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/technology/07brain.html:

> He goes to sleep with a laptop or iPhone on his chest, and when he wakes, he goes online. He and Mrs. Campbell, 39, head to the tidy kitchen in their four-bedroom hillside rental in Orinda, an affluent suburb of San Francisco, where she makes breakfast and watches a TV news feed in the corner of the computer screen while he uses the rest of the monitor to check his e-mail.

All this seems so quaint now.

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Their name is Blue. "But they're ORANGE," you might say. That's because they're still a teenager, they won't come into their glorious blue color until adulthood.

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kaiarzheimer@fediscience.org ("Kai Arzheimer") wrote:

Reject them respectfully #xkcd

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chargrille@progressives.social ("Erin Conroy") wrote:

Honestly, I cannot believe what a bunch of weak-minded cowards these people are.

(I'm seeing this on Twitterx & Bluesky btw, not here, though I do see a lot of people here just...ignoring that AN ACTIVE DUTY soldier set himself on fire in protest of US foreign policy. That has NEVER happened in all of US history to my knowledge. This is a really big fucking deal.)

If this was our leadership team during WWII, we would have rolled over to Hitler without a fight.

I cannot believe my eyes.

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Tuesdays are a feeding day in the lab. Most of the spiders are feeling the winter blues, but not our greenbottle blue tarantula, who was ravenous & ate two mealworms, one after the other.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/99315640?pr=true

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aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Hey folks,

@laura is looking for a new gig after three years at Stately. She’s a designer and front-end developer who writes, gives talks, makes videos, and has been doing a fair bit of dev/design advocacy recently.

Her approach is best summed up in her book, Accessibility for Everyone (https://abookapart.com/products/accessibility-for-everyone) and her talk on building tech that respects our rights https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F5CvwioUy40

https://mastodon.laurakalbag.com/@laura/111998200065274945

#getfFediHired #web #design #development #accessibility

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infobeautiful@vis.social ("Information Is Beautiful") wrote:

Guess what % of plastics have ever been #recycled? No prizes :(

And guess who knew about it all the time?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/15/recycling-plastics-producers-report

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cwebber@octodon.social ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

Want to hack Scheme and Guile and WebAssembly and build the bridge that will enable Spritely Goblins to live in the browser via Spritely Hoot? Well then good news, because we're looking for a half-time contractor for 6 months! https://spritely.institute/jobs/Contract-WASM-integration.html

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dangrsmind@sfba.social wrote:

https://www.al.com/news/2024/02/explosive-device-detonates-outside-alabama-attorney-general-steve-marshalls-office.html

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collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

https://nuejs.org/blog/tailwind-vs-semantic-css/

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

the idea the whole conversational context chain has to be shipped back & forth & retokenized over & over again just horrifies me

#GPT4 #Rust

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samhenrigold@hachyderm.io ("sam henri gold") wrote:

little fun fact for PMs considering adding this to their product: if i’m viewing a website in a browser, chances are i want to view the website in a browser. thanks!! 🙏

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collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

1970s: humor is dumb
1980s: humor is gross
1990s: humor is weird
2000s: we forgot what humor was so we just did awkward instead
2010s: humor is memes
2020s: humor is either the dumbest dad joke you've ever seen or something so dark it gets its own therapy session

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helenczerski@fediscience.org ("Helen Czerski") wrote:

Ooh, I've just seen the final schedule of sessions for the FullyCharged & Everything Electric LONDON show on March 28th, 29th and 30th: https://uk.everythingelectric.show/london and we have a FANTASTIC show for you. We'll be covering all the big questions about the future of energy and transport, with lots of new topics and amazing exhibitors. And it's definitely not just about cars - plenty of home energy, micromobility and society-level stuff. Do join us!

#energy #London #climate #electric

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sil ("Stuart Langridge") wrote:

Apple are breaking web apps in the EU, because they don't want them and so don't want anyone else to have them either. If this affects you, maybe you want to sign up to our open letter to Tim Cook from @owa and the web community who don't want to see this happen, and think they'll listen. Sabotaging web apps is indefensible. And pass it on. Even Batman agrees, look.

https://letter.open-web-advocacy.org

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gericci@indieweb.social ("Angela "Ge" Ricci") wrote:

Almost 35 years ago, the Cern and Tim Berners-Lee made the web a common good; they gain 0 money for that.
Today, Apple wants to sabotage the progress of the web for pure greed.

Sign now the open letter to Tim Cook: https://letter.open-web-advocacy.org/

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owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

Open Letter to Tim Cook: Sabotaging Web Apps is Indefensible

🔨 Apple breaking EU Web Apps in < 7 days
😢 Many companies will be bankrupted / severely hurt
🌎 This does global damage to the web

👉 Sign Now: https://letter.open-web-advocacy.org/

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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Not bad, Japan. Not half bad.

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