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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Apple's trying to scuttle PWAs out of pique, blame regulators for their tantrum, and gaslight users, businesses, and developers about who is breaking their apps and why.
It's bullshit, and @owa is fighting back. Join them by signing the open letter:
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
a vee of 30-40 geese just flew by overhead, gossiping away about the neighbors and how their day went
Mastodon FeedLobbying by the Big Borrow Checker is real:
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
@ia @reichenstein any desire to make a three hundred dollar word processor with a mechanical keyboard and sync to ia Writer/ iCloud?
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
chrisjrn@social.coop ("Christopher Neugebauer") wrote:
There appears to be people impersonating me on the internet to discredit my husband.
If you happen to notice "me" doing things odd or out of character online, please do let _me_ (here, or by my known email addresses) or Josh know.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
I can't afford a $500 "distraction free" word processor. But boy do I wish I could write on something that's not my work laptop.
Any clever recommendations?
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modrak_m@bayes.club ("Martin Modrák") wrote:
A nice little paper arguing that Chord diagrams are generally harder to understand than Sankney plots for the same data. Relevant for when people will next request the "nice circular diagrams" for a bioinformatics analysis: https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3544548.3581119
#hci #plots #bioinformatics
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Catlynn@nerdculture.de ("squirrelygirl") wrote:
The salvia gave us a surprise second bloom before I could cut it back. The hummingbirds are delighted! The garden bed is a battleground ⚔️
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
BlackAzizAnansi@mas.to ("Black Aziz Anansi :vm:") wrote:
So are we going to mass block Tumblr if they decide to federate?
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
randomgeek@hackers.town ("Random Geek") wrote:
Marking the day of Leonard Nimoy's passing on 2015-02-27 by remembering his greatest moment.
Bruno Mars - The Lazy Song (Official Alternative Video) - YouTube
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
It should be literally illegal to make something opt-out instead of opt-in.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("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?
https://www.404media.co/tumblr-and-wordpress-to-sell-users-data-to-train-ai-tools/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
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/
Mastodon FeedReblogged 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.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("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
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
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/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:
Assholes gonna asshole.
#SiliconValley #AI #surveillance #capitalism #PeopleFarming https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/112004850884204466
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("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.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("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.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
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.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Me when
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@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
Mastodon FeedReblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):
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.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("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.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@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.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
kaiarzheimer@fediscience.org ("Kai Arzheimer") wrote:
Reject them respectfully #xkcd
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
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.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@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.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
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
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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
