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MMRnmd@todon.eu ("MMR Nmd") wrote:

At least 9 #Google employees, were arrested Tuesday after staging sit-ins at the company’s offices in #NewYork and in California to protest the tech giant’s work with Israel.
The sit-ins, organized by the activist group No Tech for Apartheid, took place at Google Cloud CEO #Kurian office in Sunnyvale, California, and the 10th floor commons of Google’s NY office.

Protesters are calling for Google to withdraw from a $1.2 billion contract to provide cloud computing services to the Israeli government, known as Project Nimbus.
Last week, Time magazine reported Google’s work on the project involves providing direct services to the Israeli military.

The sit-ins were accompanied by outdoor protests at the Google offices, in NY and in #Sunnyvale, #SanFrancisco and #Seattle.
Workers and outside activists have opposed the contract since it was signed in 2021, but protests have ramped up over the past several months since Israel’s latest bombardment of Gaza.

#NoTechForApartheid says #Google is enabling and profiting from Israel’s use of AI to develop a “kill list” to target Palestinians in #Gaza for assassination with little human oversight.
The #IDF also uses #GooglePhotos for #facialrecognition across Gaza and the #WestBank to identify and detain Palestinians en masse.

https://video.liberta.vip/w/1xFxBw4QgDUzr3ekMMbbHX

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

okay, I love this

https://robidev.github.io/CyberSquirrelOne/

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

every time I think about Herr Trump trying to write off his hush-money payoff as a deductible legal expense, I want to spit. in the end, he wanted my taxes to pay for hiding his misdeeds.

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eff ("Electronic Frontier Foundation") wrote:

We need your help! Call your senators and tell them to vote NO on reauthorizing and expanding Section 702. https://eff.org/risaa

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cabel@panic.com ("Cabel Sasser") wrote:

Is it extremely petty to set a calendar reminder for one year out, just to prove that you were right about a crypto-based domain name system being useless grift?

Yes.

Did I still do it?

Y… yes

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Wouldn't it be cool if there was an annual blogger awards? I would nominate all of you

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

In your estimation, how many #Threads users have opted-in to the #fediverse?

(Trying this again as I messed up then first one)

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ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

This was an incredibly fun episode of Oxide and Friends. Not our usual beat, but baseball and the local community are near and dear to me, @bcantrill, and @sdtuck. Even if you're not a baseball fan and you're not a Bay Area local I think you'll have fun with us talking to the founders of the the Oakland Ballers. https://share.transistor.fm/s/a8b34a66

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

"but better DX gives us more time to focus on the user experience"

https://www.webpagetest.org/video/compare.php?tests=240417_AiDc0P_HX5%2C240417_AiDcKP_HRG&thumbSize=200&ival=100&end=visual

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cassidy@blaede.family ("Cassidy James :eos: :gg: :fh:") wrote:

Facebook’s “AI” is responding to posts pretending to be human; in this case claiming to have a gifted and disabled child who attends a NYC school.

How many other accounts are actually large language models masquerading as people? This seems incredibly irresponsible—and is a great reminder that “AI” is machines mindlessly regurgitating things from elsewhere on the Internet.

AI is not sustainable.

https://www.404media.co/facebooks-ai-told-parents-group-it-has-a-disabled-child/

Via @jasonkoebler for @404mediaco

#AI #LLM #LLMs #Meta #Facebook

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thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange ("The Nexus of Privacy") wrote:

A few more potential reasons:

- PDS's are expected to prohibit illegal content. So if your content's illegal in one jurisdiction you'll want to switch to a PDS in another jurisdiction -- or one that doesn't enforce the rules.

- Relays can block PDSs, for example because that are sources of illegal content or spam. So if you're on a PDS that's blockd by the official Bluesky Relay, there's incentive to move elsewhere.

- PDS's could also take down content that's not illegal. Sure they say that PDSs infrastructure so moderation shouldn't be opinionated, but in practice some PDS operators may not want to host hate speech, disinformation, or other harmful-but-not-illegal content.

- They mention in the white paper that they expect PDS's to be operated by experienced hosting companies. How many hosting companies keep their initially-free services free long term? So that may well be another reason to move.

@fromjason @xepher

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

#Bloggers, specifically those with single-author blogs, how much do you worry about SEO?

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lokigwyn@mastodon.art ("Loki Gwynbleidd 🏴🎨😷") wrote:

Let's go robin the rich ! 🔫
The illegalist robin, a model dating back to 2021, has been modified but is as angry as ever!

If you like this print, it's available to buy from https://boutique.lokipropagand.art.
It's also available to download (along with the first version) from https://partage.lokipropagand.art!

#FediArt #MastoArt #FediGiftShop #Linocut #Birds #Robin #Anticapitalism #Anarchy

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nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

Every time I worry that I'm actually getting dumber as time goes on, it turns out that I'm just becoming increasingly aware of my own stupidity, and, paradoxically, becoming less dumb! This is confirmed by looking at my past work and realizing that I could do better today.

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researchfairy@scholar.social ("The research fairy") wrote:

Here's the kind of AI regulation they don't want and will never suggest:

A limit on the kWh and also the kg of carbon expended per million user queries on AI services along with third party verification for both the numerator and denominator of that fraction and jail time for violating the limit, regardless of whether it was intentional or not

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verge ("The Verge") wrote:

Third-party iPhone app store AltStore PAL is now live in Europe https://www.theverge.com/24100464/altstore-pal-dma-eu-launch-delta-nintendo-emulator-clip-clipboard-manager

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

A company named OpenAI sells closed software, Humane sells artificial intelligence, BlueSky develops proprietary protocols.

🙃🙃🙃

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agiletortoise ("Greg Pierce") wrote:

Interesting Safari fun fact I just discovered: If you name a bookmark folder with *only* an emoji and no text, the Bookmark Bar will hide the folder icon beside it, making for nice compact drop-down menus.

Now, if there was just a way for me to use SF Symbols.

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

As a proud, well-documented Siri hater, I'm cautiously optimistic about the rumored LLM-powered Siri 2.0.

I'm particularly excited at the prospect of a beefier AirPods model— much needed improved mics, maybe some Vision Pro gestures added, or a charging case with some computing power.

Ah but I dream. I'll be happy if Siri+ can hold a conversation.

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mhoye wrote:

Since I see that a notable VC-famous jerk is now telling us that he wish he'd "stood by" Eich way back, I'd like to tell you a true fact: Eich didn't lose the CEO's job for his (reprehensible) Prop-8 donation.

Everyone wants to believe that's true, because fits nicely into useful narratives a number of invested camps want to champion, whether it's somebody being ousted for reprehensible views or the woke SJW mob somehow pulling down a great leader (tm) but that's not what happened.

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bascule@mas.to ("Tony Arcieri 🌹🦀") wrote:

In the late 2000s/early 2010s I thought if more people simply knew about FISA warrantless surveillance it could be stopped.

Perhaps the Supreme Court would strike it down as unconstitutional, in violation of the 4th Amendment.

Turns out nobody cares, and they're about to make it a lot worse. And as for the Supreme Court, well...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/16/house-fisa-government-surveillance-senate

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

ah yup

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infosecrodney@infosec.exchange ("Infosec Rodney Dangerfield") wrote:

I heard a joke about blockchain. I'm still waiting for enough confirmations to know if it's funny.

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404mediaco ("404 Media") wrote:

A spy site is scraping users' Discord messages and activity across servers and selling them to anyone with $5:

https://www.404media.co/a-spy-site-is-scraping-discord-and-selling-users-messages/

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

Don't debate creationists, flat-earthers, and astrologers -- it just makes them richer, and they'll all claim victory anyway. 🧪

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/04/17/is-astrology-low-hanging-fruit-how-about-creationism/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM5qBRwU5EU

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

PC Gaming is a ruthlessly difficult game where your reward for beating it is getting to play an actual video game.

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

Feeling pretty nostalgic for a time when I could just sit down and enjoy a piece of tech without being forced to spend 45 minutes debugging and troubleshooting it first

(often only to end up in an obscure support thread where people have been steadily posting for 2+ years with no fix from the company—which just did layoffs, by the way).

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

The woman in this comic is clearly a Republican.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/04/17/its-a-joke-i-worry-that-some-will-take-it-seriously/

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

I've changed my mind twice now. Is that enough for the rest of my life?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/04/17/two-amendments/

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davep@infosec.exchange ("David Penfold :verified:") wrote:

Amazing article:

“The reason websites continue to load, bank transfers go through, and civilization persists is because of the thousand or so people living aboard 20-some ships stationed around the world, who race to fix each cable as soon as it breaks”

https://www.theverge.com/c/24070570/internet-cables-undersea-deep-repair-ships