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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
as I have been saying for a while now: although computing brought us new general-purpose *tools*, AI brings us new forms of *agency*. we confuse the two at our peril.
“AI can process information by itself, and thereby replace humans in decision making. AI isn’t a tool—it’s an agent.”
— Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
https://a.co/6PULswa
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I am as guilty as anyone else in this. I let my very real past experiences of the good of individuals become a delusion of inevitability.
the moral arc of the Universe does not bend on its own.
“We should not assume that delusional networks are doomed to failure. If we want to prevent their triumph, we will have to do the hard work ourselves.”
— Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
https://a.co/c904k6y
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“While each individual human is typically interested in knowing the truth about themselves and the world, large networks bind members and create order by relying on fictions and fantasies.”
— Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
https://a.co/hDeTClk
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Our tendency to summon powers we cannot control stems not from individual psychology... The main argument of this book is that humankind gains enormous power by building large networks of cooperation, but the way these networks are built predisposes us to use that power unwisely. Our problem, then, is a network problem.”
— Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
https://a.co/fpyjfpE
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
More from the shoot.
📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Portra 160
🔭 Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
👤 Wife
⚗ Spieker Film Lab#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
freexian@hachyderm.io ("Freexian :debian:") wrote:
You can read about the Debian contributions made by Freexian Collaborators in October, now available at https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-10-2024/
Thanks to the organizations subscribing to our Long Term Support contracts (https://www.freexian.com/lts/) and consulting services (https://www.freexian.com/services/) who made this possible.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
This guy gets it, one of the better explanations of what many people are feeling right now.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I might be getting too real here, but:
Saying things like "this is all part of God's plan" and "God is in control" during a fascist uprising is just writing their propaganda for them.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
Some wingnut I've never spoken to before (or again (foreshadowing!)) accused me of living in an "echo chamber" because I block people.
Fuck the "echo chamber" discourse. I reject it entirely.I am not here to wear an ascetic's hair shirt because you think that surrounding myself with dickheads builds character.
Block early and block often. I expanded on this in some detail in my "On Blocking" post from a few years back, but it bears repeating. Especially now.
Mastodon FeedWrote a tiny, thumbor-eque remote-image resizer service in #rustlang.
Pay as-needed, and as little as possible were goals, so it runs on ARM64 Lambda, with lots of caching.
"Batteries included" (devenv, ITs), to make it easy to start hacking on. Includes example TF modules, to show deployment w/ CDN caching in layers etc. PRs welcome.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Spent most of my day on Threads pushing back against disinfo and election fraud conspiracies. 🙃
The conspiracies have spread to X and TikTok now. Bigger, more trustworthy accounts are just spreading baseless claims.
It’s like half of the libs are blue pilled and the other half are just sort of ignoring that it’s happening. I’m at a loss.
Mastodon FeedI'm either blind or this is a really tough one.
[No guessing mode, evil]
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
prehensile@assemblag.es ("Henry Cooke") wrote:
in addition to the ‘train wifi test’ (whereby anyone building a complex webapp with a heavy download upfront and a lot of data requests should be forced to use it on train wifi), I propose the ‘spirited children test’, whereby anyone building a kiosk system for public use should be forced to use it while managing two children under 10 with excitingly divergent needs and agendas.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Think of it like this— The right understands that Trump wants to burn it to the ground. That's the whole point. They hate the left so much that Trump is their revenge.
The fatal flaw in their logic is that they think they can control the direction of Trump's destruction.
If we know this, how can we then also believe that our revenge politics would be any different?
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Interesting how we've reserved zero vitriol for the moderate conservative who never showed up, but have no problem telling Latinos to have fun when they're deported.
And because there aren't many progressive Latine voices on the web, we'll just ignore it. Because we don't do anything about racism until we're embarrassed by it.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
We must strongly reject the American predilection for revenge politics, collective punishment, and conditional allyship.
This is from a Democratic strategist. It's almost gleeful.
This is not okay. We are losing ourselves to righteous indignation and justifying our darkest propensities with a false sense of justice.
I don't want to be associated with this type of rhetoric. Revenge is not a gun with a scope. It's a bomb loaded with shrapnel.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
This tech newsletter is very entry level tech stuff so maybe Mastodon is not the target audience per se.
But if you wanted to sign up to offer feedback, suggestions, or to even write a guest post, I would honestly love that.
My goal is to help non-techie folks navigate the internet, and understand the politics of it all, under the current circumstances. I believe, like many of you, a more tech-literate community is valuable.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
The United States is anti-Latino. There is no avoiding that fact, and yet, avoiding us is what makes this flavor of American racism so distinct.
This is something I've known for years, but this election cycle has really bubbled the issue to the top. I don't think it stops there.
Mastodon FeedMagnets are witchcraft and I won't accept another explanation.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I will accept no "why this happened" take that fails to acknowledge voters were misled into voting for the exact opposite of what they actually want.
It's utterly pointless to bikeshed policy and messaging when half the population clearly has zero ability to discern truth in the first place.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Pentagon officials discussing how to respond if Trump issues controversial orders
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/08/politics/pentagon-officials-discussing-trump?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypubPosted into Politics @politics-CNN
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
BeauBoboBonobo ("francefrance7@gmail.com :masto") wrote:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
eff ("Electronic Frontier Foundation") wrote:
The road ahead will not be easy, and some of it is not yet mapped out, but our work isn't a sprint—it's a marathon. EFF is not merely fighting against individual companies or elected officials or even specific administrations. We are fighting for you. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/2024-us-election-over-eff-ready-whats-next
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Unfortunately, our current situation is going to need a lot of heroes.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/08/witness-them/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
I worked at this company that had a shitty product. I'm sitting in a meeting with the leadership team and the Director of Engineering is going off on how customers are too stupid to understand the product.
So I interrupted him and gave a demo of our product which could have been titled why this product sucks. It was devastating. Even our own engineers couldn't correctly operate the product.
So you know what they did?
They fired me.
PS this a post about the Democratic party.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
bagder ("daniel:// stenberg://") wrote:
for educational purposes: https://hackerone.com/reports/2823554
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jeffowski@mastodon.world ("Church of Jeff") wrote:
#MAGA #TrumpEconomy #TrumpTariffs #InflationIsComing #YouGetWhatYouDeserve
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
jdp23@blahaj.zone ("Jon") wrote:
A deep dive into a specific example of racialized disinformation I'll seeing a lot of ...
#uspolRE: https://infosec.exchange/users/thenexusofprivacy/statuses/113449041226691510
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I miss when Matt Mullenweg was our biggest villain.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
ErickaSimone ("Ericka Simone") wrote:
Who knew the enshittification of the internet would lead to the enshittification of the entire planet.
