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

“websites can now add licensing and royalty terms to their robots.txt file”

(because everyone pays such close attention to robots.txt files, amirite?)

https://front-end.social/@zeldman/115458036408246571

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
faraiwe@mstdn.social ("Faraiwe") wrote:

Tr00, all of them.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thetnholler.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("The Tennessee Holler ") wrote:

TAPPER: “Trump hosted a Gatsby-themed party while SNAP runs out — I’ve heard Republicans even express concern about the optics…” BESSENT: “Obama played more golf than any president.” (NOT TRUE 🤥 )@jaketapper.bsky.social : *does not push back on the lie*🤔

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MikeTRose@saturation.social ("Mike Rose") wrote:

Pro tip, the Airdrop “bump to send” feature is very handy when a bystander snaps a photo of, say, you hugging your marathon-running stepsister

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
BBC@c.im ("BBC News") wrote:

#BBC Shein accused of selling childlike sex dolls in France https://w.st/4M4M

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

Maybe instead of *talking about* Nigerian Christians, we should *listen to* Nigerian Christians?

It's a moral failing to let your fear of terrorism lead you down the road to Islamaphobia, or prevent you from speaking up for Muslim children.

Nigerian British rapper Santan Dave:

[CW: cursing audio]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CNdyxgi2ZfU

We don't need to rehash how over-educated Nigerians are. If you have an advanced degree from a top US university then you met some of these Nigerians. Some Christian, some Muslim.

Boko Haram killed more people than either ISIS or Al Qaeda. Boko Haram literally means "Western Education is forbidden"

Nigeria drove down the violence of Boko Haram without villifying Islam in general, or resorting to ethnic cleansing. They've been down that dark path in the country's history before, and it leads nowhere good.

Nigeria also drove down maritime piracy. It used to have more piracy than Somalia.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

And you know who is also lobbying Congress for AI licenses? The CEO of the largest AI company in the world, Sam Altman.

Because if licenses are applied, then Altman can work on his AI monopoly.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230519123712/https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/openai-chief-goes-before-us-congress-to-propose-licenses-for-building-ai

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:"):
box464 ("Box464") wrote:

Another fediverse related Signal Chat sticker set added to #FediMerch - the @neatnik mascot, Prami. These are free to download.

https://signal.art/addstickers/#pack%5Fid=7eca6973ac2128b5c3133b1dc4e9b2fa&pack%5Fkey=ebc0fd467fbadc0d6aa07cca46d1d5d13727e01da80dca1baf0737b4c130ff0c

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Control AI is lobbying the US Congress but I cannot find any information on who is funding the organization. Anyone have any insight?

https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/lobbyists?cycle=2024&id=F329222&u

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

And there you have it: #ControlAI wants the government to issue AI licenses so that only the largest tech firms can control the technology. It's #RegulatoryCapture and for some reason Hank Green is swept up in the hype.

https://controlai.com/dip

#AI #OpenAI #ChatGPT

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
sleepless@social.lol ("Courtney") wrote:

@fromjason This AI was trained on ethically sourced, fully-organic knowledge–straight from the farm. Make sure you look for our seal of approval to ensure freshness!

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

In his YouTube, Hank Green links to an organization called Control AI which has advisors from AI companies.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Hank Green applying sentience to AI and warning of AGI. This doesn't seem great.

I mean, it makes sense, Hank is very much in his white-guy tech bubble like he is in his white-guy political bubble.

Still, Hank has access to a lot of non-tech savvy people, and he's parroting talking point that tech CEOs love to hear. It would be great if he made room to platform someone like @timnitGebru to his audience.

#AGI #AI #OpenAI

https://youtu.be/90C3XVjUMqE?si=zHzHiAoQb3q1T9e8

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

It's things like this that make me dread going back to the classroom in January.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/02/i-dont-know-if-im-ready-to-teach-genetics-again/

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

I suspect this is at least in part the attraction to Mamdani in NYC: He's a positive presence who wants good (and progressive) things for his city, and that's certainly a more appealing message than what either Cuomo or Silva are offering right now.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/02/dutch-voters-positivity-liberals-patriotism-d66-netherlands-election

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Tattie@eldritch.cafe ("Tattierantula 🎃") wrote:

Do you know stage magicians say that more educated people are easier to fool, not less?

I think about that a lot.

LLMs are the perfect yes-men, giving the user exactly what they expect to see, making them feel clever and special.

When studying my degree I came up with all these tricks to distinguish in a Turing test whether I was talking to a real intelligence or a fake one. I'm no longer certain I couldn't be charmed into thinking the AI had passed these when it hadn't.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

This resonates with me SO STRONGLY. They took our revolution and turned it into Surveillance Stalinism, farming our emotional outrage to harvest advertising dollars and burn the planet as a side-effect.
https://hachyderm.io/@datarama/115479982892174664

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
DrJosh9000@cloudisland.nz ("Joshua") wrote:

Why is it "making the bed" and not "ensheetification"?

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
elena@aseachange.com ("Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂") wrote:

Dear Fedi friends,

If you can set aside 11 minutes today, I highly encourage to watch @vkc's latest video: "I stream nothing, and I am happy."

🔗​: https://tinkerbetter.tube/w/ns3WDZZgAoe1SfrDCAUrni

It is ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT and should be shown in media literacy and digital literacy classes everywhere. Actually, everyone should watch it (I'm about to send it to my family and friends).

My favorite part comes up towards the end. Veronica eloquently explains (9 min 27 sec in):

"I feel like we owe it to ourselves and to those who follow us to try and break free of algorithms, which tell us what we should like, who we should believe, and how we should feel about it.

It may sound melodramatic and maybe it is, but I see the increased dependence on algorithmically-driven entertainment as a symptom of that larger problem: uber-convenience that separates us from our critical thinking.

We're learning to abandon reason for small decisions, and wouldn't you know it, now it's easier to ignore reasons for the larger ones.

I'm not here to tell you what to think. I was raised in a "mind-your-own-damn-business" household and that's where my head is at. But I do want to implore all of us to think critically about how streaming media, autoplay, and the algorithm are impacting us."

I'm super proud to be a backer of her Patreon and I cannot thank her enough for this incredible video... which comes at the perfect time, as I was already planning to set up #Jellyfin next week.

If you can, join me in supporting Veronica's work here: https://www.patreon.com/VeronicaExplains

#DigitalLiteracy #BigTech #SelfHosting #independence #resist #MediaLiteracy

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
Walrus@toot.wales ("Walrus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿") wrote:

@ChrisMayLA6

Polanski: Here are some good things we can do for everyone!

Pharage: Give me money, and hate brown people!

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us ("Emeritus Prof Christopher May") wrote:

There's an old saying in Political Science that democracy is really mostly about voting against things, not for them.... and (sadly) while this may often be the case, pragmatically, it leads to a hollowing out of democracy:

We voted against Farage/ReformUK, we go the current unimpressive Labour Govt.;

We voted against the status-quo & we got the self-harming Brexit.. and so on.

What would be better would be if we could vote *for* a positive change in politics...

#politics #democracy

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
AlisonCreekside@mstdn.ca ("Alison Creekside") wrote:

Marxism 101 ...

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

Get ready!

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
ghostrunner@hachyderm.io ("Ghostrunner") wrote:

#politics #meme

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.

This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.

Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

https://blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/attention-authors-updated-practice-for-review-articles-and-position-papers-in-arxiv-cs-category/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org ("Brewster Kahle") wrote:

"An urgent warning about the open web’s shrinking commons"

Vint Cerf,Cindy Cohn,Jon Stokes (ars technica),and me. a take:

"remake the connective tissue—technical, legal, and economic—that made the web an engine for learning and civic life.

Keep the network interoperable.

Safeguard libraries.

Restore competition.

If the open web can still be a place where truth moves farther and faster than lies, the next chapter can still be written with those principles in mind."

https://www.findarticles.com/an-urgent-warning-about-the-open-webs-shrinking-commons/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
vmbrasseur@social.vmbrasseur.com ("VM (Vicky) Brasseur") wrote:

"The technologist, one of the winners of the 2025 Right Livelihood Award, promotes the social use of technology — a mission that has led her to develop, among other projects, a system to combat online child sexual abuse"

https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-11-02/audrey-tang-hacker-and-taiwanese-digital-minister-ai-is-a-parasite-that-fosters-polarization.html

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
wingo ("Andy Wingo") wrote:

it has been a while, but whoo, new bloggery: "wastrel, a profligate implementation of webassembly" https://wingolog.org/archives/2025/10/30/wastrel-a-profligate-implementation-of-webassembly

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

TIL 5G (+/SA) is fast as hell.

https://www.speedtest.net/result/i/6820463528

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

I'm Kimie Shimizu in her monster form, from Silent Hill F for tonight.