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4 months agoYeah these things are Rorschach amplifiers. It tells you a lot about the person writing the prompt.
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What are people still doing on the Internet? There are Nazis on the Internet.
Do you know how bars get filled with Nazis? Someone notices a Nazi and someone shrieks that everyone’s a Nazi and people leave and let the Nazis take over. It’s fighting the Nazis that keep the Nazis at bay, not running away from them.
2·4 months agoGenerally if it should be easy to find and you’re reading a shitty article, it can be easily found in believable sources.
I’m 99.9% certain the article is talking about ex-FBI agent Johnathan Buma. There are many articles about him, but I wasn’t aware of it (been tuning a lot of news out lately, tbh). All details match and he was very recently interviewed by ZDF (significant legit German news organization) for a new investigational documentary about Elon Musk. I posted it in a different comment that has video of some parts of the interview (English with German dubbed over top). There’s also a link to the full documentary. I started watching it but haven’t finished.
So odd that a lawsuit and bail is mentioned and yet no actual details. A variety of advocates and etc are supposedly outraged and up in arms etc. And yet no deets. Almost as if some website with Kiev in the domain might be spewing bullshit against Russia. Definitely doesn’t smell like desperate LLM bullshit.
It’s still up 55% vs one year ago. Yeah it’s fallen from its post-election run up which peaked around the new year, but frankly it just looks like it’s gone back to pre-election value and trend.
I keep seeing this analogy and unfortunately that’s not how email servers work so it never really helps honestly. The servers are the To: fields, not the From: fields. And there’s also no real analogy about privacy. With most email providers the intent isn’t that everyone reads everyone else’s email. So frankly I really don’t know what insight this is supposed to provide if it doesn’t behave like email.
And there’s a big safety difference. With something like Bluesky you have to trust the server admins to behave. With ActivityPub you have to trust each and every user of the service. Which is why server admins get shirty about whether they will forward messages to or from other servers. That whole situation doesn’t really exist with email. It’s not like you have create a Hotmail account because Gmail has decided to defederate with Google or whatever.
Doist is very much remote work and there were a lot of stories about them and how they operate during the pandemic because they had been doing it for so long. Global headquarters are in Portugal and CEO lives/works from Italy from what I can tell. They have offices/legal presence in many countries.
Founder/CEO was born in Bosnia, grew up in Denmark, started todoist during college, used a startup incubator in Chile, later moved headquarters to Portugal, now gives lots of talks about internet entrepreneurship in EU.
The Supreme Court is currently working on cases that are about overturning precident that allows administrative agencies to make policy that strays from the letter of the law. So my guess is Meta lawyers see a chance to say “there is no federal law that prohibits making profit off children, so this administrative rule is unconstitutional”. Something like that (I am not a lawyer).
Generally the logic is that once the fetus has reached viability (i.e. capable of being removed and continuing life without the mother), then acts that result in death of the fetus are no longer necessary nor morally valid. It is reasonable to expect the fetus to be removed from the mother and provided life support at that stage.
The two women told detective Ben McBride of the Norfolk, Nebraska Police Division that they’d discussed the matter on Facebook Messenger
… why would they do that?
Overall, I can see liking this. But mostly I think the summaries should be public.
In general the problem with moderators is they can be fairly partisan. I don’t know if it’s still the case after the whole API … thing, but certain groups of moderators had access to bots that did what is essentially equivalent to the sort of thing. What tended to happen is the good mods would become overwhelmed and bring on a “power mod” and the powermod has secret axes to grind and political agendas that they bring with them into the sub.
Another problem I generally had with reddit towards the end of my serious engagement there is that a lot of things reported to admin started being evaluated by non-American English speakers who don’t have the cultural context to understand sharp turns of phrase and plays on idioms. Americans would understand the words mean the opposite of what they literally say, but you can’t expect ESL overseas contractors to understand these nuances. So I would be concerned that AI is similar… except for the fact that it’s not really a change from the status quo.
Would be nice if we also had AI summaries of moderator behavior and if these were visible to everyone. I wouldn’t be surprised if admin have (or soon will have) access to AI summaries of moderator activity and behavior. So that might be another shoe to drop. I can see it can be good if it improves modding for the good mods who just want to build communities. Basically it might reduce the need for the powermod protection racket.