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Martin Nadal (@muimota@tldr.nettime.org)
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Attached: 1 image #Threads blocks #EU residents from posting using #activitypub / #mastodon protocol.
#eu #meta #block #threads #threats
19h ago
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Jean Peters (@jean@tldr.nettime.org)
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Vor genau einem Jahr war ich Undercover in Potsdam, auf die Minute genau jetzt lief ich am Vortrag von Martin Sellner vorbei. Bis heute zweifeln viele daran, was wir danach aufgeschrieben haben. Und währenddessen verabschiedet die AfD in Bayern eine Remigrations Resolution und in Aachen wird...
7h ago
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Miguel Afonso Caetano (@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org)
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"Microsoft Office, like many companies in recent months, has slyly turned on an “opt-out” feature that scrapes your Word and Excel documents to train its internal AI systems. This setting is turned on by default, and you have to manually uncheck a box in order to opt out. If you are a writer...
on Sun, 6AM
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metronaut (@metronaut@tldr.nettime.org)
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Bluesky schickt sich gerade an als Info- und Debattennetzwerk dem toxischen X/Twitter den Rang abzulaufen. Sehr schade, dass die freie und offene Alternative Mastodon mit ihrer kleingärtnerhaften Schnarchnasigkeit, partiellen Politikfeindlichkeit, fehlender Suchfunktion und nervtötender...
on Fri, 7AM
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Miguel Afonso Caetano (@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org)
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"Why are rural voters more likely to support radical right parties? This paper examines the mechanisms behind the relationship between living in a rural area and supporting the Portuguese radical-right party Chega. Portugal's radical right is an interesting case study, not only because of its...
on Sat, 3PM
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tante (@tante@tldr.nettime.org)
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"The dream of a decentralized internet isn’t inherently wrong, but waiting for it to materialize as a universal solution is a mistake. Laws—not utopian ideals—are the only way to ensure that users everywhere have the protections they deserve." (Original title: Self-Hosting Isn't a Solution;...
on Fri, 9PM
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tante (@tante@tldr.nettime.org)
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"Justine's views in unrelated areas are not relevant to this article." And that is a problem Tech (corporate and Open Source/Free Software!) needs to fix: It absolutely matters that Justine Tunney uses antisemitic and racist dogwhistles as project names, that she publicly argued for fascist...
on Fri, 7PM
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Miguel Afonso Caetano (@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org)
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"Niantic, the company behind the extremely popular augmented reality mobile games Pokémon Go and Ingress, announced that it is using data collected by its millions of players to create an AI model that can navigate the physical world. In a blog post published last week, first spotted by...
on Thu, 12AM
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tante (@tante@tldr.nettime.org)
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"Remember that nobody has yet worked out how to make an actual profit from AI. So what if — God forbid — number stops going up? There’s a plan for that: large data center holders will go public as soon as possible and dump on retail investors, who will be left holding the bag when the bubble...
on Wed, 12PM
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Miguel Afonso Caetano (@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org)
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"An AI-generated nude photo scandal has shut down a Pennsylvania private school. On Monday, classes were canceled after parents forced leaders to either resign or face a lawsuit potentially seeking criminal penalties and accusing the school of skipping mandatory reporting of the harmful...
on Tue, 10PM
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tante (@tante@tldr.nettime.org)
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I gotta give a presentation/keynote on "my process" (for thinking about tech) and it's weird how self-conscious this whole experience makes me. Like it's really hard to focus on what it is and not feeling like a big pretentious asshole.
on Tue, 7PM
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tante (@tante@tldr.nettime.org)
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It's time for the myth that #AI can summarize things to die. "Apple Intelligence notification summaries are honestly pretty bad Summaries are often wrong, usually odd, sometimes funny, rarely helpful." (Original title: Apple Intelligence notification summaries are honestly pretty bad) ...
on Tue, 4PM
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tante (@tante@tldr.nettime.org)
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As things currently look, I think Mastodon as a piece of software is holding back the Fediverse more than it's helping. It is an impressive piece of software and I totally understand the limitations the project works under (very small budget, very high responsibility for stability given it's...
on Nov 18
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Jean Peters (@jean@tldr.nettime.org)
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Wir werden alles tun, damit das Gutachten zur Hochstufung der AfD nach allen presseethischen Regeln veröffentlicht wird. Es ist eine besondere Situation, und ich will sie euch kurz erklären:
on Nov 18
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Caspar C. Mierau (@leitmedium@tldr.nettime.org)
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Dass es ein Angriffsvektor ist, QR-Codes zu überkleben und KundenInnen auf Phishing-Seiten zu lenken, war klar. Den Begriff Quishing kannte ich noch nicht. https://www.golem.de/news/quishing-falsche-qr-codes-von-easypark-aufgetaucht-2411-190854.html
on Nov 17
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Miguel Afonso Caetano (@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org)
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"Not only did Kamala and company spend all $1 billion it had in the bank, but it ended up $20 million in the red, with staffers saying they hadn’t gotten paid for work done from previous months. (It’s rumored that ’90s pop queen Alanis Morissette got cut from a rally roster because the...
on Nov 17
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Miguel Afonso Caetano (@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org)
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"ProPublica reviewed Trump’s proposed budgets from 2018 to 2021, as well as regulations that he attempted to enact or revise via his cabinet agencies, including the departments of Labor, Housing and Urban Development, and Health and Human Services, and also quasi-independent agencies like the...
on Nov 17
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Michael Aschauer (@mash@tldr.nettime.org)
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I just created a small AI experiment - in collaboration with AI. It generates an endless chain of images, where each image is generated based on an AI's description of the previous image— an AI playing "Telephone Pictionary" by itself. Most interestingly, I barely wrote any code or texts...
on Nov 14
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tante (@tante@tldr.nettime.org)
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So instead of writing on the book chapter I have to hand in next week I thought a bit about "progress" and "the future" and the complain that "the left" has no vision for progress. (There's als a post-hardcore cover of a hardcore-punk song in there #culture...
on Nov 14
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tom jennings (@tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org)
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I truly hate video on the Internet. Not the presence of s file type I can look at, but the idea that it's a generally useful mode of presenting general information. IT IS REALLY HARD TO MAKE GOOD VIDEO. It's slow and brain-bandwidth consuming. It's ambiguous, precisely why it is used. It's...
on Nov 14
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tante (@tante@tldr.nettime.org)
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The most confusing thing about the AI push is that we just accepted that this fancy new tech is so bad that every product comes with a "everything this thing generates might be wrong and it is upon you to check". Bad products that externalize all the risks and problems to the user. And we just...
on Nov 13
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tante (@tante@tldr.nettime.org)
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Anthropic hired an "AI welfare researcher" to "explore whether we might have moral obligations to AI systems". This right there is the dumbest shit I have read in months. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having thought about it. ...
on Nov 12
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tante (@tante@tldr.nettime.org)
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https://www.codastory.com/stayonthestory/nursing-ai-hospitals-robots-capture/ "I’m a neurology ICU nurse. The creep of AI in our hospitals terrifies me" This interview confirms all the things I have been going on about for the last year. "I don’t think the goal is really to provide a safety...
on Nov 12
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felix stalder (@festal@tldr.nettime.org)
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Patriarchy's visions are becoming ever more extreme. Surpassing even Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. "Women “would have their uteruses removed when they turn over 30,” Naoki Hyakuta, leader of the Conservative Party of Japan, said in a stream on his YouTube channel on Friday. On the channel, he...
on Nov 11
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Miguel Afonso Caetano (@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org)
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"Law enforcement officers are warning other officials and forensic experts that iPhones which have been stored securely for forensic examination are somehow rebooting themselves, returning the devices to a state that makes them much harder to unlock, according to a law enforcement document...
on Nov 8
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ted byfield (@tb@tldr.nettime.org)
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[1/2] I don’t like writing in this tone, which even to my own ear sounds like a cacophony of paranoid white-guy strategery. I’ll look for a new style, but for now... I’m getting a very strong sense that most people have no idea what’s coming — and by “most people” I don’t mean “them,” I mean...
on Nov 8
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metronaut (@metronaut@tldr.nettime.org)
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Das wird skurril, wenn die Bundesregierung, staatliche Institutionen und der Bundeskanzler demnächst auf der privaten Plattform eines US-Regierungsvertreters Verlautbarungen versenden. Digitale Souveränität geht irgendwie anders.
on Nov 6
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tante (@tante@tldr.nettime.org)
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Today more than on most days remember: When people show you who they are, believe them. Those who lick fascist boot today will never support you.
on Nov 6
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tante (@tante@tldr.nettime.org)
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For those who don't know: This is the CEO of Vercel, a major player in the JavaScript ecosystem. https://hachyderm.io/@joelanman/113437102479692781
on Nov 6
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Miguel Afonso Caetano (@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org)
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"When Musk took over, in 2022, there were initial reports that hate speech (anti-Black and anti-Semitic slurs) was surging on the platform. By December of that year, one research group described the increase in hate speech as “unprecedented.” And it seems to only have gotten worse. There are far...
on Nov 6
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tante (@tante@tldr.nettime.org)
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It's cute that this software supply chain attack on NPM directly targets Ethereum users who are supposed to check every smart contract they want to interact with to protect themselves but don't seem to use the same rigour when checking code they include. (Original title: Hundreds of code...
on Nov 5
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Miguel Afonso Caetano (@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org)
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"In fact, the big theme of Microsoft's "Growth Mindset" appears to be "learn everything you can, say yes to everything, then give credit to somebody else." While this may in theory sound positive — a selflessness that benefits the greater whole — it inevitably, based on conversations with...
on Nov 5
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tante (@tante@tldr.nettime.org)
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"Disposable vapes are indefensible. Many, or maybe most, of them contain rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, but manufacturers prefer to sell new ones. More than 260 million vape batteries are estimated to enter the trash stream every year in the UK alone. Vapers and vape makers are simply...
on Nov 5
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tante (@tante@tldr.nettime.org)
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You remember how in my talk at #rp24 I predicted "Quantum (computing)" to be the hype that takes over when AI deflates? It's starting. https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/113420632062766066
on Nov 4
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Miguel Afonso Caetano (@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org)
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"Large language models (LLMs) are trained on vast amounts of data to generate natural language, enabling them to perform tasks like text summarization and question answering. These models have become popular in artificial intelligence (AI) assistants like ChatGPT and already play an influential...
on Nov 3
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Miguel Afonso Caetano (@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org)
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"if AI evangelists can convince us that AGI is possible, imminent, and dangerous, we might be compelled to entrust our fate to them. Hype and doom, in other words, are two sides of the same (bit)coin. “AI safety” principles, teams, and initiatives are proliferating in part to hoard power and...
on Nov 2
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tante (@tante@tldr.nettime.org)
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One thing that I hate about MacOS is that CMD+Tab does not cycle through windows of an application. Navigating windows is so fucking clunky on this machine. (Please do not tell me about your favourite Window manager, my personal machines have run different flavours of Linux for more than 20...
on Nov 1
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tante (@tante@tldr.nettime.org)
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"Matt Mullenweg says Automattic is ‘very short-staffed’ amid WordPress vs. WP Engine drama" MAYBE THAT IS THE CONSEQUENCE OF YOU DIPSHIT FIRING EVERYONE WHO'S NOT A FUCKING SYCOPHANT? Goddammit. What a...
on Oct 31
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tante (@tante@tldr.nettime.org)
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Another Masto Instance going down. But not because moderation or something but because running bigger instances on Mastodon gets really expensive. I think this is an issue that we need to put more work into: Not just finding better ways to sustainably fund the operation of instances but also...
on Oct 30
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felix stalder (@festal@tldr.nettime.org)
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We can imagine a future that requires less "compute" than today to provide the services we actually need?
on Oct 28
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tante (@tante@tldr.nettime.org)
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I wrote a few days ago how the OSI's new "Open Source AI" definition is not open source (and that "open source AI" basically doesn't exist for larger systems) (https://tante.cc/2024/10/16/does-open-source-ai-really-exist/) Now OSI really wants to keep pushing it and started collecting corporate...
on Oct 28
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felix stalder (@festal@tldr.nettime.org)
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Fascinating article about the as yet unpredictable changes AI brings to complex knowledge work. Here the case of radiology. The early predictions of displacement of humans by machines have not come to pass (though, as always, they have simply been pushed into the future). For me, this is the...
on Oct 26
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tante (@tante@tldr.nettime.org)
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Given that Microsoft owns VSCode, Github, NPM and basically Typescript I do really not feel comfortable building using any of those.
on Oct 25
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tante (@tante@tldr.nettime.org)
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On the other hand: Mastodon's funding situation ain't great either which is one of the many reasons the platform isn't developing as quickly as many would like it to. 20k/month from Patreon doesn't really pay for a lot of work. Mastodon needs a lot more cash as well to clean up their code base...
on Oct 24
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tante (@tante@tldr.nettime.org)
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What's going on over at Bluesky? Oh they fundraised and got a whole bunch of money from a blockchain investor who has money in basically ever fucked up scam you have heard of. Great. https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2024-series-a
on Oct 24
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tante (@tante@tldr.nettime.org)
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Matt Mullenweg just told all of us who host our own Wordpress to fuck off basically. Quote: “Mr. Mullenweg has no contracts, agreements, or obligation to provide WP Engine access to the network and resources of WordPress.org. WP Engine points to no terms, conditions, or permissions that...
on Oct 24
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recyclism (@recyclism@tldr.nettime.org)
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1 Post, 120 Following, 8 Followers ·
on Oct 21
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tante (@tante@tldr.nettime.org)
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Just read the OSI "Open Source AI Definition" (https://opensource.org/deepdive/drafts/the-open-source-ai-definition-1-0-rc1) It's basically pointless but the best part is: Data information needs to include: "a detailed description of all data used for training, including (if used) of unshareable...
on Oct 17
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tante (@tante@tldr.nettime.org)
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If you have a process that reasonably can be replaced by an LLM you either don't fully understand the process (like working on a text is not superfluous but the act of thinking) or that process should not exist.
on Oct 17
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tante (@tante@tldr.nettime.org)
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"At least two WordPress open-source project contributors—Javier Casares and Andrew Hutchings—posted on X that they’ve been kicked out of the WordPress community Slack after questioning Mullenweg’s actions." Matt Mullenweg is not fit to lead anything Wordpress related (Original title: ‘The...
on Oct 10