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(he/him) Aging tech nerd, living in Silicon Valley. I'm an avid hiker and geocacher.

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GottaLaff , to Random stuff
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farmworker diagnosed with bird flu, becoming 2nd US case tied to dairy cows https://apnews.com/article/cacf56984b328ff2b2f94883b20f5272

not2b ,
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@GottaLaff And many farmers are trying to hide their infected animals, which is only going to make the problem worse.

GossiTheDog , to Random stuff
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Slack have decided to start training AI on enterprise customer data, including DMs, private workspaces and files. You have to have admin opt out via email. HT @Quinnypig

https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/trust/data-management/privacy-principles

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@GossiTheDog @Quinnypig So, if someone asks a specific question of an LLM trained with Slack data (including DMs) and the question is answered in DMs but nowhere else, the LLM will spit out that confidential answer? Remember, these things are just auto complete on steroids. The reason they appear to "know" things is because it is in the training data.

GottaLaff , to Random stuff
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🧵starts HERE.

Remember: I cannot reply while live-posting, so plz use NFL (Not For Laffy.. no hashtag) so I can skip your replies. THANK YOU.

Running a little late, so some preamble included here.

1/… Via Rupar: Trump wraps up his morning rant by attacking one of the prosecutors, Colangelo, which is a flagrant violation of his gag order

not2b ,
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@GottaLaff @ottawasteph Can the defense get another shot after the re-direct? This could go on for a while.

dangillmor , to Random stuff
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Play-by-play Trump trial coverage, with so-called analysis of whether the prosecution or the defense has "scored points" -- the staple of Big Journalism right now -- is the equivalent of horse-race political coverage.

All it takes are stenographic skills and the ability to make confident-sounding guesses. It's clickbait and ratings bait, and it does nothing good for public understanding.

not2b ,
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@dangillmor Nevertheless, since the trial isn't televised and even audio is not available, these reports are all that we get. So, I am ok with reports from stenographers.

GottaLaff , to Random stuff
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🧵starts HERE.

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1/…More color from Pagliery:

Eric Trump just swapped seats with Rep. Donalds just in time for the congressman to appear in photos behind Trump's defense table.

That's what this trial is now for Trump, a political photo opp.

More...

not2b ,
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@GottaLaff NFL: how embarrassing for McB. After a description of how Trump and Cohen used Maggie Haberman as a tool, his response is "use me too!". Access journalism is pathetic.

Teri_Kanefield , to Random stuff
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When the prosecution rests in the Manhattan case, I plan to read the transcripts so far looking for evidence that supports the elements of particular crimes.

This is my thing: Reading trial transcripts. My job was reading trial transcripts looking for appealable errors.

Shall I tell you my favorite moment in a transcript?

The defendant (yes, my client) walked in to court with baggy pants. The judge (a woman) was offended and angry. She thought the defendant was disrespecting her.

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not2b ,
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@Teri_Kanefield My daughter interned for the county public defender's office as part of her paralegal degree program. One of her tasks was to pick out suitable clothes for defendants to wear in court (in cases where a defendant headed straight from jail to court, maybe some others as well); the office kept suitable clothing in various sizes for that purpose. I didn't know that she was preventing fashion felonies.

georgetakei , to Random stuff
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Fair point!

not2b ,
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@georgetakei Italian food with no tomatoes. Thai food with no peppers. Hard to imagine.

GottaLaff , to Random stuff
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Pete McCloskey, a California congressman who raised a flag of rebellion against President Richard M. Nixon’s war policies in Vietnam with a spirited but futile race for the Republican presidential nomination in 1972, died on Wednesday at his home in Winters, Calif., west of Sacramento. He was 96.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/us/politics/pete-mccloskey-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

not2b ,
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@GottaLaff I am old enough to remember when there were Republicans who were to the left of most Southern Democrats (and when some Southern Democrats were segregationists and they hadn't become Republicans yet). Mac Mathias of Maryland was one of them that I remember.

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@GottaLaff Yes, in the 60s and early 70s there were really four parties: southern vs northern Democrats, and Rockefeller vs Goldwater Republicans. That's why they could "work across the aisle" then.

dangillmor , to Random stuff
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Stack Overflow joins Twitter and Reddit in demonstrating control-freak contempt for the people who made the platform what it is.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

The company will probably get away with it, because people seem unable to fight back in effective ways, at least in numbers that make a difference.

not2b ,
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@dangillmor At least the users who made the platform what it is can withhold further contributions, which will mean that the value will rapidly stagnate. Fewer people will contribute new answers, and since AI submissions are now allowed, new answers will be low quality or wrong. Many existing answers will soon be out of date. But perhaps the Stack Overflow owners don't care; they can get a payout now, and if what they are selling turns rapidly into a lemon that's a future problem, or someone else's problem.

indivisibleteam , to Random stuff
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The MAGA justices on the Supreme Court may believe they operate with impunity, but they're mistaken: Our senators possess the power to hold this corrupt SCOTUS accountable and restore faith in our judiciary. As the highest court in our country deliberates on cases that impact the lives and freedoms of millions, the Senate needs to hear from us. https://act.indivisible.org/letter/email-your-member-congress-and-tell-them-hold-corrupt-supreme-court-accountable?source=mastodon&medium=directpost

not2b ,
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@indivisibleteam The Constitution gives Congress the power to control which cases the Supreme Court can take on appeal. It seems that they could use that power to impose conflict-of-interest rules with real teeth, requiring that the Supreme Court not take a case unless members with conflicts (as laid out very specifically in the law) recuse themselves. So, in a case involving Jan 6 or Harlan Crow or Leonard Leo, justices whose spouse was involved or took big money would be forced to recuse.

GottaLaff , to Random stuff
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1/…

Tyler McBrien::

Necheles rises to renew Trump's objection to Daniels testifying about any "sexual details," which she says has no relevance and is prejudicial.
By details, Merchan asks, more than just "we had sex"? Yes, Necheles says.

not2b ,
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@GottaLaff NFL They'll ask for a mistrial but the judge is no pushover. If the prosecution went over the line in his opinion he would have stopped it. He sustained some defense objections. And while IANAL, I don't see why a mistrial makes sense: in a trial that is about disguised payments to cover up a sexual encounter, the prosecution had the audacity to provide evidence that there was a sexual encounter?

arstechnica , to Random stuff
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Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose

TunnelVision vulnerability has existed since 2002 and may already be known to attackers.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/05/novel-attack-against-virtually-all-vpn-apps-neuters-their-entire-purpose/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

not2b ,
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@arstechnica It seems that this attack isn't an issue for people working from home and using a corporate VPN, or using a VPN to pretend to be in another country to get access to media, because the attacker has to control DHCP on the home network, and if they can do that the user has worse problems than just with their VPN. It could make it unsafe to access sensitive work sites from a coffee shop if I understand correctly.

ZachWeinersmith , to Random stuff
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Our 10-year-old Greek mythology enthusiast, just now after she said an inch worm was going to bite us and we said it wouldn't:

"I feel like I'm a CASSANDRA here"

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@ZachWeinersmith And of course you don't believe her.

GottaLaff , to Random stuff
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Good. Hurry up.

The coalition of Democratic groups that pressured No Labels out of the 2024 contest is now turning its sights on .
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/03/bidens-allies-move-to-sink-rfk-jr-00156113

not2b ,
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@GottaLaff They don't need to push him out of the race; it suffices to damage him with non-conservatives while promoting him to the antivax types. That way he draws votes away from Trump. Paint him as the whacko he is and then few will vote for him; only the whackos would would otherwise vote for Trump choose him instead.

arstechnica , to Random stuff
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DEA to reclassify marijuana as a lower-risk drug, reports say

Marijuana to move from Schedule 1, the most dangerous drug group, to Schedule 3.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/dea-to-reclassify-marijuana-as-a-lower-risk-drug-reports-say/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

not2b ,
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@arstechnica Long overdue.

georgetakei , to Random stuff
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What do you think of his comments here, folks? https://www.comicsands.com/jerry-seinfeld-comedy-pc-left-2668091275.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

not2b ,
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@georgetakei I think he is confused about who the culprits are for things getting more boring and vanilla. It isn't "the extreme left", which has no power. It is a smaller and smaller group of corporate execs who are unwilling to take risks. But what the execs are worried about isn't "someone might be offended" as much as "this is different from what we have done before, we are afraid it won't work". So they keep doing the same thing over and over.

molly0xfff , to Random stuff
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If you've ever found yourself missing the "good old days" of the , what is it that you miss? (Interpret "it" broadly: specific websites? types of activities? feelings? etc.) And approximately when were those good old days?

No wrong answers — I'm working on an article and wanted to get some outside thoughts.

not2b ,
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@molly0xfff I miss the days when, as others have said, Google was working really well, and when there were lots of good quality blogs, rather than social media, dominating the conversation and while Facebook and Twitter existed they hadn't taken over. The late aughts (say, 15 years ago), looked very good compared with what we have now. RSS was the mechanism I used to keep track of everything and I could choose my own feed.

parismarx , to Random stuff
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Kara Swisher literally helped build up these billionaires to the point where they can threaten us with fascism, and now she’s trying to pretend that she’s the one providing a big warning to the world. It boils my blood.

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@parismarx She has certainly sucked up to them to get stories, but no, she had nothing to do with building them up. It was their money that did that and she was just an observer and sometimes a cheerleader. If she didn't exist nothing would have changed.

mondoweiss , to israel group
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For months World Central Kitchen leadership censored material coming out of its Gaza operation and refused to honor staff concerns about our work there. They are finally taking a stand after personnel were killed but it is much too late.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/i-resigned-from-the-world-central-kitchen-because-it-refused-to-tell-the-truth-about-the-israeli-genocide-in-gaza/


@palestine @israel

not2b ,
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@mondoweiss @palestine @israel I still support them (financially) because they are feeding people. They made the judgment back then that not criticizing Israel would let them continue to feed people, and they found out the hard way that they were wrong about that. After that they were open and direct about what happened. But their hearts are in the right place all along and they are trying to do good.

Gargron , to Random stuff
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Me, feeding 2 people and 2 cats on a 60k EUR salary without benefits (because technically self-employed), reading those comments that claim a 501(c)(3) is some kind of nefarious scheme to hide money 😐

not2b ,
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@Gargron As an American, I am looking forward to contributing to the 501c3 and supporting Mastodon in that way. I know that more resources are needed and want to help. Please post enough details so I can contribute money, have not seen that yet. Perhaps, though, you could reassure people if you could pledge that Mastodon will not get involved with some of the sketchier things Biz Stone has pushed (cryptocurrency and blockchain).

Mastodon , to Random stuff
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forms new 501(c)(3) non-profit entity with new board of directors in the United States to facilitate tax-deductible donations and in-kind support:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/mastodon-forms-new-u.s.-non-profit/

not2b ,
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@Mastodon Please provide information on how to contribute, I couldn't find any in the article.

w7voa , to Random stuff
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Mastodon forms new US non-profit, announces CEO / Founder @Gargron. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/mastodon-forms-new-u.s.-non-profit/

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@w7voa @Gargron I don't see any info here on how to donate to the nonprofit. Is that because it isn't set up yet?

GottaLaff , to Random stuff
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Via Andrew Weissmann said this last night. These are creative, and hopefully potentially effective, options:

options in addition to fine/jail:

  • put a monitor over his use of social media posts
  • hold sentence on a contempt finding until after trial over
  • advise Trump that his contempt of gag order can be considered at sentencing upon conviction.

All can be used by Judge Merchan.

not2b ,
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@GottaLaff The difficulty is that if penalties don't kick in until after the trial, he can continue to use jury intimidation and witness intimidation to assure a hung jury. I think consequences need to kick in sooner. First fine him. It it persists, and is really blatant, he can spend one of his Wednesday breaks in jail.

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@GottaLaff Yes, but he said the other consequences beyond fines could wait until after the trial and I don't think it can wait, at least not if Trump keeps attacking witnesses and the jury.

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Obviously there is nothing "pro-life" about the Supreme Court debating whether states can order doctors to let women die rather than provide a life-saving abortion in a medical emergency. I can't believe this even needs to be said.

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@rbreich And what happened to the Supremacy Clause? My understanding is that when federal and state law conflict, federal law triumphs unless the federal law isn't constitutional. But conservative justices seem to be creating a neo-Confederacy, where conservative states can thumb their noses at the feds but still collect taxpayer money.

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Let's be clear. There is no place for antisemitic harassment or violence on campuses or anywhere else. None.

But protesting the slaughter in Gaza is not in itself antisemitic, and having armed police arrest peaceful student demonstrators is never acceptable.

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@rbreich The difficulty with this phrasing is that there is no evidence that, for example, the Columbia protestors are antisemitic (many of the protestors are Jewish) or that they are committing violence (police reported that the protestors they evicted were peaceful and cooperative).

TechDesk , to Photography
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While there are still plenty of question marks around the future of AI, in terms of its regulation and safety, there sure are some interesting examples of how people are playing with its more fun side. Take the Poetry Camera, which isn’t actually a camera at all. Instead it “takes the concept of photography to new heights by generating thought-provoking poetry… based on the visuals it encounters.” Or, at least, as thought-provoking as you can imagine AI poetry might get. Here’s more (including a few of its poems) from @TechCrunch.

https://flip.it/EdNhgs

not2b ,
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@TechDesk @TechCrunch Selling a separate device for that, one that will become a brick when the company goes under or abandons the project, is incredibly wasteful. All they are doing is taking an actual digital photo, uploading it to a server that runs an LLM, and asking that LLM to write a poem about it. An app could do that just as easily.

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US Central Command conducted an airdrop on Sunday into northern Gaza using four USAF C-130 aircraft, releasing 50,688 MREs. “During today's mission one bundle landed in the sea,” according to Centcom.

not2b ,
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@w7voa This is a tremendously expensive and inefficient way to deliver food aid. So much more material could be moved by sea and land if the Israelis weren't blocking it. Biden needs to play hardball: if Netanyahu wants to starve Gaza, or he says he doesn't but his actions lead to that outcome, cut off support.

w7voa , (edited ) to Random stuff
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Post News, which sought to be a Twitter alternative, is shutting down. I have 5.8k followers there but rarely use it. I decided I’ve bandwidth for only two platforms after putting my Twitter accounts in suspended animation — Threads is one of them and Mastodon is the other. https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/19/24135011/twitter-alternative-post-news-shutdown

not2b ,
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@w7voa Thanks for being here.

rbreich , to Random stuff
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Trump’s team claimed that their tax law would boost household income by $4,000.

Well, the numbers are in.

New research shows that workers who earned less than $114,000 saw “no change in earnings.”

Meanwhile, top executive salaries increased sharply.

It was always a scam.

not2b ,
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@rbreich If they were talking about the average (the arithmetic mean to be precise) the Trumpers might be right, in a deceptive way. Suppose you have a hundred households. You pick the richest family and give them a $400k tax cut. No one else gets anything. Congrats, those hundred families got an average benefit of $4k.

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Meta’s AI chatbot informs a parents' group that it has a disabled child who is both gifted and challenged academically and attends a NYC public school. https://www.404media.co/facebooks-ai-told-parents-group-it-has-a-disabled-child/

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@w7voa Chatbots don't know anything other than what words come after what other words in certain contexts. It shouldn't be surprising that in the context of a parents' support group it would talk like a parent with children that need support. It is just copying language.

Green_Footballs , to Random stuff
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lolwut?

Trump campaign tells GOP candidates he’s taking a cut of their cash if they use his name - Raw Story

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-fundraising-2667802464/

not2b ,
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@Green_Footballs No, Raw Story isn't the source for this; Politico is. Lately Raw Story has mostly been rewriting reporting that originates elsewhere after hyping it up to get clicks. I suggest, when you see an interesting Raw Story article, look where they got the info from, and share the original, not the Raw Story version. In this case that would be

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/17/trump-campaign-fundraising-five-percent-00152830

GottaLaff , to Random stuff
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Lol, well yeah.

Via Ron Filipkowski:

There it is …

Acyn:

says he’s unaware of attending any of his children’s graduations: When it related to school here in Manhattan, this was prior to Trump deciding to run, it was Melania and I who put Barron into school here

not2b ,
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@GottaLaff He at least went to this one, there are photos: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/donald-trump-attends-daughter-tiffanys-894288/

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I still hear people arguing that prosecuting a former president sets a “dangerous precedent.”

The truly dangerous precedent would be to establish that presidents are above the law.

not2b ,
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@rbreich Many of the people who make that argument live in a post-truth world. To them there are no facts: Democrats say this, Republicans say that, it would be a violation of neutrality and journalistic ethics to take sides. Since there is no truth and Trump's supporters say the prosecution of him is political, that in their minds would justify jailing of Democrats if the GOP to gains power, no evidence needed because evidence is about what is true and there is no truth, only spin.

w7voa , to Random stuff
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Accounts pushing disinfo/misinfo about Iran vs. Israel appear to be crowding out the few credible sources remaining on Twitter/X. As @jsrailton puts it: "Twitter is awash with a flood tide of falsehoods tonight. Some is the work of people trying to farm revenue. And some is disinformation seeking to seed specific false perceptions."

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@w7voa @jsrailton If this will finally cure journalists of thinking that they have to be on X because that is where the breaking news is, fine with me.

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Mike Pompeo, a secretary of state in the previous administration, endorses Trump.

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@w7voa Such stories should be put into context, given the large number of former Trump cabinet officials who now condemn him. Perhaps running summaries of who is endorsing and who is definitely off of Team Trump.

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@w7voa Thanks. I am grateful for your reporting here. But at least for more formal articles, I hope that journalists will include that statistic in the same piece when reporting on endorsements, so that when someone shares it they get that context.

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Photo library Getty Images has entered into a deal with Nvidia to create AI tools trained on its copyright-protected stock images. Getty's CEO, Craig Peters, talked to the Hollywood Reporter about why he thinks this could be beneficial to creators, how the material created by this system will be labeled, copyright systems, and who gets paid.

https://flip.it/DTgU89

not2b ,
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@ArtPhotosDesk Getty has lots of photos of celebrities, who would be prime targets for people who want to make deep fakes or nonconsensual porn. I am sure that the toolmakers will try to put in some protections, but it has repeatedly been shown that it is possible to get around those protections with clever prompting tricks.

luckytran , to Random stuff
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This was avoidable.

not2b ,
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@luckytran Fake eclipse classes might also have been a factor in this (people who thought they were taking precautions but used inadequate protection).

GottaLaff , to Random stuff
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Trump has always been debatable. 🤭

“In an unusual move, the five major broadcast and cable news networks have prepared a joint open letter that urges President Biden and Trump to participate in televised debates ahead of Election Day”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/09/business/media/networks-biden-trump-debate-letter.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

not2b ,
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@GottaLaff Only if rules are agreed to that lets the moderators turn a candidate's microphone off when it's the other candidate's turn. Letting Trump repeat what he did in 2020, when he continuously talked over all of Biden's answers, doesn't serve anybody (though it didn't help Trump either).

thelinuxEXP , to Random stuff
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All it would take for AI to completely collapse is a ruling in the US saying these companies have to licence the content they used to train these tools.

They simply would never reach a sustainable business model if they had to fairly compensate all the people who wrote, drew, edited, sang or just created the content they use.

Simply being forced to respect attribution and licenses would kill them. Will that ruling ever happen? Maybe not. Should it? I think so.

not2b ,
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@thelinuxEXP That would collapse OpenAI, but companies could obtain enough legally licensed and useful data to build new models.

mattblaze , to Random stuff
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In another case of history rhyming with deja vu all over again, Ecuador breached and raided the Mexican embassy in Quito to arrest a fugitive (amd former VP) who was holding up there after Mexico granted him political asylum.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-68748011

not2b ,
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@mattblaze I think that might have been the opposite side? The current government grabbed a former vice president who had been appointed by the president who granted Assange asylum. But I am not an expert on Ecuador's politics, not even close.

mattblaze , to Random stuff
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Look at these Bay Area people, with their little earthquake. You want to see earthquakes? Come to New Jersey.

not2b ,
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@mattblaze The last quake the SF Bay Area had that was bigger than the NJ quake was in 2007, though SoCal has had a much larger series of quakes in 2019.

mattblaze , to Random stuff
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I'm not likely to stop using Mastodon, but I'm seriously considering limiting it to photos and professional announcements. Posting personal stuff, opinions, and engaging in general discussion has become extremely unrewarding for me here.

not2b ,
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@mattblaze Sorry , Matt. I appreciate hearing what you have to say even when I don't agree, and it's a shame that good people are being driven away.

Green_Footballs , to Random stuff
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Trying to post any link to my blog at Threads results in this. Won’t even let me paste it in.

“Link not allowed.”

I’ve been canceled.

not2b ,
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@Green_Footballs Threads and Instagram both seem really hostile to links (I only use Instagram but hear complaints from people I know who use Threads).

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“Ethics”😂

“’s Lawyers Told the Court That No One Would Give Him a Bond. Then He Got a Lifeline, but They Didn’t Tell the Judges.🤨

An appeals court reduced Trump’s bond by more than 60% after his attorneys claimed it was a “practical impossibility” to pay the full amount. Their failure to disclose a proposal from a billionaire financier may have violated ethics rules” https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-bond-disclosure-appeals-court-hankey

not2b ,
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@GottaLaff It seems that the offer came in after they told the judge that they had no offers, if so they were telling the truth at the time. The question is whether they were obliged to update the courts when they got the offer, which they didn't do.

petergleick , to Random stuff
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East Coast gets a 4.8 . West Coast shrugs.

not2b ,
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@petergleick East coast earthquakes are felt for a much longer distance than west coast earthquakes of similar strength. I think it is because the earth's crust isn't broken up by large numbers of faults like it is in the West.

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