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Sick of Cancel Culture? One Man Has a Surprising Solution – POLITICO | I feel Lukianoff’s “coddling” writing should be informing how we approach Trust & Safety
The culture of “Safeytism” that he describes has begun over the past few years to drive the debate about “tech” and public trust; there’s been a broad move in civil society from “the internet enables us to” towards “the internet should protect us from” and the architectural goals which improve the ability to connect more…
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I’ve seen at least three hagiographies for Mastodon in the past 48 hours. I fear this won’t end well. #Mastodon #Threads #EternalSeptember2
For context: from 1989/ish to 1997/ish, I was a USENET user, moderator and administrator – the latter C-News, LeafNews and INN, first at aber.ac.uk and then much more notoriously as the manager of uk-usenet.uk.sun.com. Moore’s Law has rendered any mention of megabytes or gigabytes to be meaningless in the modern day, but I fought a…
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The Problem With Jon Stewart ending over AI and China coverage – The Verge | in partial praise of Trump
One thing I can say in favour of Donald Trump was that by making business impossible he made it very easy for corporate America to walk away from China to varying extents in collective shows of business dressed up as moralism. At some point that will boomerang. https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/19/23924549/jon-stewart-apple-ai-china-cancel Previously: https://alecmuffett.com/article/15058
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Protonmail (groundlessly?) accusing Google of spying on people’s device content for CSAM
For clarity, Protonmail are SPECULATIVELY accusing Google of doing something that is even worse than the CSAM detection proposal which Apple was forced to walk away from. I don’t think that Google are that stupid. I am confident that Protonmail are wrong. I will be amazed if I am incorrect in this analysis, at least…
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Heather is a keen observer
https://twitter.com/WebDevLaw/status/1715068150121640029?s=20
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Network Usage Fees: The European Commission Plays Politics with the Global Internet – Internet Society
People pay for bandwidth, not for “Bandwidth to Netflix.” https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2023/10/network-usage-fees-the-european-commission-plays-politics-with-the-global-internet/
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Stable Signature: A new method for watermarking images created by open source generative AI | maybe not so much?
To certain people this is catnip: that all digital content created by AIs can be fingerprinted for later identification. The truth is that reliance on a technology like this will either lead to making the technology obligatory (and therefore authoritarian) or we will return to a world of “only the bad guys have access to…
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If anything has been “family purchase of the year” so far, it is the Makita DTM52 oscillating multitool
I did not know these things existed before having the double glazing redone last year, but I saw one in use and immediately saw the utility. Making tidy removal of sections of skirting board, cutting slots into countersunk wood screws that have had their slot reamed out, freehand cutting double thickness cardboard to make a…