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So after reading this marvellous posting by @Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social, this is how I think Trump is going to win the next US election
Stop here and read this, it’s a great little explainer: https://terikanefield.com/section-3-and-the-spirit-of-liberty/ So here’s my theory:
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Remember that thing in the Online Safety Bill re: how it was needed to stop anonymous abuse of footballers & other sportspeople? It seems they’re perfectly good at abusing each other…
Literally, one guy with 2.8 MILLION FOLLOWERS attacking another with 5.5 MILLION FOLLOWERS and a bunch of TV pundits, too: Up-to and including apparent “we shall fight them on the beached” anti-German sentiment?
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Is someone at mastodon.social actually doing “Trust & Safety” work, or are the crims merely self-censoring and avoiding danger
So I woke up this morning to my Mastodon client notifying me of a message from an obvious Fake Hot Girl In my caffeine-deprived state, I missed the highlighted alerts that this was a cached, possibly-deleted message and so I drafted my usual sarcastic response to such things (above) and only when I attempted to
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Peak Parenting with a DYMO Labeller
Part 1 in a series of indefinite length…
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Could NC be sued for its new age verification porn bill? | Charlotte Observer
It sounds terribly like North Carolina legislators jumped onto the age verification bandwagon with even less understanding of the technology and impact than the UK government equivalent debate. This is astonishing. “We want to keep minors off of X-rated websites,” Hardister said. “And the way it’s written now is that the web provider is expected
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Two ways of dealing with “algorithmic rage-bait…”
I’m with Linus on this:
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People on Threads griping about “rage bait” & algorithmic curation of feeds makes me think we need a new version of “Hanlon’s Razor”
Something like: “Never ascribe to capitalism nor incompetence that which can be adequately explained by poor source material quality and excessive public expectations of capability and control.”
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Roy Longbottom Pits 1976’s Cray-1 Supercomputer Against the Raspberry Pi Single-Board Computer Range
Frankly, I am still a little surprised how close the margin was. https://www.hackster.io/news/roy-longbottom-pits-1976-s-cray-1-supercomputer-against-the-raspberry-pi-single-board-computer-range-152bbe2d4111
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Niklaus Wirth has died
He will goto a better place. I’m sure he will be as unhappy about it as the rest of us.
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The I in LLM stands for intelligence | …excellent post by the Curl guy re: LLMs and Credibility
For some reason nobody writing alarmist “Artificial Intelligence Is A National Security Issue…” content mentions “…because it can make lazy / crazy people seem credible…” as an issue, presumably for fear that politicians consider that a feature, not a bug. In this particular report, the user helpfully told us that they used Bard to find