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Chris Wiltz (engineering.fb.com)In this initial phase federated Threads users will not be able to see who liked their posts or any replies from people in the fediverse on Threads. For now, people who want to see replies on their posts on other fediverse servers will have to visit those servers directly.
Certain types of posts and content are also not federated, including:
- Posts with restricted replies.
- Replies to non-federated posts.
- Post with polls (until future updates).
- Reposts of non-federated posts.
For posts that contain links, a link attachment will be appended as a link at the end of the post if it is not already included in the post.
If the web remains valuable at all, it will be because the hyperlink has remained the basic unit of currency. Once you lose the hyperlink, you basically lose everything else.
Here are some of the distinct types of socializing that I might be missing:
- Belonging. A sense of being part of a team and some kind of shared objectives / goals / shared values.
- Support. Being able to have people around you to help you when you get stuck with something specific.
- Jam partners. People to feel energized and electric with, to help brainstorm or cram on projects.
- Creative collisions. Existing in a space where you can bump into new people or make new introductions.
- Micro human interactions. Being able to step out and grab coffee or talk about the weather.
- Tacit experience. The experience of passively observing others at work and seeing how people structure their time and work.
- Separation of home and work. The ability to go somewhere to work.
Work is a Place by Tom Critchlow
Cory Doctorow (pluralistic.net)A key requirement for being a science fiction writer without losing your mind is the ability to distinguish between science fiction (futuristic thought experiments) and predictions. SF writers who lack this trait come to fancy themselves fortune-tellers who SEE! THE! FUTURE!
The thing is, sf writers cheat. We palm cards in order to set up pulp adventure stories that let us indulge our thought experiments. These palmed cards – say, faster-than-light drives or time-machines – are narrative devices, not scientifically grounded proposals.
The Coprophagic AI crisis by Cory Doctorow
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Cory Doctorow reflects on the science fiction narrative device that ‘more training data’ can improve artificial intelligence arguing that it simply is not true.
What’s more, while the proposition that “more training data will linearly improve the quality of AI predictions” is a mere article of faith, “training an AI on the output of another AI makes it exponentially worse” is a matter of fact.
Source: The Coprophagic AI crisis by Cory Doctorow
Here’s one way I figured out to publish an Obsidian vault as a static website using Hugo. This is a hard way: the easy way is to spend $100/yr on Obsidian Publish.
Cory Doctorow (pluralistic.net)Cars are enshittified. The dozens of chips that auto makers have shoveled into their car design are only incidentally related to delivering a better product. The primary use for those chips is autoenshittification – access to legal strictures (“IP”) that allows them to block modifications and repairs that would interfere with the unfettered abuse of their own customers
Apply yourself fully to the task, let go of the outcome, and your true voice will appear. You’ll see. It can be no other way.
https://www.theredhandfiles.com/voices-of-all-your-influences/ by Nick Cave
It was Swift who threw out the “we” for the “I.” She didn’t do it with her words, mostly. Swift is ever-gracious in her awards acceptance speeches, always enthusiastically crediting her collaborators and acknowledging her competition. But as she stands in the eye of a hurricane of popular fetishization and media hype, Swift can’t help but block out everything and everyone around her. She knows it, or at least the attack of the 50-foot Tay in the “Anti-Hero” video suggests she does. But that doesn’t stop it from being true. She wants to continue to present herself as an ordinary musician who loves the studio more than the spotlight, but crowd hunger – for a distraction from the world’s horrors, a hero who doesn’t wield weapons, a boost to the economy, a symbolic antidote to the shrinking of women’s rights – has turned her into the strangest kind of star: a mutli-dimensional monolith. In popular culture right now, Taylor Swift stands for everything, yet she also stands firmly for the center, unmoving, unable to share the light.
Source: February 18th 2024 by Ann Powers
With disruption hitting the media industry acutely in 2024, now is the time to lean into owning your creative work. Have a say in your creative destiny.
While the internet struggles with collective action, every movement starts from a single action. If you’re a creative person, one of the most important actions you can take, full stop, is to take some ownership over your work. Maybe, if you want to have a financial upside, you can’t own all of it. Maybe you have to pick and choose what your ownership picture looks like. But own some of it. Make it yours.
Create for free. But create for yourself. Even if you don’t get paid for it at first. Because someday, you might.
Source: Create For Yourself by Ernie Smith
Today is a significant milestone as I celebrate my 100th blog post! Looking back to where it all began a decade ago, with the encouragement …
Identity isn’t static; it’s a complex tapestry woven from personal and professional experiences, qualifications, personality traits, and values. Context and role responsibilities also play a significant role in shaping who we are. As I’ve navigated through different experiences and contexts over the years, I’ve watched my identity shift and evolve like a chameleon adapting to its surroundings. Change is inevitable, and it’s only natural that our identities evolve along with us.
Source: My 100th blogpost in 10 years by Andrea Stringer
A post inspired by the UK government experimenting with AI tools, using the film ‘Elysium’ (2013) as a touchstone.
To be clear, I’m not against LLMs which are openly auditable providing quick answers to questions and to make the civil service more efficient. I am against the reductionist ‘logic’ of replacing civil servants with a black box which makes shit up.
Source: Elysium, elites, and elision by Doug Belshaw
It’s not just about download sizes. I welcome high-speed internet as much as the next guy. But code — JavaScript — is something that your browser has to parse, keep in memory, execute. It’s not free. And these people talk about performance and battery life…
Call me old-fashioned, but I firmly believe content should outweigh code size. If you are writing a blog post for 10K characters, you don’t need 1000× more JavaScript to render it.
Source: JavaScript Bloat in 2024 @ tonsky.me
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What makes this situation so ridiculous is that while we’re all watching for scammers attempting to imitate legitimate organisations, FedEx is out there imitating scammers! Here we are in the era of burgeoning AI-driven scams that are becoming increasingly hard for humans to identify, and FedEx is like “here, hold my beer” as they one-up the scammers at their own game and do a perfect job of being completely indistinguishable from them.
Source: Thanks FedEx, This is Why we Keep Getting Phished by Troy Hunt
According to Strauss, a person can only be called a great thinker if they are able to bring solutions to major challenges. Unlike great thinkers that directly deal with the challenges associated with human existence, scholars only come into play when it is time to weigh the difference in the methodology of various great thinkers.
Source: Leo Strauss & Straussian
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Cory Doctorow (pluralistic.net)I wuz robbed.
More specifically, I was tricked by a phone-phisher pretending to be from my bank, and he convinced me to hand over my credit-card number, then did $8,000+ worth of fraud with it before I figured out what happened. And then he tried to do it again, a week later!
Source: Pluralistic: How I got scammed (05 Feb 2024)
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In the end, what matters about music writing is exactly the same as what matters about music: It isn’t leading anywhere productive. Instead, it’s offering a break from the grind, a free zone for thought and a few glorious, rejuvenating moments of fun. This is a different kind of pleasure than the quick nervous kind TikTok brings, always moving on to another source of stimulus, always ratcheting up the competition for attention. Music writing says: Slow down. Pay attention. It witnesses the unfolding of meaning within measured time, and calls back to it.
Source: Pitchfork’s peril and the purpose of music journalism by Ann Powers
If we truly want to open up the web for everyone to publish on, we have to make it easier. Let’s give people choices. Let’s give people options for tools they can set up and use, with no more knowledge than the knowledge they already have.