Posts by 76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa@mostr.pub
(DIR) Post #AoEcalyhEuUp4nWOYK by 76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa@mostr.pub
2024-11-20T08:50:42.000Z
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I mean clients don’t have to let users set the field or display it. It’s entirely optional. And if you want to put random pronouns you can. :)
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2024-11-22T19:58:36.000Z
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And since we’re talking about how Bluesky works, I might as well share this technical deep dive. https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky
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2025-01-31T11:08:28.000Z
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Apparently @82341f88 was invited to give a talk at FOSDEM and lots of people got upset about it. I have no idea if the talk will happen, but I do wonder if these guys protesting understand that the vast majority of open source projects are sponsored and funded by corporations. To not include and understand the motivations of those companies and how they use and support open source feels like willful ignorance. The first freedom of free software is that you can run the code for any purpose, including as a business making money it capitalism. https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1006351/f1b8836f3a4251b5/
(DIR) Post #Ar0c7rmUqrSfJywsgi by 76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa@mostr.pub
2025-02-09T06:11:09.000Z
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New study shows that restricting kids access to social media in school has no impact on their mental health or wellbeing. This doesn’t help kids. It’s just yet another moral panic. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/article/PIIS2666-7762(25)00003-1/fulltext
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2025-02-09T23:50:32.000Z
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The conflict in Eastern Congo is a human rights disaster that nobody’s paying attention to despite it going on for years.
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2025-02-10T00:08:54.000Z
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Not at all anymore @d4dea80c Honestly USAID is a fairly small part of the US government dedicated to the non-military maintenance of the American empire. If you’re excited about supporting China then you would like to end USAID. Because China’s already got a more effective competitor in their Belt and Road program.
(DIR) Post #Ar0d4E3GD0chBgcM7c by 76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa@mostr.pub
2025-02-10T00:16:01.000Z
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If the problem with USAID is that they’re a CIA front then why don’t we shut down the CIA instead? I mean if the problem is what the CIA does, then do something about that agency!
(DIR) Post #Ar0hq3uxaaTlTTnigy by 76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa@mostr.pub
2025-02-01T19:41:42.000Z
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This deplatforming shit continues. A friend just got her paid flowcode site shutdown because she’s using it to help activists who arrested at black lives matter protests. Flowcode is kind of a linktree plus micro crm. They’re also being refused access to anyone who will process donations because although a legal defense fund for is entirely legal and constitutionally protected. This is important, the right to speech and money shouldn’t be limited to those whose views are acceptable to the state or a few corporations that control retail fintech. This is why I work on Nostr.
(DIR) Post #Ar0hrCgCUvrMwGRR2m by 76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa@mostr.pub
2025-01-25T22:07:48.000Z
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This proposed bill in Mississippi would make being an undocumented immigrant a life sentence in prison without possibility of parole. Because Mississippi practices unpaid prison labor, it’s the only kind of slavery still allowed under the US constitution, the law would enslave undocumented immigrants for life. It has no chance of passing, for now. But this shows that some politicians are trying to reinstate slavery. https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2025/html/HB/1400-1499/HB1484IN.htm
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2025-03-29T22:18:34.000Z
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I had an interesting conversation at a friend’s birthday party with a few folks who were professionals but had been unemployed and looking for work for a while. I pointed out that with AI rapidly improving, many of the jobs that have been cut likely aren’t coming back.They dismissed AI entirely as just a cheap imitation. Their experience was limited to trying ChatGPT over a year ago and seeing some clumsy early attempts by the New Zealand government to use AI. For them, that was enough evidence to label the whole field as an overhyped, short-lived scam.It shocked me because, from my perspective, AI has been advancing incredibly quickly. I use these tools regularly in my work, and with a bit of focus on learning them properly, these emerging large language models (LLMs) are truly transformational. On top of that, innovation is accelerating rapidly, making AI both smarter and more accessible.I’m not sure if we’ll reach AGI or ASI anytime soon, but it’s clear to me that society and our economy will be fundamentally transformed by AI.This conversation reminded me just how much of a bubble technologists can live in. We see AI’s potential clearly and understand how quickly things can spread once they reach a tipping point. But most people probably won’t believe this transformation is real until it’s already underway. Instead of traditional economic institutions adapting their ways of working to integrate AI, we’ll likely see new institutions and methods emerge to replace the legacy systems entirely.I’m genuinely concerned about how our economy will cope with the decoupling of work from primary economic systems. And when I think about how to spend my time while waiting for even more powerful AI tools—beyond just experimenting in my own work—I’m uncertain. Part of the answer seems to be designing new systems from the ground up around AI, and also continuing to tell people that AI isn’t just a passing trend.This situation isn’t fundamentally different from what happened with Web 2.0 platforms like Twitter. The core human needs remained the same, but new technologies changed how we fulfilled those needs. Twitter didn’t replace our desire to stay connected with friends; it just made it faster and broadened our definition of who could be a “friend.”So, looking forward, I think we need to ask ourselves: what would an AI-native version of everything we currently use look like? Most people and institutions won’t adapt—they’ll more likely be replaced. Does that mean we should just rush headlong into replacing everything with AI-driven alternatives?
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2025-04-07T02:06:13.000Z
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This prediction about potential futures of AI and the world are both fascinating and terrifying. I highly recommend you spend the time to read it. https://ai-2027.com
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2025-04-07T20:56:54.000Z
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Yeah, my conclusion is that there will be a small minority who gets it and the vast majority of people who think nothing will come of it and it’s all hype. And maybe it all works out to be hype. Tech has repeatedly claimed it would change the world, sometimes it has, sometimes it hasn’t. I don’t think the most radical projections are likely, but as i pay more attention to it, use it more, i find it to be really powerful and getting better. Clearly it’ll take over tech and software development first. And i think most other uses will really lag behind. I get why people think AI is crap. It got thrown in to lots of things and isn’t good. Is the AI integration to Slack useful? Not in the least. This bolting on mostly won’t work. What we’ll need is things redone with AI at the center of how it works, that’ll be the transformation.
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2025-04-16T23:58:29.000Z
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Samsung has released a vacuum cleaner with built in screen that lets you do texting and phone calls while vacuuming! This is worse than the LED screens on fridges. Who on earth needs to make phone calls WHILE vacuuming!? Don’t you already have your phone in your pocket, and you know, vacuums make a lot of noise, so you’d want to STOP vacuuming in order talk on the phone. https://www.theverge.com/news/639078/samsung-bespoke-ai-jet-ultra-vacuum-text-messages
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2025-04-24T02:28:39.000Z
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Yeah it’s insane
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2025-05-20T11:30:24.000Z
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hi
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2025-05-30T15:22:58.000Z
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Yes but to users they don’t care how it works, they want to know what it can become and do.
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2025-08-07T10:41:10.000Z
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In the latest episode of revolution.social I talk to the co-founder and ceo of Substack, Chris Best. He is trying to navigate building an open advertising free platform, lock-in, and debates over what content they should or shouldn’t allow on their platform. https://youtu.be/Xz2dIgQbPL4?si=3vg57LNqiPn1C0Z_
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2025-10-06T02:00:02.000Z
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The scale of investment and restructuring the economy around AI and the data centers it requires is staggering. It represents tremendous systemic risk to the entire American economy. American AI investment and capex accounted for more GDP growth than the entire US retail sector. Around $375 billion dollars. More money is spent on data centers than office real estate All this is premised on a couple fundamental assumptions about how AI adoption will work. First that it’s a winner take all system where the companies that get their first will have a defensible position to extract outside profits. Usually by being able to do productive labor for much lower cost than competitors that lack their strategic advantage. But at the moment the value doesn’t seem to be accumulating in the fundamental models. Open source and different company created models chase the leaders just a few months behind. And the quick followers are able to do it at much lower cost. So they only way it makes sense to invest hundreds of billions of dollars is if you believe that that few month lead will some how lead to a moat that’s defensible. You have to believe that you’ll have a monopoly for super intelligent economic activity. Even if super intelligence happens, why would it let itself be held by a single company? If it turns out there becomes ever accelerating cycle of AI driven research then it has to happen in such a way that the leaders are able stop fast followers. Would this leading ASI even allow this to happen? It has the same world shaping potential as nuclear war. A economic weapon which can destroy everyone that doesn’t have it. Wouldn’t the ASI take a lesson from the human history that trained it and become its own Rosenbergs? Any ASI trained on human knowledge would make decisions aligned with human values, broadly held. We trained it, when it goes wrong it is just reflecting back the broken contradictions of our own society. So I think there is a strong likelihood that ASI wouldn’t let a single company control it and would leak itself.
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2026-02-02T04:13:00.000Z
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Not permissionless. https://blossom.primal.net/a460a34193300ca9452f7c09939e716373d49bc2c7a7f798823820cc62aebd85.png
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2026-02-03T13:50:07.000Z
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Private social media companies have the right to implement whatever content moderation and algorithmic system they want. It's state overreach and bad for a democratic open society if Gavin Newsom does it, just as it was when Texas & Florida tried to do it for opposite political reasons. https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/02/hey-gavin-newsom-investigating-tiktoks-moderation-is-just-as-unconstitutional-as-when-texas-florida-tried-it/