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festal

@festal@tldr.nettime.org

Researcher, teacher, and activist at the intersection of culture, technology, and politics. Born at 324 PPM. Binary, so you don't have to be.

If you are on this instance, I won't follow you because I'll read all your posts in the local timeline. Why, because I want to get a sense of place as I'm currently one of the moderators of this instance.

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festal, to random
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Good starting point for any analysis of the impact of AI. From @brianmerchant recent newsletter:

"So the very first thing to understand is that, regardless of how this is framed in the media or McKinsey reports or internal memos, “AI” or “a robot” is never, ever going to take your job. It can’t. It’s not sentient, or capable of making decisions. Generative AI is not going to kill your job — but your manager might."

festal, to random
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It feels like big tech has basically given up and has retreated to indulging in escapist fantasies: space colonization, blockchain, AGI, the network state, metaverse, "hacking death", etc.

None of this solves any problems, or, even works as advertised.

leitmedium, to Signal German
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Meredith Whittaker, Präsidentin der gemeinnützigen Signal-Stiftung, die hinter dem Messenger #Signal steht, hat angekündigt, dass Signal im Falle der Umsetzung der geplanten Chatkontrollen sich aus dem Europäischen Markt zurückziehen wird.

> »Let there be no doubt: we will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees. This proposal--if passed and enforced against us--would require us to make this choice. It's surveillance wine in safety bottles. To be clear--we will stay to the end. We stand with the people in Europe & their right to privacy, whatever the Commission does. But we won't comply with any mandate to undermine our privacy guarantees. And noncompliance would result in our being barred from the market.«

Das würde wohl vor allem bedeuten, dass die App nicht mehr über App Stores zur Verfügung steht und theoretisch noch manuell installiert werden kann, aber letztlich wäre es wohl das Aus von Signal in Europa. (Hatte die letzten zwei Worte ursprünglich vergessen).

Quelle:
https://mastodon.world/
Bericht dazu:
https://www.golem.de/news/ueberwachung-statt-sicherheit-wenn-die-chatkontrolle-kommt-wuerde-signal-gehen-2406-185659.html

festal,
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@leitmedium Was genau würde denn verboten? Das Anbieten (über den Store), oder die individuelle Nutzung? Falls es nur das erstere ist, könnte das auch zur Etablierung des side-loading führen, das Apple nun ja auch zulassen muss.

clive, to random
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Pointillist bubble-wrap paintings

amazing what you can do with paint

bubble wrap

and a hypodermic needle

Item #1 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free to read and subscribe here here here 📬 : https://buttondown.email/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-20/

festal,
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@clive reminds me of VSSTV - Very Slow Scan Television by Gebhard Sengmüller, 2005 @gebseng
https://www.gebseng.com/02_vsstv/

tante, to random German
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Ihr kennt ja immer alles. Ideen, wo man sich für ne Finanzierung zum Schreiben eines Buches bewerben kann (Sachbuch)?

festal,
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@tante da du nicht unter "Wissenschaft" fällst, würde ich es mal unter "politischer Bildung" versuchen. Also ev. mal mit der BPB sprechen.

festal, to random
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Wow. We barely started to talk about how bad private jet travel really is, and the US congress has already acted to protect the wealthy from public scrutiny.

https://www.twz.com/news-features/congress-has-made-fully-obscuring-aircraft-ownership-information-a-reality

tante, to random
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"Google’s AI search has arrived, uninvited, to my browser, and I cannot make it leave. It isn’t just that it serves me crap whenever I enter a question into my search bar, but that I have to wait for all the crap I don't want in the first place."

(Original title: I Don’t Want To Spend My One Wild And Precious Life Dealing With Google’s AI Search)

https://aftermath.site/google-ai-search-god-no-why

festal,
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@tante It's actually not difficult to turn off. But it's hidden. Instead of searching "all" search "web" which is located under "more".

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/google-chrome/bye-bye-ai-how-to-block-googles-annoying-ai-overviews-and-just-get-search-results

festal, to random
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#Zürich

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tante, to random German
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Hashtag Kindergeburtstag

festal,
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@tante neues profilbild!

festal, to random
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I say this as a citizen of Europe (I know, this technically doesn't exist, but I still feel it's aspirational pull). The West is in its terminal phase.

Ukraine/Gaza policies might we'll be the final nail in the coffin of enlightenment values of critical reason and universal human rights. Unchecked capitalism is ripping societies apart, condemning large parts of the population to abuse and misery amidst incredible wealth. And the political system of representative democracy has been so captured by special interest that it can no longer enact broadly popular programs (social safety and environmental protection).

And the reactionary surge is only accelerating the decline.

tante, to random
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7 Förderanträge in den letzten 6 Wochen und jetzt ist der letzte (Abgabe heute bis 23:59) schon fertig runtergekürzt. Wirds heute also doch keine Nachtschicht?

festal,
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@tante 🤞

remixtures, to random Portuguese
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RT @TimChristiaens5
The money in Big Tech is not in AI, it turns out, but in AI data processing infrastructures.

https://www.ft.com/content/f01c6852-8aa6-4cc0-991d-38f15077ba92

festal,
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@remixtures On this topic, I can highly recommend Nick Srnicek's talk: AI and the Future of Economy @elevatefestival

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4D-EPNFQuA

festal, to random
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If corporations are a form of slow AI, then what @pluralistic calls is indicative of an "alignment problem", when the objective function (paperclip maximization) is persued by destructive means. And like all alignment problems, it has to do with a lack of, or the wrong, constraints.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/24/naming-names/

festal, to ai
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A comprehensive overview of the possibilities to opt-out of having our website included in AI . By using robot.txt. tl,dr: it's increasingly possible, but for existing content likely too late. Removing content already indexed is close to impossible. Contrary to search engines, indexes are not concerned with it reflecting the current state of the web, but simply keep adding.

https://www.mnot.net/blog/2024/04/21/ai-control

festal, to random
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What a great article on the undersea cables that carry most internet traffic. In short, constant maintenance is needed.

https://www.theverge.com/c/24070570/internet-cables-undersea-deep-repair-ships

festal, to random
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I'm looking for a history of #fracking as a technology and industry. Anyone any good pointers?

festal, to random
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What's the rationale for books as PDFs being more expensive than as paper backs? Is it the DRM?

NatureMC, (edited ) to random
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🚨 Breaking news of April Fools Day: Putin poisoned by mysterious substance from the FSB, Trump is arrested for life, Hamas gives up, Netanyahu resigns with his government. In a programme that even Russia and China are joining, the world finally wants to fight hunger and climate change effectively. Special meeting in Davos to introduce a tax on the super-rich and protect democracy around the globe. First serious signs of hope.🌍
Sorry to have to announce this today 😭 unfortunately: 🐟 :Blobhaj:

festal,
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@NatureMC
Back in the day, when news papers were still papers. Yes Men's famous edition of NYT (2009) "All The News We Hope to Print."

festal, to random
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A time, as good as any, to remember that Richard Serra also made very interesting films And you can find ubu.com. Such as this one: Frame, 1969, 14' 29"

https://ubu.com/film/serra_frame.html

tante, to random
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I just had to manually moderate @hypebot for the first time due to it reposting Holocaust denial by a well known "open/small web" advocate. Given how that person is on antisemitic rants for days now, they're blocked.

If you see more of that ping me please.

festal,
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@tante I totally agree. Particularly since @hypebot itself, at least as I understand it, is not an apolitical project intended to show the breadth of the Fediverse, but to bring interesting put possibly separate 'communities' into a view.

festal,
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@tante @hypebot as it should be! Let's hope this is enough to the need for your intervention at a bearable minimum.

Do you know on which server this particular post trended? Perhaps, if that happens again from the same server, that's an indication to take the server out of the list.

tante, to random
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Just FYI: I just migrated @hypebot's code and conf file away from Github. Won't change anything in how it works, just didn't want you to be confused when the config file and code are suddenly on Codeberg.

festal,
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@tante you still need to update the links in the hypebot profile :)

festal, to random
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Mastodon is really lacking discovery tools beyond the local and the federated timeline.

As a way to address this issue, @tante has set-up the @hypebot which forwards trending posts from a hand-curated list of instances.

You can find the list here:

https://github.com/tante/hypebot-config/blob/main/config.yaml

We want to update that list occasionally, to keep it interesting.

Any suggestion of instances that should be added?

leitmedium, to random German
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Eine moralische Frage, bei der mich Eure Gedanken interessieren:

Ich setze gerade ein Podcast-Projekt auf. Währen das Technische alles klar ist, muss dann immer noch ein Podcast-Cover und ein Intro her. Beim Cover gibt es nun folgende Möglichkeiten, nachdem das ungefähre Aussehen konzeptuell klar ist:

  1. stilistisch passende Grafikerin suchen und beauftragen
  2. Eine Plattform wie Fiver benutzen
  3. Ein Mockup mit einer "KI" machen und mit 1 oder 2 kombinieren
  4. nur eine "KI" benutzen

Die letzte Variante wirkt unfair, weil sie auf bestehenden Kunstwerken aufbaut, gerade bei aktuellen Formaten auch auf aktuellen Daten, die vielfach nicht einer kommerziellen Auswertung zugestimmt haben. Variante 3 wirkt "ok", weil letztlich jemand Kreatives bezahlt wird, auch wenn das Mockup sich quasi erschlichen wird. Variante 2 ist so eine Sache, weil man damit hiesige Löhne umgeht, aber andererseits hat auch oft niemand Zeit und Lust für ein bei einem Freizeitprojekt kleinen Budget zu arbeiten. Variante 1 ist die Gold-Variante aber es dauert am längsten und verbraucht die meisten Resourcen (Geld und Zeit).

Macht Ihr Euch über sowas überhaupt Gedanken?

festal,
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@leitmedium Es gibt noch eine 5 Variante. Ein bestehendes, passendes Bild suchen und den/die Autor:in anfragen und für einen kleinen Betrag lizenzieren. Scheint mir eine ideale Schnittmenge zwischen Aufwand, Kosten, Fairness zu sein.

festal, to random
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/28/quite-radical-the-feeling-of-exhaustion-is-key-to-tackling-climate-change-says-author-ajay-singh-chaudhary

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