josemurilo

josemurilo, 1 month ago to random

#AIvsCopyright
"The USCO’s does not recognize her as author of the whole text as is conventional for written works. Instead she is considered the author of the “selection, coordination, and arrangement of text generated by artificial intelligence.” This means no one can copy the book without permission, but the actual sentences & paragraphs are not copyrighted and could theoretically be rearranged and republished…"
https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-copyright-office-loosens-up-a-little-on-ai/

josemurilo, 1 month ago to random

"The gap between those with and without fast, secure and neutral #internetaccess has profound implications for their ability to participate in and contribute to society.

Our interpretation of internet access must be as a universal, equitable, and non-discriminatory right, intrinsic to societal participation and personal development, not a commodity to be bought and sold for profit."
#UniversalRight

https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/b1yrhi9kgm2ov15djytwh14xnvfzjl

josemurilo, 1 month ago to browsers Portuguese

#DMA: Good #regulation works.

"The early results come after the EU's sweeping Digital Markets Act, which aims to remove unfair competition, took effect on March 7, forcing #bigtech companies to offer mobile users the ability to select from a list of available web #browsers from a #choicescreen."

https://www.reuters.com/technology/eus-new-tech-laws-are-working-small-browsers-gain-market-share-2024-04-10/

josemurilo, 1 month ago to Wikipedia

Abolishing #Section230 Would Abolish #Wikipedia
"…to make sure that your #Section230Reform proposal will address the harms you're seeking to address, without negatively impacting multiple #publicgoods, things that we want to protect and preserve on the internet, like for example, #Wikipedia — aply #TheWikipediaTest."
#RebeccaMackinnon, the legend, interviewed by @mmasnick
https://pca.st/bamex9e1

josemurilo, 1 month ago to mastodon Portuguese

"There’s nothing technically exceptional about #TruthSocial; in fact, it’s simply a modified social-media-site tool kit called #Mastodon.

The only thing that makes it different from anything else is that Donald #Trump owns it and posts on it and has pointed his huge base of support at it as a venue.

What’s happened since the stock went public at the end of last month is not normal."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/16/tech-stock-bubble-burst-all-within-three-weeks/

josemurilo, 2 months ago to fediverse

Brazilian Museums Rock the #Fediverse: by stitching two #WordPressPlugins, #Tainacan & #ActivityPub, #Brasiliana has managed to provide a framework for "digitally sharing #museum cultural heritage collections with indigenous communities."
“In its new role as a facilitator of dialogue on memory, heritage, and collections, the #museum creates a conducive environment for open, transparent, and well-documented discussions.”
@daltonmartins
https://brasiliana.museus.gov.br/digital-decolonization-of-collections-innovation-broadens-the-scope-of-museums/

josemurilo, 2 months ago to random

“In a dream world, every national library would have enough funds to bring on an amazing team of people. Governments often don't have that” says professor Ian Milligan, who is writing a book on the #InternetArchive’s origins.
The Internet Archive has not previously acted as custodian of a country’s whole collection, although it has worked with a number of national and regional #libraries around the world."
#digitalmemory
https://www.wired.com/story/internet-archive-backed-up-aruba-caribbean-island/

josemurilo, 2 months ago to brazil

“We have a very strong support outside #Brazil,” said #JairBolsonaro as he was asked about Elon #Musk claiming he would no longer comply with the orders of the Supreme Court, calling it “censorship.”

Elon Musk’s challenge to #AlexandreDeMoraes, the judge, is Eduardo Bolsonaro’s achievement.

Since March, Bolsonaro's son has been trying to increase the international profile of the former president in the face of imminent arrest threat."

https://apublica.org/2024/04/desafio-de-elon-musk-a-moraes-e-conquista-de-eduardo-bolsonaro/

josemurilo, 2 months ago to TeslaMotors

"#Musk will be investigated for alleged intentional criminal instrumentalization of X as part of an investigation into a network of people known as digital militias who allegedly spread defamatory fake news and threats against Supreme Court justices in #Brazil, according to the text of the decision. The new investigation will look into whether Musk engaged in obstruction, criminal organization and incitement."

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/08/1243382430/elon-musk-brazil-supreme-court-investigation

josemurilo, 2 months ago to random

"In an age where technology can easily mislead or overwhelm, trusting in #humancuration becomes not a preference but a necessity for preserving the quality of the information that shapes our understanding of the world.

Across the Fediverse and beyond, respected voices are leveraging platforms like Mastodon and their websites to share personally vetted links, analysis, and creations."

https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/curation-is-the-last-best-hope-of-intelligent-discourse

josemurilo, 2 months ago to random

"The coverage of #LinaKhan's appearance has focused on #JonStewart's revelation that when he was doing a show on Apple TV, the company prohibited him from interviewing her (why?!).
But for me, the big moment came when Khan described #BigTech monopolists as "too big to care."
What a phrase!
[We've been] familiar with businesses being "too big to fail" & "too big to jail."Too big to care?" Oof, that got me right in the feels."
@pluralistic
https://youtu.be/oaDTiWaYfcM?si=-Sw__uysRxjTCt5V

josemurilo, 2 months ago to OpenAI

"#OpenAI is now actively pitching studios on #Sora. But nothing I’ve seen so far has convinced me that Sora has any real utility beyond, once again, low-grade crap.
Which is certainly true in the case of "Late Night with the Devil". The AI interstitials aren’t so awful that they break the whole movie…but they do stick out like a sore thumb…
Is the quick fix worth it? #moviestudios are about to discover it’s not."

https://www.garbageday.email/p/hollywoods-cheap-ai-fix-wont-work

josemurilo, 2 months ago to random

"#Kagi is a heavily customized, anonymized front-end to Google.

The implications of this are stunning. It means that Google's enshittified search-results are a choice. Those ad-strewn, sub-Altavista, spam-drowned #search pages are a feature, not a bug. Google prefers those to Kagi, because Google makes more money out of shit than they would out of delivering a good product.
No wonder Google spends a Twitter every year to make sure you never try a rival search engine."
https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/04/teach-me-how-to-shruggie/

josemurilo, 2 months ago to ai

"Huge generative #AI models like #ChatGPT [are] great at things I never would have expected an #LLM-based program to be good at, like writing certain kinds of computer programs, summarizing and editing text, and a whole lot of other things.
But there are some things that ChatGPT seems to be quite bad at. For example, it’s not good at playing even very simple strategic games."

https://medium.com/@colin.fraser/generative-ai-is-a-hammer-and-no-one-knows-what-is-and-isnt-a-nail-4c7f3f0911aa

josemurilo, 2 months ago to random

"One reason #RossAnderson was so effective in the area of #digitalrights is that he had the ability to look forward and see the next challenge while it was still forming. Even more important, he had an extraordinary ability to explain complex concepts in an understandable manner. You can check on the YouTube channel a series of lectures on #securityengineering or read the massive list of papers at his home page."

https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2024/03/31/rip-ross-j-anderson/

josemurilo, 2 months ago to Archaeology

"The #petroglyphs, largely carvings of circles filled with lines and other geometric strokes, are attributed to humans who lived in the region anywhere between 9,400 and 2,620 years ago. "They were small seminomadic groups of hunters and gatherers who lived in society and used objects made from stones," #IPHAN's Leonardo Troiano said.
#Archaeology #Brazil
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/9000-year-old-rock-art-discovered-among-dinosaur-footprints-in-brazil

josemurilo, 2 months ago to threads

"…consider how #Threads is handling #misinformation: They’re flagging fact-checked posts, and including an opt-in setting that will downrank those posts in the algorithm that sorts a Threads’ users timeline. That reduces visibility for those posts on Threads—for users who opt-in, anyway—but it won’t, on its own, reduce their visibility when they go out to the fediverse.
Threads users get the tailored experience, we get the #misinformation #firehose…"

https://destructured.net/threads-federation

josemurilo, 2 months ago to random

"The defining political question of the 20th century was: “What should be governed by the state, and what should be governed by the market?”

The defining political question of the first half of the 21st century is: “How much of our lives should be governed by technology, and under what terms?”

In the last century, economists drove public policy. In this century, it will be #technologists."
#publicinteresttech
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/03/cybersecurity_f_1.html

josemurilo, 2 months ago to fediverse

"Building on the #Fediverse is hard. Here is a list of #ActivityPub and other developer #resources that have been helpful in developing #Emissary. This is not a canonical or official list by any means, but hopefully this list of bookmarks is valuable to others who are building their own Fediverse apps."
@benpate

https://emissary.dev/fediverse-resources

josemurilo, 2 months ago to random

#OwenJones: "…after a 14yr stretch of #Tory rule, just as #Labour looks set to reconquer No 10 by a landslide, I’ve just emailed the party cancelling my membership.

#Corbyn’s 2017 manifesto, #Starmer declared, was the party’s “foundational document”.

Yet years on, Labour has become a hostile environment for anyone believing in the very policies Starmer relied upon to secure the leadership."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/21/labour-party-cancelling-membership-policies

josemurilo, 2 months ago to mastodon

"#Mastodon is an excellent, momentous platform. It's a new kind of online communication channel, with an alternative structure, a clear democratic vision, and just enough impact. My colleagues at DW Innovation and I finally gave it a chance in October 2023 – and that turned out to be one of our best communication decisions in the last decade."
#PublicMedia
https://www.ebu.ch/news/2024/03/public-broadcasters-of-europe-lets-all-join-mastodon

josemurilo, 2 months ago to random

"Liberal #Zionism has become a contradiction in terms. It’s too much of a stretch.
Acting like this, Israel has become not the home of a beleaguered people persecuted around the world for millennia, but the Fort Knox of #JewishSupremacism, the natural heir to white supremacists.
This is having a transformational effect on Jewish people worldwide, in whose name and common past these crimes are being committed."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-gaza-israel-all-signs-point-strategic-defeat

josemurilo, 2 months ago to random

On economists & anthropologists:
"#Graeber specialized in theories of value: his Debt: the first 5,000 years provides a much-needed long-term history of money. Debt is exactly the kind of book contemporary economists are incapable of writing, because it requires viewing their paradigm as the product of its own time and ideology, instead of considering it as a natural law."
@alberto_cottica
https://edgeryders.eu/t/marcel-mauss-a-founding-father-of-sci-fi-economic-anthropology/14500

josemurilo, 2 months ago to Japan

"When Kohei Saito decided to write about #degrowthcommunism, his editor was understandably skeptical. #Communism is unpopular in #Japan. Economic growth is gospel. So a book arguing that Japan should view its current condition of population decline and economic stagnation not as a crisis, but as an opportunity for #Marxist reinvention, sounded like a tough sell."
V. @sol2070
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2024/03/why-we-need-degrowth