josemurilo

josemurilo, 2 months ago to mastodon

#Subsidiarity: Grounding the digital network within local institutions.

"…scholars @ntnsndr & @amyadele (2022) argue that #Mastodon exemplifies “subsidiarity”: a #governance principle holding that subordinate or #local organizations should make decisions and perform the functions that they can, rather than ceding #localcontrol to a dominant central power, except when necessary."
@inquiline

https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13367/11436

josemurilo, 3 months ago to EpicGames

The #DMA has worked:
"The turnaround really is an interesting 48 hours. The brouhaha was loudest on Wednesday when #EpicGames announced its #EU dev account was being banned in part over a tweet. Epic backed up their claim with private emails between Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney, #Apple’s Phil Schiller, and legal reps for both firms."
https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/08/epic-says-apple-will-reinstate-developer-account-clearing-path-for-epic-games-store-on-iphone/

josemurilo, 3 months ago to climate

"#Buildings are at the heart of our fight against #climatechange. They account for approximately 34% of global energy use and 37% of global greenhouse gas emissions. [We need] to innovate & leverage tech to make buildings smarter & more efficient.

#Openplatforms such as #BuildingX represents a leap forward…enabling more informed decision-making and optimization of resources."

https://tomraftery.com/2024/03/06/cutting-carbon-boosting-profit-the-power-of-open-platforms-in-transforming-buildings/

josemurilo, 3 months ago to fediverse

"the use of the #Fediverse and #Mastodon by #government agencies offers a new paradigm in #publicsector communication, marked by increased security, autonomy, and inclusivity. However, it also brings challenges in terms of reach and complexity. As the digital landscape evolves, it is crucial for government agencies to stay informed and agile, adapting their communication strategies to serve the public effectively & responsibly."
https://about.iftas.org/2024/03/06/open-social-for-the-common-good/

josemurilo, 3 months ago to trustandsafety

"This work shows that a #decentralized approach to #moderation can lead to higher content reliability on #socialmedia. This approach is also more efficient and scalable than centralized moderation schemes, and may appeal to users who mistrust #platforms.

“A lot of research into #misinformation assumes that users can’t decide what is true and what is not, and so we have to help them. We didn’t see that at all."

https://news.mit.edu/2022/social-media-users-assess-content-1116

josemurilo, 3 months ago to mastodon

"While #Mastodon and other #fediverse services may hold promising alternatives to the algorithmic Musk-Meta hellscape we’ve been herded into, the structural oppressions of #antiblackness, misogynoir, mestizaje and #queerphobia are able to thrive in all corners of the internet. I think the fediverse has more people of color on there, but I don’t think the domination of white voices has ceased in any way. We volunteered to be voices but at a great cost.”
https://logicmag.io/policy/blackness-in-the-fediverse-a-conversation-with-marcia-x/

josemurilo, 3 months ago to random

"While some believe that the web will eventually eat itself from perpetual #AIlearningfromAI the news for the rest of us in the present is that the web is already “eating” us in little erosive bites. Sure, it’s taking our data and doing things with it too, but I’m focused on the millions of daily little processes, interactions, and errors that are messing us up, returning wrong information, and rendering our data useless."

https://www.fastcompany.com/90976171/over-automation-is-breaking-the-web

josemurilo, 3 months ago to fediverse

"Here’s the thing: if you were to take the #ActivityPub specification from the #W3C…you’d end up with something that wouldn’t correctly talk to any service. #Mastodon have a dozen or so behaviors that are not in the spec: Webfinger, SharedInbox, Privacy Scopes & Opt-Out for Search…
…these things are almost completely undocumented, and can only be developed by lengthy conversations with people who already built those things."

https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/contentnation-mastodons-toxicity/

josemurilo, 3 months ago to random

"…now, Apple says it’s reversing the decision after it “received requests” to continue supporting the feature. "
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/1/24087666/apple-disable-iphone-web-apps-eu-reversal

josemurilo, 3 months ago to random

#softwarecommons? "the two failure modes of a commons are the tragedy of the commons and enclosure. In the former, a majority of people overuses the common resource to the point of destruction, due to too few restrictions. In the latter, a minority of people gains control and excludes the majority, imposing too many restrictions. That is, same tension in commons management & software ecosystem: between user freedom and developer sustainability."
https://openpath.chadwhitacre.com/2024/towards-software-commons/

josemurilo, 3 months ago to random

“A sign of the scale of #’Twitter’s bot problem is the thriving #botindustry. Bot makers from around the world advertise their services on freelancer websites.
A computer scientist in Pakistan, sells "ChatGPT Twitter bots" for $30 to $500, depending on complexity.
In an interview with the ABC …he said could make a "fully fledged" bot that could "like comments on your behalf, make comments, reply to DMs, or even make engaging content according to your specification".

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-02-28/twitter-x-fighting-bot-problem-as-ai-spam-floods-the-internet/103498070

josemurilo, 3 months ago to random

"…a November judgment from the UK Court of Appeal means #museums can’t go on claiming #copyright in photographs of #publicdomain art works. Museums have used this claim to create costly licensing schemes. For art history books and dissertations that need the images for discussion, the costs are often prohibitive. And, it turns out, the #GLAM sector isn’t even profiting from it."

https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2024/01/19/objects-of-copyright/

josemurilo, 3 months ago to bluesky

"Friends… say #Bluesky has a “weirdness” they like and is less “scoldy” than #Mastodon, where long-time users tended to school incoming ex-Twitter users. That makes sense, when you consider that Mastodon has had time since its 2016 founding to develop an existing culture that newcomers are joining, where Bluesky has been a closed beta group until last week, and its users to date were the ones defining its culture for the future."

https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2024/02/23/the-bridge/

josemurilo, 3 months ago to random

how should #CreativeCommons respond to the use of CC-licensed work in #AItraining?
"In 2023, the theme of the CC Global Summit was AI and the Commons, focused on supporting better sharing in a world with artificial intelligence."
There were 3 opinion groups that resulted from this conversation:
A: Moat Protectors - 16%
B: AI Oversight Maximalists - 36%
C: Equitable Benefit Seekers - 32%
https://creativecommons.org/2024/02/08/what-does-the-cc-community-think-about-regulating-generative-ai/

josemurilo, 3 months ago to random

#RIPVice:
"...eventually, Vice transitioned to a string of progressively worsening corporate owners, each more dishonest, predatory – and gullible – than the last. The company was one of the most enthusiastic marks for Facebook's infamous "pivot to video" – in which Mark Zuckerberg destroyed half the media industry by tricking them into thinking that the public was clamoring for video content, based on fraudulent viewing numbers." @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/24/anti-posse/#when-you-absolutely-positively-dont-give-a-solitary-single-fuck

josemurilo, 3 months ago to random

In the aftermath of #AaronBushnell’s self-immolation, the NYTimes announced: “Man Dies After Setting Himself on Fire Outside Israeli Embassy in Washington, Police Say”.

One wonders what folks would have said in 1965 had the US newspaper of record run headlines like: “Octogenarian Detroit Woman Dies After Setting Herself on Fire, Police Say – An Event Having Nothing Potentially To Do With Said Woman’s Opposition To The Vietnam War Or Anything Like That”.

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/2/26/suicide-vs-genocide-rest-in-power-aaron-bushnell

josemurilo, 3 months ago to random

"In the days before his death, #AaronBushnell created a will detailing his final wishes that he shared with close friends.
"He took all the steps he needed to make sure that everything he had would be cared for, like his cat, he designated that to his neighbor. ... So yeah, that to me is all the sense of someone who was measured and knew what he was doing…"
https://www.npr.org/2024/02/25/1233810136/fire-man-israeli-embassy-washington

josemurilo, 3 months ago to bluesky

"If you want to scale, you have to design with scale in mind. #atproto makes several interesting choices in order to distribute the load of running the system more onto the actors that can handle load, and less on those that can’t. This way, applications running on top of atproto can scale up to large userbases without issue.

That’s the hope, at least. Earlier this week, #BlueSky hit five million users, and is far more stable than Twitter was in the early days."

https://steveklabnik.com/writing/how-does-bluesky-work

josemurilo, 3 months ago to random

The end of #search as we know it:
"By the end of 2023, 48% of the most widely used news websites across 10 countries were blocking OpenAI’s crawlers. A smaller number, 24%, were blocking Google’s AI crawler.
The proportion of news websites that blocked OpenAI varied by country, ranging from 79% in the USA to just 20% in Mexico & Poland. For Google, the figures ranged from 60% in Germany to 7% in Poland & Spain."

https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/how-many-news-websites-block-ai-crawlers

josemurilo, 3 months ago to OpenAI

"Apparently, for some people like #SamAltman and his fans, the act of generating content, no matter how garbage or senseless, is an impressive outcome:

"#openai now generates about 100 billion words per day. all people on earth generate about 100 trillion words per day."

And with this #mindset, they influence others to follow them, get impressed and feel the urge to use their tools!"

https://www.onceupondata.com/post/2024-02-18-enshittification-of-everything/

josemurilo, 3 months ago to random

#Enshitification All Around:
"These Digital Goliaths are utilizing their websites’ authority and the public’s trust in their brands to sell every product under the sun.

They’re buying magazines we love, closing their print operations, turning them into digital-only, laying off the actual journalists who made us #trust in their content in the first place, and hiring third-party companies to run the affiliate arm of their sites."

https://housefresh.com/david-vs-digital-goliaths/

josemurilo, 3 months ago to random

Entrevista com Ualid Rabah, presidente da FEPAL - Federação arabe-palestina no Brasil:
"dentro do contexto autal, eu penso que o presidente #Lula acertou em sua fala, e ele será visto no futuro como o líder que não se calou diante do #genocidio televisionado, tal qual se calaram diante de Hitler as lideranças daquele tempo."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m6i5-90B_s&t=5665s

josemurilo, 3 months ago to random

"O curioso é que a empresa não revela mais como o #Sora foi treinado, como receio das questões de #direitoautoral. Isso teria sido feito com todo tipo de vídeo da internet, filmes, séries e dados sintéticos gerados por videogames. Quando estive com #SamAltman no Brasil no semestre passado, ele enfatizou a importância de #dadossintéticos para o treinamento das IAs atuais."
#AIvsCopyright
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/ronaldolemos/2024/02/nao-da-mais-para-confiar-em-videos.shtml