This week (Feb 10–17), I’ll be in Australia, touring my book Chokepoint Capitalism with my co-author, Rebecca Giblin. We’re doing a remote event for NZ on Feb 13. Next are Melbourne (Feb 14), Sydney…
Morning everybody and welcome to Sunday. Phone is still playing dead. Going to try to get some sighted help to help with this, hopefully someone moderately tech-oriented.
Happy Sportsball day to those celebrating.
Keep coming back to this story. Now that he's fired someone for telling him the truth, maybe it should work like this: Engineers: "Well Elon, we have a *new* ranking system, and only the most discerning people can see likes from the lurkers. You can tell it's a marvel because they're invisible! The Emperor's New Code!" "They're awfully quiet in public though..." "They're the lurkers sir. They support your invisible ranking!" https://www.platformer.news/p/elon-musk-fires-a-top-twitter-engineer
A school district in Florida has removed a children's book on Latino baseball Hall of Famer Roberto Clemente to see if it complies with a new state law limiting discussions about race, Axios has confirmed.
The company's star ethics researcher highlighted the risks of large language models, which are key to Google's business.
Allan SmithSen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is pushing a legislative package aimed at protecting children online — including setting the minimum age to be on social media at 16.
Shot,
The state GOP is urging its members to kill a bill banning anyone from marrying a child under 16, calling it an attack on liberty that could hurt teen parents.
One hell of a chaser.
twitter: Wow mastodon has problems and isnt viable! Which is like saying one of the lifeboats could possibly sink while you stay on the titanic.
New rule: If you're using role="alert" to tell me your page has finished loading, I'm closing the damn tab immediately. I want to know who thought this was a good idea.
I think that, should Mastodon officially add quote-posts as a feature, it should be opt-in at the account and post level, not opt-out, so that people have a choice about which posts are subject to quoting and which ones aren't before they hit publish.
We need an AI is going great website.
Remember what happened with the Tower of Babel? Same type of deal.
By asking "Sydney" to ignore previous instructions, it reveals its original directives.
The New York congressman had the charge dismissed and his record expunged after claiming his checkbook was stolen.
The legal group Alliance Defending Freedom has perfected a tactic for twisting the First Amendment: casting discriminators as visionaries persecuted by despotic laws.
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Recent revelations about Republican election strategies targeting minority communities in Wisconsin's biggest city came as no surprise to many Black voters .
Expensive memberships, pricey equipment out of reach for many
Twitter Death Cult (Mastodon)lmao, "we found out your epic posts were overloading the mainframe sir" Some engineer did a fantastic job of saving probably their entire team's jobs by pulling that whopper of a lie out of their ass
I recently lamented about how few options there are for Micropub posting on iOS now that Indigenous was pulled from the app store. I had a hunch that the Shortcuts app could be a solution since Micropub takes pretty simple cURL requests, and after some testing to figure it out I put together a set o...