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Engineers Gave Elon’s Tweets Special Treatment Because Elon Freaked Out That A Joe Biden Tweet Got More Engagement by Mike MasnickMike Masnick

What’s the opposite of shadowbanning? Maxboosting? I dunno, but whatever it is, that’s what Twitter’s frustrated and exhausted engineers gave Elon Musk after he whined (for not the first time) that people might like someone more than they like Elon. By now you know the basics: last week it was reported that Elon was getting […]

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Major Blow to LGBTQ Rights: Lesbian Mother Just Lost Her Parenting Rights to Child’s Sperm Donor by Kimberly Terasaki

The overturning of Roe V. Wade and the rise in anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric and laws have made the current state of queer rights unstable. Unfortunately, news coming out of a family law case in Oklahoma has only made it worse.

We told you this would happen.

They’re going after Obergefell, gay marriage, and gay parents in Oklahoma.

You didn’t think this would stop at trans people, did you?

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Extraordinarily Confused Congressional Rep. Thinks Social Media Companies Are Secretly Communicating With Gov’t Censors… Via Jira by Mike MasnickMike Masnick

I wrote last week about the bizarrely bad House Oversight hearing that was supposed to expose how Twitter, the deep state, and the, um “Biden Crime Family” conspired to suppress the NY Post’s story about Hunter Biden’s laptop. Of course, wishful thinking does not make facts, and we already know that story is totally false. […]

Is she trying to provide us a preview of what it will look like once Florida completes its brain drain? This is it. I found it. The absolutely stupidest thing anybody in this entire country has said this year.

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ChatGPT Is Ingesting Corporate Secrets by Bruce SchneierBruce Schneier

Interesting:

According to internal Slack messages that were leaked to Insider, an Amazon lawyer told workers that they had “already seen instances” of text generated by ChatGPT that “closely” resembled internal company data.

This issue seems to have come to a head recently because Amazon staffers and other tech workers throughout the industry have begun using ChatGPT as a “coding assistant” of sorts to help them write or improve strings of code, the report notes.

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“This is important because your inputs may be used as training data for a further iteration of ChatGPT,” the lawyer wrote in the Slack messages viewed by Insider, “and we wouldn’t want its output to include or resemble our confidential information.”…

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https://mastodon.cloud/@remixman/109874349721688109 by Andy Andy (Mastodon)
@DavidGoldfield I think this is a cool platform! I just wish that it was easier for casual users of computers to sign up. Right now you’re overwhelmed with choice with all the instances etc, which I think is confusing a lot of people.

@remixman.

@remixman @DavidGoldfield I don't see how signing up for Mastodon is any different or difficult than signing up for email.

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Katie Moussouris (she/her)🥜👋🏼 (@k8em0@infosec.exchange) (Infosec Exchange)
Attached: 1 image If this law existed when the Internet began, many of us early hackers who have some dirt on our roots yet now loyally serve our country in cyberspace today would not be here able to defend the United States against our enemies, foreign & domestic. Redirection of talent is the way

As usual, this is performative bullshit, and yet another reason why we probably should keep technology away from Republicans in case they hurt themselves further.

Let me ask you something congressman, do you like losing to ransomware gangs? Because that’s what’s going to continue to happen as long as you refuse to lean on literally the only people who can fucking help you with this: Hackers.