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So I just read the new Twitter policy on promotion of other social media platforms for free, mostly because I've seen a lot of discussion and wanted to read the entire thing. The following things are true: Elon has the right to do whatever he wants on his private platform, and, this is incredibly dumb and I kind of hope the other socials start blocking Twitter links. And finally, some of the stuff people are doing to get around this is hilarious and I hope Elon has fun playing whackamole.

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SnoopJ :python_logo:🫠 (@SnoopJ@hachyderm.io) (Hachyderm.io)
The more I see gushing uncritical praise of machine learning, or worse, completely fabricated accounts of what people think goes on inside machine learning models, the more I worry about what seems increasingly like a literacy problem on the part of users. When people don't understand a technology, they just start making things up that sound like they could be true and which fit their existing biases. What's that gonna look like going forward with stuff like LLMs?
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Elon’s Commitment To Free Speech Rapidly Replaced By His Commitment To Blatant Hypocrisy: Bans The JoinMastodon Account by Mike MasnickMike Masnick

Oh, Elon. Following on yesterday’s nonsense in banning the ElonJet account that robotically posted the public information regarding Elon’s private plane flights, and then trying to justify it later (after initially promising to keep the account alive to demonstrate his “commitment to free speech”), it appears that Elon’s commitment to free speech continues to dwindle. […]

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