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Justin ⏚
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mastodon 4.7.3Going slow and fixing things.
I write http://www.StayGrounded.online, a newsletter about establishing healthy boundaries with the digital world.
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@ketan If you think about it, "making fraud consequence-free" is really the only viable commercial use for LLMs.
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@danderson@hachyderm.io It's interesting to see what sort of things humans put their effort into when survival/comfort isn't dependent on it.
Sometimes I think about how if money was removed from everyone's equation, being a waiter at a greasy spoon diner would be a really fun job!
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@TechConnectify@mas.to This video finally convinced me to throw out my blue LED Christmas lights
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@kevin@theforkiverse.com No shade at Stash, but I've been using @wallabag@fosstodon.org since Pocket shut down and I'm loving it!
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These fellas are gonna regret auto-boosting that hashtag
As the quality of search goes down, people are forced to rephrase and search again to find what they want.
Oh wait sorry, it's apparently because *checks notes* people love AI.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/920815/google-alphabet-q1-2026-earnings-sundar-pichai
A really nice-to-see piece by @ardent_handsaw@wandering.shop that echoes my experience finally switching to Linux. It's time to get the word out that, well, it's kinda boring (in a good way) now. And that fact makes it really really exciting.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/918797/switched-to-linux-dont-miss-windows
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@GottaLaff @TechConnectify @jztusk @mastodonmigration @Teri_Kanefield @Popehat @mmasnick @mattblaze Furthermore, trolls are on the lower end of the "reasons to avoid Twitter" list while the owner is posting antisemitic conspiracies. Meta quite literally enabled genocide in Myanmar. The Fediverse may require a greater degree of personal responsibility but supporting those companies by encouraging one's following to go there is, IMO, morally contemptible.
Honestly surprised Google would do something that makes an app less cluttered with crap!
I'm sure they'll still run plenty of AI scam ads of "Elon musk" pushing some crypto. But this is a start!
https://www.theverge.com/streaming/912898/youtube-shorts-feed-limit-zero-minutes
"Pay no attention to the LLM in the corner that can't set a timer and bullshits about it's ability to set a timer, this superintellice is so powerful it will break capitalism."
https://www.vox.com/politics/485461/openai-economic-policy-superpac-sam-altman
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@amsterdameric@mastodon.social Same! My favorite thing about Vonnegut is that he proves you don't need fancy words to convey fancy ideas.
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@fabio@manganiello.eu Hopefully Ubuntu Touch (@ubports@mastodon.social) gets a boost from this!
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@cragsand@mastodon.social @nileane@nileane.fr Also there is essentially zero incentive for anyone to start an instance, since it's functionally just providing free hosting for BlueSky (the company).
My gut says they just wanted to start a traditional social media platform, but wagered that obfuscating the structure behind a "decentralized" protocol would give a veil of legitimacy.
It feels similar to how crypto is "decentralized" but also not really (It bears repeating that Graber and Dorsey are crypto fans).
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@fleg@chaos.social @nileane@nileane.fr What do you expect coming from cryptocurrency fanatics.
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@cragsand@mastodon.social @nileane@nileane.fr The answer to all your questions is "No". There is no major functional difference between instances.
Read this for more info: https://rys.io/en/167.html
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@randomwalker @sayashk
Well said! And the tech bros love the "debate" because it makes them seem mysterious and godlike.
https://www.staygrounded.online/p/how-chatgpt-makes-the-statue-of-liberty
"Ram is 900 dollars because of this"😅
Where’s my meatloaf
Those who know me know I have long made the argument that hosting AI slop is a bad business model because viewers will not find it very interesting and leave.This video makes a great argument that even if there *is* a large audience for slop, that audience will STILL leave which is something I hadn't considered.
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@randahl @everton137 I'm about to be the biggest fucking reply guy right now but that AI generated banner is not helping this petition look legit.
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@godlessmom@mas.to exactly! It's not a town square, it's an arena. Whoever fights, the house will profit.
https://open.substack.com/pub/staygrounded/p/its-nothing-like-a-town-square