This model collapse could have been a robots.txt file.
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Michael Graaf
@michaelgraaf@kolektiva.social
mastodon 4.6.8Survivor of two involuntary fedi migrations, thank goodness for data export and import. Rather risk instance demise than corporate swords of Damocles. Avatar = Signal contact. Lifelong activist. Cape Town
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@EUCommission If the Digital Services Act introduces "age check" (identity disclosure) requirements for social media then *that* is the issue here.
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@QasimRashid I think this is an attempt to exclude Chinese investment in Zambia's minerals. Instead, the Zambian govt should ask China to sponsor the medication.
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@HeyLaiverd @maxleibman I'm curious to know how you think someone using CW doesn't "Let [you] be the judge if [their] content feels offending to [you]"?
Is it because you have to click first?
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@tek There's another dimension to this: even before the chatbot pandemic, enterprising Africans, many in Kenya, were doing assignments for students worldwide, cheaply if you had hard currency. Hence "Kenyan" style was incorporated in the training data of the chatbots from the start.
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@Hex@kolektiva.social Widespread multilingualism is one of the strengths of #SouthAfrica. Indigenous languages collectively constitute a majority, & for all its sins, apartheid gave each its own bureaucracy including university & radio & TV. Ironically citizens privileged by apartheid were denied instruction in local majority languages; most remain linguistically disabled (monolingual or weakly bilingual) & their children only slightly better off, while the average citizen is fluent in two or three languages. The new system still privileges hegemonic languages by not budgeting for a level playing field #austerity
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Big if true. Prof Postol has been saying this all along. Thanks, Unca Donald. https://youtu.be/8y3XB9xUcnc
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Kagan wants people to forget that it was exactly himself & his ilk who pushed for this for decades. Indeed, they provided the writing on the wall for Iran to arm itself and put everything strategic underground.
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@regendans@todon.eu A particularly unusual part of my fingerprint is that I appear to be using MacOS on a non-Apple machine (not true, btw). Seems to be a spoof feature of this FF fork.
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@librecast @debian @vagrantc @NGIZero @Codeberg "Multicast is networking with consent. Unfortunately, today's infrastructure does not fully support end to end multicast." https://nlnet.nl/project/Librecast-OverlayMulticast/
@mttaggart I destroyed it long ago by renaming it degenerative "A.I." Once its output is ingested as training data, the marginal usefulness declines exponentially.
The Catholic Parliamentary Liaison Office & the Jesuit Institute invite you to take part in a Webinar on MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS, taking place on Thursday 4th June 2026 at 19h00.
This conversation will explore the ethical, social, & human dimensions of Artificial Intelligence through the lens of Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical teachings.
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Latest on the furore within the Wikimedia Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation#Community_tech_team_disbanding
This is the kind of stuff that makes rocketry justifiable, unlike the human space-travel-tainment or comic-book-villain orbital-nightmare genres https://us.list-manage.com/c9lZixapK8V?e=4d51355afa&c2id=a41d5f4bd5943a264fd18ca7f1f738cb
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@scottsantens@hachyderm.io Universality is a no-brainer, *what exactly is provided* is the question. Elon et al want it to be only a cash dole, a boost for the retail sector which sensing fresh demand, inflates those items. Whereas universal basic goods & services sourced with economies of scale are deflationary & humane. By all means, add a cash dole once those are secured.
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@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place The best time to start migrating from Twitter to Masto was well before Musk bought it, because there were still bridges (a tweet automatically became a toot & vice versa). He shut them down of course.
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@nswigger@mstdn.party The propaganda was only necessary because immediately before becoming bogeyman, he'd been an ally against... Iran. The original bogeyman (not counting, of course, those too strong to attack directly).