oh wow #Platformer and #hardfork's @caseynewton is on Jon Stewart this morning!
> … Platformer editor Casey Newton to examine what actually threatens our elections.
> … to push users toward platform owners' preferred ideologies, explore the incentives driving Silicon Valley's rightward shift, and discuss how Republicans have weaponized disinformation to undermine electoral trust and rewrite voting rules in their favor.
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#uspol #privacy #elections #SAVE
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-show-with-jon-stewart/id1583132133?i=1000755914145
some ai haters fail a quiz and get abusive about it:
> And, Casey, people did not like this quiz.
> Well, what were the findings of the quiz?
> Well, so the big headline finding is that it's basically a coin flip. Like, slightly more people, at least so far, have preferred the AI-written passages.
People caught preferring the #AI feel outraged by themselves and their inability to identify the robot?
Listening to the recent #Hardfork #podcast episode which featured a segment on the rise of AI slop taking over YouTube Kids with grotesque alphabet songs, I get to feel smug/grateful that my son is more into his Yoto player than screens. Here is one of his favourite songs to listen to, which is both funny and educational! @kevin @Casey
AFAIK the terms 'soft fork' and 'hard fork' entered the lexicon from the crypto world, where they refer to software changes that split a blockchain into sub-chains. With a soft fork, the sub-chains remain interoperable. A hard fork makes them incompatible; what IRC greyhairs might call a 'netsplit'.
But AFAICT, these terms have since been repurposed by others to refer to something similar but different; 2 ways of forking any Free Code software project.
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@Casey @kevin Is the recent Tumbler Ridge, BC shooting connection to ChatGP story on your radar? Altman met with our Premier (provincial leader) and he wasn't impressed.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/sam-altman-david-eby-meeting-9.7116693
The company behind ChatGPT is facing waves of criticism after it came out that the account of Jesse Van Rootselaar — who police say killed eight people, including six children, in Tumbler Ridge on Feb. 10 — wasn't reported to police despite posts about gun violence.
Songs with titles that do not appear in the lyrics? Idea from the recent #hardfork podcast. Answered with #RStats :
https://datannery.com/posts/finding-song-titles-that-do-not-appear-in-the-lyrics/
* Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
* Clint Eastwood - Gorillaz
* Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
* Fluorescent Adolescent - Arctic Monkeys
* ....
Can you come up with more?
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Emory
Lauren
Strypey
Mela Bee
Drew 🐘
Julian During