Something snapped into place in my mind. There is an anti-AI position that has absolutely nothing to do with luddism, or any other anti-tech position.
AI is cognitive suburbanization.
Think about it. Architecting everything so that I can't do even the most basic thing without gratuitously using a big, bloated, planet-destroying energy hog- one that *in theory* saves time, but actually just wastes it. Reducing all my options to the same generic, regurgitated, cookie cutter slop.
In case you haven't heard yet... It's not just your phone, it's a lot upstream from your phone that's broken this morning.
As a person on Slack just said: "I can’t guarantee that it wasn’t you doing something wrong, but also it’s everyone else."
LB: the success of the HPV vaccine is a great demonstration of the public health impact of viruses that don't immediately disable or kill. We have been underestimating the disease burden for years.
ME/CFS and Long COVID research are highlighting the impact of long-ignored illnesses like EBV, HHV-6, CMV, etc. But we need to actually fund and support it!
You matter.
Unless you moving at light-speed.
Then you energy.
Lately, not an hour goes by without someone asking me about what infosec.exchange is “doing about Threads”. There’s a lot of mis- and dis-information running around the fediverse as of late about Threads beginning to federate, along with some legitimate concerns. This post is not about my personal views, but rather my plans for Threads and some instructions.
At the moment, Threads.net is silenced (aka limited) on infosec.exchange. That means that infosec.exchange accounts won’t see threads.net posts or accounts, and threads.net accounts can’t follow infosec.exchange accounts without approval of the person being followed. This gives people the ability to search for a threads.net account and bypass the warning to follow them. From there, it is like interacting with any other fediverse account. That works fine for now as there are not many threads.net accounts exposed to the fediverse, but it doesn’t scale very well for people who want to interact with threads.net accounts in the future.
The big picture plan for threads.net on infosec.exchange is this:
Q&A
Q: I think you are a terrible person not blocking threads.
A: I am sorry it didn’t work out between us. I am but an imperfect human trying my best to navigate a complicated world. There are other instances that may be more to your liking.
Q: Will the new instance block instances that don’t block threads.net?
A: I do not currently see value in this beyond being punitive to other instances, so no, there are no current plans to do that.
Q: I’ve been told that instances will collapse once threads starts federating. Aren’t you worried about that?
A: I worry about many things. This isn’t one of them. For sound technical reasons.
Q: What if no one wants to use your new instance or what if everyone leaves infosec.exchange due to your poor decision making?
A: I save a lot of time and money.
Q: What happens when $terribleaccount on threads.net starts harassing people?
A: I will block the account, just like I do today.
Q: Aren’t you worried about the moderation of threads.net?
A: Not really. I get to deal with problematic instances and problematic people all day, every day. If it gets to be too much, I’ll reassess.
Q: How do I block threads.net on my account?
A: This is how:
These instructions are how to block threads.net via a web browser. Some mobile apps also expose this feature and some don’t, and I don’t really have the ability to create instructions for the 20+ different mobile apps.
Step 1 – search for threads.net
Step 2 – Select a threads.net account:
Step 3 – Click on the menu next to the account name in the profile view:
Step 4 – block the domain
That’s it.
https://blog.infosec.exchange/2023/12/27/threads-and-infosec-exchange/
My 1 year old son has just started making noises when he plays with cars. He doesn’t say “brrrrm” or similar, he says “eeeee”. We own electric cars.
Think of it, a future where cars, buses, trucks, tractors go “eeeee” instead of “brrrrrm” in the minds of children.
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