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Hawkmoon May 26, 2024

OpenAI to start using news content from News Corp. as part of a multiyear deal

https://apnews.com/article/openai-news-corp-a49144d381796df5729c746f52fbef19

OpenAI to start using news content from News Corp. as part of a multiyear deal

OpenAI will start using news content from News Corp. as part of a multiyear deal between the two companies. Open AI will be allowed to display content from News Corp. mastheads in response to user questions and to enhance its products. It will have access to current and archived content from News Corp.’s major news and information publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, New York Post, The Daily Telegraph and others.

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Hawkmoon Feb 28, 2024

The New Secret Plan on How Fascists Could Win in 2024

https://factkeepers.com/the-new-secret-plan-on-how-fascists-could-win-in-2024/

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#uspolitics
#uspoliticsnews

Please read before reacting, and please share this far and wide.

The New Secret Plan on How Fascists Could Win in 2024 - Factkeepers.com

Here’s what Republicans are planning in the event Joe Biden wins re-election and Democrats hold the Senate and take the House this November.

Factkeepers.com

Hawkmoon Dec 18, 2023

OK, after a couple of days of reflection, I've decided I need to leave the Fediverse.

I came here for a community of free thinkers trying to redefine social media.

And then the powers that be decided that a company that has influenced elections in favor of Trump and Brexit is a good addition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook#Influence_on_elections

I could block them, but they'd still be here. That's not acceptable to me.

Sometimes doing the right thing isn't fun, but I need to stand by my beliefs and values.

Goodbye.

Criticism of Facebook - Wikipedia

Hawkmoon Dec 17, 2023

#wordle911 #wordle

Wordle 911 4/6*

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Hawkmoon Dec 17, 2023

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Aral Balkan Dec 17, 2023

@natebowling The assumption is Threads works the way Mastodon, etc., do. It doesn’t. It works the way Instagram/Facebook do. With algorithmic timelines, where a trillion-dollar corporation decides who sees what. A thousand people might follow you from Threads but, when you post, only three see your post.

And that’s before we get to how the current large instances can be captured via moderation, etc., and how deeming them socially acceptable legitimises their whole toxic business.

Hawkmoon Dec 17, 2023

Frank Dec 17, 2023

@davep Interested in @aral view, but for me that is not the issue. Yes, everyone can view/scrape, it's not about privacy or visibility when posting publicly. It's about feeding the Meta machine through an API and conscious decisions. It's at bare minimum opening up yourself for ingestion into their system and maybe even helping them out by interacting/reciprocating through federating.

Hawkmoon Dec 17, 2023

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chutten (he/him)Dec 15, 2023

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Hawkmoon Dec 17, 2023

Aral Balkan Dec 13, 2023

Want an alternative to the Big Web of the Googles and the Facebooks of the world?

Support our work on the Small Web:

https://small-tech.org/fund-us

We won’t take venture capital. We don’t have corporate sponsors. We don’t take half a billion dollars a year from Google. We’re just two people working to create a simple, viable alternative that will give everyone the chance to own their own place on the web.

If you share our vision, please support us.

https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/

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#SmallWeb #FundUs

Small Technology Foundation: Fund Small Technology Foundation

Hawkmoon Dec 17, 2023

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Hawkmoon Dec 17, 2023

@julie

So you find the list of mastodon instances:

https://instances.social/list#lang=&allowed=&prohibited=&min-users=&max-users=

Then choose your preferences and you get a list:

https://instances.social/list/advanced#lang=&allowed=&prohibited=advertising&min-users=&max-users=

Then you can click on an instance to go visit it.

On the main page, look in the sidebar for a button that says 'learn more'.

On the new page, scroll down to 'moderated servers' after server rules.

When you open that, you can see a list of servers they have defederated from. It depends on the instance whether they include a reason.

Mastodon instances

Hawkmoon Dec 17, 2023

Aral Balkan Dec 17, 2023

Those of you caught up debating the technical minutiae of federating with Threads are missing the forest for the trees.

This is about one thing: Affording social capital to/normalising/legitimising Meta/Facebook/surveillance capitalism (and thereby delegitimising those who oppose them).

Hey, if the author of Mastodon thinks Meta/Facebook/Instagram/surveillance capitalism is socially acceptable there must be something wrong with you if you don’t.

So thanks for that, Eugen.

(Yes, I’m livid.)