JCS3

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Father, Husband, Accountant, Nerd. I grew up in Alberta, used to live in TN and now live in OH. My opinions are my own and not necessarily those of my employer
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Show threadJCS3Jun 12, 2025
@arstechnica these engines are trained on human interactions, and we rarely criticize an idea on the outset. If people are only getting answers they want to hear from these systems, the people need to be trained to ask better questions, or more questions, to push the AI to provide criticism and point out weaknesses.
JCS3Aug 18, 2023
@popehat so the addition of RICO to the Georgia charges got me wondering about the Stormy Daniel’s Hush Money and New York RICO laws. Would the past convictions of the Trump Org in New York State be enough of a pattern of criminality to add RICO to these tax avoidance charges?
JCS3Jul 31, 2023
Dan GillmorJul 31, 2023

The BBC's experiment with Mastodon is pathbreaking in English-language news -- a major organization setting up its own instance. They've really thought this through. Key language:

"We're using social.bbc as the domain, so you can be sure these accounts are genuinely from the BBC. And by linking to and from the BBC’s website, we have verified our identity on Mastodon."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub

Welcome to:
@BBCRD
@BBC5Live @BBCRadio4
@BBCTaster
@Connected_Studio
@BBC_News_Labs

The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media

Trialling ActivityPub and the federated model for social media and it's possibilities for the BBC.

BBC R&D
JCS3Mar 15, 2023
@benji is there really no way to clear or reduce the volume of PFAS in our bodies? The comment about them accumulating was a bit disheartening.
JCS3Dec 16, 2022
Humanity is doomed
https://www.cnet.com/culture/donald-trumps-nft-collection-sells-out-raising-4-45m/
Donald Trump's NFT Collection Sells Out, Raising $4.45M

Trump's "major announcement" of an NFT collection featuring himself was widely derided. But all 45,000 pieces sold in 12 hours.

CNET
Show threadJCS3Dec 12, 2022
@Daniel_Levain on a mobile device move your Mastodon app to the location you currently have your twitter app. On the desktop leave the Mastodon window open but close the twitter window when done.
Show threadJCS3Dec 7, 2022
@BGrueskin Local Journalism is in deep trouble, but it isn’t Google News and Facebook that caused it. This new link tax might provide a lifeline of support for a short window of time, but it won’t do anything to fix the fundamental problems with the local news business model. @mmasnick @onthemedia
JCS3Dec 7, 2022
The Great British Baking Show Host Matt Lucas Leaving After 3 Seasons https://tvline.com/2022/12/06/matt-lucas-leaving-great-british-baking-show-host/
The Great British Baking Show Host Matt Lucas Leaving After 3 Seasons

The Great British Baking Show will have to cook up another new co-host: Matt Lucas, who has hosted the Netflix baking competition for the past three seasons, has announced he’s leaving the sh…

TVLine
JCS3Dec 7, 2022
@popehat so with Weisselberg pleading guilty and the Trump Org now convicted of tax fraud, what chance is there that A.G. James adds a RICO charge on top of her existing charges?
Show threadJCS3Nov 18, 2022
@atomicpoet I’m not disagreeing with anything you’ve said. And quite right the current Digg isn’t what it once was, and it has a completely different business model and user engagement plan. That all being said, Digg, today is a very good curated news source.