Mike Riverso

@MikeRiverso
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My refusal to participate in the reboot of Mark #Zuckerberg as the internet's Cool Friend should not be taken as support of Elon #Musk in any way, but can we not fall for another smirking fascist with his shirt off?

I’M GONNA YELL A LOT.

https://catvalente.substack.com/p/mark-fking-zuckerberg-is-not-your

Mark F***king Zuckerberg Is Not Your Friend

You know, I had other things I wanted to yell about.

Welcome to Garbagetown
Most Twitter employees did not receive any type of severance when they were laid off, and even those that did got only one month of pay. https://www.thedailybeast.com/twitter-sued-for-owing-dollar500-million-in-severance-to-ex-employees
Twitter Sued for Owing $500 Million in Severance to Ex-Employees

Courtney McMillian says most employees did not receive any type of severance when they were laid off, and even those that did got only one month of pay.

The Daily Beast
Elon Musk typing “what is the meaning of life?” into ChatGPT and have an existential crisis when it answers “42”. #xAI
Mayor-elect Olivia Chow is now Mayor Olivia Chow.
This one cuts deep:
The modern condition is mostly trying to do things on your own that people have historically achieved with a large support network and wondering why you're tired all the time.
Digital sundial

I have been saying for years that both machine learning models and all of the output from those models are derivative works of the entire training set.

It would seem that OpenAI agrees with me.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/25/23737116/openai-ai-regulation-eu-ai-act-cease-operating

OpenAI says it could ‘cease operating’ in the EU if it can’t comply with future regulation

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has warned that the company could pull its services from the EU if it finds upcoming regulations too onerous. The EU AI Act is currently being finalized by lawmakers and should become law next year.

The Verge

I'm sure this has been said before, but why aren't servers in the #Fediverse simply called "communities?"

"Join a community" or "start a community" feels both accurate and clear, not to mention welcoming. People who want to understand the infrastructure would have no trouble finding the information.

when Threads launched, a number of right wing accounts with a history of posting misinformation on other platforms were flagged with a warning label informing users that they “repeatedly posted false information”

however, it appears Threads has now removed these labels

a Meta spokesperson told Donald Trump Jr. that his account was flagged in “error” and that it’s since “been fixed”

https://mashable.com/article/threads-false-information-label-donald-trump-jr-error

Threads backtracks flagging right-wing users for spreading disinformation

Regardless, right-wing Twitter users already hate Threads.

Mashable