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Paulie ✅May 7, 2023

Erin Kissane May 7, 2023

As someone who has participated in multi-year edit wars over, yes, Nazi shit, I will say that my biggest concern here isn’t about unedited LLM text hitting wikipedia articles—that’s v bad but probably largely fixable—but with the way Talk page sophistry is about to become absolutely fucking unmanageable as malicious editors set chatbots to do their infinite argumentation for them

To generalize: LLMs on the web’s surfaces are bad. LLMs in the backstage are much worse.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7bdba/ai-is-tearing-wikipedia-apart

AI Is Tearing Wikipedia Apart

Volunteers who maintain the digital encyclopedia are divided on how to deal with the rise of AI-generated content and misinformation.

Paulie ✅May 7, 2023

flexghost.May 7, 2023

At least 8 people were slaughtered after a mass shooting in Allen Texas yesterday

What’s their congressman do?

He gets butthurt that people don’t think thoughts and prayers are the answer

Saying people who don't believe in the power of prayer following a mass shooting aren't believers of an almighty god

This is someone who is in charge of the legislation to make these shootings slow or stop and his answer is that it’s out of his hands

Disgusting. But what do you say George Carlin?

Paulie ✅May 7, 2023

Ed Bott May 7, 2023

Good morning from the land of guns. This is the front page of today's Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Look at what's at the bottom of the page.

Paulie ✅May 7, 2023

Aaron Rupar May 7, 2023

Absolutely insane when you consider that Trump presided over a loss of 3 million jobs, while Biden has presided over the addition of more than 12 million. And yes, Covid impacted those numbers, but Trump did a horrendous job managing the pandemic. He's to blame for that.

Paulie ✅May 7, 2023

azteclady May 6, 2023

Joyful news: last night Montana state Representative #ZooeyZephyr asked journalist #ErinReed to marry her--and Erin said yes.

All happiness to them.

(and if transphobes and fascists choke on their bitterness over these two lovely women's joy, all the better)

(photo credit David Clumpner)

Paulie ✅May 7, 2023

Kaity A May 7, 2023

As part of our efforts to make the fedi a safer place for our users, we've got some quality of life changes inbound around content warnings.

One goal of this change is to make it more obvious that content warnings are present on a note, so in this case we have the regular CW prefixed with a warning shield and enboldened to make it obvious it's a content warning and not just text. (image one)

Secondly there's now an option in general to enhance this warning with an outline and inverted header color.

The setting is under Content Warnings on the Appearance settings page (Or under General in Calckey). (image two)

Turning on this option makes CWs much more noticeable. (image three)

Finally, previously if you had a CW on a boost (possible if you quoted, added a CW and then didn't have any text), the UI would create a CW'd boost, but not display the CW, and just display it as a regular boost. You could of course turn it into a quote by typing some random text, but quotes are displayed differently and appear in the replies as well.

So there's two changes.

1: Fix the UI so that boosts with a CW, but no CW in the original boosted post are now displayed with the CW from the boost..

2: There's now a handly little "Boost with CW" in the boost menu to make it super easy when you have a post that you'd really like to boost, but feel like it deserves a CW.

I've added a short capture demonstrating the whole process.

I have a few more safety related ideas that I will implement over the coming weeks as well (after clearing them with the boss @ada first, of course!)

Enjoy and stay safe, my precious people!

Paulie ✅May 7, 2023

Rita Armstrong May 7, 2023

Europe Festival in #Taipei, #Taiwan today. My friends are there as my personal photo correspondents. :)

Taiwan is standing with 🇺🇦 .
Ukraine is standing with 🇹🇼 . #StandWithUkraine️

Paulie ✅May 7, 2023

nedhamson May 7, 2023

Bill banning Chinese from owning land in Florida passes in the House https://asamnews.com/2023/05/06/bill-banning-chinese-from-owning-land-in-florida-passes-in-the-house/ (Me: Racism and xenophobia popular with GOP - hate sells for them. Who will they extend their hate to next?)

Bill banning Chinese from owning land in Florida passes in the House – AsAmNews

A bill banning Chinese citizens and other foreign nationals from buying land in Florida has passed the House, MSNBC reports. SB 264 would prohibit Chinese people who are not U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents from owning property in Florida. According to The Tampa Bay Times, the bill would also prevent residents from “foreign adversaries” like […]

AsAmNews

flexghost.May 6, 2023

Brian Kemp just signed a bill into law allowing removal of local prosecutors from office

This was created for Fani Willis.

“America can withstand attacks on her democracy from without. She is helpless to withstand them from within."

- J. Michael Luttig.