“Do I think #LinkedIn is the digital River Styx, where damned souls clamber over each other and claw at the boat passing overhead in the dim hope of salvation from those who have escaped the shambling horde? I do. But if we're all in hell together, we might as well try to lift each other up.”

https://taggart-tech.com/reckoning/

RE: https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/116421231610008358

The stupid is overpowering

Well.

That's not at all an absolutely horrifying idea.

Nope.

(Headline: AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails
Defunct startups are being liquidated for their Slack archives, Jira tickets, and email threads—operational exhaust that AI labs now treat as premium training data. )

https://archive.is/A0KWF

Advice for community managers:

Use the Olivia Hill rule.

It's surprisingly easy to enforce:

Fascists get really upset and will talk to you about why the rule is bad.

You then ban them.

That's it, that's all the work it takes!

The one straightforward and extremely well-documented fact about kid's safety on the internet:

The *overwhelming* majority of child sexual predators, in the high 90s percent-wise, are right in your community. They're not on the Internet. They're at your church, your school, your kid's clubs, your sports activities, and -- sadly -- your family gatherings.

Whatever else age verification is, it's not got anything to do with protecting children.

RE: https://fediscience.org/@jameshowell/115334661926663394

Sorry guys I don't make the rules I just gotta post this again

Well this is truly bad. US national level OS-level age verification bill. https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8250/all-info

The text of it isn't out yet.

EDIT: Well the text is now out and it's as bad as you could imagine. It's not even just that you need to verify your age to access a website... operating systems must verify your age to let you *use a computer at all*

EDIT EDIT: Thanks to @Andres4NY for pointing out that it also holds responsible anyone who has any software shipped on the operating system of a computer, meaning FOSS developers eveywhere