Mastodawn

Idea: Mastodon should allow adding rel=me links to Mastodon profiles to allow an account to verify other accounts.

(Or maybe a specific rel=trust?)

This can be used to create a web of trust.

e.g., For Gaza Verified, we have verified about ~250 accounts so far using video interviews. But that sort of verification doesn’t scale. And if we trust these accounts to be people from Gaza, we should trust them to verify people they know from Gaza. So Gaza Verified and the 200+ verified accounts become a trust root.

If they could then add rel=me links to their profiles to say “I verify this account is by a Palestinian from Gaza” (which is all we do), then we would start creating a decentralised web of trust.

Thoughts, @staff @haubles and #mastodon and #fediverse in general?

#webOfTrust #federated #decentralised #verification #GazaVerified

Sevoris May 30

Iris May 30

There is something distasteful about people with considerable power telling people with rather less power how much *everyone* will have to sacrifice, especially when the people with less power often don't have enough of anything at all.

Sevoris May 19

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tante May 18

Sascha Lobo: Ich will, dass deutsche Unternehmen den Tech-Faschismus prägen, nicht die vom Ausländer.

Is okay, Opa. Zivi kommt gleich.

Sevoris May 17

Rationality is in many ways a social construct of which kind of actions don‘t run against the grain of established power structures

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Sevoris May 13

@iris_meredith And I mean that entirely genuinely.

Like at least the cybersecurity specialists at my university wouldn't take this lying down, looking back at the lectures I had with them.

There's some Serious Motivation about in those parts.

(Maybe in parts also to join the parties of Mordor I guess, but motivation for sure)

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Sevoris May 13

@iris_meredith "Honorably Universities revolutionary subcommittee for DNS"

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Sevoris May 13

@iris_meredith I genuinely think their goal is to be able to blow up the internet before then. Lock at all the pushes to put internet access behind clear-name authentication.

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Sevoris May 12

@jitterted good to hear tbh that I'm not the only one with that kind of heuristic. Obvious generated artifacts just make it super difficult to establish trust up front.

Sevoris May 12

Ted M. Young May 12

Once again, if you use AI-generated images (including diagrams), I’m going to be wary of the surrounding writing, unsure if that has been generated as well. There’s lots of free (non-AI) images out tere, and tools to create diagrams.

Sevoris May 12

Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)May 12

Some reflections on frequently unasked questions about stochastic parrots (the phrase and the paper):

https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/stochastic-parrots-frequently-unasked-questions-49c2e7d22d11

Stochastic Parrots 🦜: Frequently Unasked Questions

It’s been a bit over five years since the Stochastic Parrots paper (Bender, Gebru et al 2021) was published (and somewhat longer since…

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