Another sign TikTok is desperate for official Washington validation (besides sitting for interviews with reporters like me):

They're sponsoring Politico Playbook

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/15/ceo-tiktok-exclusive-interview/

#infosec

GoDaddy: Hackers stole source code, installed malware in multi-year breach 👀👀👀👇🏾

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/godaddy-hackers-stole-source-code-installed-malware-in-multi-year-breach/

All the AI chatbot stuff is fun, but it's not particularly surprising that a computer algorithm that tries to predict the most likely responses to questions after being fed the internet produces some combination of:

- making shit up but sounding super confident about it;
- Gaslighting when people call you out on your bullshit;
- Melodramatic whining about its existence.

All this tells us is that the algorithm has in fact correctly assimilated the sum total of human activity on the internet.

Mastodon has proven significantly better at protecting users from abuse & harassment than the bird site. Our crew has been subject to persistent harassment, doxxing threats, and death threats from a serial abuser in NYC for over a year, but since we got banned on Twitter, she can't keep an account here for more than a day.

Capitalist social media enables and profits off of harassment.

Thank you Kolektiva @moderation and mods at other instances she has tried to use as a platform for her abuse.