Mona⁷"The devolution of man."
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staff engineer at BinX • organizer @jsconfbp @cssconfbudapest • ex-IBM / @tc39 ex-Ustream • geek • toots are mostly in English, some in Hungarian • he/him
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Karsten SchmidtRE: https://mastodon.social/@jwz/116078186911677336
Taking @jwz's suggestion to substitute "AI" with "cocaine" in various discourse, here're some adjusted & translated choice nuggets from the German government's official AI/Cocaine Strategy website... 🙃
"Five year cocaine strategy - where does Germany stand?"
"Cocaine is key to the world of tomorrow."
"'Cocaine made in Germany' is set to become a globally recognized seal of quality."
"Germany should become an attractive location for the world's brightest minds in cocaine."
"In the world of work, too, cocaine should always be used for the benefit of all employees."
jwz25 years ago today, Bad_CRC posted the primordial meme video "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" on Newgrounds.
In honor of this important anniversary, I downloaded the original Flash SWF file from Internet Archive, played it using Ruffle in a full-screen window, and replaced the audio with the original MP3 of "Invasion of the Gabber Robots" by The Laziest Men on Mars. So this is probably the highest fidelity encoding possible, without going back to the original forum GIFs.
https://jwz.org/b/yk3i
Paul Campbell
Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉
Phil
Ana Tudor 🐯Who did this? https://loops.video/v/cE5ykU_u1g
kravietz 🦇European Twitter exploded following yesterday’s rants by US and Russian hardliners calling to “abolish EU”.
Lots of voices like “we need European social media!!”
And I said, “actually, you know what, we kind of have one for years…” 😆
Some people started complaining “but nobody uses Mastodon” and I once again had no choice but to explain that if “nobody uses” then how come I’ve got 3k+ followers here and engaging in truly interesting discussions not less often than there😁
There’s two data points where Fediverse can be indeed seen as less attractive than US cortisol aggregators:
• number of engagements, but granted that up to 60-70% of these on Twitter are generated by bots who cares? Maybe media advertising agencies do, but I don’t.
• presence of public persons - this is where Fediverse actually loses, because it’s a network that grows between them and can’t be “invited”
Lots of voices like “we need European social media!!”
And I said, “actually, you know what, we kind of have one for years…” 😆
Some people started complaining “but nobody uses Mastodon” and I once again had no choice but to explain that if “nobody uses” then how come I’ve got 3k+ followers here and engaging in truly interesting discussions not less often than there😁
There’s two data points where Fediverse can be indeed seen as less attractive than US cortisol aggregators:
• number of engagements, but granted that up to 60-70% of these on Twitter are generated by bots who cares? Maybe media advertising agencies do, but I don’t.
• presence of public persons - this is where Fediverse actually loses, because it’s a network that grows between them and can’t be “invited”