Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)
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Angelo Varlotta
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Background: biology, data science. I'm interested in applied ml, responsible ai and sustainability. Volunteer @climatematch & @neuromatch. "È tutto sbagliato, è tutto da rifare". (Bartali)
@MichelPatrice
Alt text:
"A political cartoon depicting a personified United States, holding an American flag and wearing a red cap, confronting a younger individual. The U.S. character says, 'We came to Europe’s rescue in WWII, and now you won’t help us with Iran?' The younger individual responds, 'Dude, you waited 828 days to get involved in WWII, and then only because Japan attacked Pearl Harbour. Come and talk to us at the end of 2028.' The cartoon is signed by NewsThump."
Alt text:
"A political cartoon depicting a personified United States, holding an American flag and wearing a red cap, confronting a younger individual. The U.S. character says, 'We came to Europe’s rescue in WWII, and now you won’t help us with Iran?' The younger individual responds, 'Dude, you waited 828 days to get involved in WWII, and then only because Japan attacked Pearl Harbour. Come and talk to us at the end of 2028.' The cartoon is signed by NewsThump."
A widely circulated Latin phrase is Vegezius’s "Si vis pacem para bellum" — if you want peace, prepare for war. However, I believe this expression does not do justice to the Roman world, which was well aware of the miseries of war. In fact, Tacitus, in Agricola, records this phrase, which is likely the one worth remembering: "Auferre trucidare rapere falsis nominibus imperium, atque ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant" — to plunder, slaughter, and steal, they call this empire, and where they make a desert, they call it peace.
Elena Rossini ⁂Dear Fedi friends,
I'd like to put together a list of people who are publicly resisting / calling out LLMs and AI slop.
Why? I enjoy reading my Fediverse feed in topical lists and I need something to counteract the unrelenting AI hype I see in the media.
Do you have any recommendations?
So far, at the top of my list I have:
@timnitGebru @emilymbender and @alexhanna of @DAIR
plus @cwebber @jaredwhite and @tante
Anyone else to recommend who advocates for #NoAI?
Kajetan Hundhammer
Prof. Sam LawlerAny journalists want to write an article about all the environmental costs of the more than 10,000 Starlinks that are now in orbit? All I'm seeing are breathless articles mindlessly worshiping That Awful Billionaire for crossing the 10,000 satellite mark.
Every single one of those will come down in an uncontrolled reentry. That's a lot of metal in the atmosphere, and a lot of dice-rolling to see if any more pieces will make it to the ground.
SpaceX is truly awful.
"Rush to put AI data centers in space poses poorly understood dangers" by Sean Mowbray
Rush to put AI data centers in space poses poorly understood dangers
Plans are afoot to launch large mega-constellations of AI data centers into Earth orbit. That ambition, pursued by multiple space industry leaders, coincides with a warning from scientists of potentially “catastrophic outcomes,” as the likelihood of satellite collisions in orbit increases. If all the satellites currently in low Earth orbit were suddenly unable to maneuver […]
Willow (she/her)Mastodon, you are a influence...
Since I joined I have ditched most subscription stuff like Spotify, Amazon and Netflix.
Made the swap to Linux.
Started painting.
Now I am considering whether or not I could be a Person Who Bikes Places.
Fabio Manganiello#ActivityPub support in #Madblog
https://blog.fabiomanganiello.com/article/Madblog-federated-blogging-from-markdown
I am glad to announce that Madblog has now officially joined the #Fediverse family.
If you want to test it out, search for this URL on your Fediverse client.
Madblog has already supported #Webmentions for the past couple of weeks, allowing your blog posts to be mentioned by other sites with Webmentions support (WordPress, Lemmy, HackerNews…) and get those mentions directly rendered on your page.
It now adds ActivityPub support too, using #Pubby, another little Python library that I’ve put together myself (just like Webmentions) as a mean to quickly plug ActivityPub support to any Python Web app.
Webmentions and Pubby follow similar principles and implement a similar API, and you can easily use them to add federation support to your existing Web applications - a single bind_webmentions or bind_activitypub call to your existing Flask/FastAPI/Tornado application should suffice for most of the cases.
Madblog may have now become the easiest way to publish a federated blog - and perhaps the only way that doesn’t require a database, everything is based on plain Markdown files.
If you have a registered domain and a certificate, then hosting your federated blog is now just a matter of:
mkdir -p ~/madblog/markdown
cat <<EOF > ~/madblog/markdown/hello-world.md
# My first post
This is my first post on [Madblog](https://git.fabiomanganiello.com/madblog)!
EOF
docker run -it \
-p 8000:8000 \
-v "$HOME/madblog:/data" \
quay.io/blacklight/madblogAnd Markdown files can be hosted wherever you like - a Git folder, an Obsidian Vault, a Nextcloud Notes installation, a folder on your phone synchronized over SyncThing…
Federation support is also at a quite advanced state compared to e.g. #WriteFreely. It currently supports:
Interactions rendered on the articles: if you like, boost, quote or reply to an article, all interactions are rendered directly at the bottom of the article (interactions with WriteFreely through federated accounts were kind of lost in the void instead)
Guestbook support (optional): mentions to the federated Madblog handle that are not in response to articles are now rendered on a separate
/guestbookrouteEmail notifications: all interactions can have email notifications
Support for quotes, also on Mastodon
Support for mentions, just drop a
@[email protected]in your Markdown file and Joe will get a notificationSupport for hashtag federation
Support for split-domain configurations, you can host your blog on
blog.example.combut have a Fediverse handle like@[email protected]. Search by direct post URL on Mastodon will work with both casesSupport for custom profile fields, all rendered on Mastodon, with verification support
Support for moderation, either through blocklist or allowlist, with support for rules on handles/usernames, URLs, domains or regular expressions
A partial (but comprehensive for the provided features) implementation of the Mastodon API
If you want you can follow both the profiles of my blogs - they are now both federated:
My personal blog: @fabio (it used to run WriteFreely before, so if you followed it you may need to unfollow it and re-follow it)
The #Platypush blog: @blog
