The irony: Russia tries to promote RuTube as the domestic alternative to YouTube. But for the platform to become economically viable (i.e., to be able to pay content producers!) it runs ads.
YouTube, meanwhile, has disabled both ads and monetisation in Russia.
Result: users stay on YouTube. Desperate RuTube removes ads.
https://zona.media/news/2023/04/21/RuTube
#Russia #Platform #YouTube #censorship #commodon @politicalscience
Welp, I'm giving another talk on satellite pollution so I have to update the numbers in my slides.
*checks https://planet4589.org/space/con/star/stats.html and https://celestrak.org/NORAD/elements/table.php?GROUP=active&FORMAT=tle*
Oh crap, there are 150 more Starlinks than when I gave a talk on this topic 1 month ago.
3908 Starlink satellites out of 7545 total satellites.
52% of all sats now owned by one awful dude. Still with effectively no regulations. This is so bad.
ChatGPT is not only fun to chat with, but it also searches information, answers questions, and gives advice. With consistent moral advice, it can improve the moral judgment and decisions of users. Unfortunately, ChatGPT’s advice is not consistent. Nonetheless, it does influence users’ moral judgment, we find in an experiment, even if they know they are advised by a chatting bot, and they underestimate how much they are influenced. Thus, ChatGPT corrupts rather than improves its users’ moral judgment. While these findings call for better design of ChatGPT and similar bots, we also propose training to improve users’ digital literacy as a remedy. Transparency, however, is not sufficient to enable the responsible use of AI.
Our new investigation:
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Secretly Accepted Luxury Trips From Major GOP Donor For Decades
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crow
Finland has been ranked as the happiest country in the world for the sixth consecutive year.
Also, here is a photo of the five leaders of Finland's largest political parties.
Vi har ikke fløjet i snart 5 år, men tager toget i stedet. Hver gang der skal bestilles tog rundt i Europa, begynder jeg med at tage en Valium…
Hvorfor skal det være så pokkers besværligt?! Jeg prøver at booke en billet, men får man at vide at billetten er udsolgt.
Når jeg så starter forfra, står den samme billet der igen?! Hvad fanden i Helvede laver I?
Jeg ved godt at jeg bare gentager noget jeg selv og andre har sagt mange gange, men det er sgudda utroligt!
If you don't like what someone is writing about, you have the following options:
1. Hide their boosts
2. Mute them
3. Unfollow them
4. Block them
5. Block the domain that hosts them
But going into their threads to police what they write about is pure asshole behaviour.
This is brilliant data-infused journalism:
Washington Post correlates terrible credit scores in the U.S. South with the refusal of state governments to expand federally funded Medicaid, creating vast amounts of medical debt and bankruptcies.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/02/17/bad-southern-credit-scores/
Republican ideologues have made their states even poorer, and their citizens far worse off in all kinds of ways. This is one of them.
Of course, they're proud of it.
Marielle Wijermars
Missing The Point
Steven Schapansky
Prof. Sam Lawler
mmitchell_ai
Justin Elliott
Miriam Boosh
4nd3rs
Chris Trottier
Dan Gillmor