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hko 😷🪁6d ago

Aral Balkan 6d ago

RE: https://mas.to/@therightarticle/116254712219000371

“Vote with your wallet,” they say. Forgetting who has the largest wallets…

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hko 😷🪁6d ago

@evacide ugh

hko 😷🪁Mar 18

Timnit Gebru (she/her).Mar 16

Not to toot our own horns but I feel like we packed so much in this one hour panel with Karen Hao and John Palfrey.

You can find the recording at https://www.youtube.com/live/I1tJnM81NCM

Reclaiming our Humanity in the Age of AI

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hko 😷🪁Mar 17

Joseph Cox Mar 16

A new study finds that texting a random stranger is probably better to mitigate loneliness than talking to an AI-powered chatbot

https://www.404media.co/chatgpt-loneliness-study-college-students-random-strangers-texting/

Texting a Random Stranger Better for Loneliness Than Talking to a Chatbot, Study Shows

A newly published study of how college students interact with chatbots and human strangers showed talking to a random person offers more connection than an LLM.

404 Media

hko 😷🪁Mar 17

Global Museum Mar 16

There's a widespread myth that medieval people used spices to cover up the taste of rotten meat.

The whole story traces back to one book. In 1939, a scientist named J.C. Drummond published The Englishman's Food and suggested that medieval recipes were so heavily spiced because the meat was frequently tainted. No evidence. Just an assumption. One sentence in one book published 85 years ago.

@Dr_TheHistories #medieval #spices #food #history

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hko 😷🪁Mar 17

@mhoye wtf!!1 It's like Meshuggah met the Teletubbies in a cauldron of very odd psychedelics.

hko 😷🪁Mar 17

Matt May Mar 17

If you told me in 1990 that a coalition of Opus Dei and Italian fascists were going to platform a gay billionaire Republican to challenge the pope on end-times doctrine, I would conclude that one if not both of us was having a stroke

hko 😷🪁Mar 17

Lars Wirzenius Mar 17

Real name is the name you use and by whom others know you. You can have many, for different contexts. For example, a name within your immediate family, an another among each friend group.

Legal name is the name your government knows you by. Most governments only allow one.

Do not confuse these. Do not say "real" when you mean "legal".

#rant #names

hko 😷🪁Mar 16

Eugen Rochko Mar 16

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/1

10 years today.

hko 😷🪁Mar 15

Jon Snow Mar 13

A redditor (Ok_Lingonberry3296) traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and lobbying records across 45 states to figure out who's behind the age verification bills.

The answer is Meta - a company that profits from your data writing laws that collect more of it.

Page: https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings?tab=readme-ov-file

Page backup: https://archive.ph/2026.03.13-193015/https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings?tab=readme-ov-file

Reddit discussion: https://web.archive.org/web/20260313143853/https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_billion_in_nonprofit_grants_and_45/

#Meta #Facebook #AgeVerification #privacy #surveillance #dystopia #socialmedia #technology