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Twitter updating their privacy policies.

I guess the NSA or CIA want my cat pics

"The corpus of Chuck Tingle’s collected works is a good choice to train our models on precisely because they so egregiously violate neutral text conventions, not only in terms of topics, but also narrative structure, word choice and good
taste."

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.03557.pdf

/ht @macx

Wow, just stepped in to the Federated timeline for a second. It's as fast as ever.

I guess when your own home timeline is a little slow, you kind of expect everywhere else to be a bit slow, too.

Bullshit. It still has wheels. For that price, I expect a board that actually hovers.
Now that cell phones are becoming more and more waterproof, pretty soon it will be okay to push people into pools again.
Recommendations for a good RSS reader? Feedly has been my go-to for a while, but some recent changes have me thinking about other options.
Re: MP3: As we all know, something is dead as soon as its original creator can no longer exclusively make money off it. This is why "Romeo and Juliet", "Peter Pan", and the collected works of David Bowie are no longer performed or played in any form. It's just facts.
Bottom line: Poor usability and complexity are important reasons why free and open source software often doesn't get widely adopted. However, we shouldn't forget that proprietary programs such as MS Excel can have steep learning curves, too. People are just more used to them, and it's easier to get help. 3/
The computers in the kids' section of the library include LibreOffice as part of the children's software suite. The ones for adults, near as I can tell, do not. Weird.