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one of the major relevancy advantages Twitter had over other social networks is that it wasn’t a walled garden - by maintaining the ability to view posts when not logged in it acted as a lingua franca of the social web.
over now. masterful gambit sir.
Melissa RyanOh look, the same gatekeepers who tried to convince us last year that voters wouldn't care about Dobbs or rights being stripped away are at it again.
Eric A. MeyerTwitter learned, and Reddit is fast learning, that people are not addicted to the platform, they’re addicted to the community they found there. Ruin the community, and people will leave the platform. It really is that simple.
Carl T. BergstromNot surprising that today's New York Times article about the singularity launders bullshit for big tech with just enough skepticism for plausible deniability.
More impressive: the article quotes 15 different people.
Sundar Pichai
Reid Hoffman
Bill Gates
Elon Musk
Sam Altman
Baldur Bjarnason
John von Neumann
Irving John Good
Hans Moravec
Ray Kurzweil
Rodney Brooks
Jerry Kaplan
Ryan Schaeffer
Eric Schmidt
Charlies Stross
Yes, every single one of them is a man.
Mallory's Musings & MischiefOne thing that was never emphasized enough in history class is that historical events keep happening as you get older and that it's quite stressful
seen more people wearing masks in NYC today than I have in months
mhoye"Come work for us! It's fun and rewarding and we paid for this building so you're gonna fucking sit in it whether that's useful or productive or you want to or not, we aren't measuring it and don't care. Not in your own office or anything obviously, that's crazy talk. You won't even get your own chair. And we're not paying you more for commute time or covering vehicle/transit costs or anything. This is about much, much more important things: performative management and amortizing real estate."
Watching the Succession finale with an 11yr old: “Did the good guys win?”
Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)When your business model relies on theft and you don't like proposed regulations that would expose that theft ... that's a pretty good sign the regulations are on the right track.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/25/23737116/openai-ai-regulation-eu-ai-act-cease-operating
OpenAI says it could ‘cease operating’ in the EU if it can’t comply with future regulation
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has warned that the company could pull its services from the EU if it finds upcoming regulations too onerous. The EU AI Act is currently being finalized by lawmakers and should become law next year.