My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”

Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner

Kiddo: that’s AI

*Tim Cook comes back to the stage*

It wouldn’t be an Apple event without… one more thing. In deep partnership with Sega — today on 9/9 — we’ll be announcing… the 26th anniversary Dreamcast.

Meta is downranking/hiding political content on Threads. The company says Threads will “not recommend any content/accounts that post about politics.”

Here’s the issue: what counts as “politics” is often any news abt people who have had their whole existence politicized, such as news about Black people, LGBTQ people, disabled ppl, women, etc. Climate scientists, public health experts etc also considered “political” https://www.axios.com/2024/02/09/meta-political-content-moderation-threads

I found the best use of the OpenAI API yet. https://www.chaintexts.com

Plz enjoy this fantastic AI-generated emoji chain text about 9/11 that I just generated.

There's a common false dichotomy about #Threads: cut them off, or leave it to user choice.

I can't speak to other software, but Mastodon offers a third option: limiting Threads. This can be done for all users of a server.

- You can follow Threads accounts after clicking through a warning.

- You have to manually approve followers _from_ Threads.

Note, however, that boosted posts will continue to appear in your home timeline:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/26301#issuecomment-1868240966