Mastodawn

Pekka Lund Dec 21, 2022

Brandy Zadrozny Dec 21, 2022

OK this is interesting. Mozilla starting a Mastodon instance next year...

"Now is the time, as we’re living through the consequences of 20 years of centralized, corporate-controlled social media, with a small oligopoly of large tech firms tightening their grip on the public square."

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-launch-fediverse-instance-social-media-alternative/

Mozilla to explore healthy social media alternative | The Mozilla Blog

Update: Starting May 4, 2023, we’re expanding Mozilla.social to a private beta. If you’re interested, join our waitlist. In early 2023, Mozilla will st

Pekka Lund Dec 19, 2022

Taylor Lorenz Dec 19, 2022

Here’s what really happened in the stalking incident Musk cited to ban @elonjet. Read @drewharwell and my latest story https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/18/details-of-musk-stalking-incident/ #twittermigration #twitterexodus #twitter #tech #technology

Musk blamed a Twitter account for an alleged stalker. Police see no link.

The incident last week underscored how Elon Musk’s personal concerns can influence his governance of a social media platform used by hundreds of millions of people.

The Washington Post

Pekka Lund Dec 4, 2022

@metzinger @anilkseth
I would love to hear your thoughts on #chatgpt .

I think it's already demonstrating the gap between "just a language model" and general intelligence is nowhere as big as many believe. And that applies to both AI and humans.

I can already imagine it accomplishing large projects, like writing complex software, by conversing with itself. Very much like we do it.