Mastodawn

Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)Jan 20, 2023

Relocating to @tokyo_0 ... see you on the other side 🙏

Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)Jan 20, 2023

Casey Newton Jan 19, 2023

More good stuff on CNET's AI scandal from The Verge: "A former CNET employee says that Red Ventures was using automated technology for content long before the AI byline began cropping up in November. They say a tool called Wordsmith — nicknamed “Mortgotron” internally because of its use in mortgage stories — has been used for at least a year and a half."

https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/19/23562966/cnet-ai-written-stories-red-ventures-seo-marketing?utm_campaign=theverge&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Inside CNET’s AI-powered SEO money machine

CNET’s AI-generated stories shocked readers when they were brought to light last week. But Red Ventures, the private equity-backed marketing-turned-media-company, has a plan for the automated content.

The Verge

Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)Jan 20, 2023

Ayo^Jan 18, 2023

Sunrise (but not really).
I think this is Showa Memorial Park.
https://goodtalk.cc/posts/2023/0118
#DailyPhoto #Tokyo #Japan #Photography #マストドン写真部

Sunrise

Good Talk

Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)Jan 20, 2023

Anirvan Chatterjee Jan 18, 2023

The catacomb-like underground markets of Kolkata, India are trippy

#Kolkata #Calcutta #Gariahat #India #MastIndia #MastodonIndians

Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)Jan 20, 2023

selfcare.tech Jan 19, 2023

Don’t compare your life to others, there’s no comparison between the sun and the moon, they both shine when it’s their time. ~ anonymous”

Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)Jan 20, 2023

Show thread

소주한잔 Jan 20, 2023

Korean police and secret police have a long and sordid history of suppressing unions. It includes #torture and murder and extends well in to the democratic period of the 1990s and even beyond.

#korea #union #1u #kctu

https://jacobin.com/2020/12/south-korea-labor-activist-kim-jin-suk-hanjin-crane

The Welder Who Helped Bring Democracy to South Korea

South Korean labor activist Kim Jin-suk inspired her country back in 2011 by occupying the top of a 115-foot shipyard crane to protest worker layoffs and defend workers’ rights. Now, as she fights for her life against breast cancer, she’s demanding her job back.

Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)Jan 20, 2023

Adam Gonnerman Jan 20, 2023

#Twitter Officially Bans All Third-Party Apps

https://flip.it/n5XgQI

Twitter Officially Bans All Third-Party Apps [Update]

Twitter today confirmed that it is no longer permitting third-party developers to create Twitter clients, with the information quietly shared in an...

MacRumors

Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)Jan 20, 2023

midwesterner 🦬Jan 20, 2023

#Twitter vibe versus #Mastodon vibe in two toots

Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)Jan 19, 2023

Josh Sternberg Jan 19, 2023

NYT: "Hours before Microsoft announced 10,000 layoffs, its biggest round of job cuts in roughly eight years, top executives enjoyed an intimate performance by the singer Sting."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/19/business/dealbook/esg-business-davos.html