I wonder if it wouldn’t be better if Mastodon had some kind of “for export” switch for posts. posts not marked for export would not be pushed to people on other instances who follow the author. 1/
the promise of a post-centralized social media world is different forums can have different community standards. but communities that export what other communities find wildy out-of-standards will and should be widely defederated. 2/
a “for export” flag would enable different moderation standards for internal-only conversations than for posts that will participate in the global public square. a degree of caution and diplomacy might be required for the latter that would not be desired, should not be required, for conversations “at home”, in a world of diverse, weird, not mutually intelligible homes. /fin
so often people call it sensitive content when what they mean is it’s insensitive content.
there is nothing more cliché than edgy, but it can hardly be edgy if it’s cliché.
"The most important thing about a technology is not necessarily what can be done with it in singular instances, it is rather what habits its use instills in us and how these habits shape us over time." @lmsacasas https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/lonely-surfaces-on-ai-generated-images
i know it's derivative, but these “Rate limited Please retry after…” messages are boring.
masstodon should adopt a "fail snail". or maybe a "fail tail" showing a mastodon from behind.
the conceit the dead would care enough to haunt us.
$530 for a five-day course of Paxlovid is not “attractive”. It’s extractive.
It’s well past time to listen to @DeanBaker13 and find ways for the public to cover the high fixed costs of drug development and let pill price fall to marginal cost. High fixed costs are not a justification for profiteering under patent monopolies.
from @hannah_rect@twitter.com https://khn.org/news/article/paxlovid-covid-sticker-shock-insurance/
GPT is possessed by ghosts.
what if we planned cities as three-dimensional rather than two-dimensional grids, with public elevators, with elevated streets designed for attaching structures, residential or commercial, expanding the dense streetscape rather than diluting it as “skywalks” traditionally have?
see Nicolas Kemper https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/03/seize-the-elevators
BEA Distribution of Personal Income https://www.bea.gov/data/special-topics/distribution-of-personal-income via @SteveRoth
this site is so hard to follow. i mean, i never even know who the main character is!
i my finally be able to turn on icloud backup of my iphone. see @matthew_d_green https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2022/12/07/apple-icloud-and-why-encrypted-backup-is-the-only-privacy-issue/ ht @mmasnick
The Great Wordle Strike of December 8 2022.
US Labor History will never be the same.
(I really will be skipping the Wordle! A streak is a small price to pay for solidarity!)
Long time econ blogger @maxbsawicky is exploring a run for Virginia House Delegate! https://maxspeak.net/hello-world
An accessible source of cyclone (hurricane, typhoon, etc) data http://tropical.atmos.colostate.edu/Realtime/index.php?arch&loc=global
ht @PatrickTBrown31@twitter.com @EricLevitz@twitter.com
The right to sue for defamation on balance __________ free speech norms.
76.0%
enhances
(19 votes)
24.0%
conflicts with
(6 votes)
from Matt Bruenig on the US Child Tax Credit https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2022/12/06/what-to-do-with-the-child-tax-credit-now/
[New Post] Tackling inequality from the demand side https://www.interfluidity.com/v2/9713.html
pretty soon, real life will have subtitles.
ChatGPT has its own politics.
To what degree is that an artifact of the text that's "out there". To what degree is it sensitive to the intentional or unintentional biases of its developers and trainers?
cf @mhendricks https://fediscience.org/@mhendricks/109467581564969493