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"'I Don't Believe You:' Artist Banned from r/Art Because Mods Thought They Used AI"
#Comment: Pandora's Box is open & likely won't close again. Soon enough people will doubt every piece of content, as it could be synthetic.
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Open Interface Media Platforms?
Dreaming of a world where all media platforms (Twitter, Pinterest, TikTok, etc.) offer raw fire-hose data access and let users easily integrate their own personalized recommendation (& summarisation, etc.) AI engines of choice with it. Enough already with abusive paternalism.
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The "Influence Maximization Problem" (IMP) is considered to be NP-Hard. Yet given a large enough training data set, heuristics perform surprisingly well. "Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win." - Robert A. Heinlein
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The Term "Weblog" Is 25 Years Old
The Wikipedia article for “Blog” says that the term was coined by Jorn Barger on December 17, 1997. Reading the Wikipedia article about Jorn Barger, we learn:
On December 17, 1997, inspired by Dave Winer's Scripting News and running on Winer's Frontier publishing software, Barger began posting daily entries to his Robot Wisdom Weblog in the hope of finding "an audience who might see the connections between [his] many interests." These postings featured "a list of links each day shaped by his own interests in the arts and technology," thus offering a "day-to-day log of his reading and intellectual pursuits” and coining the term "weblog" as a novel form of web publishing.
A “log of daily activities published on the web” became a “weblog” which then became a “blog”. I started what we now call “blogging” back in 2001 on a site called Robidog and been on and off blogging ever since, and since 2018 consistently on this site. Time flies. Happy Birthday to “weblog”!
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FilterBubble Trap
The FilterBubble creates a tiny world of safety and security, but it also traps people in their own fears and anxieties. By only allowing people to see what they want to see, it can limit their understanding of the world and lead to a lack of empathy for those different from them. It also creates an “echo chamber” of sorts, in which people only hear their own opinions and views reinforced and never have a chance to learn and explore different perspectives. (This text was generated by GPT3)
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Sealioning is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity ("I'm just trying to have a debate"), and feigning ignorance of the subject matter.
Comic by Wondermark: "Pardon me, I couldn't help but overhear..."
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Twitter rival Mastodon rejects funding to preserve nonprofit status
"Rochko is Mastodon’s sole shareholder and, according to its 2021 annual report, he paid himself €2,400 per month last year, a figure he said has since risen by €500."
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Random Internet Conversation from January 1994
"This decentralized network welcomes hackers, phreaks, virii coders, crackers, cyberpunk wannabees, civil liberties groups, cypherpunks, futurists, artists, and anyone anti-commercial."
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A more mindful internet experience
Imagine there was a web-browser which changed the internet experience in such a way, that after ever session you walked away feeling significantly more relaxed, mindful & happy than before. Akin to visiting a SPA or massage studio. Far from being utopian, i believe we can design this today
