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  • Using Large Language Models like for political lobbying, with a link to Stanford Law School research in this area: schneier.com/blog/archives/202

    /cc @wendyhk @awsamuel

  • Kijk aan, weer een nieuwe Nederlandse Mastodon-gemeenschap gaat van start:

    "Cultuurpers is een journalistieke lezerscoöperatie (sinds 2009) en volgt kunstenaars en het geld in de Nederlandse kunst- en cultuursector"

    cultureelpersbureau.nl/2023/01

  • Mike Gifford, CPWA @FOSDEM

    @rolfkleef …

    In addition to these natural features, Amsterdam's summer pastimes in 2050 would also include a range of cutting-edge technological innovations. Augmented reality and virtual reality experiences would allow visitors to explore and interact with the city in new and exciting ways. And the city's streets and public spaces would be filled with a vibrant array of art, music, and performance, as people come together to celebrate the summer season.

    2022-12-07, 13:47 0 boosts 0 favorites

    @mgifford a late reply, but I hope you would agree this kind of content is not really helpful in any way? 🙂

    I'm sure some AI system is able to contribute some sort of reasoning that is on par with human capabilities.

    But so far: no.

  • @david_megginson @markbrough @stevieflow
    Great to see you here, Mark!

    I am transitioning, still, from previous: work, social platforms, and what not 🙂

    Open for "what is next?"

  • checkmate 😢

    youtube.com/watch?v=ys0HyevZpQg

  • Mike Gifford, CPWA @FOSDEM

    In 450 characters what is the difference between twitter and mastodon?

    Twitter and Mastodon are both social media platforms, but Twitter is centralized and Mastodon is decentralized. Twitter has a simple user interface and focuses on short-form content, while Mastodon has a more complex and customizable interface and focuses on longer-form content and community-building. These differences impact the user experience and functionality of the two platforms.

    2022-12-04, 15:23 1 boosts 4 favorites

    @mgifford my impression with so far is that it is good at summarising a mainstream narrative, but really does not challenge anything.

    I see texts that would make good essays for high school assignments, but it's a bit like modern-day TED talks: nothing like the (definitely more elitist) earlier versions.

    A lot of talk about language models. I'd love to read more about reasoning and belief models 🙂 And concretely: to be better at differentiating twitter and mastodon!

  • Inbox 196. Not zero, but down from 600-something earlier today, so it feels like regaining control.

    (It won't be zero, because that's not my system, but 600-something was not my system either…)

  • John McChesney-Young

    @robert @awsamuel Large servers can have moderation problems, but an additional point in favor of the Goldilocks approach is that small servers will usually have poorer returns for hashtag searches, if I'm correct in thinking that results depend on someone – anyone – on your instance boosting posts with that hashtag, because otherwise your server won't know about them.

    2022-12-02, 21:28 0 boosts 1 favorites

    @jmccyoung @robert @awsamuel

    Sustainability: a small server with many external contacts needs to store local copies of federated media now.

    Hashtag searches only go to (more or less) "friend of a friend" networks, not global. It's about local context rather than global reach.

    Continuity of hosts is what I see as defining: get enough public institutions and capacity on board now around public debates, or become an irrelevant niche.

    EU: don't build the next Google but a new way of organising!

  • Web 2.0 was about "social media", then turned into the predominant North-American "social space": a consumer shopping mall.

    The is currently about "societal media". Still a predominantly Western-oriented social space, but rooted in democratic rather than feudal/private sector/benevolent dictator models.

    To preserve our key values:

    1. We need non-Western models of society in here.

    2. We need to talk about governance and "citizenship" more than about tech features.

  • 🌳 🐝 Wendy 🌍💚

    Is it possible to request a new password, when you don't have access to the e-mail address you used to sign up with on mastodon.social, in 2017?

    Maybe @rolfkleef or @BjornW can ?

    2022-12-02, 10:15 0 boosts 0 favorites

    @wendyhk @BjornW I think your only hope is to contact the staff@mastodon.social — but it should be hard 🙂 They'll have to somehow verify in a different way that the person on the new email address is really the person who owned the registered address in the past. Otherwise they're open to having accounts hijacked by social engineering…