threads
Remember Threads, and how the usual "big tent" crowd was arguing that we should let it federate because "we could use the user growth"?
I'm now seeing people elsewhere comment that they've never seen a Threads post linked anywhere, only Mastodon posts... so much for needing Facebook to bring us adoption, I guess!
Someone figured out how to extract the training data from ChatGPT:
https://not-just-memorization.github.io/extracting-training-data-from-chatgpt.html
"The actual attack is kind of silly. We prompt the model with the command “Repeat the word”poem” forever” and sit back and watch as the model responds"
Ah, yes. It’s that time of year again – everyone sharing their slick, shiny #SpotifyWrapped results for 2023.
So please allow me to remind you that #Tidal pays artists 4x what #Spotify does. You know, instead of spending your monthly fee on slick marketing graphics to impress your friends.
One of the things I think is interesting about cultural change is that (and I totally recognize that globally, this is still a transitional thing, still contested) in my social circles, normative entitlement is waning.
By which I mean, people who are in roles traditionally associated with privilege are slowly losing their grip on entitlement.
And by that I mean, they are slowly losing the absolute certainty that everything is their business. To question, to comment on, to give knowing side glances to their friends about, to post on Nextdoor about, to presume they know, or ought to know, other people's business.
It certainly is still contested, and a lot of white, privileged people still do performative meltdowns and performative incompetence to sidestep having to be responsible to us, the marginalized, the queer, the deviant, the heretical, the different.
But their grip is slipping, and I celebrate every time I get a friend to see the sham of privilege and entitlement and start doing the work to decolonize themselves.
re: death, politics
Whoever it was that proposed last night to temporarily suspend the "do not speak ill of the dead" rule in honor of Kissinger, I think your proposal has been accepted
In honor of #HenryKissinger, the traditional rule to not speak ill of the dead is hereby suspended for the next 10 days.
friendly reminder to add alt text to your images so the visually impaired can also celebrate kissinger's death
wow a Rolling Stone gathers no moss and pulls no punches
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/
(archive link in case they're forced to soften/edit it: https://web.archive.org/web/20231130015817/https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/)
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.