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Getting paid out of the trumpcoin money laundering slush fund is 🤌🤌🤌
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Double dipping on my protestor payments and fascist rallygoer payments
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I'll be ok. Anything that happened to me is trivial compared to what they're doing to the people they're kidnapping. Thank you though
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I have been sort of puzzled by your hope for them, because the trick is really very cheap and changes nothing about the fundamentals of the model.
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I think it's worth mentioning how totally the mood switched the INSTANT the cops weren't around
When people weren't scared of getting gassed to shit
When the whole city started cheering
Cops make protests more violent. Every time
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To the absolute legend who sent me a Venmo to pass off to Sean, thank you! It’s been shuffled along.
If you wanna support Sean’s reporting, send him a venmo at ACatWithNews. He’s been working nonstop since yesterday and could use a boost
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oh and make sure you make it clear how i have no values and look down on everyone who does
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literal south park levels of labor consciousness.
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"who cares that our active advancement of this industry will not only yield ever more ownership of the world to the tech giants, but create the worst kind of agentic total surveillance capitalism imaginable. Not my problem, I just write code, and more code is my only system of values."
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Incredible:
> LLMs really might displace many software developers. That’s not a high horse we get to ride. Our jobs are just as much in tech’s line of fire as everybody else’s have been for the last 3 decades. We’re not East Coast dockworkers; we won’t stop progress on our own.
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Really on to something, as you always have been
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On top of all this, the CSU didn't disclose how much ChatGPT Edu cost us. My colleague Adam Swenson had to file a public records request for the subscription contract, and it turns out we're paying $16.9 million for 18 months of service.
drive.google.com/file/d/1EpYZ...
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And im personally into introspecting into them and being able to extract metadata like the links and etc u describe
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We purposely left room in the data model to allow for indexing other things than torrents
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Super interested in cool new file formats. Super interested in providing an indexing layer for them :)
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Some of the stuff they've gone after has been surprising, like research grant data - that's just a list of what has been funded in the past. Others more predictable - climate data, any mention of queer people, OSHA/niosh data, etc.
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if the positive idea of reclaiming power and making social networks that can power movements instead of dissipate them, support human connection instead of exploit it doesn't excite you, then maybe the negative vision of no longer being victimizable by the surveillance ad market might
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E.g. amazon patents using message contents to "target campaigns to users when they are in the most receptive state to targeted advertisements." That's Alexa listening to you in a fight with your partner, twitch when you're lonely watching a stream
patents.google.com/patent/US905...
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E.g. obviously google sees the purpose of its generative "AI" as being able to auto generate ad copy in search, YouTube, assistant. If you wonder why guys like Andrew Tate are so popular, it's not because of some mystical Problem with Boys, it's the YouTube ad market.
abc.xyz/assets/inves...
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Thank you. Just getting started. So much to do. We're trying to start a counterattack that gets critical data off single-point of failure systems in general. Trying to make direct collaborations with the affected groups.
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I'll save the thread about the actual goal of the project for later, but when it comes to distributing a shitload of data across a bunch of peers with few resources, of varying expertise and commitment, you still can't beat bittorrent. People who have never heard of p2p can get rolling in 10 minutes
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Still need to finish reading implementation, but if I'm reading right, being able to have provable partial sync in the event a tracker goes down is sorta exactly what we need. Bunch of things to work out first but it looks like the induction idea is pretty portable
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Just catching up with sync v1.1, really cool work. Investigating routes to mutable torrents and using this for synchronizing dataset/torrent metadata across federated trackers and this is definitely on the menu now.
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skepticism and defensive development like this is such a good sign of health for a network. true power sharing doesn't exist if it's not possible to walk, and that makes the whole system healthier by taking the worst abuse scenarios off the table.
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the problems of horizontal discoverability and repair in the case of relay partition (e.g. the worst-case 'hostile takeover of bsky inc.' scenario) remain, but i am sure that these folks will be able to figure out something there too. watching from the sidelines, they ship.
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It's mainly a defensive measure. Funders sometimes say "well you saw what happened when Twitter shut off their firehose" -- now We Are the firehose
Besides protecting against Bluesky being a future adversary, sometimes their service gets overwhelmed with traffic. This'll keep the feed up even then