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Myanmar’s Scam Centres
Thousands are being forced to work in Myanmar's illegal scam centres. Can no one stop it?BBC
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Bad Actors are Grooming LLMs to Produce Falsehoods
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Bad Actors are Grooming LLMs to Produce Falsehoods
Our research shows that even the latest "reasoning" models are vulnerableamericansunlight.substack.com
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unfortunately, I'm not sure that using profanity still works. I did a search for "What the fuck is <actual query>" and the sparkling autocarrot snippet started with something like "In spite of your colorful language <actual query> is ..."
I will, however, try the fucking flag. (So many ways to parse that last sentence.)
Good to know!
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Edit: To clarify, we're talking about webmonetization.org and admins will be able to disable it. We're not introducing ads.
Exclusive Pixelfed posts = direct creator income 📸
Building a world where photographers and content creators get paid for their premium content, not platforms getting rich off your work.
Creator-first monetization is coming ✨
Interested? Join today ⬇️
Web Monetization
The Web Monetization API allows websites to automatically and passively receive payments from Web Monetization-enabled visitors.webmonetization.org
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can you elaborate? where is the money coming from?
*edit: so they updated their post; let's see.. "The Web Monetization API allows websites to automatically and passively receive payments from Web Monetization-enabled visitors."
So I guess that's a bit like Patron, but integrated directly into Pixelfed?
I guess it could work, but I'm always a bit wary when money is involved in anything..
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The Web Monetization API allows websites to automatically and passively receive payments from Web Monetization-enabled visitors.webmonetization.org
omfg WHY???!? we are supposed to be free from that capitalist-monetize-everything mindset on fedi, don't fuck that up... we gotta be different than that shit.
We are NOT "content creators"
we are CULTURE BEARERS.
NO PAYWALLS.
NO MONETIZATION.
NO CAPITALIST BULLSHIT.
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@ailurocrat It's opt-in per creator, and it uses a w3c micro payment standard, we're not introducing ads.
More info: webmonetization.org/
Web Monetization
The Web Monetization API allows websites to automatically and passively receive payments from Web Monetization-enabled visitors.webmonetization.org
With the Web Consortium captured by copyright industry, who'll lead next?
The World Wide Web Consortium has been captured by the copyright industry in an ugly Regulatory Capture. Who will develop web standards next?Rick Falkvinge (Private Internet Access)
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@Steel_Virgin Don't worry, ads are not coming to Pixelfed, rather a w3c standard for micro payments!
More info: webmonetization.org/
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The Web Monetization API allows websites to automatically and passively receive payments from Web Monetization-enabled visitors.webmonetization.org
@jherazob Don't worry, ads are not coming to Pixelfed, rather a w3c standard for micro payments!
More info: webmonetization.org/
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The Web Monetization API allows websites to automatically and passively receive payments from Web Monetization-enabled visitors.webmonetization.org
what does this mean? You'll be blocked for sure if you start allowing ads
Edit: it doesn't seem to be about ads, here is more info directly from @dansup saying the money will come from "the people" via the "web monetization" platform:
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Is this the start of the enshittification of the fediverse? Personally I'd rather keep money out if it altogether
@Steel_Virgin Good point, its powered by webmonetization.org/ so it's the people that will be paying, I meant that I need more time to work out the finer details, but I will be more transparent about this going forward.Web Monetization
The Web Monetization API allows websites to automatically and passively receive payments from Web Monetization-enabled visitors.webmonetization.org
Why?
Why involve payments. Why risk the anger of refugees? What does it gain the users of the platform?
What problem is it a solution to?
Sure, but aren't there ways to do this already, outside of the fediverse? Do we need the fediverse to do everything? I feel that as soon as money is involved, things start to be exploited by companies and will quickly degenerate into enshittification world
Are the mutual aid posts an example of what you want to do with Pixelfed? I thought you were suggesting something more integrated. I don't think you can directly pay a mutual aid poster from the fedi?
But I guess it's a good example, as we've recently seen waves of mutual aid spam: this is definitely being exploited, even though the payment is not direct. So with direct payment it will probably be worse.
What I prefer is when artists have a link to their website in their profile or in their posts, where I can go if I want to buy things from them.
Cc: @froufox
@Trevorgoodchild It's not, it's a w3c micro payment standard!
Web Monetization
The Web Monetization API allows websites to automatically and passively receive payments from Web Monetization-enabled visitors.webmonetization.org
I'm generally wary when money gets involved in things.
I don't wanna judge too fast, but I'm thinking about ways this could potentially go wrong.
Like, maybe this could increase the amount of trash/slob on pixelfed that was put there 100% just to get monetary profits?
And could that spawn botnets that "like & repost" that kind of material, to get more people to see it == more moneys?
Did you consider these kinds of potential hazards, @pixelfed ; has there been enough internal and community debate about this?
Are you sure you aren't naively adding something without giving it enough thought?
direct monetization is something that as an artist I've tried to set up on Pixelfed before, and a working system would be a big deal. Thanks for trying to work on it ❤
My question is unfortunately the same that it has to be for every payment system - will NSFW artists and creators be able to participate, or will we be locked out like we usually are from these things?
Privacy-wise, while the recipient does not get your details, do the "wallet providers" then know all your web history?
Ultimately there is no privacy respecting way to make payments online right now (except some cryptos & maybe gnu Taler) so how does KYC and other legal requirements work with webmonetization ? I found nothing about it in their doc
I just added a new visualization to my climate indicators page. This one shows monthly global mean surface air temperatures from 1950 to present, with shading corresponding to the approximate state of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). I hope it is useful.
Follow along at zacklabe.com/climate-change-in…. It will be updated each month.
Climate change indicators
All data are referenced at My visualizations: Arctic Climate Seasonality and Variability Arctic Sea Ice Extent and Concentration Arctic Sea Ice Volume and Thickness Arctic Temperatures Antarctic Se…Zachary Labe
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What even *is* a Good Day?
You don’t need a breakthrough.
You need 24 hours where you’re not at war with yourself.
You eat, move, speak honestly, maybe laugh once or twice.
That’s a good day.
That’s rare.
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Human-caused climate change is making extreme heat waves around the world more likely.
Each day you can follow the "Climate Shift Index" to find out how climate change has altered the weather in your area: csi.climatecentral.org/climate…
Climate Shift Index Global Map | Today | Climate Central
The Climate Shift Index® (CSI) Global Map shows the influence of climate change on local daily temperatures around the world.Climate Central
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#Gaza We watched this last night. It was the most traumatic thing I hsve ever seen. It shows how systematically Israel has destroyed Gaza’s healthcare system and killed doctors. This is ongoing - just yesterday many killed at Indonesian hospital.
I feel irrevocably alienated from all the lovely people around me who choose to just ignore all this. Not watch, not see. For almost two years the most barbaric slaughter, aided by our governments here.
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Gaza: Doctors Under Attack review – this crucial film is the stuff of nightmares. But the world needs to see it
The film the BBC refused to air shows the targeting, detainment and torture of medics in Gaza. Its relentless timeline of horrors will never leave youStuart Heritage (The Guardian)
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Gaza: Doctors Under Attack review - this crucial film is the stuff of nightmares. But
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in the early 2000s, my mom was sending me nonsense emails and I was replying with snopes links. In the 2010s, that basically changed to her posting nonsense on Facebook.
So many people don't bother fact checking at all.
it´s like people believe what they see in advertisting and take that as information....
also your post reminded me of people who were annoyed when they had to wash hands because of covid. and I was really shocked that this seemed something new to them.
What also worries me is that Chatbots give different answers when you ask the same question in different languages. Even the sources GPT mentioned were different.
There is really no I in AI.
a person very close to me doesn't trust Wikipedia because "anybody can write there" (in spite of it being one of the few big multi-party curated media), but will happily take as truth any random conspiracy theory someone relays on social media, even if it doesn't make any sense at all once you apply a drop of logic to it...
e.g.: fakenews.pl/en/environment/rai…
Rainforest Alliance, atrazine, and Bill Gates. We verify the narratives around the green frog logo - Fakenews.pl
The Rainforest Alliance logo on food products has been causing strong emotions among conspiracy theorists for a long time. The organization has beenMateusz Zadroga (Foundation "Counteracting Disinformation")
Yeah that makes sense.
By the way who is still depending on ChatGPT for search results?
People feel first, and _maybe_ think after. No guarantee on that second part, however. But when people do think, their gut reaction is to think in line with what supports their feeling. It takes a lot of training to not do that, and still it will be done quite a lot.
This is but one reason why humans have always been gullible.
I was looking for the XRPokeFilter class, but the eagerness to invent stuff on the fly unnerves me. I'll review every line of code it provides.
Sane humans won't win against this firehose.
All the #AI haters out there, note what this post says: that humans who fail to use their intellect and uncritically rely on *any* #technology to think for them are hallucinating themselves, doesn't matter if it's #ChatGPT or a #Google search or the conspiracy theory your uncle posted on #Facebook.
If you or someone you know have ever started a sentence "On TikTok..." then the robots have already taken over your/their brain and I couldn't care less what you think about AI! @pheonix
P.S. You're on Reddit!
It caught our attention because you used Publer to share this masterpiece.
And its not like its made any information any more accessible. If something wasn't already readily available by Web search (even if you had to know where to look) then it's not going to be available to ChatGPT (or any other LLM, for that matter).
It doesn't even list sources (like Wikipedia, or most good bloggers) so there's no way to know where it's getting the information when it gives you something wild.
And the time 'saved' by not doing one's own reading is probably not going to be helpful, especially if it's spent having to undo the problems that relying too much on ChatGPT caused.
(With that being said, there's also a lot of fantastic sources on all sorts of subjects that have either vanished from the Web, been deliberately removed - either by creators or through copyright strikes and the like - or have vanished behind paywalls. And that seems to have been happening more and more. Not sure why, maybe it's just me noticing it, but - on some topics it's definitely gotten more difficult to fact check unless you've got a good base of (saved or off-line) resources already.)
one time in a sociology class (about 20 years ago), someone brought in a printout of a website that claimed that there had been a successful male pregnancy by transplanting a uterus. It had a bunch of fake citations and everything. Even the teacher concluded it was probably real, there were only a couple of us pointing out that anyone could make a web page that said anything.
It's only gotten worse since then
Once when pointing out to a Facebook friend that a political post they shared contained false info, they replied that it didn't matter because it made Trump look bad.
Unrelated, I no longer use Facebook.
Actually, you don't have to "fact check" everything.
Depending upon what you use it for, eg do you distribute it, or just as and additional info.
In many cases it's also okay to only sanity check things. Especially to invalidate something.
But yes, taking some random post at face value without researching it is naive.
reading all the comments here, i thin i should be happy that my parents did never started to use "the internet"
But some newspaper-like publications and TV programmes are not better
Just the other day I had a lil debate with someone who it then turned out had used ChatGPT for their claim...
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sadly true. And kind of anticipated; even in the 1980s, there were issues with people thinking of computers as basically infallible. Both Hackers and The Net even used this tendency to overly trust what’s on a computer as plot points; those were released in 1995, reflecting on tendencies that already existed becoming more problematic as computing became more widely adopted.
Hate to say it, but this has been the case for a long long long time.
This is why I keep saying that schools should have required courses on critical thinking. Multiple times...
What a tragedy this is even being proposed on paper... 💔
NOAA FY2026 Congressional Justification: noaa.gov/sites/default/files/2…
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Cat 7.
Long ago I heard a truism that stuck with me. The circumstances were oddly relevant. It rose up in my mind today:
“There is no news. There is only the truth of the signal. What I see. And, there's the puppet theater the Parliament jesters foist on the somnambulant public."
I have a new 'climate viz of the month' blog posted, which dives into a visualization and description of future Arctic sea ice cover: zacklabe.com/climate-viz-of-th…
#SciComm #DataViz #OpenScience #OpenData #ClimateChange
Climate Viz of the Month
On a temporary pause – sorry! More blog changes soon. Archives of my older blogs can be found below. Other Blogs (Monthly): Blog Archive – 2025 Blog Archive – 2024 Blog Archive …Zachary Labe
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Nancy by Olivia Jaimes for January 20, 2019 | GoComics
Read Nancy—a comic strip by creator Olivia Jaimes—for today, January 20, 2019, and check out other great comics, too!www.gocomics.com
Thank you! Yes! I remember that one. Jousselin's character Imbattable ("Invincible") plays with that all the time.
@selzero
@Zotmeister @Eetschrijver makes me think about Pascal Jousselin's Invincible :
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That reminds me of the clever comic panel time travelling of Mister Invincible by Pascal Jousselin.Here's an example.
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#comics #PascalJousselin #MisterInvincible
@Eetschrijver @orange_lux @Zotmeister
I think the reoccurrence of the cartoon is an apt contribution to the thread
I can't scroll up, some of the accounts/instances in the thread seem to be defederated by my instance.
Edit : or since I'm unable to scroll the thread even while being unlogged, it seems that someone with a restricted account answered somewhere in the thread.
I see. Well, this discussion started with me posting this Imbattable/Invincible comic in response to a comic posted by @selzero . So that's rather funny.
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From one of the greatest books about sequential art ever written. Understanding Comics Invisible Art by Scott Mccloud
Nancy by Olivia Jaimes for May 16, 2021 | GoComics
Read Nancy—a comic strip by creator Olivia Jaimes—for today, May 16, 2021, and check out other great comics, too!www.gocomics.com
Capture the Atlas project published their anual collection of the Milky Way photos from the enthusiatic photographers from all around the world 😍 Look at this beauty!
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Capture the Atlas is a project that is aiming to provide guidance, knowledge and adventures to the photographers around the world to elevate their picture-taking skills, travel the jaw-dropping locations on Earth, build long lasting communities and friendships to learn, being amazed and grow together.
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2025 Milky Way Photographer of the Year - Capture the Atlas
The 2025 Milky Way photographer of the year. Discover the best Milky Way images taken around the world in 2025!Dan Zafra (Capture the Atlas)
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promote it then, don't just tell us it exists
Edit: He is obviously too modest. Buy him a coffee here:
Its findable on his website which is findable from his bio but I've just saved you the work so you can now buy him 2 coffees
The fossil fuel industry spent $445 million dollars to buy a frying planet, a corrupt Supreme Court, & a fascist movement.
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Why Are We Still Subsidizing Fossil Fuels?
Subsidies can support nascent industries in need of a foothold or serve the public good. At this point, fossil fuels are neither.Nicholas Rogerson (Current Affairs Inc)
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New instance, new #introduction !
Hi #fediverse ! We’re the European Southern Observatory, and we design, build and operate ground-based telescopes.
One of them is our Extremely Large Telescope, currently under construction in #Chile. It will have a 39 m mirror, and its rotating enclosure will weigh 6100 tonnes, or about 700 mastodons!
We’re looking forward to chatting with all of you about #astronomy
And many thanks to @sebinthestars for running our former instance!
📷 ESO/G. Vecchia
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A 39 METER mirror.
I'm so old, I remember when the transport of the Mt. Palomar's Hale Telescope's 1.2m mirror was one of the wonders of technology. It's transport up the mountain had photos in most newspapers.
This project is far more than 32.5x more amazing!!!!!
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Do the mirrors move in absolute synchrony (to remove the twinkle) or is each mirror moving itself to put whatever wavelength in-phase at the instrument?
Or some other thing I know nothing about...not an astronomer.
Adaptive Optics | ELT | ESO
The Extremely Large Telescope: The World's Biggest Eye On The Skyelt.eso.org
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ESO - Instrument Pipelines Page
ESO is the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere. It operates the La Silla Paranal Observatory in Chile and has its headquarters in Garching, near Munich, Germany.www.eso.org
Would you be interested in boosting some #reproducibility with #guix ?
Currently there are 200+ most popular Astro related software projects nicely packaged and being refreshed monthly
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Some related topics from Software Heritage and reproducible research in medicine science
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guix - Transactional package manager, declarative GNU/Linux distribution, reproducible deployment tool, and more!Codeberg.org
#Reproducible #Research
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I bet a lot of researchers have never heard about functional package managers and schools don't teach them either. But it is never too late to learn something new.
#FreeSoftware #GNU #Guix #NixOS #openscienceToward practical transparent verifiable and long-term reproducible research using Guix - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Toward practical transparent verifiable and long-term reproducible research using GuixNature
I was confused, earlier this week, about which new telescope in Chile had just reached #FirstLight
You will have a lot of things to look at.
Look forward to what you'll share here!
Perhaps you know this already, but if not then, Mastodon has the ability for accounts to verify who they are by way of their domains (in your case esa.org). Think of this as Mastodon's version of the blue checkmark from other platforms.
It is easy to set up, and would signal to everyone that your account is in fact the official ESA account.
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