Was it Cory Doctorow who noted that the only way to stop a system being corrupted is to design it to be impossible to corrupt from the outset? AI involves surrendering a HUGE amount of power, and expecting no operator ever to surrender to the temptation to tweak it for their own benefit is ludicrous
Yes I believe it was indeed Cory Doctorow @pluralistic who noted this. As I recall, he called building in those restraints "Ulysses Pacts" to prevent #enshittification.
The first post I can find in which he coined the term is this:
Midweek ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the lowest on record (JAXA data)
• about 690,000 km² below the 2010s mean • about 1,330,000 km² below the 2000s mean • about 1,910,000 km² below the 1990s mean • about 2,330,000 km² below the 1980s mean
For the past two years, Radio Free Fedi has held a special place in my heart. The community operation started as a small experiment, but quickly grew into a Fediverse institution. In the time that it
We should as always continue to do our best to as directly as possible support our creative siblings as amiably as we can wherever we as artists can manage to be.
Seek change to build voices, don't shout them down.
We don't have to and shouldn't agree with every single platform and tool out there. Minimise harm where you can and do demand and celebrate good attribution and support paths.
Together we've proven it makes a huge difference being as direct and durable as possible.
Being positive in this timeline and tech climate is brutally hard.
Although the hamster is retiring from positive instigator, please continue where you can in your circles to support and uplift one another.
Same goes for advocacy, research, quietly testing of all the things out there competing for oxygen. We can be vigilant for each other and offer assists to those who ask AND warn when things smell off.
„Esi matomas kaip vežimėlis, ramentai, sauskelnės, bet ne asmenybė. Tada anksčiau ar vėliau pasidarai piktas“, – interviu LRT.lt sako LRT metų asmenybės titulą pelniusi Ajana Lolat-Pažarauskienė. Už pagalbą negalią turintiems žmonėms apdovanota A.
Last month was the 2nd warmest December on record globally. The largest anomalies were found this month across portions of the Arctic, which also observed the lowest December sea-ice extent on record.
The NOAA Merged Land Ocean Global Surface Temperature Analysis (NOAAGlobalTemp, formerly known as MLOST) combines long-term sea surface (water) temperature (SST) and land surface (air) temperature datasets to create a complete, accurate depiction of …
Honestly, this is the worst open letter I've ever read. It lacks maturity and professionalism. It's full of snarky comments and a tone that doesn't encourage an adult conversation. He had the chance to show Meta is the one acting like a child, but instead he made himself sound like one. And that's sad.
this reads like somebody with maturity issues wrote it. Also at least export the thing into a pdf first, the squiggly lines and text cursor are still visible
More importantly, Zuckerberg didn’t build Facebook because he believed in anything, at least not anything good - initially the project was to rate college girls on their appearances
Op 16 januari roepen we publieke organisaties op om samen de eerste stap te zetten door alternatieven te gaan gebruiken voor Big Tech sociale media platformen.
@paul_e_cooley unfortunately, intentionally or accidentally. Dan is following Elon's 'move fast and break things' mentality.
He's doing great things for fediverse visibility... but being a one man show leads to getting your ego involved or missing things (like Loops' egregious rights over-reach in its TOS).
Dan's done a lot of good... I just hope he can avoid an Icarus-style crash and burn that could undo a lot of that good. ..
I believe texts get better when we step aside for a few cycles and not let ourselves be driven by the highness of attention. Zuckerberg has never been what you describe. There is no grassroots moral origin we could jumpstart in the back of his memory. It is historically evident that Facebook, later meta has frequently chosen the unethical paths when they had choice to. There is no ancient ideal to appeal to. No renaissance can happen.
great letter! Rooting for you all the way!! A couple of years after I started NadaMoo, I got a cold call from the retired director of sales for Ben and Jerry’s. “Your product has ‘legs’” he said, “and I want to help.” No threats from lawyers followed. Because Ben and Jerry got it right: equity, sustainability and community can be the pillars of successful businesses. They were not in my niche market, but they still cared about the people in my niche market.
"connecting people"? Facebook was created to predate on women and use their data without their consent!!! it was NEVER about connecting people, it was always about misogyny, ego and money.
Been a while. I’ve mostly been posting on the Fedi, but I feel like this is a rather important topic that requires attention.
Recently @dansup has been posting a bunch about loops.video, a federated alternative to Instagram/ TikTok.
Well, Facebook started as a sexist platform for rating female college students without consent. There is nothing you can expect from such an "inventor".
I may not be an economist, but generally when they gush about innovations that selflessly want to connect people, they’re generally talking about marketing more than edenic community…no offense to the love-machine of laissez-faire of course
»You've confirmed what we've been saying all along - that big tech is more interested in protecting their walled gardens than fostering genuine innovation.«
All along? Here's what you said, last September:
»Meta approached the fediverse in the proper way They didn't acquire Mastodon Instead they worked with fedi projects big and small regarding interop Meta isn't the enemy«
w.r.t the Social Web Foundation, I'm glad we have some formal organization to help steward the protocol
See, it's easy to get caught up on Meta's participation while forgetting the impact just a few people made on the social network landscape
Meta …
When facebook started afaik it was not about connecting people, it was about rating women. (so I highly doubt Zuck ever wanted to "make the internet better" and I wouldn't open a door to this guy under any circumstances.) That aside the open letter of course is nice.
Awesome, but the one catch here is that he probably didn't develop (with other people, not alone) Facebook for idealistic reasons. It's more likely that he wanted to get laid, and help other horny college dudes get laid. The original Facebook has been credibly accused of being a stalking app, and I find that very easy to believe. Nothing he's done has indicated to me that he actually gives a shit about users, and nothing he says has any meaning for me without evidence to back it up.
I noticed something similar a year or so ago. Any time I would share photos of my kids with family members or whatever, I would create a public share link to the album on my Nextcloud server, with an expiration date, and then share that link on Facebook. All of a sudden one day I started noticing that the posts would get deleted a few minutes after I posted them, then they started blocking me from posting the links outright.
To be honest I would be really surprised if this was on purpose and not a malfunction of their spam filters. Pixelfed isn't in the same ballpark as Instagram, struggling to think how having a company policy to filter out its links would be worth the bad publicity - for basically no reason.
When Facebook started it was not about "connecting people", it was about rating girls' fuckability on campus. Zuck has always been a misogynistic arsehole.
When money and power get in the head of the people they becomes another persons, puppets of administration dramas. How unhappy happens when you must down the knees to your enemy ? Play your game! Do your best ! The Big Brother watches everything.He do not known do other thing. Do not be romantic ! Be smart !
"It was about connecting people, not maximizing engagement metrics."
No. It was exactly NOT about connecting people. It never was. It was about making money. Ever since.
Am I really one of the last people left on planet earth remembering Mark Z. having written "I don't know why. They 'trust me'. Dumb fucks." about facebook users? I cannot believe this...
We've been sold a story about anger. That it's inevitable, justified, necessary. That it's something that happens TO us rather than something we choose.
The amygdala fires. The blood pressure rises. The fists clench.
But here's the thing: while the initial spark might be automatic, the bonfire is optional.
The market manipulation makes me angry. The political corruption makes me angry. The trolls make me angry. The hate makes me angry. The transphobia makes me angry...
I choose anger because it feels righteous. Because it energizes. Because it lets me point fingers, dunk and scream. I choose it far more often than I'd like. And every time I choose it, I spiral.
It's recognizing that anger is a tool, not a master.
Here's the real cost: carrying that anger means I can't carry anything else. No space for creation. No energy for the work that matters. No capacity for change.
@HisNameIsOx Does any of you have any tips or ways to go from “noticing it” to a state where you don't feel angry anymore? Also how much time does it take to reach the non-angry state (minutes, seconds?)?
I once read that "Anger is a secondary emotion. It's what you feel when you fail to process through other emotions". That helps me realize how useless anger is, and to look for the real emotions.
Edit: note that those other emotions can drive serious motivation too, the way people claim anger can.
Terry Pratchett has lately become a kind of role model to me, because he took his rage and turned it into humour.
A thing I read somewhere a long time ago is that anger doesn't scare the authoritarians because it's undirected. What scares them is humour, because humour is anger under control.
thank you! spent a bit thinking about how much time i wasted being angry about things/people/companies last night when i couldn’t sleep and this is adding some interesting points!
hope i‘ll be making the noticing it before it gets deeper part some day…
I think this is mainly a function of social media use, as in the development of a sometimes civic anger that cannot be aimed at civic good.
Aristotle talks about righteous indignation, as in the golden mean between the extremes of passivity and incontinent rage, as being angry at the right things in the right ways to the right extent. In the past this anger provided a function of civic improvement in the face of social outrages.
Thanks for this. I have to remind myself that anger, while a handy armor from grief and fear, energizes me more to wreck something than to build something.
"Who wants to direct my energy?" is a good question.
That rage will eat you alive. What is that rage doing for you? Are you channeling it into writing or other productive actions, or is it just rumination that corrodes your endurance? You have to judge based on your feelings.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg5254… This how trade-based society works, i will clean my name by the expense of all planet. I look clean, because i was able to export a huge amount of oil and gas- I am a good boy?? Retarded society 🤣 Still obvious origin of the problem is not seen. #news #bbc #climatechange #oil #gas #electric
Next step: leave all the oil and gas in the ground. Please find other ways to make money. Also: leave fish in the sea, roaming free. We don't need fish on our plate, we need them in the sea.
They can't they need trade for profit to survive in trade-based system. Positive feedback loop. We are going to play this trade-based idiocracy until a total collapse!
Unlike just about every other year in the satellite-era record of sea ice by early January, the Hudson Bay (Canada) still hasn't frozen over... Not good.
First daylight of 2025 stretching across the planet [GOES-West Satellite]...
A #HappyNewYear to all of my @Mastodon followers! Thank you for a year of thoughtful interactions and the privilege to communicate science here. Honestly, my advice is to just leave Twitter behind. Anyhoo, cheers to 2025!
If you use any non trade-based services, news, apps do not forget to donate or support, because the DARK WEB ( trade-based internet) will take over. #darkweb #internet #support #tradefree #help #Revolution
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in reply to Helen Czerski • • •Yes I believe it was indeed Cory Doctorow @pluralistic who noted this. As I recall, he called building in those restraints "Ulysses Pacts" to prevent #enshittification.
The first post I can find in which he coined the term is this:
pluralistic.net/2021/02/15/uly…
Followed by numerous later writings:
pluralistic.net/tag/ulysses-pa…
Maybe @pluralistic can confirm the origins of this concept for us? 😅
I do wonder if an effective Ulysses Pact could ever be designed for an #AI business...
Pluralistic: 15 Feb 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netJacob Urlich 🌍
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