I was always bad at deconstructing mechanisms of algorithms and how SM portals work.
To reach my followers, I had to follow rules I wasn't even aware of. Make reels, make videos, add music, choose the right format, post regularly, reply to comments as soon as possible...
I just wanted to post some drawings and make people laugh.
It's because the companies making these algorithms actively don't want you to understand how they work. If you understand it, you can work the system to give yourself better results without paying them as much for those results which weakens shareholder returns.
There's no shareholders here, so no one really cares about that stuff. Want to know how the algorithm for your favourite fedi client works? The code is generally completely public and you can have anyone who understands code explain it to you.
Anyway, until then, looking forward to more drawings and laughter! 😁
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Great, and highly amusing plan. Unfortunately, they seem to have a queue of crypto billionaires just waiting their turn to spaff squillions into Reforms war chest. I do wonder to myself, what they stand to get if Reform win power, what with them being the party of the common man and all that.🤔
@Jaimieserotica well quite. But it's fucking with my head too much to focus on the bad today so I'm drilling down on what can be done no matter how small. 💪
Years ago, I heard a story about someone who was really fed up with a financial services company and taped a pre-paid reply envelope to a paving slab so that the firm would be hit by the excess postage.
@plwt There's an old science fiction story about a materials scientist with the same gripe...he invents a metal so dense that a thin sheet small enough to be "slipped" into an envelope weighs about as much as a battleship.
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If you care about a livable future for humanity on this planet, don’t use AI. Just don’t. Not for shopping, condensing literature to shortcut reading or for writing your homework, not for anything so trivial. The small amount of special use cases is enough.
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My mom has been running a community art & poetry project using the fence around her home for the last 15+ years, which she calls The Poetry Fence. She takes it very seriously and uses it as a base for all sorts of poetry outreach in her neighborhood. She's recently written a book about her experience with this project which she's trying to get published by a small press.
And in her mid-70s, she's just created her first ever website. It'd mean a lot to her if you take a look! poetryfencecommunity.com/
She doesn't know I'm posting this, but if she did she'd probably want me to add that science is real, no person is illegal, trans rights are human rights, and banned books are worth reading. And most of all, that poetry is for everyone.
Her idea is unique, wonderful, and full of beauty. Thank you for sharing this and letting me see it 🙏
-- Poetry can bring so many things into the world and portray them for all of us in a unique way --- and your mother recognized that. Thank you very much ❤️
@wordsmith @katherine_montalto My mother has actually been doing something very similar for the last several years! She calls hers "gumball poetry" and sets it up in a local cafe during April (poetry month), with proceeds going to her local homeless shelter.
gosh that makes me smile. I lived in Arlington in 2009 and I used to visit Del Ray because it reminded me of home (my grad school neighborhood, the place I returned to when my fellowship ended). Your mom sounds like a lovely person.
@eirias I think she's pretty cool. That was just about the time she started her poetry fence, with just a couple of bulletin boards and an urge to share. Del Ray has changed a lot since then! Sometimes I'm still startled at the changes when I visit.
Bravo Mummy (if I may be so bold) This morning I put out a clay poem Clay with a glaze from Spain Contains water for foxes By my door Thirsty foxes iz my fencing with nature
Wow, how pretty. I'm sure I'll be back to explore her website in detail. And it must be nice to have a son like you - I love my children, but they are all no help with computers and such.
Alors qu’une sécheresse exceptionnelle sévit partout en France, l’État n’est pas à la hauteur : telle est l’alerte lancée par France nature environnement (FNE).
My latest book - THE WILD - takes the view that "anarchy", often extrapolated in and through the historical, socially-derived politics of anarchism, should instead be characterized on a naturalistic and queer basis as "the wild" (in much the same way as Kropotkin observed nature and came up with the principle of "mutual aid" in fact).
Through thirteen chapters this idea is then teased out, explained and extrapolated as something both ethical and political that is contrary to patriarchal, capitalist, industrial and technological human civilization as it has developed.
As such, this book is both a call to the wild (and to the truth and reality of the wild) and to the assertion that in feralness there is an authenticity of the mutual co-existence of all things to be found.
The book can be downloaded FOR FREE from the link below in multiple formats or read online. It can also be read to you via text to speech on that page.
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My latest book - THE WILD - takes the view that "anarchy", often extrapolated in and through the historical, socially-derived politics of anarchism, should instead be characterized on a naturalistic and queer basis as "the wild" (in much the same way as Kropotkin observed nature and came up with the principle of "mutual aid" in fact).
Through thirteen chapters this idea is then teased out, explained and extrapolated as something both ethical and political that is contrary to patriarchal, capitalist, industrial and technological human civilization as it has developed.
As such, this book is both a call to the wild (and to the truth and reality of the wild) and to the assertion that in feralness there is an authenticity of the mutual co-existence of all things to be found.
The book can be downloaded FOR FREE from the link below in multiple formats or read online. It can also be read to you via text to speech on that page.
I have been fantasizing about picking up Trumpet again, since I stopped playing after college….but my SO would probably smother me in my sleep if I started practicing a brass instrument.
> Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, depend on mass invasions of privacy by design, and are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL
This briefing examines how standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, are in conflict with international human rights law (IHRL) and standards through their design, development and deployment.
> In our analysis, we find that both the scale of this data gathering for training purposes and the representational issues in the training data span multiple international human rights laws and standards, from privacy violations and non-consensual data collection, to discrimination, harassment, and threats to the rights to freedom of expression and freedom of thought.
This briefing examines how standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, are in conflict with international human rights law (IHRL) and standards through their design, development and deployment.
> Many of the fundamental design features of the generative AI products discussed within this briefing, in particular those pertaining to OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek, Meta, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion appear incompatible with aspects of international human rights law and standards. The design principles of these products involve massive data collection without consent, biased training processes and the potential for manipulative outputs.
This briefing examines how standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, are in conflict with international human rights law (IHRL) and standards through their design, development and deployment.
@datarama AFAICT that's just the list of AI products that was the focus of their investigation. Their call for a prohibition of all these systems is for all systems of these kinds and makes no exception for Anthropic or anybody else.
Not that this isn't valuable work on the part of Amnesty International, but there's a 0.0001% chance that their call will be heeded. Governments are rather worried that their countries aren't developing AI fast enough
@abucci @datarama Amnesty's call for prohibiting all standalone generative AI systems does not make an exception for Anthropic or anybody else. Their observations and conclusions apply to all systems of the type. I think it's completely unreasonable to assume foul play.
@datarama@hachyderm.io By my count Anthropic's name appears in the report 7 times, and only in connection with its dealings with the US DoW. A charitable read of the one paragraph and its references is that the report lets Anthropic off the hook, laying most blame with the DoW. Indeed several of the mentions of Anthropic were about how the DoW labelled it a supply chain risk because of its public statements against using Claude for domestic surveillance, painting Anthropic is a positive light. By contrast, OpenAI appears 30 times, Google appears 26 times, Meta 38. Even DeepSeek appears 16 times. Given that Anthropic has just overtaken OpenAI in Monopoly money valuation, the discrepancy is noteworthy.
There is every reason to believe that the conspicuous absence of Anthropic's name from this quoted list isn't an accident. Anthropic has been extremely deliberate (and in my view cynical ) in their attempts to paint the company as the "ethical" AI vendor, which goes rig
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@datarama@hachyderm.io By my count Anthropic's name appears in the report 7 times, and only in connection with its dealings with the US DoW. A charitable read of the one paragraph and its references is that the report lets Anthropic off the hook, laying most blame with the DoW. Indeed several of the mentions of Anthropic were about how the DoW labelled it a supply chain risk because of its public statements against using Claude for domestic surveillance, painting Anthropic is a positive light. By contrast, OpenAI appears 30 times, Google appears 26 times, Meta 38. Even DeepSeek appears 16 times. Given that Anthropic has just overtaken OpenAI in Monopoly money valuation, the discrepancy is noteworthy.
There is every reason to believe that the conspicuous absence of Anthropic's name from this quoted list isn't an accident. Anthropic has been extremely deliberate (and in my view cynical ) in their attempts to paint the company as the "ethical" AI vendor, which goes right up to having Chris Oleh able to say a few words in the room when the Pope announced his encyclical. There too the Pope seemed to be implicating Anthropic in his critique of AI, yet Anthropic was present and able to shape and craft how that critique landed and to suggest they were poised to rise above it. This is not an accident---they are quite adept at PR, and controlling the narrative is rule #1.
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