Cerstin Mahlow @CerstinMahlow@qoto.org

A year ago, Proctorio suffered a massive setback in the SLAPP they filed against me. Their appeal was quashed before they even got to argue their case! They were ordered to pay legal expenses I incurred fighting their meritless appeal, but I'm still waiting.

https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2022/01/31/proctorio-loses-appeal-lawsuit-against-academic-critic

Before Christmas, we asked you what you would charge for iA Presenter and you said: “Much more than you!” We heard you, but we don’t quite believe you just yet. Unfortunately, we forgot to ask you where you are from, which, when it comes to pricing, matters.

https://ia.net/topics/how-much-would-you-charge-for-ia-presenter-part-2

@luca

Tbh, hopefully it will force the social science researchers to diversify their dataset and finally read the papers published weekly since 2015 with titles along the lines of "Stop doing research with Twitter and generalizing it, it's a weird website with weird demographics and weird interactions".

To do before next week: Go to https://twitter.com/settings/connected_apps and make sure that you have an alternative option (mail/password) to log into any of the services listed there. Depending on how bad #Twitter handles this, you may not be able to log in after the API shutdown.

Twitter is killing free API access. This will probably kill one of my commercial side projects as well as #fedifinder.

It all depends on how much the basic tier will cost and what it offers. Paying 10€ for the same access as we have we the free one right now, would work. If it's usage based like their higher tiers (starting at $99), I don't see many projects survive.

This will destroy so many things. From research to programming packages to services.

One positive outcome will be that Twitter won't be the default for learning programming with APIs anymore, students won't be drawn to it like in the past, maybe even companies will stop use it to listen to customers because most tools will become more expensive and free options will vanish.

A year ago, this would have devastated me. Today, it still stresses me, but I am further on my journey to emotionally disconnect from Twitter.

Tweet: https://twitter.com/twitterdev/status/1621026986784337922

Impro5. #kaengurucomics

The idea that bad people having a voice on social media causes other people to become bad people (often the argument as to why we must defederate from bad servers) is equivalent to:

Thinking violent video games cause people to become violent.

Thinking explicit song lyrics cause people to become criminals

Allowing people to be openly homosexual will cause others to become homosexual

Banning books

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Ich weiss, ist schwierig. Aber vielleicht kennt jemand jemanden, die jemanden kennt...ihr wisst schon.

The tide had left a bottle on the shore. I thought I saw a rolled-up note inside.
When I pulled the cork out, a genie emerged.
"I am fulfilling a wish," he said. "I must. You don't have to watch."
"What?"
"This," the genie sighed, "is a strippogram."
I didn't watch. I wish I had.
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

From 2023, W3C is its own legal entity (“W3C Inc”).
What's new, you ask? Well, it's a big change, as until this year, W3C wasn't a thing in itself. It existed in a “hosted model”, meaning (most recently) four universities “hosted” W3C, with staff being employed by/through those universities. Three of those universities (all except MIT) are still around, now as ”partner”.

https://www.w3.org/2023/01/pressrelease-w3c-le-launched.html.en

Haben wir unser Immun­system die letzten Jahre verhätschelt? Wurde es geschwächt durch Corona­virus und Masken­tragen? Ein paar Erklärungen, wie unsere Abwehr funktioniert.

https://www.republik.ch/2023/02/03/laesst-sich-das-immunsystem-trainieren

Ex-Apple-Chefdesigner Jony Ive zeigt der Welt die rote Nase

Nach Computer und Smartphone hat Jony Ive das Design der roten Clownsnase revolutioniert. Warum der frühere Apple-Chefdesigner jetzt Nasen gestaltet.

https://www.heise.de/news/Ex-Apple-Chefdesigner-Jony-Ive-zeigt-der-Welt-die-rote-Nase-7478707.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege

#Apple #news

ChatGPT an Hochschulen: "Mit einer Plagiatssoftware werden wir ChatGPT nicht erkennen können" https://www.zeit.de/digital/2023-01/chatgpt-hochschule-lehre-pruefungen-betrug

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https://www.der-postillon.com/2023/02/postillon-news-update.html

So OpenAI just released a detector of AI-generated text, I assume because of concerns in education / homework.

https://openai.com/blog/new-ai-classifier-for-indicating-ai-written-text/

Maybe this is good?

No, it's very bad.

They claim 26% true positives, 9% false positives. Assume 10% of submitted homework is chatgpt generated, you get the classic counterintuitive outcome of poor predictive power: if a homework is flagged, there's a 3:1 chance it's *human* generated.

This is going to cause a lot of harm. It should be immediately recalled.