Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@qoto.org

I’d be the same.

#Florida HB 757 is pretty horrible all the way around. If you care about #freespeech, #journalist rights and #freedom in general you should be lining up against it.

Florida (mostly #GOP) legislative panel OKs bill making it easier to sue media, others for defamation

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/politics/2024/01/18/florida-lawmakers-take-up-bill-making-it-easier-to-sue-for-defamation/72261955007/

This will be a huge help, especially to low-income Americans. Well done, Joe!

Sometimes technology destroying jobs creates more of the same jobs. ATMs reduced the number of bank tellers needed at a branch.

This made it cheaper to open bank branches leading to more of them and thus more bank teller jobs.

For some fields where AI will have similar effects.

In software we don't build a 10 ton deck when a 2 ton deck would do, we build a Deck Builder Factory that prints out decks that are fully extensible up and down but we build it into a concrete foundation where the only extension options are sideways. Then we bolt on safety join points to the house that prevent you from actually extending the deck at all. Then we only use the printing system once and throw it away. Then we complain that we over engineered the deck. But the deck? Rated for one ton

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It does feel that way sometimes.

Y'all execs are so particular about abolishing remote work because human connections and face to face interactions are so important to you, until it's time to tell someone they're about to pay for a mistake you made.

And that's not even touching the elephant in the room, that these companies are making massive profits in what may be the greatest wealth transfer in all of human history?

I really loathe how many artists just want enough to live off of and are seen as 'entitled'.
Meanwhile people throw billions of dollars at scammers that suck everything you have after the media prances them around as 'innovators'.

No artist I know is promising you the moon, but I'd rather buy some art and be content than an empty promise that makes me bankrupt.

How many browser windows do you usually have open?

#EvanPoll #poll

A group of German researchers have confirmed what we’ve all observed, Google Search has gotten worse over time and is now filled with SEO spam.

Using ChatGPT to get answers instead of wading through spam links in Google reminds me of Google vs AltaVista over twenty years ago.

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
https://www.404media.co/google-search-really-has-gotten-worse-researchers-find/

Mess. #comics #funny #relatable

60% of Iowa GOP caucus goers believe that the election was stolen from Trump. But y'all wanna say "Ban TikTok because disinformation?" 🤡

Y'all are not serious.

The real, dangerous disinformation, is coming from traditional media channels and places like Twitter, and it is in service of white nationalism, and its primary victims are Black people. But we don't want to talk about that. We just want to yell "Ban TikTok!"

A Quebec man who posted conspiracy theories online that forest fires were being deliberately set by the government to trick people into believing in #ClimateChange has pleaded guilty to starting 14 fires himself that forced hundreds of people from their homes.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/quebec-man-who-blamed-wildfires-on-government-pleads-guilty-to-setting-14-fires/article_bd630c03-e083-5174-8fd9-ead0586c7925.html