nonesuch_user @nonesuch_user@qoto.org

This is what Earth looks like from 1.5 billion kilometers away. A pale blue dot beneath the rings of Saturn captured by the Cassini spacecraft.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI
#earth #space #saturn #planets #nasa

I present to you, SCROOGLED

A great fiction about Google written by one @pluralistic , who apparently toots "threads that are too long"

Well, this was September 12 2007

I don't expect him to stop now.

Nor do I want him to. This will be a very long thread.

You can read it at https://web.archive.org/web/20080318041629/https://radaronline.com/from-the-magazine/2007/09/google_fiction_evil_dangerous_surveillance_control_1.php/ yourself, if I'm pasting too slow, or you decide to mute me ​

Enjoy!

I get the feeling this BBC journalist waited their whole life just for this moment.... 🤣

Know your shit (as opposed to know you're shit 🤣 ) :

I've literally taught grad level seminars on selection bias and yet spent a non-trivial amount of time this evening wondering "why are conspiracy theorists so bad at doing their research?"

Am I looking at flyers taped to a pole at a traffic stop? Oh, nope, it's just the recommender on a Medium post.

#Ukrainian forces shelled a hotel in Donetsk, wounding Vitaly Khotsenko, the Prime Minister of the "Donetsk People's Republic", as well as Dmitry Rogozin, the former CEO of Roscosmos

"Google’s ad business helps fund dangerous disinformation that puts public health and democracy at risk around the world, earns money from millions of gun ads while publicly claiming to block them, and allowed a sanctioned Russian ad tech company to harvest data on potentially millions of people, including possibly those in Ukraine, putting their security and privacy at risk."
@ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/google-display-ads-piracy-porn-fraud

The Washington Post is the newspaper most likely to try stuff and I'm delighted that @jeremybowers says they're spinning up a Mastodon instance as we speak. Bravo.

(intentionally bad) Idea for OpenAI business model: All output is free. 1% of your ChatGPT output is completely wrong. Want to know which 1% it is? That'll cost you...

We may never be able to match the incredible achievements of #JohnMastodon, but the European Union still plays its part!

We are proud funders of Mastodon through the Next Generation Internet initiative (@EC_NGI).

Open,
Interoperable,
Decentralised,
Trust based.

More info: https://www.ngi.eu/blog/2022/11/24/how-ngi-supports-open-interoperable-decentralised-and-trust-based-internet-applications-through-fediverse-projects-like-mastodon/

UPDATE: Those data were from November. Currently there are over 8.7 MILLION accounts on Mastodon (3.5 TIMES as many as when the article was written). https://bitcoinhackers.org/@mastodonusercount/109548012136865393

We starten een nieuwe rubriek 'Grafiekpolitie' bij Nieuwscheckers! Met als eerste aflevering deze grafiek van Rijkswaterstaat - die de grafiek direct hebben laten aanpassen.

https://nieuwscheckers.nl/grafiekpolitie-rijkswaterstaat-overdrijft-natuurcompensatie-met-bomen-infographic/

In 'Hoopvolle gesprekken met een gelijkwaardige boventoon' interviewt onderzoeksjournaliste Zoë Papaikonomou bijzondere denkers die het begrip gelijkwaardigheid op geheel eigen wijze vormgeven. Lees de interviews https://www.nieuwwij.nl/dossiers/hoopvolle-gesprekken/

More than two million users have flocked to #Mastodon since Elon Musk took over #Twitter. https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/20/23518325/mastodon-monthly-active-users-twitter-elon-musk

Komende week zal de staatssecretaris van digitalisering een eerste versie van een landelijk algoritmeregister lanceren. Directeur Digitale Samenleving, Ron Roozendaal, is woensdagvond 21 december beschikbaar om al jullie vragen te beantwoorden.

https://www.meetup.com/Code-For-NL/events/290345153/

I just 💚💜🧡 @jonathan's series of MidJourney-conjured imaginary machines - from a calling card press to an elevator-clang decoder to a chromotelegraph to a bus ticket printer to a steganography machine

https://www.instagram.com/jonathanhoefler/

Such a timely + inspiring series as we watch Big Tech collapse + imagine how things could be otherwise -- as we envision, in Robin Sloan's words, new technologies from "the provinces, the marshes," the garage, the library, the kitchen table (https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/new-avenues/)

How to spot AI-generated text https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/19/1065596/how-to-spot-ai-generated-text/

The FTC is protecting customers right to #churn! https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2021/10/ftc-ramp-enforcement-against-illegal-dark-patterns-trick-or-trap-consumers-subscriptions. #subscription #subscriptioneconomy #customerretention