Olives @olives@qoto.org

"Company claims First Amendment rights infringed by law, protecting 170M users from potential Chinese threats."
This is such a bad framing. Notice how it ignores the individual speech rights of the users or creators who rely on the platform.

I don't get why someone would give Character AI such a hard time. It's literally just a site for playing with silly chatbots. #FreeSpeech

Someone might come up with something like "just find an instance with a high standard of free expression, maybe for say roleplay", however, that is easier said than done for a newbie.

You kind of already have to know the unspoken rules and where that might be. #FreeSpeech

I think that in the end, the European Commission stopped that German media authority which was going crazy censoring people while going on about "age verification".

Does Threads still have an issue with VPNs?

Some good news on the Facebook front when it comes to Threads and the fediverse. Threads has apparently ceased to block entire instances on a puritanical basis. #FreeSpeech

Is Nostr a good option?

Not only does Mastodon have a bigger character limit, but you can theoretically use an instance with a more generous limit than that. With Bluesky, you can't.

Should I add a header?

It's interesting how there's less interest in using Egyptian mythology in stories now.

Jojo has a reference to the Book of Thoth (the manga is decades old), Yu-Gi-Oh #anime was about a reincarnated pharaoh who plays a magical card game, and The Mummy.

Do you remember that Stargate film with the flying pyramid?

When you quickly glance at a headline about the Stargate AI thing and you think for a moment that it's about some sort of sci-fi novel / show.

While governments might play a role in censorship, a lot of it has nothing to do with them. #FreeSpeech

"AI" is in quotes because it's not intelligent.

"#AI" is inherently unreliable. It might behave unpredictably at any point.

Unpredictable behavior is not a characteristic one wants in an agent.

"#AI Agents" are a terrible idea.

Confidentiality is only one element of privacy.

Bluesky is still not decentralized.

I recommend against using Hetzner.

Tuta is worse than Proton because if you try to be private, they will quietly disable your account and tell you that you failed to login (as if you got your password wrong).