werner58 @werner58@qoto.org
Joined Nov 2022
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I just got access to Google’s new MusicLM and…
Wow.
No exaggeration when I say this will change the music industry. Thanks https://twitter.com/zackhargett/status/1656812761324875776 for the HT.
@jonodrew @Pwnallthethings It's a nice sentiment, but to me it seems like a retrofitting of a very modern way of thinking on an institution whose main (only remaining?) claim to fame is being ancient
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The constant-threats-to-defederate thing is going to kill this place, seriously.
Defederating an instance is an extreme measure and it should only be taken in extreme circumstances.
Finding out I might stop getting posts from people I explicitly follow because they happen to be on an instance being defederated by mine all because a bunch of admins I don't know got in a spat over a user I don't follow is just about the most annoying value proposition imaginable.
@glennf Also because the most common use case of Twitter is not "social network", but "news aggregator". People who come here expecting the same news feed right away are going to be disappointed.
@sheddi @noahshachtman But still, for irony's sake, nobody will call Hideo Kojima and propose him to make a real movie once and for all :D
@noahshachtman Civilization movie with Evil Gandhi as protagonist.
@skry For a moment I thought - "the brit historian?"
Problem is, he likes so much making silly voices in his podcast that someday he might try...
@violastefanello Ora che ci penso, è buffo che il nome podcast sia sopravvissuto agli ipod. Un po' come il floppy che rimane come icona del salvataggio.
@qkslvrwolf @pthenq1 @seldo Social networks are, well, _social_, and unfortunately high school never really ends, even for many well-adjusted adults with prominent jobs and stuff.
They want to be in the fashionable places where the fashionable people are, and mock unfashionable places to signal that they would never be caught dead there...
@avuko @chort @thegrugq @tomatospy
I see what you mean, but most doctors will never be called up to handle an outbreak; to keep using the same metaphor, it's more like the ability to recognize the occasional patient with a rare disease. But then again, they'll refer them to a specialist, not cure them on their own.
Maybe the closest analog is flight training. Crashes are rare, but every pilot needs to train on how to avoid one.
> Another idea is some kind of government sponsored internship program [...]
Top Gun, but for cyber
@avuko @chort @thegrugq @tomatospy
> All of education, but especially medicine [...]
uh, no, medical doctors generally aren't starved for experience: they see all the more common affections dozens of times a year.
There are e.g. recommendations on the minimum catchment area of an obstetrics department to make sure that the doctors see enough complicated births a year to keep current.
@foone Threaded code FTW!
@antlerboy NASA doesn't think so. Only time will tell.
@antlerboy The 4/20 stuff is overblown... at SpaceX they have always been cowboys. The launch had been in the works for months, and nobody ever knows the exact date for sure, especially with an experimental vehicle.
Yes, of all their bets skimping on the pad was one of the worst, and most criticized. It will cost them, but it won't fundamentally change matters.
@hacks4pancakes A certain kind of senior university professor would consider it sober, even. RSA is a conference, so it's the perfect place.
@ebassi I keep reading "Hoshi no Koe" and then being thrown off by the actual content of the posts
@chadloder @mmasnick I believe you, but by now I can't reliably distinguish Musk stupidity from general breakage.
It's not true that Taibbi's posts can't be searched. It works normally for me.
At the same time, the feed of the Bellingcat reporter that broke the story of the top secret US document leaks errors out for me. But I see him talking to other people normally when someone quotes his tweets.
I think that Twitter is just breaking due to lack of maintenance.
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I remember when Aaron Swartz was criminally prosecuted for downloading too many academic journal articles, but, sure, it's totally cool to scrape everyone's personal photographs as part of a commercial effort to market discriminatory surveillance tech to police departments.
Joined Nov 2022
