Trump rally shooting upends Democrats' crisis over Biden candidacy
But the second senior House Democrat offered one reason for why it might: “We’ve all resigned ourselves to a second Trump presidency.”
Yikes.
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Trump rally shooting upends Democrats' crisis over Biden candidacy
But the second senior House Democrat offered one reason for why it might: “We’ve all resigned ourselves to a second Trump presidency.”
Yikes.
Interesting read: Barack Obama’s social media strategy for his first presidential campaign.
Obama’s social networking was the real revolution NYT (2008):
More profoundly, while many people think that President-elect Obama is a gift to the Democratic Party, he could actually hasten its demise. Political parties supply brand, ground troops, money and relationships, all things that Obama already owns.
Kind of sounds like what happened to the Republicans 8 years later with Trump.
Reading the news from twenty or thirty years ago, reveals a shocking consistency of exploitation, and a trail of broken promises to fix it.
Whether it be soda companies promising plant-based bottles, oil companies hinting at algae generated energy, or chocolate companies vowing to eliminate slavery in its supply line, meaningful change is perpetually just one generation away.
Temporary exploitation narratives make us feel good about our decisions as consumers. So we put off revolution for tomorrow.
She responded with a tirade in rapid Chinese: people said they wanted jobs, but really wanted only to steal her equipment – bobbins, bobbin cases, thread. It was hard to find people who wanted to work hard these days! And without missing a beat, she asked: “Do you know how to use a sewing machine?”
We’re currently working on a DM service that will integrate into the Bluesky app. This service will be “off protocol” at first so we can develop iteratively.
France imposes state of emergency, bans TikTok in riot-hit New Caledonia:
The unrest flared after French lawmakers approved a bill extending voting rights in provincial elections to residents arriving from mainland France – a change critics fear could marginalise Indigenous people and benefit pro-France politicians.
Different lands, same fight. 🇳🇨 🇵🇸 🇵🇷 🇮🇪 🇭🇹 🇨🇩
Why Twitter Will Endure - NYT (2008):
“The history of the Internet suggests that there have been cool Web sites that go in and out of fashion and then there have been open standards that become plumbing,” said Steven Johnson, the author and technology observer who wrote a seminal piece about Twitter for Time last June. “Twitter is looking more and more like plumbing, and plumbing is eternal.”
Pluralistic: AI is a WMD (09 May 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow:
Fun fact: “The Tragedy Of the Commons” is a hoax created by the white nationalist Garrett Hardin to justify stealing land from colonized people and moving it from collective ownership, “rescuing” it from the inevitable tragedy by putting it in the hands of a private owner, who will care for it properly, thanks to “rational self-interest”
I did not know this.
Meta employees speak out against bias, censoring, and reckless policy at their workplace.
Most recently, questions about investigative reports indicating the possibility of governments, ISPs, and coordinated bad actors using Whatsapp data for military targeting have been met with dismissive and insufficient responses or outright deleted throughout internal forums.
Any Fediverse leaders want to break their DNAs and stand up against Meta, or?
Threads is testing cross-posting from Instagram globally | TechCrunch:
Meta confirmed to TechCrunch that it is running a global test to let users cross-post images from Instagram to Threads.
Are they using #ActivityPub?
Why I’m Resigning From The Intercept - Ken Klippenstein:
The reason so much of the news media sucks is they aren’t writing for you. They’re writing for their sources in Washington, for the industries they cover, for rich people, and for fancy awards committees. Just take a look at the ads they run: for investment banks, defense contractors, oil companies. Unless you’re in the market for any of these products, they aren’t writing for you.
Did you know that we can win? - by Margaret Killjoy:
Because there is one thing I can promise every single person who reads this: one day, you too are going to die. You don’t win at life by living forever. Only the billionaires, who are spiritually lost, spend their time trying to “beat” death. You win at life by living lives of meaning.
Happy May Day.
Bluesky backs a project that would let Mastodon apps, like Ivory, work with its network | TechCrunch:
Social networks Bluesky and Mastodon may soon be accessible from within a single app — at least, that’s what Bluesky hopes. The new decentralized social network, originally incubated inside Jack Dorsey-run Twitter, is backing a project that would connect — or “bridge” — Mastodon requests into Bluesky requests so that consumer apps, like Ivory, would be compatible with Bluesky, too.
It’s starting to make a lot more
Sense why these niche third party apps were receiving VC funding.
Apple Releases Open Source AI Models That Run On-Device - MacRumors:
Apple today released several open source large language models (LLMs) that are designed to run on-device rather than through cloud servers. Called OpenELM (Open-source Efficient Language Models), the LLMs are available on the Hugging Face Hub, a community for sharing AI code.
My Dinner With Andreessen - The American Prospect
I had long kept in the back of my mind as an outstanding proof text that useful invention often flourishes best when government subsidizes it, socialism-style—given that Andreessen had created it while a student at a public institution, the University of Illinois.
How the TikTok ban could survive a court challenge:
“If the Chinese government wants data on Americans, they don’t need TikTok to get it,” wrote Alan Z. Rozenshtein, an associate professor of law at the University of Minnesota, in a piece for Lawfare on Monday. “They don’t even need to steal it. The United States is a notorious outlier among developed nations for its lack of a national data-privacy law. This means that the Chinese can just buy from data brokers and other third-party aggregators much of the same information that they would get from having access to TikTok user data.”
96% Of Hospitals Share Sensitive Visitor Data With Meta, Google, and Data Brokers | Techdirt:
Hospitals, it should be clear, aren’t legally required to publish website privacy policies that clearly detail how and with whom they share visitor data. Again, because we’re too corrupt as a country to require and enforce such requirements.
But, but, but, TikTok.
This Totally Sucks - by Dave Pell - NextDraft:
The internet has long operated according to an unwritten bargain. People make their content available to search engines and in exchange, search engines drive users back to the sites where that content resides. That agreement has been upended by AI programs like ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini. There’s a new bargain: Giant banks of computers inhale your content and use it to train their own systems to answer anything on their own sites. They suck up everything and you get played for a sucker. Soon, everything ever shared on the web will been sucked dry.
Why single vendor is the new proprietary - OpenSource.net
Single vendor isn’t a reasonable way to do Open Source and resist evil proprietary software. It’s just another way to do proprietary software. It’s just a relicensing time bomb.
Why single vendor is the new proprietary - OpenSource.net:
The second misconception is that single-vendor Open Source is, somehow, the reasonable and business-conscious way to do Open Source. You should be on board if you want Open Source to win against proprietary software. But those companies are still doing what is, essentially, proprietary software: like the proprietary software companies of the 80s, they very much consider the software being produced as their exclusive property. They still intend to capture all the value that derives from it. And thanks to copyright aggregation or permissive licensing, they still can change the license any time they want. So it’s still proprietary: they just choose, for now, to release their software under an Open Source license.
BlueSky and AT Protocol.
When Web and Chaos Theory Meet, The Future Could be Weird (1996:
EFF webmaster Tachibana takes it a step further. He boldly predicts that by 2020 we won’t even recognize ourselves. “I’m sort of pretty far on the wacko side of things. We’ll be in a post-biological phase, where cyborgs become reality. The Web is a very important step in that process.”
In a sense, we are pretty unrecognizable.
These protest signs against New Coca-Cola is taking me out.
No Tech For Genocide Day of Action - April 16:
Google workers do not want their labor to power Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. **That’s why on April 16, Google workers with No Tech For Apartheid are leading a coast-to-coast day of action to demand that Google stop doing business with Israel and providing tech to this genocide.
Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO (Jan 2024):
The honest answer is we have no idea. We have never made any revenue. We have no current plans to make revenue. We have no idea how we may one day generate revenue. We have made a soft promise to investors that once we’ve built this sort of generally intelligent system, basically we will ask it to figure out a way to generate an investment return for you.
Deeply unserious people.