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by bigfudge 8mo ago
You write as though the selection of information by algorithmic feeds is a politically neutral act, which comes about by free actions of the people. But this is demonstrably not the case. Selecting hard for misinformation which enrages (bec
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by bigfudge 8mo ago
It's really simple in the US: stop granting exemptions for the harm the content causes. Social media _is_ publishing. Expecting people to 'eat their vegetables' when only fast food is on offer is realistic, and flies in the f
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by bigfudge 8mo ago
No. The point here is that Google is not paid for the ads, so are not incentivised to make the service more addictive. This seems obvious: it’s not the ads we have a problem with per se—- it’s the distortion of they attention economy they e
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by bigfudge 8mo ago
But that doesn’t make the streams more or less addictive, or directly pay the platform which has control of that. So it’s basically irrelevant
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by bigfudge 8mo ago
Normally that’s for software and it’s borne of irritation with enshittification and rent extraction from software that was previously free from that. SAAS is a risk if you invest time and energy in developing expertise in it. Lots of us hav
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by bigfudge 8mo ago
Nobody is talking about banning ads on sports shirts.
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by bigfudge 8mo ago
There are rules about election conduct and free operation of courts, to give two examples. Both of which Hungary skirts on occasion but the EU does apply some pressure.
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by bigfudge 8mo ago
This is a truism, but not that helpful. I have to be lucky every time I leave the house not to be murdered, but it doesn't substantially change my behaviour. Rather than freaking out or catastrophising we just need to focus on assertin
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by bigfudge 8mo ago
The EU is built on rules that uphold liberal democratic principles, agreed to by national governments in a flush of post-WW2 clarity, and which tie successors to the same principles. There are exit mechanisms, but they impose large costs (i
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by bigfudge 8mo ago
US Supreme Court Judges are not elected. Although I hesitate to use this as an example currently, given how well the US separation of powers is (not) working, the point stands that all democratic systems need some kind of "damping&quot
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by bigfudge 8mo ago
Yeah, except corporations don’t pay tax like they did in the 50s and 60s…
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Isn’t that a feature?
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by bigfudge 8mo ago
As someone who has dealt into this quite recently, I can confirm that it hasn’t really changed that much. The documentation for integrating clients and bots is just old or wrong or non-existent. The complexities of getting authentication ri
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by bigfudge 8mo ago
This is pre MAGA thinking. Investing in strategic industries that otherwise pose systemic risk to European economies wouldn’t be our first choice, but it’s now necessary.
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by bigfudge 8mo ago
I don't know if you're joking, but if not you need to start paying attention to what has been happening in US courts recently.
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by bigfudge 8mo ago
EU have access to Windows source code. Presumably if the shit really hit the fan we'd have a European build without all the spy/crapware added? Not much of a consolation given we'd have to be on the brink of WW3 for it to hap
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by bigfudge 8mo ago
It seems like a lot of the benefits of SOTA models are from data though, not architecture? Won't the moat of the big 3/4 players in getting data only grow as they are integrated deeper into businesses workflows?
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by bigfudge 8mo ago
He also repeated the lies that she was a domestic terrorist etc. I don’t think we need credit trump with any moral fibre over this just yet…
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by bigfudge 9mo ago
Being at an event with racists does not make you a racist. That would tar the entire Israeli parliament and anyone who currently works in the White House. Can you point to anything Sultana has said which you think is beyond the pale? - a d
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by bigfudge 9mo ago
I’d be interested in arguments that EU providers could be equivalent to Azure … is it realistic to move a large university across for email and other cloud services? Might be the right time to start campaigning for institutions to divest f
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by bigfudge 9mo ago
One of the reasons they don’t happen everywhere is because there are just a few places at any given point in time where there are enough well connected and educated individuals who are in a position to even see all the dots let alone connec
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by bigfudge 9mo ago
A friend who installs loops complains they are largely pointless, because in practice nobody with a hearing aid ever wants to use them. Apparently the quality of a good hearing aid magnifying the audio in the room is substantially better th
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by bigfudge 9mo ago
I think this is true, and the broad sense of that website is an improvement on what went before, so we should acknowledge that. But it's also right that people point out the moralising tone and connect other administration actions and
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by bigfudge 9mo ago
I've worked in various roles, and I'm one of those people who is not computer illiterate and likes to build solutions that meet local needs. It's got a lot easier technically to do that in recent year, and MUCH easier with AI
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by bigfudge 9mo ago
That was almost 20 years ago though. Things are really different now and it's hard to imagine Firefox saving anything these days. Sadly, the only entities powerful enough to control FANGs are FANGs (although fingers crossed the EU hold
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by bigfudge 10mo ago
This hides a lot of local detail though. Something might be valueless by your definition because on aggregate it does enough harm to balance out the good, but still have great value in specific contexts. Even landmines might look quite usef
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I don't know the details of the implementation, but this sounds like an argument for strong data protection laws (and so no data retention) rather than inaction. Also, I'm really struggling to think of examples where people have b
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The attempt is to remove the market do exploiting the attention of children for profit. This doesn’t have to be perfect to be worth it. What’s more, the idea that this puts children at the mercy of authoritarians is laughable. The US tech
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Claude was also down (which brought me here)
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European defence spending is going to be much less transatlantic than it would have been were it not for Trump. Some of this is about mindshift. We could have avoided us defence contractor tie in before, but we don’t see the need. Now we do

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