Jun 11, 2023
Some of Reddit’s biggest communities including r/videos, r/reactiongifs, r/earthporn, and r/lifeprotips are planning to set themselves to private on June 12th over…
From Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat to third-party apps - The Verge
Picture this: control over forum infrastructure is not concentrated in a single, centralized authority but dispersed across a network of individuals or groups.
From Viksit Gaur - The case for decentralization of online forums
#CommunityOrganizing
Accurate numbers for food loss from konbinis are not published, but from public information the estimated amount of food thrown away, despite being safe to eat, is a staggering 25,000 tons.
From A peek into Japan’s Convenience Stores (Part 2)
#FoodSecurity
We will also study the policies and procedures being established by instructors, publishers, and academic institutions, with a goal of creating guidelines that reflect the many real-world applications of AI-generated text.
From How to cite ChatGPT
#research
So much of what people call “conviction” is actually a willful disregard for facts that might change their minds.
From Mental Liquidity · Collab Fund.
#Learning
Jun 10, 2023
The whole point of going from free-of-charge to very-expensive with these APIs is to get OpenAI and similar companies to pay for them. It’s a pipe dream.
From Daring Fireball: Reddit’s Hoped-For IPO and Pipe Dream of Cashing in on OpenAI’s Hype
Let’s buy the Oakland A’s. There is a model.
#mutualism
Tiny Awards is a small prize awarded by an equally-small selection committee of online makers to the website which we feel best embodies the idea of a small, playful and heartfelt web.
From Tiny Awards via
It’s not lost on me that two-thirds of the world’s school-aged children don’t even have internet at home, according to a 2020 UNICEF report. As AI takes root in our lives, will it widen the chasm between those who have access to such technology and those who do not?
From The Very Hungry Algorithm: Bedtime with ChatGPT – The Markup
As I stated in my veto letter for SB1001, I will veto every bill that aims to attack and harm children.
-Arizona state governor on anti-queer bills vis Pink News
Jun 7, 2023
To address this need we introduce value scenarios, an extension of scenario-based design which can support envisioning the systemic effects of new technologies.
From Value Scenarios: A Technique for Envisioning Systemic Effects of New Technologies
#design
Jun 5, 2023
Looking forward to being a part of this conversation at #RightsCon
May 30, 2023
Friedenbach said that free Wi-Fi is crucial for homeless people to access services, make calls, apply for benefits and jobs, and deal with healthcare. She said that many homeless people sleep during the day because it is safer to be awake at night, making after-hours internet access especially important.
From Mission Local
Steven Kabuye, a human rights activist in Uganda’s capital, Kampala, told The Guardian the act “violates basic human rights and sets a dangerous precedent for discrimination and persecution against the LGBTQ+ community” in the country.
From Axios
May 28, 2023
“We’ve built the infrastructure for nuanced moderation” is not an adequate answer to people who are suffering, or who are prone to suffer, abuse.
From werd.io
If it’s going to work with me, it ought to pass the interview, right? It didn’t. In fact, it failed miserably.
From xorvoid
The industry provides corporate and government clients with insight into conversations on private, invite-only Discord chats, WhatsApp groups, Reddit forums, and dark web message boards to help those powerful customers keep tabs on a variety of potential threats, from political hacktivists to the illegal markets that traffic in stolen passwords and intellectual property.
From Private Spies Hired by the FBI and Corporate Firms Infiltrate Discord, Reddit, WhatsApp
The organisation, along with GLAAD, analysed the tweets of nine prominent right-wing figures and accounts, and tracked retweets of posts containing the word “groomer” – which saw an 1,200 per cent increase following Musk’s takeover.
From PinkNews
As Ellul already knew in the 1950s, a society ordered by technique is necessarily inhospitable to the human person.