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  • May 30, 2023 5:51pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    AI

    Microposts

    AI experts, journalists, policymakers, and the public are increasingly discussing a broad spectrum of important and urgent risks from AI. Even so, it can be difficult to voice concerns about some of advanced AI’s most severe risks. The succinct statement below aims to overcome this obstacle and open up discussion.

  • Le tabou des violences sexuelles et le déni de l'épidémie en cours

    May 30, 2023 5:22pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    OKCinfo

    Longform

    Peut-être qu’un jour, en parler à son entourage ne se limitera pas à un “cassage de l’ambiance” mais plutôt une réelle prise de conscience, en tant que société. Et que c’est de nos filles, sœurs, mères qu’il s’agit et que tant que ces violences resteront un cassage d’ambiance, on aura pas la force en tant que société, de renverser la mécanique, de démanteler la prescription de ces crimes et de mettre l’intérêt des victimes et de la société par dessus la sacro-sainte “présomption d’innocence”. Continue reading →

  • Must Read : Shadow Network

    May 30, 2023 3:14pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Thoughts

    Photos

    Longform

    “They tended to think of themselves as God’s chosen people. Therefore, it was easy for them to combine politics, patriotism, and religion.” 2 hundreds years ago but replace Baptists by the MAGA, Evangelist, Alt-right, White-supremacist swarm and today’s America is at a similar crossroads. Currently reading: Shadow Network by Anne Nelson 📚 Continue reading →

  • May 30, 2023 2:29pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    AI

    Microposts

    But we’ll keep going exactly as it is because “innovation” is becoming a dogma pretty much like “the markets” above and beyond democracies & people.

    AI presents ‘risk of extinction’ on par with nuclear war, industry leaders say

    ground.news/article/a…

  • May 29, 2023 4:06pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    OKCinfo

    Microposts

    Je taff sur ChardonsBleus.org pour l’instant c’est vraiment un brouillon, mais wai je taf en “live”, ça change et ça va changer au fur et à mesure que j’optimise le tout.

  • May 29, 2023 4:03pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    Microposts

    Nice summup of the current moderation debate/situation across platforms.

    People make communities, not protocols.

    “The only meaningful differences derive from the people who use the platforms, the community. That’s what Elon Musk has destroyed on Twitter. That’s what each of these would-be competitors needs to reconstitute.”

    jmberger.substack.com/p/content…

  • May 29, 2023 2:58pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Microposts

    Heh this is actually very cool!

    Open Source Virtual Background

    elder.dev/posts/ope…

  • May 28, 2023 8:30pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Fediverse

    Microposts

    Interesting… #fediverse #news #content discovery

    news.feedseer.com

  • May 28, 2023 2:12pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    Microposts

    Bluesky related

    The amount of efforts to put in place all kinds of custom feeds for nippples and what not while avoiding creating algo powered custom feeds for racist/phobic content, kinda is an announcement in itself.

  • May 27, 2023 10:18pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    Microposts

    Something (among other things) #Spoutible is doing right : moderation, a lesson for #bluesky and also #mastodon!

    www.vanityfair.com/news/2023…

  • May 27, 2023 4:11pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Thoughts

    Microposts

    Sustaining relationship talk… On Github… And yes it’s worth the read!

    “Scar Tissues Make Relationships Wear Out”

    04/26/2103. From a lecture by Professor John Ousterhout at Stanford, class CS142.

    gist.github.com/gtallen11…

  • May 27, 2023 8:29am
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Random

    Photos

    Microposts

    Morning… Bonjour… Bom dia…

  • Baking a healthy moderation strategy is a mix of communication and code

    May 26, 2023 9:45pm
    Reading Time: 3 minutes
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    Longform

    This is just an example from another startup, with a team of 16, currently taking moderation very seriously, I’ve taken the liberty to copy it on my blog because I think it’s a great example that shows the very clear intentions at Spoutible regarding racism. Spoutible stance on moderation and racism As a responsible platform, we are committed to providing a safe and inclusive environment for all our users. Unfortunately, yesterday we witnessed a disturbing trend of racist behavior on our platform. Continue reading →

  • Odd bug in the android mobile app?

    May 26, 2023 6:03pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Random

    Longform

    I’m trying to understand…. why should I have to select my default blog when I want to publish? The selector (in the official android app) is always positioned on my test blog which I mostly never use or only to test theme changes… so if I’m distracted I might publish to my test blog..it’s.. Annoying… No issue when using the browser. Is this related to a misconfig on my side? @manton. Continue reading →

  • May 26, 2023 5:49pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    News

    Microposts

    A free licence to kill.

    At its core, the bill broadens when these companies are exempted “from liability for injury to or death of a crew resulting from spaceflight activities.”

    newrepublic.com/post/1730…

  • May 26, 2023 3:02pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Social

    Photos

    DerivesSectaires

    Microposts

    “This creates an even deeper level of exclusivity for the followers following them. To put it crudely, with QAnon, there are cults inside cults inside cults inside cults; it’s the ultimate cult-ception, and social media made it possible.”

    Amanda Montell

  • May 26, 2023 12:37pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    AI

    Microposts

    The truth about the EU AI Act and foundation models, or why you should not rely on ChatGPT summaries for important texts

    softwarecrisis.dev/letters/t…

  • May 26, 2023 12:28pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    Fediverse

    Microposts

    A #n8n node for #bluesky would be really really cool to move some feeds over there from Twitter #wishlist

    (already present on the #fediverse)

  • May 26, 2023 10:00am
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Thoughts

    Microposts

    There seems to be an encoding issue with IndiePass and Micro.blog time-line / Discover tab.. I can’t really understand why some of the words, without special characters get all mangled out..

  • May 26, 2023 8:48am
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    Microposts

    Whistleblower Drops 100 Gigabytes Of Tesla Secrets To German News Site: Report The files contain over 1,000 accident reports involving phantom braking or unintended acceleration–mostly in the U.S. and Germany. jalopnik.com/whistlebl…

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