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  • June 1, 2023 3:04pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Microposts

    Neat #RSS tool to subscribe to Bluesky accounts from your feed reader. bluestream.deno.dev

  • June 1, 2023 10:46am
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    Microposts

    Interesting tool to construct Bluesky custom feeds : azul.raios.xyz, also interesting how you can explore who your mutuals blocks.

  • June 1, 2023 8:48am
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    AI

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    AI killed copyrights? It’s not just in Japan, the entire industry is built on stolen valor but everyone is silent because “too much at stake”?

    Japan Goes All In: Copyright Doesn’t Apply To AI Training

    technomancers.ai/japan-goe…

  • June 1, 2023 8:46am
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

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    Soon in Belgium and all across Europe?

    Authenticate an OpenPGP key with an eID card, now in Germany!

    pgp.governikus.de

  • May 31, 2023 1:25pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Videos

    Microposts

    Assises nationales de lutte contre les dérives sectaires - Playlist Videos Youtube

  • May 31, 2023 9:00am
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    AI

    Microposts

    Must read on #AI

    ‘I do not think ethical surveillance can exist’: Rumman Chowdhury on accountability in AI

    www.theguardian.com/technolog…

  • May 31, 2023 8:48am
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

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    Neat tutorial!

    Self-hosting VSCode #opensource #selfhosting #vscode fribbledom.com/posts/sel…

  • May 30, 2023 8:44pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

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    But nothing brought home the need for a Twitter alternative like last night’s disastrous launch of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign. It was a mashup of everything wrong with Twitter: It featured “free speech absolutist” Musk cavorting with a literal fascist book burner, and the whole announcement went down in flames because of technical difficulties.

    m.dailykos.com/stories/2…

  • May 30, 2023 6:51pm
    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 6:22pm
    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 4:14pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Thoughts

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    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 3:29pm
    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 5:06pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    OKCinfo

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    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 5:03pm
    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 3:58pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Microposts

    Heh this is actually very cool!

    Open Source Virtual Background

    elder.dev/posts/ope…

  • May 28, 2023 9:30pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Fediverse

    Microposts

    Interesting… #fediverse #news #content discovery

    news.feedseer.com

  • May 28, 2023 3:12pm
    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 11:18pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

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

    www.vanityfair.com/news/2023…

  • May 27, 2023 5:11pm
    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 9:29am
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Random

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    Morning… Bonjour… Bom dia…

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