Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

as a freelancer I can't afford to lose the exposure I glean from Twitter if I want to pay my mortgage, so I figure I'll just hang out there making fun of billionaires and authoritarian mouth breathers until the bottom falls out

Tesla Fired Buffalo Workers Seeking to Organize, Union Says - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/business/tesla-buffalo-union.html

the slow but steady twitter brain drain continues.

every day another insightful, empathic twitter user leaves for mastodon, and is immediately replaced by six Elon fluffing tween cryptobros and a white supremacist influencer that makes twenty times your annual salary

While Nikki Haley was saying there’s no racism in America, a white supremacist was LITERALLY being sentenced for intentionally murdering Black Americans. America is not a racist country, but today's GOP is a white nationalist movement. My new article: https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/while-nikki-haley-was-saying-theres

Goodbye #Ubuntu. I don't recognize you anymore. Back to #Debian.

that said this tech will be wonderful for people who want to quickly mass produce inexpensive clickbait and right wing propaganda, so that's exciting for a culture whose discourse is already idiotic and unintelligible

The robots aren't taking over. They're not falling in love. They're not feeling. They don't want to be alive. They're not evil masterminds. They create word patterns based off text on the internet. Is what journalists should be saying, not gee-whiz sci-fi LARPing about fancy autocorrect.

I feel like we are reading a bit too deeply into bullshit generators designed to mimic intelligence but maybe that's just me

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/technology/bing-chatbot-microsoft-chatgpt.html?s=09

While I'm totes impressed by the level of *integration* you see in the #Mac ecosystem - apps being able to talk to the OS and call its services, apps being able to talk to other apps using a standardized interface of dictionaries and verbs, man oh man I *REALLY* want this for #linux

There's no reason we can't have it. People just need to be able to agree on standardized interfaces for things.

This is why I get kinda sad when I think about this stuff, because even things as simple as "Hey y'all we REALLY need to agree on how to cut and paste" turn into hard problems, and efforts like the Free Desktop project never really achieve their full potential.

I think sometimes Linux developers mistake standards for strait jackets as an absolute idea.

They're *TOTALLY* not. They *CAN* be if mis-applied, but modern marvels like the internet show that when we get broad agreement on how things can work, a thousand flowers can bloom *AND* we can improve our quality of life.

</rant> :)

🚨 Totally ignored by MSM
Call them #Christofascists or
New Apostolic Reformation, the NAR is a rapidly accelerating & dangerously under-reported worldwide "Christian" AUTHORITARIAN movement.
Evil bastards like Flynn & Stone are pulling the strings
1-
https://buckscountybeacon.com/2022/08/underreported-and-massive-theocratic-movement-joins-forces-with-michael-flynn-and-roger-stone/
2-
https://twitter.com/NickKnudsenUS/status/1547259907275075584

"Family of Christian Terrorists Killed Cops in Survivalist Ambush"

That was in Australia. Of course "the religious group had a connection to a similar group in the U.S., and officers had shared information found in text messages with the U.S. police."

#Christofascism

https://www.thedailybeast.com/family-of-christian-terrorists-killed-cops-in-survivalist-ambush

Hmm, Turing test seems to have been passed, IMHO. NYTimes: "Bing’s A.I. Chat Reveals Its Feelings: ‘I Want to Be Alive. 😈’" (ps. gift link from me, feel free to share to get past the paywall) #ai #openai #turingtest #ml https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/technology/bing-chatbot-transcript.html?unlocked_article_code=ro3B820lAWGdoWLL33jPSrv9-9F65zApZMJPJvjb4NzcyKtPISGGIFLf8idH_VwdGkfW5Ut8IiVr28ajUq5RixLSqeCwGv52MhmX3z96U5o99gwxPpLfVgHOeDtsoxLJW2p352IDih3GKZMa1XVnwF3J6WIGC1EDi6Vf7IOT9GJZFU5t-xYGa_6owLZ144lunAbi8yf8beX8og8ZYp_e3ByiIcyIGPBf6lvGOPpN93V9lD7Xx-3-Fo1rNtNJCddohyQk-EbdAECS3Mb1TmLPUZMIdRNfOb_1tYlDoZNY6GPNwCmf-UlfWo0wgEpMFhRwTzAUv3Y8mho5QZ2TG12a9JqVl5o&smid=url-share

Want #GNOME Shell to Work Your Way? Check Out V Shell https://www.omglinux.com/v-shell-gnome-extension-is-impressive/

#News from @jonkeegan: If you’re a Kroger rewards shopper, the chain is collecting info about you—and not just what you buy.

It’s building a profile that may include your race, financial status, and even inferred interests. It then sells insights to major brands like General Mills, CocaCola, and Kraft Heinz.

Read more about the “alternative profit” business that Kroger expects to generate more than $1 billion annually:
https://themarkup.org/privacy/2023/02/16/forget-milk-and-eggs-supermarkets-are-having-a-fire-sale-on-data-about-you

@WarnerCrocker
Not seeing any benefit in joining one of the new #Twitter knockoffs like #Post, #Spill or #T2 — much rather put my energy into #Mastodon — #opensource, #decentralized and little chance for some pathetic, egotistical, narcissistic #billionaire to take it over!

https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AUD3z6XZVm0/kurt-wagner

Operation of mastodon.au will be handed over to @xrobau who will maintain the instance. No one needs to move if they wish to stay, however no new accounts. Rob will provide additional information in the days to come.