Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

I have to disagree with @mmasnick when he calls Musk's latest maunderings re API access "brain farts" from someone who is clueless about how Twitter works.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/06/elon-promises-a-free-api-for-good-bot-content-again-demonstrating-he-has-no-idea-how-any-of-this-works/

My hypothesis is that the sociopath CEO knows exactly what he's doing: trolling.

Clarence Thomas, Sarah Palin, and Devin Nunes are leading a charge to roll back a landmark Supreme Court decision that protects free speech and make it easier for public officials to win lawsuits against people who criticize them.

Because when the right says we need to protect free speech, they mean they want to protect it for them—and only for them.

By @mmasnick
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/06/its-time-to-codify-the-ny-times-v-sullivan-standard-into-law/

Worth reading: "Voice.AI: GPL Violations with a Side of DRM"

https://undeleted.ronsor.com/voice.ai-gpl-violations-with-a-side-of-drm

#FOSS #OpenSource #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

Looks like there aren't enough right wing trolls, Nazis, anti-vaxxers, tech bros, and Musk fanboys gullible enough to buy into the brave new hardcore world of Twitter Blue https://www.theinformation.com/articles/musks-twitter-has-just-180-000-u-s-subscribers-two-months-after-launch

Notice a pattern? #SocialSecurity #Medicare #Pensions #seniors #benefits #MAGA #GQP #Trumpists #GOP #EnemyOfThePeople #politics #editorialcartoons #cartoon

#cartoonist: Marty Two Bulls

By the way, the same corporations telling us they have no choice but to raise prices are simultaneously spending billions of dollars on stock buybacks to enrich their wealthy shareholders.

"With very few jobs available to women, most who had no independent means or family to return to were forced into the sex trade. They were reviled by New York’s politicos but visited by many of the same men who decried them in the newspapers and pulpits."

#acting

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/charlotte-cushman-broke-barriers-her-way-becoming-list-actress-1800s-180975221/

VMware warned customers today to install the latest security updates and disable the OpenSLP service targeted in a large-scale campaign of ransomware attacks against Internet-exposed and vulnerable ESXi servers.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vmware-warns-admins-to-patch-esxi-servers-disable-openslp-service/

Microsoft just released a demo of BigGPT-Large, which they define as "a domain-specific generative model pre-trained on large-scale biomedical literature, has achieved human parity, outperformed other general and scientific LLMs, and could empower biologists in various scenarios of scientific discovery."

Here's the response to the first question that I asked: @ct_bergstrom @emilymbender

My op-Ed with Orly Lobel arguing that the FTC’s ban on noncompetes is good for innovation is now published in the Harvard Business Review

https://hbr.org/2023/02/banning-noncompetes-is-good-for-innovation

There is one prominent exception to the trend where businesses make it almost impossible to get someone on the phone:

When you want to cancel any kind of regular pay service, such as cable TV, you are REQUIRED to speak to someone who'll try to argue you out of it.

(Of course, getting them on the phone involves a lengthy wait, at least in my experience.)

ChatGPT users are finding various "jailbreaks" that get the tool to seemingly ignore its own content restrictions and provide unfettered responses (Rohan Goswami/CNBC)

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/06/chatgpt-jailbreak-forces-it-to-break-its-own-rules.html
http://www.techmeme.com/230206/p23#a230206p23

I have discovered @NetNewsWire recently. I can add a #Mastodon user #RSS feed to it. That way, I can mute them on my timeline and read their (many) posts in batch. It's a great way for me to keep up to date on news.

I can also unfollow many Twitter users now, because I can subscribe to their website feeds (like with Japan Times).

For me, the perfect companion to Mastodon. Free and #opensource too: https://netnewswire.com/

Thanks a lot NNW, you will be on my devices for a while.

I'm normally delighted to ignore Trump and the deranged hateful emissions that come out of his mouth. But apparently last night he once again, by name, sent his followers after Ruby Freeman (the retired Georgia election worker whose life he baselessly and shamefully put in danger two years ago).

None of his antics can exactly be considered surprising at this point, but they remain shocking and sickening.

Capitol security officials split last week over whether to erect fencing around the Capitol ahead of tomorrow’s State of the Union address.

The #House’s new sergeant at arms opposed it, losing on a 2-1 Capitol Police Board vote.

https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/02-6-2023/capitol-security-split/?cid=mas

SAN FRANCISCO — Google said it will soon make its own artificial intelligence chatbot available to the public and begin using the tech to generate answers in search results, firing back at accusations the company, long a leader in AI tech, has been slow to respond to competition from its rivals.

Story by Gerrit de Vynck: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/06/google-bard-chatbot/

Pakistan unblocks Wikipedia after three days; Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif: the ban's unintended consequences over objectionable content outweigh its benefits (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/06/wikipedia-pakistan/
http://www.techmeme.com/230206/p22#a230206p22