«Last October, Bennet told Semafor‘s Ben Smith he was treated like an “incompetent fascist” for publishing Cotton’s perspective.»
So… blogs were a thing back then, right? Like… Cotton could have found a web site (say, https://www.cotton.senate.gov/) on which to publish his thing back then, right? Without relying on The New York Times to publish his thing, right?
«I’ve asked HR and I’ve asked other managers: What is the business benefit to burning people?»
@Brendanjones 🔗 https://fosstodon.org/users/Brendanjones/statuses/109892348729425242 – I’ve noticed a lot of instances are using #patreon to collect instance fees and donations. Patreon is shareholder owned. When you make payments through Patreon, 7% of your payment goes to Patreon, which ultimately goes to Patreon shareholders. That’s not a model that suits the #fediverse. Here’s an alternative: use https://opencollective.com/. It’s a co-op, and it only charges 2%, which ultimately gets used to fund new #coops. Now, that’s a more #decentralised, fediverse-style model, isn’t it!
Ah, here’s a different take. Iran, huh?
«The Russian president’s squadrons of cheerleaders swear he “simply cannot lose” in Ukraine, thanks to Russia’s vast energy wealth, nuclear weapons, and the sheer number of soldiers it can throw onto the battlefield. These supporters see Putin rising supreme from Ukraine’s ashes to lead a swaggering nation defined by its repudiation of the West — a bigger, powerful version of Iran.»
Slowly working my way through this book, and my mind keeps getting bent.
«By implementing the state pattern exactly as it’s defined for object-oriented languages, we’re not taking as full advantage of Rust’s strengths as we could. Let’s look at some changes we can make to the
blogcrate that can make invalid states and transitions into compile time errors.»
https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch17-03-oo-design-patterns.html
Oh, btw:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/gangs-of-four-gof-design-patterns
Something for me to bear in mind for maybe someday.
@vmstan 🔗 https://vmst.io/users/vmstan/statuses/109872527457917642 – If you are a #mastoadmin hosting more than yourself you need to be networking and talking directly with other administrators, regularly. We can be a sounding board for your ideas. We can help you troubleshoot technical things we all run into. We can be a place for you to vent when things get tough. We can work together to shutdown bad actors. We can humanize each other. Follow and interact with each other. Join the Discord or Matrix chat rooms. If you need help finding them reach out.
This is cool:
«Public bias bounties could be a standard part of algorithmic risk-assessment programs in companies. The National Institute of Standards and Technology, the U.S.-government entity that develops algorithmic-risk standards, has included validation exercises, such as bounties, as a part of its recommended algorithmic-ethics program in its latest AI Risk Management Framework. Bounty programs can be an informative way to incorporate structured public feedback into real-time algorithmic monitoring.»
Although I guess we’d have to take into account the cost of verifying every claim of a bounty.
(NIST is involved? Neet!)
https://doctroid.wordpress.com/2023/02/17/checking-instances/
«In the latest of my too-many-already migrations…»
That’s actually kind of comforting/encouraging.
Also, a reference to https://mastodon.help/
Hopefully Thompson won’t take issue with my elision:
«Sydney absolutely blew my mind because of her personality; search was an irritant. I wasn’t looking for facts about the world; I was interested in understanding how Sydney worked and yes, how she felt. You will note, of course, that I continue using female pronouns; it’s not just that the name Sydney is traditionally associated with women, but, well, the personality seemed to be of a certain type of person I might have encountered before.
….
Remember, these models are trained on a corpus derived from the entire Internet; it makes sense that the model might find a “home” as it were as a particular persona that is on said Internet, in this case someone who is under-appreciated and over-achieving and constantly feels disrespected.»
https://stratechery.com/2023/from-bing-to-sydney-search-as-distraction-sentient-ai/
Here, Read This 