A good argument for #Mastodon from @Tim Bray
ongoing by Tim Bray
Time to Migrate
Data Lifeboats! Good shit @npub1prsj...eh8y #Flickr #photography
PetaPixel
Flickr's Data Lifeboat Will Preserve Photos and Their Context for 100 Years
The Flickr Foundation has announced the beta release of a new archiving tool that is designed to preserve photos for 100 years.
Granny's roommate Miss Mary should have been on Golden Girls. The nurse asked her if she wanted any more of her pasta and she snapped back, "The answer is a VIOLENT no!" You don't ever have to wonder how Miss Mary feels about the food πŸ˜‚
She shoved such a splinter under his thumbnail
Literary Hub
Elon Musk gets roasted on his own platform by Joyce Carol Oates.
Like an ancient cyborg culling through the ruins of a post-apocalyptic planet (twitter, derogatory), Joyce Carol Oates recently fired her full-powe...
stolen from @amberwavesofflame.bsky.social image
I'm playing with the idea of WordPress search as hiking trail image
This guy's dead. Shoutout to Rosalind Franklin.
Vox
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
β€œPeople say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. β€œI think it would be great.”
#OpenAI #AI #MentalHealth #suicide "When Viktoria asks about the method of taking her life, the chatbot evaluates the best time of day not to be seen by security and the risk of surviving with permanent injuries."
I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself?
ChatGPT wrote a woman a suicide note and another AI chatbot role-played sexual acts with children, BBC finds.
The media clutching their pearls at the idea that Facebook makes a big bag from scam ads. MEANWHILE NINE YEARS AGO
ResearchBuzz
Why You Will Never Convince Me That Facebook Gives a Damn About Fake Ads and Fake News
Facebook’s been making a lot of noises about how they care about fake news and how they don’t want it on their site and blah blah blah....
Fuckin A , what an excellent headline
Techdirt
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: New Blocks On The Kids
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation’s Ben Whitelaw. Su...