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Deciding the line between acceptable and unacceptable speech is time-consuming. It’s messy. It needs to involve input from civil society. It’s constantly shifting and culture-specific. And it needs to be done for every possible type of speech. Because of all that, AI has no role here.

I asked GPT-3 to pretend to be the smart brain of my house, carefully explained what it can access around the house and how to respond to my requests. I explained all this in plain English with no programme code involved.

ChatGPT is autocomplete on steroids

Will Japan gradually fade into irrelevance, or re-invent itself? My head tells me that to prosper anew Japan must embrace change. But my heart aches at the thought of it losing the things that make it so special.

it turns out that a fast, lightweight and secure way to run things had non-browser use cases

A very cool tool I only recently discovered is Followgraph. You put in your Mastodon handle, it looks up all the people you follow and all the people they follow, and then recommends to you the people who lots of your followers follow, but you don’t.

The story about how a bunch of Denison Fiji brothers recovered the lost Betty Boards.

A family-run, “narrow-woven” company in Echizen City, Fukui Prefecture, made that orange band. What is the advanced production technology that sparked Tim Cook’s curiosity?

The goal for this guide is to present you with the minimum amount of steps and information to get you started.

Looking at profile page links to determine where users are going. Numbers are a bit out of date to include latest numbers from Post but still interesting.

How to bring your follow network over with you.

Moving to protocols, not platforms, is an approach for free speech in the twenty-first century. Rather than relying on a “marketplace of ideas” within an individual platform—which can be hijacked by those with malicious intent—protocols could lead to a marketplace of ideals, where competition occurs to provide better services that minimize the impact of those with malicious intent, without cutting off their ability to speak entirely.

The process is unbelievable fun & weird & narcissistic.

Good first place to start when getting started with Mastodon

“Audio is just unique in the world of social,” Mignano said. “It’s incredibly rich, it’s intimate, it's immersive, but it has this disadvantage.”

Where it came from, what it all means, and why it still matters. The 40,000 word, issue-takeover piece by Matt Levine for Bloomberg BusinessWeek.

Editorial: It's obviously fake news, but a real news outlet takes money to publish it.

List of Election Deniers running for Attorney General or Secretary of State

Ironically, the Supreme Court. The highest legal authority in the land appears poised to make potential election theft the law of the land.

Jim Marchant, the election-denying Republican nominee for secretary of state in Nevada, has so far been outspent and out campaigned by his Democratic opponent. But as the first counties in the state begin to mail out ballots to voters, he has consistently polled ahead of Democrat Cisco Aguilar.

BBC's Katty Kay interviews an Arizona couple that think a civil war is coming

60% of Americans will have an election denier on the ballot this November