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Cake day: March 5th, 2025

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  • Is it that thing you need to pay $1bn (one billion) to get in?

    I understand that media have to report on this, but still: this is sanewashing. This person is unhinged or worse. But if all of his admin fall in line behind his smelly brainfarts, unquestioningly, we must take it seriously. It’s fucked up.






  • weird emotional appeals

    “I think we’ve done a lot of damage lately with very well-respected people who have painted a doomer narrative, end of the world narrative, science fiction narrative. […] It’s not helpful to people, it’s not helpful to the industry, it’s not helpful to society, it’s not helpful to the governments.”

    “Our viewpoint is that we are trying to help consumers around the world. We’re just doing it through different channels. […] What’s going on right now is that the TAM [ed: Total Addressable Market] and data center is growing just absolutely tremendously. And we want to make sure that, as a company, we help fulfill that TAM as well.”





  • This is actually really good - potentially big news.

    The Social Web Working Group will work closely with the Social Web Community Group, the organization that has been stewarding ActivityPub and its extensions since 2018. The Community Group will remain the focal point for innovative developments extending ActivityPub into different areas like geosocial applications or threaded forums, while the Working Group will concentrate on the core documents.


  • Guildford previously denied in December that the West Midlands Police had used AI to prepare the report, blaming “social media scraping” for the error.

    lol, as if that was better (assuming they took all findings at face value).

    We’ve reached out to Microsoft to comment on why Copilot made up a football match that never existed, but the company didn’t respond in time for publication.

    I’d love to hear their response, but the real answer is obvious: “it’s a black box. We have no idea what it’s doing. Yes, we unleashed that on the world. Not sorry though, we just have to keep hoping that it sorts itself out.”