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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Sort of odd to see this again (from Vox as well, I think?). It seems to add more detail, but the bottom line remains the same: it’s largely because fewer people are trying to immigrate into the U.S. since the Trump admin entered office.

    Trump might struggle to ramp up deportations along the border, as Obama did, simply because significantly fewer people are coming. In March, border apprehensions fell to 7,181, a 95 percent decrease from March 2024.

    This all sucks, and another part that sucks about it is that as usual, in the absence of as many of the Republicans’/conservatives’ favorite scapegoats, they begin turning inward and grabbing anyone and everyone that remotely resembles those scapegoats to abuse and deport to appeal to their base. Without more pushback, and as those deportation numbers continue to dwindle, you can expect that they’ll begin more widely rounding up their detractors (or at least attempting to).


  • Odd url…Here’s the original: https://futurism.com/chatgpt-polluted-ruined-ai-development

    Nice detail to use when searching the internet btw:

    “But if you’re collecting data before 2022 you’re fairly confident that it has minimal, if any, contamination from generative AI,” he added. “Everything before the date is ‘safe, fine, clean,’ everything after that is ‘dirty.’”

    Try running searches set pre-2022, at least for older info, to reduce the possibilities of AI generated noise.

    Anyway, kinda funny to see these generators may be producing enough noise to make producing more noise somewhat harder. Hopefully this doesn’t also impact more productive AI development, such as what’s used in scientific research and the like, as that would genuinely suck.

    Edit:
    Revised from generators “have produced” to “may be producing” to better reflect the lack of concrete info regarding generative AI data pollution as someone else pointed out. As they note:

    “Now, it’s not clear to what extent model collapse will be a problem, but if it is a problem, and we’ve contaminated this data environment, cleaning is going to be prohibitively expensive, probably impossible,” he told The Register.









  • This article also misses the point somewhat.

    It has a similar issue as attempts to respond to criticisms of Mastodon (or other federated software), the people criticizing it and in this situation Bluesky, are clearly criticizing them as social media and don’t care about the technical foundations. They do not care if there’s other software using the protocol, and other apps to interact with the protocol to filter out what they don’t like.

    If they cared enough, they might seek out that other software or those other apps, but either in what they’re saying or doing (e.g. returning to Twitter/X or switching over to group chats or something else instead), they indicate they don’t.

    The real response to people’s disinterest or distaste for a social media platform isn’t anything easy to provide. Some of it can be moderation, clearer guidance around the interface to tailor your experience, more outreach to bring in a greater variety of conversation, and so on. However not much of it can be addressed by the underlying technology, because the vibes of social media are produced by the people there, and no amount of tech can ethically address that.

    In the meantime, block and mute at will and stick to feeds you know you’ll enjoy to better avoid the worst that may emerge from the net.










  • “After forty years, we asked, what do the fans want? But instead we’re making this movie.”

    The real satire would be for this to be a genuine, original story that’s just using the name and has nothing else to do with the first.

    Spaceballs 2, or how Hollywood’s cowardly investors can only tolerate new, original material in an old suit.


  • Elle@lemmy.worldOPtoFedigrow@lemmy.zipWhy Outreach Matters
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    28 days ago

    As to more practical approaches to outreach:

    • Look at some of what people chafe against with Reddit, e.g. karma requirements and ambiguous auto-moderation, to invite them over to communities around here.
    • If you have an interest in something new and upcoming, post about it in the broader communities here and if the moderators there are cool with it*, use those posts to invite people to a specific community about it.
      • Create specific communities about new/trending stuff and invite people from elsewhere to discuss it here instead of Reddit.
    • Whichever instance wants to take a shot at an Ask Me Anything community (as you’d want both admins and mods on-hand for this), consider it as these Q&As can draw attention to this space very well with the right people invited to ask about whatever.

    * Moderators of these broader communities, if you’re okay with people inviting others to more specific communities around here, clarify that somewhere easy to find. People coming from elsewhere may assume it’s not and never ask due to their prior experiences.

    Ultimately, have fun with it all! If you’re not having fun and enjoying things here, why would anyone else want to join?