John Oliver's Last Week Tonight looks at AI slop, how it corrodes the concept of objective reality, the slop economy, tech leaders' enthusiasm for gen AI, more
Recall that the right wants to ban AI legislation *at the state level*. They're cashing in on the mis/dis information AND from the tech flooding us with it. — www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWpg... Stefan...
Free Our Feeds, backed by Jimmy Wales and others, aims to raise $30M by 2028 to billionaire-proof the AT Protocol by making it easier for Bluesky users to leave
The non-profit social media foundation space is really heating up. Ciarán Mather / Silicon Republic : Campaign aims to protect Bluesky's tech from billionaires Thomas Claburn / The Register : Hulk sma...
Threads users can now follow fediverse accounts that have interacted with a Threads post; users won't see fediverse posts in feeds, but will on account profiles
However, I believe that interoperability is necessary for survival of all of these platforms. … Eugen Rochko / @Gargron@mastodon.social : @mosseri just announced that #Threads users can finally follow...
Threads now gives users 15 minutes to edit posts and lets users who have connected their accounts to the fediverse see who follows them and likes their posts
RE: https://www.threads.net/... Anuj Ahooja / @quillmatiq : I think it's cool that this many people follow me on the Fediverse with no extra effort on my part, but what's cooler is that they follow me...
Newsletter service Ghost says it plans to add ActivityPub support in 2024; rival service Buttondown also plans ActivityPub support
Newsletter Platform Ghost Adopts ActivityPub Meera Navlakha / Mashable : Look out Substack, Ghost will join the fediverse this year Karissa Bell / Engadget : Newsletter service Ghost will support the ...
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is testing making posts from Threads accounts “available on Mastodon and other services that use the ActivityPub protocol”
I've been as big a Facebook critic as anybody, but this is a good thing. And reflects that we're entering a new era of the open web, with a chance for things to be more interesting again. Brian Penny...
Elon Musk says X plans to launch two new premium tiers: a lower cost tier with all the features but no reduction in ads, and a more expensive tier with no ads
And It Could Be a Problem for Elon Musk's Subscription Plan Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology : Exclusive Data: Twitter Is Shrinking Under Elon Musk Nadeem Sarwar / SlashGear : Musk Teases Twitter Subs...
Federated networks like Mastodon and a growing acceptance of paying for content may help move people away from big social platforms and improve online discourse
We're in a very strange moment for the internet. We all know it's broken. That's not news. Mastodon: @stefan@gardenstate.social , @jangles@mastodon.social , @Cassandra@artisan.chat , @timbray@cosoci...
Threads rolls out voice posts and a free edit button that lets users edit a post repeatedly within five minutes of sending; Threads doesn't show an edit history
and you don't have to pay for it Megan Ellis / MakeUseOf : You Can Now Edit Your Threads Posts (if You're Quick) Saurav Dey / KnowTechie : Threads is rolling out its new “Edit” button (and for free!) ...
LLMs trained on voice, text, and video chats can now detect and mimic emotions like empathy, which may impact customer service, HR, and mental health sectors
I have friends who are diagnosed autistic and have lots of stories about trouble with police because they were “animated” or something. — This is totally gonna misread my people. Tim Chambers / @tch...