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Programming homosexual. I am boring, no need to follow; this is just for following feeds and rambling into the void. Mostly ATproto+Activitypub related, datsci job stuff, occasional fanart/fanfiction reposts, & gay stuff. Big fan of data viz👍gephi my love
I don't agree with this lawsuits angle either but...
Framing data scraping LLCs methods as "just getting data from google" serps is also an absolutely *wild* way to report on these companies operations lmao
Framing data scraping LLCs methods as "just getting data from google" serps is also an absolutely *wild* way to report on these companies operations lmao
Reddit’s ‘AI Scraping’ Lawsuit Is An Attack On The Open Internet
When Reddit sued "data scraper" companies and AI firm Perplexity earlier this week, I assumed it was another predictable skirmish over AI training data—the kind of case we've been tracking as companies try to wall off the open…
When Reddit sued "data scraper" companies and AI firm Perplexity earlier this week, I assumed it was another predictable skirmish over AI training data—the kind of case we've been tracking as companies try to wall off the open…
Reddit’s ‘AI Scraping’ Lawsuit Is An Attack On The Open Internet
When Reddit sued "data scraper" companies and AI firm Perplexity earlier this week, I assumed it was another predictable skirmish over AI training data—the kind of case we've been tracking as companies try to wall off the open internet and set up toll booths. But reading the actual complaint made it clear this is something far more dangerous: Reddit isn't just going after scrapers.
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October 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I don't agree with this lawsuits angle either but...
Framing data scraping LLCs methods as "just getting data from google" serps is also an absolutely *wild* way to report on these companies operations lmao
Framing data scraping LLCs methods as "just getting data from google" serps is also an absolutely *wild* way to report on these companies operations lmao
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A Reddit mod has spent years tearing down the coding bootcamp space, relentlessly attacking the leading bootcamp: Codesmith. This is, by far, the most fucked up thing I've seen on Reddit: larslofgren.com/codesmith-re...
The Story of Codesmith: How a Competitor Crippled a $23.5M Bootcamp By Becoming a Reddit Moderator
Let’s say you decide to start a coding bootcamp. Your background is in pedagogy and you love teaching. Your parents were teachers. You find a co-founder, raise a bit of money, and pour your soul into ...
larslofgren.com
October 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
A Reddit mod has spent years tearing down the coding bootcamp space, relentlessly attacking the leading bootcamp: Codesmith. This is, by far, the most fucked up thing I've seen on Reddit: larslofgren.com/codesmith-re...
In general the vibe is:
App with .ai domain = instantly suspect, creator cannot be trusted, corpo lite, 70% chance it's vibe coded security nightmare
App with .io domain = trustworthy friend, an ally, scrappy team of hardworking devs, of course I'll join your crowdfund patreon & buy you a ko-fi
App with .ai domain = instantly suspect, creator cannot be trusted, corpo lite, 70% chance it's vibe coded security nightmare
App with .io domain = trustworthy friend, an ally, scrappy team of hardworking devs, of course I'll join your crowdfund patreon & buy you a ko-fi
October 16, 2025 at 9:16 AM
In general the vibe is:
App with .ai domain = instantly suspect, creator cannot be trusted, corpo lite, 70% chance it's vibe coded security nightmare
App with .io domain = trustworthy friend, an ally, scrappy team of hardworking devs, of course I'll join your crowdfund patreon & buy you a ko-fi
App with .ai domain = instantly suspect, creator cannot be trusted, corpo lite, 70% chance it's vibe coded security nightmare
App with .io domain = trustworthy friend, an ally, scrappy team of hardworking devs, of course I'll join your crowdfund patreon & buy you a ko-fi
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this was funnier in my head
November 20, 2024 at 4:23 AM
this was funnier in my head
I support the "bluesky needs a dedicated comm team/pr person" push not out of hate, but because that just feels like general tech/business wisdom?
I don't do customer facing jobs for a reason, and I always salute the side of the company that has to🫡 I'm always on thin ice just working with clients
I don't do customer facing jobs for a reason, and I always salute the side of the company that has to🫡 I'm always on thin ice just working with clients
October 8, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I support the "bluesky needs a dedicated comm team/pr person" push not out of hate, but because that just feels like general tech/business wisdom?
I don't do customer facing jobs for a reason, and I always salute the side of the company that has to🫡 I'm always on thin ice just working with clients
I don't do customer facing jobs for a reason, and I always salute the side of the company that has to🫡 I'm always on thin ice just working with clients
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new @anisota.net eclosion this week finally — i’m grossing around $300/mo via my creative projects currently thanks to folks like you 🤍
i’m starting work on the 6 different physical zines that will be going out to @anisota.net moth members and above
if you like my work/art, consider joining:
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if you like my work/art, consider joining:
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October 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
new @anisota.net eclosion this week finally — i’m grossing around $300/mo via my creative projects currently thanks to folks like you 🤍
i’m starting work on the 6 different physical zines that will be going out to @anisota.net moth members and above
if you like my work/art, consider joining:
i’m starting work on the 6 different physical zines that will be going out to @anisota.net moth members and above
if you like my work/art, consider joining:
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Following up a bit on the "but how do we know Hive/Bluesky isn't lying when they say they don't train generative AI on images submitted to their moderation machine learning models": here's the page for Hive's image generation models: thehive.ai/apis/image-g...
Image Generation APIs to generate unique digital images with text prompts | Hive
Generate images using text prompts
thehive.ai
October 8, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Following up a bit on the "but how do we know Hive/Bluesky isn't lying when they say they don't train generative AI on images submitted to their moderation machine learning models": here's the page for Hive's image generation models: thehive.ai/apis/image-g...
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Extremely relevant numbers! (And this is *low traffic* by modern standards.)
an interesting note re: scaling image moderation. in the past 24 hours:
at least 500 thousand images in posts (not considering # of images, just if an image was in the post)
86 thousand avatars
500 thousand url thumbnails
58 thousand videos.
that's a lot to moderate!
at least 500 thousand images in posts (not considering # of images, just if an image was in the post)
86 thousand avatars
500 thousand url thumbnails
58 thousand videos.
that's a lot to moderate!
October 8, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Extremely relevant numbers! (And this is *low traffic* by modern standards.)
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This is going around again and it is not true. Like every site on the internet, Bluesky uses machine learning to do a first-pass approximation of image classification to detect and label content. They have repeatedly confirmed outside services do not use Bluesky user data to train their models.
October 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
This is going around again and it is not true. Like every site on the internet, Bluesky uses machine learning to do a first-pass approximation of image classification to detect and label content. They have repeatedly confirmed outside services do not use Bluesky user data to train their models.
I don't know how to break it to people that if you want a big public social media site with no ML-based moderation/accessibility tools, then you have to vocally support returning to outsourced manual moderation (trauma-inducing sweatshop labor from a poor country)...
October 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I don't know how to break it to people that if you want a big public social media site with no ML-based moderation/accessibility tools, then you have to vocally support returning to outsourced manual moderation (trauma-inducing sweatshop labor from a poor country)...
I feel like I need to create a *taps the sign* meme along the lines of "if you support the fight against CSAM/CSAE you need to accept that machine learning scanning tools are a vital part of social media"
October 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I feel like I need to create a *taps the sign* meme along the lines of "if you support the fight against CSAM/CSAE you need to accept that machine learning scanning tools are a vital part of social media"
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In a constant battle with my colleagues over open protocols, and it feels like I tap the "it's ~2 years old" card entirely too often in my defense of at protocol......but it genuinely feels like a required reminder for every "my dad is more decentralized than your dad" conversation.
October 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
In a constant battle with my colleagues over open protocols, and it feels like I tap the "it's ~2 years old" card entirely too often in my defense of at protocol......but it genuinely feels like a required reminder for every "my dad is more decentralized than your dad" conversation.
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still thinking about how insanely trigger-happy some bsky users are with calling people transphobic, racist, etc
if that’s always your immediate reaction to someone merely having an opinion you don’t like, ur doing a disservice to the cause and should be embarrassed
boy who cried wolf phenomenon
if that’s always your immediate reaction to someone merely having an opinion you don’t like, ur doing a disservice to the cause and should be embarrassed
boy who cried wolf phenomenon
October 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
still thinking about how insanely trigger-happy some bsky users are with calling people transphobic, racist, etc
if that’s always your immediate reaction to someone merely having an opinion you don’t like, ur doing a disservice to the cause and should be embarrassed
boy who cried wolf phenomenon
if that’s always your immediate reaction to someone merely having an opinion you don’t like, ur doing a disservice to the cause and should be embarrassed
boy who cried wolf phenomenon
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📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
signal.org
October 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM
📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
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BREAKING: sources say NARA has forced out Dr. Todd Arrington, the federal director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, after he declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a sword from the library for a gift to King Charles
lastcampaign.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
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EXCLUSIVE: NARA Ousts Eisenhower Library Director Over Proposed Trump Gift to King Charles
The director, a historian and Army veteran, declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a priceless artifact from the library's permanent collection
lastcampaign.substack.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:05 AM
BREAKING: sources say NARA has forced out Dr. Todd Arrington, the federal director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, after he declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a sword from the library for a gift to King Charles
lastcampaign.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
lastcampaign.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
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What most people think of as @bsky.app is just the tip of the @atprotocol.dev iceberg -- and this iceberg is growing -- from the top and bottom!
i wrote about atproto and why it matters
Open Social — overreacted
The protocol is the API.
overreacted.io
September 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
What most people think of as @bsky.app is just the tip of the @atprotocol.dev iceberg -- and this iceberg is growing -- from the top and bottom!
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I love that, thanks to the incredible quoting power that @leaflet.pub gives users, I’ve been seeing different excerpts from this article showing up on my timeline since the blog was posted. :)
October 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I love that, thanks to the incredible quoting power that @leaflet.pub gives users, I’ve been seeing different excerpts from this article showing up on my timeline since the blog was posted. :)
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now even more than ever, North American tech conferences need to start making plans to be split across multiple sites, one in the US for people that can't leave, and one outside the US for people who can't enter. Simulcast between the two locations.
September 19, 2025 at 11:58 PM
now even more than ever, North American tech conferences need to start making plans to be split across multiple sites, one in the US for people that can't leave, and one outside the US for people who can't enter. Simulcast between the two locations.
This article is immediately suspect to me due to its overreliance on LLM-produced evidence (see: citing quotes from court decisions that do not include those quotes, citing numbers that arent backed up by the sources they're cited from, etc).
Regardless of it vibes with my general opinion or not
Regardless of it vibes with my general opinion or not
"Twenty-three Democratic attorneys general now gather on near-daily Zoom calls at 8 AM Pacific, which means the East Coast officials are already on their third coffee. They divide responsibilities and share templates for lawsuits they’ve been drafting since last spring."
It’s Time for Americans to Start Talking About “Soft Secession”
Blue states are finally learning what red states have known all along: you don’t need federal permission to govern.
cmarmitage.substack.com
August 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This article is immediately suspect to me due to its overreliance on LLM-produced evidence (see: citing quotes from court decisions that do not include those quotes, citing numbers that arent backed up by the sources they're cited from, etc).
Regardless of it vibes with my general opinion or not
Regardless of it vibes with my general opinion or not
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And, yes, sure, I'm biased, but this is why Bluesky and ATprotocol is so important. Because with the underlying protocol, you don't have to try to take something back from a billionaire with interests deeply opposed to yours. You have the choice of how it works.
August 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
And, yes, sure, I'm biased, but this is why Bluesky and ATprotocol is so important. Because with the underlying protocol, you don't have to try to take something back from a billionaire with interests deeply opposed to yours. You have the choice of how it works.
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Arguably one of the greatest shortcomings of today's intellectual environment is the widespread failure to understand how digital power works.
You can reclaim a bar/town hall/public square by showing up. You ABSOLUTELY CANNOT do that with a digital platform.
You can reclaim a bar/town hall/public square by showing up. You ABSOLUTELY CANNOT do that with a digital platform.
And it's the same nonsense that has already been published by a dozen others, self-justifying why they're helping a platform run by someone who is contributing to the destruction of so much of the current world.
It actually argues that staying there is important to "take it back."
It actually argues that staying there is important to "take it back."
August 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Arguably one of the greatest shortcomings of today's intellectual environment is the widespread failure to understand how digital power works.
You can reclaim a bar/town hall/public square by showing up. You ABSOLUTELY CANNOT do that with a digital platform.
You can reclaim a bar/town hall/public square by showing up. You ABSOLUTELY CANNOT do that with a digital platform.
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How to draw an ATProto
August 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
How to draw an ATProto
Although I am very adamant that federated web is the sustainable future and I do want atprotocol to thrive, it feels that the infrastructure of any dominant PDS is going to become forever hammered by agent armies which will dilute the adoption/daily use rates in the foreseeable future
August 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Although I am very adamant that federated web is the sustainable future and I do want atprotocol to thrive, it feels that the infrastructure of any dominant PDS is going to become forever hammered by agent armies which will dilute the adoption/daily use rates in the foreseeable future
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July 26, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Face the flower and speak.
memories.undertale.com
It's almost been 10 years since UNDERTALE released.
Now, I'm looking for your memories.
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Face the flower and speak.
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