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   IFTAS (iftas@mastodon.iftas.org)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jul-2026 03:46:26 JST IFTAS

   IFTAS has now observed and reported over 4,000 inauthentic accounts created by the Portal Kombat/Matryoshka disinfo #FIMI team. This number is just the accounts manually observed and verified by humans.

   Could be there's twice as many, ten times as many, who knows?

   Each account spews non-stop automated slopaganda and inauthentic boosts.

   Roughly 65% of our reports are acted on.

   In other words, huge volumes of unchecked spam federating around the web.

   Learn more: https://about.iftas.org/library/suspected-portal-kombat-accounts/

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   Kimota94 (kimota94@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jan-2026 10:38:00 JST Kimota94

   @thomasfuchs I keep expecting them to move the goalposts and define “AI” so generally that it basically boils down to all software being AI. I mean, an app that requires sign-in must be artificially intelligent because how else would it know if you put the right password in? How does a spreadsheet “know” how to add things together unless it’s artificially intelligent? And so on.

   In which case, that definition of AI justifies the statement you referenced.

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   Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@mastodon.futurist.info)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Sep-2025 19:41:12 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

   "Complex challenges aren’t, unless you give them permission." - Futurist Jim Carroll

   The debate about AI and the future of work, skills, and knowledge rages on.

   In the meantime, lots of folks are figuring out how to leverage this darned thing. I certainly am! I have an incredibly complex, rich, and sophisticated tech setup that has supported my business for over 3 decades. I'm a computer geek behind the scenes, with a ridiculous amount of tech gear in my life. There's a lot of automation throughout the house, and my home office and broadcast studio setups are pretty sophisticated.

   Heck, I've even been called crazy, such as was the case in this magazine article from about 2002.

   https://jimcarroll.com/2023/03/daily-inspiration-dismissive-skepticism-is-at-the-root-of-many-a-missed-opportunity/

   That said, it takes a lot of work to keep all of this running - and so for years, I've not only been the author and speaker and columnist and radio show host - I've been the tech support guy. Not only for me, but for my wife (who has worked with me in the home office for 30+ years), my two sons (who also do most of their career work out of their homes and have similar home automation setups!), and their two wives.

   Enter AI.
   In the last year, I've found that I have regularly turned to ChatGPT or Gemini or Claude with my tech support issues, ranging from simple requests for help to complex projects involving detailed programming in languages such as Python (which I know nothing about - more on that in a later post.)

   I decided to take a look at one month's worth of the tech support requests I've made to Gemini - the full list, WITH MY QUESTIONS, is found below. And it's staggering to think about how much I've come to rely on this tool.

   Augmented knowledge, as it were. 

   And if you think about what is happening here, there is a transformation underway - we are moving away from one type of traditional tech support to an AI-based partnership. Over time, we'll be fully integrating this knowledge augmentation into our daily lives, across a vast range of different skill sets.
   I
   And so while the debate about AI rages on, millions of people are learning how to augment their own knowledge. This one example involves my use of it for tech support - for others, it's about augmented knowledge, medical insight, engineering skills, science knowledge, or more.

   Things are changing, folks, and the sooner you jump on board, the better positioned you will be! All of which comes to the key point - any complex challenges that we face today really aren't, unless you allow it to be. Your ability to master new knowledge and skills is what will now truly define your tomorrow!

   You might find reading through this PDF to be pretty fascinating - it includes 20 examples of 20 different types of tech support I've been using AI for, questions and all.

   It's a wild read!

   #AI #Complexity #Technology #Support #Augmentation #Knowledge #Skills #Partnership #Solutions #Integration

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   Futurist Jim Carroll admits that when it comes to tech, he's always been a bit crazy and way ahead of his time.

   Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/09/decoding-tomorrow-your-daily-future-inspiration-knowledge-skills-complex-challenges-arent-unless-you-give-them-permission/

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   Randahl Fink (randahl@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 18-Jul-2025 17:21:29 JST Randahl Fink

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   But here is the lesson we can all learn from this: If you see something strange where someone suddenly seems to change their behaviour and do something malicious, it is important to ask questions before concluding what is going on.

   In this case, a post which seemed like it was written by me was actually altered by an IT system that I have never given permission to do so — and it now seemed like I was spreading hatred.

   In conclusion: I blame no one for this incident. I fully understand…

   6/7

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   Ramin Honary (ramin_hal9001@fe.disroot.org)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2025 06:29:24 JST Ramin Honary
   Facebook and Twitter censor Linux-related content

   According to the DistroWatch newsletter they have received multiple reports of Facebook users having their accounts suspended for talking about Linux.

   I predict that this is just the beginning of a US government crack-down on people who want to break away from the corporate-controlled propaganda, and the surveillance technology built-in to Apple, Microsoft, Google (Alphabet), Facebook (Meta), and Amazon products, or who want to run their own federated web services. It is only a matter of time before ActivityPub is classified as “terrorism.” TikTok was only the beginning.

   (begin quote of DistroWatch news:)

   Starting on 2025-01-19 Sun Facebook’s internal policy makers decided that Linux is malware and labelled groups associated with Linux as being “cybersecurity threats”. Any posts mentioning DistroWatch and multiple groups associated with Linux and Linux discussions have either been shut down or had many of their posts removed.

   We’ve been hearing all week from readers who say they can no longer post about Linux on Facebook or share links to DistroWatch. Some people have reported their accounts have been locked or limited for posting about Linux.

   The sad irony here is that Facebook runs much of its infrastructure on Linux and often posts job ads looking for Linux developers.

   Unfortunately, there isn’t anything we can do about this, apart from advising people to get their Linux-related information from sources other than Facebook. I’ve tried to appeal the ban and was told the next day that Linux-related material is staying on the cybersecurity filter. My Facebook account was also locked for my efforts.

   We went through a similar experience when Twitter changed its name to X - suddenly accounts which had been re-posting news from our RSS feeds were no longer able to share links. This sort of censorship is an unpleasant side-effect of centralized communication platforms such as X, Facebook, Google+, and so on.

   In an effort to continue to make it possible for people to talk about Linux (and DistroWatch), as well as share their views and links, we are providing two options. We have RSS news feeds which get updates whenever we post new announcements, stories, and our weekly newsletters. We also now have a Mastodon account where I will start to post updates - at least for new distributions and notice of our weekly newsletter. Over time we may also add news stories and updates about releases. Links for the feeds and the Mastodon account can be found on our contact page.

   #Tech #Politics #Censorship #FreeSpeech #Linux #Fediverse #TikTok #FLOSS #FOSS #FreeSoftware #Twitter #Apple #Microsoft #Google #AlphabetCorp #Facebook #MetaCorp #AmazonCorp

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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 13:44:41 JST Rich Felker

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   @xyhhx @dean @foone There's a single deterministic computation producing the data to read back independent of what hardware you're running on.

   In principle you should be able to make GPU rendering deterministic/bit-exact, but there are so many layers for stuff to go wrong at and in practice it's always fingerprinting.