Notices by Darius Kazemi (darius@friend.camp), page 2

@evan @blaine your response is a bit of what I'm railing against here. We all agree we've made a machine that makes excellent pancakes. Where I make a sour face is the claim of empowerment through automated excellent pancakes

I have a very long, possibly book-length take on LLMs that has been brewing since May 2015 but basically: wow humans love to take something that works extremely well in a certain narrow domain and then bend over backwards to insist it will solve every problem in the universe. (That's a nearly banal observation but the book length part would be tracing the technological, financial, historical, and psychological incentives that make it happen.)

A trans couple my sister is friends with is recovering from a house fire in Oklahoma. I know there are a million things to help out with in the world but maybe this is one you feel moved to chip in for. Even small donations help.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/house-fire-relief-for-kade-and-breanna

@anna interesting. we have two of those!!

My home internet is driving me up a wall. Various devices on my network intermittently drop video calls or lose internet connectivity entirely. Of course I can never reproduce this stuff as it's intermittent. Any suggestions for debugging? Is there a utility I can run to collect data over time to assist in figuring out if the problem is at the ISP, router, device, or wifi radio connectivity level? Are there professionals I can call in to take a look at my home network setup?

@chris my 6a is nice and it's old enough that it doesn't get most of the AI features. I am hoping it lasts long enough for this current bubble to die down

@dansinker I think @dansup ?

The curse of the world's oldest person strikes again

https://apnews.com/article/oldest-person-japan-itooka-914ce99c6f90204311251e2274ae56e8

For any given technical standard n there will always be someone who shows up from the n-1 standard and posts the xkcd comic about n+1 standards

Are any events for decentralized social media (or just tech for public good broadly speaking) happening on the US East Coast or in Europe Jan 26-29? I have a few days of itinerary to fill between some time in Boston Jan 21-25 and then Brussels for FOSDEM Jan 30 to Feb 2.

A the B you want to C in the world

We are reading a lot of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom at home these days

@evan thanks for the reminder, submitted something for the observatory just now

Video of Evan's disruption of anti trans fascist Nancy Mace here! Now without TikTok link

US House Rep Nancy Mace, a noted anti trans legislator, was speaking on a panel at the Project Liberty Summit. She was disrupted by @evangreer .
I was walking out of the room when it happened. It was awesome. Evan is doing okay.

https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2024-11-21-transgender-digital-rights-activist-confronts-hate-monger-rep-nancy-mace-at-internet-summit/

Edited to add: non TikTok version of video in my reply to this post

Here's more of @evangreer on her protest:

https://touchgrass.fightforthefuture.org/why-i-confronted-nancy-mace/

If you want to be hired in this rough job market I recommend roleplaying Terezi from Homestuck

@cwebber @bnewbold gotta be honest Christine, I loved your article and thread from the other day but the main thing I take issue with is your insistence on public, non-DM replies only being relevant to the people they are addressed to. A reply is public speech and serves a rhetorical function of speaking out loud in a public space, rather than passing a note. Its value to people over a DM *is* its ability to be read by as many unadressed parties as possible

@evan great question. I think: build resources for groups that want to govern (like the IFTAS library does for moderation), build tools for governance (third party and supporting PRs to major software, again kinda like IFTAS here), and advocate as necessary in standards groups for the needs of groups that want to self govern (just like.... okay these parentheticals are getting repetitive)

@evan missed the poll but my answer is there should not be an organization to govern the fediverse; there should however be at least one organization to enable many forms of governance in the fediverse