Notices by Darius Kazemi (darius@friend.camp), page 3

Your scientists were so preoccupied with how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood, they didn't stop to think how much wood should a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

just in case you want to browse the Enron website circa 2001, some kind soul has been hosting a very fast mirror for a long time

https://enroncorp.com

I regret to inform you that the genders have been compromised.

@johnnesky no but these interesting citations came up elsewhere in the thread:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tedchiang/the-real-danger-to-civilization-isnt-ai-its-runaway

https://locusmag.com/2015/07/cory-doctorow-skynet-ascendant/

@c0dec0dec0de @eaton @cstross His talk was December 2017

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/dude-you-broke-the-future.html

Mine was March 2016

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19bHmqqnPsK4rBUvUgPdvmNUyh5DQrqrj9L2ehHlN6ho/edit

But! Stross wrote on a similar subject in 2010, about corporations as immortal aliens, which is in fact pretty close to my 2016 talk:

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/12/invaders-from-mars.html

I am chalking this one up to similar people thinking similarly about similar things :)

@eaton Unfortunately, no. But I do have my slides! I just made them public: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19bHmqqnPsK4rBUvUgPdvmNUyh5DQrqrj9L2ehHlN6ho/edit?usp=sharing

@mcc I gave a talk ten years ago where the main point was "the AI apocalypse came and went years ago, corporations are AI that runs on humans and we just carry out their algorithms for them"

@joeyh that is correct, that culture exists. A lot of people literally don't know you can invoke a text editor to do longform commit messages. I wrote about it here

https://meedan.com/post/how-to-write-longform-git-commits-for-better-software-development

Interesting. When I make a post on my test Threads account with one-way federation turned on (aka fedi can read my posts, I can't read posts outside Threads, which is all they've enabled so far), and it gets likes from the fediverse, it gets compressed into this "X likes from N servers" notification

It is sad to me that in 2024 if I search "Moby-Dick by Herman Melville" (no quotes) on Google, the free Project Gutenberg ebook isn't even in the top ten results

We launched Google Ads in 2000 in an effort to make a lot of money. While the product has a loyal following among Senior Vice Presidents, over the years we've made enough money. So, on July 1, 2025 we will sunset Google Ads.

@college_physics@defcon.social I do not think we need a replacement for mass social media. We need something weirder and different and definitely, definitely not simple on any conceptual level

@stpaultim @roadriverrail That's okay. I think the pool of developers is large enough that if some are concerned and stay away, we will be just fine.

@stpaultim When I made a social network server where the only letter you can use is "E", it was not categorized that way. There are many, many ideas that do not exist even remotely close to surveillance.

@stpaultim From what I have seen, people label something surveillance capitalism when some they don't like a new feature because it is collecting data about them with an eye toward some kind of retention or growth or profit.

Has anyone made a DMs-only fediverse client? Like something that looks more or less like iMessage or Signal but you address people via their fediverse handles and it handles DMs as first class (and only-class) content?

Has anyone made a DMs-only fediverse *server*? Like if I want to join fedi but only to direct message people and be in group chats I could join a server and it would have a nice client view like the one in the previous paragraph?

@andybaio I mean. Frankly I have begun using this as a non-joke search engine

https://wiby.me/

I was wondering if anyone ever did Bush's hit 1995 song "Glycerine" but it's "Mr. Bean" and yes someone did. Thank you YouTube user "Imagine Dragen"

https://youtu.be/ZcN91o7oZnU?si=aEDBxpXrcWzrjZgs

girls always love to use CRISPR to" gene-hack man" but they do not care of, "Gene Hackman"

@Crazypedia Oh that's really interesting. So something like a trending posts feed/notification but just for admins as a way to flag potential moderation issues. I think that's a good idea.