Notices by Dawn Ahukanna (dahukanna@mastodon.social)

@evan
It should be visible to the original set as Alice shared the post with her followers, not followers of followers (light blue segment of set diagram). Any of Bob’s followers that also follow Alice will see the post and replies anyway. See comments on set diagram.

@thomasfuchs that whole sentence is backwards.
- Beta testers said - No
- Release users said - No, rewind to previous
- Existing users said - No upgrade

- Person “having difficulty understanding something, when their salary depends upon his not understanding it!" Uptown Sinclair style - “why no upgrade traction?”

@evan Currently, my response is no.
Where’s open source reference implementation (recipe) that implements (cooks) all the specification as defined, not as opinionated interpretation by specific software development team (chef)?

HTTP-Apache web server, serves standardized specifications for HTML, CSS, JavaScript and digital media files
FTP-FileZilla server & client
ActivityPub - ?
Why & how would I incorporate ActivityPub in my software-what need/problem does it address?
https://mastodon.social/@dahukanna/113612968607430015

Personal websites, made by individuals, are social media. They have 1 author, are open to anyone on the Internet public and usually provide means for comments and conversation based on the initial topic post.

Social media is any digital medium, websites and applications, that enable people to create and share data/information or to participate in social networking (creating relationship connections by having a conversation on common topic with other people).

Related: 3.related Illusion of scaler speed ≠ dimensional velocity - https://mastodon.social/@dahukanna/115751407204010708

Related: 4. Comfort Food for the Thinking Class: The Great Intellectual Stagnation, the economics of attention - https://www.joanwestenberg.com/comfort-food-for-the-thinking-class-the-great-intellectual-stagnation/ via https://mato.social/@josemurilo/115751054614151022
#tyrannyOfAesthetics

Starting a new hashtag - #tyrannyOfAesthetics

Aesthetics sits firmly in attention grabbing, novelty trend & transient pace layer but governs most decisions because we can’t tolerate boredom or boring-https://longnow.org/ideas/pace-layers/

1. Reinventing XMPP protocol (plumbing) for instant messaging. This is like reinventing HTTP everytime you create a web application-https://gultsch.social/@daniel/115751087451745641

2. Reinventing software packaging & distribution (logistics), 1 computer language at a time-https://circumstances.run/@hipsterelectron/115751055245955928

Related: 7b - “But what I vehemently object to in this situation is the use of the first-person voice without my review or permission. The language used in the description makes it sound as if I wrote it (“In this post, I share my personal journey…”).”

- https://eiratansey.com/2025/12/20/i-announced-my-divorce-on-instagram-and-then-ai-impersonated-me/

#tyrannyOfAesthetics

Related: 7a - “Instead of having a hot divorcee Saturday night instead I wrote about how after announcing my divorce on Instagram, AI impersonated me in a hidden metadata field. Fuck the techbro oligarchs. https://eiratansey.com/2025/12/20/i-announced-my-divorce-on-instagram-and-then-ai-impersonated-me/“

- https://glammr.us/@TeamMidwest/115754711143502617
#tyrannyOfAesthetics

Related: 6-mindbending addiction amplification or why a qualified attorney would knowingly destroy an entire law firm and 3 other lawyers careers -

‘An attorney couldn't stop using Grok (?!) to help draft filings, producing "a flood of tainted filings" & apparently triggering the implosion of a law firm & 3 lawyers' careers 🤖😵 The court called her misconduct "particularly egregious & prolific"’- https://cases.justia.com/federal/district-courts/mississippi/msndce/1:2024cv00074/49169/79/0.pdf

https://techpolicy.social/@ericgoldman/115758771102887176

#tyrannyOfAesthetics

Related: 5. Thread on “Cognitive Recall Atrophy - CRA” - https://mastodon.social/@dahukanna/115756945829133248

Related: 3.1. This reply - https://toot.cat/@zygmyd/115752235523994274
“This is really fascinating. Every single person in a company that ships AI-emitted code, policy, product, and so on will be an outsider. The managerial experience of having first hand knowledge of exactly none of the work going on and still being accountable but for every employee.”

#tyrannyOfAesthetics

Related:8-But something else responsible for a large & steadily increasing share of public knowledge production, also has no organic reality-detection capability=large language model(LLM). This is central to what we mean when we argue that LLMs destroy knowledge: that for every verifiably accurate account of the world, LLMs produce a Borgesian library of superficially plausible alternates–sufficiently plausible that effort & energy must be invested #tyrannyOfAesthetics
- https://social.coop/@adamgreenfield/115771986742330648

Related: 7d - “As an archivist who has spent almost twenty years thinking about accuracy in information, it makes my skin crawl that there is a metadata field with the sole purpose of generating SEO-engagement purporting to be my voice that doesn’t disclose the authorship was actually non-consensual AI.”

- https://eiratansey.com/2025/12/20/i-announced-my-divorce-on-instagram-and-then-ai-impersonated-me/

#tyrannyOfAesthetics

Related: 7c - “Because I have fiercely protected my authorship throughout my life and what my name is attached to, any generative AI writing that purports to be in my voice without my informed consent is a profound violation of my authorial voice, agency, and frankly it feels like fraud or impersonation.”

- https://eiratansey.com/2025/12/20/i-announced-my-divorce-on-instagram-and-then-ai-impersonated-me/

#tyrannyOfAesthetics

Related:11 - “answer shaped objects” or responses don’t always contain valid answers, “quelle surprise”?

“It has been unpleasant realising just how many people consider “answer-shaped objects” and “answers” to be the same thing.” - https://eigenmagic.net/@abstractcode/115795215226319814

#tyrannyOfAesthetics

Related:10-outcome “too good to be human talent (or exceeds your novice knowledge or skill level), then it must be Oi👁️”

‘We are in time where actual artists being accused of AI work
-physical artist with amazing talent & imagination, booted from Cara
-film industry DP photographer defending posts on IG, has amazing sense of colour & composition.
Take a breath before accusing humans of being too good at what they do=how AI is dumbing users down.’

- https://mastodon.social/@CStamp/115783838519998286
#tyrannyOfAesthetics

Related:9-Don’t think & decide yourself, only follow instructions of others.
“In 1941 book, Escape from Freedom, German psychoanalyst Erich Fromm argued that the rise of fascism could partly be explained by people preferring to surrender freedom in exchange for reassuring certainty of subordination. AI-LLM (produces information but without necessarily deepening human understanding) offers new way to surrender burden to think & decide for yourself.”
- https://mastodon.social/@andrewstroehlein/115784707689297472
#tyrannyOfAesthetics

This stuff makes my head & heart hurt-https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/115678389938432287
‘🛑 Over 30 security flaws found in AI-powered coding tools like Copilot, Cursor, & Ze-letting people steal data or run malicious code without you doing a thing.
Researchers are calling it “IDEsaster.”’

It’s supposed to be “intelligent”, enable anyone of any skill to code applications based on existing code “stolen - used without authors permission”. Instead it’s automating & scaling “zero-day” security issues.
I’ll write my own code.

@futurebird

Apt comparison to addictive chemicals.

The tech is setup to trigger everyone’s bio-chemical addictive (chronic brain disease) thresholds in order to cognitively manipulate “engagement” & “repeat customers”. It is not augmenting or supplying “artificial intelligence”
This is the “free taste” hook phase.

Next, the supply will be squeeze-reduced by higher prices. People do whatever to get the required & increasing potency fix, for diminishing reward.

https://biologyinsights.com/the-different-models-of-addiction-explained/

@skinnylatte late to the time zone party. I use https://everytimezone.com/ for the ever shifting time-maths.
Looks like all available slots have been taken.I could not find any free slots at all in the calendar - Berlin (GMT+2) time zone.

@evan
The example I gave is code I reuse by copying and pasting. I’d only go through packaging + distribution + versioning “tax” if I was sharing for other team/people to reuse.