Notices by John Conway (john@sauropods.win)

@LydiaConwell yep, it seems to have been used historically (although that is somewhat confused by coloured mud that is used decoratively), and it’s recommended as a replacement if you don’t have any sunscreen by outdoorsy types.

@aral You mean AI military targeting? That's not what I'm talking about here, I'm an artist talking about art, and is the context most artists are using it in.

When I’m browsing artist's bios, I see #NoAI a lot, but there's still a lot number with #NoNFT. It's been an exhausting couple of years, huh?

On the other hand, NFTs turned out to be a bunch of nothing in the end, and I feel like just ignoring the whole thing would have worked.

I feel like maybe this is true of AI ‘art’. It's boring. It doesn't even need a backlash.

@darnell Ads can be fitted to content, so it's not like they will be completely irrelevant. TV, radio, and until recently podcasting got by without ad tracking. Meta and Google are massively profitable. Non-tracked ads can be considerably less effective and the'd still profit.

@darnell You can do ads without tracking. That's what they would do if tracking were just flat illegal.

@llewelly @MakBerberovic Yeah, but it when it regresses to the mean (trendline, that is) for a couple of years people will be all like, oh, so global warming is over, what was all the fuss about?

@thomasfuchs is the replies thing a deliberate design decision? If so, that’s crazy. I thought it was a bug or at least accidental.

@freemo I already follow you!

Browsing the #AI tag from here is depressing. Has anyone got any recommendations of people to follow with a more positive take?

Especially people building #OpenSource models and tools?

@apophis @evan It's often used in bad faith, for sure. Strangely, it didn't occur to me that Evan's original toot was a reference to anything in particular. I was talking more generally.

@evan Referencing Nazis is an attempt to find common ground, surely? We can all agree the Nazis were bad, starting there gives at least some frame of moral structure to an argument.

@atlemo @Vivaldi Website: We Value Your Privacy! Please allow 647 of our besties to follow you around the web.

@ntnsndr I just got a bunch of people to spend a couple of hours trying to get AI to put people faces on foxes, does that count?

https://sauropods.win/@john/111459497588783952

@freemo Do you think the profile pic has anything to do with it? NAH.

@futurebird @misc I think it’s worth considering that there is the *other side*; your Gabs and a large number of “free speech” instances. They lean right or libertarian.

For those of us who plan to federate with #Threads, we really need to do a better job of communicating to people that they will be able to interact with Threads from Mastodon, and that it is the superior choice.

Some people here are getting Threads accounts, without realising it will soon be unnecessary. People on Twitter are pretty much in the dark about the whole thing.

I've been pretty quiet on #Mastodon recently, but it's not for lack of interest! I’ve been working on my Mastodon-integrated gallery app (codename: Vulcanodon), and making some good progress.

It's a working portfolio site, with tagging, sets, and rudimentary access control. But most importantly, it posts to your Mastodon, and keeps track of which post is associated with an artwork, its, favourites, replies etc.

So it's about 10% done…

@hyoyoshikawa @mastodonusercount the were changes to joinmastodon.org too, to list servers you could sign up to immediately first, rather than listing servers you had to apply to join with manual review.

@mike Mastodon is currently shrinking, according to metrics I have.

@mike Yea, I'm hoping its a slump after and period of false growth, and real organic growth will return. The truth is though that the Fediverse is just too small for the palaeoart community for example. Growth is needed.