Notices by Daniel Marks (profdc9@mastodon.social), page 2

@jwz I would like social media to not be a place that causes mass numbers of people to hate and vote against their own interests. So I comment on social media on social media. We have kids eating tide pods for christ's sake! I am not against Mastodon but social media has become dangerous and where else can one talk about it now? So if I can't even do that, I can't see the point.

@jwz I will delete my Mastodon account right now (and all the posts going with it) if you say so to make my point I am serious about what I say. I really do not care about followers and that shit. You must make a decision: is Mastodon worth preserving? Would you be willing to tell a decent contributor to leave to make your point? I see the contradictions in social media, and I comment about them on social media. But if you tell me to leave, this is a place I don't want to be.

@jwz I wish that, within the maelstrom that social media has become with its monopolization of our attention, that perhaps we might come to the conclusion that it isn't necessary and it's not worth it. We've all submitted in advance to it. We've decided that something so frequently inane, pointless, and stupid is absolutely indispensable. The existence of social media proved that an endless flow of excrement is possible. And yet we can not look away. People are not in charge of themselves.

@whknott @GhostOnTheHalfShell @pluralistic are Americans going all Road Warrior over titanium dioxide?

@dansup Here comes everybody!

@Gargron Just make sure your effort doesn't go to waste by placing it in the hands of an organization that becomes parasitic with its management squatting on your hard work. Organizations like ARRL used to serve their members but now just collect membership fees. Don't depend on being a BDFL either. Set terms in the charter of how the Mastodon trademarks may be used.

@kunev @cstross @zip A lot of the time you are training the CAPTCHA and not the one being tested. It's literally just testing to see if you give the same wrong or incomplete answers as another human, and if your answer is too accurate you can fail the CAPTCHA as well as being too inaccurate.

@slothrop @GossiTheDog @Gargron A non profit corporation is a legal entity and is not governed by sentiment. It is governed by its charter and applicable law. I want Mastodon to succeed but I know that non profit status is not some magic bullet that confers perpetual altruism on its governance. There are tons of nonprofits abused to serve the interests of directors and particular donors. Hopefully Mastodon does not become one of these.

@GossiTheDog @Gargron The devil is in the details here. OpenAI is a nonprofit as well. Non profit is a tax designation. The corporate charter determines how the nonprofit is run, for the public benefit or the directors' benefit.

@jwz

@jwz Is it really worth becoming a multibillionaire if you replace yourself with a robot? The robot is the billionaire, and you no longer exist. It seems like a Pyrrhic victory. Those eyes seem so glassy and dead, but maybe they never were alive.

@jwz Yes, there's not many trustable tools anymore. I write embedded code and my own libraries, but then who should trust me?

@jwz Every language is evolving to be Javascript. It's like the carcinization of computer languages into the form of a crab. You might as well surrended and become a crab now.

@Gargron Well to be fair, it's no more of an echo chamber than other social media, which is very much an echo chamber.

That said, if you want to use mastodon, the Android app is a useful way to do it.

@jwz If his AI is so damn smart, why doesn't he just use it to bet on sports? He could raise $7 trillion doing that I'm sure.

@FediTips Deleting posts is deliberately used to delete unwanted replies as well.

@pluralistic We can't fire McKinsey consultants, I mean responsibility ain't going to evade itself you know.

@msh @EricLawton @pluralistic Colleges are already taught by adjuncts, so this is just going to be next step after they try to break tenure and teachers unions.

@jwz I already have a Copilot when I program.

@walterbobrowski @kcarruthers @pluralistic At least the fediverse, like the USA at the time of these great migrations, doesn't require that you bring anything with you but yourself. The hard part is getting here.