Notices by Dana Fried (tess@mastodon.social)

"Switch 2 is just Switch but faster" is about the best news we could have gotten, honestly.

How many times I wish for G+ style circles or even muts only posts. There's shitposting I want to do that is 100% not appropriate or safe for broad consumption.

Watching Ted Lasso for the first time and, several observations:

- Everyone talks about how nice and sweet Ted is but that man chooses violence every time and it's wonderful. He put all his points into social combat and moustache and he's all out of moustache.

- Keely is the best character in the show and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.

- Damn, Rebecca is hot. Holy shit.

@inthehands in tattered death's head armor and wielding a sparking twinsword?

Because I think I've had that one before. It sucks ass.

Elden Ring

Elden Ring (Update)

Here's the thing about Biden commuting sentences for a handful of people he probably shouldn't have:

Sometimes when you do good things a few bad people benefit. It's still good to do good things.

"Program that benefits thousands is bad because three people got away with something" is right-wing thinking. Kill the cop in your head.

recycling all of the old "Welcome, twitter refugees!" posts and just replacing "twitter" with "bluesky"

Fromsoft:

*takes a huge bong rip*

"You know what's really awesome? Our netcode. Let's build an entire game around that."

One thing that always brings me joy is seeing people responding to something with 👍🏻👍🏼👍🏽👍🏾👍🏿 and remembering what a big deal it was when they added different skin tones to Unicode and how now you can just make it so that all your emoji look like you by default.

@mekkaokereke at least they're doing it. Speaking of which I should see if donations are employer matched.

@mekkaokereke Mastodon leadership evidently capable of learning; good for them.

(Now give us better moderation tools.)

Looked up the 2024 model of my laptop. It's about 18% faster than the 2022 model. That's basically nothing. But it has AI tensor cores (lol).

Friends, we've officially hit the end of Moore's law. And I know this because they haven't figured out a way to offer faster computers to gamers.

@eaton I wonder if you can just throw the LLM at it in the small percentage of cases where the strength/confidence of the output was low? Basically use the cheap classifier as a preprocessing step?

tfw u have been doing computers for a very, very long time

I think as long as there's an appeals process and you give some grace in borderline cases or cases where the trust and safety team lacked complete context, then it's fine to err on the side of safety - even aggressively so.

The alternative is allowing your platform to become basically another 8chan, or another X.

"I can't believe Bluesky suspended this queer artist! Clearly they are bigots!"

Okay but what were they posting? Because if it was some loli shit then yeah, maybe they shoulda taken that somewhere else?

If we agree that it's okay to limit expression on a social media site beyond the minimum the law requires, then that necessarily also applies to other forms of content.

Controversial opinion:

It's fine for social media servers to delete posts or censure users who post art that, while not technically illegal, appears to depict sexualized children, or sexualized characters who appear underage (even if they are supposedly a 5,000 year old dragon or sentient anthropomorphic car or some shit).

Likewise, it's 100% fine for servers to nuke posts that seem e.g. racist, even if the author intends them to be some kind of galaxy-brain-level parody.

@eaton precisely. You can't create a community with laws or code alone.

@eaton yes, *and*:

Subtle differences in how features are implemented can make a huge difference in how they impact culture, and open up different threat vectors.

An example I love to cite is quote-posts. Both top and bottom posting can facilitate dunking, but top posting is much more likely to create a culture of it (compare old Twitter vs. Tumblr).

Bluesky chose top-posting but also disabling quotes and detaching quoted posts, because they anticipated people using QPs for harassment.