Notices by Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca), page 6

@cwebber @bnewbold I will leave it up to Brian to decide what Bluesky wants to do to support Christine's work.

For the rest of us who appreciate this and other research she does, I highly recommend making a contribution to the Spritely Institute.

https://www.every.org/spritely

@cwebber @bnewbold I do think if someone at a commercial startup asks the director to write a 24-page report including extensive technical research, they should help offset that work.

But Christine assured me that it's not the case; the level of effort was not requested and is entirely up to her. She's a grown woman, a professional, and knows how to allocate her own time.

@matrixsasuke can be. Especially if they're hurtful. If you said something cruel to someone that you regret, you don't owe it to posterity to leave it as is.

@mcepl is it?

@willow @Blort almost definitely not a living being, unless it's a special bio-robot, but possibly a conscious being.

@Blort if it's *programmed* to consent enthusiastically, is that real consent?

@KarlHeinzHasliP

https://evanp.me/pollfaq#define

You are under no obligation to leave up bad takes or hurtful words on the Fediverse. Edit and delete are powerful tools; please use them to make this a better place for everyone. 🙏🏼

@steevc asking for another robot.

@dentaku @evanprodromou 🤞🏼

I think the only thing I've seen is the third party candidate results. Obviously, hard to know how many of those votes to attribute to the war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_and_independent_candidates_for_the_2024_United_States_presidential_election?wprov=sfla1

There were a lot of articles before the election about how attitudes on the war might influence the election.

Do we have any objective info about how it influenced the outcome? Like exit polls or other data?

@puppygirlhornypost2 when I think about this kind of question, I usually think through all the possibilities, and consider the options. If it's "yes, unless..." then qualified yes. If it's, "no, unless..." then qualified no.

@puppygirlhornypost2 https://evanp.me/pollfaq#define

@dentaku @evanprodromou yes but Threads accounts can't reply back

#CeasefireNow

@amd @cwebber @bnewbold I think we can assume that if he doesn't submit those techniques, the company is not interested in sharing them.

@samir maybe!

@amd @cwebber @bnewbold Brian is in the SocialCG at W3C, so if he thinks some ideas from AT should be used by others, he has the opportunity to publish them as CG reports. These are an extremely lightweight way to give assurance to the community.

https://www.w3.org/community/reports/reqs/

@amd @cwebber @bnewbold my understanding is that AT Proto is significantly different enough from ActivityPub in its architecture that it's unlikely we'll stumble across some technique it uses by mistake.

So I think it's a better idea to just steer clear and follow our own path.