The Verge @verge@mastodon.social Meta is connecting Threads more deeply with the fediverse https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/25/24185226/meta-threads-fediverse-likes-replies Meta is connecting Threads more deeply with the fediverse Threads will now let people like and see replies to their Threads posts that appear on other federated social media platforms. 6:00 PM • June 25, 2024 (UTC)

Richard Lawler writing for The Verge Apple says upcoming features like its Apple Intelligence generative AI tools, iPhone mirroring, and SharePlay screen sharing may not be available in the European Union this year, as reported previously by Bloomberg.

Amish Super Model @AmishSuperModel@mastodon.social Maybe American Politicians need to post this in all their offices: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. 6:12 PM • June 20, 2024 (UTC)

Jo Borrás writing for Electrek A few short weeks after labor negotiations led to a six-week UAW strike at GM plants, GM board members approved a $10 billion accelerated stock buyback plan. This week, the board kicked off that initiative with a $6 billion purchase and raising its shareholders’ stock dividend by 33 percent (to 12 cents per share) in the first quarter … a move that, to this writer, seems like a blatantly cynical cash-grab and shockingly shortsighted dereliction of the board’s fiduciary duty to the well-being of the company.

Obviously from the great xkcd.

Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange I don’t know who to credit for this because it’s been stolen so much, but I love it. 6:05 PM • June 15, 2024 (UTC)

melanie kat @zicklepop@nyan.lol i've never pirated anything in my life, i've just been using publicly accessible data from the internet. 3:20 PM • June 13, 2024 (UTC)

From for noyb: With its Privacy Sandbox, Google wants to take full control over the analysis of the online behaviour of its users: Chrome now tracks every website you visit to generate a list of advertising topics. These include “Student Loans & College Financing”, “Undergarments” or “Parenting”, “Jobs & Education” and “Finance/Credit & Lending/Credit Reporting & Monitoring”. Advertisers then receive this information from the Chrome browser. If you’re still using Chrome at this point, I don’t know what to tell you…

Esther is moving @esther@strangeobject.space I get the feeling that part of the “AI” proponents strategy is to keep making absolutely nonsensical claims like “LLMs will soon be able to self-improve and surpass human intelligence” until everyone who could form a coherent rebuttal to them gives up in exhaustion, leaving the space to them pushing their bullshit. It’s as if someone claimed that rocks will soon he able to out-perform humans at cycling, and “prove” it by showing a rock rolling down a hill faster than a cyclist.

Steve Herman @w7voa@journa.host June 4th marks the 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre, in which the PLA killed hundreds, possibly thousands of civilians, stamping out weeks of protests in the heart of China’s capital. The government still suppresses mention and memorializing of the 1989 killings in Beijing. https://www.rfa.org/english/cartoons/tiananmen-35-years-later-05312024152814.html #六四 #天安門 #天安门 10:22 AM • June 4, 2024 (UTC)

Simon McGarr @Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie As a general rule, the state should over-supply services. There should be slack in the system almost all the time. Relaxed GPs with lots of time to talk to their patients. So many teachers that the main trouble is finding rooms for them all. Not only does this see a better quality of service mostly, but it also cushions the system in the event of an unexpected shock.

“especially a female” 🌴🥥 @trabern@mas.to Just to recap, the guy who can’t shut up about how the 2020 election he lost was rigged just was convicted of rigging the 2016 election he won. 11:30 PM • May 30, 2024 (UTC)

Paul Tassi writing for Forbes What precisely happened is still being worked out, but this appears to be an issue with Sony PS5 streaming, where the DLC was made available briefly through that service. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Daryl Baxter writing for iMore This change isn’t the type of update that was released through the App Store — instead, it looks to be a server-side update. This means that YouTube essentially sent an updated command to its Apple TV app so it could stop playing its screensavers automatically. Good riddance!

From Daring Fireball: No word in Spotify’s Car Thing bricking FAQ about when they’re dropping support for Apple Music, Amazon Music, and YouTube Music. Oh, that’s right, they never supported any music services other than their own, despite having spent the last decade petitioning their home-turf European Commission to secure unfettered pay-no-commission access to platforms created by Apple and Google. I agree with everything Gruber’s saying in this piece.

pmorinerie @pmorinerie@mastodon.xyz Repost with alt-text: 8:37 AM • May 26, 2024 (UTC)

Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange 12:48 AM • May 26, 2024 (UTC)

I have a shirt with this phrase on it, immediately made me think of ChatGPT and all the other AI chatbots right now.

Church of Jeff @jeffowski@mastodon.world #NoBillionaires 4:40 AM • May 24, 2024 (UTC)

Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 @gamingonlinux@mastodon.social Google AI is a hot sticky mess. Now they're telling people to add glue to pizza, as it took a shitpost from Reddit. Credit: https://www.threads.net/@petergyang/post/C7S6fzINqZj 9:57 AM • May 23, 2024 (UTC)

Peter Cohen @flargh@mastodon.social There's a "late capitalism is awful" point to be made about Scarlett Johansson being the actual spokesperson for Feeding America, a legit non-profit focused on food insecurity in the United States. Contrasting with OpenAI - a business that pivoted from being a non-profit to the absolute worst example of sociopathic Silicon Valley tech bro overreach. I'm not clever enough and far too burned out these days to put the pieces together into a coherent narrative beyond, "Burn it all."

JP @daedalus@eigenmagic.net The fact that Microsoft's new Recall thing won't capture DRM content means the engineers do understand the risk of logging everything. They just chose to preference the interests of corporates and money over people, deliberately. 8:50 PM • May 21, 2024 (UTC)