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)

HighlandLawyer @HighlandLawyer@mastodon.social @tob @pluralistic 3:46 PM • May 21, 2024 (UTC)

Tom Warren writing for The Verge Over the past two years, Microsoft has worked in secret with all of its top laptop partners to ready a selection of Arm-powered Windows machines that will hit the market this summer. Known as Copilot Plus PCs, they’re meant to kick-start a generation of powerful, battery-efficient Windows laptops and lay the groundwork for an AI-powered future. These sound like they might be competitive with Apple’s M series chips. It’ll be interesting to see the reviews once they’re out.

Mark Hachman writing for PC World Put simply: If you’ve seen it, so has Recall — it takes periodic screenshots of your desktop every few seconds, which it uses to hunt down details. […] But the images it saves can be interpreted via AI. So if you saved a document, that document image can be “read” via AI, and it will extract the text. There’s an app for MacOS called Rewind that does something similar to this. It’s a third party app though, whereas Recall is from the OS vendor meaning it may have certain advantages or capabilities a third party wouldn’t.

nixCraft 🐧 @nixCraft@mastodon.social I asked Google "who ruined Google" and they replied honestly using their AI, which is now forced on all of us. It's too funny not to share! 11:36 AM • May 20, 2024 (UTC)

AaronDavid @AaronDavid@beige.party 8:48 PM • May 19, 2024 (UTC)

Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid@mastodon.social I’m so glad public libraries already exist. Could you I magine trying to sell the idea of libraries to politicians in 2024? “You want to build a large public complex on prime real estate that gives away free books & education & community events—paid for by our tax dollars? Are you crazy??” 2:56 AM • May 19, 2024 (UTC)

Great write up from Ed Zitron on how and why Google’s search has gotten worse. The thread is a dark window into the world of growth-focused tech, where Thakur listed the multiple points of disconnection between the ads and search teams, discussing how the search team wasn’t able to finely optimize engagement on Google without “hacking engagement,” a term that means effectively tricking users into spending more time on a site, and that doing so would lead them to “abandon work on efficient journeys.” In one email, Fox adds that there was a “pretty big disconnect between what finance and ads want” and what search was doing.