A truck loaded with thousands of copies of Roget's Thesaurus crashed yesterday losing its entire load.
Witnesses were stunned, startled, aghast, taken aback, stupefied, confused, shocked, rattled, paralyzed, dazed, bewildered, mixed up, surprised, awed, dumbfounded, nonplussed, flabbergasted, astounded, amazed, confounded, astonished, overwhelmed, horrified, numbed, speechless, and perplexed.
@EnglishLiteratureinfo
might be a good idea to take a look at the engagement on posts that accused mastodon of a major security leak (private DMs being publicly visible), and then take a look at the engagement numbers on the posts by masto CEO [1] and by the person [2] who originally raised the potential of a leak who both deny the leak and retract the claim
1: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/112608441965799612
2: https://hackers.town/@thegibson/112608665148939194
Incredible what a hail storm did to an Austrian Airlines plane (A320), it landed safely, the pilots didn't see the bad weather coming on their weather radar. OS434 Palma to Vienna
#AirbusA320 #hail #extremeweather #austrianairlines
Apple is about to become a content moderator for the first time, and eight other observations after I got a briefing about Apple Intelligence today at WWDC: https://www.platformer.news/apple-intelligence-features-chatgpt-content-moderation/
I’m surprised this wasn’t mentioned in the keynote or State of the Union, but Apple’s model training data is either licensed or publicly available on the Internet. No personal information is used.
You can opt out of the web based training here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829 (no idea if it’s retroactive - probably not).
Again, this should have been mentioned in the presentations because it’s a good approach and directly relevant for developers.
https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/introducing-apple-foundation-models
I turned in my manuscript!
I’m excited to say that I turned in my manuscript for the ActivityPub book for O’Reilly Media today. I started working on it in September of 2023, with a lot of interim checkpoints and deadlines since. In April 2024, I finished the first draft of the manuscript. Over the month of May, I’ve been working on improvements suggested by the technical reviewers who agreed to look over the book, and from my own re-read.
In total, my TODO file for this month has about 250 changes to be made. Some are small — just changing a word or two — but one required adding a whole new chapter, and many required multi-paragraph sections.
I took the last week of May off from my work at Open Earth Foundation to concentrate on making changes. My team was really supportive, which I deeply appreciated. I went to our country house in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, and I spent the week writing, editing, drawing and thinking.
Now, the next stage of book making starts: production. The production team at O’Reilly will be copyediting, indexing, and laying out the book. Their designers will be taking my UML diagrams and turning them into professional-looking illustrations. We have two rounds of quality control on code samples and fact checking on content.
In September 2024, the final e-book will be available for sale. I’ll have a link here for the pre-sale version when it comes out. If you’re eager to read the book, I highly recommend reviewing the early release version.
Thanks so much to my friends, family and colleagues who’ve made space and time for me to do this work. It has meant a lot to me. I hope the final product helps more developers create cool projects using ActivityPub.
The #Into publishing house has published their very first #audiobook (#TunteetTapissa by #KatleenaKortesuo) using an #AI clone of #CarlaRindell as reader, through the #Lexofon service. The voice quality is astounding. Incredible to hear how far we’ve jumped since the first voice synthesiser I heard on an 8 bit computer in the 80s…
LinkedIn the new gaming platform
”LinkedIn’s mission has always been to connect the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful.”
How’s playing games making your more productive?
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/pinpoint-queens-crossclimb-game-lakshman-somasundaram-k1zwc/
It appears that Peter Higgs.
Discoverer of The Higgs Boson. The particle that forms the Higgs field and results in matter forming in the universe, nicknamed by the media "The God Particle"...
... Is the only person that got raptured during the eclipse...
Threads released their API for devs to check it out before the API release at the end of June.
Am I missing something since there’s no direct upload option for media files in their API?
”image_url — (For images only.) The path to the image. We will cURL your image using the URL provided so it must be on a public server.”
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/threads/posts#single-threads-posts
You did not include the link: https://om.co/2024/04/07/tyranny-of-content-algorithms/
There has to be an algorithm, though. Even word of mouth rewards the loudest voices, the people with the most friends.. Newest first rewards posts in more popular time zones.
WRT a photo a day. Artificial deadlines limit creativity . Best to do shorter durations or give yourself a head start (200 photos before you start publishing).
”The program remains fully independent of NATO. France is the only member of the alliance that doesn’t belong to its Nuclear Planning Group, and President Macron holds full authority over potential use.”
”The U.K.’s smaller and less versatile nuclear force is…lacking an air component, it relies on American-supplied Trident missiles for its four submarines and possesses a total of under 260 warheads.”
https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/can-europe-still-count-on-americas-nuclear-umbrella-511c8ba0
Why do I have to prove I’m not a robot? Robots should have to prove they‘re not me
”An OpenAI team transcribed more than one million hours of YouTube videos, the people said. The team included Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president, who personally helped collect the videos”
”At Meta, managers, lawyers and engineers last year discussed buying the publishing house Simon & Schuster to procure long works”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/technology/tech-giants-harvest-data-artificial-intelligence.html
LinkedIn is the new Twitter
Humblebrags mixed with influencer posts and how-to threads with an occasional sprinkle of borrowed TikToks and Reels culminating in deep insights with AI-generated illustrated images.