Return the internet to the pre-“smart” phone era, in which a minimum bar of effort and knowledge needed to be present in order to connect and participate on the web.

Yeah. I think that’s happening now. The public will discover the Fediverse, but I’m not sure if they’ll be welcomed into every community here.

History tells us there’s also a release valve of a swift brick to the side of the head, one brick per billionaire.

It sounds messier than paying taxes, to me. But I’m not a billionaire, so I can’t say I understand their motives.

This is particularly interesting, since modern organizational theory tells us that Boeing’s primary customers would be much better off with a shift in power toward Boeing’s workers, away from it’s current leadership.

Purchasers of huge airplanes cannot afford to purchase airplanes built under leadership that cuts corners the way Boeing’s leadership lately has.

The striking workers may have an unusual ally here - in Boeing’s customer base, which notably includes the US Government and parts of it’s Armed Forces.

I mean some of us aren’t programmers…

I think…

… Looks around…

…yet.

Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean you’re wrong.

I’m a fan of powerful assistive solutions, but I’m not comfortable with something closed source and proprietary running this intimately.

There’s likely some outright criminals who can’t easily send their dirty traceable money into politics directly to buy favors. Seems to me that this helps “solve” that.

I, personally, imagine high odds of a combination of:

• overt intentional crime happening in un-subtle ways
• disallusioned operational staff with no real reason for loyalty
• failure to stop at various “don’t do this or we will get caught” lines

If I were any kind of federal investigator, I would look into this with great interest.

He can live out his remaining time in Russia as a wanna-be oligarch, and Putin will treat him like a leader-in-exile

Yep. Except that’s only until he runs his mouth and has a tragic fall from a window.

If I where to place a bet, I would say 3 months, tops.

Yeah! They missed investing with several known fraudsters already. Sure is lucky that yet another one is here to fill the gap!

Great points.

I might add:

I strongly suspect that a much bigger fraction of the free volunteer labor moved here, than anyone has realized.

Zuck and Spez know how fucked they are, but they’re motivated to downplay the damage to their platforms.

There’s an unvirtuous cycle where their platforms have under-resourced moderation, which has allowed bot proliferation, which has made unpaid moderation work a shittier job, which causes moderators to leave, which allows more bot proliferation.

Folks here seem to be saying our moderation tools are objectively poor, but are getting better with each release. So it’s the bot spammers whose life gets harder, over time, here.

Not an accident either, I expect.

The billionaires are feeling the tides change and they don’t like it.

There fallout from that is going to be painful. Dot com crash like, maybe subprime mortgage crash painful.

Yep. And folks on the news are gonna be all confused how this could happen.

They laid off their talent to bet on bullshit. That’s how it happened.

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It’s tragic when a company loses so much value due to losing sight of the next big hype train. I’m sure they tried to pivot from blockchain into AI, but didn’t quite make the leap in time to save themselves. (Sarcasm)

But someone else leveraged their assets to create synergy. So they can be proud of that, at least.

When the math doesn’t add up… I figure there’s money launderers in play.

But I won’t look for them too hard, as I have only risk and no reward from being the one to find them.

theoretically will aggregate more relevant links.

Yep! I’ve seen real data scientists use LLMs for exactly that, and get great results!

I don’t think we will see decent link search as a widespread success for another couple of years, though. Seems like most companies aren’t willing to pay data scientists to build their (domain specific) models. Some of the code co-pilot tools are already quite good. But I bet Chevrolet of Watsonville won’t get the next level of quality for a bit longer.

Facial recognition poses privacy risks, including potential data breaches,

I know you’re using the acceptable legal term.

As a Cybersecurity person, the “potential” data breaches we talk about, today, are really pretty certain, at this point, in history.

We may work towards a collective genuine ‘potential’, where the breach might never happen, someday, with effort.

Turns chair around and sits straddling it like a cool youth mentor.

Y’alls faces at airports are definitely getting leaked on the dark web.

The good news is it might take enough years to leak that your appearance might happen to change in between.

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“close to meaningless” sums up my expert opinion on the whole current AI hype machine sales pitch.

Highly tuned models for incredibly specific, not-dangerous use cases is the next pragmatic step. There’s a lot to excited about, in that very narrow band.

Anyone selling more than that is part of a con, or in very rare cases, doing genuine “fuck off and ask me again in a decade” kinds of research.