Overall, I can see liking this. But mostly I think the summaries should be public.

In general the problem with moderators is they can be fairly partisan. I don’t know if it’s still the case after the whole API … thing, but certain groups of moderators had access to bots that did what is essentially equivalent to the sort of thing. What tended to happen is the good mods would become overwhelmed and bring on a “power mod” and the powermod has secret axes to grind and political agendas that they bring with them into the sub.

Another problem I generally had with reddit towards the end of my serious engagement there is that a lot of things reported to admin started being evaluated by non-American English speakers who don’t have the cultural context to understand sharp turns of phrase and plays on idioms. Americans would understand the words mean the opposite of what they literally say, but you can’t expect ESL overseas contractors to understand these nuances. So I would be concerned that AI is similar… except for the fact that it’s not really a change from the status quo.

Would be nice if we also had AI summaries of moderator behavior and if these were visible to everyone. I wouldn’t be surprised if admin have (or soon will have) access to AI summaries of moderator activity and behavior. So that might be another shoe to drop. I can see it can be good if it improves modding for the good mods who just want to build communities. Basically it might reduce the need for the powermod protection racket.

Yeah these things are Rorschach amplifiers. It tells you a lot about the person writing the prompt.

What are people still doing on the Internet? There are Nazis on the Internet.

Do you know how bars get filled with Nazis? Someone notices a Nazi and someone shrieks that everyone’s a Nazi and people leave and let the Nazis take over. It’s fighting the Nazis that keep the Nazis at bay, not running away from them.

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It’s still up 55% vs one year ago. Yeah it’s fallen from its post-election run up which peaked around the new year, but frankly it just looks like it’s gone back to pre-election value and trend.

I keep seeing this analogy and unfortunately that’s not how email servers work so it never really helps honestly. The servers are the To: fields, not the From: fields. And there’s also no real analogy about privacy. With most email providers the intent isn’t that everyone reads everyone else’s email. So frankly I really don’t know what insight this is supposed to provide if it doesn’t behave like email.

And there’s a big safety difference. With something like Bluesky you have to trust the server admins to behave. With ActivityPub you have to trust each and every user of the service. Which is why server admins get shirty about whether they will forward messages to or from other servers. That whole situation doesn’t really exist with email. It’s not like you have create a Hotmail account because Gmail has decided to defederate with Google or whatever.

Would literally buy an electric VW Beetle at this point for the lulz

Doist is very much remote work and there were a lot of stories about them and how they operate during the pandemic because they had been doing it for so long. Global headquarters are in Portugal and CEO lives/works from Italy from what I can tell. They have offices/legal presence in many countries.

Founder/CEO was born in Bosnia, grew up in Denmark, started todoist during college, used a startup incubator in Chile, later moved headquarters to Portugal, now gives lots of talks about internet entrepreneurship in EU.

Do you use a VPN? I’ve noticed a lot of cdn’s have become very hostile to VPNs over the last year. Initially I blamed the VPN but I’m pretty convinced it’s the cdn’s at this point*.

*This is because I started using a private linode server as a tailscale exit node and boy does the internet hate that IP with a passion. Toggling between using that and my home computer as exit nodes is somewhat fascinating. The web is so rude when I browse from my linode box. So… now I use the linode exit node to let the jerks take themselves to the curb. Anyway images not loading randomly is one of the telltale signs of a jerk website. It even happens when using Google One VPN or Cloudflair’s WARP+ nowadays. Switch them off and use my residential IP exit node and presto it all works again.

The Supreme Court is currently working on cases that are about overturning precident that allows administrative agencies to make policy that strays from the letter of the law. So my guess is Meta lawyers see a chance to say “there is no federal law that prohibits making profit off children, so this administrative rule is unconstitutional”. Something like that (I am not a lawyer).

Generally the logic is that once the fetus has reached viability (i.e. capable of being removed and continuing life without the mother), then acts that result in death of the fetus are no longer necessary nor morally valid. It is reasonable to expect the fetus to be removed from the mother and provided life support at that stage.

The two women told detective Ben McBride of the Norfolk, Nebraska Police Division that they’d discussed the matter on Facebook Messenger

… why would they do that?