twts are taking a very long time to post from yarn after the latest upgrade. Like a good 60 seconds.

@prologic@twtxt.net I am not seeing twts from @stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no anymore. Are you seeing twts from me?

Yet another study strongly calling into question the concept of “echo chambers”. I’ve argued it here before and people pushed back, but there is growing evidence that “echo chambers” are a moral panic and not a real phenomenon that we need to worry about. It’s time to throw it out and re-think, in my opinion.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-81531-x

COVID is still a leading cause of death in the United States. This pandemic is nowhere near over no matter how many times people try to pretend it is.

Fuck Earth!
– Elon Musk

https://aeon.co/essays/elon-musk-puts-his-case-for-a-multi-planet-civilisation

Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible - Nieman Reports

More data contradicting the existence of “echo chambers”. As I’ve argued many times before, the concept of an echo chamber or information bubble is not real. The podcast below is an interview of an author of a study where they actually intervened and changed the information diet of 20,000 people (with consent!), then surveyed them after three months. They observed essentially no changes to the study subjects’ beliefs and attitudes. They also observed that the typical person, while they tend to gravitate towards people with similar political leanings, only get about 50% of their content from such like-minded people. They get the rest from neutral sources and maybe 20% from non-like-minded people.

Varied information diet + No change in attitudes when information diet is forced to be different = no echo chamber.

Listen to the podcast episode here

EU warns Elon Musk after Twitter found to have highest rate of disinformation | X (formerly known as Twitter) | The Guardian

Not a surprise I guess.

AWS: Cannot Escape IPv4

more than 90% of all AWS service API endpoints do not support IPv6

Sounds like AWS is instituting an IPv4 tax soon.

Ugh, ffs–the datasette project just added #ChatGPT garbage. Another seemingly nice piece of software and project that I need to stop using.

I guess I can be thankful they self-identify.

Release jq 1.7rc1 · jqlang/jq · GitHub

Renewed activity on jq after five years. This RC looks nice!

Ben Shapiro is threatened by a movie about a doll 😆

I’m playing around with snac2, which I think @stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no mentioned on here, and I have to say it’s extremely easy to set up and it’s been pretty straightforward so far. I wanted to experiment with having a presence on the Fediverse without going through the process of picking Mastodon vs. Gnu Social vs. Friendica vs. …, and I wanted to self-host instead of picking an instance of one of those. For now I’m abucci@buc.ci, but no guarantees that will remain stable; I’m just testing for the time being.

Speaking of men getting owned, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, an expert on authoritarianism who wrote the book Strongmen, regularly calls out and degrades wannabe dictators like Elon Musk and it’s cathartic to witness.

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Sam Altman on Twitter: “a new version of moore’s law that could start soon: the amount of intelligence in the universe doubles every 18 months” / Twitter

The more I read from this guy, the more I come to believe he is a gigantic douchecanoe. What a profoundly stupid thing to say.

“Sam Altman’s AI Hype Roadshow”

“The project of Altman and his merry band of doomsayers appears to be to capture power and create obfuscation by making new myths and legends”

“It assumes that no one will pull back the curtain and expose it as a market-expansion strategy”

Yes.

On Understanding Power and Technology

I came across the phrase “long fuse, big bang” used to describe large-scale issues with tipping points facing humanity, like climate change, and it feels pretty apt.

Pete Buttigieg Loves God, Beer, and His Electric Mustang | WIRED

This is so embarrassing. I wonder how much Wired gets paid to sell off its editorial integrity.

Debt Collectors Want To Use AI Chatbots To Hustle People For Money

Starting to get ugly already.

@ocakuvoe@anthony.buc.ci hello! Are you intending to post here? Because of issues with spammers, I delete users who have not posted any txts within a few days of signing up.

Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common | Science | AAAS

Probably getting worse fast.

Avalanche caught by FPV drone - Long range mountain surfing in 4k

Wild.

The weather all of a sudden went from chilly and wet to warm and pleasant. It’s before 8am and it’s already 15°C and sunny.

The Internet Isn’t Meant To Be So Small | Defector

It’s annoying to see millions of dollars thrown at making more-or-less literal dupes of internet
companies that everyone is already using begrudgingly and with diminishing emotional returns. It’s maybe more frustrating to realize that the goals of these companies is the same as their predecessors, which is to
make the internet smaller.

Breaking news: Slidge v0.1.0 RC1 is out! — nicoco.fr

I can’t wait till XMPP eats the world. I want all communication to go through my XMPP clients (I’m only half kidding about that)

Damn, worst feeling in the world is being right at the best part of a power ballad and having to stop the song to go to a meeting.

It’s not a surprise that Musk is destroying everything good about twitter (including, now, closing down free API access on Feb 9 which will kill thousands of cool bots). It’s part of the game plan. It’s a flex, and he’s a dick.