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Oh thank goodness. Worst fear allayed, now on to the next one.

Yeah, maybe it’d be better if some politicians were working on this instead.

Whether it’s wanted or not is irrelevant. First past the post voting systems inherently move towards a two party system. If you don’t want a two-party system then you don’t want first-past-the-post voting.

Centrism is what gets large numbers of votes.

Obviously I hope that they’ll do well and make good decisions, but in a choice between a left-wing party that makes a principled stand but fails to secure power and a more centrist one that has more good ideas than bad on balance and does secure power to implement them I think the latter is preferable.

I recall reading once upon a time that the original idea for this exemption was that it was for literal scholars - a few hundred priestly intellectual sorts that were professional serious full-time Torah-studiers. But the exemption didn’t have any specific criteria listed for what that meant, so the ultra-orthodox all wound up saying “yeah, I study the Torah all day too, so I qualify.”

Also Library Genesis.

The IA is appealing the decision so they’re not out of the woods just yet.

What better way to get facial recognition data for all Muslims than with something like the Hajj.

Surely they could just relocate the Kaaba to a more hospitable location. It’s not a large structure, should be easy to dig up and move.

Might have to update a few direction markers for Salah, though. That could be a bit of work.

(Fighter, whispering urgently from the bushes:) “Pointy end forward!”

Netanyahu doing scummy things to cling to power no matter what is indeed a widely expected move.

One thing that might be nice is if there could be a standard for user IDs that would allow multiple systems to work seamlessly together.

You could have Mastodon continue to focus solely on being a completely open media aggregator and social network, but also have some other completely independent and secure private messaging system that uses the same user ID system. Then if you want to send a private message to someone who’s made a Mastodon post you can use that and it “just works.”

Creating a universal user ID system that would work across all of this is challenging, of course.

One of the important features of Mastodon is that you can choose what your feed is. Everyone’s feed has an algorithm determining what’s in it even if it’s just a simple “list the posts of everyone I’ve subscribed to in chronological order.”

If someone else wants to see a feed of content that is curated and sorted in a different way, why get angry at them? They’re not forcing you to see that feed.

It sounds like they weren’t “being fed into an AI model” as in being used as training material, they were just being evaluated by an AI model. However…

Have you spent more than 4 seconds on Mastodon and noticed their (our?) general attitude towards AI?

Yeah, the general attitude of wild witch-hunts and instant zero-to-11 rage at the slightest mention of it. Doesn’t matter what you’re actually doing with AI, the moment the mob thinks they scent blood the avalanche is rolling.

It sounds like Maven wants to play nice, but if the “general attitude” means that playing nice is impossible why should they even bother to try?

You’re on slrpnk.net, I assume it’s not implementing any of this stuff. As long as you don’t sign up for Maven I don’t see how this is going to affect you.

Looks like it.

In addition to pulling in posts, the import process seems to be running AI sentiment analysis to add tags and relational data after content reaches Maven’s servers. This is a core part of Maven’s product: instead of follows or likes, a model trains itself on its own data in an attempt to surface unique content algorithmically.

But of course, that news doesn’t give the reader those lovely rage endorphins or draw clicks.

This is the Fediverse, having the content we post get spread around to other servers is the whole point of all this. Is this a face-eating leopard situation? People are genuinely surprised and upset that the stuff we post here is ending up being shown in other places?

There is one thing I see here that raises my eyebrows:

Even more shocking is the revelation that somehow, even private DMs from Mastodon were mirrored on their public site and searchable. How this is even possible is beyond me, as DM’s are ostensibly only between two parties, and the message itself was sent from two hackers.town users.

But that sounds to me like a hackers.town problem, it shouldn’t be sending out private DMs to begin with.

Ah. The problem is that you told me “But what you are saying is not true” and then basically agreed with what I’d said.

But what you are saying is not true, bacause it was tested in Sweden.

I’m saying that the voters and the politicians they vote for are not one big hive mind. You’re saying that they are one big hive mind? And your example is that voters didn’t switch their support when their parties changed the positions? I’m not sure you’ve interpreted what I said correctly.

There’s a difference between what the right-wing voters are wanting and what the right-wing politicians are doing. You run into the same problems with left-wing voters and politicians too. Not to say that they’re “both the same”, just that you can’t treat them all as one big hive mind.

… or don’t introspect, blame the voters, and lose forever.

This is what frustrates me most about a lot of the left-leaning parties and voters I’ve encountered over the years. They think that “well obviously we should be winning, we’re the good guys and they’re the bad guys. People who vote against our position are either ignorant or evil. So we shouldn’t change anything about it and we should ignore the people arguing against it.”

Whether that’s true or not isn’t the point. The point is that you’re not going to gain any more voters with that strategy. A lot of the people voting against the left have very real and tangible concerns, and you’re not going to get them to vote for you by either telling them they’re wrong to have those concerns or that they aren’t even real in the first place. The left needs to provide them with real solutions to those problems.