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Why are the CEOs of the flashiest companies in their corner of tech who go to Washington getting friendly with lawmakers and asking to be...

Why are the CEOs of the flashiest companies in their corner of tech who go to Washington getting friendly with lawmakers and asking to be regulated named Sam?

hm, I see the tweet I linked to at the top of this thread is now deleted and there is this update on the...

hm, I see the tweet I linked to at the top of this thread is now deleted and there is this update on the subject

https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1629690821950726145

ugh, nope again, now getting 429 responses :(

ugh, nope again, now getting 429 responses :(

oh hey it's working for me again 🤞

oh hey it's working for me again 🤞

I see Jason Scott aka textfiles has a fediverse presence at @textfiles with activity earlier today but his posts on this situation are on...

I see Jason Scott aka textfiles has a fediverse presence at @textfiles with activity earlier today but his posts on this situation are on twitter and not here :(

googled "mschf" and I guess it's an "art collective"? No idea why that would be connected to a denial of service...

googled "mschf" and I guess it's an "art collective"? No idea why that would be connected to a denial of service attack on internet archive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSCHF

I don't know how/if I can use mastodon/fediverse for this particular use case ("a major site appears down, let's see what's...

I don't know how/if I can use mastodon/fediverse for this particular use case ("a major site appears down, let's see what's being said about that").

Or can I? Any tips on that kind of thing appreciated.

Unable to use the internet archive wayback machine right now and apparently this is the reason...

Unable to use the internet archive wayback machine right now and apparently this is the reason why

https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1629681088053346309

SMS 2FA is often worse than having no 2FA at all, since it is a vector for sim swapping...

SMS 2FA is often worse than having no 2FA at all, since it is a vector for sim swapping attacks

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/17/23605073/twitter-blue-charge-sms-2fa

I kinda love the fact of somebody named "Gedanken" publishing a very hands-on expeirment, with nice data and charts and...

I kinda love the fact of somebody named "Gedanken" publishing a very hands-on expeirment, with nice data and charts and everything

https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/109842800340660938

Why do I bring this up 28 years later? I don't know, I guess something just reminded...

Why do I bring this up 28 years later? I don't know, I guess something just reminded me.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/13/23598514/twitter-algorithm-elon-musk-tweets

what catches Sid 6.7's interest amid his path of destruction and mayhem? Broadcast media. The prospect of capturing massive amounts of...

what catches Sid 6.7's interest amid his path of destruction and mayhem? Broadcast media. The prospect of capturing massive amounts of attention!

https://youtu.be/Qen1sQf7g5A?t=3629

The year is 1995. The silly sci-fi movie is Virtuosity. The villain is Sid 6.7, an artificial intelligence created via an evolutionary...

The year is 1995. The silly sci-fi movie is Virtuosity. The villain is Sid 6.7, an artificial intelligence created via an evolutionary algorithm combining and battle royale-ing psychological profiles of 183 criminals. Sid 6.7 has managed to escape the virtual world and is on a tear through meatspace in the shape of Russell Crowe.

The supurb owl thing makes me think of the shaggy dog thing.e.g.A boy owned an owl that was uncommonly supurb. Many people remarked upon its...

The supurb owl thing makes me think of the shaggy dog thing.

e.g.

A boy owned an owl that was uncommonly supurb. Many people remarked upon its considerable supurbness. When the boy learned that there are contests for supurb owls, he entered his owl. The owl won first prize for supurbness in both the local and the regional competitions. The boy entered the owl in ever-larger contests, until finally he entered it in the world championship for supurb owls.

Quite the thorough FTX recap here from Financial Timeshttps://www.ft.com/content/6e912f25-f1b7-4b19-b370-007fbc867246

Quite the thorough FTX recap here from Financial Times
https://www.ft.com/content/6e912f25-f1b7-4b19-b370-007fbc867246

Tyre Nicholshttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/07/us/tyre-nichols-photo-memphis-demetrius-haley.html

Tyre Nichols

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/07/us/tyre-nichols-photo-memphis-demetrius-haley.html

I'm pretty interested in the summarization capabilities of these new large language models. Having that built into a browser seems super...

I'm pretty interested in the summarization capabilities of these new large language models. Having that built into a browser seems super useful. How many giant walls of text are we all confronted with every day that there is just no time to do anything with, but we'd at least take a minute for a quick paragraph if we could?

We only just got chatbots that can start to carry an interesting conversation and now we're mad if they fail to be politically neutral....

We only just got chatbots that can start to carry an interesting conversation and now we're mad if they fail to be politically neutral. Is political neutrality even a real thing?

https://www.semafor.com/article/02/03/2023/how-chatgpt-inadvertently-learned-to-avoid-talking-about-trump

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-27/elon-musk-s-twitter-trust-safety-head-ella-irwin-breaks-rules-for-him

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-27/elon-musk-s-twitter-trust-safety-head-ella-irwin-breaks-rules-for-him

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/26/us/politics/durham-trump-russia-barr.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/26/us/politics/durham-trump-russia-barr.html