I wouldn't call it "surreal" at all, I'd call it "completely expected" given who runs that platform

We're not in a movie. Climate change isn't going be solved by one brilliant scientist. It's not even a scientific/technology problem at this point, it's a political one.

Reading the comments in that thread made me realise how little I miss Reddit. The sub is RedditAlternatives and there's a whole lot of people in there whinging that people are talking about alternatives to Reddit. Lemmy has it's problems, but Reddit is toxic AF.

Except they didn't interrupt voting. Go and watch the video, Maipi-Clarke clearly gives TPMs vote before the haka started. The fact that the report claims they interrupted voting clearly shows how bullshit the process was.

I think it's you who are on your high horse. Claiming there needs to be some kind of "decorum" over a bill designed to strip rights from Maori is utter bullshit and frankly racist.

Mastodon is pretty different to its competitors. It looks similar to Twitter / Bluesky, but the way the social network functions is completely different.

It's designed to be anti-infuencer... One of the things I hate about most social media platforms is a few people get all the attention. There are a few reasons for this, but it's not really based on merit.

I think a lot of people joined Mastodon wanting a Twitter clone. It's obviously not and Bluesky is, so people moved there. The approach Mastodon takes is far from perfect, and may not work out in the long run. But it seems like it's worth at least trying something different.

There's some evidence to suggest he'll lose significant support: https://today.yougov.com/...

But hard to know for sure.

How long before it's illegal to hack LLMs?

Yeah, this is one of the many things that annoys me about AI discourse.

"We can use it to solve climate change!"

We already technically know how to solve climate change, but politics makes doing that impossible.

And, no, AI can't "fix" politics. We're going to have to figure that out by ourselves.

Obsessing over brain size and the hip width of women is a big eugenics / white supremacist thing... the kind of thing the nazis were really into... what a surprise to see Musk spouting this kind of bullshit

Why would you have zero expectations that he'll win? Were you not around in 2016?

OpenAI published a paper about GPT titled "Sparks of AGI".

I don't think they really believe it but it's good to bring in VC money

No, it will never have ads. If the devs put ads in, it will get forked. If server admins put in ads, they will be defederated. That's nonnegotiable if you want a free (as in libre) fediverse.

Mastodon is way bigger than Lemmy and it doesn't need ads. Donations and subscriptions (for severs that choose that path) are enough.

The thing is even if AI could do all that (which is doubtful in my life time), you would still need someone to prompt it with something interesting. And CEO types have never had an interesting idea in their lives

It's highly country specific... America's puritanical roots seem to still hold sway. Go to Western Europe and nudity is commonplace

This is a great move. Governance is extremely important for bigger OSS projects, and the "benevolent dictator" model has its limits.

Unfortunately, AfD and Musk won't hesitate to paint this as an islamist attack. They'll just claim the X posts are fake if necessary.

It may even have been the attackers' goal.

I doubt it. His recent shows are Shrinking and Ted Lasso... Not exactly flops.

Trump may flirt with anti-vaxx sentiment or climate denial, etc., but he can't fully support those ideas. They're very niche and he'd lose the centre if he did.

RFK Jr doesn't hold back on those issues. For conspiracy types he is closer to their beliefs than Trump.

Brings new meaning to Google's decision to (effectively) block side loading on Android

Depends where you live. Plenty of countries with high % of renewables