@clacke @thegibson @feonixrift @RadicalEdward @jens Eventually the information&computing profession will entirely split into deep learning ninja-rockstar-wizards, and librarians. There will be no middle ground.

@thegibson @RadicalEdward I won't lie, every so often I wonder whether I'm going to find out that the professor I handed that paper in to will turn out to be Satoshi Nakamoto, and then I will have even more atoning to do for this cursed reality.

@thegibson @RadicalEdward stares in a paper from my undergrad comp sci circa 2002 about using chains of digital signatures to create an append-only data structure for validating identities in decentralized networks.

@seachaint @tfb Yeah… we’ve observed that the new far right has shifted from being blindly pro-business, etc, to correctly identifying flaws of capitalism (that are still being soundly ignored by mainstream liberalism), and then articulating a future-oriented vision for solving them (unlike the left) — which is attractive to many people who are dispossessed by the lack of a vision for the future. However that vision is also violently against some peoples existence…

@seachaint @tfb The lack of a coherent, positively stated vision for the future from the left that isn’t itself either predicated on accelerating collapse, or exterminating the perceived enemies, or individualized escapisms, is going to end us up with a whole lot of people killed and we need to do something about this asap.

@linear The entire field of AI ethics consists of those four engineers.

@clacke OneTab is kind of nice for at least getting them out of your face with the hope that you might use them again.

@erosdiscordia We could have a conversation about that...

@temporal @theruran @pixouls Wait till you learn about the overlap of MLMs and [redacted]!

@pixouls And people told me I was being alarmist when I told them to watch out for the Internet Archive’s crypto-curiosity.

@pixouls Don’t make me tap the sign (on the side of the Trojan Horse), people.

@rgegriff It makes a lot of insinuations by juxtaposing unrelated events, and using unattributed quotes to imply things.

Given that I'm getting involved with election misinformation research, I'd love to be able to fact-check this (false claims of disinformation are also harmful to securing election integrity). If anyone wants to chat about it on this thread, I feel like people here would have some constructive things to say about it.

Uh oh, ya'll.

"How an ‘Ethical’ Hacker Convention Is Fueling Trump’s Big Lie"

A few days a year, hacking enthusiasts at DEFCON race to see if they can prove voting machines are not secure. The event is fodder for disinformation.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7v7nb/hacker-convention-voting-machines-the-big-lie

Not sure if anyone posted this yet, but the youtube-dl takedown also screwed over journalists who relied on it for archival and analysis purposes:

https://freedom.press/news/riaa-github-youtube-dl-journalist-tool/