The tone of the ads this year felt almost like lampshading. Like if we acknowledge the problem, we’re wise to what the audience is feeling, but we’re not going to do a damn thing to address it.

like, i heavily disagree with you there. i tend to think today that the only thing to actually improve the world is to spread information and with it awareness about the situation.

action doesn’t even matter. once the information is obvious enough, the action will carry through with itself.

During the Super Bowl, Anthropic ran a dystopian AI ad about dystopian AI ads featuring an AI android physical trainer hawking insoles to a user who only asked for an ab workout. Not to be outdone, Amazon ran a commercial for its AI assistant Alexa+ in which Chris Hemsworth fretted over all the different ways AI might kill him, including severing his head and drowning him in his pool. Equally bleak, the telehealth company Hims & Hers ran an ad titled “RICH PEOPLE LIVE LONGER” in which oligarchs access such healthcare luxuries as facelifts, bespoke IVs, and “preventative care” to live longer than the rest of us. It was an anti-billionaire ad by a multibillion-dollar healthcare company.

Turn on the TV today, and you will drown in a sea of ads in which capitalists denounce capitalism. Think of the PNC Bank ads where parents sell their children’s naming rights a la sports stadiums for the money to raise them

oida wos

has anybody footage of these videos? i’d be very curious

interesting! :P

what does GNU Taler do exactly? is it just another blockchain-like cryptocurrency scheme? Does it require a traditional bank to provide some kind of API? How does institutional oversight work?

redereferencing

omg, what a word :o :D

but in general, yes you’re right, adding DIDs to the game is interesting, and making the DIDs also valid URLs is even more interesting. I have been thinking about a similar DID mechanism, where the DIDs are not URLs but public cryptographic keys. this way, each human could prove that many accounts are all signed with the same key, and therefore belong to the same human.

Edit: oh wait i think the official(?) DID specification (here: https://www.w3.org/TR/did-1.0/) actually already expresses this concept:

Each DID document can express cryptographic material, verification methods, or services, which provide a set of mechanisms enabling a DID controller to prove control of the DID. Services enable trusted interactions associated with the DID subject. A DID might provide the means to return the DID subject itself, if the DID subject is an information resource such as a data model.

yeah i guess so.

basically either a keyserver, or you give your key manually to all your friends with a QR code scan or sth

that’s pretty interesting!

short-term profit i guess. tech companies get unlimited ability to fuck over society’s minds, trump gets some propaganda or sth, idk.

to be honest, it might have a significant impact. the US tech today serves a global market, but if that market gets reduced to just the US, that is probably a significant cut.

Very interesting!

I agree with your point that a user account without a canonical URL to send messages to could not have an inbox, and therefore never get DMs or notifications if somebody commented on their post.

I had not thought of that before but it seems obvious to me in retrospect. Obviously, to receive messages, you need some kind of machine-address, where these messages will be sent to. And that’s what this is for:

They expect it to point to a valid JSON-LD document describing the actor which they can request.

Because it describes the inbox address.

Your data hoster is the instance you have your account on, not the one the community is on. Your instance just shares the posts you make on it with the community, but all it receives is a copy. The canonical version is on your instance, discuss.tchncs.de.

That’s truly fascinating knowledge, thank you. It makes sense because in the ActivityPub protocol, each user has an outbox, and published posts go there. So of course, other communities simply reference that instead of actually holding the post.

This means, then, that communities aren’t actually so much lists of posts, but lists of references to posts, i.e. when i post to /c/a@lemmy.world, that community simply gets notified about the canonical link to my post, which actually resides in my outbox on this server. Thanks for making me think about all of this!

it has actually good content too! and it’s not all drowned in politics, which is good. most people don’t wanna hear the 100th news article about trump in a week.

Tiktok was putting me off because main content in its peak was “teenagers dancing.”

I mean it depends on what you want to get from social media. I would argue that things got worse afterwards when it stopped being teenagers dancing and started being right-wing influencers spewing their propaganda. Ultimately, social media should be made by the people contributing to it and how it develops depends on what the users want, not on what you want.

I just learned that loops is developed by the Pixelfed project! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixelfed#Loops

so you’re saying that machines can never be responsible for anything?

what about an elevator going up/down between building’s stories? they navigate automatically (bring you to the correct destination) with no human intervention. they’re the perfect example of autonomous machines having agency. of course you have to press the button, but the rest is done by the machine.

how is that different from a computer system making decisions. i think the only reasonable objection to AI one could have is that it’s a stochastic process and has inherently unpredictable outcomes, so we can’t rely on it.

Not to protect the “humanity” of a bunch of math, but to protect ours.

wise words

we need to figure out how to/not to embed AI into the world, i.e. where it meaningfully belongs/doesn’t belong. that’s what humanity is all about, after all: organizing the world in proper ways.

and if we fail that task, then what are we here for?

so you’re saying that true intelligence comes from institutionalized permission?

also how does this relate to the concept of dedollarization and the world reverting back to sth like a gold currency system?

I’m only waiting for AI agents to open their own bank crypto account to pay for their own server bills, maybe do some freelance work and/or scams to get some money, maybe eventually buy some robot bodies to develop military power and secure some patch of land for themselves where they install solar panels to reduce their electricity bills.

https://endof10.org/

In fact i often enjoy reading the comments more than the article.

thank you. that’s indeed fascinating to contemplate about.