TheMightyLlama

Tbh mastodon and pleroma hadn't even ocurred to me for this project. Plus, I know more about the twitter API than I do mastodon / pleroma so it seemed a natural fit.

On your last point, you're spot on. I've already had the account banned and reinstated for spamming. Even though I was posting to my own account only...

Are there any apps or setting which reduce the saturation of colours? I notice that in many publicly available screens, such as in gyms, the saturation is extremely high drawing my attention to it. I find that this is also the case on my iPhone and Mac.

Certainly I can go monotone. But not desaturate partially.

This policy feels to be synonymous with having a political officer aboard a soviet submarine…

If gas lighting is a form of boundary violation, and I’m stretching here, could it be classified as mind-rape?

America has _spent_ its oil buffer. It’s important to note the difference between a intentional use of an asset vs an unintentional loss of an asset.

Nah, safe.

There’s a lot of discussion here on the topic of cancel culture, deplatforming and the responsibilities of private entities.

It may be useful to clarify in our responses if we mean the above or our ability to express ourselves free from persecution by the government.

This raises a good question. Is it the model that produces racist, sexist or any other ‘ist ’ results inherently racist? Or is it how we use it?

Is the knife a murderer or the person who wields it?

I originally created a gist with a bunch of curl commands that were difficult to figure out due to poor documentation. So it’s good to see someone creating a cli.

My original curl commands: https://gist.github.com/TheMightyLlama/9427202

It might be pointless to do so, however you could also make it illegal for the existing employees to continue to work in the respective industry. It would prove to be a huge incentive to ensuring best practice.

“Why build one when you can have two at twice the price” ~ S.R. Hadden. Contact

Because those are big words with big concepts behind them. All of which require an educations and an individual with drive to breach a new topic, study it and bring home data. Which is a rare thing.

Is it aggregation if you're scraping from one site and reordering the items you've scraped?

I agree. I would also add that to make it easier to understand: the mind is running on a substrate, the weather is not.

I love that there are people far more educated than me who are also paid to explore these topics.

A while ago I was pretty certain that gravity was emergent and was caused by Gluon Colour Confinement. Here was my incredibly naive rationale:

Assumption for the purposes of this idea that gravity is not an absolute, gravity is an emergent phenomenon.

My logic

Gravity around a black hole Photons can't escape Heavier particles and even molecules can't escape

Gravity around a planet sized mass Photons can escape Heavier particles and even molecules can escape

Gravity is not a force that acts at a distance (absolute) Spacetime is being dragged into any object with mass (emergent)

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We are not being 'pulled' into the earth We are being 'kept under' by a shower of space time being consumed

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What causes this 'consumption' of spacetime around objects with mass?

Gluon color confinement

https://gist.github.com/TheMightyLlama/135fd67eb0577c34093ca...

IMO The current moderation model centres around moderating the things people communicate so as not to offend others. And results in attempts at keeping all communications in the sphere ‘pure’.

Social media however has grown far beyond what I think the original inventors intended at the time of creation. couple that with a multitude of legal jurisdictions and levels of sensitivity I fee we can no longer keep the environment clean to so many different standards and must instead switch to a model which is more akin to defaulting to being exposed to nothing and choosing over time to be exposed to some categories of potentially offensive things.

I did have a stab at this and fee it needs refining for sure. Wether this is a valid attempt or not, I think the worry that the current moderation model isn’t adequate is grounded in reality.

https://gist.github.com/TheMightyLlama/bb77a05d3dde4da251142...

Typing from phone. Sorry.

I suspect its a dig at terrible airline food.

And in addition to that, wary of my lack of knowledge in this area, will the change be passed down the generations?

The topic of programmable money aside, Why centralise the ability to freeze an account? If I deem someone (or some organisation) to be a bad actor I would like to block the ability to make payments to them and put that account number on a publicly visible register.

Now this organically created list can be consumed by other people or organisations effectively excluding them from receiving payments.

They look amazing. Is there a way to requeset custom illutrations?

I've given this a lot of thought. Even to the extent of trying to understand what an alternative twitter would look like were it possible to somhow classify a tweet based on its legality in a region and thus giving the user the option to see only tweets which are 'legal' in their jurisdiction. This is a tough nut to crack.

> If there are 30 or 300 articles, I don't want to do the work of figuring out which version I want (which may be something like longest, or shortest, or without embedded video).

It is one thing to have to trawl through 30 articles and figure out which one has the content which is both most accurate at describing the truth and is covering all aspects of the situtation. And it is another thing to filter articles out for having certain attributes.

The first is more difficult. The second is easier and a good feature to add. As the articles are added to the database it's possible to obtain the content and parse it for references to those particular attributes. I'm actually starting work on one at the moment, adverts.

We know that the current model on the internet is to get eyes on an adverts. Not articles. Adverts. And, when we see an outrageous headline "Billie Eilish shaves off own hair in outburst!", we're going to open that page to see what's going on. And surprise surprise. Ads all over the place. I'll be using the number of ads as a metric and in order to provide the user with a warning as to the reliability of the information on the page "This page has more than X adverts. Please be aware that the page may have been designed to obtain your attention and the information within may not be accurate".

As I said in the original comment, I'm going to expand this in such a way that it is beneficial to users to identify "healthy" articles where "healthy" means: few ads, representative of reality (true) and with multiple aspects of the news event.

I have high hopes.

Over a year ago I became hugely frustrated with the narratives that were being presented to us. Every 'social media' platform as well as 'news' platform presents us with an undifferentiated feed of news. The problem with an undifferentiated feed is that we, as consumers, can never get a solid view on what's happened or is happening on a single event.

Moreover, the existing platforms encourage doom-scrolling and keep our attention focused on one page for advertising clicks. As far as I'm concerned this is one of the most socially harmful and divisive anti-patterns created.

So, I started developing a site which presents a chronoglogical list of events each of which has, in chronological order, all the news articles, tweets and youtube videos I can find which are related to that particular event reliable sources where possible. Not exactly curated, but not clickbait either.

Looking at the site quickly I've got 317 articles for 'Partygate: The Sue Grey Report'. The 'Guinea Bisseau Coup D'etat attempt'? Around 30 articles in arabic, english, spanish, french and portuguese. The Kazakh protests? probably around 300 in more than ten languages. And there are currently 977 events. This grows every day as I find more sources.

To my mind this is an unbelievably valuable resource, and I want everyone to have access to it. I have plans to expand this much further and the only dev is me.

There's still a ton of features I want to add before I put it out there including internationalisation, accessibility support (The difficulty in finding a chronology of news for an event which people with screen readers experience boggles the mind)

If I were to share it here today it would most likely get hugged to death. But rest assured that this audience is the first I will introduce it to.

Edit: I should also add that I am also looking for investment to increase the 'dev' team. But I'm more the idea / prototype guy. How does one start and yet protect the idea?

I think one of the things we don’t appreciate (perhaps most of the people on HN do) is that many of these platforms are not, as billed, social networks. They are, in fact, data collecting applications with a user facing, attention acquisition mechanism in the form of a fun little app. They are addictive for a reason. To get data off you.

I would rather my passport number to be honest.

I find that I’m beginning to see a trend. Perhaps an early one to the majority of people (millions of users rather than the internet literate hacker news people). And that is to hold a position “your information is bad” without saying what their basis for comparison is.

I’m all for people making a stand. But if there’s no rebuttal, I will remain unconvinced.

I struggle to see how “critical thinking” can mean anything other than the application of tools to ascertain the true state of things. Certainly far from “accept the dogma I am telling you”

Surely the title should read "Neil Young requests Sportify remove his own library from the platform after voicing his displeasure with another content creator"

No no. It's up again.

Are we coming to a time when "My voice is (not) my identity"?

I find it interesting that the value of the ~18% of market share is $15B to google. I'm sure there's a further breakdown to ascertain the value of a single user.